Tom & Alissa

Trailers are out for three movies I’ve been waiting for all year, plus one film I’ve been waiting all year to get out of my life.

The first is only a teaser trailer and the film actually won’t come out until summer 2008, but it’s nice to see Pixar rocking it all over the place with their new movie Ratatouille coming out in a week and a half to rave reviews. Wall-E is the creation of Andrew Stanton, director of my favorite Pixar movie Finding Nemo. That film set a new bar for the beautiful work that can be done with CGI; the underwater lighting is truly a marvel. I think my favorite part of this trailer, though, is the music. It makes me want to dance.

The second comes from one of Alissa’s and my favorite directors, P.T. Anderson (Boogie Nights, Magnolia). Based on Upton Sinclair’s novel Oil!, There Will Be Blood has me a little worried considering it’s P.T.’s first adaptation. On top of that, the trailer is a little odd, it doesn’t get me all that excited. No matter, the film should be great!

In terms of Hollywood, I Am Legend took over New York for shooting this year, at various times shutting down the Fifth Avenue and the Brooklyn Bridge. It didn’t affect my life too much, but it is nice when the big productions finally leave. For all of that though I think the trailer rocks; Will Smith is a great actor, totally underrated.

And my favorite trailer of them all, because it’s the Coen Brothers, because it got wonderful reviews at Cannes, because it’s based on a Cormac McCarthy book, because I’m currently reading another Cormac McCarthy book and want to adapt it into a movie, and because that book currently has me obsessed with modern day westerns, No Country For Old Men stands to be one of my favorite movies of the year. I just felt like calling it now.