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Saturday, July 31, 2010

Tron Legacy

This is the latest trailer for Tron Legacy, the sequel to the 1982 film. The movie's Facebook page says
TRON is a 3D high-tech adventure set in a digital world that’s unlike anything ever captured on the big screen. Sam Flynn (GARRETT HEDLUND), the tech-savvy 27-year-old son of Kevin Flynn (JEFF BRIDGES), looks into his father’s disappearance and finds himself pulled into the same world of fierce programs and gladiatorial games where his father has been living for 25 years. Along with Kevin’s loyal confidant (OLIVIA WILDE), father and son embark on a life-and-death journey across a visually-stunning cyber universe that has become far more advanced and exceedingly dangerous
The page went up after Comic Con and asks you to "get on the grid." You can also follow updates on Twitter. The Disney movie will be showing in Disney Digital 3DIMAX 3D and RealD 3D and hit theaters on December 17th. Disney's website has cool interactive games for geeks like me...:-D

Glad to see this movie finally come to fruition. The concept, alone calls for nothing less than perfection in terms of graphics and effects. From the looks of the previous trailer, it will deliver. Below, I've included the most recent YouTube trailer for your viewing pleasure.

Friday, July 16, 2010

Two Cent/Second Review

Saw Predators earlier this week. I definitely think it's worth seeing, but it gets cheesy midway and predictable through the film. That was disappointing since it starts off kicking @$$ and taking names. Adrian Brody is great as a strategic leader, but I can't picture him as a dangerous assassin (previous Predator protagonists: Danny Glover, Arnold Schwarzenegger). This was not a well-fitting departure for Laurence Fishburne or Topher Grace (again disappointing). 

The action sequences and special effects were great when they weren't planning or fighting for their survival. I felt like the mystique of the predators was taken away for the sake of setting this film apart (Robert Rodriguez previously said this film picks up where Predator series left off - there's also a brief reference in the film). Thankfully, it does not follow the "Alien vs Predator" franchise. There's also potential for a sequel, which would be welcome and surely greeted with great reception. This film opened third with approximately $10 million its opening weekend.

Thoughts?

Night Chronicles: Devil

Today, I told a really funny joke (I'm pretty corny, so I take pride in every chuckle I get)! I was working as an elevator attendant for an event and this guy gets in the elevator and asks...
"how's the elevator gig going?" 
I responded...
"it has its ups and down." 
**cue rim shot**
Anyways...that joke made me remember to post this movie trailer. Shyamalan brings us Devil, that puts five strangers on an elevator. This is a familiar formula: you place strangers in a situation that truly shows their human (possibly) [in]nature, fear of the unknown (and enclosures) and add a plot twist, but I am still excited to see the Devil. Hits theaters September 17th. You'll recognize some of the faces - Chris Messina (Julie and Julia, Greenberg), Geoffrey Arend (500 Days of Summer), Bojana Novakovic (Edge of Darkness, Drag Me to Hell), Logan Marshall-Green (Dark Blue) and Bokeem Woodbine (Saving Grace).
You can follow the films updates on M. Night Shyamalan's website at www.thenightchronicles.com/devil/.

Thursday, July 8, 2010

Machete: I Smell a Future Cult Classic

If you're a fan of the burly Danny Trejo, you'll enjoy Machete. Trejo is a ex-federale kicking butt and taking names for revenge against his conspiring bosses. Legendary Robert DeNiro, action hero Steve Segal, Jessica Alba, Michelle Rodriguez, Cheech Marin, Don Johnson, Jeff Fahey, and jailbird Lindsay Lohan star alongside Trejo.



You might remember this trailer from Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino's Grindhouse features in 2007. This guy is 66 years old and I wouldn't want to mess with this guy! Being a peripheral tough guy has definitely helped him become a unappreciated screen gem, but you can look forward to seeing more of his projects this year through 2012. I can see this film developing a cult following with the versatile Rodriguez heading the project.
CAN.NOT.WAIT!!!!

You can view the "illegal"  and very timely trailer from Aint It Cool.

Computer Screens on the Big Screen

The Social Network - I'm starting to think this isn't going to be a movie about geeks with a great idea with nothing but a Coke and a smile. Regardless, I'm looking forward seeing this movie. I heart Justin Timberlake and rooting for Jesse Eisenberg's star to shine bright! Also want to see up and comer Andrew Garfield (He's in Never Let Me Go), the recently confirmed Spiderman. For the latest on the film, visit www.500millionfriends.com. Sony brings The Social Network to theaters this October.



Middle Men is another film focusing on milestones that shook the Internet. Luke Wilson, Giovanni Ribisi and Kelsey Grammer (ummm YAY!!!) According to IMDB, Men "chronicles Jack Harris, one of the pioneers of internet commerce, as he wrestles with his morals and struggles not to drown in a sea of conmen, mobsters, drug addicts, and pornstars." Sounds cool, definitely a formula we've seen before (people come into money in sleazy way and surprised when they meet unsavory characters...yada yada yada), regardless should make for a great flick if Grammer and Ribisi don't wet your whistle.

Check out the trailer here.

Enough to Make You Bend Over Backwards in Fear

This has got to be the creepiest poster I have ever seen in my frickin life!

Lionsgate is distributing Eli Roth's latest production, The Last Exorcism. He has been tweeting about the movie a lot lately and I'm sure the Hostel director will deliver.

The movie is shot like a faux documentary chronicling a slick reverend's last exorcism gone-awry. I don't recognize any of the flick's players, but you might have seen the protagonist, played by Patrick Fabian, in "Big Love" 

Exorcism hit theaters August 27th. For photos and the latest trailer, visit the website here.

Vampires Suck: This Movie Might Too, but Rings True

Who has two thumbs and is tired of all these vampire movies, books, and shows...this gal! Came across this trailer and had to share with fellow Twihaters. While I'd probably wait to see this movie on DVD (or on TV), it makes valid points about the on-screen hormone melting pots new breed of vampire films.


Vampires Suck Exclusive Trailer - Watch more Funny Videos

Anneliese van der Pol (That's So Raven) and Hangover's Ken Jeong star. Vampires Suck comes out later this summer.

Cue the revival of werewolf, alien, and zombie flicks.

Sunday, July 4, 2010

Let Me In Invites a Reimagining of Novel Adaptation

The trailer for Let Me In hit the web earlier this week. Let Me In is the American adaptation of Swedish horror film, Let the Right One In based on John Ajvide Lindqvist's novel. The Overture Films production will, like its predecessor, follow a lonely young boy that befriends a child vampire. Director Matt Reeves said this film is more of a reimagining, so audiences can expect surprises and a different direction. Kick-Ass actress Chloe Moretz, Kodi Smit-McPhee (The Road), Elias Koteas (Shutter Island) and Richard Jenkins (Stepbrothers) topline this movie, which hits theaters October 1st.

You can definitely see that they are trying to reach a wider audience. I think this will be a bit more mainstream and lack the art house melodramatics, but only time will tell. You can can out the trailer for Let the Right One In here.

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