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

… so that I can tell you that there’s a red band trailer circulating the net for the Coen brothers’ upcoming film Burn After Reading.  You can watch it here. I find it funny that the trailer says “From the … Continued

… so that I can tell you that there’s a red band trailer circulating the net for the Coen brothers’ upcoming film Burn After Reading.  You can watch it here.

I find it funny that the trailer says “From the makers of No Country For Old Men and The Big Lebowski,” because this one seems to be pretty clearly from the makers of The Ladykillers and Intolerable Cruelty.

Still, a new film from the Coens is always something to get excited about.  And Kee-rist, what a cast!

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

  1. wrather #

    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.

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  2. Gab #

    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.”

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  3. mlawski OTI Staff #

    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.

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  4. Dan Alt #

    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?

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