7 new trailers you should watch this week
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Reported today in The Verge.
New trailers: Black Widow, No Time to Die, Mulan, and more
Hi everyone, I'm back after a couple weeks away - partly because of the holidays, partly because the trailer selection just wasn't very good. (I'm sorry, I couldn't post another Cats trailer). I got to watch a few things during the break though, with the biggest being Joker.
There's something incredible about indie filmmaking styles now being so mainstream that a major comic book movie is able to emulate them. All of Joker feels this way to an extent, but the clearest moments are the occasional sequences that have the camera floating close beside a silent, emotional Joaquin Phoenix, in the oddest of homages to Terrence Malick. I love how the filmmakers are trying to apply that vibe here, but it's just way too hard to make that kind of emotional intimacy work with a character who, ultimately, is a clear-cut murderous villain. It makes for a lot of mixed tones and messages that the movie can't quite line up, and frankly, probably shouldn't.
One thing I will say I enjoyed is the movie's (admittedly and appropriately controversial) music selection during the stairs sequence. The juxtaposition of a song so clearly associated with riling up crowds in sports stadiums with the seriousness of the film and the absurdity of the Joker suddenly becoming the Joker is just... perfect. I don't think I've ever been so pleased by a musical cue.
Check out seven trailers from this week below... and since I left you all hanging the last two weeks, I've got a few bonus trailers below those that are from late November.
At long last, Scarlett Johansson's Black Widow is getting her own film. One of the wonderful things about the MCU is how willing the studio is to let individual films dive deep into differe