Friday
11Jul2008
Movie Trailer - 'Quarantine' Looks Oh So Familiar
Friday, July 11, 2008 at 9:52AM
I'll be the first one to admit it's dangerous for a
critic to watch all these trailers. I mean, we usually put up a trailer every
day. That's a lot of opinion forming, especially when I prefer to know nothing
about the movie going in, or at least, I'd like to know as little as possible.
The reason it's dangerous is exemplified by
Quarantine.
This is the second trailer for the upcoming thrilla and all I see is
Blair Witch
meets
Cloverfield. And because they use so much of the infrared video (although
I'm sure that's a post-production effect), let's go ahead and give Rick Salomon
some credit, too; he was taping Paris Hilton with that technology long before it
was cool.
So I watch this trailer (from
TrailerAddict) and I just see fingerprints of
other films. Does that mean Quarantine can't be good? No, and I don't believe
that trailers tell the full story of a movie, anyway. They're commercials, made
by outside companies, to help sell the movie. They're supposed to help you draw
parallels in a lot of instances.
But let's see if you have the same reaction I did:
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