I understand why a studio exec might decide to greenlight a romantic comedy-adventure starring Matthew McConaughey and Kate Hudson. After all, their last outing, How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days, was a pretty big box-office hit. But with all due respect to Rob Base & DJ E-Z Rock, it takes more than two (bankable stars) to make a thing go right. At the very least, you also need a witty screenwriter, and a skilled director — elements seem that appear to be missing from the trailer for Fool’s Gold.
I know, I know…you don’t want to watch this mess. But just like one might try to make overcooked lima beans seem more palatable by smothering them with melted Velveeta, let’s turn this moment into a game of sorts. Watch the Fool’s Gold trailer right this instant, then report back to your fellow PopWatchers: How many times did it make you laugh*.
I’ll get us started: Zero! Quick, your turn!
(*Small chuckles count; half-grins and pained gasps do not.)
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Ugh! I’ll wait till it shows up on TBS so I can laugh at the Bud Light commericals.
Hey, you’re right. I didn’t laugh once. Makes me feel bad for the editor who had to go through the motions of cobbling this trailer together out of the footage he was given.
Sorry, no laughs, chuckles, guffaws or giggles here. Although I did smile when Donald Sutherlin delivered his dead pan line. But hey, he’s always gold to me…
made me want to play GuitarHero2
and yeah didnt laugh…how bout Matthew M. and Kate H. go back to playing serious roles like in “Almost Famous” ..i cant even remember Matthew’s last serious role
A couple of half-grins, but no laughs.
I sometimes wonder how on earth these movies get the green light……
This is kind of embarassing but I would probably go watch that with a couple of girlfriends on a boring weekend.
One good chuckle.
But only because the song made me think of “SOS” by the Jonas Brothers and then I thought of the AMAs and that one kid falling during his performance. And that, folks, is comedy.
Martha’s reaction: no grins, chuckles, or laughs, just that look of vaguely pained puzzlement whenever I see a trailer of warmed-over pap that the Hollywood geniuses obviously want me to see. Can you see the greenlight meeting? “It’ll be “Raiders” meets “The Philadelphia Story,” only with a hot barely legal babe!” Too bad Donald Sutherland got caught in the crossfire.
Oh, the horror…
Not even so much as a grin.
Half smile at the Playstation comment. My 10 year old keeps telling me that he’s improving his hand/eye coordination by playing for hours. I should tell him about the potential plane-flying skills he’s also picking up….
exactly zero times…
I’m sad.. it’s bad
Zero laughs. Best thing about the trailer is the Police song, and even it feels kind of dirty now. Poor Kate and Matthew. And Donald.
Zero…once again…who ever decided that Matthew McConaughey was funny???
Why does Kate Hudson keep doing this crap? She was so good in Almost Famous, but that was a long time ago. Matthew “T-Rex Arms” McConaughey is just plain annoying.
Ok… Kate Hudson’s career must really be in the crapper if she couldn’t find a better movie to make other than this.
Zero, zero laughs. What a waste of Donald Sutherland. We should be counting cringes. Kate Hudson gets her nut guard (see nut guard popwatch) from Almost Famous, but it is wearing sooo thin. Why is it impossible to make a good rom/com these days? I’ve had it with McConaughey. He now has to pay me to watch his “movies”. (I was trying to be polite, but I think a swift kick to the nuts might be called for after this.)
I think I got negative laughs. Like, it killed some comedy that once lived inside me. I totally agree with WH, and would add that MM’s Dazed and Confused nutguard is wearing MIGHTY thin as well.
I can’t even make it through half of the trailer because of how grimacingly unfunny it was. I don’t understand why Kate Hudson keeps getting roles . . .
Count me as a ZERO…But, on the ‘good’ side, we’ve pretty much seen the entire movie in this trailer -does anyone think they WONT find the treasure? that they WONT get back together and live happily ever after with millions…maybe they even buy the yacht that Donald Sutherland owns…I think that we’ve seen all we need to….move on…
does raising your eyebrows count?
Honestly, I think this should just get dummed down a bit so it can be a disney movie. And I am appaled at the use of “Message in a Bottle.” What did The Police ever do to them?
Why does Kate Hudson continue to play “smart” people? In How to Lose a Guy, she went to Columbia. In this one, she’s going to get a Ph.D.? WTF.
Count me as a zero.
I knew it wouldn’t be funny the second I saw, “From the director of Hitch”. Zero laughs at that film, and in this trailer.
Why would you do this to us, Ray Winstone? Why?
Not one single laugh, chuckle or part of a smile. Why is it whenever a couple’s passion overcomes them they start kissing and moving all over the place, knocking stuff over, losing their balance, etc……Does that really happen?
I havenot laughed that hard since the trailer for Failure to Launch…in other words, I did not laugh.
They did this movie so they could spend 5 months in Hawaii. God, this looks awful. Zero laughs, just a painful grimace throughout the trailer. Why has Matthew McConaughey resorted to playing a stupid schmuck in every movie? I thought he had better range than this based off A Time to Kill… But that was 10 years ago… I guess it’s the paychecks and again, Hawaii
No laughs, no chuckles, no grins. I did spend some time feeling bad for Donald Sutherland, Ray Winstone and The Police.
P.S. Matthew McConaughey’ hasn’t been funny since Dazed & Confused. And that was his first film.
None – that’s 0.0 times. I almost quirked my lips when he said he learned how to fly a plane from plane station and Kate Hudson realized she was about to die, but somehow, I refrained. I don’t know why the makers of this trailer thought anyone would laugh, since there were not any jokes (or seemingly even any attempted jokes) on display. It was more like shirtless MMc, stuff exploding, blondie, bikini, exasperation…
I laughed during the whole trailer. It was so bad that it was funny. (Finals week is coming up and I needed a good chuckle.) Sorry, but that’s just how I am.