Quote:
Originally Posted by kevin
(Post 304129)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnJjY...team%20trailer
Trailer 2 looks great, I loved the show as a kid and if there's one 80s TV to movie revival that I really don't want to have suck it's this one!
Cast looks good and seems to work well, action looks suitably OTT and I'm really hoping it doesn't all go pear-shaped when it comes out!
|
You've convinced me, Kevin. I never saw the show, but I've been bombarded by this trailer at every
Kick-@$$ screening I've caught. And I actually really like the trailer, but my reaction has always been "it's another movie based some 'popular' TV show that 'nobody' I know ever actually watched." Except now, I can no longer say that.
The law about TV-based movies tending to 'suck' notwithstanding (and let's be honest now, how many of our beloved Star Trek movies actually 'don't suck' from an objective non-fan standpoint? Like, four? Including the new one?), it's actually my belief that once you have a sucky movie, it's really hard to make a halfway decent trailer out of it.
There are exceptions... for example some talented editor was able to find all the right moments in the last Indiana Jones movie ("put your hands down, you're embarrassing us"). They were also dealing with a brand name, so the trailer did not have to present any kind of story. But
Terminator Salvation proved to be every bit as boring as the trailer. And I can't even stay focused partway through
The Expendables trailer I've seen almost a half dozen times now.
So while part of me is thinking "great, can the
Airwolf movie be far behind... why not
CHiPs or TJ Hooker for that matter"... I'm also suddenly wondering if maybe there's something to this series after all. Sure, the flying tank is OTT. As you've pointed out, it's supposed to be. But the trailer is alive enough to hold my amusement for two minutes.
The Dukes of Hazard trailer certainly didn't do that (although it somehow excited the rest of the theater audience).
As a non-fan? I
might actually see this.