Here are some trailers I just watched of potentially good films of 2008:
Man in the Chair
It's a dramedy that follows a rebellious car-stealing teenager (Michael Angarano from Lords of Dogtown) who bonds with a Hollywood has-been (Christopher Plummer) in a dark movie theater. Taken on as an apprentice, Angarano learns that Plummer is the last surviving member of the Citizen Kane cast and gets to meet his aging friends at the Motion Picture Residence for the Elderly. Entangled by all this history and expertise, he decides to enter a student film contest. Plummer and his friends help Angarano shoot his movie and try to win the prize, while simultaneously imparting knowledge. In one scene he says words that maybe Lindsay Lohan should hear: "Don't worry about getting famous. Get good at your job. If fame comes along then so be it." Release Date: OUT NOW
Man in the Chair
It's a dramedy that follows a rebellious car-stealing teenager (Michael Angarano from Lords of Dogtown) who bonds with a Hollywood has-been (Christopher Plummer) in a dark movie theater. Taken on as an apprentice, Angarano learns that Plummer is the last surviving member of the Citizen Kane cast and gets to meet his aging friends at the Motion Picture Residence for the Elderly. Entangled by all this history and expertise, he decides to enter a student film contest. Plummer and his friends help Angarano shoot his movie and try to win the prize, while simultaneously imparting knowledge. In one scene he says words that maybe Lindsay Lohan should hear: "Don't worry about getting famous. Get good at your job. If fame comes along then so be it." Release Date: OUT NOW
Untraceable
This horror thriller explores the fear that humans have of being terminated by the technology they created. You know how mentioning a website in a magazine or a broadcast will guarantee a ridiculous amount of page visits? Well, there's a serial killer who synchronizes those page visits to how much blood is taken out of his victim's body and how violently they are murdered. Yet somehow, people keep going to the website. Each victim dies faster because of how popular the website is. It brings a whole new meaning to "assisted suicide." I love it when there are movies that mirror our society and the fact that people are so driven by herd mentality that they would visit a website simply because someone suggested it. It's an interesting concept to address. However, IMDb says that it's actually exploring how humans are drawn to violence and evil. Diane Lane and Colin Hanks play members of the FBI's Cyber Crime Division. Normally they can track a cyber criminal through IP addresses etc., but this guy is...untraceable. Once he finds out who they are, he starts to hunt them. Hacking into their home computers and even into their car's computer system while they're driving on the highway. It sounds like a mix between Saw and Tesis (a really good Spaniard thriller about snuff films/torture porn), and therefore pretty damn good. Release Date: January 25, 2008
How She Move
I love dance movies, honestly. But this one just seems like the production companies have figured out that the genre is an easy buck. All they have to do is scrounge up a few no name dancers, like Columbus Short (Stomp the Yard) and Channing Tatum (Step Up), put them in a shitty neighborhood or lifestyle, and then wax poetic about their pathetic lives and how dancing is their only salvation. This film is kind of like Save the Last Dance in the sense that it's about a girl (Tre Armstrong) who was demoted to a public school in a bad neighborhood and intends on doing everything in her power--including dancing in $50,000 prize competition--to pay for med school. I wasn't really amazed until the last 10 seconds of the trailer that shows snippets of her routine. Definitely...DVD material. Gotta rewind after all. Release Date: January 25, 2008
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