This week’s batch of new trailers takes us from picture-perfect suburban life with a dark underbelly to the high-tech future of cloning to a video game system throwback.
People across the country were grateful this week for a distraction from the hostile rhetoric spewing from Washington: Monday’s solar eclipse, well, eclipsed most other things people were talking about as people came together from coast to coast, to look up and be one with our awesome universe. But seeing as the natural phenomena is now behind us and all we have left to bond over are Twitter memes of Trump looking at the sun without special glasses, we, again, find ourselves in need of something to grab our attention for a while. This week’s three new trailers should do the trick.
Suburbicon
Release date: Oct. 27
With the Coen Brothers behind the script and George Clooney in the director’s chair, we have high hopes for this twisted-looking dark comedy. Matt Damon, Julianne Moore, and everybody’s crush Oscar Isaac star in the flick that juxtaposes a perfectly-manicured suburban life with something far more sinister. From the film’s official synopsis:
"“the tranquil surface masks a disturbing reality, as husband and father Gardner Lodge (Matt Damon) must navigate the town’s dark underbelly of betrayal, deceit, and violence. This is a tale of very flawed people making very bad choices.”"
We can’t help but be excited about that striking mix of perfect and perfectly disturbing. And, obviously, Damon and Isaac in one movie. Now if director George makes a cameo, the level of perfection will only rise. But we won’t get ahead of ourselves.
Blade Runner 2049
Release date: Oct. 6
The big takeaway from this newly-release international trailer for the highly-anticipated Blade Runner reboot, according to several media outlets, is how much we get a chance to see and hear from Jared Leto’s villainous Niander Wallace. Leto’s once-buzzy take on the Joker in Suicide Squad ended up being kind of a dud (and a way to skeeve out Leto’s costars, apparently) so seeing him in a bad guy role once more is sure to be interesting.
“Replicants are the future of the species. But I can only make so many,” Leto says in the trailer. Uh oh. Here’s hoping Ryan Gosling and Harrison Ford are the dream hero team we want them to be here.
The Mini SNES Classic Edition
Release date: Sept. 29
Stranger Things is clearly onto something. Nintendo proved its going all in on the nostalgia factor, too, with its new retro-style trailer for the classic Super Nintendo re-release this fall. Pre-orders for the system just became available, and sure, enough, sold out immediately. But honestly, the included features in this blatant throwback play seem worth the wait enough. The $79.99 console will come pre-loaded with 21 games (we spotted Mario, Donkey Kong, Mike Tyson, and other old school Nintendo favorites) and, as it is 2017 and not 1990, we will no longer have to face the indescribable sorrow of having to leave our players and hard-fought efforts behind when we were “our farthest EVER!,” but Mom said dinner was ready.
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