Trailer Tuesday: The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug

Welcome to “Trailer Tuesday” where I talk about trailers for upcoming movies, since I’ve always found them to be endlessly fascinating.

I figure that because I (intentionally) gave you a horrible trailer this morning, that I owed you an alternate.  So here, I present you with the freshly released trailer for The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug.  Watch below, and read on for my thoughts:

1) Do you think we can go ahead and compare this film to The Two Towers?   Continue reading

(Awful) Trailer Tuesday: The Heat

Welcome to “Trailer Tuesday” where I talk about trailers for upcoming movies, since I’ve always found them to be endlessly fascinating.

Sometimes a trailer comes out that is so bad it’s mind boggling that the film was ever made.  I get the appeal.  People love Sandra Bullock and Melissa McCarthy, and I’m sure some executive thought this would make a lot of money.  After all, Identity Thief made $174 million dollars.  Take a look:

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Trailer Tuesday: Much Ado About Nothing

Welcome to “Trailer Tuesday” where I talk about trailers for upcoming movies, since I’ve always found them to be endlessly fascinating.

When Joss Whedon announced that he had secretly filmed an adaptation of Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing with his acting troupe at his house as part of a stay-at-home vacation, I freaked out.  I wasn’t alone in this either.  The idea of Whedon doing Shakespeare is perfectly brilliant.  We should have all known it was bound to happen, considering the references to the Bard in his shows and films (“We few, we happy few…” “We band of buggered.”).  Take a look at the trailer and read on for my thoughts:

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Trailer Tuesday: Thor: The Dark World

Welcome to “Trailer Tuesday” where I talk about trailers for upcoming movies, since I’ve always found them to be endlessly fascinating.

The trailer for Thor: The Dark World, aka Thor 2, was released recently.  It’s due out November 8th.  Take a look at the trailer and read on for my thoughts.

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Trailer Tuesday: Riddick

Welcome to “Trailer Tuesday” where I talk about trailers for upcoming movies, since I’ve always found them to be endlessly fascinating.

It’s been 13 years since Pitch Black first introduced us to Riddick, and 9 years since The Chronicles of Riddick expanded his mythology while dulling him down a bit, and now he’s back in the simply titled Riddick, due out on September 6th.  Take a look at the trailer, and read on for my thoughts:

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Trailer Tuesday Update: Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.

Update:  So a new S.H.I.E.L.D. trailer is out, this one giving us a much better glimpse at the new series (which will be airing on ABC this fall at 8PM on Tuesday nights).  Take a look and read on for my updated thoughts (you can see the previous trailer here):

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Trailer Tuesday: Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.

Welcome to “Trailer Tuesday” where I talk about trailers for upcoming movies, since I’ve always found them to be endlessly fascinating.

(Update: A new trailer has been released and you can read my thoughts on it here.)  Yes, I realize that Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. is not a movie and that this is not technically a trailer.  But too bad, because I could not be more excited about S.H.I.E.L.D., the expansion of the Marvel Cinematic Universe which continues the story from The Avengers and is being overseen by the incomparable Joss Whedon.  Take a look: Continue reading

Trailer Tuesday: Star Trek Into Darkness

Welcome to “Trailer Tuesday” where I talk about trailers for upcoming movies, since I’ve always found them to be endlessly fascinating.

I’m a Trekkie and I have to be honest: I didn’t like 2009’s Star Trek.  Oh, don’t get me wrong, it was pretty enjoyable, had a solid cast, I love seeing Leonard Nimoy as Spock, and I’m a big J.J. Abrams fan (Super 8 is a masterpiece).  But it did not feel at all like Star Trek to me.  I thought the time travel/parallel universe story was a cheap way for the writers to be able to sidestep history, I thought the movie was far too dumbed-down so as to appeal to modern audiences, and they completely screwed up the Kobayashi Maru sequence.

So I feel a bit of trepidation when I see the trailers for the new film, Star Trek Into Darkness.  Take a look and then read on for my thoughts:

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Trailer Tuesday: The Philosophers

Welcome to “Trailer Tuesday” where I talk about trailers for upcoming movies, since I’ve always found trailers to be endlessly fascinating.

Today I’m bringing you a trailer you probably haven’t seen before.  It’s for The Philosophers (Note: title changed to After the Dark), and it caught my eye a while back for being something different and original.  It’s set to come out sometime this year, but doesn’t yet have a firm release date.  Check it out below, and then read on for some of my thoughts:

The Philosophers initially came to my attention when I read that it was Bonnie Wright’s (Ginny Weasley in Harry Potter) next film. Continue reading

Trailer Tuesday: The Hunger Games: Catching Fire

Welcome to “Trailer Tuesday” where I talk about trailers for upcoming movies, since I’ve always found trailers to be endlessly fascinating.

Today we have the new teaser trailer for The Hunger Games: Catching Fire.  Go ahead and watch it and then read on for my thoughts:

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