A while back I posted a few movie stills of the upcoming film, Splice. Which at the time was still making its rounds in the film festival circuit, trying to gain attention and distribution. Now the movie is slated for a nation wide movie release and I couldn’t be more excited about it! The movie sounds like something from a cliche SyFy original movie, but it has the artistry and talent to make it work. Well, that is what the movie looks like so far…

We will have to wait for it to hit theaters to actually judge the movie for ourselves. So until then check out these cool Splice movie posters, which are SOOOOO much better than the current poster I am seeing around movie theaters. Seriously, that poster is bad and needs to be replaced with any of the current movie posters displayed in this post.

Check out the movie posters in the full post!

Splice is directed by Vincenzo Natali and stars Adrien Brody and Sarah Polley. Look for it in theaters June 4, 2010.

                          

No no no, the trailer itself is not 3d. The movie is titled Piranha 3D. Although it would be awesome if a 3D trailer was made. I think we have a pair of 3D sun glasses in our homes that was swiped from our local theater or theme park. Well, I do at least.

So Piranha 3D is the 3rd installment in the Piranha series. This sequel isn’t taking it self seriously by any means, which is a great thing because the campyness is what makes this movie look so appealing.

I am still waiting for my super campy ‘The Kraken!’ movie to be made, but I have a feeling Piranha 3D will be a nice fill in that will have some reply value. Even better yet, a sequel titled “Kraken vs Mega Piranha”. Yeah, that would be sweet.

Check out the trailer in the full post.

Piranha 3D Movie Trailer

Piranha 3D stars Elisabeth Shue, Steven R. McQueen, Adam Scott, Ving Rhames, Richard Dreyfuss, Christopher Lloyd, and Jerry O’Connell. Directed by Alexandre Aja. Look for it in theaters August 27, 2010.

                          

Looking for some high res movie stills from The Last Airbender? We took a little over 90 photos from the HD trailer for your viewing pleasure.

Check out the full post to see the massive gallery. Enjoy!

PS. Thanks to you guys at lastairbenderfans.com / user “word???” for spreading these pics.

                          

M. Night Shyamalan was saving some good stuff for this apparent “last” trailer. Although I am betting we will see a few TV spots with seconds of new footage coming out sooner or later.  This latest trailer is dare I say… epic? I don’t like to use that word, but the action sequences in this trailer have me giddy like a school girl driving to the mall to get her jr. prom dress. Wow, that was too descriptive. Eerrrr…. just watch the trailer!

Trailer in the full post.

The Last Airbender Movie Trailer

The Last Airbender stars Noah Ringer, Nicola Peltz, Jackson Rathbone, Dev Patel, and Cliff Curtis. Directed by M. Night Shyamalan. See it in theaters July 2, 2010.

                          

A little history / background lesson. The Losers is based off of the Vertigo comic book series of the same name. Published from 2003 to 2006, the series was actually a reboot of the original ‘Losers’ comic book series that took place during World War II.

While ‘The Losers’ is not the most familiar comic book series to your average mainstream movie goer, it does contain all the right ingredients to be a very entertaining movie if translated correctly, so I am pleased that Dark Castle Entertainment was able to look beyond the lack of mainstream popularity this comic has, and actually take a risk at developing ‘The Losers’ into a wide release main stream movie.

The Good: While the action in the movie was quite entertaining and never felt dull, it was the men pulling the triggers that made the movie worth watching for me. All the characters provide a diversity of relatable and desirable personalities that the audience will sure to have fun watching interact with one another.

My favorite character being Jensen (who is played by Chris Evans), the comic relief of the movie who’s both equally smart, cool, and a big dork. Also, he has a cross bow.

One thing that marketing of the movie made me a bit scared of was the focus of the heroine in the movie, Aisha al-Fadhil who is played by Zoe Saldana. The trailers for the movie seemed to focus heavily on a lot of slow motion shots of Aisha looking sexy and being an overall kick ass character. While that character type is fine, I didn’t want a repeat of Inglorious Basterds, where the band of brothers that we came to see get pushed aside for another set of characters we didn’t come to see. Luckily for me, Aisha get’s just enough screen time and The Losers stay the main focus of the movie.

The action sequences are good and plenty, the characters are fun and diverse, and the plot only has a few tiny holes that can be easily overlooked.

The Bad: The biggest downfall of the movie is the lack of high moments. The movie hits the ground running and doesn’t ever slow down for too long, but there were only 1 or 2 small scenes that had me grinning ear to ear. It just lacked that spark. Basically, there is nothing in the movie that makes worth watching again. It’s a great movie, but nothing sticks out as being fantastic.

My other issue with the movie was the villain, Max. Sure the filmmakers did a great job of making us hate him, but that is it. He has no depth, and ultimately, the audience never gets to see him properly “get what’s coming to him” if you get my drift. I’ll leave it at that.

Overall ‘The Losers’ is a fun movie that is definitely worth watching. Nothing original is presented, and the characters are all taken from many other works of fiction, but that doesn’t keep it from being enjoyable.

The Losers gets a 3/5

The Losers Movie Trailer

                          

It’s been a while since we featured a short film here so I figured this would be a great time to throw up this little gem on the home page.

The synopsis describes the short as this
“In the near future, when global warming, ozone depletion and uncontrolled corporate pollutants have decimated our planet, individual environmental clean-up units, known as Trackers, scour the earth in a never ending quest to purge the planet of these bio hazardous materials.”

It sort of reminds me of Wall-E… but with a better message. You’ll understand after watching it. The film is only about 5 and half minutes long, so just watch it!

                          

Two weeks ago I drove out to Orlando to attend Florida’s largest otaku convention, Megacon. Celebrating everything from anime to comics and even video games. Megacon is a much smaller scale convention compared to that San Diego Comic-Con, but there is something about that small scale of Megacon that makes it almost, if not better than Comic-Con. You can be more sociable with people. There is just something in the air that makes everyone a little friendlier.

Instead of dressing up in my Tank costume, I decided to take just my camera instead. Interested to see the pictures I took? No problem. You can check my massive gallery in the full post.

                          

Derm it! Just when I thought it was safe to take a week off to do some back end work on the site, two new awesome movie trailers come out that demand posting.
One of which is the latest trailer for Iron Man 2.

The trailer seems to be an extension of the first trailer, showcasing some before and after of scenes showed in the previous trailer. Check out the trailer in the full post along with some of my speculative thoughts.

Second Iron Man 2 Movie Trailer

Ok, so majority of the press photos and trailer showed Mickey Rourke’s character, Whiplash, only on the race track. This concerned me because I was worried he might not have that much screen time and I am really wanting to see some epic Iron Man vs Whiplash action. Now after seeing this trailer I have come to the conclusion that Whiplash will probably upgrade to a piece of Iron Man-like armor provided by Sam Rockwell’s character, Justin Hammer (whom you see in the trailer praising Whiplash in front of the private jet). I am guessing the movie studio is keeping Whiplash’s battle armor out of the public eye until the movie is just about to hit theaters.

Sorry for the late delivery. I will be back on schedule next week.

Iron Man 2 hits theaters May 7, 2010.

                          

I don’t know. Maybe I am just being pissy today and taking it out on this innocent owl movie. But I do recognize that the artistry in this movie is pretty bad ass. I’ll call off my aggression and wait until I see the movie in theaters before I decide to publicly shit on or endorse the movie.

The movie is adapted from the popular book series, Guardians of Ga’Hoole.

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. ~IMDB

Check out the trailer in the full post.

Legend of the Guardians Movie Trailer

Legends Of The Guardians is directed by Zack Synder (director of 300 and Watchmen). Starring in the movie is Jim Sturgess, Geoffrey Rush, Emilie de Ravin, Ryan Kwanten, Hugo Weaving, Sam Neill, and Helen Mirren. All of whom painfully shape shifted into warrior owls for the sake of their craft. That’s what we call method acting. Take that, Daniel Day Lewis!

Look for it in theaters September 24, 2010.

                          

Ok! From here on out, I will no longer be talking about how low my expectations were for The Karate Kid remake. I am done! Wait… didn’t I say that last time? Whatevs. This new trailer for The Karate Kid is just as awesome as the original. Nay. Even better! The larger  focus on training in this trailer makes the movie even more appealing. Folks, I am really looking forward to seeing this movie. GO, KARATE KID! GO!

Trailer in the full post.

The Karate Kid Movie Trailer

I had an interesting thought about the process of making this film. In particular, the choreography. Jackie Chan’s character in the movie is training Jaden Smith’s character how to fight. So essentially, a fight choreographer had to train Jackie Chan to train Jaden Smith how to fight. That’s kinda funny, isn’t it?

The Karate Kid hits theaters June 11, 2010.