I love trailers. I love films. I love trailers that make me want to see films. When I see trailers that are better than the films, thats annoying. Per example, Eastern Promises.
Premise: As the title suggests, it was promising. It had the cast, it had an unusual and intriguing story (unlike so much of Hollywood), and besides the fact that Naomi Watts refuses to do any film that does not involve her crying, I do like her. On that note, besides the fact that I like her, she was completely wrong for the role. Its like she was going through the motions like she had a dozen times. With little heart and connection to any of the other characters. Even the, only half evil, hotty Viggo Morteneson...HELLO?! Insert naked bath house fight scene here, and its worth the $8.
The story included violence, sex, betrayal, internal and external struggles, mystery, and the obvious foreign accent and country appeal. All this with no actual climax. No actual build up shoot out chase scene. And maybe that was the point. And without this being a complete non run-on but feels like run-on sentence and using completely horrible punctuation and sentence structure I would like to point out that there are many films with no shoot out chase scene, no real climax, that leave me wanting more, in a "im satisfied" type of way. And I appreciate those films too. BUT, Eastern Promises did not deliver. It was trying to tell too much, but ended up telling almost nothing.
On another note, the best TGIF show your mother wouldn't let you watch, Are You Afraid Of the Dark, started one of the most talented and hottest male actors to be mentioned in this current posts career. What a lame sentence. Mr. Ryan Gosling. ahhhh.
Ryan Gosling recently starred in the indy sleeper Half Nelson. This film was powerful, strong, visually stunning, and included some of the best acting of the year. The trailer to this film made it seem like a current Dangerous Minds, which it totally was not. It wasn't the usual good guy teacher enters disadvantaged community and school to save the day. Just rent it. By the way shes fricken amazing.
and no, im not adding the trailer to Eastern Promises.
