For awhile I was thinking that Elijah Wood being cast as the lead in “Maniac” was a mistake. Before I saw the trailer, I couldn’t get Frodo Baggins out of my head. After having seen it, focusing particularly on his creeped out eyes – they seem a bit too widely spaced, with that creepy Innsmouth look – I could easily imagine him slaughtering someone.
That’s a good thing, I think.
For comparison’s sake, here’s the original trailer.
The reboot has a more cinéma vérité look, almost in the vein of a relatively inexpensive found footage film.
This one flew in under the radar. It’s a scifi film about a manned mission to Europa, one of Jupiter’s moons. They go there because they believe that water exists beneath its frozen crust. And typically for these types of movies, they find more than they bargained for.
Sharito Copley (District 9) poes a passable American accent in the trailer though I am not sure that I am behind the seemingly very realistic way things are portrayed in the film.
While what I know about manned space travel could probably fill an entire Post-It note, I do get the feeling that it’s not nearly as interesting as the film implies. By which I mean it’s very difficult and there are so many systems that need to be watched that it’s a lot more than just watching the earth rise from a porthole.
My fellow bloggers over at Durnmoose Movie Musings beat me to the punch (Damn having to work at work!) with the latest “Pacific Rim” trailer.
And while I know that it’s just a trailer, it already has more plot that all the Transformers films combined (I am only half joking).
Here’s a new “Riddick” trailer, and it looks like he’s fallen on hard times. In “Pitch Black” he was a convict, pursued by a bounty hunter and seemingly trapped on a world of deadly, inhuman creatures. In the sequel, “The Chronicles Of Riddick” he somehow became the ruler of the Necromongers, the most powerful army in the galaxy.
In “Riddick” he comes full circle, as he’s once again being pursued by bounty hunters and monsters on a hostile world.
Though what his enemies, human and otherwise, seem to forget that man is the deadliest creature of all.
And no man is as deadly as Riddick.
I don’t normally post trailers for TV shows, but when those shows involve Marvel properties – or truth be told, anything that interests me – post them I shall! Seeing that this is a teaser trailer you can’t necessarily say that how it reflects on the upcoming series, though it looks pretty good.
Though I do see that their vehicles have the S.H.I.E.L.D logo in plain sight…
I have been waiting for Alfonso Cuarón‘s “Gravity” for awhile, and it’s getting closer. In my mind Cuarón is in the same class as Guillermo Del Toro, which is another way of saying that if either of them comes out with a film, go see it.
Besides, his last film, “Children Of Men” was not only brilliant, but also significantly better than the book – in terms of impact and sense of gravity (pardon the pun) – in my opinion.
I don’t particularly care for Sandra Bullock or George Clooney – I don’t feel ill will toward either of them, though they don’t move me either.
But put Alfonso Cuarón at the helm, then I am there.
Gavin Hood gets a bad rap. The South African director made “Totsi” in 2005, which he won an Academy Award for. His biggest film – in terms of budget – was “X-Men Origins: Wolverine,” which didn’t get any Oscars.
Mainly because it was pretty bad.
Though can you blame him for that? He didn’t write it, which is where all the problems began.
Hood also worked on A&E’s “Breakout Kings,” which was pretty decent TV.
By the way, isn’t Ben Kingsley in just about every other movie lately?
This trailer has been around for awhile, though I am just getting around to posting it.
The reason why is that it seems terribly “Meh,” which shouldn’t be confused with ‘bad’ or uninteresting. It hits all the right notes, but doesn’t do anything that we haven’t seen many times before.
I guess what I am trying to say is that it lacks any sort of heart.
I hope that the next is less planned out; which hopefully leaves a little room for what passes for spontaneity.
Here’s the latest trailer – thanks Deadline – that came from the same place as the latest “Pacific Rim” trailer.
Which is CinemaCon, not Comic-con, by the way.
In it Wolverine (Hugh Jackman) is doing all sorts of stuff, much of it involving either his claws, or a threatening grimace.
We finally get some shots of Silver Samurai (they’re really quick. Blink and you’ll miss them) and he looks really good. What seems to work for me is that he appears, proportionally speaking, significantly larger than Wolvie, which is as it should be.
I assume that this footage for Guillermo Del Toro’s “Pacific Rim” is from the last Comic-con. It shows the most detail of the robots yet, as well as a bit of character development.
And I can’t see why Michael Bay would ever be worried by ‘Rim,’ after all, if the trailers are to be believed, it looks much better than any of his Transformers films.
