Alternative title "Titanic 2: What if Jack survived"

Pretty much, and also just as boring if not worse? Looks like a well made film just not interested.

Simplistic dialogue? You mean not blatantly shooting for the profound?

I trust Mendes, and if it is half as good as the novel it'll be among this year's best.

Ouch. As someone getting married in the next few years, this looks frightening. I think I'm going to pass. It just looks too depressing.

Mad Men: The Movie

Hopefully it'll be better than Jarhead. I hated that movie. Huge disappointment after Road to Perdition. This looks promising though.

I think it looks quite good. The cinematography is amazing, as is to be expected. I think that DiCaprio and Winslet can elevate the dialog to an acceptable level (I didn't think it sounded too bad at all).

Although I wasn't a fan of Jarhead, I think Mendes is an exceptional director who - at the very least - knows how to make a film look beautiful. Every single frame in Road to Perdition is pretty much amazing.
Coupled with a Thomas Newman score, I think this'll be a pretty good film. Its certainly on my "to see" list now.

Jack is back, and this time, it's personal.

I would bet even money that Kate and Leo are going to get another oscar nomination for this, maybe its there year to win.

I saw this preview for Revolutionary Road last night at the movies. I can not wait to see it. I have the book as well and I love it.

Thanks, Peter,..

as a new movie blogger, being mentioned on one of the biggest movie blogs on the interweb, slashfilm, is a pretty cool thing :) means a lot


Keep up the good work..

I'm quite interested in seeing this...

Sam Mendes is awesome and can do no wrong.

I'm happy to see this movie is shaping up to be quite a winner. I must say it's one of the few trailers for a dramatic film I've seen this year where I haven't felt like it's a few dudes gunning for an Oscar.

hahahahahahahaha that looks awful!

IT WAS AWFUL

Looks pretty great. Leo stood out in that trailer, as particularly wonderful. I'll see it for sure.

what's the song playing in the trailer?

wild is the wind-nina simone

I can hardly breath! You don't know how excited I am to see these 2 together again.!! I have been telling everyone about it. This may be the very first movie I see on opening weekend in my life. I cannot express to you how much I want to see this movie. I AM BREATHLESS I SAY!! BREATHLESS!!!!

Leo & Kate... Titanic...I saw it 4 times in the theater. And now this, Revolutionary Road. They are together again.... If you could only know how long I have WAITED for this to happen. Movies lately have sucked teribly, but this.. THIS I SAY!! will put an end to this time of mediocre crap! Bravo Kate! Bravo Leo! I will wait in yearning for you!!

I loved Sam Mendes' debut film "American Beauty" oh my god. And this has an echoing theme to his first film. I have yet to watch Road to Perdition.. and must read the book "Revolutionary Road" before December. =] yes! I'm looking forward to this... I am not exactly a movie fan... but I fell in-love with American Beauty and all its critical glory.

this movie looks great, of course Sam Mendes. his one of the best
no doubt that I'm gonna enjoy this movie

What? Did anyone actually read this book? It was awful! The perfect example of "...and then suddenly, NOTHING happened." The author sets up too many hypothetical situations and imaginary conversations that never take place. The reader is exposed to a pompous display of rhetoric about what someone MIGHT HAVE thought for pages on end. So, if somebody can actually sift through that mess, find a story, re-write it for film, and then be considered for award season...well, then he MUST be a genius. The actors obviously are going to have to portray emotions that just didn't exist in the book. Titanic doesn't even cross my mind when I see the trailer. Just dread.

I agree. Book should have been better, if you can through the endless descriptions of every minor thing.....you may get to understand the characters..I can even see the supporting cast being better understood..but the book wont go there..

Just finished seeing this movie. It was a complete waste of my time and money. Two self indulgent people from the 50's--mental illness (SHE was NUTS!!), he was a baby, Recipe for disaster. Kept waiting for something to happen and when it did, it was a relief because you then knew the movie was going to be over shortly. Ridiculous.

I can't wait to see this movie yall were so good together in the Titanic. I love yall guess well keep it up i can't wait.

just finished the book (two weeks and I'm a slow reader). like me, if you are in a happy marriage, you can laugh at (or pity) the characters. if you are in a normal marriage, this movie might scare you or considering most Americans, it would probably just sail right over your head ("our marriage isn't that bad, right honey? right?").


*SPOILER ALERT BELOW*



SK your comment is funny (and maybe proving my point above). the fact that nothing substantial materialized is kind of the whole point. get it? she never got to go to Europe. he never "found himself", unless you count finding yourself between another woman's breasts.

I think, in the end, it's a criticism of marriage. marriage as bondage is somewhat antithetical to our notions of freedom and liberty. it works until is doesn't, and then an affair or a divorce is just as sensible and romantic as marriage.

SK - Yeah, I read the novel. It was one of the finest works of the 20th Century. All of Richard Yates' novels deal with people realizing too late that the dreams they gave everything for were not what they wanted at all. If you're bitter about not getting the point of it, then don't see the movie. And don't watch the Oscars. Revolutionary Road will absolutely win Best Picture and Best Actor. Probably win four others along the way. My thanks go out to Kate Winslet for pulling this project together when so many said it could not be done.

It doesnt look exciting.
But ill go see it cuz im in love with leonardo.
Kate i could do without. they couldve starred claire danes, if they wanted hype (just) over the actors.
the titanic 2: if jack survived comment was the most hilarious thing ive ever read.
and if someone doesnt want to see this movie because theyre getting married and think its frightening..dont get married. If a movies going to scare you...youre not secure enough yet.
Dun dun dun.
-Kate

Though the book was seemingly (okay very) depressing, it's depiction of the effects of mass-production, convention, and gentrification on 1950's booming society was, imo, very profound and well-written. It is NOT merely about a testimony on the institution of marriage, and in fact...I would suffice to say, doesn't really really at the root have much to do with marriage within itself.

It's about having dreams of what you think you want, going with what you think you want, and finding the opposite or just being so confused PERIOD of what you think you want..so perhaps...NEED and individuality. I think that Yates used marriage and love and home and family and corporate job...the INSTITUTIONS that drive us...negatively and positively.
Indeed, it was more prevalent in that time period. Can you imagine the difference? However, what makes this story a great work of literature is that is has a timeless quality...
Hence, the reaction of not seeing the movie for its take on marriage..for its supposed "boring" ness. Did it ever occur to you that the fact that NOTHING happened was the point?

Mendes was great with American Beauty..he is following a path with this particular subject..and I like it. I am NOT dismissing the opinions of others..I say read the book and dissect its every line. I say f boring.

I agree with SK. Watch the Oscars.

And the song is "Wild is the Wind" by Nina Simone.

and I think Kate Winslet is a great actress. This has nothing to do with Titanic but $$$. It's a hardcore film...Mendes made not only a great choice in actors, but knows he'll make a pretty penny from it, too. Do we blame him?

Lizzy, I just think marriage just happens to be the most absurd and irrational of the institutions you list there, and the single intersecting point of misery in the Wheelers' lives. Thus, it is the most obvious target (to me). And I'm happily married (but happily child-free).

What's more mass-produced and conventional than marriage?

And their marriage led to the other miseries (unwanted children, stationary location, boring stable job). They should have had a one-night stand.

Or maybe I'm arguing that getting that first decision right (who you spend the rest of your life with) will make or break your outlook on the other stations in life.

If you find this book boring, I say don't get married, or go get a divorce if you are.

ooppss. I didn't agree with SK. I agree with Brian. Ooops. typo. I do not think the book boring. that's why I stated "F" boring. My agrument is that there is more to the story than just highlighting marriage, although I do agree with you that it is the catalyst for off setting everything else in their life...coming down to core of their need of individuality, freedom...their ideals that were never met and may have never come to fruition regardless of marriage, babies, etc. The story almost seems to pull from "The Unbearable Lightness of Being" in that we make our choices, no do-overs..woulda shoulda coulda's and how to deal. Fantasy that never delivers...but I digress in ramble. derrr...

I'm not married. I'm not against marriage. I have no children. I love children. I just love how the book, and hopefully the film, delves into such institutions, dream and reality, want need, etc.

Needless to say, I'm very ready to see this flick. and re-read the book.

Leo and Kate can do no wrong. Two of the worlds best. 95% of the films they prefer to do deal with the 'tragic' side of human emotion. The toughest part to convey for any actor, as most actors cant even go there("method'). The roles they prefer also has an effect on them personally. And for those who can go there, thats the sign of a great actor(brando, dean). Academy bound, and not just for the sake of the academy. Its because they both have that special 'quality', as only great actors have.

Jonas Cord jr

This will be the greatest film we have all ever seen

The trailer was pretty good. The acting of the two Titanic stars, as usual was great! And it was so good to see kate and Leo back together on the screen after more than a decade. It was just like seeing a very good friends once again. It is going to be a massive hit! I think it,s high time for Kate and Leo to collect their own Oscars!

I like FEEL GOOD movies like Marley and Me but I may go see this anyway and hope I don't leave the theater feeling depressed?

I'm so hot and I'm cool and i'm the real thing xD

i cant wait to se see this movie!...i love them both...

I think most of the time people miss everything, that is the point. She wants that he wants this. And in the end. The end of anything that you choose, if you do not take part in it everyday, well it sucks!!! Even in Europe.

i cant wait to see this movie
i love titanic and ive seen it literally at least 15 times im so excited they paired up again! congrats leo and kate!!!!! <333333333333333333333333333

it's a movie folks, not your life. yes you can identify with the characters and take to heart that you understand their angst. but in the end, it's a work of fiction/art, it's a movie--not a life--not your life nor is it those you pity (after all those whom you are condescending to pity are living their lives, you're can only guess at the fullness of another's life, for you are not living it!)

I agree also. Typical sixties type of marriage structure...especially in "Urbana"..New York, NJ, Conn, Long Island...lots of opportunities, lots of houses, lots of dreams and ideologies...often to turn to the mundane day to day living that people then could not adjust to. They took it all for granted and thought.."Is this all there is..." Anyone who grew up like that (I did), understands this all too well. Families must have exceptional values and integrity and just good old plain guts to survive how many years together, children, sickness, infidelity, alcoholism, prescription pill abuse, loss of income, loss of love...the goals are difficult at best.

this was filmed somewhat down the street from my house. it was pretty cool being able to walk down the street and see this being filmed

This was a story about a woman who was bipolar and nothing more..pointless!