Seems I’m sort of obsessed with cool trailers at the moment, huh? For me, that was always the best part about seeing a movie in the theater — watching trailers to upcoming flicks. But when I starting writing movie reviews and going to press screenings, I lost out on the trailer experience. Sure, I got used to seeing movies for free (which these days is quite a luxury), but it wasn’t quite the same. Thank god now for the Internet and catching any trailer I want — although I still get a kick out of seeing them in the theaters on that rare occasion when I pay for a movie.
Here’s the trailer to the new biopic Amelia. It focuses on the famed 1930s aviator and her amazingly daring feats in an airplane, including her fateful attempt at flying around the world, mysteriously disappearing over the Pacific in 1937. It stars Hilary Swank, looking very much the part but thankfully without much standing with hands on hips, as Amy Adams portrays her in Night at the Museum 2:
Speaking of obsessed, I was a huge Amelia Earhart fan when I was in grade school. I must have read her biography a dozen times (that and Island of the Blue Dolphins) and did at least three book reports on her that I can recall. She fascinated me, especially since neither her body or her plane were ever recovered. Some speculated she flew into a Bermuda Triangle of sorts or perhaps made it to a remote unchartered island to live out her days. Like Lost, let’s say. Whatever happened, it’s a fine mysterious end to an endlessly captivating woman way ahead of her time.
