The most screechingly melodramatic trailer you’re going to see today. I promise. Adrien Brody throws desks. That isn’t necessarily a bad thing; I’m just sayin’. Though if you’re a fan of Adrien Brody, Marcia Gay Harden, Brian Cranston, Lucy Liu, Christina Hendricks, Tim Blake Nelson, Blythe Danner, William Peterson or James Caan, then you’ve got something to look forward to here. So this also probably the trailer with the most stacked cast you’re going to see as well.
I gotta be honest here, I’m not super excited for this. But it’s got a couple things going for it. One, it can’t be any worse than Brody’s last headlining effort, Wrecked. Two, and more importantly, this is director Tony Kaye of Lake of Fire and American History X fame. So he’s got two very extraordinary titles already under his belt so I’m more than willing to give this film, Detachment a spin around the block. Sort of looks like a louder version of Half Nelson, but I suppose that remains to be seen. Take a look at the trailer below and tell me what you think.
I’m intrigued although yeah there are some seriously OTT cornball moments in there. There are one or two nice visuals though and that cast is fantastic so fingers crossed.
SHEEEEEEE-IT. No, not the film, the black governor of Maryland from the Wire leads out the opening narration – love that dude.
Teacher drama. I’m in, cheesy trailer or not.
This movie is over-wrought, over-produced and bombastic as hell, but I LOVED every goshdarn minute of it. Amazing stuff…
Yeah, everything about it was pretty ridiculous. I wanted to like it and while I didn’t hate it, it never really accomplished what it was trying to accomplish – at least for me.
Instead, I just popped in Half Nelson afterwards and enjoyed that even more for getting all the things right that this got wrong.
I really should watch HALF NELSON.
yes you really, really should.
You haven’t seen that? It’s still Gosling’s best film and his best performance.
On Netflix Instant now:
http://movies.netflix.com/WiMovie/Detachment/70230089