Nerd Rating

Tag: Sci-Fi

  • New Trailer For Ender’s Game Has Space, Fighting And Harrison Ford Making A Paycheck

    Photo courtesy flixist.com
    Photo courtesy flixist.com

    Here is the new trailer for Ender’s Game based on the classic sci-fi work by Orson Scott Card. It fits into the mindset of every trailer this day and age of “the world is going to end and only one person can save it”. Yes, that is what Ender’s Game is about, but John A. Moviegoer is just going to see the trailer and say it looks like every other action movie in space.

    The effects are nice and I am excited to see Hailee Steinfeld in her first movie since the amazing Coen Bros. adaptation of True Grit. I hope they can at least capture the essence of the book. If you are going in expecting an exact book translation you apparently have never watched any Hollywood movie based on a book…ever.

    Ender’s Game releases on November 1st.

  • Ronald D. Moore’s Helix Looks To Be Fringerrific…Or X-Filestacular

    The first trailer for the new SyFy show Helix is here and it leaves something to be desired. Now I am going to fully give this show a chance when it comes out, but if we are going by first impressions alone on this teaser then it looks like the black oil from The X-Files is infecting researchers at an Arctic base….and I know I am not the only one that thought the opening words were from a Fringe episode right?

    But if it is like any Ronald D. Moore show on SyFy then I will get heavily attached to it only to have them cancel it for budget reasons and have to end early on a quickly put together finale that tries to tie up years of mythos in two hours.

    Frak.

  • Pacific Rim Trailer

    The first trailer for Guillermo Del Toro’s sci-fi flick Pacific Rim has just gone online and it is certainly the most…unique trailer of the big summer movies. A cynical part of me wants to pre-judge this movie but yet when I watch it there is the kid in me that said it is giant robots fighting giant monsters just shut up and have fun. Is anyone else getting an adult Power Rangers vibe off of the preview?

    Pacific Rim releases on July 12, 2013.