White Collar:
Persepolis: Highly stylized animation set to an off-beat rendition of "Eye of the Tiger" makes for an extremely entertaining trailer, even though the English trailer isn't out yet. And because the Iranian government passionately hates this movie, viewing this film helps fight the War on Terror even more than watching Fox News or worshipping a statue of Cheney.
The Golden Compass: This movie based on the popular novel looks to be this year's Lord of the Rings. With Daniel Craig, Nicole Kidman, talking polar bears and zeppelins, it appears to have everything a great movie needs.
Be Kind Rewind: Mos Def and Jack Black decide to remake a bunch of famous movies after all the VHS tapes (remember those?) at their video store get erased. Somehow their movies - shot using a home video camera and no budget - become more popular than the originals. As unfeasible as the premise sounds, this looks like a really good movie.
White Trash:
Beowulf: Robert Zemeckis somehow managed to get this made, although Beowulf ranks right up there with Thus Spake Zarathrustra on the list of literary works no sane Hollywood producer would dare adapt. The most notable feature of the trailer is a computer-animated, semi-nude Angelina Jolie.
1-18-08: Lacking all creativity whatsoever, the filmmakers decided to just call the movie by its release date. All I can tell about this is that something is going around New York blowing stuff up. This movie appears to have taken the poor camerawork once found only in low budget indie flicks and put it with the most common crutch in big-budget Hollywood movies today -- explosions. This has potential for the worst of both worlds: a bad story and nauseating camerawork.
Rambo IV: One word - why?
Alvin and the Chipmunks: In case your headache from watching the cartoon in preschool has actually gone away, they're back with the same suicide-inducing squeal. but this time using computer animation. The trailer ends in Alvin literally eating shit.
