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I Don't Know What's Going On, But I Think I Like It

By TK | Posted Under Trailers | Comments (10)

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I haven’t a fucking clue what’s going on in this trailer, but I kinda dig it.

Burning Palms… explores satires of Angeleno stereotypes, which are told through five interlacing stories. The five intertwining segments are based on popular stereotypes of West Hollywood, Santa Monica, Sherman Oaks, Westwood and Holmby Hills. Each of the characters in the film confront taboos and an uncertain, often darkly humorous, fate.

From what I can tell, it’s about distinct groups of people slowly going bugfuck crazy. I don’t know if it ends in violence, tragedy, sadness or happiness, but it’s got a dark madcap-romp feel to it that I’m finding strangely appealing. The cast is absolutely insane: Shannon Doherty, Dylan McDermott, Zoe Saldana, Lake Bell, Nick Stahl, Paz Vega, Adriana Barraza, Colleen Camp, Jamie Chung, Robert Hoffman, Peter Macdissi, Emily Meade, Anson Mount, Rosamund Pike, Austin Williams and Tom Wright. That’s the mother of all mixed bags right there, but there are some real gems bouncing around in there.

The film is directed by first-timer Christopher B. Landon, who previously wrote the screenplays for Disturbia and Paranormal Activity 2. Producer Oren Sega calls it “a John Waters version of Short Cuts.” I don’t know about that, but it’s weird enough to be interesting, I suppose.

It’s the dullard’s morass of January. I’ll settle for interesting right now.

The poster’s fun too:

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Comments

i will now be humming In the Hall of the Mountain King to myself all day.

also, is it weird that before i could watch the trailer, i had to watch an ad, but the ad was the trailer for The Rite?

Posted by: causaubon at January 10, 2011 9:29 AM

I'm enjoying the look of this but I always find the head of Zoe Saldana really distracting. It's like if someone took a textbook alien face (massive eyes, really far apart) and tried to sex it up thats what they'd get. Maybe she won't be in it that much and I can forget about how she's probably (very likely) processing the internal components of everyone she looks at.

Posted by: DeadlyMiho at January 10, 2011 9:46 AM

'Five tales that will fuck you up for life.'

Ambitious tagline.

Tall order.

Hope it lives up to it.

Suspect it won't.

End transmission.

Posted by: zeke the pig at January 10, 2011 10:17 AM

I've lived here for 10 years now. What the hell is a Holmby Hills?

Looks great.

Posted by: Rest In Peace at January 10, 2011 1:42 PM

So, they chose five of the richest areas of Los Angeles to satirize? Not sure I see how the "stereotypes" of West Hollywood (gay and wealthy), Santa Monica (liberal and wealthy), Sherman Oaks (wealthy valley girls), Westwood (um, wealthy) and Holmby Hills (wealthiest part of Westwood) are going to differ all that much.

Posted by: Rebecca at January 10, 2011 1:59 PM

Didn't realize LA had distinct zones other than: Gangs Live Here, Super Rich Yuppy Barbies Live Over There. In between: Traffic. All my concrete perceptions were formed in the 80s.

Posted by: Lindsay at January 10, 2011 2:12 PM

John Conner!!

Posted by: snowchickenfeeb at January 10, 2011 5:02 PM

-Connor- got a little too excited...

Posted by: snowchickenfeeb at January 10, 2011 5:03 PM

Wild Palms, Hidden Palms, Burning Palms ... they all sound like masturbation puns ta me!?

Posted by: Murderbot at January 11, 2011 9:39 AM

Hahaha what?

Posted by: grace b at January 21, 2011 5:15 PM