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[Movies] The Upcoming Movies Trailer Thread
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figmentPez
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The Black Demon
(Release date: April 28, 2023)
This looks fun, for your average monster shark movie.
(Release date: April 28, 2023)
This looks fun, for your average monster shark movie.
figmentPez
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Knights of the Zodiac
Well, that looks exceedingly bland. Is it based on some property I should recognize?
Well, that looks exceedingly bland. Is it based on some property I should recognize?
It's based on an old manga and anime, I believe. I think I had some of their action figures as a kid.
But yeah, looks quite generic.
Knights of the Zodiac is what the English translated version I watched as a kid was called. It was popular enough over here to at least get some toys, because I remember wanting them
I am not confident in that Knights of the Zodiac film, it's got major "Dragonball Evolution" vibes.
It looks like something from the same time too
People in the YouTube comments are weirdly positive about it "Don't let Hollywood ruin this Toei" As if Toei is any LESS Hollywood.
figmentPez
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Elemental trailer #1
I feel like you don't actually remember just how bad DB:E was:
Sure, it might suck, but it doesn't seem to be anywhere near to having Goku be in highschool and crushing on Chi-Chi... and having doubts about fighting...
Still not sure about this one, just looks "cute," but they keep surprising me, so as long as they've kept the REAL good stuff out of the trailer, I'll probably still end up seeing it at some point.
--Patrick
How would a water elemental be negatively impacted by being "boiled" by one of the fire elementals? Wouldn't he just transform into an air elemental and back to a water elemental later?
Absolutely true. Thank you for the clarification.
figmentPez
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That sounds like scientific thinking to me, and not whatever magical thinking that this fictional world runs on. Water is a liquid, not a gas.
I don't know what elemental system this fictional world is based on, but it's not based on the Periodic Table of the Elements, and it's not based on modern science. It's probably based on a system that's as cohesive as the rules for vampires in the Twilight movies.
Why would getting boiled hurt a water elemental? Because the writers said it does. Because it feels right that it should hurt him. Because it advances the plot and the characters. Because it makes for a good visual gag. Because it creates tension and conflict.
But if you really wanted to get into it, because water elementals can't hold themselves together when they're turned into air. They're not air elementals so their water just drifts apart and they're dead because they're not whole anymore. Might as well ask why humans aren't human anymore after they die, get eaten by worms, spend some time as dirt and carbon dioxide, get incorporated into plants, and eventually back into part of a human again, maybe. They're human again, how did it hurt them to die and get composted into component parts?
Like, damn, give the writers a break. Either accept the magic, or at least be a little charitable about the possibilities.
How are they wearing tiny clothes??? Why aren't their clothes catching fire or soaking wet??? Did a wizard do it?!?
I'm sorry, I won't be able to suspend my disbelief until I see the little baby fire elemental have his diaper changed by wrapping him in aluminum foil like a potato.
...also yeesh slow your molecules just a little, Pez. I know what the rules of an animated movie are(n't).
--Patrick
Actually I was more thinking about how easily the film could resolve the love affair between these two elementals. She hugs him. He turns into air, and then just turns back into water later. No harm and everyone can live happily ever after.
I don't know if I'd go to the theater to see it, but I'd stream it.
I feel like Wes Anderson's films are becoming more and more just pastel swatches. The movies are interesting and everything, but sometimes the color palette distracts from the story. It was used well in Grand Budapest where the "real world" was darker and really only the segments in the story being told were more fantastical, so I can only hope this is similar.
Also, it feels like these are the only films Jason Schwartzman appears in anymore.
Will definitely stream it once it comes out.
Also, it feels like these are the only films Jason Schwartzman appears in anymore.
Will definitely stream it once it comes out.
Actually, one of the things that intrigues me most about Asteroid City are the visuals. I'm hit-or-miss on Wes Anderson's style, but to me, this seems like everything looks like advertising from the 1950's, without the reality of how things actually looked in the 1950's. It's borderline uncanny valley.
I misread that at first as Astro City and thought we get a adaptation of the comic.
This looks like a parody of a Wes Anderson movie. Even before his name appeared I knew it must be his work. But like I said his movies are looking more and more like parody.
Spoiler: the alien is the only one who doesn't talk or act like it is in a Wes Anderson movie.
I've never seen most of the earlier stuff except Tenenbaums but with everything since Fantastic Mr.Fox onward, he's leaned heavily into what I refer to as a play not confined to a stage aesthetic. The costumes all feel like they're pulled from a local theatre production with a higher budget, the framing and use of miniatures, set props and mattes that aren't exactly hidden and, while I appreciate it, even the dialogue falls into that as well. Especially with Asteroid City, it looks like what a kid from the 70's would picture in his head while being told a story about the 1950's. Budapest did this as well, it being a story retold by the author, being read by the girl at his grave all within the movie itself.
figmentPez
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Blue Beetle trailer #1
"Batman's a fascist!" made me giggle.
Looks good,but I'm dreading the possible Chris Pratt Booster Good end credits reveal.