Trailer Tuesday: Lassie, Resistance and Spiral

Luca Fontana

11.2.2020

Translation: machine translated

Support: Dominik Bärlocher

Lassie fans: here's a trailer you'll hate. My colleague Dominik Bärlocher hates "Undine". I hate "The Jesus Rolls" a little, but am looking forward to "Spiral", the unexpected sequel to the horror thriller in which a doomed man plays games.

Children's films at a low level and artsy-fartsy crap that nobody wants to see but is produced anyway. I don't know about that. But there are people who get away with it and make money. I'd rather watch the "Saw" spin-off sequel "Spiral" with Chris Rock and Samuel L. Jackson.

Lassie - An adventurous journey

Want to see a train wreck of a trailer? There you have it. "Lassie - An Unfortunate Journey into Amateur Film Hell". It starts with the actors calling "the most famous dog in film history" "Lissi" the whole time.

You had the one job!

But that's not all. The plot of the film goes something like this: Lassie - or Lissi - has to leave home because the evil landlady doesn't like her. But Lissi-Lassie likes her adopted home so much that she runs away. The search for the pooch begins. Great: the filmmakers have come up with a Lassie film plot without Lassie. Or Lissi. Or however her name is pronounced in German.

Cinema release: 20 February 2020

The Jesus Rolls

I think "The Big Lebowski" is terrific. That's why I was delighted in the last Trailer Tuesday, which was a Trailer Monday because of the Super Bowl, that "thThe Jesus" (John Turturro) is getting his own spin-off, as announced in a teaser trailer.

The first real trailer, on the other hand, doesn't turn me on at all. Perhaps because I would have much preferred a "The Big Lebowski 2". And without the Coen brothers - they directed "The Big Lebowski" back in 1998 - I doubt that the film can actually keep up with the classic anyway.

Cinema release: 6 March 2020

Resistance

Films about the Second World War are a dime a dozen. That's not a bad thing: it's a dark chapter in human history that deserves attention and clarification.

But all too often Hollywood reduces this enlightenment to the heroism of the Allied soldiers against the evil Nazis. Less is said about the struggle of the people in the occupied countries themselves.

Cinema release: 27 March 2020

Undine

Morning over coffee. My colleague Dominik shows me a trailer from hell. He writes his own opinion about it:

The trailer for "Undine" looks like a film version of a Calvin Klein advert from the 1990s, only without the black-and-white aesthetic and starving models.

The plot of the film is more interesting, according to Wikipedia. She is an elemental spirit, He leaves her, He #2 dives, She too, the two fall in love. The story could be given, but just based on the trailer, we're better off with Calvin's old adverts.

Romandie cinema release: 1 April 2020

Spiral: From the Book of Saw

"Saw" goes into the next round. My first reaction to it was an exasperated "Pff-fuck-again-please-save-me-that". Then Chris Rock in the title. Executive producer Chris Rock. What does Chris Rock have to do with "Saw", or the horror genre itself?

The teaser trailer starts.

Chris Rock is chained up. Holding up a saw. We know what that means. The teaser trailer ends. I want to see the film. Now.

Cinema release: 15 May 2020

If it doesn't help, it doesn't hurt.

Luca Fontana

Senior Editor

Luca.Fontana@digitecgalaxus.ch

I write about technology as if it were cinema, and about films as if they were real life. Between bits and blockbusters, I’m after stories that move people, not just generate clicks. And yes – sometimes I listen to film scores louder than I probably should.

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