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Comic-Con Kicks Off with Transformers One, Joker 2 Trailers
Comic-Con is in full swing and that means we’re going to get all sorts of new trailers and info and tidbits and reveals and whatnot. I’m going to start things off on this Friday with sharing two new movie trailers that came out this week: Transformers One and Joker: Folie a Deux.
This is the second Transformers One trailer and let’s see if you can spot the difference from the first one.
This trailer is much, much lighter on the Keegan-Michael Key comedy bits and far, far heavier on the Transformers lore stuff. Interesting choice! I bet that was a pretty blatant course correction. This trailer looks much better, I think. Turning the Transformers into a silly, kiddie buddy comedy was a choice, and the movie is probably still that. But now we can see it’s also about the birth of the Decepticons and Megatron’s descent into evil. That’s probably a stronger selling point for the Comic-Con crowd. Also, the humor in the first trailer was trying desperately to be Mutant Mayhem and failing spectacularly, so best to just put that behind them.
Transformers One comes to theaters on Sept. 20.
Then we’ve got Joker 2, which looks good, but I don’t know if I’m looking forward to it.
I didn’t really care for the first Joker movie. It was dark and misanthropic, which was the point, but wasn’t my kind of movie. You also can’t convince me it wasn’t purposefully made for the edgelords out there, to some degree. But these sequel trailers have looked pretty darn cool. They’re very well made trailers, so at least the sequel has that going for it.
Joker: Folie a Deux comes to theaters on Oct. 4.
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Friday Franchise Movie Trailers!
It’s Friday of an incredibly weird and busy week for me. This July has been crazy. Thankfully, I’ve got a pair of simple, easy to digest movie trailers I can share with you all. Trailers for movie franchises that we all know and love and understand. Personally, I don’t know if I’ll see either of these movies…but some people might!
First up is the new trailer for Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, which shows off a lot of the body horror this movie will bring to the table.
This is a much better trailer than the first one. This gives us a real selling point in just how weird and horrific this movie is going to be. Tim Burton is apparently going all out on the gruesomeness, which is a plus. I’m still not sold on this movie even existing, but perhaps it will be a fun lark in the theater.
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice comes out on Sept. 6, which is my birthday and I have off from work…but I still don’t know if I’ll go see it.
Next up is Alien: Romulus, and at least in this trailer we learn why it has that name.
This trailer looks simultaneously all manner of scary, while also looking all manner of predictable. The Alien franchise has a series of notable moments, and this trailer just repeats them. Facehuggers, Chestbursters, the full-sized alien, female protagonist…yep, all there, just made to look all the scarier with modern moviemaking technology. S’fine, if that’s what you’re into.
Alien: Romulus comes to theaters on Aug. 16.
And with both of these movie trailers shared, I can make this joke. Beetlejuice Beetlejuice implies the upcoming existence of Beetlejuice Beetlejuice Beetlejuice; while Alien: Romulus implies the existence of Alien: Remus. I find both silly.
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6 One-Off Movies That Don’t Need a Legacy Sequel
Last week we got the first trailer for Gladiator II and all I could think about was how this was a legacy sequel we didn’t need. Legacy sequels are all the rage these days. It’s when Hollywood takes a long abandoned movie or franchise and comes up with a new sequel a decade+ later, most often with the same cast. The same cast is usually the selling point.
We’ve already gotten a new Beverly Hills Cop this year, and we’re due to have Beetlejuice 2 later this year. Announcements have been made for legacy sequels to Happy Gilmore and Spaceballs. But we’ve had tons in recent years, from Ghostbusters to the Matrix to The Incredibles. Personally, I’m hit or miss with these. If they make for good movies, fine, but not every movie needs a legacy sequel. In fact, I’ve put together a list of six stand alone movies that don’t need legacy sequels. They’re mostly from the 80s and 90s, because that’s long ago at this point to count as a legacy sequel, and the casts are all mostly still alive and still around.
Join me after the jump for six movies that I don’t think should ever be graced with a legacy sequel. And feel free to share some of your own in the comments below!
Read the rest of this entryCaptain America: Brave New World Trailer Just Randomly Arrives!
They missed the Fourth of July by one week!
Anyway, I had no idea this “teaser” trailer was coming out today, but I’m glad for it! I remain a Marvel diehard, and have full faith in Captain America: Brave New World. I loved The Falcon and the Winter Soldier and I’m excited to see what happens next.
This trailer was awesome! It’s so well put together, and I love a trailer like that. We’ve got all the building blocks for this opening mystery, we’ve got some good stuff between Sam Wilson and the president. Then the action picks up. And the trailer doesn’t shy away from comparing Sam to Steve Rogers. That’s a plus and will hopefully help people get on board. And having Harrison Ford in your movie trailer can’t hurt.
Also, Red Hulk confirmed! Though if they were going to reveal him in this trailer, I think they could have done a better job than that glimpse.
Captain America: Brave New World comes out on Feb. 14!
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Putting the Glad in Gladiator II
So, uh, there’s going to be a Gladiator 2. Granted, that first movie does not hold a monopoly on any and all gladiator movies for all time. It’s just a little weird that we’ve reached this point in our legacy sequels. But who am I kidding? Hollywood loves reusing a recognizable brand name. We’ve got a Beetlejuice sequel coming out in the fall, after all.
This trailer feels a little silly to still be in a Maximus universe. It fees like it’s trying too hard. But the trailer was also full of all sorts of action and characters and stuff you’d expect to see. Weird Roman rulers amped up to 11. This movie is probably going to be exactly what we all assume it will be.
Gladiator II comes to theaters on Nov. 22.
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