Are you ready? I know I’m ready. We are just over a month away from the release of Star Trek Into Darkness. A new poster has just been released featuring Benedict Cumberbatch as John Harrison/Khan/George Mitchell/Sherlock/that weird guy from Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy or a skinny British Harcourt Fenton Mudd for all I know.
Theories will be accepted below. Thanks for playing.
Star Trek Into Darkness releases on May 17th.
Captain America: The Winter Soldier has officially started shooting and Marvel has sent out an image from the sequel. Cap will have to become readjusted to life in this new, modern world after the events of The Avengers. He will be pitted against his old wartime friend Bucky Barnes who has been transformed into a dangerous agent known as The Winter Soldier. With Scarlett Johansson having a bigger role as Black Widow in this story I would think they will play out a Bucky/Natasha love story (or at least plant the seeds of one). And somehow I managed to get Scarlett’s name in a sentence with plant a seed….I have a problem.
Captain America: The Winter Solider releases on April 4, 2014.
Remaking movies is popular. We all know this, but remaking classic movies is a different animal altogether. Brian De Palma’s Carrie is definitely a classic and many may wonder why it needs a remake. I would normally be with you…if the movie didn’t have such a damn good looking cast. Now I really don’t think anything can top Sissy Spacek’s performance or De Palma’s creepy as hell direction, but getting Chloe Grace Moretz and Julianne Moore is more than a good start. The movie was originally planned to be released last month, but moved to a spot closer to Halloween which may work in its favor.
The full trailer has just been released for the remake which releases on October 18th. Check it out below.
Side note: I hate it that whenever I see or think about anything from Carrie, movie or book, I instantly think of Skeet Ulrich from Scream giving the pig’s blood speech. Damn you Scream!! Who wants to think of Skeet Ulrich?!! Ever!! NO ONE, THAT’S WHO!!
Yesterday saw the release of the [amazon_link id=”B0083SBMGW” target=”_blank” container=”” container_class=”” ]Marvel Phase One Blu-Ray Set[/amazon_link] that came encased in a handy briefcase and housed a glowing Tesseract replica. Oh and there were 10 discs and six movies in there also. One of the special features was a five minute clip of what to expect from Marvel’s Phase Two which begins with the release of Iron Man 3 on May 3rd. In it we are treated to some test footage from Edgar Wright’s Ant-Man and some early shots of Guardians of the Galaxy storyboards. There is also new footage from Thor: The Dark World and the first artists renderings of Winter Soldier and Falcon from Captain America: The Winter Soldier.
Check out some still shots below from the video and then realize that despite what people may say about the character, Ant-Man is going to be completely bad ass in the hands of Edgar Wright.
If the first trailer for This Is The End looked a bit funny, but you wondered how much funnier it would be unedited and filled with the dirty words, wonder no longer! The red band trailer shows off a massive party at James Franco’s house that is filled with celebrities. Fun is had by all until strange events happen and the end of the world seems imminent.
Want a few reasons to click play?
1. A drunk Michael Cera getting the shit beat out of him by Rihanna.
2. Cera then subsequently getting impaled
3. Seth Rogen telling of a childhood memory of being fat and getting titty fucked.
4. “Hermione just stole all of our shit.”
This Is The End releases on June 12th.
http://youtu.be/i24fo2W5EaE
Let’s just go ahead and get this out of the way in the beginning of this review, I liked the first G.I. Joe. Do not get me wrong, I am not going to recommend that anyone go out and buy it on Blu-Ray instantly, but it was the definition of a popcorn flick. A dumb action flick that had its moments and some fun also. Now in 2009 we also got Transformers 2 and that was also dumb, but not for the same reasons G.I. Joe was. I know, opinions are very fu**ed up things. I did not mind the first G.I. Joe and yet Shia going to robot heaven actually made me feel stupid sitting in the theater.
Since 2009 we have already had to sit through another Transformers movie and we are just now getting a sequel to The Real American Hero. Now G.I. Joe was set for release last summer, but a mere month before release it was quickly moved almost an entire year to 2013. The studio said it was to give them time to post-convert the film into 3D since well, you know, it makes more money. Then there were rumors swirling abound that it was to go back and let Channing Tatum re-film more footage since the same rumors also said that his Duke character bites it in the movie.
It seems the studio was telling the truth because the film was indeed converted to 3D and Channing Tatum does indeed get ended by Cobra in the first fifteen minutes. And guess what? It was the smartest decision the franchise could have made, because as much as I defend the first movie as big, dumb fun, it left a bad taste in a lot of people’s mouths. So with G.I. Joe: Retaliation we are getting a reboot of sorts that still remains in the same movie universe.
The part that works with Retaliation is that we are trading in Channing Tatum and Marlon Wayans for Dwayne Johnson and Bruce Willis. Who would not want that kind of move for an action sequel?
When we left the world at the end of G.I. Joe, Cobra Commander and Destro were locked away while Zartan was still in place as the imposter President of the United States. After Zartan calls in a surprise strike against the Joe’s, in which only Roadblock (Johnson), Lady Jaye (Adrianne Palicki) and Flint (D.J. Cotrona) are left, Storm Shadow breaks Cobra Commander out of prison and Cobra has a big bad plan for world domination.
After this, the story wisely splits in two. One path has Roadblock, Jaye and Flint trying to convince the original Joe, Joe Coulton (Willis), that the POTUS is an imposter and they need his help trying to expose him. The second path follows Snake Eyes an Jinx as they hunt down Storm Shadow to find out what information he knows about Cobra’s plans. This really helps the movie avoid any kind of slow down that you normally would feel halfway through. In one aspect you are getting a guns blazing actioneer and then you are swapping over to a martial arts film complete with the RZA as a blind sensei and ninjas sword fighting on the side of a mountain.
So yeah, Cobra is trying to take over the world and the what not. The plot will not exactly win any awards, but really, are you going to see this for that? Why did you watch G.I. Joe as a kid (assuming you did)? You wanted to see the cool characters, weapons and action. Luckily we get all three of those. The new characters are much more memorable than the previous entry and each is given their own opportunity at some bad ass moments. I know Channing Tatum is Hollywood’s “IT” guy right now, but Bruce Willis and Dwayne Johnson can carry an action flick in their sleep. Even though I did not care for A Good Day To Die Hard, I still say Willis can get it done easily when guns are involved.
I worried that director John M. Chu would be overwhelmed with a film of this size. I mean could you really blame me? He got the job after directing Step Up 2&3 and the Justin Bieber movie Never Say Never. Yeah, exactly. Chu has taken the helm and like a great Barney Stinson moment he has said, “Challenge Accepted”. Fight scenes are quick paced, but never overwhelming and there are plenty of things that go boom. There is one especially unique fight between Roadblack and Firefly (Ray Stevenson) that is an up close gun battle within arm distance that I can honestly say I have never seen before. I have to give credit where it is due.
I got exactly what I was expecting out of G.I. Joe: Retaliation. I wanted a followup to the original that felt like I was watching an episode of the 80’s cartoon. Does that involve some chuckle worthy dialogue? Yep. Did it change the fact that I had fun with the characters and manly man things? Nope. If you liked the first film (even a little bit like me), this is a good improvement and shows that the franchise could have some legs if handled properly. If you did not like 2009’s film then this should be a massive improvement over what you got. Go in expecting a fun, popcorn shoot em up that replaces the weak parts of the first film with stronger anchors and have fun.
Now you know…
You’re Next is a horror film that you may not be familiar with it, but it has been making waves on the festival circuit for the past few months. It has been regarded as smart, disturbing and even a bit funny. The first trailer has just released and you can easily see why comparisons to [amazon_link id=”B001D2WU8O” target=”_blank” container=”” container_class=”” ]The Strangers[/amazon_link] will begin, but when you read the film’s official synopsis the trailer takes on a new meaning and could become a film that will gather steam heading to its August release.
Read the synopsis, then give the trailer a view.
One of the smartest and most terrifying films in years, YOU’RE NEXT reinvents the genre by putting a fresh twist on home-invasion horror. When a gang of masked, ax-wielding murderers descend upon the Davison family reunion, the hapless victims seem trapped…until an unlikely guest of the family proves to be the most talented killer of all.
I swear if this movie becomes some twisted ass Home Alone I will lose my shit. Like if Macaulay Culkin came back from doing….whatever it was he was doing for twenty years…and takes on the Wet Bandits again only instead of pellet guns to the nuts he was stabbing their eyes out with a soldering iron.
You’re Next releases on August 23rd.
So Iron Man 3 has already released like seven separate character posters and four trailers so should it be out of the realm of possibility that they will release individual pictures for all 40 armors used in the movie?
The first four shown are the Mark 17 (Heartbreaker), Mark 33 (Silver Centurion), Mark 38 (Igor) and the Mark 40 (Shotgun).
The Mark 40 kind of reminds me of the new Robocop armor. The Mark 38 has gained the nickname Hulkbuster for obvious reasons. When Pepper Pott’s armor (presumably) is shown off maybe it will have the moniker Ballbuster.
We will keep updating armors as they are released. Iron Man 3 releases on May 3rd.
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.