Comments on: Let me pretend this is Ain’t It Cool News for just a moment here…

By: Dan Alt

Dan Alt — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 15:06:46 +0000

Trailers USED to come with cardboard bands around them held together by those windy-string clasps you see on some envelopes. Oddly enough, every single one I've seen has been uniformly brown cardboard-colored, regardless of rating. What was red was the background of the MPAA certification screen at the start of the trailer. Trailers now just come with a sticker holding the tail down. The stickers are generally green, blue, or yellow, depending on the studio, but the rare red-band ones are actually red. So oddly enough this is a piece of terminology that has gotten MORE accurate, not less. As far as Intolerable Cruelty goes, the movie was crap, but it did have this brilliant scene: Have you sat before her before?

By: mlawski

mlawski — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 20:45:52 +0000

I was really excited about this movie when I saw the poster at the local movie theater:

http://flickr.com/photos/heilemann/2592563594/

It’s very 1960s Hitchcock throwback, so I thought the movie would be a period piece. I guess not :(

But yes, great cast, though. I think Brad Pitt as an idiot douchebag might turn out to be his best role ever.

By: Gab

Gab — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 18:21:30 +0000

Ah, red band trailers… One of you guys should overthink that topic.

The Coen brothers films are always hits or misses for me. I’m not sure what this one will end up being- my heart was broken by “No Country for Old Men.”

By: wrather

wrather — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 16:36:50 +0000

I don’t know. Hapless losers way out of their league is a plot that has worked REALLY well for the Coens in the past.

I’ll bet if you tried, you could cut together a trailer for “Lebowski” that’s just as stupid looking.

Also, this movie features OTI muse and it-girl Tilda Swinton, so we’ll all have to be there on opening night.