New trailers: Mr Nobody, The Answer Man, Shrink, The Final Destination

All the links for these are in the trailer bar on the right as usual so i'm not reporting them, but new trailers put up today cover the gamut!

Mr Nobody - looks intriguing. Obviously very low-budget (perhaps too so for what looks like an ambitious project) this could be genius like a Vincenzo Natali picture or a Charlie Kaufman, or it could be frustrating like Science Of Sleep.

The Answer Man - looks light and not stunning but fun and Jeff Daniels is always easy to watch. Looks like his character from Squid & the Whale meets Jack from As Good As It Gets via standard Sundance sort of fare. Still, i'll watch this one.

Shrink - looks like a missed opportunity. This looks lazy and uninspired. I hope with Spacey in a lead role again and support from the likes of Robert Loggia i'm wrong but i have a feeling this ones not going to be worth it.

The Final Destination - ah, what would a week be without a stupid cheesy trailer. It would seem that not only have New Line now thrown out any hint of an okay actor or coherent plot line to go for cheap-as-you-can teen-fodder in a 3D sequel to Final Destination, but they've also been watching that box office on Fast & Furious and thought to themselves, "Hey, that title is like, retro cool, seems franchise and yet possibly original"! And so now instead of Final Destination 4 we have THE Final Destination! Add a The get a whole new audience! Although one can't help but think that technically it should be The Final Final Destination, but i guess that's being far too logical for a franchise about fate taking you out in various gruesome ways that will presumably in this film entirely involve methods of demise that require things to fly directly at the screen. So much for the "the new 3D is about depth and creating a world to better serve the story, rather than a gimmick to just have things flying out of the screen" argument! Horror films like It Came From Outer Space and Creature From The Black Lagoon made 3D popular in the 50s before people got bored, then horror resurrected it in the 80s with films like Jaws 3D, Amityville 3D, Friday the 13th, Part 3D(!) and beat it into the ground once again. I can't help thinking that films like My Bloody Valentine, The Final Destination, Piranha 3D etc may end up countering all the good done for the format by films like Up and Coraline this time around. Still, we'll see i guess. It is also interesting that the makers of the Final Destination franchise are obviously cowardly, having originally announced the third film as planned for 3D (that films rollercoaster set piece is a dead giveaway of being thought up with 3D in mind) but they bottled it (probably because there just weren't that many 3D screens back then). Now other films have forced cinemas into adding screens and proven the format tobe popular once more, look who's back on the bandwagon. This sequel looks about as cynical as they come!