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The Future Trailer: Talking Cats, Conversations With The Moon, And A Lethal Dose Of Twee

By TK | Posted Under Trailers | Comments (15)

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Oh, God. This movie, I swear.

Here’s the trailer for Miranda July’s The Future, which features sickly talking cats, infidelity, conversations with the moon, time twisting hijinks, and a host of other bizarre, twee inventions that have audiences either transfixed and awed, or frustrated and bored. July is a film maker with a singularly unusual vision, and she created a bizarre mishmash of a movie that you really do have to see to make an honest assessment.

Watch:


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Dustin saw it at Sundance, and I saw it at IFFB. After I saw it, Dustin told me that he had to think about it some, but as he thought about it more, he liked it more. I was the opposite. The more I thought about it, the more I found it aggravating and self-indulgent, a pretentious morass of deliberately adorable gimmicks that ultimately made me roll my eyes hard enough to see my brain.

But seriously. You should see it and make your own judgment. For what it’s worth, Hamish Linklater is really good in it.









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Comments

I won't watch the trailer because from your description all I can imagine is Björk, and I don't need that in my head today!

Posted by: MurderBot at May 10, 2011 6:28 AM

That trailer was utterly and wholly insufferable. Twee and quirky and whimsical nonsense, and what's worse is I can think of at least ten people I know who would quickly adopt it as their favourite film. Blech.

It's Happy-Go-Lucky all over again. Substance-less, 'adorable', 'unique', irrelevant, insulting, brainless, heartless crap.

Also, that scream out the window was the most excruciatingly unconvincing piece of acting I've seen in a long while. It felt like the actress herself was cringing.

Posted by: Abound! at May 10, 2011 7:20 AM

I can't watch it at the moment because I'm supposedly being all corporate and professional and working a conference today. But I like to comment on things I haven't watched.

Hamish Linklater is the draw for me. He's the only original feeling part of "Old Christine" and he's been amazing in the plays I've seen him in....

Posted by: Sara Tonin at May 10, 2011 8:04 AM

I agree...I saw it at DIFF, and the more I thought about it, the more frustrated I got. It was one of the harder reviews I wrote because I just didn't know what to say about it. Maybe I'm not meta enough.

Posted by: Jonesy at May 10, 2011 9:20 AM

I always thought the point of a trailer was to entice people to go watch a movie. It didn't necessarily have to be truthful mind you, it just had to present the footage in such a way that you would be tempted to invest two hours of your time and a fistful of money.

Either A. This trailer was done by someone with their head up their ass and the movie is done a disservice as it really isn't anything like this trailer, or B. This movie is EXACTLY like the trailer advertises it to be and hopes there are people out there will simply say its a good movie in an attempt to be hip and edgy even though it's utterly pointless and shitful, or C. This is a joke of independent movie proportions. Whether or not the filmmakers are in on it too will be up to whomever isn't scared off by this trailer.

Posted by: bleujayone at May 10, 2011 9:23 AM

Dustin will watch this trailer 187 times,ruining several towels and at least one comforter in the process.

Posted by: Tracer Bullet at May 10, 2011 9:24 AM

You forgot about the five appletinis he'll consume during that time, tracer.

Posted by: admin at May 10, 2011 9:34 AM

A talking cat that sounds like it's voiced by Maria Bamford...
Romantic leads who seem to have either stepped out of the cast of Godspell, or were hired directly out from behind a Trader Joe's cash register...
Existential wibbery-wobbery about how "in five years [they'll] be forty, and fifty isn't long after forty..."
Costume design by ModCloth...
Dance moves that call to mind the choreography of Corky St. Claire...
"I don't know anything, I'm just a rock in the sky"...


Are you sure this isn't from Funny Or Die? This should be titled "Hipster Movie"

Posted by: StoatCat at May 10, 2011 10:36 AM

Happy-Go-Lucky was substance-less? Here I was thinking it was about the culture clash between an optimist and a pessimist and how even the strongest among us can falter when faced with unyielding opposition.

Miranda July's the good kind of cuckoo. She's wacky, but not bringing harm to anyone else, and I like that. Trailer looks interesting, if perhaps a bit too gimmicky to pull together into a more meaningful whole.

Posted by: Robert at May 10, 2011 11:00 AM

Wow, those people have the longest necks I've ever seen. What was this movie about, again?

Posted by: BWeaves at May 10, 2011 11:19 AM

I don't love Miranda July movies, but I usually like them quite a bit while I'm watching them. She has a vision I appreciate and respect, but don't go out of my way to see. Sort of like Billy Corgan.

That said, I could do without "talking" cats and moons.

That said, I did like the line, "I thought I would be smarter." The truth in that sentiment is almost enough to get me to the theater.

Posted by: RobP at May 10, 2011 12:09 PM

Does anyone know the song that plays at 1:43?

Posted by: Kyle at May 10, 2011 4:54 PM

that was bad

Posted by: splinter at May 10, 2011 5:55 PM

Ya ya it's pretentious crap or something...

BUT DOES THE CAT LIVE?!?!?!

Posted by: Ruthie at May 11, 2011 2:16 AM

cicişler

Posted by: Tyson F. Gautreaux at May 16, 2011 10:27 PM