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Harmless Shoot Em' Up Escapism

By Dustin Rowles | Posted Under Trailers | Comments (13)

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I’ve already had two trailers pulled on me today (for Everybody’s Fine and I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell — I’ve replaced both with working trailer), so let’s go for the trifecta (since this trailer has already been pulled from YouTube). What the hell is your problem, movie studios? It’s free fucking advertising — does it matter whose watermark is on it? Why do you even make exclusive arrangements with corporate-funded movie sites to run your trailers? Where’s the benefit to you, unless those movie sites are providing something in return. Surely, they’re not. And besides, try as you bloody well might, the trailers are still going to be available everywhere the next day. So, you’re putting all your cease-and-desist resources into giving IGN or AOL a 24-hour exclusivity window? To what end? They’re fucking commercials. Treat them as such..

Whatever. Below is the trailer for From Paris with Love, Pierre Morel’s follow-up to Taken. This one stars Jonathan Rhys Meyers (he of the seductively evil eyes) and John Travolta (he of the movie whoredom). Set in Paris, it’s about a young employee (Rhys Meyers) in the office of the US Ambassador, who hooks up with an American spy (Travolta) looking to stop a terrorist attack in the city.

Granted, it’s the evil-looking Travolta (see, also, The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3), who I actually dig. And the vibe is that of Taken: Paper thin plot, decent actressin’, and harmless shoot em’ up escapism, the sort of movie that’s keenly attractive when there’s nothing else in the theaters.










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Comments

i refuse to watch this trailer now on the basis that i'm sure i'll see it closer to whenever it is that the movie comes out and even though i would totally buttfuck JRM, travolta's bald head makes it hard for me to sustain wood.

Posted by: gp at September 17, 2009 6:16 PM

Right there with you, gp.


Posted by: Drake at September 17, 2009 6:20 PM

Oooo WEEEEEE YOU GOOD LOOKIN'

Posted by: Mick J at September 17, 2009 6:25 PM

"who hooks up with"

I won't be in my bunk.

Posted by: Caspar at September 17, 2009 7:11 PM

JRM is in it, and even if he doesn't take his clothes off in this one, that's enough to guarantee I'll see it, as it has all these many years.

John Travolta's funny 'do is just bonus.

Posted by: Annie UhOh at September 17, 2009 7:21 PM

mmmmm, JRM.....he's so pretty.

Posted by: s. pisaster at September 17, 2009 8:20 PM

is there a big demand for revolta?talk about worn..

Posted by: pasadenamike at September 17, 2009 11:12 PM

Bald Travolta is still better than Toupee Travolta. We should start a petition for Nic Cage to shave his head too, maybe people will start watching his movies again (if only to make fun of the shape of his head).

Posted by: Irina at September 18, 2009 2:49 AM

Why did JRM have to keep repeating John Travolta's character's name? "Wax"? It was like something out of Of Mice and Men.

Posted by: The Wandering Parakeet at September 18, 2009 2:51 AM

Whoa, Travolta looks like a fat Ming the Merciless!

I'm ambivalent about JRM. Sure, he has that reptilian hotness. But I've heard too many stories about his drunkenness, addictions and douchey behaviour. There was one that he passed out drunk on a pal's couch, and wet it. Not sexy.

Irina,
I have a suspicion that if Nic Cage shaved his head, he'd look like Nosferatu.

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Posted by: happyone11 at September 18, 2009 12:17 PM

TRAINING DAY

Posted by: amanda47 at September 18, 2009 1:23 PM

I thought the trailer looked pretty interesting. I mean, I never would have imagined Liam Neeson as a badass until I saw Taken. That being said, Travolta just kicking the shit out of people made me smile. I like.

Also, what is it with 'couples' in movies always looking at each other in sexy attire like they've never seen each other in sexy attire? Seriously? After awhile I don't think a dress would do it for me (at least not the reaction he had at the beginning of the trailer) unless it was one kick ass dress. Now some lingerie...that's a different story.

Posted by: DeistBrawler at September 18, 2009 4:33 PM