Trailer Roundup!

It's time for a roundup of a variety of different movie trailers (some older, some new).  So here we go:

• A Scanner Darkly (QuickTime):  An adaptation of the Philip K. Dick novel of the same name.  While I'm unsure of how to feel about the movie itself (the book was amazing, easily my favourite Dick novel), I love the art style chosen for it.  The story (at least in the novel) is about a bunch of drug addicts, one of whom is an undercover agent sent to spy on the all addicts (including himself), who gradually and not-so-gradually lose all concept of reality.
• Frank Miller's Sin City (QuickTime):  Not much to say about this one other than that they've managed to get the style of the Sin City comics.  Mark this down as an adaptation that actually looks like it might get it right.
• House of Flying Daggers (QuickTime):  I've actually seen this film, but I just stuck the trailer up because it's completely misleading.  If you watch the trailer, you'll get the idea that this is an action flick; you couldn't be more wrong.  It's actually a love story, with bits of action stuck in, and therein lies the problem.  As an action film it's far too slow, and as a love story it's laughably bad and cliched, as well as being far too drawn out (example (spoiler warning): one character receives an obviously fatal wound.  A death scene is shown, and they quite obviously die.  Another character comes along and finds the body, and it turns out that the wounded character isn't actually dead just yet.  Cue another death scene.  Cue another scene lasting 10 minutes or so, at which point it turns out that the dead character still isn't dead.  Cue yet another death scene for this character.)  That's not to say it wasn't without redeeming qualities:  the cinematography was absolutely gorgeous.  It's just that the plot was far too thin for a 2 hour film.
• As should be obvious by now, I tend to be rather critical of films (an ex-girlfriend once told me that it was a miracle if I ever said anything was better than just "ok").  As such, it should come as no surprise that the original Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy trailer (QuickTime) filled me with apprehension.  That being said, the new trailer (ASF) does a lot to help assuage my fears.  There's also a slightly different international version (ASF), which, although not as funny (in my opinion), gains points for using the original BBC series theme over the closing frames.

That's it; nothing more to say, other than that I still can't stand the Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (QuickTime) trailer.