...you're a star, sir.

*Still reserving judgement on the film, though.*

;o)

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Thank you, sir! I try my best. :)

Not sure about it either, but watching the trailer doesn't hurt. ;)

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...and an Inbox full of guff from the tech shows in Barcelona requiring my attention.

And what am I doing?

Pimping your LJ (and this entry in particular) to all and sundry.

*Flails.*

It's hopeless.

Dun-de-dun-dun, dun-de-dun...

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Make sure to watch the trailer again once you're finished with the Russians to cheer you up. ;D

The inescapable humming afterwards is the worst. ;)

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..."I'm as giddy as a schoolboy" line one more time (it's like a Pavlovian response, now) I must be banned from "teh interwebs" sofort. (My German's very rusty, by the way. But my Russian's improving. Slightly.)

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Fits perfectly!
(Strangely enough for me it's the other away around. I'm quite happy with my German, but my Russian could be better ;D.)

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*L* I'm such an Indiana Jones fan... I giggled when the main theme music started.

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While I'm not the biggest fan of the series, the theme music is enough to make me smile too and start humming the tune while walking around in the apartment. :D

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My husband took me out to breakfast after I watched the trailer. I was humming while waiting for our food to be sent to the table *chuckle*

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It's the secret code to identify fellow fans. :)

You probably saw it yourself, but just to make sure, that "Nazi chick" is Cate Blanchett.

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INDY!!!!!!!! XD

YAY!! Thank you!

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Wheee! Enjoy! :)

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I was reading the description for the second one, and when I got to "Ricky Jay, Joe Mantegna" I immediately thought, "Hey, those are Mamet's boys!" And sure enough, it's a new Mamet film. Yay! :D

I don't want to get *too* excited about it, but I really did like the Indy trailer. I guess I will be having to see it in the theatre after all.

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My first attempt to compile a summary ended with "as well as Mamet regulars Joe Mantegna, Rebecca Pidgeon and master magican Ricky Jay." :D
Though so far I really don't know what to make of it. But until the reviews will tell me otherwise I will stay interested.

re Indy: I hope they won't take the whole thing too seriously. So far, so good.

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re: Indy 4
Whee!

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Yays!

*waves*

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Yay Indy 4! Only it comes out right around finals and graduation....

Squeezing in a midnight showing may be difficult.

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I'm sure you'll find a way to squeeze in a screening for motivational purposes. :)

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I don't remember when it was the last time that the first trailer for such a highly anticipated movie emerged only three months before the official release

I do. It was last year, only TWO months before release, and even then only in Russian, in fact.

Aside from that, however, INDY[incomprehensibleASCIIhere]!!!

Will also have to keep an eye on Redbelt. I like Mamet's writing style even if the only movie I've seen in full thus far is State and Main. Also, Chewitel Ejiofor hasn't picked a losing role in my books as of yet.

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I actually thought of that. But since the second and third part were released less than a year apart I chose to ignore it since I thought that before the third they had still enough publicity from the second and the DVD release. Though I'm fairly sure they had some technical issues to finish on time and would've liked to release the trailer earlier.
Watching now the Indy trailer I don't really understand what took them so long since it's fairly short and I'm sure there will be another trailer in coming weeks.

I'm also always interested in the movies in which Mamet is involved. The last one I saw was Heist, the first one probably House of Games. Sadly, his movies often don't even make it to theatres here.

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Yay, Indy is back! \o/

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Indy rides again! :)

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Wow, the Indy trailer made me insanely giddy! And to think that I've never watched any of the franchise films in the theater (when the last one came out I was, like, 2 years old?). Hearing the theme had me giggling uncontrollably. Though I'm a little skeptic about the CGI, it seemed kinda sketchy. Then again you can't really tell from a few seconds of footage, so I will wait to see the end result in theaters. I have faith in Spielberg!

Shia: You're a teacher?
Indy: Part-time.

AWESOME.

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I believe I saw the second one in the theatre. I don't think the first and I'm not sure about the third one either. :)
I wonder what took them so long to put this first teaser together. Not that it will keep me awake at night, but were there really problems to finish the footage or was it a deliberate decision to start the promotion that late.

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Hmm, I would be more inclined to think they scheduled this. I think Lucas is too much of a control freak businessman, and Spielberg too much of a professional to be late in delivering their movie. Some weird stuff has been going on lately with movies that are over-publicised/overhyped (ie. The Golden Compass), so they're probably being very careful. I was reading a Vanity Fair story the other day (Ford and LaBeouf were on the magazine cover), and Spielberg was saying that he usually goes back and reshoots several scenes in his films, but this time he was very satisfied with the end result and didn't need to add anything. I sure hope they don't disappoint!

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Being satisfied with the end result without reshoots is certainly good news. I just read that The Spiderwick Chronicles and Indy 4 share a producer so it made certainly (business) sense to release the trailer with that movie.

Maybe you've already read it yourself, the Damon/Kimmel feud will apparently go into a next round. Here's the link that reveals a few things. Don't click on it if you don't want to be spoiled!

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Julia : I'd watch it just for Swinton. :)

Edited at 2008-02-16 11:45 am (UTC)

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She's a force of nature! :)

As for 'presence' or 'appearance', I just copied it from the offical description from the Berlinale program but I like your version better. But I'm too lazy to change it. :)

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Indiana Jones: Ooh, I kept seeing things on the news about how the trailer was out, but I kept forgetting to actually go looking for it! Thanks for posting it! Though, since I haven't seen any of the IJ movies before, I kind of squeed over the John Williams music instead. I think I'll go see it for that. ;)

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I was wondering if maybe you already had seen it before Spiderwick Chronicles. But I guess they didn't show it at the previews.

It's been ages since I've seen them. Probably a decade or two ago. So we practically start from the same level. ;)

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No, because Spiderwick was a screener movie, there weren't any previews at all. Right at 7, the movie began and that was that. It was kind of nice, actually, since I see all of the previews I want from your journal, I don't have to sit through the uninteresting ones while at the theater. =D

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My attitude towards trailers in theatres has also changed in recent years. Years ago it was an important part of the movie going experience. But now I also know them most of the time (I'm sometimes not familiar with some German movies). The valuable information I still get is that when I now see a trailer it's conformation that the movie will actually be shown at theatre I'm in at that moment. Which is nice to know given the often long delay between seeing a trailer on the internet and theatrical release in Germany.

Years ago a friend and I often went to a town about half an hour drive from here on Saturday morning. There was a theatre that about once 2-3 times a year showed an one hour trailer show with trailers of upcoming (mostly) US movies followed by an auction for movie posters. It was always a lot of fun. They either stopped doing it or do it very rarely. We obviously lost interest too since it's much more convenient to watch the trailers at home instead of leaving the house on Saturday morning at about 9. :)

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as for IJ4, it's gonna be tough to even come close to the quality and originality of the original Indiana Jones'

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Yes, most people will probably be interested for mostly nostalgic reasons. And it's very hard to overcome the impression that "money" is one of the main reasons to revive this particular franchise. We'll see.

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