so I really disliked the movie inside
Llewyn Davis from the Coen brothers
however within that film there is a real
pearl of wisdom which is really stuck
with me because it's so rare to see
anyone frankly discuss the realities of
creating art for commercial purposes in
other words in that case to sell records
or in the case of a movie trailer to
sell movie tickets so anyway in the film
Oscar Isaac finally gets to audition for
F Murray Abraham and F Murray Abraham
very kindly and politely listens to him
and then his response is I don't see a
lot of money here and it just blew me
away I was like wow you just like really
crystallized you know with so many
people fail to realize about again
creating art for commercial purposes and
I bring it up here because when I see
this trailer from miss Peregrine's Home
for peculiar children I don't see a lot
of money here now there it there is an
Asterix though one that has developed
because as you might recall when this
trailer debuted a few weeks ago nobody
paid attention to it because I think
like me
or perhaps they couldn't quite put their
finger on it but people overall had a
reaction of ambivalence which of course
translates to not a lot of money here
but still a number of you said a very
potent note like smaller number of you
said please review miss Peregrine's Home
for peculiar children trailer you know
we really want people to talk about this
movie so if you could please do so and
and you haven't forgotten even though
daredevil Batman V Superman and a
personal trip distracted me from being
able to cover this so this movie
desperately needs that you guys this
movie desperately needs that small
fanbase to trumpet it and to keep people
paying attention to it because I think
on its own it's really going to struggle
now why didn't people pay attention to
it we're going to go through the trailer
specifically in just a moment but first
I want to share my theory as to why
everybody ignored it well I think that
on the first on the first part it just
seems like more of the same right like
we've seen Tim Burton do this and this
doesn't look like his best work of this
kind right I mean it doesn't look like
it doesn't seem to have well well Edward
Scissorhands
is a little bit similar and the fact it
was very commercial quirkiness
but Edward Scissorhands was beautiful in
its simplicity and perhaps if this was a
movie just about a boy and his balloon
girlfriend people would perhaps pay a
little bit more attention to it because
it would have like a poetic quality to
it but this seems very busy right so so
on the one hand it just seems kind of
like quirky commercial noise I guess
it's a good way to describe it so that's
one problem also it just seems like the
x-men by way of Wes Anderson however not
as good as what sanderson would do yes
it's not so easy to be Wes Anderson is
it I really I feel bad that Wes Anderson
is not willing to tackle other people's
work he always wants to do original
stories which you know certainly is
right but there's a lot of material that
suffers because of that I think he
perhaps would have done a better job
with this for instance of the book cover
that really sold this original book it
looks like creepy old photograph it's
really cool and I don't see that quality
at all in the trailer which is weird and
therefore in the movie like the movie
the movie wouldn't duplicate what sold
the book right I mean that I mean who
hasn't loved looking at old creepy
photos right there's just something
about it and that's something they did
not even make an attempt to capture here
so that's a little odd
so what's Anderson trying to be West
Anderson but not and so and so also
again the x-men thing and then also
finally the other reason I feel that
it's having some trouble is that it's
all over the place it's really hard to
understand what's going on here it
doesn't have like a clear pitch and by
that I mean telling the audience what
you want them to experience and what the
hook is you know this is all this is all
Hollywood lingo by the way and stuff
that the people associated with this
movie should know all right so anyway
let's get started the picture I want to
start out with first actually is Eva
green and I really like Eva Green quite
a bit and I feel bad that she has not
been able to really carve out a career
for herself I think that she has her
fans myself included and someone who
says like Eva
I love Eva green is like their YouTube
handle has been particularly asking me
to cover this she doesn't have a wide
fan base
although when she popped up here I was
happy to see that she was in this movie
but when I first saw her in the trailer
my initial reaction was whoa is Helen
about
Carter really so easily replaced I mean
if I'm Helena bonham-carter
I would be insulted by this trailer
because as I'm sure many of you know she
and Tim Burton have worked together for
many years but also had a personal
relationship they lived together
although there was a story that they
lived in separate houses connected by
like a tunnel or something but anyway
they were a couple and I think and
brighter days for them when they still
were a couple did they break it up since
she would have had this role so the fact
that he was able to so easily put Eva
green into that to that position I think
is a little bit alarming for Helena
Bonham Carter because she really has the
lock on quirky attractive women roles
and you know perhaps now she's finally
gonna have some competition also she's
gotten a lot of her work due to her
relationships right I mean they say
Hollywood is a business of relationships
and I think that both Tim Burton and
Johnny Depp have done a lot to get her
work but now if Tim Burton's gonna start
if one half of her her resources is
gonna start giving those roles to how to
Eva Green I think she's in real trouble
although I do have to say now that I see
it I feel that Eva green you know I
never saw it before but she wouldn't
make a good new Helena bonham-carter
so Helena Bonham Carter seems so
original when she first showed up but
look how easily she is duplicated all
right so although I will say that I
think that the bird transformation looks
really cool and I like that quite a bit
and I love the long nails they gave Eva
green and the hair is very bird-like I
thought that that was well done alright
so next up so that's that's the West
Anderson like photos we saw saw I also
feel this movie's a little derivative
not just in the x-men but of other
things that we've recently seen for
instance if you read comics if you read
comics at all you're most likely reading
the current batman scott snyder title
right it's been going on so are the only
things that's worked in the new 52 and
if you're reading it you've spent a lot
of time perhaps a little bit too much
time in my opinion with a villain called
mr. bloom who looks exactly like this so
it's pretty shocking I mean obviously
maybe this what this that character
wasn't out when they were making the
film cuz it takes a while to do this
kind of visual effect you know perhaps
the character design aren't even done
but mr. bloom has been around for a
while and so I'm just it's weird to see
mr. bloom pretty much literally brought
to life in a whole other property and
and well there's a sub Butterfield our
hero there's also because of him has a
little bit of a Hugo vibe to it
I'm not a big asa butterfield Fanta he
was an Enders game as well
he has his fan base as well but for some
reason he just lacks like a an energy
he's no Johnny Depp or
Taron Egerton let's just say that and
then but that's here these two I liked
the King Solomon splitting the baby or
splitting the bear and two thing but
here he actually did it and the kids
seemed okay with it
but this reminds me of JAV ona's the
orphan I was the orphan in the orphanage
I don't quite remember talking my head
it's one of the scariest movies I've
ever seen it's Spanish language you
really should check it out if you
haven't seen it
je vais ona another person that I would
like to see get more work he's also on
the cusp of you know maybe finding his
place but this is just such a ripoff of
that film but I also find it distracting
I'm like you know so the film it's an
inability to focus and then itself but
then it's then further distracts me with
clear and obvious Oh washes to other
properties that I'm just like all over
the place
I next thought I thought this was also
something hysterical that occurred to me
when I was watching this trailer there's
this thing about how asa butterfield
character it has to protect the peculiar
children at this home because
something's gonna happen to Eva Green's
character miss Peregrine's and she's not
gonna be available right and then they
cut to a black guy right so it's samuel
l.jackson by the way playing another
Depp or villain but I was like really
the premise of this movie is that all
these cute little white kids in the
countryside need to be protected from a
black man who approved this right I just
thought that was very very odd I mean
not to have any diversity in the first
place with the group of kids is one
thing but then to have their villain be
a black man I just thought again was
like what are you thinking Hollywood
these mistakes are so obvious to avoid
alright so the next thing I want to talk
about is the weirdness of their powers
like their powers seem really
inconsequential like I don't think yeah
one of the great things about the x-men
franchise is that you see it and you
were like I'd like that power I like to
be with the x-men but I think there
isn't any power here where I'm like I'd
like that power I think every time
you're like who dodged a bullet on that
one and
powers aren't even helpful in defending
themselves they have to pick up
gardening equipment I thought that was
very odd as well so I mean I'm clearly
there's something about the book that
isn't coming across in the trailer so if
you're a fan of the book cuz I see many
of you are
I hope below you'll please explain why
you like the book so much if you see
those same qualities evidenced here in
the trailer but then anyway let's look
at the powers like for instance there's
something in that little boy's mouth
which was very odd like when I was going
frame by frame I was like that is tongue
that's like I don't think so I think
it's a weird creepy power but I think
the invisible boys handled quite well
and that's actually probably pretty easy
to do you just stick some pork in a
green-screen bodysuit but it's well
realized but you know of course what are
they gonna do with it and also the
Invisible Man is such a great story
which by the way Johnny Depp will be
playing for universal so Johnny Depp
always he finds away then this kid who's
a projector a human projector I don't
see how that comes in handy and then
this little girl at the mouth in the
back of her head I mean it's very Tim
Burton II but at the same time you know
I don't understand the point of it right
you know you do just like well you know
it's more than a passing illustration
right like why is it in a movie now I'm
sure that you know this idea of peculiar
and oddities and you know maybe
sometimes when you're peculiar it
doesn't serve a grander purpose it's
just a part of who you are that could be
quite charming but I don't see that
evidenced here I think largely because
it's the x-men parallel is so strong
you're like okay yeah sure but what do
you guys can all fight something hmm I
mean that's kind of distracting I wanted
to talk though most about this girl this
was lighter than air and it's very
interesting because I think some of the
most beautiful scenes in the trailer
come from this character although I
don't quite understand her powers but
we'll talk about that in a moment
but I think it's funny like this was one
of my favorite shots right here of her
coming down into the ship and I love you
know you know sinking and the weighted
boots and the air bubble for a so
Butterfield so he can go down with her
but I don't understand how her blowing
all this air into the this room would
clear it of water right it doesn't make
any sense I mean maybe she's creating a
giant bubble that they're in but then I
need to see the bubble because right now
it just makes absolutely no sense that
this room which is not airtight
obviously because it's an old time chef
in the bottom of the sea that's been
rotting
it makes absolutely no sense that she
could fill it with enough air that it
wouldn't just escape out of the rest of
the ship so what makes her a great
visual but you know in your tribe you
know especially is there someone who
comes from comic books when you're
always trying to figure out you know how
this works and the science of it and
this is awfully distracting to someone
like me at least so I'm curious if you
guys had the same reaction at all again
I do like the wading boots walking
around but then this actress I hold on I
had her name here but then I lost it
this is Ella Pernell and Alan Pernell
looks like she just was created in a lab
by Tim Burton right she's like a Tim
Burton visual effect
he loves the big eyes the big mouth the
small nose she just looks like perfect
for his kind of a film so I think she's
very well cast and I think this
relationship as I said if perhaps if the
movie focused just on this maybe it
would be getting a little bit more
attention and I do think it's fight you
have a girlfriend balloon I think in
some ways you know there are some
negative connotations to draw from it
like your girlfriend's literally on a
leash you know you can just carry her
around but at the same time I think you
do have to admire the poetic nosov it
and you know I think visually it's very
arresting so I think there are pluses
and minuses here I'm definitely
interested in it because I like Tim
Burton's work and I know the book is so
popular but again it's not what I
expected when I from what I've know of
the book I think there are a lot of
missed opportunities here and I think
that perhaps you know Tim Burton needs
to focus himself just a little bit more
and it almost seems to me like this is
just like casual Tim Burton and I think
this book probably deserved more
considering its fan base so I'm curious
what are your thoughts on the trailer
what do you think nobody paid attention
to it what are your favorite parts about
it and do you agree with some of the
comments that I've made about this
trailer for miss Peregrine's Home for
peculiar children and let's all have a
moment of silence for poor Helena Bonham
Carter both personally and
professionally
all right good luck Helena all right you
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