Trailer Watch: Love and Other Drugs

Possibly being used as a way to kick off the Oscar Season of 2010, two trailers for director Edward Zwick's (he made 1989's Glory and recently Defiance with Daniel Craig) drama comedy Love and Other Drugs, which stars Jake Gyllenhall as a pharmaceutical salesman who meets his match in Maggie played by Anne Hathaway, but she has a dark secret of her own.

having watched the two trailers, the one that was the most recently released stood out, the first trailer made it look like last year's sleeper (500) Days of Summer which starred Joseph-Gordon Levitt (recently seen in Chris Nolan's Inception) and Zooey Deschanel as two lovers who see through each other while the second made it look like last year's The Time Traveller's Wife, which starred Eric Bana and Rachel McAdams as two lovers destined to be together only for one to die of an incurable disease.

With that out of the way, does it make me want to see the film; well no it doesn't, as the second trailer felt like you had seen the driving force of the film, something I don't like much at all and the first made it look like another romantic drama, but while the film has received mostly positive word from preview screenings, the final film may be different altogether, especially given 20th Century Fox's notorious pennant for micro managing their directors.

But the thing that concerns me most is that Hathaway is becoming a favourite with this role for the best actress Oscar next year, something that I feel would be a big mistake, Hathaway shows enormous potential as an actress despite the industry's attempts to pigeonhole her into rom-com roles, if she were to win the Oscar for this, I fear that it might permanently typecast her into this genre, something that would see her end up like most Oscar winners of recent years, my top comparison being Renee Zellweger who started off well but after she won for Cold Mountain, her career virtually went down the toilet.

Well that's that, a movie that I might catch down the track on Blu-Ray but doesn't inspire me with confidence, Zwick's track record is spotty at best ever since Glory but I could be wrong.