I thought about posting this at film geeks, but I'm trying to post more reviews and fewer sundry collections of junk there… so here's the junk where it belongs, at SouthCon.

Wendy and I watch movie trailers on the internet a whole lot. Like everyone. There's a thousand trailer websites on the net, and it's hard to see them all. Tonight I accidentally stumbled across Video Detective. The thing about this site is that it shows you the trailer you select, and then just starts a random stream of trailers after the one you chose. So, if you're like me, before you know it, you've sat through 50 trailers, all the while saying "just one more, just one more, one more and I'll quit, OK, this is the last one, alright just one more…"

Thing is, you can't embed the trailers at Video Detective, and I've yet to find a way to really link to them in a way that I'm happy with. It seems that the link it creates relies on the cookie on your individual PC… so I've gone to the trouble of finding other sources for the movie trailers that caught my attention.

THESE are the movies I hope to see in the next few months:

• Running With Scissors
  
  The trailer reminded me simultaneously of two of my favorite films (The World According To Garp and About Schmidt) crossed with The Royal Tenenbaums. If the movie is as good as the trailer, it ought to really be something, because the trailer itself made me laugh out loud three or four times:
  
  
  
  

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• Happy Feet
  
  I can't remember the last time I wanted to see a kid's movie, but I have to admit, this one has me interested. It looks like it combines the best elements of The Lion King and Ice Age. By the time the preview got to the little penguin singing Chicago's "If You Leave Me Now", I was won over. Late in the trailer I heard the unmistakable voice of Robin Williams, and I have to say that I'm sick to death of Robin Williams at this point. Still, with Elijah Wood, Hugh Jackman, Nicole Kidman and Hugo Weaving in the cast, there's a lot of potential.
  
  




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• Renaissance
  
  This film looks like it might just be my kind of thing. A Scanner Darkly never appealed to me… but this one looks Frank Miller-esque, with maybe a bit of Aeon Flux thrown in. Promising? I think so.
  
  




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• The Namesake
  
  This is simply not the kind of movie I ever get interested in. So I'm at a loss to explain to you why I think this movie looks so damn good.
  
  




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• Pathfinder
  
  With a January release date and a poster that looks kinda silly, this film just didn't seem to be anything I'd care about… but the preview conjured up childhood memories of how much I liked the Conan the Barbarian films. Plus, this movie looks all dark and grungy and cool and stuff… so now I'm all, like, I dunno… maybe I'd actually enjoy this movie…
  
  




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• The Departed
  
  I love Scorsese, but it's been a long time since I was excited about a new Scorsese film. For one thing, I'd like to think he's capable of making a movie without DiCaprio. Nothing against DiCaprio, but does he have to be in every friggin' film Scorsese makes? Anyway, The Departed looks like a return to the Scorsese I love. The same guy who made Cape Fear, Casino, and one of my all time favorite films, Goodfellas.