[Movies] The Upcoming Movies Trailer Thread

[Hailey Knight]

Man, I wish I would of thought of Dead Men in Black Like Me.

You read my mind.

 

[evilmike]

Ender's Game

 

[Tress]

Hmmm. Cautiously interested.

 

[Covar]

Looks pretty. Also that's one hell of a spoiler.

 

[GasBandit]

Seems to me that might have to be a long-ass movie.

 

[Hailey Knight]

Hmmm. Cautiously interested.

This.

That voiceover was atrocious, but what little snippets we see at least look good. The core of the story is Ender, but they're of course not going to advertise it that way regardless of how the movie plays it.[DOUBLEPOST=1367962211][/DOUBLEPOST]

Looks pretty. Also that's one hell of a spoiler.

... sort of?

Spoiler

He uses the Little Doctor more than once, I thought.

 

[GasBandit]

Spoiler

He uses the Little Doctor more than once, I thought.

Spoiler

Only once on a planet, the formic homeworld. All the others were on ships in space. Though really, it's only a spoiler for anyone who has already read the book and knows what he's looking at. Otherwise it's just more pew pew boom.

 

[fade]

Looks pretty. Also that's one hell of a spoiler.

Yeah, wasn't the fact that they were

Spoiler

actually fighting

kind of the big reveal in the book? It's been a long time since I read it, but it seems to me that was the Shyamalan Twist.

 

[Hailey Knight]

Spoiler

Only once on a planet, the formic homeworld. All the others were on ships in space. Though really, it's only a spoiler for anyone who has already read the book and knows what he's looking at. Otherwise it's just more pew pew boom.

Which seems to be what the trailer was selling.

Yeah, wasn't the fact that they were

Spoiler

actually fighting

kind of the big reveal in the book? It's been a long time since I read it, but it seems to me that was the Shyamalan Twist.

Correct. But like Gas said, it's just imagery to someone who hasn't read the book.

 

[GasBandit]

I bet they have to write Locke and Demosthenes out completely in the interests of time.

 

[Hailey Knight]

I bet they have to write Locke and Demosthenes out completely in the interests of time.

Ugh.

 

[Piotyr]

The World's End (don't think I can embed), latest project from Simon Pegg, Nick Frost and Edgar Wright:

http://video.uk.msn.com/watch/video/exclusive-the-world-s-end-trailer/2t5faj5e

 

[blotsfan]

I bet they have to write Locke and Demosthenes out completely in the interests of time.

I enjoyed those scenes in the book, but I don't think they would translate well to film anyways. Not to mention how they're the least realistic part of the story.

 

[Covar]

I seem to remember reading that OSC stated the Locke and Demosthenes subplot was going to be excluded because it's hard to make an exciting film about two people typing on keyboards.[DOUBLEPOST=1368032339][/DOUBLEPOST]I'm figuring that they're going to remove the ending/epilogue from the movie to focus on the training games and bugger fights.

 

[rac3r_x]

 

[figmentPez]

R.I.P.D.

Men In Black with ghosts instead of aliens? Sign me up.

 

[Dave]

That's exactly the feel I got from it, Pez. Men in Black with dead people instead of aliens. And no annoying Fresh Prince.

 

[Covar]

That's exactly the feel I got from it, Pez. Men in Black with dead people instead of aliens. And no annoying Fresh Prince.

 

[Charlie Don't Surf]

And no annoying Fresh Prince.

Will Smith is a national treasure

 

[Dave]

Will Smith is a national treasure

Good. Maybe Nicholas Cage will steal him and we won't have to worry about it any more. Don't get me wrong, I like Will Smith well enough, but once you've seen him in a genre, you've seen every character he'll play in that genre. And between genres there's only slight differential.

 

[GasBandit]

Good. Maybe Nicholas Cage will steal him and we won't have to worry about it any more. Don't get me wrong, I like Will Smith well enough, but once you've seen him in a genre, you've seen every character he'll play in that genre. And between genres there's only slight differential.

But is that really a criticism? I mean, it's also true of Arnold Schwartzenegger, Brian Dennehy, Peter Lorre, John Wayne, Humphrey Bogart and countless other character actors.

 

[Dave]

But is that really a criticism? I mean, it's also true of Arnold Schwartzenegger, Brian Dennehy, Peter Lorre, John Wayne, Humphrey Bogart and countless other character actors.

Yes. Yes it is.

 

[GasBandit]

Yes. Yes it is.

So you didn't feel the need to ever see more than 1 each of the movies by those other actors?

 

[MindDetective]

And between genres there's only slight differential.

I gotta disagree on this one. His performance in Pursuit of Happyness or Seven pounds was very different than Bad Boys or Men in Black.

 

[Dave]

I gotta disagree on this one. His performance in Pursuit of Happyness or Seven pounds was very different than Bad Boys or Men in Black.

Notice I said a film from each genre. Each action movie he's the same, each buddy cop movie he's the same, etc.

So you didn't feel the need to ever see more than 1 each of the movies by those other actors?

I'll see them, just like I do for Keanu Reeves, but that doesn't mean I won't go, "Oh, there's X playing X again."

 

[Chad Sexington]

Notice I said a film from each genre. Each action movie he's the same, each buddy cop movie he's the same, etc.

But you also said between genres the difference is slight; that's what MD was taking issue with, that maybe the roles are similar within genres, but his roles in dramas are more than just slightly different than his roles in action movies.

 

[MindDetective]

Notice I said a film from each genre. Each action movie he's the same, each buddy cop movie he's the same, etc.

Which is why I targeted that specific statement from your post.

 

[Dave]

I dig it. You're right on those movies. But that makes the other stuff he's done even worse. He's got the talent but he just never uses it.

 

[Charlie Don't Surf]

I'm defending Will Smith lightly here, but I will never forgive him for turning down Django

 

[figmentPez]

Good. Maybe Nicholas Cage will steal him and we won't have to worry about it any more.

I love Will Smith in a lot of stuff, including MIB, but this joke is excellent snark.

 

[Ravenpoe]

I'm defending Will Smith lightly here, but I will never forgive him for turning down Django

After seeing Jamie Foxx blow it out of the water, I'm kinda glad he did.

 

[sixpackshaker]

I'm defending Will Smith lightly here, but I will never forgive him for turning down Django

I can't say much about this because I've not seen the movie yet. I want to thank Will Smith for turning it down, because Jamie Foxx is much more talented. And I knew him in high school.

 

[Reverent-one]

I dig it. You're right on those movies. But that makes the other stuff he's done even worse. He's got the talent but he just never uses it.

Except that the fact he did those movies MD mentioned means he does use that talent. In fact, those are some of his latest movies, which generally, other than MIB 3, have him play something other than the "type" that you're complaining about. It's just that he doesn't do a lot of movies anymore.

 

[checkeredhat]

Except that the fact he did those movies MD mentioned means he does use that talent. In fact, those are some of his latest movies, which generally, other than MIB 3, have him play something other than the "type" that you're complaining about. It's just that he doesn't do a lot of movies anymore.

Well, he certainly didn't buck the trend with Men In Black 3, but I'm sure I, Robot 2, Hancock 2, and Bad Boys 3 will all have him playing very different roles than he did in I, Robot, Hancock and Bad Boys.

(I don't actually mind Will Smith.... most of the time).

 

[GasBandit]

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