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Angels and Demons

After the disaster that was 2007’s Da Vinci Code it seemed that nothing would draw me back to the film adaptations of Dan Brown’s Robert Langdon series.  Fortunately for Angels and Demons’ producers, I saw the trailer.  The darkly lit trailer begins with a tracking shot of the Vatican at night with lights on all around it.  This combined with actor Stellan Skarsgard’s narration about attacking the Vatican provides an eerie feel.  Film sequels in recent years have yearned to be darker than their predecessors (The Dark Knight, X-Men 2), Angels and Demons is no exception.  The trailer shows horrific images, fire, and dimly lit enclosed spaces to show that the film has taken the series to the next level.  We also see from the trailer that, the producers have decided (wisely) to nix Tom Hanks’s ridiculous hair piece from the first film, which completely distracted the audience from the plot being played out on screen.  With an intense score that propels the mysterious images on the screen, the trailer promises a bolder, more intense (and hopefully more interesting) addition to the Robert Langdon series.

Click to watch the Dedication trailer at Zuguide.com

In case you hadn’t heard, Watchmen comes out on Friday. Given the level of anticipation this film has produced in die hard fans of the graphic novel and the general public alike, it’s quite possible that Billy Crudup will go from being that rock star guy who called himself a golden god and jumped off a roof into a swimming pool (Russell Hammond in Almost Famous) to that scientist who accidentally disintegrated himself and came back as that blue guy who can control matter and energy at will (Dr. Manhattan in the aforementioned Watchmen). I’d call that a slight upgrade. But, before Friday rolls around and Crudup becomes known as the most powerful Smurf ever, I thought I’d take a moment and offer up the trailer for Crudup’s last, less than widely released film, Dedication.

In Dedication, Crudup plays an obsessive compulsive man who hates people but writes children’s books. When Tom Wilkinson, Crudup’s only friend and the illustrator of his hit “Marty the Beaver” series, dies, Crudup is forced to share a beach house with Wilkinson’s replacement, Mandy Moore, in order to finish up the latest Marty installment. Take a wild guess what happens next.

Highlights of the Dedication trailer include: 1) Crudup rattling off all his OCD symptoms the first time he meets Moore. 2) Crudup telling a little girl girl at a book signing that Santa Claus doesn’t exist. 3) Wilkinson describing Moore as being “lovely like an antelope in a junkyard.” 4) Crudup wearing a yellow football helmet to overcome his fear of riding in a car. And, 5) Crudup pretending to be upset when Moore falls asleep next to him on the couch.  My favorite part of the trailer is when Crudup vaporizes Mandy Moore and uses her atomic material to annihilate a squadron of attack helicopters and over forty tanks (not really). Dedication opened August 24, 2007. Check of the Dedication trailer at Zuguide.com.