About time for another catch-up of upcoming movies of interest (to me anyway, I know no-one else reads this).

JJ Abrams new "secret" project -"Super8".  This is being virally marketed much the same way that Cloverfield was.
Only a teaser so far but looks interesting at least:




Fresh insanity from Japan, for an upcoming animated TV show called "CatShitOne".  Based on a Manga series called "Apocalypse Meow", it's basically a war movie with cute animals representing different countries.  There is more details on the Wikipedia page




Very excited about this next one.  It's Luc Besson's latest project "Les Aventures Extraordinaires D'Adèle Blanc-Sec", and looks like a female Steampunk Indiana Jones, with dinosaurs.  It's French, but the trailer is subtitled.  Personally I think this looks amazing:

Next is George Clooney's latest "The American".  Clooney is one of my consistent favourite actors, he really has that "old Hollywood" charm about his work and this is no exception as it feels very much like something from late 60s / early 70s in tone and style.  Sign me up for this one:




I know next to nothing about The Green Hornet, except for the Bruce Lee conection to the old TV series.  Main draw for this is the director, Michel Gondry, who was responsible for Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and a number of amazing music videos.  There are a couple of flashes of his trademark camera tricks here, and the trailer looks quite good fun, but we'll see:




"Predators" is the sequel to the 80s classics.  Hopefully going to wipe away all memory of the AvP movies and get back to some great action - starting with a good director and a stellar cast is a positive start I think.  Adrien Brody, Lawrence Fishburn, Danny Trejo... I'm there when it opens next weekend




Finally, this just landed today - teaser trailer for the latest from David Fincher.  Called "The Social Network", it's the story of Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook.  Just having Fincher attached guarantees my ticket:

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About time I got this finished - apologies for the delay but I'm here now so here goes:

Centurion
I'm including this one as I've just recently seen the new trailer and it looks pretty good.  Another movie about the real-life disappearance of the 9th Legion in the Scottish Highlands.

The Losers
Another comic book adaptation but not a superhero in sight.  Instead this could be a "grittier A-Team" as Dark Horizons put it.  Trailer looks at least promising and Peter Berg has a couple of solid movies behind him

Paul
Simon Pegg and Nick Frost - enough said.  Admittedly without Edgar Wright, but still count me in for this tale of UFO buffs finding an actual escaped alien just outside Area 51.  No release dates or trailer yet.

Predators
Sequel from Robert Rodriguez, who has a lot of credibility riding on this one.  Please let it be good!

Scott Pilgrim vs The World
What Edgar Wright did while Pegg and Frost were making "Paul".  This is likely to be the major geel hit of the summer, and as I know nothing of the plot or the original comic book I'll leave it there.  Trailer imminent.

Shutter Island
Scorcese does psychological horror.  Saw the trailer for this in front of "The Wolfman" this weekend and liked the look of it - an on-form Decaprio and an adaptation from the writer of "Mystic River" and "Gone Baby Gone" make this a must see I think. Hoping for good brooding fear rather than constant jump-shocks (yes "...Wolfman", I'm looking at you...)

Toy Story 3
Pixar.  Enough said.  Check out the trailer

Tron:Legacy
The original is legendary for properly introducing the world to computer generated effects.  The teaser from ComicCon shows the updated light-cycles.  This will be something to see in 3D Imax no doubt.

So that's that.  I highly recommend you check out the full list on Dark Horizons, as I've only scratched the surface here with a few that appealed to me.  The original list is very detailed and a terrific bit of work.

 

 

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So the trailer for Avatar has finally been released on to the web (after a very funny "leaked" spoof version I should add).  It's here for you to see:

Now to my thoughts... I watched it the first time and immediately twittered that it "looks like a Final Fantasy game cut scene."  I think I was both spot-on and being a bit disingenuous.  You see, this film is being hyped up by many Cameron fanboys as being the holy-grail of Sci-Fi, that somehow Jim is returning to save the science fiction movie!!!

I hope so.  I really do.  At least the first few shots of this movie do look like Aliens / Starship Troopers alright... but then the big blue fuzzy aliens appear.  This does not look so good.  When the Fanboys pronounce that Cameron is back, what they really want is dropships, load-lifters, phased plasma rifles in the 40-watt range, all that.  What they might be getting is a Jim Cameron-penned love story.

This could be Cameron's "The Phantom Menace".  Just as 10 years ago we had an extremely eagerly awaited Sci-Fi movie (with one of the all-time great trailers, I should add) which ended up actually being one or two memorable action scenes interspersed with a bunch of racial sterotypes arguing over trade agreements.  And as in 1999, this year we have a small independent sci-fi movie in the wings winning plaudits all over and completely outshining the incumbent.  Then it was "The Matrix", this year it's "District 9".

Honestly I hope I'm wrong.  Watching the trailer again I begin to think that it will probably look astonishing in 3D.  But shiny visuals are not the be-all-end-all for movies (at least not for me any more, as my friends will attest when they were going on about Transformers et al) - there has to be something compelling there.  Cameron has already publicly stated that this is more like "Dances with Wolves" in space.  Centainly a great pinnacle to hold your work up against, but not likely to impress the fanboys who just want more "Aliens".

We shall see in December.

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Just a quick catch-up with some of the stuff that has popped up on my geek-radar over the past couple of weeks - good thing about having this blog now is that I can keep track of stuff that interests me, and bore you all to death by waffling on about it for several paragraphs at the same time ;-)

Anyway, first up are a couple of trailers.  One is a movie about alien abduction, the other is about "fallen angels" and God destroying mankind.  Both are subjects that I must say I don't believe in - I'm agnostic and I don't believe we're being visited by aliens - but nontheless the mythology behind them both fascinates me.  Both trailers are a bit freaky and probably NSFW so if you're squeamish or easily bothered by these things then give them a miss:

 

"The Fourth Kind"

 

"Legion" trailer    

 

It's highly likely I won't see either of these movies - I just collect interesting trailers, and like I said the premise of the films interests me. Your mileage may vary.

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This is a pretty amazing piece of work, it's a video mural created by Marco Brambilla for the new Standard hotel in NYC.

It contains hundreds of film clips and "found footage" - I bet the fullsize version is quite something to see.

Check out this site for more details and a higher-res version

 

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