I have been doing my best to temper my expectations when it comes to The Wolverine. Even though the new movie is based on one of the greatest Wolvie stories ever written and knowing that Hugh Jackman has said that they are trying to fix the clusterfu** that was X-Men Origins: Wolverine. I remain steadfast in not getting too excited about the movie.
Hey, it’s the first trailer for the movie. Let’s take a look.
Dammit!
Dammit all!
Now I am excited.
Don’t hurt me again.
http://youtu.be/Qz33ICD7pqE
You thought Gerard Butler was the only guy that could save the President? Wrong! This summer it will be Channing Tatum’s turn. The first trailer has just gone up for Roland Emmerich’s White House Down and don’t write this movie off just because it is opening a few months after Olympus Has Fallen.
Now everyone should know that I am not the biggest Channing Tatum fan. Not because of how popular he is, but just the fact that he has a hard time……acting. The trailer has a different feel to it beginning with a very prophetic quote by Abraham Lincoln and spending most of the run time in a forced silence.
Remember back in 1998 when Deep Impact opened and Morgan Freeman was president and that idea was the greatest idea in history? A lot of people liked Deep Impact, then Armageddon opened up in the summer and completely kicked Deep Impact in the taint. So who knows, maybe Channing Tatum will win this round with King Leonidas.
White House Down releases on June 28th.
Guillermo Del Toro’s Pacific Rim is one of the best looking movies of the summer and if people ask me to describe the movie to them I will simply say this:
Imagine the creatures are Decepticons and it is how Transformers should have been.
A new poster has just been released and I would assume it will be the first in a series of single robot posters. This first one features one called Coyote Tango who is set in Japan. Just remember to say domo arigato, Mr. Roboto when he saves your ass.
In case you missed the trailer for the robots punch shit flick, check it out below.
Pacific Rim releases on July 12th.
With Iron Man 3 and Man of Steel being at the forefront of the superhero movie scene this summer, The Wolverine is getting a bit lost. Now I can understand how excitement can be tempered considering how X-Men Origins: Wolverine was a massive dump on the chest of fans, but at least the source material for this followup is some of the best work in the character’s history using Chris Claremont’s 1982 limited series as its base.
The Wolverine releases on July 26th.
As one Pam Poovey from Archer would say. Holy shit snacks.
This new international trailer for Star Trek Into Darkness involves a lot of balls and they happen to be going to the wall. There is a ton of new footage in this as well as so much more Benedict Cumberbatch creepy awesomeness.
Here are a few things to look and listen for:
-Cumberbatch is referred to as a “top agent” of Starfleet. The Khan factor is looking less and less likely.
-For some reason, with Cumberbatch’s attack on the Starfleet meeting, I am thinking more and more that Admiral Pike may bite it in the movie.
-Alice Eve in her underwear….yeah.
-Also may I add….Peter Weller!! Admiral Robocop is in full effect in this trailer.
Also, check out the new poster below. Star Trek Into Darkness releases on May 15th.
This past weekend, I was lucky enough to catch “John Dies at the End” during a Sunday matinee. An indie flick from the creative team that brought us “Bubba Ho-Tep,” this new venture walks that same line between sincere and silly. If you haven’t seen the former, I would suggest it based on Bruce Campbell’s performance alone.
“John Dies”* opens with a creative twist on the old philosophical teaser concerning the persistence of an item’s identity if all of said item’s individual pieces are slowly replaced over time. Also, there’s a zombie. The story itself picks up with the lead character, Dave Wong, meeting with an investigative journalist in a run-down Chinese restaurant. The majority of the events in the film have already transpired, and Dave is recounting them in an effort to get his story “out there.”
The film’s title character is Dave’s best friend and companion in the business of paranormal investigation and extermination. The plot revolves around the duo’s first encounter with the paranormal, and how it led to their current gig: John’s band played a show, the aftermath of which involved black goo, exploding Jamaicans, one-armed girls and topless cat women.
The movie feels like “Constantine” and “Evil Dead” had a baby with “The Hangover” as the midwife. Paranormal events and creatures are treated with appropriate weirdness at first, but the tone eventually shifts to a tongue-in-cheek casualness about it all. The effects are cheesy, but get the job done, especially when they’re not trying too hard. Case-in-point: There’s a scene in a trailer where the back room contains an aquarium with some kind of tentacled… thing floating in it. We never get too close, which only serves to heighten the menace.
Dave and John feel like well-established individuals, and the supporting cast gives them a nice ensemble to play off of. Of particular note are Paul Giamatti as Arnie Bloodstone, the reporter and Clancy Brown as Dr. Albert Marconi, a new-aged spiritual guru who is more than he initially appears. My favorite performance was Glynn Turman as a character simply named Detective, a local cop who decides all of this hocus-pocus is just too much for his town.
I won’t beat around the bush: “John Dies at the End” is not for everyone; Hell, the group I saw it with love this sort of thing and even a few of them didn’t get it. There’s also little-to-no chance it will come to a theater near you, meaning you can save that nine bucks and put it toward picking up the home video release instead.
Here’s a quiz: Do you own an “Evil Dead” film, or “Bubba Ho-Tep”? If not, have you at least seen them, and sought afterwards to see them again? If the answer isn’t a hearty yes, I’d pass. Otherwise, I won’t give too much else away, other than to say that at the end, John—
Check out the trailer!
http://youtu.be/Vy83MPk7Wpg
[amazon_link id=”B00B04NJCG” target=”_blank” container=”” container_class=”” ]John Dies at the End will be released on blu-ray and DVD April 2, 2013.[/amazon_link]
*I can’t tell you how many versions of abbreviating that title I tried before settling on this one.
http://youtu.be/n5z_W1ccPbA
We live in a culture of mash ups. It is inescapable. There are some winners and a whooole lot of losers.
I consider this a winner.
Someone has taken footage from The Avengers and created a Mighty Morphin Power Rangers style TV show opening for it. I will let you debate among yourselves about which Avenger is what color Ranger, but I hope we can all agree that Agent Coulson and Maria Hill are NO Bulk and Skull.
Well here is another reason to be even more excited for Iron Man 3 this May. Marvel president Kevin Feige has been making the rounds building up the hype machine for the Shane Black directed sequel and in a recent interview he may have gave the biggest reason to think that Iron Man 3 may be the best Marvel movie yet.
“There are a lot of suits in this movie. While it is both a movie in which he spends quite a bit of time outside of the suit, as you see it’s not working and he’s — and he’s with Ty in Tennessee, by the end of it we reveal that underneath the house, which is now covered with rubble, he’s got dozens and dozens of suits.
And once, throughout the course of the movie, and all that rubble gets pulled aside by construction cranes, just when he needs them, he calls them to the rescue and we have what I think is the biggest most action-packed finale we’ve had. I showed the film to Joss Whedon, who is our writer-director of Avengers and who is currently working on Avengers 2, and he saw the finale of this and he goes, ‘Now what am I supposed to do now? What am I going to do in Avengers 2?’”
So the ending of Iron Man 3 has Joss Whedon wondering how is going to top it in Avengers 2? Consider my excitement level at maximum thanks to Whedon and his damn opinion.
http://youtu.be/HwXbtZXjbVE
Gru, Margo, Agnes, Edith and the minions are back this summer in Despicable Me 2. After settling into family life, Gru is kidnapped by the AVL (Anti-Villain League) in hopes that he can help defeat a new super-villain. The new trailer is full of minion goodness so have no worries.
Despicable Me 2 releases on July 3rd.
Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy has found its second member. Chris Pratt was cast a few weeks back as Peter Quill, the Star-Lord and now ex-WWE wrestler Dave Bautista is going to play Drax the Destroyer. Drax is a human that was given another body with special powers to take revenge on Thanos. With the movie’s budget I can be pretty sure that they will not just paint him green like an Orion slave girl from Star Trek.
One interesting thought I just had. How rather odd would it be that Dave Bautista could see his star in Hollywood rise to the same level that The Rock has been working on for ten years after just one Marvel movie?
Guardians of the Galaxy on August 1, 2014.