Trailer: The Young Victoria
By Craig Kennedy - January 9th, 2009; 8:28 am
I’m not sure what to make of this international trailer for The Young Victoria, but you can’t argue with the cast of Emily Blunt, Jim Broadbent, Miranda Richardson and Paul Bettany.
I don’t know. If you like your English period heroines, this could be up your alley. If you’re tired of seeing women in fancy dresses and corsets stepping out of ornate carriages, maybe not so much. Consider us interested.
Though The Young Victoria opens overseas in March, there is no US release date set as of this writing.
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Tags: Emily Blunt, Jim Broadbent, Miranda Richardson, Paul Bettany, The Young Victoria
Nothing against this movie, which looks to be just fine English period-piece fodder, but I wish Monty Python were still around to do a feature-length parody of English period-films. I watched the trailer without out sound and I swear to god, I’ve seen almost every shot in at least 5 other films. It’s a genre that has become as rote as American slasher films or Brendan Frasier adventure films.
But this has an excellent cast and I hope it’s good!
The sound is not working very well for me. Having said that, Viva la Blunt!
It looks okay.
Though the trailer for Bride Wars made it look like it didn’t commit cinematic high crimes and misdemeanors, and the 12% rating at Rotten Tomatoes would suggest that perhaps it does. (I’ll make up my own mind if I ever see it… perhaps on DVD.)
Emily Blunt looks quite good.
But Joel nails the problem with this statement: ” I watched the trailer without out sound and I swear to god, I’ve seen almost every shot in at least 5 other films. It’s a genre that has become as rote as American slasher films or Brendan Frasier adventure films.” Haha. Yes indeed.
Yeah Joel, I’m kinda with you on this one.
The cast makes me want to like it. It’s worse with the sound because the dialogue sounds kind of stodgy.
Does anyone else have problems seeing/hearing these Trailer Addict trailers?
Right now my Firefox isn’t even playing youtube properly.
I should add that I thought all the exact same thing about The Duchess and it turned out to be one of the nicer surprises of 2008.
I can play the Trailer Addict streams at work no problem, probably because I work on a fairly new Powermac with all the bells and whistles. At home, on our older laptop, I have to let the entire stream load and it’s still fairly choppy.
They’re pushing a lot of bandwidth with their streams, which makes older processors choke, methinks. Too bad Quicktime trailers doesn’t have a more comprehensive selection, but you can’t embed their trailers anyway.
Oh well.
And even if the shots are cliche, Craig, I don’t deny that it could be a fine movie. Maybe not Top Ten material, but still completely entertaining.
Yeah, if I could embed the quicktime trailers, I’d be all over them.
Trailer Addict just looks so much better than YouTube and their viewer doesn’t leave as big of a footprint as Rope of Silicon.
Oh well.
Is it required for all English period films to use that same Craig Armstrong piece in the trailer?
Hah…I didn’t notice that.
Trailers are funny. They want to be familiar and original all at the same time. Either way, they’re usually a total lie.
Before I clicked play, I actually thought to myself, “I bet they use that song in this trailer…”
I feel like I’ve seen the same trailer over and over and over again.
It’s because you’re smarter than the average bear, but trailers are designed for the other 75% of the population.
I am sharply in that other 75% and I don’t even mind. I love trailers. I love this trailer. I love Emily Blunt.
Yay for Emily. I concur.
British period costume dramas = cinematic porn for me.
hahaha…costume porn
I see yesterday was Ms. Hathaways day for LiC praise and today it’s Ms. Blunt.
Nick, there are some trailers I love. I’ve said before and you and I talked about the teaser for Marie Antoinette. Trailer GOLD.
This one…I don’t know, I’m just hoping I like the movie better. Nothing about it is any more convincing than what I’d already read on paper when I was preparing the 2009 forecast.
I used to be a sucker for these things, but lately it seems if you’ve seen one, you’ve seen them all. Although I did like “The Duchess.”
I will see this though, because after “Gosford Park,” I will go see anything scripted by Julian Fellowes.
And can I just say how much I LOVE Craig Armstrong’s “PM’s Love Theme” from “Love Actually.” Perfect trailer music.
SO true about Marie Antoinette, Craig and Nick. I’m swooning just remembering it.
LOVE me some “Marie Antoinette.”
That soundtrack is amazing.