As much as I love the idea of TRAILER PARK TRASH, I can see it's inherent flaws. Case in point...yesterday I watched In Time, a movie that had it's trailer reviewed here on Movie Dork as part of the TPT segment.
You murdered me by 109 minutes, Amanda
This movie is probably one of the worst pieces of garbage I've ever seen. The only reason I kept watching was because 1) I was bored, and 2) I kept hoping to see more of Amanda Seyfried's cleavage.
The movie seemed like it had one plot at the beginning of the film, and an entirely different plot at the end. Did they play Mad-Libs to try and figure the story structure on this one? And what I thought was a cool story point (the idea that TIME is used like money) turned out to have so many holes in it, it was like a piece of Swiss cheese that had been eaten by rats & shot with a shotgun...in other words, LOTS OF PLOT HOLES.
I'm looking forward to tonight, hoping to get into a sneak peak of Rampart starring Woody Harrelson. And I'm hoping to write on this blog more.
UPDATE OF THE UPDATE:
Again, the futility of Trailer Park Trash has been proven to me by seeing the first 10 minutes of One for the Money, which I couldn't even sit through the free showing of the first ten minutes. It was that bad. Even Katherine Heigl as a brunette couldn't make me watch more of that garbage.
Here's a new section of the blog that I want to try out, which was the brainchild of a friend of mine. Instead of doing movie reviews about movies we've seen, we do movie reviews on their trailers, and judge the movie solely based on that. I've decided to call it Trailer Park Trash.
JT has really impressed me with his transition into acting...he hasn't done it like musicians normally do, which is to do some big budget blockbuster and fall horribly on their face. Instead, he started out doing indie films and direct-to-video and cameos in other movies, but now he's headlining movies. And this looks like his first foray into becoming an action star.
I'm going to admit it, the idea of this movie is intriguing. Everyone grows to 25, and then the currency is time. So, the rich stay young and alive, while the poor die. It's a unique way to look at the future, just like director Andrew Niccol's other future movie Gattaca was. However, it's kinda the same idea as Freejack, except instead of stealing people from the past, you're actually stealing their current time. And I don't think Mick Jagger is in this movie.
What this movie has is a shitload of stars. Amanda Seyfried plays JT's love interest...I'm sorry, I really can't see her as anything more than the ditzy girl in Mean Girls. The always gorgeous Olivia Wilde plays JT's mom, even though she's younger than him in real life. Cillian Murphy plays the baddie, Vincent Kartheiser plays his boss and Seyfried's father, and Johnny Galecki plays JT's buddy. Alex Pettyfer is in there too, but that dude's a douche, so I really don't care.
Who I am excited to see is Matt Bomer, playing a 100+ year old man who gives his time to JT, thus starting the chain of events for the movie. I'm a huge fan of Bomer and his show White Collar, so it's good to see him getting some movie time, even if it is a supporting / small part.
The film looks like it has the action and the intelligence to keep my attention, and the only thing that kinda makes me hesitant is if they try and dumb the film down for the usual JT / Seyfried / Pettyfer audience...which is 16 year old girls. If this is a smart sci-fi / action / thriller in the same vein as Inception, it might be the movie that makes JT as big a movie star as he is a pop star.
