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I think pretty much everyone is on board with the idea of a new Muppets movie. So I’m not going to waste a lot of time trying to convince you how awesome it will be. I’ll just leave this new trailer here for your enjoyment.
That said, I sincerely hope that The Muppets is successful and that it leads to a brand new Muppet Show. Because if there’s one thing America needs right now, it’s a new Muppet Show.
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I guess they decided to call the movie This Means War because “Cockblockers” would have been a little too on the nose, eh?
Okay, okay. I’ll give them some credit. A romantic comedy that can mix in explosions will probably get a pass in my book. But, more specifically, any movie that calls Chelsea Handler and “old man” as least has a sense of humor about itself.
I’m not entirely sure why Reese Witherspoon would lower herself to something like this, though. The trailer makes her out to be a complete airhead, which is kind of contrary to the refined persona she’s cultivated up to this point.
I guess we’ll have to wait and see how it turns out. What are your reactions to This Means War? Leave your comments below!
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It’s probably not fair to call Pixar’s new movie Brave “Scottish Mulan,” but I the comparison leaps immediately to mind.
Okay, okay. So Mulan wasn’t a princess, or whatever. But you know where I’m coming from.
Would you feel better if I said it looked like it was mining the same territory as
I feel like I’m being disproportionally harsh on Brave and without just cause. Maybe it’s some kind of tic I’ve developed from being a Pixar fanboy for the last 15 years. I’m pretty much 100% positive that Brave will be awesome, so perhaps this is just an exercise in expressing my contrarian underpinnings.
Either way, you should probably watch the trailer – because it’s pretty awesome and I can’t wait to see it and omiGAWD!…
*faints*
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When G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra came out in 2009, I wanted to like it, but it was basically a live-action cartoon. Granted, when Channing Tatum is the lead, that pretty much happens by default. But, overall the movie was just too goofy.
Case in point:
But today, Paramount has released the first trailer for G.I. Joe: Retaliation and the result seems a little more… grown up.
First of all, any movie that draws Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson away from Disney kiddie movies automatically gets my approval. And from what we can see in this trailer, he appears to be in full bad-ass mode.
Second, it really seems like the sequel has done a good job of eliminating the elements from the first movie that didn’t work. Sienna Miller and Marlon Wayans, I’m looking at you. Or, rather, I guess I’m NOT looking at you!
Lastly… OMG – they’re going to give Snake Eyes something to DO?
I’m feeling… strangely optimisitic about G.I. Joe: Retaliation. What’s your take? Leave your comments below!
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Yesterday the trailer for Rock of Ages came out and I was sufficiently underwhelmed. I pretty much tuned out the minute the title card read “From the director of Hairspray.” That is, unless their talking about John Waters.
Spoiler Alert: They’re not.
I know the appeal of Rock of Ages is supposed to rest on the car crash appeal of watching Tom Cruise slum it a little bit. He rarely does comedy, so it should be fun to watch him flail around for a bit, right?
Let me tell you right now that I saw a touring production of Rock of Ages earlier this year and it is easily the most mindless two hours I’ve ever spent in a theater. Basically, it was a bunch of singers and dancers performing in a show FAR below their ability, singing karaoke versions of Whitesnake songs.
Don’t get me wrong. I love that music. But that’s not a show. There’s no story here. If I’m going to sit through a “musical,” I want at least ONE original song, ‘kay?
By the way, what the hell is going on with that “We’re Not Gonna Take It” / “We Built This City On Rock and Roll” mash-up at the end. More importantly, why the hell is “We Built This City” showing up in so many trailers this year? It was in the first trailer for The Muppets as well.
It’s even on the soundtrack.
Don’t most intelligent people consider “We Built This City” to be one of the worst recorded songs ever? Blender and VH1 did in 2004. A 2011 readers poll in Rolling Stone concluded the same thing. Evidently Bernie Taupin is blackmailing Warner Bros. and Disney executives with some rather incriminating information.
What’s your reaction to Rock of Ages? Fun-time musical or limp noodle nostalgia trip? Leave your comments below!
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The first trailer for The Expendables 2 came out yesterday. It’s so manly, I want to run my fingers through its chest hair.
For a big action movie, this trailer’s a little week. Just a buncha name. Then again, it’s a teaser trailer and the actual movie doesn’t come out until August 17, so what do you want?
It’s funny that I bristle at stunt casting in movies like Valentine’s Day and New Year’s Eve. But I’m TOTALLY okay with a movie that stars Sylvester Stallone, Bruce Willis, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Chuck Norris, Jean-Claude Van Damm, Dolph Lundgren, Jet Li, Terry Crews, Randy Couture, and Liam Hemsworth.
Okay, maybe not Hemsworth. I can take him or leave him.
Actually, I think I’m probably most excited about seeing Dolph Lundgren on screen. Yeah, I know he was in the first one. I just love that crazy Swede!
Who’s YOUR favorite Expendable? Leave your comments below!
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A few months ago, the teaser for Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance -ahem- lit the internet on fire with it’s depiction of a gleeful Johnny Blaze urinating napalm over some unsuspecting victims. This time Nicholas Cage and his crazy wigs are back with a new trailer.
It’s a lot more plot-heavy and serious in tone than the first one. I don’t know if I’m on board with it, or not. Especially now that I know that rescuing a kid from becoming the Anti-Christ is the main plot point.
It looks a little euro-trashy, doesn’t it? If I’m not mistaken, they did a lot of filming in Romania.
But you know what? The action scenes look sick. Speed. Power. Authority. Those were the words that kept coming to mind for me while I was watching this. Whoever decided to give the Rider that charred look hit the nail on the head. I’d rather the film be trashy but serious instead of trashy and goofy like the first one.
What’s your take on the least-likely superhero movie sequel since Rise of the Silver Surfer? Leave your comments below!
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If you missed the new trailer for The Dark Knight Rises yesterday, you must have been in a coma or trapped under a heavy boulder. In that case, welcome back to society! You should probably watch this right now.
I don’t know if there’s much that I can add to the commentary swirling around this new trailer. The internet is dissecting it six ways from Sunday at the moment. But I will say this…
Give Michael Caine the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor right now. Oh, I know he’ll never get it. He’ll never be nominated. But the way he delivered that line about protecting Bruce… I don’t know. It’s the one part of the trailer I keep watching over and over again. Even more than the football field collapsing.
What was your favorite moment from the new trailer? Leave your comments below!
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Late last night the first part of the two-part prequel to Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings trilogy – and Dear Lord, that’s a mouthful. I present the teaser trailer to The Hobbit.
At first blush, I get a distinct “gettin’ the band back together” vibe coming off this thing. Maybe that’s to be expected since Ian McKellen, Andy Serkis, Hugo Weaving, Cate Blanchett, Christopher Lee, Ian Holm, Elijah Wood and Orlando Bloom will all be reprising their roles from the LotR movies.
I know when I saw the title card reading “Next December…” I was taken aback. Mostly because it seems like a long way off to start an advertising campaign. But, when you consider that The Fellowship of the Ring first premiered in theaters almost a decade earlier, I can kind of understand wanting to capture that symmetry of time.
I was also struck by the sheer amount of footage they managed to cobble together for the trailer. With a year to go, it makes me wonder how much effect work is left to lay in? I’m sure WETA’s render farm will be overclocked in 2012.
What’s your reaction to the new trailer for The Hobbit? Personally, I’m a little underwhelmed. It feels like more of the same to me. But then again, I like the idea of revisiting these characters and hanging out with them again for a little while.
Good times, man. Good times.
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Earlier in the week, Fox released a teaser video promoting the soon-to-be released trailer for the Alien prequel Prometheus. That’s a bit of unconventional marketing. Basically taking the teaser aspect of promotion out of the hands of Entertainment Tonight, or what have you. It made me excited to watch the first trailer and write about it here.
Then I watched it.
The trailer isn’t bad, really. I just had a hard time latching on to it – I think because of how the title card came up so slowly in front of the rapid, flickering images from the film.
Maybe it was a clever tactic to get people to pour over every frame and study the trailer like an ancient text. I just don’t have the time for that kind of stuff, man.
Luckily, Movieline does. They posted 50 stills from the trailer that you probably want to check out.
I’ll be honest… looking at those stills made me more excited for Prometheus than watching the trailer did.
What was your reaction to the Prometheus trailer? Leave your comments below!
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