Kirsten Dunst and Jim Sturgess star in Upside Down as two young people who fall in love. However they must be kept apart because he’s ordinary and not upside down. Poor fella. The heart wants what the heart wants. Guess you can say that he’s head over heels in love.

Question: When it rains in the inverted world and the ground gets really wet, do the corpses fall out of their graves and rain on the right side up world? Because that’s gross.

Personally, I don’t even like walking to the TV when I can’t find the remote, let alone across a tundra, desert, and over mountains. But I guess that’s what seperates me from the Ed Harrises and Jim Sturgesses of the world. In this new trailer for Peter Weir‘s The Way Back, we follow a group of soldiers imprisoned in Siberia.

Deciding that prison sucks because it’s too cold and they’re tired of watching one another sh*t, they team up to escape. And then they walk really far. Through the Arctic, the Gobi desert, and over the Himilayas. Why though? Was the prison really looking that hard for them after a few days of searching? They probably could have just moved a few towns over and grown mustaches. Dummies.

Walk it out after the jump…

Director Peter Weir is back with The Way Back, another tale of epic proportions. The film stars Jim Sturgess, Colin Farrell, and Ed Harris, and tells of prisoners escaping from a Soviet gulag who have to brave the harsh elements to get back home.

We’ve seen survival stories such as this dozens of times, but Weir usually never disappoints. I’m big fan of The Truman Show, Master and Commander, and of course Dead Poets Society. The Way Back doesn’t feature a bearded and dramatic Robin Williams, mind you, but I’ll check it out anyway.

The Way Back opens December 29th in Los Angeles to make the Oscar cut, and then rolls out across the rest of the country in January.

Check out the trailer below.

The Way Back – Trailer
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Director: Peter Weir

Cast: Colin Farrell, Ed Harris, Jim Sturgess, Saorise Ronan

Synopsis: A fact-based story centered on soldiers who escaped from a Siberian gulag in 1940.

Release Date: December 29, 2010

Director: Zack Snyder

Cast: Emilie de Ravin,Jim Sturgess, Geoffrey Rush, Abbie Cornish, Rachel Talylor

Synopsis: Soren, a young barn owl, is kidnapped by owls of St. Aggie’s, ostensibly an orphanage, where owlets are brainwashed into becoming soldiers. He and his new friends escape to the island of Ga’Hoole, to assist its noble, wise owls who fight the army being created by the wicked rulers of St. Aggie’s. The film is based on the first three books in the series.

Release Date: Septembe 24, 2010