Trailers that make you never want to see a movie - AKA Julia Louis-Dreyfus and the Yoda death bird thread.

omg, no.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvqyBWCN39o

I would watch that if that were recut as a horror trailer which I guess on some level it already is?

Aside from everything else I don't think I can handle JLD being sincere (much less maudlin).

Her going full Veep on a creepy death bird would be great! Maybe the trailer is a fake-out?

she's also in the marvel thunderbolts movie, which also seems like a bad fit. though a marvel movie in 2025 is probably a bad fit for everyone.

She’s already been in about 5 marvel projects

how did that go

This looks like a version of something that could work in the right hands, but those hands would have figured out a way to avoid the shitty CGI.

What will it take for directors to realize that CGI is almost always terrible, just tell me what it will take and I will do it

Send them a death bird with the message

i think she could be good in the right oscar-bait dirty fingernails role. she wasn't great in that nicole holofcener dramedy that i watched. not the one with tony soprano. the other one. david cross was in it.

don't get me wrong: as far as television goes, there are few people as talented in that medium as JL-D. she can make funny out of thin air.

This was the deathbird that I was picturing before watching the trailer, would have been an improvement (iykyk)

https://www.gamerguides.com/assets/media/14/1079/deathbird_limgrave.png

it just looks really fucking sad to me

she wasn't great in that nicole holofcener dramedy that i watched. not the one with tony soprano.

I liked both of these movies. But I'm a writer whose spouse does not read his books, so I was the perfect audience for the most recent one (You Hurt My Feelings — JLD plays an author who overhears her husband shit-talking her new book and spirals).

yeah I agree with unperson, You Hurt My Feelings was really good.

I took the hit for the team and watched Tuesday last night.

If, say, imperial phase Studio Ghibli had filmed the exact same screenplay, we would probably be talking about Tuesday as some kind of bonkers, extraordinary masterpiece. I wished the film leaned more into its odd magical-realism. I mean if you're going to swing hard, just really just go for it. There are zombie cows, a talking dog head, JL-D's cancer daughter & the bird vaping it up and singing along to Ice Cube, miniature rat bishops, even a scene where JL-D bludgeons, burns, and then eats the physical incarnation of Death, but all the connective tissue to keep all that together is a total misfire. The bird is fine, but relationships between the humans grate hard.

I was reminded of a deep discussion I had in the wake of Spielberg's A.I. Artificial Intelligence. I had similar issues: all over the place tonally, trying too hard to be profound, characters sermonizing instead of talking. My friend who loved it stopped me right there: "you'll never connect with it because you've never lost a child." IMDB/Letterboxd reviews for Tuesday break similarly - one group emotionally wrecked by a weirdly beautiful allegory, another who think it's the worst movie they've ever seen. I can't recommend it but fwiw I did go the distance. Don't assume that is a tacit recommedation.

https://www.iliadbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/deathbirdpb.jpg

"death bird" makes me think of crow from grief is the thing with feathers which was good imo so that's something

Would def see an animated movie by Leo and Diane Dillon.

omg yes