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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
In an interview with the L.A. Times Hero Complex, Damon Lindelof gave the reason why he thinks it is so important that audiences stay in the dark about who exactly Benedict Cumberbatch is playing in this summer’s Star Trek Into Darkness.
“The audience needs to have the same experience that the crew is having. You’re Kirk, you’re Spock, you’re McCoy, so if they don’t know who the bad guy is going to be in the movie, then you shouldn’t know. It’s not just keeping the secret for secrecy’s sake. It’s not giving the audience information that the characters don’t have.”
Well you certainly can’t fault him for that reasoning. I think many people are assuming that Cumberbatch will be playing Khan and I am certainly one of those. I am afraid that some have made such a huge deal out of this that no matter who he ends up being they will be disappointed. If he is Khan, you will have the Ricardo Montalban bandwagon crying foul and if he is a new villain, you will have a group that is pissed off that there Khan guess was wrong.
I applaud the studio and actors for being able to keep the role a secret for this long. Mystery is the spice of life. Or is that cumin?
Let’s all play a game kids. It’s called “How Fast Can A Veronica Mars Movie Get Kickstarted?”
Veronica Mars was one of the most fun and intelligent shows of the past decade. It was cancelled five years ago by the CW who airs shows like Beauty and the Beast and….is One Tree Hill still on? I don’t know. But things are looking up Mars fans! Series creator Rob Thomas has started a Kickstarter for a long rumored movie that would bring back the beautiful super sleuth. Kristen Bell is fully on board and ready to get to work also. So if you are a fan go and throw them a couple of bucks to show your support.
I think it is safe to say that this will easily hit its goal. They are needing $2 million dollars to get started and in the time it has taken me to write this piece it has already grown from $934,000 to…..(let me see)….over $1,004,000 with 30 days left. This may be a Kickstarter record in the making.
Check out the official Kickstarter page here to read a message from Rob Thomas and Kristen Bell about bringing Veronica Mars back.
I may complain about a whole lot of things, but when we live in a world that can actually give us Kick Ass 2 it can’t be all bad right? Except for the rampant murder, poverty and basic denial of human rights in places. Still…..It’s Kick Ass 2!!!
Dave Lizewski and Mindy Macready’s exploits as Kick Ass and Hit Girl have spurred citizens to take up costumes of their own and fight crime including Jim Carrey as Colonel Stars and Stripes. But all is not well when the Red Mist morphs himself into The Motherfu**er and plans to take down all the heroes.
In case you didn’t read the title too well, a reminder that the trailer is a red band, so there is blood and a lot of words that will make your mother blush unless you had the kind of mother that smoked cigarettes and said stuff like that to you all the time. Was she a stripper? Did she love you enough when you were a child?
In some of the greatest stories written, a creator must kill his creation before it gets out of control. Thus is the story of the Bioshock movie. At a recent BAFTA event, Bioshock creator Ken Levine was blatantly honest about why audiences never got to take a cinematic trip into Rapture.
He decided to kill his own creation.
“Take Two is one of those companies that gives a lot of trust to their creative people and so they said to me, ‘if you want to kill it Ken, kill it’. And I killed it.”
This came about after Universal trimmed the budget from $200 million to $80 million and director Gore Verbinski left the project over the budget reduction. And why did the studio suddenly get cold feet and slash the budget by so much? Would you believe [amazon_link id=”B001FB55H6″ target=”_blank” container=”” container_class=”” ]Watchmen[/amazon_link]?
“There was a deal in place and it was actually in production at Universal, and Gore Verbinski was directing it. And what happened was – this is my theory – it’s a very big movie and Gore was very excited about it and he wanted to make a very dark, what he would call a ‘hard-rated’ horror film – an R rated film with a lot of blood. Then The Watchmen came out – and I really liked The Watchmen – but it didn’t do well for whatever reason and the studio got cold feet about making an R rated $200 million film.”
I don’t blame Levine for wanting to keep the movie from beginning if he didn’t feel wholly comfortable with the direction it was heading. As far as Universal getting cold feet, I don’t blame the failure of Watchmen, I blame the comic fans who clamored for a big screen version of the greatest graphic novel ever written and didn’t go and give it the support it needed.
