We went to Black Widow on Friday night (no spoilers review, a fine movie, glad to go see it, and in an actual movie theater no less!), and here are the trailers we saw before the show.
The Protégé – Which, as a Samuel Jackson film about assassins I thought, at first, was for the new The Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard film, which it kind of looks like, only with no humor. Meh.
Respect – I’m sure this biopic of Aretha Franklin will get huge plaudits and lead to greater fame for her work, all of which is fine and deserved. But I don’t expect to go see it. Not my cuppa.
Suicide Squad 2 – I’ve managed to avoid watching any trailers for this so far. What I saw looked interesting enough that I’ll certainly see it eventually, maybe even in a theater. It’s less zany than the first one pretended to be (in the trailers, at least), and I’m a long-time fan of the concept.
Old – I’m … not ready for an M Night Shyamalan film yet, sorry. This one does look creepy in a number of ways, but it’s literally warning all of us that there’s a cheap gimmick at the end that will ruin it all.
Snake Eyes – I assume someone has decided to reboot the GI Joe franchise, and they are going the Marvel route of establishing a bunch of solo movies first before getting the gang together, a la The Avengers. If I was at all invested in GI Joe, I might be interested in this film, which looks appropriately actionish. But … I’m not.
Free Guy – An interesting cross between The Truman Show and Ready Player One. Not sure I’m as interested as I am curious about it, but I am open to being swayed to go see it by the time it opens.
Shang-Chi – It’s unfortunate that two comic-booky martial arts movies are coming up a the same time (see Snake Eyes). That said, I’ll almost certainly go to see this because MCU, but, never having been deeply interested in the original character, I’m not sitting at the edge of my seat, waiting for the day. It looks like they’ve filed off the Fu Manchu serial numbers well, and the Ten Rings look like they are not the Mandarin’s Ten Rings (the connection to the group that cause Tony Stark grief remains to be revealed), so that particular bit of Orientalism seems resolved. Still, this martial arts / crime family / super-powers film looks less awesome than it should. We’ll see.
And that was pretty much it, aside from some pre-previews of Jungle Cruise, which looked to be a lot of fun. Not counting that, make it two movies I’m likely to see, one definite maybe.