Category Archives: Movies
Napoleon was a Pretty Bad Dude
There’s a big, fancy Napoleon movie coming out next month, from director Ridley Scott. The guy who made Gladiator is making a Napoleon movie. It looks pretty good. Looks epic, looks dark, looks like fun.
Who doesn’t love a good, dark, well-made historical biopic? And I’ll readily admit I don’t know enough about Napoleon and that corner of history. I kinda wanna watch this movie just to learn more about Napoleon. He was a pretty bad guy, but he did a lot history-wise, right? I guess I’ll find out soon.
Napoleon comes to theaters at Thanksgiving.
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New Wonka Trailer Imminent
The Wonka movie is still coming out later this year and we’ve got a second trailer to prove it. I don’t know if you’ve seen the “Wonka Trailer Imminent” memes, but I find them hilarious. This trailer is a threat. Hollywood is punishing us, and possibly punishing Timothee Chalamet.
I was less charmed by this trailer than the last one…not that I enjoyed the last one. But apparently more of Hugh Grant’s Oompa-Loompa is too much. He’s not as funny anymore. This trailer isn’t funny.
Wonka comes to theaters on Dec. 15.
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I Don’t Like Anything About Wish
It’s one of those Mondays where I don’t have anything to share, but I want to post something, so I’m digging up this trailer from a week or two ago for the upcoming animated Disney movie Wish. I don’t like Wish. I don’t like these trailers. I don’t like the characters, the jokes or, especially, the talking goat. Alan Tudyk is a national treasure…but man, I hate his talking goat.
The premise seems OK…but also really crummy. Gah. I don’t like how I hate everything about this trailer. The main character, Asha, seems like she was written by committee looking to make the human equivalent of ‘plucky’. The villain seems pretty dull. I’m not entirely sure what’s even happening in the story. And the talking goat is such a ‘talking animal sidekick’ cliche to the max, and I hate the talking animal sidekick cliche with a passion.
But it’s Monday, and I wanted to share something, so mission accomplished. Wish is coming to theaters sometime around Thanksgiving.
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Toxic Avenger Reboot!
They’re doing a Toxic Avenger reboot! It’s a classic 1980s Troma film…that I never actually watched as a kid. Nope, but I was a huge fan of the Toxic Crusaders, that kid-friendly cartoon version! So at least I have that. But I’m definitely going to try to catch this new Toxic Avenger reboot, full of Troma glory.
It’s an R-rated trailer, so you’re gonna have to click through to YouTube to watch it.
Peter Dinklage as Toxie sounds great. This looks gross and silly and awesome. Should be a lot of fun whenever we get to see it. Apparently it premiered at a film festival a week or two ago…but I can’t find anything online about where or when it will be released to the public. I hope it is someday!
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Statham + Action Movie + January = The Beekeeper
For today’s Movie Trailer Thursday, we’ve got The Beekeeper. It appears to be a generic Jason Statham action movie scheduled to come out in January, the dumping ground of movies. Though this one is directed by David Ayer, so that’s a really good sign. But still…man…this looks generic as all hell.
It also looks fun. But it also looks like it gave away all the best moments in the trailer. So maybe we just all enjoy this fun/silly trailer and move on with our lives.
The Beekeepers comes out on January 12.
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