Movie Trailer Sunday (3)

This weeks trailers are about a zoo, bike messengers, hockey, a stunt driver and a haunted boarding school.

We Bought a Zoo
Description: Set in Southern California, a father (Matt Damon) moves his young family to the countryside to renovate and re-open a struggling zoo.
Director: Cameron Crowe
Starring: Matt Damon, Scarlett Johansson, Thomas Haden Church, Patrick Fugit and Elle Fanning
Trailer: "We Bought a Zoo" Trailer
Comment: This looks fantastic. Matt Damon and Scarlett Johansson look like a great on screen duo and the story sounds fantastic. Can't wait.

Premium Rush
Description: Wilee is a New York bike messenger (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) who picks up an envelope at Columbia University, only to be chased throughout the city by a dirty cop desperate to get his hands on it.
Director:David Koepp
Starring: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Dania Ramirez, Jamie Chung and Michael Shannon
Trailer: ?Premium Rush" Trailer
Comment: Looks exciting and Joseph Gordon-Levitt is in it. He did so many great things the past years.

Goon
Description: Doug Glatt (Seann William Scott) is a dumb but loveable bar bouncer plucked from obscurity to be the enforcer for a minor league hockey team.
Director: Michael Dowse
Starring: Seann William Scott, Jay Baruchel, Liev Schreiber, Kim Coates, Alison Pill
Trailer: "Goon" Trailer

Drive
Description: Hollywood stunt driver by day (Ryan Gosling) is a loner by nature, who moonlights as a top-notch getaway driver-for-hire in the criminal underworld. He finds himself a target for some of LA's most dangerous men after agreeing to aid the husband of his beautiful neighbor, Irene (Carey Mulligan).
Director: Nicolas Winding Refn
Starring: Ryan Gosling, Carey Mulligan, Bryan Cranston, Christina Hendricks, Ron Perlman and Albert Brooks
Trailer: "Drive" Trailer

The Awakening
Description: 1921 England is overwhelmed by the loss and grief of World War I. Hoax exposer Florence Cathcart (Rebecca Hall) visits a boarding school to explain sightings of a child ghost. Everything she knew in unravels as the 'missing' begin to show themselves.
Director: Nick Murphy
Starring: Rebecca Hall, Dominic West and Imelda Staunton
Trailer: "The Awakening" Trailer

50 Books Challenge - # 28: The Awakening (Vampire Diaries # 1) by L.J. Smith

Title: The Awakening (Vampire Diaries # 1)
Author: L.J. Smith
Story: A deadly love triangle. Elena is beautiful and popular, the girl who can have any guy she wants. Stefan is brooding and mysterious, desperately trying to resist his desire for Elena . . . for her own good. Damon is sexy, dangerous, and driven by an urge for revenge against Stefan, the brother who betrayed him. Elena finds herself drawn to both brothers . . . who will she choose.
Start: may 19th 2011
End: may 22nd 2011
Comment: Vampire books are really popular and I was never into vampires that much. I decided to give this a try. Off course I saw the TV show which is loosely based on this series, but when you start reading you realize the two are very different from each other. It takes some time before the story gets interesting. You have to be patient, because there's not a lot of coflict in the story. You're basically reading about Elena and her feelings for Stefan and vice versa. And her discovering who and what Stefan really is. The moment Damon enters the story is when it becomes really interesting. And that's only in the end. Damon was the only character that actually intrigued me. Not because he's so nice, but he's a well created character. He's the one you remember. I didn't really sympathize with Elena nor with Stefan. The book ends with a cliffhanger. I want to know what happens next and I want to read more about Damon's character. Those are the only reasons I want to continue reading the series. Maybe I will like the second one more.
Rating: 2/ 5