keep in mind the trailer guy's job is to get the average person to want to see the film. They're trying to make "Walk Hard" look like the sequel to "Talladega Nights".
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Laga - Dec 23, 2007 10:07:44 am PST #2942 of 10000
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
erikaj - Dec 23, 2007 10:16:34 am PST #2943 of 10000
Always Anti-fascist!
No, actually, I think it's "Charlie Wilson's" trailer that I've taken the dislike to. But my favorite "Walk Hard" ad is the John Mayer one. "That bastard is your father,"
Scrappy - Dec 23, 2007 10:39:17 am PST #2944 of 10000
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Mike Nichols directed Charlie Wilson, so I havet hope it will be somewhat nuanced. Maybe I am a soft touch, but Walk Hard looks like a movie I'll dog--they got good songwriters to write the parodies and if they get the tone right, it could be good silly fun.
Volans - Dec 23, 2007 12:10:52 pm PST #2945 of 10000
move out and draw fire
Charlie Wilson stars Tom Hanks and Julia Roberts, two of my most hated.
I'm watching Polar Express for the umpteenth time, and every character but like three are Tom Hanks. It makes the movie additionally horrific. (Although, The Hobo may be my favorite Tom Hanks character, and replacing the actual dialogue with Hanks' dialogue from Saving Private Ryan can be amusing).
Another surreal and slightly tragic bit is that one of the three not-Tom-Hanks characters is Peter Scolari, the "other guy" from Bosom Buddies.
tiggy - Dec 23, 2007 12:58:53 pm PST #2946 of 10000
I do believe in killing the messenger, you know why? Because it sends a message. ~ Damon Salvatore
I just watched Atonement. about all i can muster is...guh.
Laga - Dec 23, 2007 1:06:35 pm PST #2947 of 10000
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
good guh though, right?
Scrappy - Dec 23, 2007 1:23:57 pm PST #2948 of 10000
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
James McAvoy is TOTALLY my movie boyfriend of the year.
tiggy - Dec 23, 2007 1:40:29 pm PST #2949 of 10000
I do believe in killing the messenger, you know why? Because it sends a message. ~ Damon Salvatore
an absolutely good guh, Laga. McAvoy is such a treat to watch and i'm pretty sure he's one of those amazing BBOC actors to boot.
JZ - Dec 23, 2007 2:12:24 pm PST #2950 of 10000
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
My Hanks and Roberts-meter goes from Meh to Huh, That Was Surprisingly Palatable With A Couple of Genuinely Good Moments. And I've read so many of Molly Ivins's stories about Charlie Wilson (sadly, the only thing I can find online is this, but the Texas chapters of Molly Ivins Can't Say That, Can She? are full of glorious Wilson tales) that the subject matter is nigh irresistible to me.
Replace Hanks and Roberts with, say, Robin Williams and, well, anyone up to and including Kate Winslet, and I would resist, resist, resist, such is Williams' kryptonite factor for me. Tom Hanks, though, I can manage.
It's possible that the mere existence of Robin Williams and Jim Carrey are setting my acceptable-movie-star bar too low; practically anything with a white male lead between 30 and 60 could have been cast with either one of them, and all the ones that aren't feel like perilous narrow escapes.
Scrappy - Dec 23, 2007 2:30:15 pm PST #2951 of 10000
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
I like Hanks in quite a few things-- Splash, Apollo 13, Toy Story, Bosom Buddies, and That Thing You Do, which he also did a fine job directing.