Thursday, March 13, 2008

Trailer Watch: An Avalanche of Trailers

This has been a pretty big week for trailers. So instead of the normal one (or two) trailers in the Trailer Watch I'm gonna give you a whole slew (with just a brief description for each).

First and foremost, we finally have a trailer for the new and (hopefully) improved Incredible Hulk movie starring Ed Norton. The talk around the interweb is that Norton and Marvel were at loggerheads over the final cut of the film. Marvel prefers a more family friendly action movie (a la Spider Man) whereas Norton wants to do for Hulk what Bale & Nolan did for Batman; reinvent the character in a darker film that tells the origin story of the character. This of course means the film becomes a character study that relies less on cheesy CG and more on the acting chops of the cast; and a pretty good cast at that - Ed Norton, William Hurt, and Tim Roth (enough talent there to even cover for the suckfest that is Liv Tyler). From the looks of the trailer Norton may have gotten his way.



Next up, Righteous Kill. The only really significant thing about this movie is it stars Robert De Niro and Al Pacino, together for the first time since their pseudo scene together in Heat. There has always been talk that these two never did anything together because they hate each other. Well it appears they don't hate each other as much as they love fat paychecks. Whatever. The movie looks like a piece of crap and neither of these two have done anything worth talking about in close to a decade. I'm sure it will make a billion dollars. On the bright side Curtis Jackson is in the movie so we are guaranteed that someone is gonna get rich or die tryin.



The first full length trailer for Pixar's Wall-E was finally released. I had seen various teasers for this Andrew Stanton film and had no fucking clue what this movie was all about. Now that I have seen the full trailer, I still have no fucking clue. But what I do know is that the animation looks astoundingly gorgeous. Pixar may as well clear off space on their mantle now for the Best Animated Feature Oscar.



Last and probably least I have three words for you - Lost Boys Sequel.

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