![]() Starring Keri Russell, Alden Ehrenreich, Margo Martindale, O'Shea Jackson Jr., Jesse Tyler Ferguson and the late Ray Liotta, the movie is touted as being "inspired by true events." ![]() The trailer for director Elizabeth Banks' movie Cocaine Bear shows a violent, comedic tale inspired by a decades-old true story. ![]() I believe in you, Cocaine Bear.Note: Some language and visuals in this trailer may be NSFW. But if any film can pull it off, it’s Cocaine Bear. Cocaine Bear may still snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. But I swear to God, if I so much as sense any dialogue whatsoever that does not directly discuss what a bear is like when it is on cocaine, I am demanding a refund. There must be minimal realistic depictions of a bear dying from a debilitating drug overdose. There must be no heavy-handed moralising about the drug trade. To fulfill the promise of the trailer, it needs to only be a film about a bear on cocaine. So now Cocaine Bear has to walk it like it talks it. The trailer has hinted that it will also be this film. People know what they want the film to be. Remember when the first Suicide Squad trailer was released? Remember how it tricked people into thinking that it was going to be good? And that was just a boring old superhero movie, containing exactly zero bears on cocaine.Ĭocaine Bear, meanwhile, walks a much more precarious tightrope. The world is full of movie trailers stuffed with overpromise, re-contextualising all the good bits in a way that the full film could never hope to emulate. If the film can sustain the sheer berserk energy of the trailer, then Cocaine Bear is destined to become a classic.īut let’s not get carried away. It looks like (and I have to admit that I say the following with an eye on it becoming the poster quote) it is exactly the sort of film you should see if your primary cinematic interests are bears and cocaine. Shortly after the bear eats all the cocaine, a character says, “The bear, it fucking did cocaine,” a sentiment he swiftly clarifies by adding, “A bear did cocaine.” Seconds later, an older character announces – as solemnly as any human can – “Apex predator, high on cocaine, out of its mind.” Someone asks, surely rhetorically, “What the fuck is up with that bear?” Another looks at the bear and tells it, “Oh man, you fucked.” A child describes the bear as “fucked” with such undiluted relish that the line-reading is automatically destined to overshadow everything else he ever does in his career.Ĭlearly, on the basis of the trailer alone, Cocaine Bear is going to be an absolute blast. The dialogue, too, mainly seems preoccupied with reassuring the audience that Cocaine Bear is a film about a bear that does cocaine. It vaults up a tree and eats Jesse Tyler Ferguson from Modern Family. It pauses briefly to admire a passing butterfly. It sprints along a road and dives head-first into a speeding ambulance. It knocks a door off its hinges, snarling and drooling with a berserk look on its face. As soon as the bear first looms into view, it is perfectly evident that the bear is absolutely, without question, on cocaine.
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