Late views on the Trailer

[junediamanti]

Look away if you can't take criticism.  Look away if you feel the 
forthcoming movie is too sacred to be dissed.

Yes, I know I'm really late off the mark.  

You see I was worried that this would happen and in cases like this 
I don't like being proved right. So I held back. 

So I finally downloaded the trailer today.  What can I say?

It's difficult to judge the film in the midst of the twee fest that 
is the trailer.  What's with the sickening choir, the 
silly "something wicked this way comes" nonsense  (said you wouldn't 
like my opinions)?

Please Warner Brothers.  Pixar manage the fundamental difference 
between what children and adults like quite competently - I refer 
you to "Finding Nemo" and all their other releases.  These books are 
loved by adults and children alike for different reasons, but is 
there no room for the two together in your film making philosophy?

I've felt hugely uncomfortable ever since I heard the sickeningly 
twee Richard Williams score for the movies and it isn't getting any 
better.  I suspect Warners are behind this whole ethos, because 
Williams has written some thunderingly good film scores.

I had high hopes for Cuaron - could he conceivably be worse than 
Columbus?  I thought not, but I'm worried now.    

Prisoner was my hope that we'd finally get a film that was faithful 
to the books I love and why we're all here.  It's the first one that 
showed some darker themes, and where some characters stopped being 
stereotypical and went 3-D.  

Frankly I'm not optimistic. If proved wrong, I will happily eat my 
hat complete with ketchup in cyber space for the edification of 
anyone who reads this.

Sadly

June