Memoirs of A Geisha

Trailer: Memoirs of A Geisha (Zhang Ziyi, Ken Watanabe, Michelle Yeoh, Gong Li)

The trailer sent me some shivers. The music was very effective, I thought it was just...grand.

It's a comforting fact that Ken Watanabe is the Chairman... One reason might be that he's actually Japanese... I really liked the guy in The Last Samurai, though not too sure if he's going to repeat the feat... I felt that the Chairman seemed a reserved kind of person, not too sure what he's thinking...etc. Maybe not as enigmatic as the samurai, but aren't they almost the same? Oh well, I've forgotten half the book already. Need to revise.

Michelle Yeoh looks perfect for the role of Mameha...seriously, she's just perfect! She's beautiful as she looks resourceful and wise. Gong Li...oooo...looks fierce. I kinda think Maggie Cheung suits the jealous woman bitchy-like (like she did in Hero) but Gong Li is just as well. Zhang Ziyi? Hmm. Dunno. Not a big fan of her acting. But we'll have to see the final thing - before we can decide if she's just going to be screamy-tantrumy. Like most of the time.

Why, oh why, are the lead actresses here all chinese? Hello? Not enough beautiful, talented Japanese actresses meh?

Pride and Prejudice

Trailer: Pride & Prejudice (Keira Knightly)

I don't know how many times they're gonna remake Jane Austen classics. Actually I still do like watching movies that feature Jane Austen although some might think it rather unadventurous, cheesy and just typical girly stuff, but uh, I guess I'm quite a sucker for it. And for that matter I wouldn't mind Keira playing as Elizabeth Benett! (And if Colin Firth was Mr Darcy it wld have been perfect, haha) Perhaps it will all be an entirely same experience as before, but well, I am sure there are lots of people out there who don't know Jane Austen at all (the horror.) So why not. Bring it on, again.

I love the music towards the end of the trailer, if I'm not mistaken, it's probably from Love Actually soundtrack, but I'm not sure. Lately I've been annoyed at the fact that there are these great music in trailers but I can't recognise them. The last time LOTR came out with the music from Requiem of a Dream. I've been dying to know what music was playing in the beginning of Crash's trailer.