When I used iTunes for the first time I was disappointed that it didn’t have a preview feature. Then I figured out by simply double-clicking the title (or referenced song) iTunes would stream a 30-second preview.

“Duh”, I thought, “It would be foolish for Apple to not include a preview feature. Think about all the potential sales that would be lost because the user wasn’t sure if they liked the song or not.”

In the recent build of iTunes, version 4.5 in fact, Apple now includes movie trailers. Last night I found the trailer for the upcoming Steven Spielberg/Tom Hanks flick ‘The Terminal‘.

As reported by countingdown.com:

>The Terminal tells the story of Viktor Navorski (Tom Hanks), a visitor to New York from Eastern Europe, whose homeland erupts in a fiery coup while he is in the air en route to America. Stranded at Kennedy Airport with a passport from nowhere, he is unauthorized to actually enter the United States and must improvise his days and nights in the terminal.

Impressed by the trailer I shared it with my inlaws who agreed that it looked like a good movie. However after sharing it with my wife she wasn’t as impressed as I was. After prodding her for the reason, she swiftly replied “I’m not convinced Tom Hanks could be a foreigner.”

Hanks has made out with a mermaid and a bull mastiff. He’s lived near a cannabilistic cult and has shared screen time with a volcano and a volleyball.

How on earth can he not be convincing in whatever role he embodies?

Whatever the case, it’s Spielberg so count me in.

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