The teaser trailer for Christopher Nolan’s upcoming Inception was released in some theaters with Inglourious Basterds last Friday, and the one-minute clip is now online thanks to Yahoo.
We’ve been talking about the film based on the logline “a contemporary sci-fi actioner set within the architecture of the mind” for quite a while, and we have the rumored plot that says “Inception is about entering peoples’ minds/dreams. A technology to do so has been developed and is done through an injection. DiCaprio and his team work to enter the minds of other characters in order to retrieve/plant information.” Those things could well hold true, and the ‘your mind is the scene of the crime’ tagline suggests that more planting info will be done than retrieving. After seeing this teaser I expect The Matrix will be brought up fairly frequently. Here we see a brief fight scene in what appears to be a hotel corridor, with the participants bouncing all over the walls and ceiling. And in general, a lack of solid grounding and perspective is what characterizes the teaser. There’s a reason that spinning top was used for the initial tease on Inception’s website.
Meanwhile, the cinematography seems to be a direct extension of what Wally Pfister did for Nolan on The Dark Knight. I loved Pfister’s work on that film, so I’m curious to see how he pushes it forward here. And while the Hans Zimmer score for the teaser is on the bombastic edge, it is also not the typical bombastic movie teaser music, but more in line with the atonal work Zimmer did for The Dark Knight. What is Nolan going to unleash here now that he’s not bound to a universe owned by DC? We see overhead city shots (as per TDK), the WB logo as a maze of streets, and a similar set of buildings resolving into a maze for the film’s logo. Is Nolan mapping the human mind to a cityscape?
Inception features Leonardo DiCaprio as Jacob, a CEO-type, Marion Cotillard (La Vie en rose, Public Enemies) as his wife, Ellen Page (Juno) as a young college grad student named Ariadne, who is also DiCaprio’s sidekick, and Joseph Gordon-Levitt plays Arthur, an associate working for DiCaprio. Ken Watanabe will play the film’s villain, a man named Saito, who is blackmailing Leonardo DiCaprio’s character. Tom Hardy (Bronson) plays Eames, a member of DiCaprio’s team. Cillian Murphy (Batman Begins, Sunshine) plays Fischer and Michael Caine is also involved.
Youth in Revolt is the irreverent story about the wild adventures of a teenage boy named Nick Twisp who meets the girl of his dreams while on a family vacation and has to turn his life and the lives of all those around him upside down in order to be with her.
I saw this trailer when I saw Inglourious Basterds this weekend, and it looks hilarious! I love Michael Cera!
Next up for Charlize Theron is the highly anticipated The Road, based off of Cormac McCarthy’s hugely successful (and extremely dark) book of the same name. I’ve been waiting for this movie for a loooong time. I read the book, and still say it’s one of my favorite books I’ve ever read. The Road, which looks just as haunting and creepy as the book. It was probably the best book I read in 2008, and I can’t wait for the movie. But with that said, it looks like it is going to be insanely intense. EW is calling it “the most important movie of 2009″.
The trailer for The Road courtesy of Yahoo. Based on Cormac McCarthy’s best-selling and Pulitzer Prize winning novel, “The Road is the epic post-apocalyptic tale of a journey taken by a father and his young son across a barren landscape that was blasted by an unnamed cataclysm that destroyed civilization and most life on earth.
Check out the newly released trailer for The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus!
Heath Ledger had completed about half of his work performing the role of Tony the Terry Gilliam-directed film. His role was recast with Johnny Depp, Jude Law, and Colin Farrell portraying transformations of Tony as he travels through a dream world.
Imaginarium has a UK release date of October 16 and a US release date of December 25.
Based on the critically acclaimed best-selling novel by Alice Sebold, and directed by Oscar® winner Peter Jackson from a screenplay by Jackson & Fran Walsh & Philippa Boyens, “The Lovely Bones” centers on a young girl who has been murdered and watches over her family – and her killer – from heaven. She must weigh her desire for vengeance against her desire for her family to heal. Oscar® nominee Mark Wahlberg and Oscar® winners Rachel Weisz and Susan Sarandon star along with Stanley Tucci, Michael Imperioli and Oscar® nominee Saoirse Ronan.
I read the book, and I’m totally excited to see the movie. From what I can tell from the trailer, it looks to be very much like the book. I hope so! I don’t know if I can take another movie butchering the book (like My Sister’s Keeper!).
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I just watched this trailer, and I swear I’m crying! This movie looks so great! I want to see it now!! Sandra Bullock looks like she’s done an amazing job!
The Blind Side” depicts the remarkable true story of Michael Oher (Aaron Quinton), a homeless African-American youngster from a broken home, taken in by the Touhys (Sandra Bullock, Tim McGraw), a well-to-do white family who help him fulfill his potential. At the same time, Oher’s presence in the Touhys’ lives leads them to some insightful self-discoveries of their own.
Living in his new environment, the teen faces a completely different set of challenges to overcome. As a football player and student, Oher works hard and, with the help of his coaches and adopted family, becomes an All-American offensive left tackle. In the latest chapter of his inspiring story, Oher was a First Round draft pick in the 2009 NFL Draft, selected by the Baltimore Ravens. The Touhys were there to share the moment with him.
FYI, Michael signed a $13.8 million, 5-year contract with the Baltimore Ravens last week. He’s just begun his rookie season.
Tron is back! And so is Jeff Bridges! Here’s a cool trailer for Disney’s upcoming Tron Legacy, in Disney 3D. I’m not gonna lie, it kinda looks cool to me. (Also kinda looks like Speed Racer, and that movie SUCKED)
In The Book of Eli, Denzel Washington stars as a lone warrior named Eli, who fights his way across the desolate wasteland of near-future America to realize his destiny and deliver the knowledge that can bring civilization back from the brink of destruction and save the future of humanity.
The tires of a baby-blue ‘53 Cadillac Coupe de Ville convertible squeal down the New York street, and none of its occupants looks back. The beautiful but mercurial Ann Devereaux (Renée Zellweger) has just left her philandering husband Dan Devereaux (Kevin Bacon), a society bandleader, and taken to the road with her teenage sons, George (Logan Lerman) and Robbie (Mark Rendall), in search of a wealthy replacement mate. Although it’s 1953, Ann is certain that her girlish charms will serve her as well as they did two decades earlier.
