So tonight I was at a midnight screening of Inception (go see it BTW) and I saw something that I’ve never seen before either working at a movie theatre or simply attending a movie.

The trailer for M Night Shyamalan’s (sort of) upcoming film, Devil, was attached to the print. Now for those of you who haven’t watched the trailer let me assure you that it is a pretty solid trailer, and does a good job of building suspense for a film that looks like it might actually be scary.

Now as the trailer was playing it was pretty evident that the crowd was into the film and was intrigued on just what it was. And for those of you who haven’t seen the trailer yet it should be noted that the trailer doesn’t reveal M Night’s participation with it until it is about three fourths of the way through. And that is when things got interesting.

As I said the crowd was into the trailer, but as soon as M Night’s name popped up on the screen the entire theatre (roughly 275 people) either groaned or laughed their asses off. It was a complete 180 turn and I’ve never seen anything like it. Honestly, if the guy was standing in the auditorium they damn near might have lynched him. Which is a shame because they guy is clearly a talented filmmaker and the trailer certainly makes the film appear as if it might be pretty damn good.

But clearly this is evidence as to why M Night’s name is being pulled from any future advertising for the film. The viewing public has turned on him, even though he still continues to make good, albeit flawed, films. Ah well.

Anyone else witness a similar occurrence when viewing the trailer in the theatre?

Not much is known about the upcoming animated film Rango, outside of the fact its directed by Gore Verbinski and stars Johnny Depp and somewhere near a million other great actors (Isla Fisher, Abigail Breslin, Timothy Olyphant, Ned Beatty, Bill Nighy, Alfred Molina, Ray Winstone, Stephen Root and Harry Dean Stanton round out most of the cast).

Well, nothing more outside of the thinnest of plot details, which at this point point to Rango being a chameleon having an existential crisis of some degree, and who dreams of being a swashbuckling hero until he stumbles upon a town terrorized by bandits and he has to live this role and protect them. Granted this plot line is alluding more towards Seven Samurai than any of the films about a certain wandering ronin, but hey, I’ll get my Kurosawa fix any way I can get it. Even if it comes from a chameleon.

Rango is scheduled to open in the US on March 4th of next year.

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I smell the next episode of Spoiler Alert! in Operation: Endgame’s future.

I’ve been a bit apprehensive about the remake of the damn near perfect Swedish vampire film Let the Right One In. But as more and more details emerge about the American/British remake I can’t help but be impressed. From the great casting (Chloe Moretz and Kodi Smit-McPhee are about as good as one could hope for for the leads), to a solid choice to have Cloverfield director Matt Reeves put at the helm, to Hammer Films proclaiming that this will be the film that launches their brand as a new force in the horror genre I can’t help but think, dammit this just might work.

Then they released the international trailer and my greatest hopes seem to not only be realized, but possibly were not even thinking grand enough.

This movie is going to be amazing.

So one of the perks of my job is I get to watch a lot of movies in advance. While at the previous chain I worked for we were able to go to press screenings, we also screened anything that we thought looked interesting pretty much whenever we felt like it. It was a pretty awesome part of that job.

But at my new chain I was introduced to something very different, preview screenings that were required of all managers working the night before a changeover. You see, evidently other chains had people who weren’t very good at building prints, so managers were required to watch every single print of every single new movie they would be opening as soon as the prints were built. That meant I’d be paid to sit and watch movies for a whole day. Which is awesome when the movies are good, and which sucks when they aren’t.

Which brings me to Twilight: Eclipse, a movie I have claimed on numerous occasions someone couldn’t even pay me to watch. It seems I was incorrect on that statement, though to be fair if I didn’t perform this task I would have lost my job, so clearly I was going through the kind of extreme duress seen only in Lifetime movies.

Which segues nicely into Twilight: Eclipse, which at its best could maybe be considered a good Lifetime movie, but really, that’s being overly kind to the fat girl who is asking you if she looks skinny in her new dress.

You see, Twilight: Eclipse sucks. And not in the fun, sparkly way its fans claims it does.

No, this is a movie that was so bad that even though I was paid to watch it, I still went up to the box office to demand my money back.

But on the plus side I now know never to date anyone who likes this bilge. Seriously ladies, stop eating your feelings and go kiss a dude. Its way more fun than this crap. You’ll even find that your chances of getting laid go up by a factor of 20. Bonus!