Hot Trailer: ‘The Lucky One’

COMMENTS (13)

• Zac Efron as a solider? Bahahahaha!

  Comment by dee123 — Friday December 9, 2011 @ 2:01am PST  Reply to this post

• Boring and predictable. Another one of those times when they showed whole movie in trailer. Another Charlie St. Cloud for Efron. What was he thinking when he sighed for that movie? His career is going nowhere. It will have some 6-7 million on opening weekend and then some 18-22 overall. If he will be lucky. It can end on $14 millions.

  Efron dreamed to become like his idol DiCaprio but he is just going nowhere. Romantic dramas? That looks like it should go straight to DVD like those Mandy Moore’s romantic dramas.

  Efron was very stupid when he decided that he is big enough movie star and that he is better then Footloose. Even with unknown lead actor it made $51 million at box-office. If Efron would stay in Footloose then all that success would be count as his success. It would prove that he can carry a movie. And he would have much more offers for bigger movies. Instead he decided to “grow up from musicals” as actor… and choose some silly romantic drama where he has one face expression throwout the whole movie…

  Comment by Shy — Friday December 9, 2011 @ 3:01am PST  Reply to this post

  • I don’t get Efron’s career choices either. He’s likeable and a decent actor and he’s giving in to the predictable, hearthrob roles that so easily get thrown at him. Imagine if Ryan Gosling had continued the Nicholas Sparks route after The Notebook? Luckily he was smart and moved away from those kinds of roles and look at him now. Even Robert Pattinson who is mainly known for Twilight and has legions of female fans, is staying far away from cookie cutter teen roles and is working with the likes of David Cronenberg. This is what Efron should be doing.

    Comment by Lisa — Friday December 9, 2011 @ 8:17am PST  Reply to this post

    • Efron should be moving back to TV while he still has any cachet. He has Peter Pan face, which doesn’t age well and is usually repellent to male audiences.

      Comment by Erica — Friday December 9, 2011 @ 1:27pm PST  Reply to this post

• Now I know why Effron was the seventh choice for this film. His delivery feels bizarrely stiff and off key.

  Comment by Jeff G — Friday December 9, 2011 @ 6:20am PST  Reply to this post

  • I was thinking just plain “wooden”. But a lot of the responsibility has to fall on the director. Unless the rules have changed, isn’t the director supposed to coax a decent performance out of his or her actors?

    Comment by Agreed — Friday December 9, 2011 @ 9:00am PST  Reply to this post

    • You have a point. Then again, I never saw Scott Hicks as a “hands on” kind of director, which is probably what Effron needs. Because that trailer, in my opinion, is full of blown takes.

      Also, to be fair, Effron has potential, but this trailer does not make him look good.

      Comment by Jeff G — Friday December 9, 2011 @ 12:55pm PST  Reply to this post

• Efron’s last 3 movie choices have been dismal

  Comment by T — Friday December 9, 2011 @ 9:51am PST  Reply to this post

• I share a name but that’s not enough to make me want to see this shlock fest. Sorry but i can’t see him as anything but High School Musical Disney boy. I just can’t buy him as a man. Sorry Zac

  Comment by zac — Friday December 9, 2011 @ 9:57am PST  Reply to this post

• WTF is up with that accent?

  Comment by wtf — Friday December 9, 2011 @ 10:14am PST  Reply to this post

• Who needs to buy a ticket. The trailer just showed us the whole movie.

  …..not that I was going to buy a ticket anyway.

  Comment by Rich — Friday December 9, 2011 @ 12:10pm PST  Reply to this post

• Sounds like you’re not giving him much of a chance….easy to attack without seeing the movie. He’s been mixing it up with new movies coming. Zac has talant and charisma. The paperboy and Heartland one coming look great.

  Comment by kate — Friday December 9, 2011 @ 2:33pm PST  Reply to this post

• I wouldn’t worry about Zac Efron’s career. This might not have the staying power of the Notebook, but that has never hurt Goslings career. I don’t think anyone can say the Sparks movies are dead ends…

  Comment by kf — Sunday December 11, 2011 @ 5:09pm PST  Reply to this post