Just when I thought the silliness had reached its limit, the new Pirates: Band of Misfits trailer comes out, and the whole Titanic thingy gets run through the wringer. There is a reason I am a big fan of the humor these folks bring to bear on all their projects.
I did have an entry with a trailer for the Hotel Transylvania animated comedy coming out later in the year, but they turned out not to have the rights to show it, and it got yanked. So instead, here is a different trailer for Lockout, the new Luc Besson movie coming out next weekend.
The movie Iron Sky opens today in Finland and Norway, and tomorrow in Germany and Austria. The US release dates have apparently not yet been determined, I am sorry to say. The plot is that the German rocket program was more advanced than anyone knew at the end of WWII, and the Nazi’s populated the dark side of the moon before they were defeated. 70 years later they return to conquer Earth, with no clue what kind of technical changes civilization has evolved through while they were gone. Boy, are they in for a surprise.
New Total Recall trailer is out! Strangely enough, I was actually considering going to a horror comedy this weekend; Detention is finally going into wide release, or at least wider than the film festival circuit it has been on for the past year. Or maybe not; some schedules have it for this week, and some for next, and next week I will definitely be at Lockout. The other main choice for this week is Comic-Con Episode IV: A Fan’s Hope, a documentary about Comic Con. For me, documentaries rarely require the big screen to tell their story, so I may wait on the DVD for that one. But I am hoping some theater is running the trailer for the new Total Recall movie, because it looks like another great Philip K. Dick roller coaster ride of a film!
This Sunday we will see the first full trailer, but here is both the teaser to the trailer and a shorty trailer for the new Total Recall project. I normally don’t post twice on the same day, but this is Philip K. Dick, people!
I love the weeks like this that have several things to choose from. For silly fun I would have to vote for Mirror Mirror, where Julia Roberts played the Evil Queen (that had to be a hoot for her). I was rather surprised to find a serious coding flaw on their web page; when you start playing the trailer, the music track that auto-play’s when you go to the site just keeps on playing. If you are looking for a film that takes itself a lot more seriously (possibly to the edge of pompousness) then you probably want Wrath of the Titans. Also this week an indi post-apocalypse film called Dead Weight looks to be the most promising thinking person’s film this time around.