Yes I know, TT has been on a hiatus of sorts. I'm going to take the high road and blame it on the assholes who bankroll movies since I haven't seen a movie trailer worth mentioning in weeks. As of today, things have changed and we begin with...
Spike Lee's latest joint:
Miracle at St. Anna. Arriving hot on the heels of his petty public squabble with Clint Eastwood, whom Lee has taken to task for failing to give his WW2 pic
Flags of Our Fathers a taste of chocolate, comes Lee's own take on WW2. My take on the whole dust up is that Spike is up to his usual homespun PR tricks, whipping up some notice for MASA by way of putting a whip in plantation master Clint's hands. The big picture: who really cares about their beef. As for the trailer, MASA looks pretty damn good and gives me reason to believe Spike is finally maturing as a filmmaker, to a point where he's able to make more than one good movie in a row.
Next up is the umpteenth installment of 007:
Quantum of Solace. I loved Daniel Craig's Bond debut in
Casino Royale, a fresh reinvention of a stale franchise. CR owes more to
The Bourne Franchise than to previous Bond movies and this stripped down and humanized version of Bond not only made for a great thrill ride, it had something most Bond films don't: realism. QOS looks to go in an even more Bourne-like direction, where Bond finds himself on the outs with the secret service and motivated by a personal vendetta for the killing of his love interest in CR. Halfway through the trailer is a stunning shot (captured below) of Craig walking up and over a distant, rocky horizon with a machine gun hoisted high in one hand, a visual declaration that Bond is officially a badass.
As regulars to this blog already know, both Kuraz and myself are big supporters of Werner Herzog. His latest doc is no exception and if
Encounters at the End of the World lives up to everything I've read about it, then Herzog fans are in for another fascinating oddity. This time around Herzog has ventured to Antarctica and he appears to be taking his camera into some of the most alien looking landscapes on Earth. Based on what's in the trailer it appears Herzog isn't doing anything much different than he did in
The White Diamond or
The Wild Blue Yonder. If it ain't broke, don't fix. We will see.
Spike Lee's latest joint: Miracle at St. Anna. Arriving hot on the heels of his petty public squabble with Clint Eastwood, whom Lee has taken to task for failing to give his WW2 pic Flags of Our Fathers a taste of chocolate, comes Lee's own take on WW2. My take on the whole dust up is that Spike is up to his usual homespun PR tricks, whipping up some notice for MASA by way of putting a whip in plantation master Clint's hands. The big picture: who really cares about their beef. As for the trailer, MASA looks pretty damn good and gives me reason to believe Spike is finally maturing as a filmmaker, to a point where he's able to make more than one good movie in a row.
Next up is the umpteenth installment of 007: Quantum of Solace. I loved Daniel Craig's Bond debut in Casino Royale, a fresh reinvention of a stale franchise. CR owes more to The Bourne Franchise than to previous Bond movies and this stripped down and humanized version of Bond not only made for a great thrill ride, it had something most Bond films don't: realism. QOS looks to go in an even more Bourne-like direction, where Bond finds himself on the outs with the secret service and motivated by a personal vendetta for the killing of his love interest in CR. Halfway through the trailer is a stunning shot (captured below) of Craig walking up and over a distant, rocky horizon with a machine gun hoisted high in one hand, a visual declaration that Bond is officially a badass.
As regulars to this blog already know, both Kuraz and myself are big supporters of Werner Herzog. His latest doc is no exception and if Encounters at the End of the World lives up to everything I've read about it, then Herzog fans are in for another fascinating oddity. This time around Herzog has ventured to Antarctica and he appears to be taking his camera into some of the most alien looking landscapes on Earth. Based on what's in the trailer it appears Herzog isn't doing anything much different than he did in The White Diamond or The Wild Blue Yonder. If it ain't broke, don't fix. We will see.
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