More Movie Notes

I'm always amazed at the previews and trailers the theatre decides to show at the movies I go to. For instance, when we saw A Beautiful Mind last month, there were at least a couple of previews for slapstick comedies. As if the viewers that choose A Beautiful Mind are also the ones most likely to go see Big Trouble ("rated PG-13 for language, crude humor and sex-related material"). Not that I'm suggesting a person wouldn't want to see both of those films, but I would imagine the two audiences are fairly different on average.

So, today at Monsoon Wedding, we saw three trailers. Mean Machine, a British movie about a famous football (ie, soccer) player who goes to prison and ends up coaching a prison team there. Undisputed, an American movie about a famous boxer who goes to prison and ends up fighting a championship fight there. And Unfaithful, a thriller about adultery starring Richard Gere and Diane Lane (brought to us by the director Adrian Lyne, who of course was responsible for Fatal Attraction and Indecent Proposal). Yeah, right.

Marty figured that the Monsoon Wedding audience was also the target audience for the two prison movies. Why not?

I promise you, Monsoon Wedding is much better than any of these movies sound. Go and see.