Clash of the Titans teaser

When I was quite young I rented the old Clash of the Titans movie (it released sometime close to Star Wars).  I expected it to be a classic campy fantasy movie.  It was pretty awful.  I’m all for old-fashion special effects, but come on.  It wasn’t the classic it was made out to be.  This version looks better.  Granted this trailer is nothing more than a testosterone filled Hollywood version of a music video, but I’m sure the movie will be better.  It’s undoubtedly a big budget action movie, but it has some serious talent and shouldn’t be ignored as a 300 copycat (although that wouldn’t be the worst thing, 300 was a lot of fun).

And yes, I rolled my eyes too when the line “Titans Will Crash” came on the screen.

Click on the picture to watch the trailer (there are some awesome posters out there, but they haven’t offically been released yet).

From Yahoo.

Or try Coming Soon.

Or try YouTube.

- izi

Salt teaser

Salt is an interesting movie.  I starting having doubts about it when Tom Cruise dropped out of the project and Angelina Jolie was recast in the lead.  Objectively that should be good.  I don’t like Tom Cruise and I do like Angelina Jolie, but it concerns me that a script can be so casually and drastically changed.  Beyond that craziness this film looks like some simple, mindless fun.  It doesn’t look as bad as Wanted, but it’s hardly going to be one the most exciting movies next year (for me).  I do want to know what happens, and I guess that’s the point of the trailer.  By all accounts it looks like she’s quite guilty, but that’s going to be pretty hard to sustain throughout the whole movie.  There have got to be some serious twists.  We shall see.

Click the picture to watch the teaser (it’s almost a full trailer).

From Yahoo.

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Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief trailer

I am very unsure about this movie.  When I first watched the teaser I had a lot of hope.  It looked like a Harry Potter knock-off with Greek mythological characters instead of witches and wizards.  Sounds good, right?  Then I read the book.

Whew, the book is truly awful.  Granted it wasn’t written for adults, but technically neither was Harry Potter.  Honestly though, this book is terrible no matter how young you are.  I now have no intention of reading more of the books.

After I read the book I watched the teaser again and discovered that despite the terrible book the movie might still hold some promise.  Then they released this trailer.  Now I’m back on the ban wagon.  As long as the director and the screen-writers really change the story then this could be a good movie.  So this isn’t a full endorsement, I am not behind this movie, but I will say that it looks significantly better than the book.

Click on poster to watch trailer.

From YouTube.

Or try Coming Soon.

- izi

Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time trailer

This is another attempt by Disney and Jerry Bruckheimer to create another Pirates of the Caribean type franchise.  This is probably their best bet.  This one is based on the series of games.  The games have always been very popular and for good reason.  Ubisoft has never let the game get old.  They keep on refreshing the series.  The newest game was totally different, light on story, but heavy on style.  This movie seems to have borrowed the style from the newest game and the story from the best game.  The trailer explains the story, it seems quite different from the game, but that’s not a bad thing (there are more humans in the movie).

The cast seems quite good.  I was very concerned when I heard that Jake Gyllenhaal was going to play the prince.  But once they started releasing pictures of him my worries were gone.  I was very excited when I heard that Gemma Arterton was playing the other lead.  I loved her in James Bond, even if she was only in for a few seconds.  Ben Kingsley will make an interesting villain, hopefully he doesn’t overdo it.

Click poster to watch trailer.

From MySpace.

Or watch a shorter version on YouTube.

- izi

Avatar trailer

I figured it out!  I figured out why people have been so standoffish about supporting this movie.  It’s the Uncanny Valley.  I won’t pretend that I knew much about this crazy theory, I heard about it in a 30 Rock episode.  It essentially says that humans are ok with robots, cartoons, and some CGI, but there’s a point when we feel a subconscious dislike for something that appears real but isn’t.  Here’s how it was explained to me:

Tracy: Tell it to me in Star Wars.
Frank: Alright. We like R2D2 and C3PO.
Tracy: They’re nice.
Frank: And up here, we have a real person like Han Solo.
Tracy: He acts like he doesn’t care, but he does!
Frank: But down here we have a CGI Storm Trooper or Tom Hanks in the Polar Express.
Tracy: I’m scared! Get me out of there.

I think that Avatar is stuck down in the uncanny valley.  But don’t worry, you can overcome your natural dislike for realistic unreality… right?

But let’s discuss this trailer.  It incorporates a lot more of the story and appears to be quite complicated.  I don’t fully understand who’s on which side or what Sigourney Weaver’s job is.  But we shall see.  By the way, who wasn’t impressed with John Cameron’s career?  I always forget about how many successful movies he’s made.  Not that I actually like his movies, but he must be extremely rich.

Sorry about the strange picture, but there are only two posters for Avatar, and I already used the good one.  Click on this oddly shaped picture to watch the trailer.

From Yahoo.  (At the time of posting this site wouldn’t allow Canadian’s to watch the trailer.  I don’t know why it isn’t working, but it makes me mad.  That’s racism.)

Or try Trailer Addict.  (Sorry about the Thai subtitles.)

Or try Empire.

- izi

Green Zone trailer

Here’s an odd one.  This is a movie about an elite, rogue soldier fighting against his own government and uncovering multi-layered conspiracies.  It stars Matt Damon and is directed by Paul Greengrass.  I won’t be the first person to say that this is essentially a Bourne prequel.  It most definitely isn’t but it might as well be.  That’s not to say that it isn’t worth watching, I absolutely loved the Bourne movies, and especially the last two (the ones Mr. Greengrass directed).

This movie is something about W.M.D.s and Baghdad, I don’t really know, I have no interest in war stuff.  It also starts Amy Ryan, Greg Kinnear and Brendan Gleeson.  I kinda wish Amy Ryan wasn’t a successful film star, but Only because I want her to go back on The Office.  Brendan Gleeson appears to be playing an American in this movie.  That should be interesting.  I love the guy, especially his accent, but without the accent I’m afraid he might just come off as extremely effeminate.  We shall see.

Click the picture to watch the trailer.

From Yahoo.

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The Wolfman trailer 2

This trailer is far more exciting than the last one.  Obviously all the good things about the last one are still here, the awesome cast, the beautiful sets and the fact that the writers and the director didn’t sellout.  It would have been very easy to make a ridiculous Werewolf movie set in modern times with teenagers and maybe, if we’re lucky, Paris Hilton.  But fortunately the movie didn’t take that route.

Now let’s all hope that this movie doesn’t get delayed… again.

Click poster to watch trailer.

From Apple.

Bunny and the Bull trailer

I can’t explain this trailer, please don’t ask me to, I just want you to watch it.  Supposedly it’s a movie about a guy who remembers a road trip he took last year.  It’s not actually flashbacks of the trip it’s kinda just reenactments in his apartment using the souvenirs he picked up along the way.  It doesn’t really make sense but it looks hilarious.

Click poster to watch trailer.

Via Twitch.

From Youtube.

Or try The Times Online.

- izi

Toy Story 3 trailer

Toy Story was a big part of my childhood.  I was raised on Disney movies, and I was 7 when the movie originally came out, pretty much the perfect age for a movie like this.  Anywho, we’re on to the third movie and this one looks like it’ll make me cry more than the other two.  I’ve always been extremely nostalgic, so a movie about leaving toys behind is terribly depressing for me.  Also personification of inanimate objects is a hobby of mine (also a sign of insanity), so this movie is right up my alley.

Click poster to watch the trailer.

From Yahoo.

Or try Apple.

- izi

Where the Wild Things Are tv-spots

I don’t usually post TV-Spots on this blog, there are usually just too many, and if I start posting them I might never stop.  Plus they’re usually just shortened versions of the trailer.  Buuut, Where the Wild Things is going to be my favorite movie this year so I’ll make an exception.  Also there have been an extraordinary amount of TV-Spots for this movie.

And just for the fun of it I’m going to post the rest of the Where the Wild Things Posters.  Apparently a lot of people have used my blog to get posters, that’s fine with me (probably it isn’t fine with the other sites where I get the posters from.)

Click on the posters to go to Warner Bros. Official YouTube page.

TV Spot 1

TV Spot 2

TV Spot 3

TV Spot 4

TV Spot 5

TV Spot 6

TV Spot 7

TV Spot 8

- izi