This one looks like a hoot! The original Dark Shadows TV series took itself way too seriously, but even as it was being aired everyone knew it was a campy classic. But with the Johnny Depp/Tim Burton makeover, there is not even the Shadow of a doubt: this one is being played for the fun of it! I am so ready to see the new version of Dark Shadows in a real theater!
Another new trailer has been released for Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, and the more I see, the more I am ready for the movie to get here! Fox doesn’t seem to have given the film its own web site yet, hope they at least promote it as the release date draws closer.
Prometheus starts out being about the origin of mankind, but gets to be more about the alien life before long. It is the prequel to the Aliens series, and this first full length trailer looks really good. I like the fact that they pulled in Noomi Rapace, her amazing performance in the three Girl With The Dragon Tattoo movies showed just how powerful an actress she is. She is he only modern actress who stands a chance of holding a candle to Ripply.
The obvious must-see movie this time around is The Hunger Games, and it is good to know that it is still possible to tell a story important enough that it needs no sparkling vampires to draw ones attention. The book was well done, I can’t wait to see how the movie turns out.
There really isn’t a genre film out this week, unless you count The FP as a fantasy. It is the story of rival gangs who settle their turf wars through video game dance competitions, and even with whatever violence they might have thrown in that still sounds more like a fantasy than anything else to me. But it does look like it might just be a cult classic of the silly variety, based on the trailer.
Any teaser trailer which uses Donovan’s version of Season Of The Witch for it’s sound bed might just prove worth watching, and hopefully ParaNorman will be as fun as this looks like.