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One Day: I'd Make Sweet Movie Love to the Poster, but I'd Kick the Trailer Out of Bed. I Don't Sleep with Dumb Movies

By Dustin Rowles | Posted Under Trailers | Comments (26)

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Below is the trailer for One Day, from director Lone Scherfig (An Education). It was a film at one point I was looking forward to, because of Sherfig and because, honestly, I’d have jumped all over it based on the poster alone. The trailer, however, ruins the love that the poster and I once had. Sure, it looked pretty, but deep down, you can tell it’s not going to be a satisfying movie lay

The film stars Anne Hathaway who I like sometimes (The Devil Wears Prada, Rachel Getting Married) and not so much other times (Bride Wars, Love and Other Drugs), as well as Jim Sturgess, who hasn’t given me a lot of reason to like or dislike him. He’s a vessel. The film follows a couple who have a one-night stand and decide to meet each other on the anniversary of the sleepover every year for 20 years. I’m pretty sure I’ve seen this movie before.

Here’s the trailer. Some are giving Hathaway crap for her bad English accent, but really, that’s the least of this trailer’s problems.











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Comments

Wow. I think I'd rather watch that hipster piece of crap than this. I'm ready to leave the theater right now just from the trailer.

Posted by: Paultera at May 4, 2011 10:39 AM

Wasn't there a film with a similar premise with Jack Lemon? Or did I invent that memory?

Posted by: Danielle Lilly at May 4, 2011 10:44 AM

That looks profoundly stupid. Also, I gotta agree with the accent hate. I expected better from Hathaway than that. Lady, you can hire a dialect coach. Seriously. Or, hey, here's a thought - why didn't they just cast a Brit? Maybe because the Brits looked at it and said "wow that is absolute rubbish" and walked away to have some tea. Stereotypes are fun! :-) (I lost track of where I was going with any of this somewhere...)

Posted by: KatSings at May 4, 2011 10:46 AM

Seriously, they should have stopped at the poster. A girl that pretty wanting to kiss you that hard? That's the stuff that dreams are made of.

Posted by: Meander at May 4, 2011 10:48 AM

Same Time Next Year, starring Alan Alda and Ellen Burstyn

Posted by: TheOtherGreg at May 4, 2011 10:50 AM

It's actually more that they're friends for a lot of years and in the book we just check in on them on that same day each year, and we see how their relationship has changed since the last time. They don't meet up once a year. Unless the movie fucked it all up and changed the premise, which I wouldn't be surprised at.

Posted by: Dorothy Snarker at May 4, 2011 10:53 AM

I agree, Same Time Next Year is splendid.

But I also love Jim Sturgess, so yea, I'm seeing it. On Netflix.

Posted by: grace b at May 4, 2011 10:54 AM

Okay he's my deal. The book is brilliant. And they don't purposefully meet the same day every year.

It's a window into their lives on that same day every year. They see each other between times it's just not mentioned. They're like diary entries on those days. Sometimes it's just Emma's life on that day and sometimes it's Dexter but they aren't purposefully meeting up. I hope they haven't changed that for the movie though it seems like they have. The book didn't seem movie transferable when I read it and apparently it isn't.

Regardless of poster, trailer, movie, what have you I would never kick Jim Sturgess out of bed.

Posted by: E-Money at May 4, 2011 10:54 AM

I'll take "Before Sunrise," and "Before Sunset," thank you very much.

Have to agree that I'm in the camp of folks who thought the poster was (and still is) spectacular but, after having watched the official trailer...the not even a half-assed attempted at a British accent and Anne Hathaway just being Anne Hathaway...I'll pass.

Posted by: smijca at May 4, 2011 10:57 AM

Only believable if they're 25 pounds heavier and wearing Crocs twenty years later.

Posted by: sars at May 4, 2011 11:03 AM

You like this poster? I'm.... confused. They look like two people who happened to be walking down the same sidewalk in opposite directions in the 80s, and maybe they're kind of still drunk from last night, and so they happen to see an attractive person of the gender to which they are attracted, and decide to make out in the middle of the street, but they sort of missed and her lips half brushed his lips, but also half brushed his cheek.

Or maybe they were drunkenly doing the hora outside?

What I'm saying is, why do they look like they're circling or passing each other?

Posted by: SaBrina at May 4, 2011 11:03 AM

The poster is pretty gorgeous, but look! Romola Garai! She's pretty!

Yeah, that's all I got. The trailer gives me nothing else except for how genuinely dorky the managed to make Anne Hath look.

Posted by: Jos at May 4, 2011 11:04 AM

I loved the book too much to write the movie off. But goddam, that trailer is an abomination. I do think that they're sticking with the premise of the book, being that we 'peek in' on the lives of Emma and Dex on July 15th every year and sometimes they're together and sometimes not. But you'd never know it from the trailer, which makes this look like your average (aka terrible) romcom.

Look, there have been many terrible trailers for good movies and vice versa. For now I'm choosing to assume that the promo team sucks but the movie is going to be great. And that poster is the first movie poster I've wanted to own since I was a kid and spent two months begging the local video store for their Desperately Seeking Susan poster and succeeded.

Posted by: Nicole at May 4, 2011 11:31 AM

SIGH. I'll see it because that was my favorite book I read last year. But ugh. It looks terrible.

Posted by: Julie at May 4, 2011 11:32 AM

Loved the book, but not sure how much of the 'not always so great' reality of their lives is going to make it into the movie. One thing that gives me hope is I think I read that David Nichols either wrote the screenplay or had a hand in the writing.

Posted by: fenchurch at May 4, 2011 11:33 AM

Honestly, with a movie as good as Same Time, Next Year the expectations for this type of story are high, and with that trailer, they are obviously not met. I'll just watch Alan Alda and Ellen Burstyn out-act each other instead please.

Posted by: faintingviolet at May 4, 2011 11:36 AM

Nope, sorry, can't get past that horrible accent.

Posted by: JenVegas at May 4, 2011 11:38 AM

I was so hot -for -poster even with my reservations on any film Anne is in. This trailer ruined my next 5 minutes.

Posted by: dinka at May 4, 2011 1:02 PM

I'm hoping this is a case of bad trailer, good movie (SHUTUP I can hope!). It looks like they're trying to cram the entire novel into that trailer and do the typical rom-com setup, which as a lot of other people already mentioned, is not at all how the book goes (for the record the book is fantastic).

Posted by: Even Stevens at May 4, 2011 1:10 PM

Frankly, I hope the movie bombs and that Hathaway does a few more just as bad so Hollywood will stop cramming her down our throats as though she's the answer for everything and every role.

Posted by: jimbob at May 4, 2011 1:15 PM

So, we found something that Patricia Clarkson can't do. How disappointing.

Posted by: Mrs. Julien at May 4, 2011 1:30 PM

Only believable if they're 25 pounds heavier and wearing Crocs twenty years later.

Posted by: sars at May 4, 2011 11:03 AM
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Coincidentally, I saw this trailer (and for the love of God, people, RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!) at "Water for Elephants" and noticed that at the end of that movie Marlena (Witherspoon) appears to have exactly the same waist and booblines before and after dropping five kids. That's some suspension of disbelief we're asking for there.

Posted by: , at May 4, 2011 1:34 PM

WOW thts literally a corny play by play of the book...hmmm disappointing the book was great.

and as many of you stated, its snippets of each of their lives on one day for twenty yrs-they dont meet up every yr on tht day

Posted by: Anna at May 4, 2011 2:17 PM

It's the cheesy voiceover guy. He just smears schmaltz all over the whole thing.

Posted by: Lauren at May 4, 2011 3:24 PM

Why, hello! It's Freddie Honeychurch!

So Jim Sturgess = Young Rupert Graves. I'm glad to finally have figured that out.

Posted by: Kettle at May 4, 2011 5:43 PM

Hmph. I didn't like the book that much, and the trailer is wretched. And yet somehow, I still kind of feel like I want to see this? I don't understand myself.

Posted by: Amanda6 at May 5, 2011 3:07 PM