We are on a roll with trailers being released for movies that don't come out until Summer 2012. Last week The Dark Knight Rises trailer was released and now we have the trailer for The Amazing Spider-Man. Yeah, you're right. It is sort of a gay title. This movie is a reboot in the Spider-Man series which means you're supposed to forget all of the previous Spider-Man films but I'm not sure even a lobotomy could remove this scene from being etched into my brain.
God that scene was awful. I mean, yeah. Just yeah. I don't even have words to describe it. Luckily the only way to go from there is up. The Amazing Spider-Man will be released July 3, 2012 and stars Andrew Garfield as Peter Parker, Emma Stone as Peter's hot blonde girlfriend Gwen Stacy and Rhys Ifans as a scientist Dr. Curt Connors who turns into a lizard monster. It focuses on Peter Parker developing his super powers in high school.
Didn't I already see most of this movie 9 years ago? We get it, he gets bit by a spider and gets super spider powers. Oh well, it still looks pretty badass. Especially the part of the trailer where the movie goes into POV. We have 3-D and 1080p with screens bigger than Gabourey Sidibe so we might as well utilize them with sweet POV action scenes of Spider-Man jumping from building to building. Below are pictures from EW and some from on the set. Check them all out after the break.
Ready for a real tear jerker this morning? I may or may not be kidding. It's been 10 years since the first Harry Potter movie was released and now it is all over. The cast, including Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson and Rupert Grint, filmed a behind the scenes video of their last day on the job and saying goodbye to everyone they worked with. I hate goodbyes.
If you've ever seen a Kristen Stewart movie or seen her give a speech after accepting a Teen Choice Award or seen any of her interviews then this might be the best video you see all month. KStew is really, really, really, really awkward in public. More awkward than you're mom walking in on you on alone on a Friday night watching Twilight on your computer.
If you've ever wondering how she does it or wondering how to be a gooder public speaker like her, you're in luck. Now there's a DVD box-set that teaches you how to speak like Kristen Stewart!
P.S. - Which of these 3 Kristen Stewart things is the bestest?
On one hand you have a skinny girl in a bikini filming scenes for the next Twilight movie. On the other hand you have a picture of what appears to be an 11-year-old Kristen Stewart pre-sex change. And on the 3rd, lesser known hand, you have a video of her being so awkward in an interview that it's hard to even watch for the entire minute.
UPDATE: Warner Brothers finally posted the trailer online so we have an actual high quality version of it instead of the cell phone camera versions.
The Dark Knight Rises comes out July 20, 2012 which is over a year from now but the first poster was released this week and the official trailer was released and shown for the first time before Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 2 Thursday at the midnight showings. I know what you're thinking, "that is a run-on sentence if I've ever seen one!". Well how about this to make it up to you - The Dark Knight Rises trailer. It's filmed by someone in the theater because the first time it was shown to the public was about 2 hours ago in the theaters but the quality is pretty good.
Ummmm yes, I'm psyched. That trailer might have sucked but oh well, I'm still excited. It's just the way I roll with movies. The Dark Knight Rises will be the third and final of Christopher Nolan's Batman films. If it is anything even close to The Dark Knight it'll be more awesome than Brian Wilson thinks his beard is and killing Osama Bin Laden combined. Two weeks ago I posted about how a fan captured a clip of filming in England but now you have the first official trailer to go along with that.
After reading the Mila Kunis GQ interview and learning she was in a movie called Santa with Muscles with Hulk Hogan I quickly realized this topic needed a new post. I did what any normal first world person would do and googled the movie because I had never heard of it before. Lo and behold the premise was perfect:
Blake (Hulk Hogan), a man who after getting amnesia, thinks he is Santa Claus and then attempts to save an orphanage from developers that intend to take it over for their own purposes.
Good thing Netflix is cheap so I can add it to my queue. Oh, wait. Ed Begley Jr. is also in the movie? Christmas come early! If you don't know who he is well here you go. And a 6-year-old Brenda Song is in the movie? I have so many new movies to watch, stop trying to get me overwhelmed with awesomeness.
Holy christ. I'm speechless. Keep the milk and cookies warm! Leave it to the '90s to make a movie about Santa having muscles. I'm almost ready to throw down my pogs and start playing Treasure Mountain. The only thing that would make this complete would be if Jose Canseco bid on my Princess Diana Beanie Baby.
Mila Kunis is on the August cover of GQ Magazine. Yeah, she might have small boobs but this cover trumps the Katy Perry Rolling Stone July cover. There's just something sexy about a girl drinking Starbucks iced coffee showing her midriff. I'm not exactly sure why but it just is. It's probably mostly the bare midriff part but the iced coffee has to play a part somewhere.
The GQ interview is a bunch of questions about her new movie Friends with Benefits with Justin Timberlake, Star Trek, her father, Lucille Balle, and a movie called Santa with Muscles (which I then googled). Wait, wait, wait. There's a movie called Santa with Muscles starring Hulk Hogan and Mila Kunis?!? Forget about the awesome GQ pictures for a second. There's.a.movie.called.Santa.with.Muscles.starring.Hulk.Hogan.and.Mila.Kunis. That deserves it's own post.
A random fan was in England last week and captured a clip of filming for The Dark Knight Rises on video.
In Flex - Well, this clip certainly wasn’t directed by Christopher Nolan — it doesn’t quite have his auteur’s vision — but for fans hungry for anything from “The Dark Knight Rises,” this fan-captured video offers a whole treasure chest of information.
Shot in Wollaton Hall in Nottingham, England — the stand-in for Wayne Manor — the blurry camera footage captures Christian Bale as Bruce Wayne confronting Anne Hathaway as Selina Kyle. Rain (or, hose water) pours down as the two talk, and soon Kyle leads Wayne away.
What it means, well, no one’s quite sure. But at least we now know what Wayne Manor looks like from the front, and that Batman and Catwoman have a plain clothes confrontation.
How do I get the job of that guy who runs toward Anne Hathaway after the scene to cover her with an umbrella? I am setting the over/under (yes/no) on her showing her tits in this movie at 75/25). Tweet me your picks!
The Dark Knight Rises is scheduled to be released on July 20, 2012. Until then I guess I'll just have to watch a ton of romcoms, the NFL and NBA. Oh, wait...
Malin Akerman is awesome. First, she shows her tits in numerous movies. Second, she's blonde. Third, she stars in romantic comedies. Fourth, she has a great sense of humor and makes hilarious videos.
Since I made a Green Hornet post that had a lot of Ryan Reynolds in tights I figured it was necessary to post these Blake Lively pictures from WonderCon to balance things out. There isn't much more to say about Blake Lively that I haven't already said. She's great. She always wears stuff that makes her boobs pop out. What else do you want from her? Now go stare.
WonderCon 2011 was in San Francisco this past weekend and besides gay people flocking in to see Ryan Reynolds in tights, four minutes of Green Lantern were shown. I have really high hopes for this film which means I'll probably let down. Then again, Blake Lively is in it and she never lets me down. Pun intended! The movie comes out June 17 in 3D.
In a universe as vast as it is mysterious, a small but powerful force has existed for centuries. Protectors of peace and justice, they are called the Green Lantern Corps. A brotherhood of warriors sworn to keep intergalactic order, each Green Lantern wears a ring that grants him superpowers. But when a new enemy called Parallax threatens to destroy the balance of power in the Universe, their fate and the fate of Earth lie in the hands of their newest recruit, the first human ever selected: Hal Jordan. Hal is a gifted and cocky test pilot, but the Green Lanterns have little respect for humans, who have never harnessed the infinite powers of the ring before. But Hal is clearly the missing piece to the puzzle, and along with his determination and willpower, he has one thing no member of the Corps has ever had: humanity. With the encouragement of fellow pilot and childhood sweetheart Carol Ferris (Blake Lively), if Hal can quickly master his new powers and find the courage to overcome his fears, he may prove to be not only the key to defeating Parallax…he will become the greatest Green Lantern of all. [Apple]
Nobody likes to read a long synopsis so I'm guessing you didn't read that. My motto has always been "if there's a movie version of a book why read the book?" and this falls right in line with that. Why read that when I can watch the four minutes of footage? Check out the 4 minutes of footage after the jump.
At first viewing, the Hangover was fucking hilarious. Unlike most shitty comedies, it was also hilarious at the second, third and fourth viewing. The fifth one sucked, but then it got awesome again at the sixth.
Earlier today the trailer for Hangover 2 came out and I got more excited than Lindsay Lohan in a jewelry store. Most of the cast of the first movie return, Ed Helms as Stu, Bradley Cooper as Phil and Zach Galifianakis. Ken Jeong and Mike Tyson both return and apparently Liam Neeson makes a cameo. Mel Gibson was supposed to be in it, but he had a prior arrangement of beating up some women. The plot is pretty much the same thing, the guys go out for a bachelor party and wake up the next morning remembering nothing. This time a monkey replaces the tiger as the obscure animal that seems impossible to actually have.
The trailer looks pretty good and hopefully they won't fuck up the first by making some shitty sequel.
A Woody Allen romantic comedy starring Rachel McAdams and Owen Wilson? Is there any way I can get an advanced screening? I can't wait until May. Woody Allen's new movie is called "Midnight in Paris" and will be released on May 11 at Cannes and then on May 20 in theaters. It also has Marion Cotillard, Michael Sheen, Kathy Bates and Adrien Brody. "Midnight in Paris" revolves around Owen Wilson and Rachel McAdams who are engaged and traveling to Paris with their family for business. Obviously things don't go as they plan and they must "confront the illusion that a life different from their own is better".
The only thing better than a Woody Allen romantic comedy is making him watch you eat a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. I'll end the post on this note from the wikipedia of Woody Allen's phobias:
"Along with his many other phobias, he also suffers from quite strange and funny arachibutyrophobia, which means fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of his mouth.
According to some reports, Woody Allen has morbid fear of dogs, children, sunshine, small rooms, heights, cancer and various illnesses.
Talking further to Reuters about his neurotic nature, Woody said, 'I cut my banana into seven slices every morning before I put it in my cereal.'"
"When decorated airman Captain Colter Stevens (Gyllenhaal) wakes up in the body of an unknown man, he discovers he's part of a mission to find the bomber of a Chicago commuter train. In an assignment unlike any he's ever known, he learns he's part of a government experiment called the "Source Code," a program that enables him to cross over into another man's identity in the last 8 minutes of his life. With a second much larger target threatening to kill millions in downtown Chicago, Colter re-lives the incident over and over again, gathering clues each time, until he can solve the mystery of who is behind the bombs and prevent the next attack."
Movie Web released the first 5 minutes of the Source Code and I posted it below. If you want to see other scenes go here. Richard "Eight" Roeper gave Source Code an "A" and called it "Groundhog Day meets Inception" and "entertaining as hell". Uggghhhhh, going to have to pay attention to a plot for once. Check out his video review because he explains the movie pretty nicely. (Note - the movie might play for a second then stop while a 10 second or so ad is displayed but then the movie will resume. It's Movie Web's settings that I can't change when I embed the video)
You should all know by now that I love romantic comedies. I pretty much love all movies but romcoms in particular, so this post should not be a surprise to you.
"Bridesmaids" is an upcoming romantic comedy starring Kristen Wiig, Maya Rudolph and Rose Byrne to be released on May 13. It also has Ellie Kemper (Erin from "The Office"), Jon Hamm, Melissa McCarthy (the fat chick from "Mike & Molly) and Nancy Carell. I'm not really that excited for this movie solely because it's pretty much an all girl cast, and girls aren't funny (although I do like Kristen Wiig). The movie is directed by Paul Feig who directed episodes of "The Office", "Arrested Development" and "Weeds", among others. Judd Apatow is producing it so the combination of him and Feig might make this movie decent. Without them I'm sure the movie would be one giant self loathing, man hating, PMS filled extravaganza.
The first trailer came out about a month ago and yesterday a new one was released. There are a few funny lines in it and Rose Byrne is a little bit siiilllyyy looking so that was enough to get me to give this one a chance. I don't have high movie standards people.
Drew Barrymore is set to direct her second film, "Dealing With Being Annoying, Fat and Alone in New York City: the Drew Barrymore Story" "How to Be Single". According to THR, "Single explores the love lives and break-ups of a group of New Yorkers over the course of ten years". I'm hooked! It is based on the book by Liz Tuccillo who co-wrote "He's Just Not That Into You", which Drew Barrymore produced. I imagine Drew Barrymore has to pay people to be in movies because I can't come to any other conclusion as to why people let her be in their films. She's on a roll starring in movies about her life right now, as she just finished filming Everybody Loves Whales, set to be released January 13, 2012.
"Red Riding Hood" only made $14 mil and "Mars Needs Moms" only made $7 mil in their opening weekend?!?!?!? SHOCKER! Way to sink $150 million into that one Disney. I could have told you not to make those two films. It's a sad country we live in when Justin Bieber's movie has made $71 million in 5 weeks. Just kidding, our country is awesome and I wouldn't want to live anywhere else. Especially not Egypt, Libya or Japan.
In my opinion, girls should never have hair that short unless they're recovering from chemo so I'm not happy with Ms. Watson. She looks like she's trying to be Harry Potter in the new movie and not Hermione. Seriously, put a pair of glasses on her and some dumb lightning bolt on her forehead and I think she might look better than Daniel Radcliffe.
Emma Watson use to be so hot and now she is so not. I'm disappointed to say the least.
Thank god, I was starting to lose sleep not knowing when part 1 of Breaking Dawn was being released. Oh what do you ask? Yes, there will be two parts of this shithole movie to make even more money from annoying teen girls. The first part of Breaking Dawn will be released November 18, 2011 and the second part will be released almost exactly a year after, November 16, 2012. The Big 3 (no not Pierce-Garnett-Allen or James-Wade-Bosh) of Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, and Taylor Lautner will all be returning to their undead roles. Not that I really care about the plot, but yes I will go see it. Only cause I fucking love Kristen Stewart. If you haven't seen her in Adventureland, go kill yourself. Actually watch the movie then go kill yourself.
At Comic-Con last week they showed 9 minutes of footage from the new Piranha 3-D movie, set to be released August 20. As what happens with everything these days, it was leaked online. I will warn you by saying it is one of the most bloody/gruesome/outrageous things I have ever seen. It's basically people getting absolutely annihilated by piranhas and boats/boat engines. At about 3:30 in you'll start to think "what the hell is he talking about, this is lame...he's a vagina if he thinks this is gruesome" but just wait until about the 4:30 mark.
Without further adieu here is the VERY NSFW footage:
I couldn't help but laugh at the ridiculousness of everything that was happening for the last 4 minutes. The director, Alexandre Aja, basically thought of every way to involve piranhas killing people and take it 10x further.
"Tons of people already being eaten by piranhas? Let's have a wire slice 2 girls in half. Let's also have the wire cut off their bikinis so we can get some tits in this movie...everyone loves tits. I'm already getting an R rating, might as well make the most of it."
"There are hundreds of people that look like they just listened to a Dashboard Confessional album but let's have 2 boats collide and explode some dudes head."
"People already dying in the water? Fuck it, let's run them over with a boat."
"A girl already getting eaten alive by a piranha? Let's get her hair caught in the boat propeller. That will make things better."
"2 guys trying to save a girl by carrying her to shore? C'mon guys, no one lives in this movie - she's gotta get her torso ripped in half while they are carrying her. DUH!"
"I'm not making this movie for you guys unless there's a naked underwater lesbian scene. Oh yeah, and a dude killing piranhas with a boat engine."
Cats & Dogs is another ridiculous animal movie that has lots of stars as voices. It received a 13% on Rotten Tomatoes (official sponsor) so needless to say I am not going to see an animated movie about cats & dogs. I don't feel like wasting space with the trailer so go here if you really want to watch it.
Charlie St. Cloud is a fantasy-romance starring Zac Efron, Amanda Crew, Ray Liotta and Kim Basinger. It is about a boy (Charlie) whose younger brother (Sam) is killed by a drunk driver. Before he died, Charlie made a promise to Sam that he would play catch with him every single day. Charlie vows to uphold that promise when he starts seeing his brother's ghost. Charlie meets a girl (Tess) and must choose between her or his dead brother. I know, I know, the storyline sounds ridiculous and I posted about how the entire theater erupted in laughter when they showed the preview at Inception but I will probably end up seeing it anyways. It received a 24% on Rotten Tomatoes which isn't good but I don't think anyone expected it to receive high ratings in the first place. Going in with low expectations means it can only surprise me. Here's the trailer in case you want a good laugh too. RT general consensus: " Zac Efron gives it his all, but Charlie St. Cloud is too shallow and cloying to offer much more than eye candy for his fans." That's ironic because candy is the food of choice for most of his fans.
Dinner For Schmucks is the movie I am most looking forward to seeing of this bunch. It is a comedy film starring Steve Carell, Paul Rudd, Zach Galifianakis, Ron Livingston, Lucy Punch and Jemaine Clement. The trailer looks hilarious and Steve Carell has never disappointed me so it's a must see. I'll use the always trusty Wikipedia for the plot explanation...
"Tim (Rudd) is a rising executive who 'succeeds' in finding the perfect guest, IRS employee Barry (Carell), for his boss's monthly event: a so-called 'dinner for idiots'. The gathering offers certain advantages to the executive who shows up with the biggest buffoon."
It received a 52% on Rotten Tomatoes with the general consensus being that "It doesn't honor its source material -- or its immensely likable leads -- as well as it should, but Dinner for Schmucks offers fitfully nourishing comedy." Good enough for me.
The Extra Man is a comedy starring Kevin Kline, Paul Dano, Katie Holmes and John C. Reilly. It received a 44% on Rotten Tomatoes and is billed as "A sophisticated and moving comedy". The only comedies I like are unsophisticated ones. It is about a failed playwright who develops a mentor relationship with a cross-dressing nut job and teaches him " the art of being an 'extra man,' accompanying and entertaining wealthy older women in their fanciful social lives." On second thought, I might have to see this movie as entertaining wealthy older women in their fanciful social lives has been my lifelong goal. I'm definitely not going to pay money to see this so I'll probably end up watching it on a Tuesday afternoon when it is on Encore and I have nothing to do.
Get Low is exactly the type of movie that Rotten Tomatoes critics love - film festival, limited release, comedy/drama with a few big name older actors. It stars Robert Duvall, Sissy Spacek, Bill Murray and Lucas Black. No surprise that RT gave it a 90%, saying, "Subtle to a fault, this perfectly cast ensemble drama is lifted by typically sharp performances from Robert Duvall and Bill Murray." It is based on a true story about a hermit who lives in the woods and comes back demanding the town have a "living funeral" for him. Him, Lindsay Lohan and the cross-dressing guy from The Extra Man should hang out in the looney tune bin.
There was a 5-minute trailer for Thor shown at Comic-Con last week and it got leaked online today. I don't really know much about Thor except for what the "premise" section of Wikipedia had to say...
"The Mighty Thor, a powerful but arrogant warrior whose reckless actions reignite an ancient war. Thor is cast down to Earth and forced to live among humans as punishment. Once here, Thor learns what it takes to be a true hero when the most dangerous villain of his world sends the darkest forces of Asgard to invade Earth."
The trailer is pretty badass but the movie doesn't come out until May 2011. Chris Hemsworth (the brother of that guy who's dating Miley Cyrus), Natalie Portman and Anthony Hopkins star in the movie.
