Wed, March 9, 2005
Trailer: Hitch—9:53 AM
It's not like this happened just today or anything, but there's a new trailer out for The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. I was going to avoid it, because it'll probably be my favorite movie this year, and I like to keep the surprises. (I know the books very well, but the filmmaking decisions like art direction, costumes, and monster designs could still be surprising.) But curiosity got the better of me and I took a chance. Good thing, too. It's a great trailer, and it takes the opportunity to mock movie trailers while in fact being one – sort of like the genius trailer for Comedian.
From the look of things, they're putting elements from all the books (at least the original trilogy) in there somewhere. I don't know if this means it'll be a four hour movie, but I hope so. This is one I'll be very happy to stay in the theatre for. Like The Incredibles, the casting is inspired – which means risky. I like all the actors (with the exception of Zooey Deschanel whom, of course, I'm in love with), but I'd never have pictured Mos Def for Ford Prefect. I trust him, though; I can't wait to see how it turns out!
Also new, a trailer for Fantastic Four, which certainly makes it look fun. Gleefully, I had to move my second-favorite movie of this year, Mr. & Mrs. Smith to third in order to accommodate Shopgirl, which makes Fantastic Four, fittingly, fourth.
I'm having quite a time pre-ranking my favorite movies of 2005. Maybe we need a pre-tournament (of Movies) – or, better yet, an Oscar-pool style voting system where we rank all the upcoming releases now, then rank them again at the end of the year and see how we did.
"AC" — Wed, 3/9/05 10:51am
Unless, of course, you're referring to Hitchcock. Whenever I hear Hitch that's the first thing I think of. Not some dopey Will Smith movie.
Bee Boy — Mon, 6/13/05 8:23am
Hm. This is turning out to be all wrong. I never should've bumped the Smiths out of the #2 slot – I don't know what I was thinking.
I'm no longer quite sure where Hitchhiker's fits in. It may depend on how I feel about War of the Worlds, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and the winter Oscar glut. And, the more I look at trailers for Fantastic Four, the more I get the uneasy feeling that it's going to collapse under its own weight. I can't get enough of Itchy Chiklis hurling cars around (and invisible tricks are always awesome), but it has an eerie hollow feeling to it. (Though it tickles me that they reportedly had to reshoot most of a key battle sequence because of The Incredibles.)
Yay, movies!