Today's bag of Trailer Trash contains four fresh trailers. The first, a quirky middle-age man roadtrip comedy with a great cast. The second, Renee Zellweger’s attempt to rip off Finding Neverland. The third, another bad horror remake (because we cant’ have too many of those). The fourth, a message from the greatest and best movie in the world.
Wild Hogs
You’ll have to fight past the cliché use of “Highway to Hell” as the trailer’s soundtrack, but Wild Hogs looks really good. It’s a nexus of perfect casting combined with perfect premise. John Travolta, Tim Allen, William H. Macy, and Martin Lawrence as aging, successful men dealing with getting old by hitting the road on motorcycles is almost too good to be true. With the exception of maybe Macy, they’re all on the downside of their careers looking back. You know what? Screw looking back, get on a hog and blow things up.
Miss Potter
It’s only a month till Miss Potter arrives in theaters and the Weinstein Company is just now getting around to advertising it. That’s not a good sign, nor is the overused “important movie” music being used yet again for a period piece movie’s trailer soundtrack. The film stars Renee Zellweger as the famed creator of Peter Rabbit and borrows a lot of the things that made Finding Neverland so cool and uses them yet again to tell yet another story of a quirky, misunderstood children’s author fighting against the establishment. Oh and since it’s a period piece she finds love beneath her station. Oh my!
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The Hitcher
Rogue Pictures’ remake of the 1986 movie The Hitcher has a trailer. Dave Meyers is directing the new film, which tracks the terrifying cross-country trajectory of Grace (Sophia Bush) and Jim (Zachary Knighton), two traveling college students who are tormented by the mysterious hitchhiker John Ryder, a.k.a. The Hitcher (Sean Bean).
Tenacious D in: The Pick of Destiny
The Greatest Band In The World arrives in theaters with The Greatest Rock Movie In History today, and to celebrate we’ve dug up an oddball little Tenacious D trailer with a truly bizarre intro by the boys of The D, Sir Jables and Kid Kage.
