New Red Band Trailer for 'Death Race' Adds Profanity, Keeps Inanity

There are times I wish I didn't watch so many trailers. For obvious reasons, they influence your opinion on something you haven't seen, and it creates a little judgment where you should really keep an open mind until you sit down in a theater for two hours and let the whole thing unfold. It works both ways: Some movies are helped by their trailers (just watch the new Red Band piece o' marketing for Righteous Kill), and others are hurt by them. That brings us to Death Race, which I did not have high hopes for, anyway. Having seen the original from the 1970s, I knew there was a pretty low ceiling on this to begin with. Granted, it's not a literal remake, but more of a new version of the same basic story. But at least the original played up the camp aspect a little bit. And that's the problem with watching trailers sometimes: This Death Race looks very serious. Too serious for its own good. Anyway, I wasn't even going to show you the new Red Band trailer, but there's a bit of Joan Allen dialogue at the end that makes it worth watching. If I ever made ringtones, I'd totally use that clip. That two seconds of dialogue is the only thing that makes this worth watching is the real problem, however. Death Race gets the Jason Statham stamp of quality (make of that what you will), and it opens next week.

Comments

[Orinn]

The first trailer that doesn't suck. I'll maybe go see it at the dollar theater, or those new $1.oo rent DVD machines, thats about the right price.

[Jen]

This is totally random but taking off on what Orinn said-- I'm in the middle of a vintage BBC miniseries craze and realized that those dollar rental machines, called "Red Boxes" are the exact same slang used for British Members of Parliament which hold their official papers. Check it out-- plus there's a funny graphic of on this British blog. So I guess my point (and yes I do have one) is wow, in London, they hold secret James Bond stuff and here in America they are now holding Miley Cyrus DVDs and will eventually hold Death Race. There's a certain irony there but I don't feel too bad since Statham is one of their exports. :)

By the way, too true about Joan Allen's line-- at first I shuddered like it was hearing a grandmother discuss Sex and the City but gotta love it.

- Jen (who officially earns the title of Get The Big Picture's Nerd of the Day)