Movies Daily by Zach Cannon

It’s interesting sometimes how differently a movie looks depending on the way a trailer is cut. The red band trailer for The Wackness focused more the relationship between Ben Kingsley and Josh Peck and the little weed-selling outfit they run. In this new trailer, it’s made to look more like a quirky love story set in the early ’90s.

Here’s a preview for a strange looking indie comedy. Called Harold, it’s about a teenager who’s already massively afflicted by male pattern baldness and has trouble fitting in at school so he uses his older look to buy beer, get friends, that sort of thing. That one joke is stretched pretty far in the trailer, so I can’t imagine the film itself being much fun.

Since thousands of freshmen are about to hit college, we’re getting, College, a late-August col-com (that’s college comedy) about a group of high school kids who go to a college campus for a weekend of debauchery. It looks OK; not particularly funny. It’s coming out against the probably horrible Disaster Movie and will get buried behind the other August comedies of Pineapple Express and Tropic Thunder but it could become a popular cult hit like Road Trip. Find the trailer here .

Mathieu Kassovitz has had some memorable roles in many movies (Amelie, Munich), but the last American film he directed, Gothika, didn’t turn out to well. Now, he has a very big futuristic actioner with Vin Diesel. It’s not quite my cup of tea, but you can catch the preview here.

Speaking of foreign directors, the last times Fernando Meirelles directed an English-language film, The Constant Gardener, his leading lady, Rachel Weisz, won an Academy Award. He’s back with claustrophobic thriller about a group of people who get locked in quarantine after a strange illness leaves its victims blind. You can catch the trailer here.

Earlier this week, I linked a Russian Web site that had the trailer for the remake of The Day the Earth Stood Still. Now a high-quality version of the trailer is available here.

Finally, the big trailer for the week is the first one for the new Bond film, Quantum of Solace. It’s very reminiscent of a Jason Bourne film (have you ever noticed how Jason Bourne, Jack Bauer and James Bond have the same initials?), with Bond going rogue and hunting down the terrorist group he busts at the end of the first. There’s good action and some of the beautiful cinematography that director Marc Forster is known for. You can find it here.

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