Ryan McNeilDamndest thing.
Today I’ve got a trailer to a film that I am massively looking forward to. It was filmed by a director whose work I dig so damned much (as many of you do). It comes with a cast stacked with stellar character actors. It’s based on a fun pulp fiction novel that I just read and enjoyed the heck out of, However, if I didn’t know any of that and was going strictly by this trailer, I’d probably be sitting the film out.
I say that because when I watched this clip, I was so deeply thrown off by Richard Butler’s cover of “She”, that it cast a very curious light on the whole ad. It felt like something common, something slight, something far below what it very well might be.
This isn’t the first time David Fincher has gone radically off-book with his trailer music – think back to the choral version of Radiohead’s “Creep” that accompanied trailers for THE SOCIAL NETWORK.
I’m still eagerly anticipating this movie of course, but if it’s all the same to you, Ill b watching this trailer on ‘mute’ for a while.
This trailer looks great. I have this booked saved at my library, so hopefully I get the chance to read it before the film comes out.
The book is a fun read – I finished it about a month or so ago. Will definitely be interested in hearing what you think of it.
I find the music HILARIOUS! It just goes with the corny “perfect” image of the Dunnes as seen through Amy’s diary. I was going to write a post about the trailer but hello laziness! Needless to say but I am v.v.v.v.v.v.v.v.v.v.v.v.v.v.v.v.v.v.v.v.v. excited 😀 The cast is sooooo perfect it’s mental.
Damn – I hadn’t thought of it that way. Now that you remind me about the image of NIck we get in Amy’s diary, it makes a bit more sense.
As for missing a post about the trailer, one could counter that using a trailer as the crux of an entire post is laziness in itself (*ahem*)
Not a fan of this song.. and .. though I’ve yet to read the book, feel like the trailer could’ve been so so so much better. I’m very picky with trailers in general but with a Fincher flick.. man, it has to be off the top! And this isn’t.
It certainly seems like the weakest trailer for his last few films. Thankfully, I’m a big believer that we shouldn’t judge movies too harshly based on their trailers anyway.