Trailer Trash Tuesday

In which I talk about the best and worst trailers.

Red Tails

A big budget film about the famed Tuskegee Airmen (their plane tails were painted red) is long overdue and hopefully it will be pretty good.  Movies about ace fighter pilots fail more often than not (Stealth, Fly Boys) but this film could have the heart war movies so desperately need.  I just hope Lucasfilm involvement doesn't mean Red Tails will rely on over-the-top action sequences.


Battleship

If I had known Battleship would be "based on the board game of the same name" as loosely as Wall Street is based on Monopoly, I might not have been so harsh. Fortunately for me, it still looks god awful.  Not only are Rihanna and Brooklyn Decker in the cast, but the trailer seemed more concerned with close-ups of Taylor Kitsch than battleships or naval warfare.  Speaking of battleships, it's interesting that the "international fleet" seems to be centered around them because that class of ship is completely outdated.  The United States Navy, easily the largest navy in the world, decommissioned its last battleship two decades ago.  BOOM ROASTED!