Movies to look forward to

[IncantatioN]

Nuiguruma Z - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZnZB2_w_PI

So over the top, looks better than Zombie Ass. I wonder if this beats Mega Shark vs Mecha Shark.

 

[IncantatioN]

Decent teaser for Interstellar ... McConaughey's on a good acting run (come a long way from Contact to this), the rest of the cast is cool with the exception of Anne Hathaway

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nyc6RJEEe0U

 

[IncantatioN]

This's everything I love about 80's movies ... EXCELLENT music, cool story and dialog ... even those voice actors sound awesome ... Kung Fury sounds like Duke Nukem.

Trailer for Kung Fury's in the kickstarter video at 34 seconds - http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/kungfury/kung-fury

 

[Walter]

This's everything I love about 80's movies ... EXCELLENT music, cool story and dialog ... even those voice actors sound awesome ... Kung Fury sounds like Duke Nukem.

Trailer for Kung Fury's in the kickstarter video at 34 seconds - http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/kungfury/kung-fury

I laughed at the trailer but... I doubt they can make that gag work for a feature-length movie.

 

[Hanma_Baki]

Exactly, I bet the full movie wouldnt be worth it, the trailer was entertaining enough.

Also, gotta love that stereotypical police chief

 

[IncantatioN]

I laughed at the trailer but... I doubt they can make that gag work for a feature-length movie.

Yeah, I hope they know what to do with the story past the 30 mins they were planning to show. They need a million for the full length feature, funded now at 400K. With 22 days to go, might be possible.

The Raid 2 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ObJKvZRlSSY

Full trailer just came out - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWUAuPlcjcI

 

[Obscure]

Keloid- http://www.theverge.com/2013/10/4/4803870/visual-effects-studio-stuns-with-three-minute-clip-of-sci-fi-mech-film

They are apparently going to make this into a full length movie. Well I'm already sold.

 

[Walter]

Keloid- http://www.theverge.com/2013/10/4/4803870/visual-effects-studio-stuns-with-three-minute-clip-of-sci-fi-mech-film

They are apparently going to make this into a full length movie. Well I'm already sold.

Keep the visual design. Lose the writer.

 

[IncantatioN]

The Two Faces Of January - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDFsR7w0dT0

Also, Aronofsky's cut of Noah is going to be screened after problems with the studio. Paramount wanted to change things when early screen tests didn't go too well. I think it comes out towards the end of March, I won't be able to watch it until 2nd week of April cos of work : /

 

[IncantatioN]

Locke with Tom Hardy - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IgRWMH7v5WI

Enemy with Jake Gyllenhaal, reunites with the guy who made Prisoners (under-rated) - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJuaAWrgoUY

 

[IncantatioN]

New Godzilla trailer

Use of Ligeti fits that sort of chaotic destruction.

1:02 ... is that jizz? And Godzilla sounds like Chewbacca.

This looks fun. I'll go watch it in theaters.

 

[Johnstantine]

New Godzilla trailer

Use of Ligeti fits that sort of chaotic destruction.

1:02 ... is that jizz? And Godzilla sounds like Chewbacca.

This looks fun. I'll go watch it in theaters.

Well, if nuclear bombs can't stop him then humanity is screwed.

Still, though, it looks fun! Can't wait to see it.

 

[IncantatioN]

Heh the trailer explains the plot a lot more than the initial teaser and Watanabe's character references the old Godzilla movie, which was pretty cool. I'm gonna avoid online articles and just go see it. By the way, this is one of the saddest scenes in the franchise.

Trailer for The Final Member.

 

[IncantatioN]

Afflicted looks pretty decent for a found-footage style of film. Curious about it cos it won Best Picture, Director and Screenplay at last year's Fantastic Fest.

 

[Griffith]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DlM2CWNTQ84

Once again, trailers like this make it look like it really could be his biggest and best onscreen adventure, though as always a tightly edited music video could belie scenes that when expanded into real time form a big fucking mess of a whole.

 

[Walter]

Harry's face looks like it curdled at some point.

Looks okay. But 3 villains in a Spider-Man movie? Did they see Spider-Man 3?

 

[Griffith]

Looks okay. But 3 villains in a Spider-Man movie? Did they see Spider-Man 3?

Apparently, that's the concern du jour for this movie, and the director addresses it:

"It's about writing. We're aware of those movies and the complaints people had. The main villain is Electro. Every other villain emerges around that. We were careful to make sure the stories entertained. You had to make sure to create obstacles that were difficult to overcome. We wanted to make the physical and emotional obstacles difficult. Rhino is in it for four minutes so it's a legitimate comparison, but when you see the movie, I'm confident."

I don't know, Green Goblin looks pretty damn prominent, and the rest of that quote is almost incomprehensible. Though, I think it's kind of a misnomer that Spider-Man 3 failed because it had too many villains (I actually like the idea of multiple foes, and a world that credibly houses them, where Spider-Man is concerned,). Spider-Man 3 failed because none of them, or any other plot element for that matter, were particularly good. Sandman is a bore that shits all over Spidey's origin, Brock/Venom is a total bastardization from suit to 70's show, and Harry/New Goblin you probably didn't even remember was in it. Also, for some reason Sam Raimi thought that black suit Spidey should behave like some jazz age tough, "I'm gonna put dirt in your eye." What? The movie was seriously like a parody. In hindsight, it was the third movie in four years, the vision was compromised (Raimi didn't want to do the symbiote/Venom and so he sort of didn't), and it was just clearly uninspired overall.

I also found this interesting:

“In the first movie I was a little too reserved with the CGI, quite frankly, because I didn't want it to look too weird or awkward. There was a moment deep in the production process where a giant lizard smashes through a wall and I was like, ‘This is not grounded.’ And I made a decision that in the next movie I would embrace the spectacle and not be beholden to smallness. Not to reject the emotional stuff but I wanted it to be big and express and command that feeling you had as a kid reading the comics—that color and that bravado. I think in the second movie we've really maintained the grounded, emotional texture and combined it with spectacle."

I can definitely see the color and bravado and that comic book spectacle (though it's not like the Raimi movies didn't do that already), I just don't know if it's going to be a good Spidey comic. On that front, concerning the characters and "emotional stuff," Garfield and Stone don't look like they have the same chemistry, which was a surprising plus in the first movie. Especially Emma Stone; that last shot with the "Peter!" gag should have landed a lot better.

 

[Walter]

I think it's kind of a misnomer that Spider-Man 3 failed because it had too many villains (I actually like the idea of multiple foes, and a world that credibly houses them, where Spider-Man is concerned,). Spider-Man 3 failed because none of them, or any other plot element for that matter, were particularly good.

Well, it'll be a test of the script and the director this time to see if they can keep all those balls in the air. I think the writing suffered because everything was spread too thin. More villains means less focus. And it's one thing to insert villains to expand the danger element in the Spider-Man world, but Spider-Man 3 was overreaching, attempting to capitalize on each of its shitty stories with emotional weight, which just came across as pathetic. Honestly, I don't think you can't separate the poor writing from the multiple villains as being fundamental failures.

Garfield and Stone don't look like they have the same chemistry, which was a surprising plus in the first movie. Especially Emma Stone; that last shot with the "Peter!" gag should have landed a lot better.

Just watching the trailer, I agree. They came across as more like siblings.

I should probably just watch the first movie at this point...

 

[Griffith]

Well, it'll be a test of the script and the director this time to see if they can keep all those balls in the air. I think the writing suffered because everything was spread too thin. More villains means less focus. And it's one thing to insert villains to expand the danger element in the Spider-Man world, but Spider-Man 3 was overreaching, attempting to capitalize on each of its shitty stories with emotional weight, which just came across as pathetic. Honestly, I don't think you can't separate the poor writing from the multiple villains as being fundamental failures.

I agree in principle, but this case might be an exception because the separate individual parts were basically DOA (full disclosure: I just watched this movie in the last week, so I probably have more specific analysis at the ready than it or this casual conversation calls for =). It wasn't like they didn't give those plot-threads their due time and support anyway (the movie is overlong). We get to see Sandman's family and hear his side of the story and all that crap and the problem wasn't that it wasn't explored enough, it just wasn't compelling (plus the shitty tie in with Uncle Ben, which was unfortunately also given ample screen time). Same thing with the symbiote, it's not that it didn't get enough time and attention, it's that the time and attention was not well spent at all. They even worked in multiple extended fight scenes and an amnesia plot with Harry/Goblin! It's actually impressive from a technical standpoint that Raimi was able to develop and cobble all this stuff together by the numbers as well as he did, but on the premise level it was all pretty shitty in its own right, and given what they had I think it still would have been even if they'd dumped a villain or two to focus on fleshing out equally shitty ideas. Now, if they'd made a dedicated symbiote movie really delving into it and its origins, that could have been something wholly different in a good way, but I don't think the genre was ready for something like that at the time.

Just watching the trailer, I agree. They came across as more like siblings.

I should probably just watch the first movie at this point...

Yeah, I'd be interested to know you take.

 

[Griffith]

http://youtu.be/6acRHWnfZAE

 

[Walter]

I can't put my finger on it, but I think I liked this movie more when I knew less about it.

 

[Johnstantine]

http://youtu.be/6acRHWnfZAE

I saw that earlier and it actually gave me hope for the movie being good, and this is coming from someone who thought it looked stupid at first.

 

[Griffith]

I can't put my finger on it, but I think I liked this movie more when I knew less about it.

The unplayed note sounds the sweetest, or the more you know the less potential ultimately. It was more affirming to me just because of the larger scope on display, particularly in the future. The last trailer didn't really give a lot of context beyond the basic time travel plot and the accompanying dynamic between Wolverine and Xavier and the importance of them coming together. Maybe you liked the more subtle, intimate vibe of that trailer as well. More Batman Begins first half, less Avengers final third? =)

I found this trailer promising, but that's because my expectations had already been lowered by certain information I haven't shared. If you really want to put your finger on why you should be having a bad feeling, the screenplay wasn't written by Singer, Vaughn (though he has a story credit!) or any of the the writers involved in X1, 2, or First Class (also known as the holy trinity of half decent X-Men movies). It was written by Simon Kinberg, whose credits include:

2012 This Means War (screenplay)
2009 Sherlock Holmes (screenplay)
2008 Jumper (screenplay)
2007 Mr. and Mrs. Smith (TV Movie) (writer)
2006 X-Men: The Last Stand (written by)
2005 Mr. & Mrs. Smith (written by)
2005 xXx: State of the Union (written by)



Of all the writers involved in this franchise, why did they tap this guy? Oh, he's supposed to be Fox's Kevin Feige (check out the name of his production company =). Good luck with that, here's what he has on the docket after DoFP:

2016 X-Men: Apocalypse (writer) (announced)
2015 The Fantastic Four (screenplay) (pre-production)
2014 Star Wars Rebels (TV Series)

Apocalypse indeed. Unless all those examples are somehow unrepresentative of his style, he's poised to do a lot of damage. Anyway, I hope Days of Future Past is good. =)




Also, here are some entertaining set photos from Age of Ultron (don't click if you're avoiding character spoilers):

Spoiler

Scarlet Witch:

http://i.huffpost.com/gen/1696748/thumbs/o-900.jpg

Spoiler

Quicksilver:

http://movies.cosmicbooknews.com/sites/default/files/0.jpg

And my favorite:

http://movies.cosmicbooknews.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/600_wide/wysiwyg_imageupload/1/ultronavg2-set.jpg

ULTRON!

I hope they just use that, fuck the full CG version.

 

[Walter]

Maybe you liked the more subtle, intimate vibe of that trailer as well. More Batman Begins first half, less Avengers final third? =)

I think it just reminded me that I don't really care about action sequences in these kinds of movies.

I found this trailer promising, but that's because my expectations had already been lowered by certain information I haven't shared. If you really want to put your finger on why you should be having a bad feeling, the screenplay wasn't written by Singer, Vaughn (though he has a story credit!) or any of the the writers involved in X1, 2, or First Class (also known as the holy trinity of half decent X-Men movies). It was written by Simon Kinberg, whose credits include:

2012 (screenplay)
2009 (screenplay)
2008 (screenplay)
2007 (TV Movie) (writer)
2006 (written by)
2005 (written by)
2005 (written by)

Jesus... Indeed, this does not bode well. But, somehow I still have faith

http://movies.cosmicbooknews.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/600_wide/wysiwyg_imageupload/1/ultronavg2-set.jpg

ULTRON!

Looks like a Doctor Who villain.

 

[Griffith]

I think it just reminded me that I don't really care about action sequences in these kinds of movies.

Yeah, the last trailer made it look like a personal, character-driven drama. This one is more in line with your typical trailer for these movies.

Jesus... Indeed, this does not bode well. But, somehow I still have faith

You makin' funna me and my opto-mism?

Looks like a Doctor Who villain.

Cyberman:

http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5221/398/1600/ageofsteel.1.jpg

Actually, Cyberman looks more like Ultron than the Ultron stand in. Speaking of which, the last movie made like a gazillion dollars, couldn't they have invested in a better on set Ultron for the actors to respond to? Or least borrow a Cyberman costume and plug some mo cap crap on it. Also, who thinks that was actually James Spader in there?