Movie trailers we saw before The Hobbit last Friday:
– Lone Ranger — Same trailer as previously linked to. Visually, this looks really good, and the trailer makes it mostly serious with a leavening of modern humor. This could go horribly wrong, but I think it's going to be more right.
– Warm Bodies — A post-Armageddon Zombie Love Story? This actually looked kind of funny and kind of cute. Not something I'm going to make a point of going to see, but not necessarily mock-worthy, either.
– Escape from Planet Earth — There wasn't anything particularly wrong about this "aliens on Earth" CG-animated story, but there wasn't anything that grabbed me and said WATCH! WATCH! I'm sure it will be moderately entertaining, and then vanish with nary a trace.
– The Host — A post-Armageddon aliens-taking-over-human-bodies story, with from the writer who brought you Twilight. Um … no.
– Oblivion — A post-Armageddon everything-you-know-is-wrong fight-the-Man action-adventure-SF tale starring Tom Cruise. It certainly looked pretty.
– Jack the Giant Slayer — Live action fairy tale boredom, with some of the flattest 3D I've ever seen.
– Man of Steel — Again, the same as the trailer I linked to last week — but this really looks like it could be good, unless it's horribly, horribly ponderous.
So, of all of the above, there's nothing that I feel I have to go to. _Man of Steel, The Lone Ranger,_ and maybe, maybe Warm Bodies. But, given our current movie track record, I'd say that, lacking something making any of the the above a lot more compelling, we will, at best, catch them on disc or streaming video at home.
(And what is with the post-Armageddon motif, folks? Are people that pessimistic and/or fed up with modern society and where it's trending? Looks like a great sociology / modern cinema thesis in the making …)
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the host will likely not successfully well be a movie. The entire book (this knowledge from my mother and sister who read it) is really an inner dialog. So it's hard to say if it can in any way actually pull of the book. I'm looking forwards to Man of Steel it looks like it'll be great (assuming it's not like other superman flops)
The Host looked like it could be interesting, but there seemed something vaguely soft and gauzy about it — and then we got the "from the creator of the Twilight saga …" bit …
Man of Steel looks like it's tackling bigger themes than Superman Returns, and is being played more or less straight along the lines of Superman 1 and 2. We'll see.
Yeah, I need to find someone who's an avid superman fan so I can see where some of this movie is coming from and understand it a bit more.
Did you not get the extended Star Trek scene? That was definitely the main attraction before the Hobbit for us.
Nope, I've not seen that apart from the internet. I'm surprised you even saw it, it came out after the hobbit did or did it come out like a day or two before?
Great to see that The Lone Ranger's pal is still named Stupid. Well, actually, no it's not.
+Patches Bunny I saw The Hobbit on Friday night. I'm not sure but I think it came out with The Hobbit.
Why are they making the Lone Ranger undead? And Silver’s a smart horse, but he shouldn’t be having conversations with people.
I think Man of Steel has a lot of potential. As long as the reviews aren't terrible, I'll see it in the theaters. The rest can wait for rentals I think.
I’ve not seen any of thse yet.