Coming SOON: A Movie Trailer Roundup

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Are you getting Pacific Rimmed this weekend, hunty? Maybe Conjuring up a few haunted house cliches next week? You gotta do you, but let’s also see what flickering dreams the cinegoogolplex will be selling you in the months to come. Porn stars and westerns and remakes, oh my! Hit the jump to view some trailers that have recently hit the web.

Via ComingSoon.net is the first trailer for Lovelace. The Linda Lovelace biopic (previously titled Inferno) was once meant to be a comeback vehicle for Lindsay Lohan, but now we have Amanda Seyfried in the title role. I’m on the fence about Seyfried, but maybe this will be the film that pushes me one way or the other. Peter Sarsgaard costars as her husband, Chuck Traynor, but I’m most excited to see Sharon Stone in the supporting role as Lovelace’s mother.

Next up is the revenge Western, Sweetwater, starring Betty Francis and Ed Harris. What’s a girl to do when her husband is mercilessly slaughtered? Well, doll herself up in period costume and whorey makeup and go on a muhfuh killing spree of course. This looks absolutely turrible: Jones’ wooden line readings; the tired revenge theme; the done-better-before archetype of the empowered woman given narrative agency to inflict pain and suffering upon mens and wimminz alike. Is there any chance this won’t be as bad as it looks? I don’t care actually because I’m sickly fascinated by it and might see it. I’m definitely going to see it.

Here’s a little film called Discopath, in which the funky sounds of disco music drive a man to murder. As ridiculous as the premise sounds, the film seems to take it completely seriously, which is probably to its benefit. This 70s pastiche could go either way: awful exercise in self indulgence or successful cult curiosity.

Finally we have the redband trailer for Oldboy, Spike Lee’s remake of the Park Chan-wook cult classic, starring Josh Brolin and Elizabeth Olsen. The poster for the film hit the web on Monday, and people seemed divided on it. Rather than use an original design, the poster was made from a film still — interesting choice. The title of the film is written in the Brolin character’s handwriting. As for the film itself, a remake is uncharted territory for Spike Lee, whose output has been somewhat uneven in the past decade or so. Many diehard fans of the original film are decidedly against this remake, but it’s still too early to say whether this film will pass muster. At least there was a larger gap of time between the original and the remake than some other recent examples of foreign-to-American films that fans became outraged over.

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