Hawaii-Based Film Trailer Released

‘ALOHA’ TRAILER REVIEW BY METRO CREW

The trailer for Cameron’s Crowe’s highly anticipated (and months delayed) latest film, Aloha, finally debuted earlier this month. Filmed here on Oahu, Aloha centers around Brian Gilcrest (Bradley Cooper), a military weapons contractor who returns to Hawaii to oversee a satellite launch. There, he runs into his old girlfriend (Rachel McAdams) and maybe begins to fall for his new co-worker (Emma Stone). It doesn’t come out until May, but we got so excited about the trailer release that we had to watch it now. We love Cameron Crowe, but we can’t help but think that things look a perhaps a little played out here. Aloha will be released May 29. >>

JAIMIE: The best part about the entire trailer is Bill Murray wearing a haku.

NICOLE: Alec Baldwin screaming “Mr. Sexypants” made my morning.

CHRISTINA: I am excited because it is Cameron Crowe. But then, it looks like it might rehash some of his old films — like Jerry Maguire and Elizabethtown — in that a troubled man finds a woman who turns his life around, the end.

JAMES: All of Cameron Crowe’s usual tropes are on display. Upbeat soundtrack. A guy in some life crisis. The girls who are all there right when they should be. The uplifting dialogue. When Bill Murray starts in about the future being a brutal force that will steamroll you if you’re not paying attention, I wanted Cuba Gooding Jr. to jump in and say, “Ya know? Baby? Ya know!?”

NICOLE: I mean, yay, it features Hawaii. But I’m not sure how it’ll compare to Jerry Maguire, Elizabethtown or Almost Famous.

JAIMIE: I like that the film looks like a story that takes place in Hawaii, versus a story about Hawaii. But I am still hesitant to believe that it won’t be stereotypical in some regard. Really, Cameron Crowe should have hired me to ensure his movie felt authentic. Cameron Crowe, you can still call me for final edits before the film debuts!

PAIGE: I probably wouldn’t have noticed if it weren’t for the lei at the airport. Nothing else seemed very Hawaii-like at all. They’re probably all still wearing their shoes inside the house and everything.

JAIMIE: I super love Cameron Crowe, but I don’t know how I feel about the trailer. I don’t know, I felt a little… under-whelmed? Maybe it’s just that I don’t really care for Bradley Cooper.

PAIGE: I thought this movie was supposed to be Bradley Cooper getting together with Rachel McAdams, and now I am devastated to see that it is not. Words cannot even describe the abyss of my disappointment. Great. Emma Stone. He’s just checking the starlets off his list.

JAIMIE: I don’t feel compelled to watch Bradley Cooper. I’ve seen movies that I like that he is in, but I never like him.

PAIGE: He was so good in Limitless! So beautiful. So everything.

JAMES: Cooper was good in American Sniper. But, here, he’s the typical Cameron Crowe character. All his actors play these types the same way, as people who are at the lowest point in their lives, but who know everything will be OK.

CHRISTINA: Also, why does (Crowe) frequently use that trope of having the woman who comes along to make everything OK? I feel like sometimes his female characters get stuck in the Manic Pixie Dream Girl role and he doesn’t explore them further.

JAMES: Every time I see Bill Murray pop out from behind a wall, I want someone to throw something at him and yell, “Get outta here, Bill Murray!”

JAIMIE: How can you even entertain the idea of wanting to throw something at Bill Murray? I want Bill Murray to adopt me.

JAMES: Bill Murray plays Bill Murray playing Bill Murray. When is he not Bill Murray? Name one movie in which he doesn’t play himself.

CHRISTINA: But it is such a good thing, why would we care? And maybe that is the case with Cameron Crowe’s films. It may be a bit formulaic now, but it mostly works.