Today, in Totally-Awesome-Things-That-Are-Almost-Movie-Related, the History Channel has released a teaser trailer for the forthcoming Hatfields & McCoys. Do yourself a favor and watch it here!
While this will not be arriving in a theater near you, after seeing this trailer, I certainly wish it was! If this doesn’t make you excited to see Kevin Costner and Bill Paxton wage some neighborly war, I don’t know what will. Maybe it’s the awesome choice of music for the teaser. Maybe it’s because I am a big Costner fan. Or maybe I just get all giddy-like every time we revisit the Western genre in film. Take your pick, ’cause this perfect storm of guns and grit has me fired up for a television mini-series…and when can you every say THAT without being an unapologetic fan of the Hallmark Channel??
Holy sweet merciful God, wasn’t I just talking about ludicrous premises and mash-ups in film when we discussed the upcoming Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter? No sooner had I made that post did I stumble across this little trailer, released today, for Iron Sky:
Nazis from the freakin’ moon attacking present day New York in UFOs and blimp-shaped spaceships all coming out of swastika-shaped moon bases…Oh and Sarah Palin is in it. I shit you not. I am exhausted just having typed that, let alone having watched it!
Well that’s it then. Hollywood has gone insane. Somewhere a vein has popped and film studios are flinging bat-shit crazy movies at us. I don’t think I’m over reacting when I say the biblical Apocalypse is upon us. Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together… Nazis on the goddamn moon.
Touché, Blind Spot Pictures. You looked a President battling Nosferatu square in the eye and said, “You think that’s nuts? Well WE have lost our fucking MINDS!!”
The Hollywood Reporter brings us the wonderful news that the trailer for The Bourne Legacy has gone online! So get ready to run across the rooftops once more, but this time with Jeremy Renner! Renner will star as Alex Cross, another agent of the Treadstone/Blackbriar/Enter Cool Name Here program which creates super duper assassin-hit-men-solider-guys! I’m excited to see Renner do some more hand to hand combat fighting after what we saw of him in Mission Impossible 4: Ghost Protocol. But to my note above I really hope there aren’t any more rooftop foot chases… we’ve seen enough of that.
This movie does start to line up quite the action packed summer movie line up for 2012 though, which makes this dude pretty excited. Ready (take a deep breath) – we have The Avengers, Battleship, Snow White and the Huntsmen, Prometheus, Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, G.I. Joe: Retaliation, The Amazing Spider-man, The Dark Knight Rises, Bourne Legacy, Total Recall, and Old Men and Explosions Expendables 2.
You can check out the trailer for The Bourne Legacy below. It is expected to hit theaters August 3rd so text me on your non-traceable cell phone and I’ll see you there.
Oh yeah. Now this is what I’m talking about. Abraham Lincoln. Vampires. And a big ass Axe. It all gels together so nicely, doesn’t it?
In case you haven’t heard, 20th Century Fox and producer Tim Burton will bring us Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter this coming June. Judging by the unabashedly outrageous title, I expect a tongue-firmly-in-cheek mash-up of top hats and wooden stakes, which (if you are as big a horror fan like me) sounds delightful. I really do love a good (even often bad) horror movie. And I love it even more when a film knows exactly what it is supposed to be and embraces itself. Do you remember the scene in Inglorious Basterds where Omar and Donowitz unload a couple of MP40s into Adolf Hitler?? I kinda feel like, if done right, this movie could achieve that same “Anything Goes!” feeling for 90 minutes. We shall see…
June (unfortunately for us Prometheus fanatics) is still a long ways away. But to satisfy our presidential huntings of the undead, Entertainment Weekly has scored some cool pics that appear to be on location and in action! Check them out in the gallery below:
And I say why stop with Abe and vamps?! How about some Benjamin Franklin: Cyborg Slayer! Or Rosa Parks vs. Cthulhu!! Yeah!! Or give me a little Cowboys and Alie…oh…right. Okay, I’ll stop.
“It is absolutely patently false that there has been any discussion about Harrison Ford being in Blade Runner … To be clear, what we are trying to do with Ridley now is go through the painstaking process of trying to break the back of the story, figure out the direction we’re going to take the movie and find a writer to work on it. The casting of the movie could not be further from our minds at this moment.”
Well…Good thing we waited a day to really check our sources, rather than post an article detailing Ford’s return to Blade Runner! You see, here at Cinema Recon, we go the extra mile to make damn, doubly sure every single news story is proven and factual. I mean, what kind of self-respecting journalists would we be if we were to flood the internets with wild rumors and hearsay??
Oh, speaking of journalism, a reliable source has given me super top-secret insider information that Batman dies at the end of The Dark Knight Rises.
A few months ago, we commented on how Mark Ruffalo seemed to be doing his best Zoolander impression.
Now, thanks to a wonderful screen by screen recap of The Avengers Superbowl trailer by io9.com, we have a great shot of The Hulk giving us his best “Green” Steel pose:
This is by far our best view of The Hulk yet. After seeing him cause a ruckus and stand amongst the other Avengers in the explosive new trailer, I for one am pretty excited for what’s in store. Still, a side by side by side comparison shows that The Hulk is going to need a bit more work turning left:
Ruffalo, on the other hand, has got it nailed
Cinema Recon will no doubt be front and center when The Avengers releases May 4, 2012. You can check out the extended Superbowl trailer below!
Oh my. I … I simply cannot begin to write the description for the following video.
I watched it. Let it digest for a second. Then I thought of all sorts of jabs and jokes I could make about it. They practically write themselves!
But as I write this post, its just…its just really difficult to cope with the fact that this thing even exists. I don’t even want to joke about it. This is no laughing matter. This is the cold, hard truth that entertainment is driven by financial figures and demographic polls. This is George Lucas saying, “Yes, I have heard all of your complaints about the direction of the Star Wars franchise. And NO, I don’t care. Don’t believe me? Watch THIS!”
The fact of the matter is, George Lucas is in the business of making money. He does not care if your childhood is tarnished. He does not care if Han shot first. He does not care if you think Jar Jar is annoying as shit. Why? Because special editions make money. Because re-tooling characters can appease a broader audience. Because little kids like annoying shit.
And so it is. This official Star Wars: Episode 1 trailer will make George more money. It will reach a broader audience. And it will cause little kids, who have no idea what Star Wars is, to perk their ears and beg their parents to take them to see it in extra profitable glorious 3D.
The Internets are, without a doubt, roaring over this trailer. I suppose I could bemoan along with them. Although, it would not be very surprising for me to tell you I don’t like this (I don’t). It would not be very shocking if I said this is utterly hilarious (it is). So I will simply just present this to you, so you can mull it over for yourself. And when you can finally put those thoughts into words, just realize… it doesn’t matter. Because at the end of the day, George has still found another way to turn one dollar into two.
The Three Stooges will likely miss the cut-off date for nominees
The 2011 awards will be February 26th at 4:00, and you know Cinema Recon will have something special planned. Keep listening for updates! The announcements for nominees will likely follow very soon.
Hot off the heels of the anticipated Batman trailer, the first trailer for The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey has appeared all across the internets! Stop reading and start watching!
Without a doubt, the Internets this past week have been the Shangri-La equivalent for Geeks everywhere. The biggest Superhero reveal on the planet followed by the biggest Fantasy reveal on the planet? If somehow a major Star Wars announcement was to be made right now, the mass simultaneous head explosions would be deafening.
Unless you have been living under a rock, which happens to be under an even larger, more socially inhibiting rock, you should know that the internet is abuzz today with the release of the full The Dark Knight Rises Trailer. I feel it is a good idea…nay, my duty to post the trailer here for your viewing pleasure on Cinema Recon (The trailer is hosted on Apple and I found it embedded on Trailer Addict):
On the upcoming show, you will hear Jake and I discuss the 6 minute preview we saw prior to the IMAX screening of Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol. In my humble-yet-often-more-correct-than-Jake opinion, this new trailer is much more exciting than what we saw Thursday night. Here, we don’t have to deal with Bane’s grainy voice and we see a lot more of the overall film (plus that football stadium scene…yowsers).
I for one am far more excited than I used to be for this movie. The “behind the scenes” leaks were killing my anticipation, but now that the film has wrapped, I can just sit back and enjoy the trailers and viral marketing!
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