Trailer Park Trash: A Serious Man

(THIS WHOLE ENTRY GOES OUT TO JEREMY MORAN WHO LINKED ME TO THE TRAILER LIKE 5 TIMES THE DAY IT CAME OUT. I SAW IT. I GOT SO MANY EMAILS FROM FACEBOOK THAT WERE JUST LINKS TO THIS TRAILER. I HATE YOU. SIGNED BRENDAN.)

Since I'm just getting started here I thought I'd tell my few viewers (I'm guessing, like zero at this point) that I am a fan of trailers. Like most people, I think of trailers as tiny movies. And whenever I go to the movie theater I always get excited if there's a trailer I haven't yet (but FAT CHANCE ON THAT one since there is Apple Trailers, Trailer Addict, Ain't It Cool and YouTube). It seems that nerds all over the world have been getting more and more into trailers because more and more of their favorite comic books as well as other favorite literary works often get turned into films due to a lack of creativity and milking of the cash cow. And this increase of interest has led to more and more attention to trailers so I thought why not talk about trailers since they've always been pretty popular and in recent years even more so.

A Serious Man

Alright, I've been wanting to talk about this trailer for a while. When the A Serious Man trailer hit the internet, the nerd community was a flutter, oozing with glee. Most nerds love The Cohen Brothers (something I do not share) and the trailer was...something to see...I guess. So I got at least 50 Facebook updates and 3 links to the same god damn trailer in the course of an hour. I saw this trailer and while I don't argue that it could be good, I think we, the nerd community, should be cautious.

Yeah.
Fuck yo hype.
I'm not falling for this again.

The first thing I noticed with this trailer is that it's pretty much a music video.
"But Brendan! Nothing like this has ever been --"
SHUT UP!
Yes it has.
Trailers now a days are looking more and more like music videos and it's been going on for the past couple years.

I direct your attention to The Cottage
The Cottage is a less than well known UK Horror film that was pretty much panned when it came here. As you can see it also uses the same percussion elements with a different song. And sure, it doesn't use it's own movie like A Serious Man, a Pogo song or something written by Eclectic Method
I would still say it's similar because it's a trailer playing with editing like it's a Dance music video.

The trailer itself sounds like a mash-up and while that is indeed the shit, keep in mind that these trailers are designed to create hype. So people saying "OMG, TWILIGHT! THIS TRAILER IS SOOOO COOOOL!" does nothing but spread awareness for this upcoming like a disease. Then people get excited and then the editor, the directors and the execs just get a fuck-ton of money.

Now, I was excited for The Cottage after seeing the trailer. Who wouldn't be? All you see is murder and mayhem to a soundtrack. You don't see anything wrong with it, you don't see the bad dialogue, the awkward plot line, bad acting or any other part of the film besides what we saw in the trailer. But I assure you, all of these horrible qualities I just listed where in The Cottage. The Cottage is not worth seeing. But I saw it, because of that stupid trailer. Who's to say the same wont happen for A Serious Man.

This film COULD be good, keep in mind that we don't really know anything about it, we've only see maybe one whole scene in this trailer, The Cohen Brothers maybe make a serious film every three years (They make two kinds of films, ones that they're making because they feel like making art and the other kinds are just them getting paid to hang out with their friends) and finally, (true this is more of a private note) I just don't like The Cohen Brothers. All of their "comedies" are just people who have awkward ticks that The Cohen Brothers accentuate because they think that a man who coughs every time after he says vacation is god damn comedic gold. NO IT IS NOT AND STOP!

So while I'll admit the trailer is a good music video mash-up and sure this movie has the possibility of being the best thing since ever. At this point it also has as much chance to be another Cohen Brother comedy that stops being funny as soon as you sit down. They did make Burn After Reading and Intolerable Cruelty after all.

Don't get caught up in the hype. Now if you excuse me I have to watch the other Where The Wild Things Are trailer. OMG TWILIGHT! IT LOOKS SO COOL AND THEIR IS SO MUCH HUGGING!!