Trailer Talk Thursday: Rubber and Red Riding Hood

Hey everyone, Travis from The Movie Encyclopedia here with another edition of Trailer Talk Thursday, where I bring you the latest trailers to hit the silver screen.

Well it's happened. I've finally hit the bottom of the barrel. Not in the sense that there are no more good trailers but in the sense that I've just plain run out of trailers, or at least for movies I haven't already covered. I checked nearly every site I could think of that specialized in trailers and even went through YouTube and DailyMotion looking for any and all trailers. What it came down to, after hours of searching, was a movie about a killer tire and Little Red Riding Hood done in the style of Twilight. Maybe that first sense was the right sense after all.

That being said, our first film this week is Rubber-

 Rubber is the second film from French director/house musician Quentin "Mr. Oizo" Dupieux and is about a killer car tire named Robert. Yeah, you heard me correctly: a killer car tire named Robert. Robert was abandoned in the desert by his previous owner and one day, completely out of the blue, stands up on his own and starts rolling around. Not soon after he "awakens" he realizes that he has telepathic powers and can blow anyone and anything up. Like any killer to be he starts off small with assorted objects and creatures around him and slowly but surely works his way up to humans, specifically women. So he's a telepathic killer car tire who stalks women...Are you sure Ed Wood is dead? Now don't get me wrong this actually sounds awesome, in a Ed Wood/Roger Corman/The Asylum shlockbuster sort of way, but as a serious horror film (which from the trailer alone doesn't seem like what it's going for anyway) it's crap. I'm looking forward to it because of the sheer originality of it all (and just how silly it will be) but I know it's probably going to be an acquired taste for most and not everyone will like it, let alone watch it.

Oh well, decide for yourself with the trailer-


Next up is Red Riding Hood-

...Listen, Catherine (Hardwicke the director) I've got to be completely honest with you. Besides Thirteen, all of your movies kind of suck. Heath Ledger's performance aside, Lords of Dogtown was boring and uneventful, The Nativity Story put me to sleep and Twilight was terrible on almost every possible level. And your latest film, Red Riding Hood, is basically the story of Little Red Riding Hood, if it were done by Twilight Fan Fiction authors. Now you are probably a great person and you must be doing something right because you convinced Leonardo DiCaprio to produce this movie, but whenever I watch the trailer for this I just shake my head in disappointment because I almost can guarantee this will suck. Now I have some hope because Gary Oldman, Julie Christie and Virginia Madsen are starring in it, but it's not like they all haven't done one or two films they probably regret doing. If this is amazing I will recant my previous statement of suckitude and give this the applause it deserves, but if the trailer is any indication of what's to come...I doubt that will happen. Thanks again Catherine.

Here is the trailer-



So what do you all think? Is Rubber too weird for you or just the right amount of weird? Was I too harsh on Red Riding Hood or does it really look and feel a lot like Twilight? Also do you think with the Superbowl coming up that more great trailers will show up? Tell me what you think in the comments below and I will see you all next week on Trailer Talk Thursday.