Posts Tagged ‘trailer’

500 Days of Summer

Wednesday, August 12th, 2009

I’ve been trying to see this film for about 2 weeks, it officially came out on July 17th and since then it has been nearly impossible to locate. I actually tried to see it the weekend that it hit theaters with my girlfriend in Sarasota, Florida, no luck… no theater was playing it for 100 miles. Finally I came back to Jacksonville and figured that I would be able to catch the film here, and probably be able to catch it for only 5 bucks at AMC… no luck … the limited release even skipped Jacksonville, which isn’t that surprising but for how many commercials I had seen for the film I figured we’d have been on the list of limited theaters. Finally as I was getting ready to head to Gainesville my buddy at work told me he was going to see a movie, I asked him which one and sarcastically suggested 500 Days of Summer, knowing that it wasn’t released in Jacksonville… he said oh yeah that’s the one that we’re going to see. So I checked online and sure enough the movie had finally been released everywhere, I was pleased.

Saturday rolls around and my girlfriend and I make plans to see the film in Gainesville, we were both pretty excited and finally got to see the film that had been eluding us for such a long time, of course we still had to pay full price but I think it was worth it.

After seeing the film I was pretty happy with my decision and persistence to actually go and see it. The film offered a very humorous story with great direction and a fun and interesting back-and-forth style timeline.

If anyone hasn’t seen this film I really suggest you check it out, I’d have to say it’s definitely one of the best I’ve seen all year, it’s charming, has a lot of humor, and doesn’t leave you feeling as empty as you’d think (kind of sad but true).

Now the only thing to really look forward to is District 9, I’ve been checking the ratings all week and have noticed that everyone’s review has something in common, they are all showing very positive things. District 9 comes out this Friday, August 14th and should be just about everywhere movies are shown =)

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Funny People

Monday, July 27th, 2009

So Judd Apatow’s third film as director comes out this Friday, I remember being excited months ago when I heard about it but was kind of bewildered by the trailer, it lacked the snappy humor that 40Year Old Virgin or Knocked Up had. Recently as the film has been closer and closer to release they started showing more trailers, this time the trailers completely skipped all the seriousness that was originally portrayed and focused more on the funny clips, of course that’s what everyone is really into. Anyway the film comes out this weekend and I’m definitely going to check it out, so far some of the early reviews are saying that it’s great, that it offers the same level of humor as his previous films and also offers a little more maturity in a plot. I’m just really excited to see Adam Sandler and Seth Rogen as a duo, I know that this team will have something hilarious to offer and really hope that it pays off in the end.

Check out both trailers and you can see how different they are, maybe it’s me but whatever I just hope the film turns out to be good.

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District 9

Thursday, July 9th, 2009

Upon my last visit to the movie theater I came in contact with a trailer for the film District 9, initially I was intrigued, a documentay style film on the quartering and segregation of intergalactic aliens is just appealing. The first trailer is obviously designed to be a teaser and really leaves you with nothing more than a premise and a hankering for the next trailer. Well recently they released the second trailer that gives a little more insight into the film and actually gives you a little more information on the film so that you can decide if it’s going to be worth watching. I’m a little dissappointed in the second trailer because I guess I was just hoping for more after seeing the first, I still think this film will be worth watching but doubt that it will truly be a film that people are talking about, either good or bad.

Decent effects, good premise, and some slightly funny material could make for a B+ film. As far as I know, the guy who gets sprayed with the liquid begins to have his DNA altered to that of the alien species and the alien weaponry in which the people of earth are interested is only able to be activated by the aliens, thus chase ensues on the man whose DNA is becoming more and more alien.

The film comes out August 14th and I’ll probably be in attendance, unless of course the next trailer really blows.

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