[Movies] The Upcoming Movies Trailer Thread
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The first one is a well-made, fun action revenge movie. They steadily degrade in quality with each sequel thereafter.
Dave
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YES! The last one was all style and no substance. The very epitome of empty calories. People standing next to each other shooting each other with no effect - just dumb no matter what kind of "cloth armor" they have. The plots after the first one were cobbled together bullcrap. The first premise was thin but you could understand it since it was nothing more than simple, single-minded revenge.
Agreed. I dug the hell out of the first one, but the series becomes a case of diminishing returns. The first one does all the world building about his secret society in the background details without explaining a thing. That becomes less subtle with every sequel until the series is firmly up its own ass about this world. And the more they try to explain or add to it it, the less it makes sense, logistically.
Plus, the action becomes increasingly over the top. The first one has Wick beaten to a bloody pulp and barely walking by the end. By the fourth movie, he's still taking a beating, but more like an unscathed superhero. And then they introduce bulletproof business suits and bullerpropf SWAT uniforms, and it's just piling bullets into one thug to take him out. Compared to the first movie where he efficiently kills a dude in two seconds, it gets old fast where it takes more than half a dozen shots to take down one enemy.
The first one is a stone cold classic. The second one is a solid follow-up. It's the third and fourth ones where it gets particularly stupid.
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See:
Jurassic Park
Die Hard
The Matrix
Scream
Jaws
Taken
Halloween
How to Train your Dragon
Pirates of the Caribbean
Highlander
Kingsman
Rambo
The Land Before Time
The Santa Clause
Saw
Pitch Perfect
The Hangover
Starship Troopers
Basically any Disney animated movie
Transformers
Robocop
Wonder Woman
Predator
The Mummy
Fast And Furious
Tremors
Iron Man
Austin Powers
Star Wars Trilogies
Rocky
Home Alone
Independence Day
Final Destination
Ocean's 11
Shrek
Bill and Ted
Pacific Rim
Unbreakable
Child's Play
Men in Black
Rush Hour
GasBandit
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Yeah, several of those, the 2nd one was the disappointment but the 3rd made it better -
Die Hard
The Matrix
Bill and Ted
Rambo
And POTC didn't fall off until after the 3rd.
Yeah, I agree with MOST of that list, but I disagree on some. I will always say I liked The Matrix sequels. Are they as good as the original? No, but they're still very good (including Resurrection).
Similarly, yeah, Pirates 1 is the best, but 2 & 3 are solid in their own right. It gets bad after that.
How to Train Your Dragon is a great series. I'd argue 2 is better than 1. 3 is the lesser of the three, but still good in its own right.
Die Hard 1 & 3 are top notch, the rest can be skipped.
"Any Disney movie" implies Toy Story is included. And no, 2 & 3 are surprisingly better than the first, and 4 is fun, too, though the lesser of the bunch.
The rest of the list i can agree with.
Similarly, yeah, Pirates 1 is the best, but 2 & 3 are solid in their own right. It gets bad after that.
How to Train Your Dragon is a great series. I'd argue 2 is better than 1. 3 is the lesser of the three, but still good in its own right.
Die Hard 1 & 3 are top notch, the rest can be skipped.
"Any Disney movie" implies Toy Story is included. And no, 2 & 3 are surprisingly better than the first, and 4 is fun, too, though the lesser of the bunch.
The rest of the list i can agree with.
Wait, no, Predator? HELL no.
1 is classic, 2 is fine. Predators is fucking awesome. The Predator is the only flat out bad one.
But Prey is arguably BETTER than the original. It fucking rules.
1 is classic, 2 is fine. Predators is fucking awesome. The Predator is the only flat out bad one.
But Prey is arguably BETTER than the original. It fucking rules.
I counted Toy Story as a Pixar film instead of a Disney film. Agreed on Die Hard.
The Companion
(Release date: January 10, 2025)
Well, this looks wild. Not 100% sure what it's about, but it looks pretty intense.
(Release date: January 10, 2025)
Well, this looks wild. Not 100% sure what it's about, but it looks pretty intense.
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figmentPez
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The Electric State
This is what a teaser trailer is now? It seems like it's spelling out the entire plot.
This is what a teaser trailer is now? It seems like it's spelling out the entire plot.
I mean I suppose. But I still want to see it.
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Love Hurts
Me: So what is this movie?
Love Hurts: Well, it stars Ke Huy Quan and...
Me: SOLD!
Love Hurts: But don't you want to know...
Me: NOPE. I'm already in!
Me: So what is this movie?
Love Hurts: Well, it stars Ke Huy Quan and...
Me: SOLD!
Love Hurts: But don't you want to know...
Me: NOPE. I'm already in!
I have stopped watching any trailers for things that I know I will watch because of this.
I'm not even playing the trailer, already sold.
Don't watch the trailer. It give to much of the movie away. That said it feels like a Jackie Chan movie from the early 2000.
I had the same thought! Although, I'm much happier it's Ke Huy than Jackie.
Wait, are you implying that you don’t look like a basket case the rest of the time too?
figmentPez
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That's been true of trailers for a while now, but teaser trailers used to be short in time and info. Some teaser trailers have just a silhouette, a title, and a release year. I wasn't surprised that a trailer revealed so much, I was surprised that they're calling a full plot rundown a teaser now.
Movies about a suburban dad-type with a “special set of skills” are a dime a dozen nowadays. But Ke Huy Quan absolutely deserves to have a standout one.
Oh yeah, the concept is pretty boilerplate like something you'd see from Jackie Chan, as Chris pointed out. But I'm 100% in exclusively because of Ke Huy Quan's infectious energy. I hope it does well enough that he gets to a bunch of these, or gets a franchise of his own.
It's also obvious that Ke Huy Quan is a fan of/inspired by Jackie Chan. He choreographed the fanny pack fight in everything everywhere and that entire sequence is Jackie Chan as all hell.
Fun fact: Jackie Chan was originally intended to star in Everything Everywhere All at Once. But then The Daniels decided to gender flip the lead role and cast Michelle Yeoh instead.
I’m really glad they did. I love Jackie Chan, but that movie would have just been yet another Jackie Chan movie instead of the outstanding film that it was was. And recasting Chan allowed them to bring in Quan, which reignited just how much we missed him from Hollywood.
GasBandit
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Well, whatever the baseline is, it's a force multiplier.
I do wonder how much the movie would have changed if it was a male protagonist. Would he fight Jamie Lee? I wonder how he would have approached the role.
I really like Jackie Chan, but Yeoh has more range IMO.
It's worth noting that when they originally envisioned Jackie Chan in the role it was also like 2010. That movie simmered on the back burner a long time before it finally got going. It was originally about living with ADHD.
Yeah, I'm obsessed with that movie too!
I feel seen.