Thursday, August 29, 2013

Thor: The Dark World

Everyone's 3rd favorite Avenger's second movie will be out in November, which means that the
preview is in theaters now.  Get to your seats early when going to a Marvel movie if you want to find out what's in store for the butt of Tony Stark's best jokes.
We find out that Thor will be fighting the Universe's oldest enemy.  Before there were bad guys there was, DARKNESS.
To do this, Thor must once again don his mother's drapes and reunite with Princess Amidala.  How'd that work for Anakin?  Come to think of it he ended up wearing the Emperor's drapes.
The trailer for Thor: The Dark World really is just a reminder that the next Captain America preview will be out soon which means that the one we're really waiting for is just around the corner-ANT-MAN.
***Spoiler Alert***
Thor springs Loki under the threat of death if he double crosses the Norse god of thunder.

***Rating***
One Hammer-after seeing this preview I'll spend the whole movie wondering how Loki double crosses Thor & it'll probably be a very minor plot point.

Wednesday, August 7, 2013

Not a 'Plain' preview

Engines thunder then White Zombie's More Human Than Human blares and this trailer has the makings of a hit. Animated air planes with eyes filling their windshields reintroduce us to Pixar's world of sentient vehicles.
The preview's protagonist is Dusty, a crop duster who's afraid of heights and apparently races against World War II era planes. I can't quite put my finger on it, but there is something very familiar about this preview.  We find a vehicle in a small town who goes on race internationally.  There's also the little forklift characters that I've seen somewhere before.  It seems like there should be a bucktoothed airplane, but I didn't see one in the preview.  I just get the sense that I've seen this story before.
Maybe it's just me.

***Rating***
1 Ka-Chow!  You'll want to watch this preview again and again so you'll get the line about how fast you fly right.
  


 
 

Thursday, August 1, 2013

Elysium Fields

I get the feeling that I've seen this preview before; the haves verses the have nots, a crisis and a reluctant hero.  A thief having paid his debt to society trying to do right but catches a bad break.  Matt Damon's playing a smart elic.  Matt Damon having his body enhanced and then being sent on a mission.
Lucky for Sony I'm a fan of movie cliché.
Elysium is of course a utopia and the Earth is of course a dystopia.  Good Will Bourne through a series of events is apparently exposed to radiation which, unlike Peter Parker or Bruce Banner, will kill him in five days. So his buddy digs out Mickey Rourke's Iron Man 2 costume, bolts it to Jason Hunting and sends him to Elysium where Jody Foster looking like her Clarice character frets about him.  Some chick has a daughter that apparently is sick & needs to get to Elysium too because our hero has to have a better reason than saving his life to get up there.

***Spoiler Alert***
There are no surprises in this trailer.  Matt Damon and his exo-skeleton make it to
Elysium and stuff blows up.

***Rating***
9 as in District 9 by the same director which was a good movie but this preview was better.