Up and coming films

I spent my lunch watching some trailers to see if I could get excited about films again. It’s been such a long time since I saw anything worth, well, watching.

First up was The Informant. Stephen Soderbergh, when he has something to say, can be brilliant. When he doesn’t (which seems to be most of the time these days) he’s just unbearable. The Informant does, on the surface, appear to be the former.

Next I took a glance at Public Enemies. I’ve been seeing the advertising for it for the past week or two and I have to admit to liking Johnny Depp. Maybe he just reminds me of myself Normally Michael Mann films get on my nerves. They are always beautifully shot but somehow the style overtakes the substance. Miami Vice was tedious, Collateral was mostly engrossing and Heat (despite having great moments) just seemed to run away with itself. The PE trailer was lovely. I liked that it didn’t feel like a period drama but that it captured what felt like the mood of the time. Not being nearly a hundred, however, I’ll just own up to being taken along with the mood.

Whilst browsing I saw a poster for The Time Traveller’s Wife. Now this really could be a piece of shit in the vein of The Lake House. I loved the book. It was inventive and emotional. But somehow, put these concepts on to the screen and all you get is the superficial love story with few of the observations.

Zombieland was a title I’d never heard of. Pity it didn’t stay that way. Woody. What. The. Fuck?