I’ve been pretty negative about the prospect of Alejandro González Iñárritu’s “Biutiful” in the past — and it’s still not a movie I’m particularly excited about seeing, even with a supposedly amazing performance by Javiar Bardem — but this official trailer is extremely well done.
No doubt we’ll be hearing a bit about this movie at Oscar time at least in regards to Bardem, whether I like it or not. I just wish I could type “Iñárritu” without copying and pasting it from somewhere else.
Aka “Just Another Wednesday Night on the 405” as Nicholas Cage gets himself a few days off from hell to rescue his baby daughter from the no-doubt Satanic cult that killed his wife.
And now we know what happened to the brutal rapist, Zed (Peter Green), after Bruce Willis dispatched him in “Pulp Fiction.” He went to hell, worked hard, networked appropriately, got promoted to an executive position of some responsibility. Nice to see a guy do well. Or, maybe that’s what happened to Green’s creepy Amway selling policeman from “Go.”UPDATE: Comment deleted due to a serious case of vaguely similar looking actor confusion between the very talented and similarly creepy Peter Green and William Fichtner, as pointed out by my colleague, Jason Zingale in comments below.
This is fairly NSFW and will probably offend some practicing Catholics, or Christians, or believers in any form of organized religion and perhaps just those who are into the whole idea of respecting people’s beliefs, and it’s probably offensive in other ways, too. But what else can you expect from a post “Machete” Mexploitation flick called “Nude Nuns with Big Guns”?
Sorry, but this did make me laugh and I personally think it’s all in good fun. Also, it’s not like the church hasn’t done anything to deserve a few jabs.
Considering it contains an hour long, dialogue-free sequence involving, at least some of the time, the main character graphically sawing off one of his own limbs, it would pretty much take a director of Danny Boyle’s proven audience-friendly abilities to make anything like a mainstream success out of “127 Hours.” It also probably helps that James Franco has been coming into his own lately as an increasingly likable and surprisingly funny screen presence. The trailer we posted here back in August, however, didn’t persuade me personally that watching the film would be anything but a test of my own squeamish-guy cinematic fortitude. This one, however, is a little different.
H/t The Playlist. This is actually one of the best put together trailers I’ve seen in some time. Another testament to the “invisible art” of the film editor. It certainly sells me on why it was such a hit on the festival circuit.
I will add that another way to approach this kind of people-painfully-removing-their-own-limbs material that might have been commercially viable is as a low-budget ultra-gore self-torture porn shocker for the international midnight movie circuit. You could call it “The Human Pill Bug.”
If anyone actually makes that movie, I’m expecting royalties. (And, yeah, I know, ‘The Human Slug” would be more accurate as pill bugs actually have legs. I’m an entertainment blogger, not a entomologist, damnit!)
