Today’s tempting trailer

I’ve blogged before about the seductive temptations of good movie trailers. Every once in a while they pan out in the form of a great film — The Triplets of Belleville, for example — but all too often their promise doesn’t translate into a great film. Still trailers should be appreciated on their own terms, ...

By , a professor of international politics at the Fletcher School at Tufts University and the author of The Ideas Industry.

I've blogged before about the seductive temptations of good movie trailers. Every once in a while they pan out in the form of a great film -- The Triplets of Belleville, for example -- but all too often their promise doesn't translate into a great film. Still trailers should be appreciated on their own terms, and the one that I confess to clicking on a fair number of times in recent days is Sin City. Click here to see the trailer. Based on the great Frank Miller's comic books and directed by Robert Rodriguez, the entire aesthetic of the trailer looks way cool -- in a way that Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow did not. The movie comes out in April -- so we'll see.

I’ve blogged before about the seductive temptations of good movie trailers. Every once in a while they pan out in the form of a great film — The Triplets of Belleville, for example — but all too often their promise doesn’t translate into a great film. Still trailers should be appreciated on their own terms, and the one that I confess to clicking on a fair number of times in recent days is Sin City. Click here to see the trailer. Based on the great Frank Miller’s comic books and directed by Robert Rodriguez, the entire aesthetic of the trailer looks way cool — in a way that Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow did not. The movie comes out in April — so we’ll see.

Daniel W. Drezner is a professor of international politics at the Fletcher School at Tufts University and the author of The Ideas Industry. Twitter: @dandrezner

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