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apocalypsos) wrote2009-08-17 12:08 pm
apocalypsos) wrote2009-08-17 12:08 pm
Look, this is why I hate the world.
You have probably seen the trailer on TV for All About Steve. In fact, you have probably only seen the ONE trailer, since I'm a pathetic loser with no job or social life who can't afford to go anywhere and hours of television-watching every day had led me to believe that there was only one trailer, so I can't imagine they're really showing a variety.
The TV spot features Sandra Bullock with a scary blond dye job basically spending sixty seconds worth of commercial time flailing after Bradley Cooper screaming "STEEEEEVE!" and trailing after him like the sort of stock shrill-needy-harpy cliche Hollywood churns out on a regular basis in buddy comedies, as the TV spot seems to make it out to be. It's the sort of trailer that usually spawns a Friday Feminist Fuck You. (Have the ladies at Feministing done one yet for it? Because I feel as if they should.)
So basically I come out of watching that trailer every single time with three thoughts:
1. It's a buddy comedy meant for a male audience.
2. I'm going to hate the Sandra Bullock character for being an embarrassing sexist cliche.
3. Sandra Bullock and Bradley Cooper can both do WAY better.
Except ... well, here's the trailer I just spotted on YouTube:
That's ... actually kinda cute. Compared to the one showing on TV, it's WAY better. Not perfect, of course, and okay, Sandra Bullock's character has problems, but she's not, as the TV spot appears to imply, clearly INSANE. And the trailer and the summary on the official website implies that at least in part she's going after his character because of the self-serving encouragement of Thomas Haden Church's character, as opposed to coming up with it on her own.
The problem is, it's obviously less about selling it as what it is than it is about selling it to the same people who rushed out to see The Hangover. Bradley Cooper's character in the TV trailer is running away from her at all times, and his friends are telling him to run away from this nutjob, and he's wearing a funny porn wig and HA HA NO. THIS trailer implies that he gets over the awful first impression and her overenthusiasm and starts to soften towards if not also fall for her. So, if it really is a romantic comedy, why not sell it as such?
The second trailer taken on its own is questionable. It appears to be a romantic comedy in which Sandra Bullock's character behaves weirdly out of being sheltered or introverted, and while chasing after Bradley Cooper's character is clearly forward, she doesn't appear to have the social understanding to pull herself back. But put against the TV version -- one featuring clips in which the movie is a Hangover II where Bradley Cooper's character gets new friends and a famous stalker -- and it's worlds apart and an improvement.
On the other hand, since they can apparently edit it to look like a shitty offensive sexist comedy for douchebags AND and a mildly-uncomfortable-at-times romance, I feel we're owed the version where they edit it into a cheap horror movie. Come on, Hollywood, I have faith in you!
*headdesk*
The TV spot features Sandra Bullock with a scary blond dye job basically spending sixty seconds worth of commercial time flailing after Bradley Cooper screaming "STEEEEEVE!" and trailing after him like the sort of stock shrill-needy-harpy cliche Hollywood churns out on a regular basis in buddy comedies, as the TV spot seems to make it out to be. It's the sort of trailer that usually spawns a Friday Feminist Fuck You. (Have the ladies at Feministing done one yet for it? Because I feel as if they should.)
So basically I come out of watching that trailer every single time with three thoughts:
1. It's a buddy comedy meant for a male audience.
2. I'm going to hate the Sandra Bullock character for being an embarrassing sexist cliche.
3. Sandra Bullock and Bradley Cooper can both do WAY better.
Except ... well, here's the trailer I just spotted on YouTube:
That's ... actually kinda cute. Compared to the one showing on TV, it's WAY better. Not perfect, of course, and okay, Sandra Bullock's character has problems, but she's not, as the TV spot appears to imply, clearly INSANE. And the trailer and the summary on the official website implies that at least in part she's going after his character because of the self-serving encouragement of Thomas Haden Church's character, as opposed to coming up with it on her own.
The problem is, it's obviously less about selling it as what it is than it is about selling it to the same people who rushed out to see The Hangover. Bradley Cooper's character in the TV trailer is running away from her at all times, and his friends are telling him to run away from this nutjob, and he's wearing a funny porn wig and HA HA NO. THIS trailer implies that he gets over the awful first impression and her overenthusiasm and starts to soften towards if not also fall for her. So, if it really is a romantic comedy, why not sell it as such?
The second trailer taken on its own is questionable. It appears to be a romantic comedy in which Sandra Bullock's character behaves weirdly out of being sheltered or introverted, and while chasing after Bradley Cooper's character is clearly forward, she doesn't appear to have the social understanding to pull herself back. But put against the TV version -- one featuring clips in which the movie is a Hangover II where Bradley Cooper's character gets new friends and a famous stalker -- and it's worlds apart and an improvement.
On the other hand, since they can apparently edit it to look like a shitty offensive sexist comedy for douchebags AND and a mildly-uncomfortable-at-times romance, I feel we're owed the version where they edit it into a cheap horror movie. Come on, Hollywood, I have faith in you!
*headdesk*
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I know it's not Spanish, but I so hear it in Ricardo Montalban's voice.