Though these posters are slight variation on the pictures released a while back that’s not such a bad thing because they’re just so damn gorgeous. If you didn’t think Hugh Jackman was a hunk already, these posters should have no problem converting you. If they don’t, then you just might not have a sexual bone in your body. Heck, I’d usually never cheat on my affections for Zooey Deschanel, but hell if I don’t wish I were the one kissing him in the rain or licking his hands like that fire. Okay, maybe not that last part. Hand licking is just plain weird. My apologies to any hand fetishists who may read this blog, but it’s just a fact. Just like it’s a fact that AUSTRALIA is going to be the prettiest thing to prey on your eyes since Amy Adams.
I know, I know. Didn’t we just have a trailer round-up last week? Well, that’s the thing about the summer season starting to rev up. The internet pretty much explodes with visually stimulating previews meant to entice you into forgoing all social interactions for some time in a darkened theatre. Or, depending on the film, convincing you to stay home instead.
TROPIC THUNDER – Red Band (NSFW)
I want to like Ben Stiller. He’s done enough good here and there that I want to like him (“Nobody makes me bleed my own blood”), but he just makes it hard by playing the same character over-and-over again and relying on the same comedic shtick (it goes something like this – just in French). It seems with TROPIC THUNDER he’s hit on something though. Not only does the film seem genuinely funny, it seems like it’s a dead on satire of war films and their productions, and impressively (and surprisingly) has more than a little bite, mocking action stars wanting to go dramatic, method actors, and … well, Eddie Murphy. On another note, I noticed in the credits that Ethan Coen helped write this script? How did I not know this till now? That’s amazing!
CITY OF EMBERS
I hadn’t even heard of this film till last week when a poster was revealed, and now this week its trailer. What impresses me most is that it feels like an amalgam of various genres I love. You get the post-apocalyptic feel of an underground city, yet the apocalyptic tension of it dying out on account of a power crisis. In a weird way it’s a prison break movie, but also a NATIONAL TREASURE like scavenger hunt for clues to actually escape. Finally, it’s got a fun, adventure-filled family film tone, but with the dark, industrial look of a film like Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s THE CITY OF LOST CHILDREN. Also you can’t help but look fowrad to Bill Murray, who is so awesome, I’m going to go ahead and consider him a genre.
For those of you wondering what the heck Baz Luhrmann has been doing since MOULIN ROUGUE, all I can say is: ta da! Okay, okay, you probably need more than that. According to /Film, his newest project, AUSTRALIA is a “period epic film [that]stars Nicole Kidman as Lady Sarah Ashley, an English aristocrat, who is left in control of a cattle station in Australia during World War II. An Australian drover played by Hugh Jackman, with whom she becomes romantically interested, helps to drive the cattle across the property as they are under the threat of nearby Darwin being bombed. “ Anyone else think this sounds like a WW II Australian version of the John Wayne/Montgomery Clift western, RED RIVER? Anyway, given that we’re dealing with Luhrman, it should come as no surprise that the film is going to be super pretty, as you will see when you check out the recently released production stills after the jump.
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