Reservation Road trailer
This trailer for Terry George's Reservation Road (Focus Features, 10.19) is made up of fairly persuasive stuff. Sorta looks like this year's Little Children, but with the icky-dweeby sexual predator factor replaced by parental grief (followed by obsessive rage) over a lost child. Joaquin Phoenix, Mark Ruffalo, Jeinnifer Connelly and Mira Sorvino costar. Focus needs to hope and pray it doesn't get an early rave from David Poland....aaahhh!
Where are the high-def trailers? The low-rez trailer up now looks more than a little shitty. Plus Reservation Road is opening only two months from now and there's no official website in sight. Focus marketing needs to shag ass.
Getting this straight once again: Reservation Road, an emotionally intense adult drama set in Connecticut that's based on a respected 1999 novel by John Burnham Schwartz, will open on 10.19. Sam Mendes' Revolutionary Road, an emotionally intense adult drama set in Connecticut that's based on a respected 1961 novel by Richard Yates, will open sometime in 2008 via DreamWorks. Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet are costarring.
Posted by Jeffrey Wells on August 9, 2007 at 2:59 PM
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Josh Massey
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He's obviously fucking with everyone on this "Pheonix" thing now, so please save your comments.
Posted by Josh Massey
at August 9, 2007 3:25 PM
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alynch
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Didn't one of the Guilds force a title change on that awful Tim Allen Christmas comedy when its title was too similar to the title of that awful Ben Afflect Christmas comedy? Why can't they do that with these two movies?
Posted by alynch
at August 9, 2007 3:26 PM
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malibugigolo
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Focus loves car deaths.
Posted by malibugigolo
at August 9, 2007 3:27 PM
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BurmaShave
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It's a good trailer, until the end, when it becomes a great trailer with the counterintuitive music and sudden random violence and screaming. It's like a Troma trailer.
Also, not to be superficial, but that beard is terrible, and not at all suburban dad. I could buy it if it were post-grief, but from the looks of it he's rocking it the entire time. It's a hobo-chic beard, and not at all fitting.
I wonder if Mark Ruffalo will give Bardem a run for his money?
Posted by BurmaShave
at August 9, 2007 3:29 PM
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BurmaShave
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It's a good trailer, until the end, when it becomes a great trailer with the counterintuitive music and sudden random violence and screaming. It's like a Troma trailer.
Also, not to be superficial, but that beard is terrible, and not at all suburban dad. I could buy it if it were post-grief, but from the looks of it he's rocking it the entire time. It's a hobo-chic beard, and not at all fitting.
I wonder if Mark Ruffalo will give Bardem a run for his money?
Posted by BurmaShave
at August 9, 2007 3:31 PM
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BurmaShave
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Christ, that fucking "Curbing abuse" thing came up, my apolgies.
Posted by BurmaShave
at August 9, 2007 3:33 PM
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James Leer
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Actually, the beard and extra poundage that Phoenix donned for this film make him look VERY suburban dad. Even if he lives in an immaculate fake movie house with Jennifer Connelly (at least they put her in sweatshirts part of the time).
Posted by James Leer
at August 9, 2007 4:11 PM
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BNick
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Yeah, how did Jennifer Connolly suddenly become the default choice for "upset suburban housewife"?
I grew up in the suburbs and no one's mom looked like her.
Trailer looks good, though. Mark Ruffalo is on a real hot streak.
Posted by BNick
at August 9, 2007 4:36 PM
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lazarus
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Looks like Sean Penn's The Crossing Guard with younger characters and less baggage, although in that film the perp's identity was already known and he was getting out of jail, the angry father stewing in helplessness for the whole film. One of Nicholson's better recent performances, and a devastating climax. David Morse was great too.
Is anyone having trouble believing that some straight-laced middle-class guy like Ruffalo in this film would leave the scene of the accident? If it wasn't intentional and he wasn't drunk or anything, it just seems like an odd reaction to the situation. Or maybe I don't know enough about the story.
Posted by lazarus
at August 9, 2007 4:39 PM
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Armin Tamzarian
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awesome! more grief porn! and thanks, guys, for putting the whole movie into the trailer. saved me $12.
Posted by Armin Tamzarian
at August 9, 2007 5:32 PM
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malibugigolo
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21 grams in chronological order
Posted by malibugigolo
at August 9, 2007 5:54 PM
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Jeremy Smith
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I like malibugigolo's reading. This looks like dogshit.
Posted by Jeremy Smith
at August 9, 2007 7:06 PM
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Joel
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Revolutionary Road is the one I'm looking forward to. I just read the book and I think there's a really powerful movie in there (even if Mendes did sort of cover the same ground in American Beauty) and it will be nice to see Winslet and DiCaprio together again. If it's as good or better than Little Children, I'll be happy.
Posted by Joel
at August 10, 2007 8:09 AM
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cheaplog
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They've replaced that trailer with "better" Flash encodings too many times since Tuesday, at Amazon. Now they're linking to a Windows Media version at
http://mfile.akamai.com/17650/wmv/amazoncomh3.download.akamai.com/17650/wm.amazon.usa/dvd/ResRoad_trailer_480x360.wmv
And if you want to link to the referring page, there's a much shorter url than the weird ones everybody seems to be using (and track referrers, partners and such):
http://www.amazon.com/reservationroad
Posted by cheaplog
at August 10, 2007 2:41 PM
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movieaddict
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Trailer looks really great now. They reposted the trailer on Amazon and the quality is a million times better. Really excited for this film. I think it will def be a win some oscars no doubt about it!
Posted by movieaddict
at August 13, 2007 9:36 AM
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filmfan45
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I am real excited for this film. I am a huge Mark Ruffalo fan and the new trailer that they posted on Amazon is much better quality - the trailer looks pretty awesome.
Posted by filmfan45
at August 13, 2007 9:47 AM