Posts Tagged ‘ Trailers ’

Just call it the franchise that won’t die: the trailer for the fifth installment in the Fast and Furious series has hit the internet.

This time out, returners Vin Diesel, Paul Walker, Jordana Brewster, Tyrese Gibson, Ludacris and Sung Kang are joined by Dwayne ‘not The Rock’ Johnson…

The sad thing is I remember when almost all of these guys looked like they were going to have promising careers. I haven’t actually seen a Fast and Furious since the first one (although I have heard good things about Tokyo Drift) and I doubt this is something I’ll make a beeline to see at the movies, but it may eventually pop up on Netflix I guess.

If nothing else, in twelve years time I can watch it with the nipper and explain to him that that’s what cars looked like before they could fly. Right?

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The trailer for the wholly unnecessary fourth movie in the Pirates of the Caribbean series has been released by Disney and will presumably be tacked onto Tron Legacy when it opens this weekend.

Personally, I think that the first trilogy wrapped itself up nicely, even if it got to the end through a series of increasingly incoherent plot points. Even so, it’s good to see Johnny Depp back as Captain Jack, and Penelope Cruz seems to continue Keira Knightley’s trend of being improbably well-groomed for living life on the high seas. Ian McShane is nicely gruff as Blackbeard, too, and I do believe that Keith Richards is in there somewhere too.

It’s also good to see Geoffrey Rush and Kevin McNally back as Barbossa and Gibbs respectively – I’d somehow completely missed their return. Babysitters allowing, I’m sure I’ll be seeing this next summer.

I know, it’s everywhere. Even so, it’s worth posting: the first official Thor trailer. Not like that unofficial longer one that did the rounds a few months ago and absolutely is not on my site in a hidden, password protected post.

No, sir.

Looks good – now, when can we get the first Captain America one?

…and once again there’s another great trailer.

I’ll say this for Fringe: it may be getting low ratings, it may be consigned to the Friday death slot next year, it may be densely plotted and unfriendly to the casual viewer – but, damn, is it firing on all cylinders creatively this season.

And, you know, you could always catch up on previous seasons by buying something through an Amazon link (whistles innocently)…

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The trailer for Cowboys and Aliens has also hit the internets, and I have to say – it looks a damn sight more enjoyable than the Green Lantern one to me which is odd given that the Cowboys and Aliens comic was terrible.

Harrison Ford appears to be channeling Tommy Lee Jones, oddly, and Daniel Craig has a face made for westerns and Olivia Wilde – well, she’s Olivia Wilde.

Sigh.

i know everyone else is posting it, but why not?

I’m iffy on this. I’m not keen on the costume’s ‘breathing’ look, Abin Sur looks terrible, and some of the tone seems a bit off – but overall it doesn’t look bad, exactly.

And at least Sinestro looks the part…

It’s Back to the Future‘s 25th anniversary in case you didn’t know – and the fantastic movie has enjoyed a limited rerelease in some places, although I haven’t been lucky enough to catch it myself.

As part of the celebrations, the Scream Awards 2010 include a cast reunion, and Michael J Fox has squeezed back into the Delorean for a familiar looking teaser…

And here’s the original…

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Nuff said.

Via io9 – the full Thor trailer from SDCC -and I take back every negative thing I said about the stills that were released. My faith in Kenneth Branagh looks not to be misplaced – because this looks amazing.

Annd…we’re done. The video has been removed at the request of Paramount.

The first trailer for Zack Snyder’s Sucker Punch has been released and – well, it looks pretty damn good actually.

Click on through for the trailer…

I heard about the Ferris Bueller/Fight Club theory a while ago (namely that Ferris is a Tyler Durden-esque figment of Cameron’s imagination), and now – via Slash/Film – a quite mindbending trailer has arrived.

You may never watch Ferris Bueller’s Day Off in quite the same way again.

While I like Let The Right One In quite a lot, I’m not as huge a fan of it as many are.

It’s the best vampire movie in recent memory, yes, but that’s damning with faint praise given that recent memory involves things like Twilight and Van Helsing. I’d go so far as to say it’s the best vampire flick since Near Dark, which is over 20 years old so I guess that’s saying something.

However, I don’t see the point of the remake, no matter how the trailer looks –

I understand the fact that this will get a wider audience as it’s in English and will be better distributed – but there seems to be very little new about this movie. It doesn’t seem to add anything to the original.

Weird housing complex? Check.
Snow on the ground? Check.
Hospital? Check.
Attack in tunnel? Check.
Swimming pool? Check.
Creepy kids? Check.

I’m probably just being cynical -after all the trailer itself is pretty good; still, nothing about this makes me want to see it now I’ve seen the original movie.

Unless of course it’s going to make a bigger deal out of Abby/Eli’s true sexuality. That would be interesting and take the movie to places that the original only hinted at – but as this is a mainstream US studio release, I can’t see that happening.

Even if I found the first half of the book deathly dull, I’m still looking forward to these movies – although I wish they were released a little closer together:

Alright, I haven’t read Warren Ellis’ Red, so I have no loyalty to it other than a begrudging expectation that it might be quite good – but I fully expect the movie to have been altered from the comic dramatically along the adaptation process anyway.

That said – this trailer’s awesome. It’s a fantastic cast – Bruce Willis, Helen Mirren (with big fucking guns!), Morgan Freeman, Mary Louise Parker, John Malkovich (who can be amazing or dreadful, depending on which John Malkovich shows up), Karl Urban, Richard Dreyfuss, Julian McMahon…like I said, it’s a fantastic cast and this has the potential to be a great movie.

And lord knows after the box office showings of The Losers (love the comic, still not seen it, still expect to like it) and Jonah Hex (love the comic, still not seen it, expect to hate it as the soulless bastardization of the genre that Wild Wild West only aspired to be), DC Entertainment need a hit with a lesser known property – so let’s hope this is it.

That’s more like it…although oddly I think I’m looking forward to The Losers more…

I can’t decide if this looks terrible or awesome. Or both.

Also, is it wrong that Stallone’s face is really beginning to disturb me? Whatever work he’s had done, it hasn’t aged particularly well.

I’m almost certain this will be a huge disappointment but in the meantime can I just pretend this is going to be as awesome as I hope it will be, solely on the basis that Walton Goggins appears to have inherited the traditional Bill Paxton role as ‘tall smart mouthed southerner’?

War Machine.

Black Widow.

Nick Fury.

Justin Hammer.

Suitcase armor.

Almost the silver centurion armor.

What’s not to like?

Well, maybe Mickey Rourke still…

Huh. Who’d'a thunk it?

This actually looks like it might be good.

Val posted a trailer for this on her blog this morning – but I had to post something too because…

…well…

…WHAT THE HELL?

There’s a place for this kind of movie. There is. I like the place that movies like this hold. I like dumb, funny slapstick, and throw in what you could, with tongue-in-cheek, refer to as a high concept in there and I’m good.

But there’s a way these things work. There are rules about who should be in movies like this.

Rob Corddry, Chevy Chase, that guy from The Office and Clark Duke, all fine.

Crispin Glover? Sure, you can get some Back to the Future references out of that.

Party Down‘s Lizzie Caplan? Okay, I guess.

Kate Walsh? Uh, okay…

But John Cusack?

John Cusack?

John Cusack?

John Cusack?

John Cusack?

Oh, John…