2005 June : Movie Marketing Madness

Elizabethtown trailer

Just the other day I posted my thoughts on the internet-only “first look” at Cameron Crowe’s Elizabethtown. Today brings the actual official trailer. Is it as good as the earlier clip montage? No, but that’s just because the trailer looks like it was put together by the studio whereas the clip looked like it [...]

Pretty Persuasion official website

The website for this funny, sexy and original black comedy has been launched. Click through for a trailer, photo gallery and more. I have to say the more I see for this movie the more I like it and want to see it.
–Chris

2046 poster and official website

2046, the new movie from director Wong Kar-Wai, now has a poster and official web site courtesy of Sony Classics.
The poster is pretty cool visually and definitely conveys the fact that this movie is a bit on the trippy side with its panels of disconnected images. The site is pretty full of content, including [...]

Night Watch 2 trailer

I have no idea what is going on this trailer since I haven’t seen the first one and don’t, you know, speak Russian. Despite that this looks pretty cool. It’s got action, it’s got sex, it’s got what looks like a vaguely supernaturally tone. All set against post-communism Eastern Europe backdrops. [...]

Movie Journal: Last Life in the Universe (Ruang rak noi nid mahasan)

I’m not going to even try and offer a review of this movie. It’s touching, sad, funny and unique. Eric Campos sums it up best in his review so check that out instead.
[Buy Last Life in the Universe at Amazon.com and support the Madness.]

I’m doing the iPod dance right now…

Actually, no I’m not? Want to know why?
First a brief digression: I just got my iPod (60GB) about 2 1/2 weeks ago and absolutely love it. Almost all my free time at home now includes ripping CSs to iTunes for eventual transfer. I bring it to work and listen to it there. I’m listening to [...]

Movie Journal: Batman Begins

Warner Bros. certainly had their hands full in relaunching the Batman franchise. Overcoming so much ill-will was not going to be easy. And, I’m happy to report, they succeeded.
Batman Begins is not meant to be an extension of the series, first directed by Tim Burton and then by Joel Schumacher, that ran from [...]

Movie Journal: Audition (Odishon)

Holy shit. A mild tempered drama about a middle-aged man who holds a phony movie casting call in order to screen for a new wife goes from 0 to 60 in, literally, nothing flat. There are a couple weird moments before the grisly conclusion but nothing that prepares the viewer for what’s to [...]

V for Vendetta poster

V for Vendetta
Click through to the official Warner Bros. site for V For Vendetta to check out the new (and very cool) poster.
–Chris
[Thanks to ComingSoon for the heads-up.]

Movie Marketing Madness: War of the Worlds

FilmThreat has put up my latest campaign review, this time focusing on War of the Worlds. It’ll be interesting to see the reviews start pouring in on this one in light of Cruise’s rather public meltdowns recently.
–Chris

Elizabethtown first look

Sometimes I let my enthusiasm get the better of me. I love movies and can find something redeeming in just about anything. So I wind up giving some mediocre films a pass because they look alright.
This made me reconsider that. I need to be harsher with things because when something truly extraordinary [...]

The Constant Gardener trailer

The Constant Gardener Trailer
Pretty cool in a Bourne Identity sort of way. The trailer shows Ralph Fiennes trying his hand at playing an action hero of sorts and is pretty tight, maybe a little too much so. Too many cuts and faded film stock for my tastes but the movie looks like it [...]

King Kond official website & trailer

Universal has launched the official website for King Kong. Also, today marks the day of the first trailer, debuing for some corporate reason on Volkswagon’s website. The trailer also appeared on NBC, which I had forgotten until my TiVo asked if I wanted to record it, which of course I did.
The site is [...]

Mini MMM: The World (Shijie)

This looks intriguing. A kind of travelogue of modern China and how the world has come to it, the visuals almost look like something akin to Wes Anderson’s. It’s hard to get a sense of the performances since not much of them are shown and most of what is consists of a woman walking around [...]

Movie Journal: When Will I Be Loved

The biggest surprise to me about this Neve Campbell flick was not all the sex. There was plenty of that and, unlike most mainstream movies, the scenes weren’t edited to within an inch of their lives. Instead they’re done almost completely in single takes to convey the impression the viewer is right there [...]

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