Trailer Watch: Lockout is Die Hard meets Escape from LA…in space
If that headline gets your heart pumping, you are going to love these trailers. Produced by Luc Besson, Lockout stars Guy Pearce who gets the unenviable job of rescuing the President’s daughter from a rioting space station prison. Let’s not complicate things beyond that. The reason we have two trailers here is that one is [...]
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Trailer Watch: Moonrise Kingdom
Wes Anderson is an interesting director. With the possible exception of The Fantastic Mr. Fox (simply by virtue of it being animated), he does films that you either love or hate, but are unlike anything else out there. While I’ve heard him described as overly twee, self-indulgently intellectual, and annoying, it’s always exciting to see [...]
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Trailer Watch: Prequels to be excited about
I usually try not to do two trailer posts in a row, but this was an especially big week. First, we had the sequels, and now, the prequels. Two great directors. Two great franchises. Two great looking films. Enjoy. Prometheus, directed by Ridley Scott opens on June 8, 2012. The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, directed [...]
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Trailer Watch: Sequels-You-Do-and-Don’t-Care-About Edition
That title might be a little harsh to this first trailer, but frankly, while fun to watch in the ‘Wow-that-is-really-cool-the-way-that-monster-looks’ way, Clash of the Titans was a bit of a stinker. But no worries, we’re getting a sequel anyway, and one whose first trailer tops the ‘TITANS…..WILL…..CLASH!’ tagline of the original with the most non-sequitur [...]
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Trailer Watch:Rampart or, Woody Harrelson’s Oscar Bait
Despite the facetious title up there, this looks dark, well done and brilliant. Woody Harrelson looks great, playing a character with the worst nickname (Date-Rape Dave) in cinematic history and chewing up the scenery in the process. Director Oren Moverman (The Messenger) brought his Oscar-nominated actor back and gave him something new to work on, [...]
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Trailer Watch: The Hunger Games
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins was a pleasant surprise for me. In retrospect, I should have read it earlier as the people who were recommending it were by no means devout followers of Twilight. However, I was wary of a similar story of forbidden love and annoying dialogue. I kick myself for this now. [...]
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Trailer Watch: Snow White and the Huntsman
Well I’m a bit surprised. For the most part, I’ve written Kristen Stewart off. I had no desire to see the Twilight films and Adventureland was merely so-so. However, I can say for sure that I will be seeing her new film after this intriguing and well done debut trailer. In the epic action-adventure Snow [...]
In: Eyes and Ears, Movies, Trailers · Tagged with: Charlize Theron, Chris Hemsworth, Kristen Stewart, Rupert Sanders, Snow White and the Huntsman, Trailer Watch, Trailers
Trailer Watch: The Lorax and ParaNorman
Well, it was bound to happen eventually. And at least it’s animated right? Here’s our first look at the inevitable adaptation of Dr Seuss’ The Lorax. Apart from getting way too much of a look at The Onceler, this doesn’t look awful. Danny DeVito is a smart choice as the Lorax and it looks like [...]
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Trailer Watch: The Avengers
This has been a long time coming, building for several years and multiple movies, but we’re getting our first full look at The Avengers directed by Joss Whedon. While it starts out shaky, by the end of the trailer, confidence is restored that it won’t be a ‘greatest hits’ film but something that works as [...]
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Trailer Watch, Novel Edition
This first trailer is a bit of serendipity for me. Every year here in East Lansing, Michigan State University does ‘One Book, One Community’ with the goal to get everyone in town talking about the same book. It’s a brilliant idea and has worked extremely well with this being the tenth year. They bring the [...]
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