Changeling trailer! New Clint Eastwood film! J. Michael Straczynski !

I started getting excited for this film when I found out J. Michael Straczynski (of Babylon 5 fame) wrote this film. And Clint always delivers solid films. After seeing this trailer, and what I've heard out of Cannes, look for it to be collecting Oscars later on, maybe even for star, Angelina Jolie.

New Bond Trailer! Watch now and rejoice!

My love of Bond was established long ago with Sean Connery and a little film called Gold Finger. It was cemented with a film called from Russia with Love. The Bond franchise is a staple of my film going experience. I really enjoyed Pierce Brosnan as Bond. Goldeneye restarted the Bond franchise my generation after it had all but died. He was an awesome Bond it lukewarm to bad Bond films. Then Martin Campbell (who also directed Goldeneye) with Daniel Craig gave us a Bond shot in the arm with Casino Royale. I really enjoyed that film. It had it's problems, but, like Batman Begins, it left us with a promise of a truly kickass sequel to follow. Well, with the teaser, I was thoroughly excited. With this, well... let me just say, the Bond series may have just Dark Knighted itself. There. You heard it here first.

Is it November yet?

Quantum of Solace opens Nov 14th.

I'm the dude playin' the dude, disguised as another dude!

Review: Tropic Thunder

So, after three weeks of it being the number one movie in America, I finally got around to see Tropic Thunder. I can’t say that it was “built up” for me. It wasn’t, in fact of the people I knew who saw it they said simply, it’s funny.

And it is funny. In fact the way the movie starts with it’s pseudo-commercials/fake movie trailers are priceless. People in the theatre didn’t know what was going on. It was quite hilarious. So was the beginning part of the film within the film also called Tropic Thunder.

So lets go with the positive. Robert Downey Jr. owns the movie. Owns it. You can see the movie just for him and be satisfied. I’m so happy to see his return to glory this year. He deserves it. And his fake trailer with its amazing cameo is priceless. Simply priceless.

Also Jay Baruchel aka Steven Karp from Undeclared is great. He doesn’t have much to do here, but he’s great. I love me some Steven Karp. I’m really hoping him and Seth Rogen do that post-apocalyptic movie that showed up as a short on Youtube a few months ago, Jay & Seth vs The Apocalypse. I’m sold for that, especially after all the post-apocalyptic movies that have been coming out of late.



Also someone whose every line made me smile was Danny McBride. This is his break out year (I had only previously known him as Bustass in David Gordon Green’s All the Real Girls) with this, coupled with Pineapple Express, he’s in the two big comedy blockbusters of the summer. And he kills.

Unfortunately, the movie has problems. The narrative seems like a dead weight hanging around the movies neck, and the things that move it into place are boring. Its surprisingly graphically violent. More so then I expected, but that’s not a major problem. The problem is that some jokes fall dead. There are points in the film when I know that I’m supposed to laugh but I wasn’t and that shouldn’t be. Yes, comedy is hit and miss, but true classics don’t have that sound of crickets I found myself going through too many times. Now granted, there are equal killer moments, but in the end it just seems like a wash. The film is absurd to the extreme, which I’m fine with if it garners greater laughs. Sometimes it does and sometimes it doesn’t. There were many times I felt myself saying, “no they didn’t” even though it was telegraphed it was going to happen. And I’m not part of the Jack Black hating crew, but he rubbed me the wrong way in this film, and his storyline was contrived. Though he did have one of the greatest lines of the film.

When all is said and done, Tropic Thunder really is like Downey's line above. Its a dumb Hollywood blockbuster pretending to be a comedy satire of big Hollywood blockbuster war flicks that's really just that, a big summer blockbuster.

Overall, both Pineapple Express and Tropic Thunder, the summer’s two blockbuster’s failed me. Good for a laugh, but I won’t see them again anytime soon. Well maybe Pineapple (which I enjoyed more). That’s such a DVD movie.

Zack and Miri Make an R-rated Trailer

So here's the link to the trailer for Kevin Smith's hilarious upcoming film, Zack and Miri make a Porno. I wish I could embed it for you, but i can't. Check it out and laugh, but beware, not for the office environment.

Watch it here.

Appaloosa Trailer!

So if you read the fall preview, you knew that I had my ear to the ground about a Ed Harris directed Western starring him and Viggo Mortensen. Til now I hadn't known jack, only the people involved and the quality they strive to produce. I mean honestly, after see A History of Violence who would not be pump to see these two together again and as partners!

From what i've gathered from the trailer above, Viggo & Harris are badass men called in by the higher ups to clean up a town polluted by the scum of Jeremy Irons. I am so there!

Watch the trailer is HD quicktime at the apple site.

Appaloosa will be released Sept 17th.