http://youtu.be/KF7orflLVV8
The philosophical depth of the question “why do we go to the movies?” won’t exactly give you the bends. In a formal sense it’s all about escapism – finding commonality and relatability in universal themes that have been glamourised. It’s storytelling, at it’s core; the continuation of an eons-long pastime, the joy of which is instilled in us from birth. It is a form of entertainment indelibly attached to our most primal of emotional responses, and lets us sink into fictional loves, giving us outlets for complex emotional outpouring that perhaps we can’t access in everyday regular lives.
Or, to put it another way: People like watching big shit getting blown the fuck up.
Such is people’s affinity for disaster porn (your boy right here included) that I don’t even remotely care how rehashed the idea of San Andreas looks. Big hulking dude has to save loved ones as California’s famous fault line cracks the state open like an over-ripe melon? Don’t care how many times it’s been done. Sign me up right now.
Couple that with the fact that the big hulking dude in this instance is The Rock, and the film appears to feature a liberal amount of Paul Giamatti looking through his eyebrows and talking very, very seriously and you can just go ahead and take the ticket money out of my wallet right now, every cinema ever.
The second trailer for the upcoming disaster masterpiece has hit thanks to the kids at Jimmy Kimmel Live, and it’s exactly what you need from a trailer for a film like this. Big things falling over. Water everywhere. WORLD RENOWNED LANDMARKS IN SEVERE DANGER OF DIRECT HITS.
May 29th cannot get here fast enough.
