It’s about damn time… also, this looks really good so far. Rachel Weisz and David Harbour? Sign me up!
Possibly the most Wes Anderson film?
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Not quite a movie trailer but some low quality on purpose leaked mystery reveal of RPlatz in the new batsuit.
Shane Carruth, are you feeling ok?
Last month Carruth, who you may remember from such hits as Primer and Upstream Color, released a don’t-call-it-a-trailer for one of his unfinished films, A Topiary:
Also a couple days ago he published a script and teaser for another unfinished project, The Modern Ocean:
It seems like both are going to stay unmade. The AV Club has some more detail, including excerpts from an interview he gave last month:
“This is not arts and literature in early Greece,” he continued. “This town is what everybody says it is. We hire models to say words they don’t even understand and then light them well. Only one percent of that is worth watching. The confusion is, we get to go to the same building to watch a fucking Garfield cartoon and Phantom Thread, as if those two are the same things.”
“I would sort of love it if all the studios died in the next five years,” he went on to say.
Well that’s… one way to convince a studio to fund your next project. He also says he’s got one more project, then he’s retiring. So fingers crossed on that one.
If you haven’t seen Primer, well, you need to fix that. It was written, directed, produced, scored, edited by, and stars Carruth. Super-hard scifi. Plus it’s only 77 minutes long.
You know how Scott says the best movies are great the first time you watch it, and also great on rewatches? Primer is Exhibit A.
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Been a while since I’ve seen a movie trailer I thought worth sharing. But this one has me a bit hype and I just pray that it’s better than most recent space sci-fi. I’m not going into this for hard sci-fi, but, if it can at least get it half-way right I’ll stan it to the Moon and back.
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That looks fucking badass, I’m into it. That’s my sci-fi asthetic to a tee. And that music fucking slaps, to boot.
Also, the guy who is yelling about “Victory sons of bitches!” in the start of the trailer sounds almost exactly like Sam from Corridor Digital. It’s probably not him, though, just a funny coincidence for a movie that’s full of digital visual effects.
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The pilot in that movie is being played by my boy Song Joong-Ki.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9xhJrPXop4
Is the Pink Floyd really necessary?
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Dune should have a weird score and soundtrack.
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New dune just in time for Spice meme season
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If you know you’re going to watch the movie anyway, why watch the trailer? It just sets up weird expectations.
I remember everyone loved the tone of the trailer for Where the Wood Things Are. Mostly based on the music choice for the trailer, some indie band with uplifting lyrics.
Then the movie itself had generic orchestral soundtrack, not music from indie bands. Much disappointment and many moaning blog posts.
Edit: you’re enjoying it wrong
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Trailers are fun. I don’t care about spoilers, not that there could even be spoilers for Dune that I’ve already read and seen the older version. of. And no matter how much preview material I see for a thing, my expectations are almost always zero anyway. My expectations for this Dune movie are indeed, still zero.
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I concur that Pink Floyd is a bit heavy and on the nose for the trailer in terms of it being yet another trailer where some popular song is remixed with hundreds of times more dramatic gravitas sweeteners.
That said sure, thematically it fits. And certainly it could be that Pink Floyd themselves were vibing to some Dune when writing that album in the first place. And it’s not like the previous Dune movie, as decried as it is, wasn’t thrusting some Sting in our faces for those pop-culture brownie points.
So on the whole I’m not more or less hype, but it’s a cool trailer.
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I enjoy trailers as a mini art form within film. Some of the best manage to convey an emotional tone and elevator pitch for a story, some others completely misdirect but are still engaging. Like title sequences, trailers serve a functional and business purpose but can also be made and enjoyed aesthetically.
Oh no doubt trailers are an art form in their own right. I just prefer the movie as an art form more, so would rather go into to it “cold” as it were.
Let them Floyd.
Pink Floyd was allegedly onboard for JodoDune so it could be a Easter egg. Sun and moon-rhymes-with-Dune imagery is apt, plus Paul’s Fremen name is also a moon reference.
Good trailer. I’m onboard. I usually don’t bother with trailers, but I’ve already read it.
Yup! That looks cool as fuck. Thank you for sharing.
That was cool, and also I feel like I probably don’t need to see this version at all except that it looks pretty cool.
I was literally just watching Darude on Twitch.