Category Archives: Previews
A look at upcoming films
Captain America trailer – Team America remix
I’m very surprised I didn’t think of this song when I first saw the trailer.
Thoughts on the Super Bowl Trailers
I’m not much of American football fan myself, living in the UK we don’t get a lot of coverage on the NFL so the American Football (or Hand-egg) is usually out of sight, out of mind. That is until the Super Bowl rolls around and we’re inundated with reports on THE GREATEST SPORTING EVENT IN THE WORLD (/sarcasm). It gets even worse as since I live in the UK all those trailers that studios pay through the nose to get on air aren’t even available for me to see til the next day. All the glamour and glitz of the Super Bowl is lost in me as I struggle to figure whose who and why play consistently stops every thirty seconds, disappears for a minute, comes back for ten seconds and so on…
Anyhoo, the trailers, most of which run for thirty seconds, a few one minute spots and they usually represent films coming out in the Summer; setting down a marker for possible definite blockbusters that will occupy our screens for the duration of the summer. For my thoughts, read on… Read the rest of this entry
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides
"Savvy?"
The franchise that will absolutely not die. I can’t say I particularly liked the sequels (that the second was the better out of the two), considering there supposed to be grand entertainment they felt rather flaccid and plotless at times. Davy Jones was the best thing about them but (in my mind) was squandered in the third film. along with, copious love triangles, double-crossing and some cringe worthy acting (Keira Knightley’s ‘rousing’ speech makes me squirm every time).
Real Steel teaser trailer busts some robotic heads…
Ok Real Steel, you have my attention. I have no idea what you are apart from robots beating the nuts and bolts out of each other, or whether you’ll be any good but I’m intrigued. I feel as if i shouldn’t be, but I am.
Its based on a Richard Mathieson short story (writer of the brilliant I Am Legend book, not film), set in the near future it stars Hugh Jackman as Charlie Kenton, a former boxer who trains robots to fight. Lets hope he trains them a damn sight better than Audley Harrison.
Starring Hugh Jackman, Kevin Durand, Evangeline Lilly, Anthony Mackie, Hope Davis. Directed by Shawn Levy (which immediately dampens my enthusiasm, Levy who directed Date Night, Night at the Museum and The Pink Panther remake, gah…) Real Steel should be out in the UK October 7, 2011. I guess TF3 will have to suffice for our robot smashing entertainment.
Marvel release Thor poster…
…and he looks rather regal in that red cape. Starring a bevy of talent – Chris Hemsworth (Star Trek, A Perfect Getaway) as title character Thor along with Tom Hiddleston, Natalie Portman, Colm Feore, Jaimie Alexander, Stellan Skarsgard, Anthony Hopkins, Ray Stevenson, Tadanobu Asano, Idris Elba, Kat Dennings, Rene Russo, Adriana Barraza, Joshua Dallas and Clark Gregg. Thor is released in the UK on the 29th April.
I for one am very interested in this take on the character especially after reading J Michael Strasczynski’s appraoch on Thor which was really, really good. Perhaps we’ll have a trailer coming soon to go with the poster. Your thoughts on the poster, anyone…..?
Transformers: The Dark of the Moon announcement trailer hits
My previous experience with Transformers have not been good. I thought the first one started of well before regressing into a robot smackdown that (oddly) left me bored. The second film was a dire bore so I go into TF3 with trepidation, we know what to expect with Michael Bay films, it just depends on whether you’re so inclined to be there in the cinema on the opening weekend.
Does this trailer have you excited or not? (Trailer after the jump)
The transformer with the moustache (yes, an actual metallic moustache) appears to Alpha Trion, one of the original 13 Transformers and a mentor to Optimus Prime. It looks as if this film is going delve into the Transformers lore again with hopefully better results this time. Details about the film are scarce (no doubt we can expect the decepticons to attack and fail, again) but with a Bay film is story that important?
No…I didn’t think so either.
It looks vaguely interesting but after my previous experiences with this franchise I think i’ll wait for the reviews on this one.
Expect to see robots blowing s**t up in your multiplex in the US on the 1st of July (for us in the UK – 29th June)
Impressions: Tron Night – intriguing if a little underwhelming
It’s been a while since I last saw Tron fully; I catch glimpses of it when it’s on the TV (I think it was on a couple of weeks ago) but never the whole film. I remember when I was younger and watched Tron every time it came on TV, I can’t remember why, maybe it was the weird visuals or the fact that these characters inhabited a world inside a computer (it was probably the synthesised score that drew me back) but Tron was a film I could watch again and again. That being said I felt no particular excitement for the sequel Tron Legacy probably because my interest in all things Tron had waned. I liked Tron a lot but that was a while ago, it doesn’t carry the same significance for me than it had when I was much, much younger.
