The Trailers Thread III

[Norgarth]

Gladiator II



Time Bandits (remake)

[Bob Schroeck]

Whoooo. Harrison Ford as "Thunderbolt" Ross and a glimpse of the Red Hulk...

[Bob Schroeck]

[Bob Schroeck]

[classicdrogn]

Transformers: One


first trailer (~2 mo ago)


2nd trailer (~1 mo ago)


new "sneak peek" clip


new TV spot

As expected, the first trailer was edited to lean really hard on the quipping, from the lok of things. Dumbassotron gonna dumbass, but the rest of them seem relatively normal. Though I get a strong sense of D-16 (future Megatron) being played black, which... uh... seems weird in a character who's going to betray the heroes and become the iconic series antagonist in current year Hollywood.

[Bob Schroeck]

And Lady Deadpool makes her first appearance...



The three top fan speculations for who's playing her are a) Taylor Swift, b) Ryan Reynold's wife Blake Lively and c) Ryan Reynolds.

[Norgarth]

Beetlejuice Beetlejuice Official Trailer 2

[classicdrogn]

Ah yes, another "sequel no one asked for forty years later." The trailer isn't horrible but I don't expect it to get far past the "meh, didn't suck" waterline at best.

[nemonowan]

Ah yes, another "sequel no one asked for forty years later." The trailer isn't horrible but I don't expect  it to get far past the "meh, didn't suck" waterline at best.

Well, since we are on that subject:

[Bob Schroeck]

And now... the final trailer for Deadpool & Wolverine... and the Mood Whiplash is strong with this one.



EDIT: And yes, that is 19-year-old Dafne Keen reprising her role.

[Norgarth]

Moana 2 trailer

[Norgarth]

Transformers One Official Trailer #2

[robkelk]

In case anybody wants to download the new Ranma trailer, it just went up on Danbooru

[Bob Schroeck]

A film with Jack Black, Jason Momoa and Emma Myers? Even if I didn't know anything about Minecraft, I might be tempted just for the cast.

[Bob Schroeck]

And someone has redone the trailer inside Minecraft, or a reasonable facsimile thereof:

[classicdrogn]

So, Transformers One.(Don't worry, no spoilers here that weren't explicit in the trailers) It's not without flaws, the presence of Dumbassotron first among them... but it's easily as visually stunning as the 1986 movie with only your preference for cel or 3d animation to give one the lead, and there's no contest that it has the most logical plot progression flat out. Nothing "just happens, why? Who cares, new thing is happening!" or worse yet, interrupting the flow of the narrative to insert some political lecture only relevant to a bunch of fleshie grubs that won't even exist for eleven million years. Sure, there are parallels that you can draw... but it leaves those matters for the audience to make the connections for themselves instead of dropping them like anvils from the sky. It's almost like they had an inkling of respect for the viewer's intelligence, imagine that!

Now, callbacks, quotes, and references to iconic moments in previous TF media, those it goes hard with, but much like the bayformers theatrical soundtrack it does that in a way that finds all the right buttons and pounds on them with big fucking hammers. There's are dozens of "he said the thing!" "and "he did the thing!" moments, and evening huge crowd scenes any bot close enough to the camera to have recognizable features at all has a color layout and detailing that at least suggests an established character in the franchise if not being obviously intended to be them - and everyone who gets names actually matches the name they were given too. Well, it's a new type of Quintesson than we've seen before, more reminiscent of the Executioner at the Sharkticon Pit than anything else from G1, or maybe a bit of Beast Machines Alpha Quintesson, but we already knew that from the trailers and new Quint forms pop up two out of three times they gget used, so whatever.

I do think it ends up with something of a broken Aesop, but come on, this is the origin story of Optimus and Megatton, there's no way the ending could be in doubt any more than Titanic. Less, really, since at least then there was the question of whether the viewpoint characters would survive even if the boat had to sink.

Final score: solid eight out of ten I'd say, maybe higher if the rumors of voice changes for some characters and a better sound level mix in the final edit compared to early access screens are true. I believe them at least to an extent, reports from the even earlier showings say Elita's voice was all but inaudible but she was fine in the one I caught; certainly Soundwave didn't have the voice processing he's famous for, just the Dr. Claw growl it was based on, and Starscream and Shockwave were pretty bad too.


Teal Cyber-deer: If you like Transformers, or sci fi in general, or action movies in general, go ahead and see it. At worst, it's a fun couple hours of hijinks, stunts, and explosions, and if you're inclined to engage with the characters at all they'll get right unser your skin, in the best way.

Well, mostly. Dumbassotron still exists, but the first trailer really played up the jokes and blabbering. It's age-appropriate for any kid old enough to giggle at the near-miss middle finger joke from the second trailer while understanding that it's rude, crude, and unacceptable in polite company, but not so dumbed down you'll long to club yourself unconscious if you take a younger relative to see it.

e: If this is the last movie I can see, I won't regret the time and money spent.

[classicdrogn]

My morning-after thoughts probably do count as a spoiler, so...

Spoiler

Really, OP and Elita and Jar Jar Bee are there too, but this is Megatron's movie. He's the one with a character arc that amounts to more than getting a pep talk after a moment of doubt, having enough of someone's bullshit and then getting over it to work with them anyway, or the stunning personal achievement of shutting the frag up for a full minute without being physically gagged. It's a downwards arc, but arc it is, and it's a far better origin story than off screen time travel that results in being built as the ultimate Decepticon in a cave by a bunch of bots he personally captured and reprogrammed into Decepticons.


It finally gives him more motivation than simple cruelty, ego, and ambition for why he can tolerate no other leader as well, even if it does mostly tread ground the comics broke first to do it - but that's not a bad thing either, as unlike so much of the past ten years of remakes and pastiches, the level of detail and coherence of the result in Tramsformers One make it clear that it come3s from a place of love, that more than just oine of the people making the major creative decisions on the project were knowledgeable and passionate about the franchise as a whole, and wanted tomake a movie that okdheads like us could groove along to while introducing a whole new genration to it in a way that isn't some deconstruction or moral tract, just a cinematic adventure that shiws more than it tells of the deeper meanings and issues it presents.


I really would like to see it get a Phantom Edit treatment to excise as much Jar Jar as possible, though,

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[Bob Schroeck]

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[Norgarth]

Marvel's Thunderbolts teaser trailer

[classicdrogn]

So... it's Thunderbolts, but with an almost completely different cast, including having swapped out the original legit-new-hero character, and all black ops people (all dressed in black) instead of colorful supers from the footage shown as well, presumably because super-effects are expensive. It's telling how low my expectations are for a Marvel movie that all that hasn't already turned me completely away.

[Bob Schroeck]

And this was linked off that one... and if it fulfils the promise of the trailer I just might enjoy it more:

[nemonowan]

And this was linked off that one... and if it fulfils the promise of the trailer I just might enjoy it more:

My first suspect would have been Jack Skellington...

[Bob Schroeck]

And this was linked off that one... and if it fulfils the promise of the trailer I just might enjoy it more:

My first suspect would have been Jack Skellington...

<snrk> That was my first thought, too.

[Bob Schroeck]

Well. New animated Lara Croft/Tomb Raider series coming out on Netflix, featuring Haley Atwell as Lara: