Well, amidst hurricanes and landslides, Disney has ponied up over $4 BILLION and purchased The Star Wars Co. (Lucasfilm). Collider reports that the mega-company has just become a mega-mega-ginormous-company.
And not wasting any time, Disney went ahead and announced that they will release EPISODE 7 IN 2015! The entire thing is mind-blowing enough, in the fact that Disney outright bought Lucasfilm … but then, without waiting for their giant platinum diamond encrusted credit card to cool off, Disney announces A NEW STAR WARS TRILOGY! Holy Hell.
Think of the possibilities! A new Star Wars trilogy WITHOUT George Lucas. Even MORE Star Wars merchandise that nobody wants! And most certainly we can put away our fan fiction with the inevitable official crossovers! Hulk-on-Wookie action is no longer an “if”. It’s a “when”.
Who will Disney buy next? Only a few more companies and they will be able to erect their very own $852 Quadrillion Death Star.
Not to be outdone by the glorious new trailer released yesterday for Iron Man 3 (which Jake presented to you here), a little film called Evil Dead has released a trailer of it’s very own. Being that this is not only a horror film, but one of the highest profile horror films to be released this year, I would have to immediately hand over my overly certified horror-card if I was to post nothing in the face of such a gloriously gory event. Warning: NSFW, as this is the RED BAND trailer…
While there’s no Boom Stick to be found, I am having trouble remaining still and not spouting incessant amounts of “zomg!!@#” or “wantwantwantnownownow”. Yes, I’ve heard early internet murmurings that this looks like over the top torture porn. No, I do not subscribe to this belief. Any fan of the first Evil Dead will know the extent Sam Raimi went to deliver an outrageously frightening, excessively brutal, and serious-as-a-heart-attack affair. The humor (which I enjoy as well) was not a party to Evil Dead until the sequels. Will the remake be able to hold it’s own among the previous trilogy? Regardless, I refuse to accept any response to THIS trailer other than “Bad. Ass.”
Whats up all you Cinema Recon-ites! Its been a long and busy summer and you may have noticed that Paul and I slowed down a bit… (I know I know, how selfish of us for wanting to enjoy our summer) but what better way to make a comeback than to bring you the trailer everyone has been waiting for (how ever long Paul has been waiting for it, I have been waiting one day longer… no big deal), the first Marvel movie after the huge success of The Avengers… that’s right folks, I’m talking about the brand spankin’ new trailer for Iron Man 3 directed by Shane Black!!!
There have been some set photos and some rumblings here on the inter-web about Iron Man 3, personally I am starting to lean more towards just waiting for the first trailer before jumping to any huge preconceived thoughts on the film, just mainly because so much of what you read and see on the internet can be out of context or have no credibility, or just the ramblings of some guy who thinks he knows movies and happens to have a laptop and internet access (hey, I’m a guy like me!).
But this trailer surprised everyone a little bit I think. They definitely Nolan-ized it with the third installment in the Iron Man franchise, making it “darker and grittier” a phrase I am growing to dislike very quickly, I can see Iron Man 4 now, advertised like a cheap cereal… “Now with 20% more grittier!!!” I think most people knew it was going to be a bit darker and more serious, but I think this trailer in particular goes a little further than expected. Plus, its got the awesome pseudo-dub step which is becoming a “must-have” in all of today’s cool kid movies… you ain’t cool unless your steppin’ in dub, at least that’s what my grand pappy use to say.
Personally, I think this looks bad ass. I am sure it will still have that sparkle that can only come from Robert Downey Jr., and his quips, but it looks like its going to have some more serious, kind of profound questions as well in regards to who Tony Stark and Iron Man really is, and what can and can’t he do, and his limitations and all that good stuff. My one and only concern at this point is the overuse of the Iron Man suit. We do see a clip of another type of Iron Man suit (that I am going to call Captain Iron America Man, copyright 2012 Jake). I am not sure if this is something that will be used against him or maybe on his side as something else that James Rhodes (Don Cheadle) can suit up in… but I know that one of the main flaws with Iron Man 2 for me, was just too many damn robots. Its like hey, if one Iron Man is cool, a thousand Iron Mans (Iron Men?) must be a thousand times cooler!!! Yeah… well, no.
For every other character like that you add on the screen is just that much more CGI that you have to throw in there and for me, I don’t care for CGI in mass quantities like that. So I hope that this doesn’t end up in another type of chase scene between two Iron Mans where they are flying through the city and blowing everything up again, because we saw that in Iron Man 2 and it didn’t work so well. Stick to the characters, that is what made Iron Man so awesome in the first one. A lovable yet flawed Tony Stark, an ominous and love-to-hate Obadiah Stane, and least we forget… Agent Coulson. And speaking of characters, we don’t get too see all that much of him but I am definitely looking forward to Ben Kingsley in the role of the Mandarin, Kingsley is the man so I have high hopes on this one. Give us great characters, and a compelling story and that will drive the movie. Plus, it doesn’t hurt that you have helicopters with machine guns.
Here you go, the first trailer for Iron Man 3, Let us know what you think in the comments!!!
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