Tag: trailers

NEW TRAILER: The Amazing Spider-Man 2

Yes yes, I know –

Some of you may remember that I didn’t get on that well with the first take at this reboot (I would argue that my 14 second re-make is much better) BUT this sequel looks promising. That’s Electro, being a bad-ass, Green Goblin (maybe) working with him, and the Rhino (mechanical form) getting a nod too.

If you count Vulture’s wings and Doc Ock’s arms, along with The Lizard from the first TASM, then you’ve got a six sinister bunch of villains right there, if you get my meaning.

Bring it.

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NEW TRAILER: Captain America: The Winter Soldier

I’m actually well up for this.

  1. I like that this is (or at least seems) a bit more suspenseful.
  2. Nick Fury gets a beating. Oof.
  3. Falcon looks awesome.
  4. I hope The Winter Soldier actually gets some lines.
  5. The above is Trailer 2, but Trailer 1 is one worth a look too.

Not long now…

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The Robocop CES video

Watch this and tell me if you think it’s rubbish –

If you’re unsure of what this is about, Robocop (yes, that’s right, ROBOCOP) has been remade and is coming out later this year. No, I’m not kidding.

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I know. It’s terrible. Everyone knows. But much like Total Recall before, and Indy 5 and Die Hard 6 no doubt after, it’s coming whether we like (let alone want) it or not

The trailer isn’t actually that bad, but the marketing video above, launched to coincide with the real CES that has just finished up in Las Vegas, is a clear homage to the same style of video that Ridley Scott released last year for Prometheus. In that one, Guy Pearce’s character, Peter Weyland, gives a talk at ‘TED 2023‘ about how he ‘WILL CHANGE THE WORLD’.

If you’ve not seen it, it’s [still] worth watching –

It was smart, it was innovative, and it certainly stood head and shoulders above the usual trailers and teasers you see year in, year out (for what it’s worth, Prometheus was OK, but the plot holes were enormous).

This thing from Robocop is a poor imitation at best. At worst, it puts people off seeing a film that they probably didn’t want in the first place.

At the time of writing, the view-count is still sub-100k.

I wonder if the box office takings will be the same.

Five things on Friday #50

Things of note for the week ending December 14th, 2012

MONKEY!

1. The Atlantic’s photographic review of 2012 (Part 1)
Heart-wrenching and beautiful; some made me laugh out loud, others caught my breath and made me cry – take some time of your day, and scroll your way through. I honestly can’t recommend this enough.
(Parts 2 and 3 ain’t bad either – there, that’s your lunchtime sorted)

2. Catfish now eat pigeons. PIGEONS.

In Southwestern France, a group of fish have learned how to kill birds. As the River Tarn winds through the city of Albi, it contains a small gravel island where pigeons gather to clean and bathe. And patrolling the island are European catfish—1 to 1.5 metres long, and the largest freshwater fish on the continent. These particular catfish have taken to lunging out of the water, grabbing a pigeon, and then wriggling back into the water to swallow their prey. In the process, they temporarily strand themselves on land for a few seconds.

More –

3. A New York Love Story

4. How to fix your soul
I’ve been stuck on something of late. A thought. A bugbear. An itch in my brain telling me that something is wrong. Something that sits between the impact of technology on our social interactions and the blind dependence/obsession we have developed with screens, big and small.

This past week, a dear friend (whom I shall miss) highlighted to me the above titled piece on Harvard Business Review. I read it. I read it again. It spoke to me. And so I read it once more.  In short: I’m going to try and read it every single day for the rest of my life.

Perhaps you should read it too.

5. A whole bunch of bad-ass trailers

I would’ve done separate posts for each of them but in a week where we’ve already seen Star Trek Into Darkness and OBLIVION both make their respective trailer debuts, I really didn’t want to drown you all in two minute videos (or more moaning about the over-use of HOOOONK as a large scale drama trailer device).

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Bonuses this week – Facebook really should do something about its Zombie problem. Joking aside, dead people are genuinely liking things on Facebook and it’s actually quite upsetting and offensive; next, ‘Hey Hetero, when did you realise you weren’t gay?’ – is quite the moving/hilarious Reddit thread; and finally, this City/United video from ESPN is a lot better than it should be.