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.
Perhaps it’s the use of the song “Kings and Queens” (which ironically enough starts off with the sound of an eagle) by 30 Seconds to Mars that makes this trailer seem a little off to me. The song is played with a very hopeful, inspirational vibe, but I can’t get over that I am watching a trailer for a movie about birds. Owls, to be exact. Like, if these were humans, I could totally buy into it, and I would probably be in to see the movie. But it’s a movie about legendary owls who only seem to fly in the rain, or when the sun is setting. You know… to make it all the more touching.
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
The trailer for Christina Ricci’s latest movie, After.Life, has popped up online. The movie actually finished production back in December of 2008, but it is just now about to hit theaters in the United States in April (9th).
Synopsis:
After a horrific car accident, Anna (Christina Ricci) wakes up to find the local funeral director Eliot Deacon (Liam Neeson) preparing her body for her funeral. Confused, terrified, and feeling still very much alive, Anna doesn’t believe she’s dead, despite the funeral director’s reassurances that she is merely in transition to the afterlife. Eliot convinces her he has the ability to communicate with the dead and is the only one who can help her. Trapped inside the funeral home, with nobody to turn to except Eliot, Anna is forced to face her deepest fears and accept her own death. But Anna’s grief-stricken boyfriend Paul (Justin Long) still can’t shake the nagging suspicion that Eliot isn’t what he appears to be. As the funeral nears, Paul gets closer to unlocking the disturbing truth, but it could be too late; Anna may have already begun to cross over to the other side. ~IMDB
Check out the movie trailer for After.Life in the full post. Caution: The word “dead” is said in trailer almost a million times. Literally… kinda… not really. But still, literally almost a billion times .
After watching this second trailer for Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, I am convinced of two things:
1. This movie will be as intelligent as a lobotomized inbred goat,
2. That doesn’t matter because there will be enough visual distractions and epic action sequences to keep my mind too occupied to notice the lack of an intelligent plot.
Luckily for me, I never got to play any of the Prince of Persia video games in which this movie is based off of. So I won’t have anything to hold the movie up against in comparison to.
That being said, why don’t you take a gander at the trailer in the full post. It’s quite pretty. Ooooooo, pretty.
There has to be some sort of hidden voodoo magic behind this trailer because the equation of this movie’s cowboy westerner elements plus the mediocre comedy is equaling out to me actually wanting to see it. What the hell is wrong with me? I don’t even like western shooters!
Well, whatever it is that is making me like this trailer, I hope it sticks around for the movie. I won’t be rushing to see this movie if and when it hits theaters in the U.S., but I’ll write it down on my “movies to remember” list. Maybe it will show up on my Netflix Instant Queue.
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!
Red Band movie trailers seem to be the hotness these days in the movie trailer market. It’s a clever way of saying “your movie is bad ass and somewhat vulgar, and you’re so proud of it that you’re not holding back, even in your movie trailer.” Which usually works to the movie’s advantage. Being that Red Band movie trailers usually show exclusively online, it probably gets seen more than its Green Band counterpart trailer. After all, the edgier it is, the more likely it’ll be passed around. And with the movie Kick-Ass, we would expect nothing but awesomeness from its newest Red Band trailer.
What I like about this trailer is that it focuses a little more on the title character, Kick-Ass himself. Previous trailers were a little confusing as to who exactly the movie was focusing on. Hit Girl is cool and all, but there was more of her in the trailer than Kick-Ass, which seems sort of odd to me being that Hit Girl is a side character.
Check out the new Kick-Ass red band trailer in the full post.
Last Super Bowl Sunday, we were all treated to a historic game, a few good commercials, and, by far, my favorite thing, The Last Airbender teaser trailer. Now, the trailer that premiered during the Super Bowl was actually a cut down version of the current trailer we have for you today. This new full length trailer focuses a little bit more on the story of The Last Airbender and main character, Aang (the last airbender).
I liked The Last Airbender TV series (correctly titled Avatar: The Last Airbender) which the movie is based on. I like M. Night Shyamalan’s work for the most part. And I am loving this trailer. All the signs point to good things, in my opinion.
I am also keeping in mind that Avatar: The Last Airbender is indeed a kid to teenage show, so I’ll leave my grown man mind set at home when I go to see this movie in theaters.
Check out the feature length trailer for The Last Airbender in the full post.
I won’t be putting Tekken on my high priority list of movies to see, but being that it’s a movie based off a video game, I feel as if I have an obligation to see it. My guess is that the movie is gonna be crap, but I do appreciate that the movie actually takes premise from the video game instead of just borrowing the game title and some principle characters while totally making up its own bullshit story, like Street Fighter, Resident Evil, and Mario Bros. Plus, it’s a movie about a fighting tournament with contenders who possess supernatural fighting skills (at times), so that should make for some interesting action scenes if executed properly.
While on the subject of the action scenes, why don’t you take a look at a set of behind the scenes clips of the stunt men in Tekken. I always like seeing how much effort goes into cool fight scenes. Sometimes months of training converts into a quarter minute of screen time, but damn, it’s worth it!
I have included clips, movie trailer, and a few movie stills in the full post. Check it!
Another Super Bowl, another day of high profile commercials with something to prove. Ah, yes, I do love me some Super Bowl. But not because of the football. I love it for all the cool commercials that come out and movie trailers that might be showing for the first time. But I have to say, I am a little disappointed with this “new” trailer for Shutter Island that is set to air this upcoming Super Bowl Sunday. The trailer is reminiscent of the Avatar trailers where the director’s credientals take up almost as much screen time as the actual movie footage. BOO! The sad thing is that this tactic actually works, so trailer studios will continue to make these time-wasting trailers that do nothing but remind us of movies we have already seen instead of showing us footage from the movie we want to see.
There is a few quick shots of footage we have yet to see in the previous trailers, but nothing to make you change your mind about whether or not you will be seeing the movie.
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