This video ponders the question, what would the last 20 minutes of The Shawshank Redemption be like if it were set to an 80s-style montage?  Wait, did Morgan Freeman just say “shitty pipe dreams,”?  Ha, I just got that!

From the director of The Illusionist (which was awesome even if it should’ve ended five minutes sooner), The Lucky Ones is the story of three Iraq war veterans’ road trip to Vegas, starring Tim Robbins, Michael Peña and Rachel McAdams. It’s good to see Rachel McAdams working.  Her skill as an actress is matched only by my desire to bone her.  Too bad the whole trailer runs underneath a Sarah McLachlan song that was cheesy five years ago.  I mean, hearing it is like rain on your wedding day.  Ooh, but listen to these awesome taglines!

Sometimes losing your way home means finding yourself.
Three strangers with nothing to lose.  And everything to find.

And then of course some chick has to go and make fun of the wounded soldier’s limp.  It’s poignant because that happens all the time.  Haha, check out the stupid cripple!  Hey, nice limp, Limpy McLimperson! Yeah, way to get wounded fighting for your country there, Hopalong! 

Looks like somebody went to the Paul Haggis school of screenwriting.

A while back Vince wrote about City of Ember, an enviro-fantasy flick starring Bill Murray, Tim Robbins, and a bunch of kids I’ve never heard of.

In the film, humanity must move underground to avoid a disaster on the surface.  Their underground set-up is only meant to last 200 years, and this movie picks up where the 200 years come to an end.  Now everything is going wrong and "the only option is to escape." Hey, that sounds like a date with me.  *sad trombone noise*

Judging from the trailer (after the jump), this movie seems to be a kid’s adventure flick in which, of course, a bunch of children discover secrets the incompetent parents just don’t understand.  But what I don’t get is this: how did everybody forget about having to go back up to the surface in 200 years?  Isn’t that kind of important, the kind of thing you’d tell your grandkids about?  Wouldn’t somebody have said, "Gather ’round kids, and let Grandpa Panda tell you how to get to the surface.  All you gotta do is go into the tunnel next to the Orange Julius, then you go Up Up Down Down Left Right Left Right AB Select Start . . . no, wait, that was something else.  Where was that escape hatch?  Well, we’re screwed."  - RoboPanda

[HD trailer courtesy of IGN]

A while back I told you all about City of Ember, the enviro-fantasy flick starring Bill Murray and Tim Robbins.  This is the teaser poster. 

Problem is, it tells us exactly dick about the movie so I don’t know what exactly it’s teasing.  In order to tease, you first actually have to pique my interest.  Show some skin.  The people who made this must’ve come from the Wahhabi Muslim school of teasing where you expect people to see a chick in a burqa and think Damn, bro, I betchoo there’s some good pussy under there.

In Noise, from Henry Bean, the writer/director of The Believer, Tim Robbins stars as “The Rectifier”, a guy who goes around New York City bashing in windows of cars whose alarms are going off.  Why didn’t they call the movie The Rectifier, you ask?  …uh, good question. 

Opens in limited release May 9th. 

Trailer after the jump.

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