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Some Weird Movie Trailers for Wednesday
It’s Wednesday. Life is OK. Let’s start today with some pretty far out movie trailers. And by ‘far out’ I mean just plain weird. And by ‘weird’ I mean they’re pretty typical for the sort of movies we get these days.
First up is a full trailer for the Minecraft movie, in which they actually use the meme phrase ‘children yearn for the mines,’ to which I applaud them.
Man, I just don’t know. I enjoyed Minecraft when I played for that one brief period, building all sorts of neato stuff in my private little world. I still like Jack Black. And, honestly, this trailer sold me on the idea of having people from the real world go into Minecraft and use the world just like the game. They can place blocks, use the forge, chop down trees by punching them; it’s just Minecraft with real people! That’s kinda neat.
Minecraft comes to theaters on April 4 next year.
Next up is the live action trailer for How to Train Your Dragon, proving that Disney isn’t the only one who can make live action version of classic animated films.
This looks so bad. This looks so unnecessary. Toothless looks exactly the same. Did the lesson Dreamworks learn from the Disney live action movies is to not deviate at all and just make the exact same movie but in live action? I hated when Disney did that with Lion King. This one does not look appealing at all. But it’s happening, so I’m sharing the trailer.
How to Train Your Dragon comes to theaters on June 13 next year.
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Jack Black Hangs Out In Legitimate, Real Minecraft Movie Trailer
Look, I enjoyed the Minecraft game as much as the next person. Maybe not as much as kids, but as an adult man, I had a blast playing Minecraft when I got into it a couple of years ago. I only played in survival mode and spent my time building some really interesting things! Like a giant pyramid, a skyscraper complete with floors, windows and stairs that went all the way up to the world ceiling cap, underwater trams and buildings, the Eye of Sauron, a castle and then I finally got bored trying to build a gigantic, color-coded Rubix cube.
Anyway, when people love a thing, Hollywood makes a cheap movie out of it. I’m sure I heard of this existing at some point in the past, well now we have a teaser trailer. Be prepared.
They didn’t even make Jack Black shave his current, real-life beard for this one. He had the same beard in The Mandalorian, right? So that’s gotta be in his contract. If you want Jack Black in your thing, he doesn’t have to change anything about himself. Rock on.
The visuals of the world look neat, but everything else about this movie looks to be as paint-by-the-numbers as a thing can be. Oh boy. But maybe kids will love it? I guess we’ll find out when A Minecraft Movie comes to theaters on April 4.
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Slumblerland Could Be a Fun Movie
I like movies. I like new movies. I like most Netflix movies I’ve seen. They’re largely good. But few of them have been truly spectacular. So what are we to make of this full trailer for Slumberland? We’ve got Jason Momoa hamming it up. And it’s based on the classic Nemo stories.
Looks pretty fun. Looks pretty wild. But is it just CGI madness and little substance? I suppose we’ll find out when Slumberland comes to Netflix on Nov. 18!
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Jason Momoa’s Aquaman is Just as Badass as I’d Hoped
The first picture of Jason Momoa’s Aquaman was posted online by director Zack Snyder early this morning, proving that I was right all along about how cool the King of the Seas will be in Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice.
I wonder if he’ll kill a man with that trident
I love the armor, I love the badass tattoos, I’m not too wild about the hair, but overall, this looks great! I knew Momoa would bring that Islander power to the role, changing Aquaman from a white-skinned, blonde-haired American into a more world-inclusive king. Though I am starting to get a little freaked out at how dark and brooding this movie seems. Everybody is turning out to be as dark as Batman in this flick. And if you take away Batman’s darkness and share it with everybody, what else does he have?
Either way, at least we know Aquaman will be cool.
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