{"id":155338,"date":"2021-09-11T01:01:24","date_gmt":"2021-09-11T07:01:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=155338"},"modified":"2021-09-13T15:19:59","modified_gmt":"2021-09-13T21:19:59","slug":"movie-trailers-before-shang-chi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2021\/09\/11\/movie-trailers-before-shang-chi.html","title":{"rendered":"Movie Trailers before “Shang-Chi”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Because if they’re going to chew up a half hour of your life, it’s worth making a note of them.<\/p>\n

Weirdly, there was a trend in these trailers … the longer it went on, the better \/ less-reprehensible they became. Not sure if that was a coincidence or not.<\/p>\n

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  1. Jackass Forever<\/strong><\/em> —\u00a0<\/em>The\u00a0Jackass<\/em> franchise is egregious enough. Coming up with something pretty clearly scripted for the\u00a0Jackass<\/em> franchise is unforgivable. The trailer almost made me want to leave the theater.<\/li>\n
  2. Venom: Let There Be Carnage<\/strong><\/em><\/a>\u00a0—\u00a0<\/strong>The only good thing to come out of the Sony purchase of Spider-Man rights from Marvel is that the whole Venom \/ Carnage\u00a0 piece of the Marvel Universe has been shoved into a completely different set of movies that I can ignore.\u00a0 Really.<\/li>\n
  3. King Richard<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>— You would think a movie about Venus and Serena Williams would actually be about those tennis stars. Instead, this seems more focused on (given the name and the Will Smith star-power) their father, which is … kinda weird.<\/li>\n
  4. No Time to Die<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>— The Daniel Craig era of Bond has been a very good one, but having a trailer for the last Craig film present itself as half-nostalgia, half-this-is-the-final-Bond-movie-ever is … also kinda weird.<\/li>\n
  5. Sing 2<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>— A heartwarming musical performer anthropomorphic animal song performance sequel to a movie I never watched and don’t regret not doing so.<\/li>\n
  6. The King’s Man<\/strong><\/em><\/a> —\u00a0<\/em>I watched\u00a0The Kingsmen<\/em> because I knew the Mark Millar comic book. Which meant I had little desire to watch the sequel. But this is an Edwardian Era prequel, which could be kind of amusing.<\/li>\n
  7. Eternals<\/strong><\/em><\/a> — Same trailer as seen before. I am definitely so there. But I’m also a bit worried about an ensemble movie for the MCU where none of the characters are pre-established in solo efforts. I worry about how this will fare, commercially, even while everything about it looks very cool.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Net-net? I see us going to\u00a0Eternals, The King’s Man<\/em> (Margie was intrigued), and maybe\u00a0No Time to Die.\u00a0<\/em>The rest are not our cuppa.<\/p>\n

    \"Movie<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    There’re a lot of not-good movies coming out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":140667,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":301,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[411,525,41],"tags":[2211],"class_list":["post-155338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-james-bond","category-marvel-cinematic-universe","category-media-movies","tag-previews"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/DWVhCLHWsAIR3W0.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":154503,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2021\/07\/11\/movie-trailers-before-black-widow.html","url_meta":{"origin":155338,"position":0},"title":"Movie trailers before “Black Widow”","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 11-Jul-21 11:42am","format":false,"excerpt":"Back in the theater again, with a look at what's coming up.","rel":"","context":"In "Commercials & Branding"","block_context":{"text":"Commercials & Branding","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/media\/media-commercial"},"img":{"alt_text":"Movie Trailers","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/DWVhCLHWsAIR3W0.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/DWVhCLHWsAIR3W0.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/DWVhCLHWsAIR3W0.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":26767,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/02\/29\/avengers-assemble-audience.html","url_meta":{"origin":155338,"position":1},"title":"Avengers! 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