{"id":160261,"date":"2023-11-12T00:43:29","date_gmt":"2023-11-12T07:43:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=160261"},"modified":"2023-11-12T00:43:29","modified_gmt":"2023-11-12T07:43:29","slug":"movie-trailers-before-the-marvels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2023\/11\/12\/movie-trailers-before-the-marvels.html","title":{"rendered":"Movie Trailers before &#8220;The Marvels&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/movie-trailers-added5B15D.pngimgmax=660.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-135906\" src=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/movie-trailers-added5B15D.pngimgmax=660.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"660\" height=\"372\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/movie-trailers-added5B15D.pngimgmax=660.png 660w, https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/movie-trailers-added5B15D.pngimgmax=660-150x85.png 150w, https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/movie-trailers-added5B15D.pngimgmax=660-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/movie-trailers-added5B15D.pngimgmax=660-650x366.png 650w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There were fewer trailers than usual at our Regal theater prior to our Friday night premiere showing of <em>The Marvels.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-7f1a92f5-0 kSeVFt\" data-testid=\"hero__pageTitle\"><span class=\"sc-7f1a92f5-1 benbRT\"><em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt10545296\/\">The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds &amp; Snakes<\/a>: <\/strong><\/em>I am sure that someone thought that there was some huge audience for a\u00a0<em>Hunger Games<\/em> prequel (as if &#8220;yes, this is how things got so horribly miserable, plus, character hints for the people who end up so even more miserable in the original movies!&#8221; was a winning pitch), especially given the last film was eight years ago.<\/span><\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"hero__pageTitle\">It all looks appropriately post-apocalyptic, and the trailer hints at it all being terribly depressing, despite some fundamental sense that somehow, sometime in the future, virtue will prevail, kindasorta.<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"hero__pageTitle\">Seriously not my cuppa.<\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds &amp; Snakes (2023) Official Trailer 2\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NxW_X4kzeus?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p data-testid=\"hero__pageTitle\"><em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt6495056\/\">Migration<\/a>:<\/strong><\/em><strong> \u00a0<\/strong>Something animated about birds (mostly? ducks) migrating or maybe taking a vacation, and ending up being stuck in New York City, where hilarity ensues.\u00a0 Looks amusing. Not planning to see in the theaters.<\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Migration | Official Trailer 2 ft. &quot;Out of the Woods (Taylor&#039;s Version)&quot;\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UkHxhPGpRuA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p data-testid=\"hero__pageTitle\"><em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt9663764\/\">Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom<\/a>:\u00a0<\/strong> <\/em>This trailer was interesting for the first ten seconds, until Jason Momoa stopped being onshore and started living in a CGI world under the waves. At which point it all turns into what seems like a synopsis of the entire film. I suspect I will eventually watch it, but it will not be in a movie theater.<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"hero__pageTitle\">On the bright side, this should, finally,\u00a0<em>finally,<\/em> spell the end of endless articles about the far-too-delayed end of the DCEU.<\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom | Trailer\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FV3bqvOHRQo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt11389872\/\">Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes<\/a>:<\/strong><\/em><em>\u00a0<\/em>So I was there back when the original Apes movies were made, and they were all around the juxtaposition of humans and intelligent apes who oppressed \/ were oppressed by them. As far as I can tell from this trailer, it&#8217;s basically about CG apes and the rise of their civilization, and while the CG apes look to be nicely done, I have zero to no interest in what they are doing.<\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes | Teaser Trailer\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NQ_HvTBaFoo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt11304740\/\">Wish<\/a>:\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>For all this seems to have some nifty-looking animation, the story seems like such a pastiche of other Disney films that it&#8217;s hard to get at all excited for it. There&#8217;s a young girl! Who is magically special! And there is a power figure that doesn&#8217;t like it! And danger! And cuteness! And a meta-aware talking animal!<\/p>\n<p>I mean, okay, sure, it&#8217;s better than a live-action remake of <em>Sleeping Beauty<\/em> (coming to theater probably around 2027, by my guess), but there&#8217;s nothing there that feels fresh or new or intriguing.<\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Wish | Official Trailer\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oyRxxpD3yNw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>So, net-net &#8230; nothing I feel any great urge to see, though a couple I might get around to streaming someday.<\/p>\n<p>Honestly, going back over the list &#8230; I&#8217;d probably rewatch\u00a0<em>The Marvels<\/em> first.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-7f1a92f5-0 kSeVFt\" data-testid=\"hero__pageTitle\"><span class=\"sc-7f1a92f5-1 benbRT\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Because sometimes the trailers are the best part of the theater experience<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":135906,"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":"both","_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":[852,263,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-160261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dc-cinematic-univese","category-disney","category-media-movies"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/movie-trailers-added5B15D.pngimgmax=660.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":160065,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2023\/05\/06\/movie-trailers-before-guardians-of-the-galaxy-vol-3.html","url_meta":{"origin":160261,"position":0},"title":"Movie trailers before &#8220;Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol. 3&#8221;","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 6-May-23 12:14am","format":false,"excerpt":"Because the trailers are sometimes half the fun. 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