If you haven’t seen the new trailer yet, brace yourselves…
At long last, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 hits the big screen this Friday. We will have to wait until next year to see the second half of the movie, but considering how many years it has taken to deliver the series, that is a minor detail.
At first I wasn’t even going to mention movies this week, since the dreadful The Last Airbender was the obvious title. But then I discovered Metropia is also being released this week, a rather dark and disturbing story about mind control in near future Europe. Even the animation work in this one helps set the mood for a tale that is fully worthy of Philip K. Dick, to the point where I expected to see it was based on one of his stories (it isn’t). Also, Avatar (Three-Disc Extended Collector’s Edition) is the DVD they should have released in the first place with all of the missing footage. But it is still not in 3D, so I suspect their goal is to try to get everyone to buy the movie three times.
In sort-of non fiction we have The Seekers Guide to Harry Potter, the reviews of which have been underwhelming. I will be giving this one a pass, but thought it should at least be mentioned.
In live action TV this week we have Heroes: The Complete Series for those who haven’t bought each season as it was released. While on the topic of live action television I would like to express my displeasure with Syfy for not only canceling Caprica, but stopping showing episodes with several unaired. Likewise kudos to Space TV for continuing to run them; too bad I don’t have that channel on my cable lineup.
In anime we have one release, Our Home’s Fox Deity. If you enjoy humorous demon fighting this is worth checking out. I suspect things are sparse this week because everything is being held back for the holiday shopping season.
Only a month and a few weeks to go to TRON: Legacy; a little Daft Punk with footage to get us ready… BTW, there is also some trailer footage for the new Green Lantern movie, but since it is mostly a commercial for Entertainment Tonight I didn’t post it here.
First, the latest US trailer; then, from the Netherlands version of Disney, another Tangled trailer (they call it Rapunzel for some obscure reason). In this country the movie will be out Thanksgiving weekend, in that it will be December 1st.
There is a new Tron: Legacy trailer out today, quite different than the previous two and possibly the best one yet. This movie will be kick ass, I have been waiting for a few decades for them to build the sequel.