{"id":31837,"date":"2012-12-18T21:35:12","date_gmt":"2012-12-19T04:35:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/12\/18\/pre-hobbit-movies-in-our-future.html"},"modified":"2014-06-17T07:28:22","modified_gmt":"2014-06-17T13:28:22","slug":"pre-hobbit-movies-in-our-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/12\/18\/pre-hobbit-movies-in-our-future.html","title":{"rendered":"Pre-Hobbit Movies in Our Future"},"content":{"rendered":"

Movie trailers we saw before The Hobbit<\/i> last Friday:<\/p>\n

– Lone Ranger<\/i> — Same trailer as previously linked to. \u00a0Visually, this looks really good, and the trailer makes it mostly serious with a leavening of modern humor. This could go horribly wrong, but I think it's going to be more right.<\/p>\n

– Warm Bodies<\/i> — A post-Armageddon Zombie Love Story? \u00a0This actually looked kind of funny and kind of cute. Not something I'm going to make a point of going to see, but not necessarily mock-worthy, either.<\/p>\n

– Escape from Planet Earth<\/i> — There wasn't anything particularly wrong about this "aliens on Earth" CG-animated story, but there wasn't anything that grabbed me and said WATCH! WATCH! \u00a0I'm sure it will be moderately entertaining, and then vanish with nary a trace.<\/p>\n

– The Host<\/i> — A post-Armageddon aliens-taking-over-human-bodies story, with from the writer who brought you Twilight<\/i>. \u00a0Um … no.<\/p>\n

– Oblivion<\/i> — A post-Armageddon everything-you-know-is-wrong fight-the-Man action-adventure-SF tale starring Tom Cruise. It certainly looked pretty. \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

– Jack the Giant Slayer<\/i> — Live action fairy tale boredom, with some of the flattest 3D I've ever seen.<\/p>\n

– Man of Steel<\/i> — Again, the same as the trailer I linked to last week — but this really looks like it could be good, unless it's horribly, horribly ponderous.<\/p>\n

So, of all of the above, there's nothing that I feel I have<\/i> to go to. \u00a0_Man of Steel, The Lone Ranger,_ and maybe, maybe Warm Bodies.<\/i> \u00a0But, given our current movie track record, I'd say that, lacking something making any of the the above a lot<\/i> more compelling, we will, at best, catch them on disc or streaming video at home.<\/p>\n

(And what is with the post-Armageddon motif, folks? Are people that pessimistic and\/or fed up with modern society and where it's trending? \u00a0Looks like a great sociology \/ modern cinema thesis in the making …)<\/p>\n

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Movie trailers we saw before The Hobbit last Friday: – Lone Ranger — Same trailer as previously linked to. \u00a0Visually, this looks really good, and the trailer makes it mostly serious with a leavening of modern humor. This could go horribly wrong, but I think it's going to be more right. – Warm Bodies — … Continue reading “Pre-Hobbit Movies in Our Future”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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":"","_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":0,"_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":[106,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-media-movies"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":38903,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/10\/01\/smaug-y-goodness.html","url_meta":{"origin":31837,"position":0},"title":"Smaug-y goodness!","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 1-Oct-13 8:32am","format":false,"excerpt":"New trailer for the next Hobbit movie? \u00a0Oh, do want! 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