3 Things To Love About The New Star Wars Trailer

1) Everything onscreen appears as if it was shot live not drenched in added-later CGI (save for the Millenium Falcon). Kudos to Kevin Smith for hinting at this during a Q & A a while ago after visiting the London set.

2)The human character in the trailer exhibits something called a genuine human emotion.

3) True to the JJ Abrams stylebook...although we see...we do not know.

And here's a bonus:

4) No.  Jar.  Jar.

From Cinema Blend:




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Peanuts A-OK?

I know it's a little early to pass judgement on Peanuts, since it doesn't come out till Christmas 2015. But based on this trailer, I'm willing to give this a favorable look (after all, I said to myself, "Who's going to watch a movie about Lego?" And that turned out great.) All the familiar elements are there. And as long as nobody tries to "explain" or psychoanalyze Charlie Brown, Lucy, Snoopy, Woodstock, or anyone else, everything should be fine. I know I really DON'T want to know the deep dark reason that Linus clutches that blanket and sucks his thumb. The animation has been updated and is obviously CG, but not so much as to be jarring.

Good on you, Blue Sky Animation! Too bad it will probably wind up opening at number 2 right out of the gate. No way is JJ Abrams gonna surrender the top spot to anything but his Star Wars reboot.

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How NOT To Do An Interview

The kind of ambush-let's-get-em journalism I would never do. It is career suicide for a journalist to assume that:

a) Actors are exactly like the characters they portray in the movie they are promoting.

b) Journalists speak rudely or snidely to actors, as though addresing the characters they play in the film. Jonah Hill is absolutely right, in that although Superbad or any movie needs to be promoted. Most of it is done through the LA/New York/Toronto marketing machine. These 5-to-7 minute interviews are usually  quickies done with and for the markets inbetween, and while usually pleasant (if somewhat rote) for all concerned, not entirely neccessary. And if this was the 20th interview in a row, no wonder nerves are frayed. No one asks to be born fat, or to become fat, and it's almost as if this ass assumes the opposite.

Oh well. In the decade simce, Hill's been nominated for a Best Supporting Actor Oscar for Wolf Of Wall Street. Wonder if the Brit hack is still working?


And...there is absolutely no excuse for THIS...



I bet her friends NEVER let her live that one down at parties, between shots of tequila.

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