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And though the trailer looks harrowing, before you decide to see Shut In, it may be best that you know there are also plenty of reasons not to. Controversy has surrounded this production since it started. Caruso, who brought us Eagle Eye, Disturbia, Taking Lives, and The Salton Sea.

Shut In‘s trailer tell us that the film is directed by D.J.

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Hell, the movie even looks like it has potential, but as I started researching the film to write up, various red flags surrounding the film began to pop up. Shut In looks like a low-budget indie film but has all the markers of a much larger Hollywood production. This week, Shut In kept rearing its head in my search for the Trailer of the Week. Or maybe it’s something written in the synopsis of the trailer on YouTube. Maybe it’s a big-name Hollywood actor, actress, or director in a low-budget production. And it can make the most famous people on Earth dance like performing monkeys whenever it wants.Have you ever watched a trailer, and though the plot seemed clear, you didn’t understand something. His integrity is rock solid.ĭespite this, though, the message is loud and clear. Mark Ruffalo was standing right next to Ryan Reynolds in his clip, but he didn’t so much as think about saying anything. But what’s interesting to see is who held out. There was a line in their contract stipulating their appearance, and probably a slightly increased pay packet. Presumably, none of these stars did this for free. Once again, Netflix triumphs over the human spirit. Charlize Theron actively looks like she had to be tranquillised to do it. Judging by their slightly downbeat demeanour, it’s safe to assume that all these actors were all just getting into the swing of filming when a Netflix representative shut everything down and got them to read out their line of their meaningless spiel. Charlize Theron, dressed as Noddy Holder. Mark Wahlberg and Kevin Hart, pretending they’re 20 years younger than they actually are. Henry Cavill and Millie Bobby Brown, walking down an alley. Jason Momoa, dressed as a sort of militaristic sex goat. I’m not going to type out everything that all the stars say, because it adds up to the sort of inept tone poem usually reserved for cologne adverts, but I will list the other stars who talk. “In here is the great big world,” he intones with all the enthusiasm of someone ordering a starter from a restaurant that only serves human faeces. Next is Chris Hemsworth, wearing glasses. “Tonight is movie night,” she sighs with weary resignation. It starts with Jennifer Lopez, scowling on a boat in a wooly hat. This is a demonstration that Netflix has the power to shut down a movie’s production so that the star – on location, in costume and from within the scene of the movie they’re making – can promote the platform.

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Previously, it had been considered a big deal if a movie star listlessly presented a clip of the movie from an independently shot clip of them in full blown junket mode. Because, at key points during the montage, the stars themselves turn and address us in the middle of the action. No, the real reason for the montage was to allow Netflix to gratuitously flex all over the place. Some of it looks fantastic, lots of it looks mediocre and some of it – were their success measured in traditional box office grosses – look destined to be monumental flops.īut that’s not the real reason why Netflix made the montage, though. There’s going to be a sequel to Enola Holmes, a sequel to Knives Out, a Russo Brothers movie where Ryan Gosling appears to be playing Jason Bourne, an animated Guillermo Del Toro Pinocchio movie, one of those Adam Sandler movies that critics like, a film with Kevin Hart and Mark Wahlberg, a neat-looking animated pirate movie and something called We Have a Ghost. And if that’s your thing, there’s plenty to dissect here. The first is to tell you all the films that are coming out this year, in the form of an over-edited supercut.

Netflix’s movie preview ultimately serves two purposes.