Sin City Finally Drops!
hey folks- Planetarium needs all of you whiny picky movie folks to take a deep breath, and realize that you CAN separate appreciation of a trailer from whatever actual movie might lie behind it. There were some stinky movies this past year that had some glorious trailers, where the editor of said trailer clearly should have directed the movie.
That said, this is a trailer for a Robert Rodriguez movie. Worrisome, we know- the man hasn't made a good film since The Faculty, and that was 1997. We're ESPECIALLY including last year's dreadful Once Upon A Time In Mexico, because you really don't want to see that one. That being said, directors are like winters- just because the last three sucked doesn't mean the next one won't be awesome. So sit down, relax, and enjoy what is undeniably a cool trailer. The film? Sin City. Noir heaven, folks. Have a good time.
Comments
A. The Faculty wasn't very good. Not bad, but certainly not good, even in a popcorn kind of way. IMHO.
B. Once Upon A Time In Mexico actually was good in a popcorn kind of way.
C. Trailers are only valuable in the non-commercial sense in how accurately they represent the movie.
D. I'm a poop.
Posted by: B. Alec | December 21, 2004 09:50 PM
PLanetarium wildly disagrees with your rather dry, logical argument that trailers are only valuable in the sense that they accurately represent the movie. Trailers are an art form in and of themselves, in much the same way that while music videos are really just "commercials for the song", that have clearly surpassed that role. Planetarium thinks it's high time people recognized that trailers, too, are an art form that, while maybe in a strictly informational sense should simply tell you what a movie's about, are really a 3-minute movie that have their own set of rules to entertain and provoke.
Posted by: Planetarium | December 25, 2004 01:22 AM
I totally disagree. Do you think a Tide commercial can be art, too, then? I bet you'll say yes and that's ok, but I think it sucks. Advertising isn't art, you Republican.
Posted by: B. Alec | December 25, 2004 11:52 AM
Oh; IMHO.
Posted by: B. Alec | December 25, 2004 11:54 AM