Family Guy: Something, Something, Something Dark Side trailer

About two years ago Family Guy aired their hilarious Star Wars episode.  Despite that being the best Family Guy episode in recent history it took them a long time to finally release this one.  I’m sure this episode/movie will be just as good as the original, but surely it didn’t have to take this long.  And I hope they don’t wait this long for the Return of the Jedi parody.

I still have s light problem with the “casting”.  Cleveland should have been Lando.  Instead they made him Artoo, and they have Mort playing Lando.  And Joe should have been Artoo.  Mort jokes won’t make any sense coming out of Lando.  Besides that it looks good.

Click poster to watch the trailer.

From Apple.

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Caprica trailer

First off, this is a trailer for a TV show.  Now that more than half of you have left the site we can begin discussing this show.

I’m extremely excited about this show.  It is the prequel TV series for Battlestar Galactica.  Supposedly it’s going to be a more intimate drama as opposed to BSG’s epic drama.  The pilot/mini-series has already aired and been released.  It was quite good, an unnecessary amount of nudity, but it’s forgivable.  The show is about the creation of the Cylons (well, some of them) and the ancestors of some of the characters from the main series.  Battlestar Galactica was an outrageously good TV show, I had lost some appreciation for it but after a friend of mine rewatched it I was reminded of how epic it was.  This show won’t be quite as great, but it’ll still be good.  And there are a few members of the cast that I love.  Magda Apanowicz was great in Kyle XY (honestly, she was the only person on that show that wasn’t over-acting).  Also Polly Walker is in the show (hilariously I always get her mixed up with Molly Parker).  Polly was great in Rome.  This role doesn’t seem quite as powerful as her role in Rome, but I’m sure she’ll make things complicated.

Before you watch the trailer you should be warned that it has a truly awful voice over, and it contains spoilers about the mini-series.

Click poster to watch trailer.

From SyFy Aintitcool

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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.

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The Prisoner trailer

The Prisoner looks like a movie; it has an extremely high quality production value, it stars two talented movie stars, it has an epic scope; but it’s really a mini-series.  This miniseries is brought to you by AMC the dark horse that brought you Mad Men.  And following AMC’s recent pattern, it’s sure to win all the awards at the Emmy’s next year.

It’s supposedly a remake of an old BBC mini-series.  I know nothing of that.  The story appears to be a very familiar sci-fi story.   A regular man wakes up in a dystopian society lacking in emotion and with an emphasis on conformity.  I don’t know which sci-fi fallback I like more, dystopian nightmares or robotic uprisings.  In the end they’re both the same, they both have a twist at the end (or in the beginning), and they both have slightly tragic compromising endings, but I think the dystopian version allows for more creativity.

Anyways, back to this mini-series.  These two actors will be a lot of fun to watch, they’re both extremely good actors (poor Mr. Caviezel will always be known as Jesus).  The locations look beautiful.  For some reason that balloon looks quite exciting.  I have no idea how it fits into the storyline, but it looks interesting.

Click poster to watch trailer.

From YouTube.

Also, check out the Official Site.  I can’t find the trailer on it, but it’s full of goodness.  All Official Sites should be this good.

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Avatar teaser

Avatar is probably the most epic-est movie ever made.  James Cameron finally decided to capitalize on the outrageous success of Titanic and make the movie he’s always wanted to make.  This is that movie.  I honestly couldn’t care less about the story, what I care about is how it looks.  This looks to be the most beautiful movie ever made.  It has the most impressive effects work ever.  And it’s all in 3D.  I know 3D has been around forever, but only with a budget like this one will 3D be seen to it’s full effect.

[UPDATE: Empire posted a wonderful scene-by-scene analysis of the trailer.  Check it out here.]

Click poster to watch movie (and don’t be afraid of the blue skin, it won’t hurt you to have a little sci-fi in your life):

From Apple.

Or try Twitch.

- izi

Gentlemen Broncos trailer

It’s hard to believe that the teaser/viral video for this movie was released more than a year ago (when I say more than a year I mean approximately 366 days ago).  This movie is full of too much hilarity.  Jennerifer Coolidge is almost enough to get me into the theatre, especially with those ill-fitting sweaters.  But this Ronald Chevalier character is just too glorious.  Then throw in some sci-fi spoofing.  It’s going to be epic.

Click poster to watch trailer.

From YouTube.

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Daybreakers trailer

First of all, this poster is very misleading.  This movie is not strictly a horror movie or even a thriller.  It’s actually more of a sci-fi or action movie.  (I don’t think I’m doing a good job selling it.)  The point is, I didn’t watch this trailer for a few months because I thought it looked like another vampire movie, or worse a cheap little horror movie.  But I was wrong.  This movie looks glorious.  I highly recommend that you give this trailer a chance.

Click poster to watch trailer.

From Yahoo.

Or try YouTube.

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Ninja Assassin trailer

Click poster to watch trailer.

From MTV.

Or try Aintitcool.

Or tro Coming Soon.

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District 9 trailer

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From Yahoo.

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The Box trailer

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From Twitch.

Or try Moviefone.

- izi