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Has anybody heard anything about the Pursuit of Happyness, Will Smith's new movie? The trailers are breaking my heart.
It seemed nice enough, if too uplifting for my blood. But having seen the trailer I got the distinct impression that seeing the longer film would now be redundant.
I am surprised at myself, considering my very favorite show in the world featured a kid's finger getting broken with a loud pop last week. But it is the holiday season and I'm close to the earth. I guess I can't be about murder and mayhem all the time. Most, maybe, but not all.
They were all on Oprah the other day (Will and Jayden Smith, the real guy, his real son, etc.), and I was pissed off at how every single clip made me mist up. And they showed a ton of them, and many twice. I have no need to see the movie now. All the emotional manipulation, none of the movie theater experience!
The Pursuit of Happyness made me mist up this time, and We Are Marshall does it to me every time.
Has anybody heard anything about the Pursuit of Happyness, Will Smith's new movie? The trailers are breaking my heart. It would o0nly be more broken if the movie turned out to suck.
The trailer I saw in the theatre was much better than the one I've been seeing on TV, and, yeah, it made me sort of want to see it.
But having seen the trailer I got the distinct impression that seeing the longer film would now be redundant.
But there's that, too.
When that Keanu Reeves baseball movie (I'm pretty sure I have the actor and sport right) was in previews, I was really glad to be dating a musician, who explained in detail precisely how the music in the preview was making me misty. It's not our fault!!
precisely how the music in the preview was making me misty.
This was a BIG part of why I was getting misty at the Pursuit of Happyness trailer. I was aware of at least that much.
I gritted my teeth and hunched my shoulders and swore silently at every earnest, racial minority, devoted dad, just plain good second of that trailer.
It's really designed to stop you (read, ESPECIALLY ME) from thinking and just go to that (inherently perfectly reasonable) part of you that feels bad for people whose lives sucks for no apparent fault of their own.
I won't let it get me.
(read, ESPECIALLY ME)
Is it wrong that it makes me giggle when you react so contrarily to certain types of emotional manipulation, ita?
bon --
Strega, did you think the guy in glasses at the end was Le Chiffre? He was just another random villian who looks villianous.
Oh, right, because he's killed earlier. I had to think that through. But why give that guy a wonky left eye, too? It seems designed to cause confusion. For me, anyway.