{"id":160498,"date":"2024-07-29T18:58:57","date_gmt":"2024-07-30T00:58:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=160498"},"modified":"2024-07-29T18:58:57","modified_gmt":"2024-07-30T00:58:57","slug":"trailers-before-deadpool-wolverine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2024\/07\/29\/trailers-before-deadpool-wolverine.html","title":{"rendered":"Trailers before &#8220;Deadpool &#038; Wolverine&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We rarely see R-rated movies, so going to see <em>Deadpool &amp; Wolverine<\/em> opened up a whole new tranche of trailers, pretty much all of which we won&#8217;t be going to.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/movie-trailer-restricted.webp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-160501\" src=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/movie-trailer-restricted-650x366.webp\" alt=\"movie trailer restricted\" width=\"650\" height=\"366\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/movie-trailer-restricted-650x366.webp 650w, https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/movie-trailer-restricted-300x169.webp 300w, https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/movie-trailer-restricted-150x84.webp 150w, https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/movie-trailer-restricted-768x432.webp 768w, https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/movie-trailer-restricted.webp 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em><strong>Red One<\/strong><\/em><em> &#8211;\u00a0<\/em>Doing a Santa Claus action movie, complete with Dwayne Johnson and a very ripped J K Simmons, looks amusing enough that I can see us streaming it some time.<\/li>\n<li><em><strong>Heretic<\/strong><\/em><em> &#8211;\u00a0<\/em>Hugh Grant as a religious (anti-religious?) fanatic that runs a couple of female door-to-door proselytizers through a horror maze thingamabob &#8230; nope. Even though I like Hugh Grant.<\/li>\n<li><em><strong>Wicked<\/strong><\/em><em> &#8211;\u00a0<\/em>Never saw the stage show (just never worked out), but the trailer looks pretty darned cool. This one we&#8217;ll likely see in the theater.<\/li>\n<li><em><strong>Speak No Evil\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>&#8211; See, the problem with horror movies is that they say, &#8220;Let&#8217;s take something that everyone gets paranoid about, like meeting what seems like a nice family while on vacation and accepting their invitation to stay with them at their isolated farmhouse, only to discover that was a Really Bad Idea, and make a movie of it and everyone will want to see it,&#8221; whereas I say, no, that&#8217;s stuff I am paranoid about and do <em>not<\/em> need to see that paranoia instantiated in a film.<\/li>\n<li><em><strong>Borderlands<\/strong> <\/em> &#8211; Something video-game based, which looks like kind of CGI action-adventure fun, but my son advises against it, so that&#8217;s likely the end of that.<\/li>\n<li><em><strong>Joker 2<\/strong><\/em> &#8211; I really don&#8217;t need to see a picture that focuses on the Joker. No matter (in fact, probably very matter) how good it is at portraying the homicidal lunatic that&#8217;s driven up life insurance rates in Gotham. Let alone seeing another retelling of Harley Quinn&#8217;s abusive relationship with same. Nope. I used the time to run off to the restroom before the movie started.<\/li>\n<li><em><strong>A Complete Unknown<\/strong> &#8211;\u00a0<\/em>This is the year-or-two of Timoth\u00e9e Chalamet, and he looks like he&#8217;ll make a great Bob Dylan, and I really have no interest in a Bob Dylan biopic. But at least it&#8217;s not Bob Dylan jump-scaring people and then carving them up with a butcher&#8217;s knife. Unless there&#8217;s more to the story than I know.<\/li>\n<li><em><strong>Captain America: Brave New World<\/strong><\/em><em> &#8211;\u00a0<\/em>Clearly trying to riff off one of the best Captain America (in fact, MCU) movies, <em>Winter Soldier,<\/em> with its politics and spy tropes and betrayals, I&#8217;m just not convinced yet by the trailers. Oh, don&#8217;t get me wrong, I&#8217;ll go see it. But I&#8217;m not sure what I&#8217;ll think of it when I do.<\/li>\n<li><em><strong>Alien: Romulus &#8211;\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><em>\u00a0<\/em>Because the original focused on a bunch of adults, so clearly the only way to milk more money from the Alien franchise is to have it focus on a bunch of teen\/twenty-something and What Inevitably Happens When They Try To Steal Stuff From That Mysteriously-Deserted Space Station.\u00a0 The trailer showed me absolutely nothing I haven&#8217;t seen before, so I don&#8217;t see much reason (even if I were a fan) to go see it.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Hmmm &#8230; so &#8230; not a lot of prospect there in movies that thought advertising before\u00a0<em>Deadpool &amp; Wolverine<\/em> was a good idea. The only thing I can say is, well, the movie trailers were a hell of a lot more interesting than the more conventional ads that have infested movie trailer time like &#8230; well, like face huggers on a mysteriously-deserted space station &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Always fascinating to see how many movies I&#8217;m never going to watch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"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":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-160498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-movies"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":160492,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2024\/07\/29\/movie-review-deadpool-wolverine-2024.html","url_meta":{"origin":160498,"position":0},"title":"Movie Review: &#8220;Deadpool &#038; Wolverine&#8221; (2024)","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 29-Jul-24 6:35pm","format":false,"excerpt":"A very funny, very actiony, very enjoyable way to wile away a couple of hours. 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Not for the violence or obscenity faint-of-heart, but I'm okay with that in measured doses. (I think the distinction is cross-overs. 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