Hey 3.5 Readers.
There’s a new Ghostbusters trailer out. Eh, in some ways it looks like the original but then in other ways it looks like it branches out.
I’ll give it a try. What do you think?
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The Magnificent Seven – Movie Trailer
Hey 3.5 Readers.
Chris Pratt. Denzel Washington. Cowboys and awesome action. This movie looks pretty good.
Check it out:
Movie Trailer – Doctor Strange
Hey 3.5 Readers.
BQB here.
Marvel’s got a new movie trailer for Doctor Strange. Surgeon who becomes like a magic space wizard or something. Admittedly, I don’t know much about it as Doctor S is one of Marvel’s lesser known characters.
The trailer looks like the movie borrows from the Matrix and Inception.
What say you, 3.5?
Star Wars: Rogue One Trailer
Hey 3.5 Readers,
Did you see the trailer for Star Wars: Rogue One?
So basically we have a new character, another young woman but unlike Rey, she has kind of a bad side. Been in a lot of trouble but shrugs it off with, “It’s a rebellion. I rebel.” Good line.
Apparently about a plot to steal Death Star plans.
Is this how Luke finds out about that unsecured vent he shot his proton torpedoes into?
Honestly, my two cents, it looks a little bit darker and it looks like it will be even better than The Force Awakens.
Interesting direction for Star Wars. This is the first time where they’ve branched off, or started going into side stories. It looks like the franchise is in good hands with Disney.
If only we could talk Mickey Mouse into buying the rights to shoot DC Comics based movies from Warner Brothers.
God, now that I think about it, I wrote a really sugarcoated review of Batman vs. Superman. That flick was a total stinker.
Batman vs. Superman!
Hey 3.5 readers.
It’s here. It’s finally here. The fight we’ve all been waiting for. The Dark Knight vs. The Man of Steel.
Who will win? No really, who do you think will win?
(As you can see, there is a “bookshelf battle” in the header of this fine blog in honor of this film. Batman can take a punch like a champ.)
You have to root for Batman, right? He’s the undercard in this bout. Superman is an immortal quasi-God figure whereas Batman is a guy with good training and a lot of money. (An endless supply of money being the closest thing to a super power in reality).
I can’t wait to see it this weekend. It will mark the beginning of DC’s attempt to recreate Marvel’s success with its Avengers movies.
Here’s a thought. This is a big, summer blockbuster style movie and here it is, out so early…in March.
What does that mean for the future of movies?
Here’s what I think as a movie nerd. Movie theaters are facing increasing competition from the Internet. With the economy being down and ticket/popcorn prices high, a lot of people just decide to stay home and watch Netflix.
I can see that movie theaters are constantly coming up with new ways to get butts in seats. 3-D is one. I’m seeing more theaters build stadium seating and put in extra comfy reclining chairs. Beer and alcohol (watch Batman drunk!) and so on.
These big movies coming out earlier and earlier is just another way for movie theaters to stay competitive. After all, if you love Batman and Superman, you’ll make the trip to see them on the big screen, right?
So this seems like a good thing. Big movies earlier in the year because there just isn’t enough time to fit them all in during the summer.
Have you ever gone to the movies in January and wondered, “Holy Shit. January movies are godawful. This must be the time of year they release all the films that got the green light because someone had incriminating photos of a movie producer in a compromising position.”
I always wonder that. Further, I always wonder, why can’t every movie be awesome? Of course, I realize awesome is in the eye of the beholder. What I find awesome and another finds awesome are two different things. There’s enough room in the entertainment world for everyone.
Long story short, I think it will mean that eventually…bad ass movies will be shown in January.
Batman or Superman – who do you pick? Leave your pick in the comments.
SPOILERS – Batman is Bruce Wayne and he became a vigilante to cope with seeing his parents gunned down outside a theater as a child. Also, Superman is really Clark Kent of the Metropolis Daily Planet. His space pod crashed on a farm when he was a kid and a nice farm couple took him in and raised him.
That was a joke.
Sausage Party -NSFW Trailer
Hey 3.5 readers.
Have you seen the trailer for Sausage Party yet?
So here’s the setup. Seth Rogen and James Franco (the comedy duo behind Pineapple Express and also that movie that almost led to a war with North Korea) have made a cartoon.
For the first thirty seconds of the trailer, you almost think it is another Pixar style cartoon. What’s every Pixar movie about? Talking toys. Talking cars. Talking bugs. Talking planes. Talking fish. Always about something that doesn’t talk only now it is talking.
This one is about food. Yes. All this time you never knew that food products can talk. They sit on the store shelves, waiting for you to pick them up with the hope that you’re going to do something great with them and….
…yup…the food products engage in all kinds of obscenity once they learn what people actually do with food.
Here’s the Sony Red Band Trailer. If you don’t want to be offended you probably shouldn’t watch:
I’ve been hearing these guys talk about this project on different talk shows for awhile now.
It sounds like a funny concept to me but I’m a male with a warped sense of humor so I’m basically their target demographic.
I give them credit for actually getting the studio to put up the money needed for Pixar quality rendering…or for getting a studio for doing something completely outside of the box for that matter.
PREDICTIONS:
- People will be divided on whether it is hysterical or garbage. There will be very little in between.
- There will be adults who would have thought it was funny but won’t go because they’ll think it is a kids’ movie based on a quick look at the poster.
- Also based only on a quick look at the poster, there will be many clueless parents who will be like, “Hey this looks like a good movie to take the kids to!” only to be horrified.
Anyway, I will have to check this out and write a review for my 3.5 readers when it comes out.
New Ghostbusters Movie Preview
It’s finally here, the preview for the new all-female Ghostbusters movie:
My main observation is it looks and feels like the original.
They’re not quite like the original team but:
A) You’ve got the lovable, almost childish nerd Ray (Dan Akroyd) vs. Abby (Melissa McCarthy)
B) The glasses wearing ultra smart nerd – Egon (Harold Ramis) vs. Jillian (Kate McKinnon)
C) The leader – Venkman (Bill Murray) vs. Erin (Kristen Wiig)
D) The black non-scientist who talks the scientists into keeping it real – Winston (Ernie Hudson) vs. Patty (Leslie Jones)
I’ll just throw it out there. A Ghostbusters sequel has always been a very high hurdle to jump over because the first was so great.
It was such an original and funny idea – serious so you felt a sense of danger but hilarious that you kept laughing.
In this preview, you have what looks like a ghost in a library. A giant monster in New York. Tributes to the original. But then again, the tough part about comedy movie sequels is that people ALWAYS expect a repeat of the original movie’s jokes.
I don’t know. They’re not deviating from the original formula, that’s for sure. But then if they went off the deep end into something too new people would criticize that too.
I want it to be good. I hope it is good. I can’t believe it’s been 30 years though. Holy shit.
You know, I really don’t care that it is an all woman cast. I know some people have complained about it. I just want it to be good, funny and enjoyable.
I will say this – we’ve come a long way that there are so many female nerd moviegoers that an all female Ghostbusters cast would get the studio green light. These nerd women were nowhere to be found when I was a young lad.
I’m also glad to see whatever idea they’re going with here does not wipe out the first two movies. It exists in the same world and at least according to IMDB some of the original Ghostbusters will be making cameos.
BQB on the Star Wars: The Force Awakens Trailer (The Final Trailer)
Hey 3.5 readers.
Bookshelf Q. Battler here, still riding out the zombie apocalypse, but luckily I have Alien Jones’ space phone to stream stuff on, like the latest Star Wars: The Force Awakens Trailer:
My thoughts, in no particular order (and feel free to correct me if I’m wrong because many of these are predictions i.e. me just spitballing:
- So we have two new heroes, a young male and a young female lead. The girl I believe is some kind of junk scavenger and I’m guessing the structure she is searching through is that big crashed Star Destroyer from the previous trailer. I’m assuming it is, in fact, the Star Destroyer where Luke had his final battle with the Emperor in Return of the Jedi. Could be wrong but I thought I read somewhere that the girl find’s Luke’s lightsaber or something. (Again, I’m just throwing stuff out there, I really have no idea.) Meanwhile, the male lead is a stormtrooper and apparently something happens that makes him renounce his stormtroopery ways.
- We see/hear the female lead ask Han if the stories are true and he explains that yes, they are. Therefore, apparently much time has passed, the tales from the older films have become less real and more like legends to the people of the Star Wars universe, and assumably, Han, Luke, and Leia as old-timers will guide a new generation of heroes in taking on a new threat.
- That threat comes in the form of some bad masked dude who’s checking out Darth Vader’s crushed mask, pledging to finish what Vader started. Didn’t he get the memo that Vader recanted his evil ways while he was dying and finally ended up being a nice ghost who chilled with Ghost Obi Wan and Ghost Yoda at the end of Return of the Jedi?
- We see Leia – she looks sad, she appears to be hugging Han. I don’t know why she’s sad. Presumably because evil deeds or transpiring, or maybe she missed Han. Han said “Chewie, we’re home” in the other trailer, so assumably Han and Chewie went somewhere for a long time. Here’s hoping there will be some joke where Leia calls Han a scruffy nerf herder or something.
- I’m sad to hear about all the “Boycott Star Wars” nonsense, i.e. claims that the movie is “anti-white” but on the other hand, if you check out the hashtag, it’s mostly people complaining that the hashtag was ever created. Food for thought – I get people are mad and want to vent but sometimes where the Internet is concerned, ignoring a dumb idea makes it go away faster whereas talking about it helps it gain steam, which, yeah, why am I talking about it then?
- Ticket sales are breaking records as well as websites. People buying pre-sale tickets for a movie that’s 2 months away. I’ve never really cared about a movie before enough to buy tickets in advance but I might just for this one.
- So we see Han, and Leia, where’s Luke? We only see his hand in the first trailer. I mean, Mark Hammil hasn’t had it easy when it comes to aging (but then again who does?) He was in a car wreck when he was younger and he wasn’t the best looking dude starting out (Kids there was once a time when Hollywood allowed people who didn’t look completely like Gods and Goddesses to be the leads in films, I know, amazing!) so I wonder if that’s it – but he was in the The Kingsman earlier this year and he looked fine. I hope they’re not going to do some Hollywood thing and cover him up with a cloak or something for half the film. I dunno. That’s all pure speculation.
OK. My two cents over. Again, don’t quote me because I’m just talking out of my butt. I look forward to seeing this movie. What do you nerds think?
Sharktopus vs. Whalewolf (SyFy Channel Movie Trailer)
I smell Oscar…
New Trailers Buzz – Sharktopus vs. Whalewolf (Roger Corman, SyFy Channel)
Shark+Octopus=Sharktopus
Whale+Wolf=Whalewolf
What say you, 3.5 readers?
Comic Con 2015 – The Man From UNCLE (Movie Trailer)
Ultra stylish James Bond-esque 1960’s British spy thriller based on an old TV series starring Henry Cavill of Man of Steel fame:
The Man from UNCLE – Warner Brothers Pictures
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