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New Star Trek Trailer

What was I saying about not being inspired by anything at the movies these days?

Yes please.

Enjoy the new Star Trek trailer.

And from now on, please let JJ Abrams reboot all film franchises.  Except maybe Batman – Chris Nolan can keep that.  But take Superman away from Bryan Singer, and pry Indiana Jones away from Spielberg and Lucas. 

Thanks.

UPDATE:

I know this is ridiculously nerdy, but after watching this for the 40th time, I noticed something very subtle that gives just a slight hint to what the trailer was about.  Check out the license plate:

Yes, I am a nerd loser.

Batman's Voice is Silly, But Spreading

I think we all agree that while The Dark Knight was excellent, the voice that Christian Bale chose to use as Batman was just silly.

So, why… why I ask you… why is Rorschach using that exact same voice in the new trailer for Watchmen, and why in the world is Clint Eastwood using it in Gran Torino?!?

But wow.  Great Watchmen trailer:

Doubt Trailer

… and three more nominees for Academy Awards this year:  Meryl Streep, Philip Seymour Hoffman, and Amy Adams.

It looks like Meryl is going for a Angela Lansbury in The Manchurian Candidate sort of vibe.  Oh, wait.  She actually did play the Angela Lansbury in The Manchurian Candidate remake.

Nevermind.

The Soloist Trailer

Maybe they can split the Best Actor award?  Enjoy the trailer for The Soloist.

Has anyone, ever… ever, had a better professional year than Robert Downey Jr. in 2008?

Quantum of Solace – New Trailer

“James, move your ass.”

When I see these previews, I'm just constantly reminded how good Casino Royale was.

Hate the Trailer, Love the Poster

While I still probably won’t have the stomach to sit through the movie based on that trailer, but… good poster:

Craigslist

Hold tight – this is quite a list… I’ve been saving up (for some reason I don’t quite understand):

• Here’s the trailer for Nick and Nora’s Infinite Playlist.  Yep, want to see it.
• Patrick Goldstein over at the Los Angeles Times reports that with the release of the latest X-Files film, 20th Century Fox has now released 18 consecutive horrible movies, determined by a rating less than 50 over at Rotten Tomatoes.  Their next release is called Mirrors, a thriller with Kiefer Sutherland.  I smell 19!
• Watchmen, Watchmen, Watchmen!!!  The trailer is live (and beautiful), the character posters are out, and my (ahem) graphic novel should be arriving from Amazon today.  Good times.
• Who really is going to go see an Oliver Stone created W. in November?  Won’t we be completely sick of the Obama-McCain election and want to move on from all of it?  Anyway, here’s the trailer.
• I cannot believe how awful The Spirit looks.  I hated the first trailer mostly due to the music, but that was just a teaser.  Now the real thing is here, and it almost looks idiotic… almost like a bad SNL Digital Short.
• Body of Lies looks somewhat interesting… I’m just not sure why Russell Crowe thought it was a good idea to do a Beau Bridges impersonation for this role.
• New Harry Potter trailer… Yep, want to see it.

Before the Thunder…

…comes the madness.  Rain of Madness.

Craigslist

• David Poland says Hancock “is easily the most ambitious action script of the summer to date.”
• It’s Brad Pitt’s world.  We’re all just living in it.  Check out the trailers for Burn After Reading and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, directed by The Coen Brothers and David Fincher, respectively.
• So best.  Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull: The Abridged Script.  Go read it and remind yourself how truly disappointing that film was.  I wonder if George Lucas is gonna just go and destroy all my childhood dreams.  Maybe he can remake Fletch, Ghostbusters, and Ferris Bueller next.
• This is old, but I still don’t get it.  Blockbuster is “testing in-store kiosks allowing consumers to download movies onto their portable devices.”  Wow.  Too bad I actually have to go to Blockbuster to do this… you know, the place where all the DVDs are anyway?  Gosh, if there was only a device in the home that was connected to the Internet, could download a movie the same way, and could sync content to my portable devices. Schmucks…
• If Film Studios Developed Videogames.  John August is brilliant.

Yes, I'll Be First In Line - 7 Minutes of Wanted

   

There’s a seven minute clip from Wanted over at Empire Online, and I just couldn’t be more eager to see this thing.  I’m not sure why people are so jaded about it… it’s not getting the buzz that I thought it would – too much like The Matrix?  James McAvoy not a big enough star?  Morgan Freeman doing his all-knowing wise sage act again?

 

Anyway, I was worried that they had already shown us all the cool stuff, but I can see just from this clip alone that they seem to have lots of surprises up their sleeves.

What Hath Sex And The City Wrought?

If He's Just Not That Into You didn't have enough estrogen for you, you're in luck.

I don't think there's a single penis in this entire preview.  Unless Meg Ryan is hiding one (entirely possible given all the work she's had done).

Enjoy The Women.

Marketing 101

If this ISN'T the preview attached to this weekend's debut of Sex and the City, then someone needs to lose their job.

Enjoy the trailer for He's Just Not That Into You.

This Just Doesn't Look Good

The Internets are getting flooded with "exclusive" clips from The Incredible Hulk, and um, yeah.  It doesn't even look like The Hulk is on the same planet as Tim Roth and William Hurt, but gosh Ed Norton looks really angry in those first few seconds, doesn't he?

The Dark Knight Trailer

"You either die a hero, or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain," Harvey Dent.

Hmmm....

Batman Trailers

I had seen this floating around over the last few days but avoided watching it for some reason until today.  Now, I'm sorry I waited because I'm blown away by the comparison.  Seriously...watch this.  It's worth it:

 

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