Public Enemy #1

Yesterday we had Christian Bale guest blogging on his thoughts about the Public Enemies poster. Well today we have the release of the Public Enemies trailer. I put out some feelers to Bale again to get his thoughts about this Depp-centric trailer and well. . . from the sound on the other end of the line, I'm pretty sure his head just exploded. His publicist quickly got on the line and simply said, "No Comment" and then hung up. 

Anyways. I really, really like this new trailer. I love Michael Mann and I don't think he's ever made a movie I've disliked. Heat is very near the top of my favorite movie list. Miami Vice was probably one of his weakest efforts, but I still enjoyed it. This trailer kinda has feelings of a Prohibition era Heat to it, but most this trailer focuses on one thing: Johnny Depp. Universal, we get it. You got Johnny Depp in your movie. Congratulations. But this isn't a pirate movie. So let's dial it down a bit. But, it does have a very good release date. It's a nice adult (remember when they made movies for adults?) feeling film and will be great counter-programming to Giant Fucking Robots: The Deuce. Plus it's Fourth of July weekend and what's more apple pie than robbing banks? Really? 

So I'm stoked for this movie. Really. Except for one thing. The cinematography. Ever since Collateral, Michael Mann has been playing around with digital cameras. The problem is that it's always visible. You can see in this trailer, what's been filmed on digital in some scenes. And it's distracting and it looks bad. As if they filmed it with an old camcorder. And I'm not against digital filming. While I prefer the look of film, I understand the way of the future. But there have been plenty of digitally filmed movies that don't look as bad as this. Superman Returns was filmed all digital and that movie looked gorgeous. Is it too much to ask for the same here?