{"id":160733,"date":"2025-02-18T18:33:08","date_gmt":"2025-02-19T01:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=160733"},"modified":"2025-02-18T18:33:08","modified_gmt":"2025-02-19T01:33:08","slug":"movie-previews-we-saw-before-captain-america-brave-new-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2025\/02\/18\/movie-previews-we-saw-before-captain-america-brave-new-world.html","title":{"rendered":"Movie previews we saw before “Captain America: Brave New World”"},"content":{"rendered":"

We went to see\u00a0<\/a>Captain America: Brave New World\u00a0<\/em>on its opening Saturday — a key moment for movie studios to advertise upcoming flicks they think that audience will want to come see.<\/p>\n

\"Coming<\/a><\/p>\n

Here are the trailers they fed us (with IMDb links for more info, the trailers themselves, etc.):<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Novocaine<\/strong><\/a>: Looks like an action-comedy featuring a guy who feels no pain. Which, in real life, is really very dangerous (pain is an important way to keep us from burns and dismemberment), but here is being played for yucks as he tries to rescue his kidnapped girlfriend. I mean, I like Jack Quaid, but this makes me a little queasy.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Warfare<\/strong><\/a>:\u00a0 Looks like a gritty, meant-to-be-realistic view of modern warfare, based on the memories of a former Navy SEAL and his time in Iraq. From what I know (which is not a lot), it certainly\u00a0looks<\/em> realistic. Which, to my mind, is a great reason not to plan to go see it, because honestly I like my violence a little cartoony.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>The Accountant 2<\/strong><\/a>:\u00a0 Another in the “cool guy who is a lethal weapon and tackles his job with casual aplomb” genre of films, starring Ben Affleck. I didn’t see the first one, and I don’t see anything here that has me rearing to go and catch the new one, which introduces a “buddy film” vibe by also include the protagonist’s equally-lethal brother.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Sinners<\/strong><\/a>: This looks intriguing, lots of interesting visuals, music, FX, period piece (20s-30s) around a pair of black brothers who return to their home town, only to find a Sinister Evil has taken root and etc. etc.\u00a0 I don’t anticipate going to see it because I am not a horror film guy, but it sure looks well done.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Jurassic World: Rebirth<\/strong><\/a>:\u00a0 I had no idea the franchise was continuing onward, this time with action hero Scarlett Johansson and all the dinosaurs that the original Jurassic Park deemed “too dangerous” to have at their amusement park.\u00a0 Looks like lots of CG dinosaurs, lots of guns, lots of action and danger and (I suspect) red shirts. Maybe if I ever get caught up with the franchise I’ll watch it on an airplane flight to somewhere.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>How To Train Your Dragon<\/strong><\/a>:\u00a0 See! Companies other than Disney can ransack their IP to make oodles of money recycling animated features as live-action-except-for-all-the-CG features!\u00a0 What I saw in the trailer looked pretty good — but the original HTTYD looked (and still looks) pretty good so this one goes in the “when it’s streaming somewhere for super-cheap” stack.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Fantastic Four: First Steps<\/strong><\/a>: The same trailer as has been running on TV, only up on a great big screen, which looks pretty darned awesome. I am already planning on seeing this, so the trailer just made me re-aware that it’s one of the three MCU films coming out this year.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Thunderbolts*<\/strong><\/a>: Again, this trailer has been on TV already, so it’s just getting to see it embiggened. Still looks like fun, with an obvious “Suicide Squad, only in the MCU” vibe to it (and maybe a bit of that old fave,\u00a0Mystery Men).<\/em>\u00a0 Already marked on my calendar.<\/p>\n

So there you have it — the only films I’m likely to see from that batch of trailers are the two I was already intending to see. Still, I don’t mind being exposed to some things I likely otherwise wouldn’t know about, so there’s that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Watching the pre-movie trailers is always fun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":141281,"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":[45,525,41],"tags":[1638],"class_list":["post-160733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-media-cartoons","category-marvel-cinematic-universe","category-media-movies","tag-trailers"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/DN-MoIRXcAEXmB_.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":130610,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/05\/07\/movie-trailers-before-captain-america-civil-war.html","url_meta":{"origin":160733,"position":0},"title":"Movie Trailers Before "Captain America: Civil War"","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 7-May-16 9:23am","format":false,"excerpt":"At least at our theater. 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