Movie Trailers Getting Us Excited

Two For Grace: Just a well done trailer. Any thoughts, ya big pile of Noop? Anything coming out you are excited for by trailer alone?

Noop: Outstanding trailer, that is, and it has just the right amount of Josh Brolin for a movie that doesn't have Josh Brolin. Everything being said about that movie makes it more and more enticing. And everyone knows putting slowed down Gnarls Barkley on a video really accentuates the funk. Lord knows I like some funk.

Recently I've been trying to watch trailers as little as possible to keep the scenes fresh upon full viewing but some are so out of this world that you can't help but watch it 50 times. For me that happened with both The Interview and Kingsman: The Secret Service. The redband for The Interview is worth a watch, too.

TFG: This is the first I've seen or heard of Kingsman. With a trailer like that I can't not see it. 

Noop: While we're talking trailers, I'd like to refer back to my recent praise of Marvel trailers and how they purposefully mislead you. I hope these follow that practice. 

TFG: "They call themselves "Guardians of the Galaxy..." but really they don't, nor are they officially any sort of team(until the very end of the movie). Or how 'bout the life and death of Helicarrier 42?

Noop: Preceisely. Although, there was that small quinnjet (or whatever they are called) that had number 42 on it. Either way, I'm hoping its all one big call back to Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. And for good measure let's include the teaser from that movie too. 

TFG: I had never heard of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy before seeing that trailer. What an awesome introduction. I went out and bought the book series soon after seeing that trailer alone.

Either the Avengers: Age of Ultron teaser was just leaked or Disney is making a live action Pinicchio

Two For Grace: Well this is making its way around the internet now.

Noop: Way to go world wide net, now next week's Agents of SHIELD just lost the little ratings bump it would have had all so we can see Tony Stark suffocating as the Invincible Iron Russian Doll one week early. 

TFG: There's actually a cute, baby iron man underneath that armor. Also, how much ballet should we be looking forward to in this movie (as seen in the 1:35 mark)? Perhaps Natalie Portman will be reprising her Black Swan role?

Avengers: Step Up

Noop: The crossover we've always dreamed of but been too ashamed to express. On a different point, can't believe Ruffalo is back after that train wreck job he did in Iron Man 3. Was hoping for Norton or Bana to return. I mean, I know the film will be solid but the dialogue is going to be capitalism at full throttle with a Disney reference here and a Star Wars joke there. This is less exciting than John Carter of Mars Needs Moms. And right at the top, we're just gonna ignore the blatant Terminator hand in lava while a noncommittal Bane voice gives a typical villain monologue? Buh. I bet the Avengers win. 

Seen at the 0:18 mark

TFG: Oh and how about this white haired speedster? Look familiar?

Fox's X-Men franchise called. They want their characters back.

Noop: Is that Flash? I'd rather go eat a quiche at a DMV than watch yet another slow moed quickster be the most underused part of a bloated plot. The most disappointing part is that there will be more climactic city destruction. I can only hope Marvel finds the courage to make Marvel One Shot: Disgruntled Construction Crew. Wonder who gets avenged this time, I mean, they could kill Coulson again. (Spoiler alert for those mythical few who've yet to see the first Avengers.)

TFG: I'm going to see this movie 14 1/2 times in theaters when it comes out.

Noop: 10:00 am opening duhay please. 

DC Announces Butt-ton of Movies. Should We Care?

Two For Grace: DC just announced the titles of a bunch of movies I'm going to rent while I wait for Marvel movies to come out!

Noop Gingrich: Looks like somebody is forgetting the cookie cutter mediocrity of everything Marvel put out between Iron Man and The Avengers. Yeah I said it! 

Don't get me wrong, good movies, sure, but it was rushed and standardized. 

Say what you will about the botched story details of Man of Steel, the movie was gorgeous, more cinematic, and had a more memorable score than any Marvel film other than Guardians.

TFG: I'm not going to argue that any of the "Avengers Phase 1" films were the Citizen Kane of comic book films. Heck, if it weren't for the 5 seconds of post credit glory that defined Iron Man when it came out I probably would have left the theater only barely satisfied. But those movies were an important step in saving the comic book film world. I mean the years leading up to Iron Man we saw a pretty sad downward spiral in the industry. Fantastic Fours and Wolverine Origins and Ghostriders were being thrown at us while we clutched our copies of Spiderman 2, weeping for a world full of potential lost. Marvel Studios produced an entertaining, but more important, a sobering series of films that built up a mythology that is 6 years later still gaining steam rather than losing it. Don't get me wrong, DC movie adaptations could end up raising the bar and giving Marvel a run for their money, but they are really going to have to impress me if I'm going to be convinced that this is more than Warner Brothers desperately trying to grab onto any of Marvel's leftovers and shout "Hey! Our characters are relevant too!" And making statements like "No jokes in the DCU" isn't really sucking me in.

Noop: Yeah Marvel did save the mainstream comic genre but I like to believe that those smaller films like Scott Pilgrim and Kick A** would still have happened. 

And to your last point there, whatchu sayin is you want fart jokes in Dawn of Justice. Yeah, DC definitely needs more intelligent humor. 

It's all gonna come down to who DC hires other than Snyder to helm their cinematic onslaught. As far as the casting goes, there are few Chrises left to hire so DC needs to continue their crazy casting choices. We've already got Jason Momoa as Aquaman and the recent announcing of Ezra Miller as Flash. Those are huge risks but if the film's look Snyderesque, how can you not want to watch a Flash film that will probably have revolutionary slow motion prowess (now audiences may have gotten bored of slow mo because by then, the other Quicksilver will have already debuted and...who am kidding people will never tire of slow mo.)

TFG: Zack Snyder is like the pomegranate of directors. I really want to like it. A bunch of my cool friends like it, but I find myself getting sick of it really fast. I mean he piques so many of my interests in his movies, yet I can't ever quite seem to leave saying "I really liked that!" The Man of Steel was no exception. Would fart jokes have swayed my opinion in a more positive direction? Yes. Fart jokes are always a crowd-pleaser.

Noop: They've just announced the cast they're going after for Suicide Squad. Will Smith, Margot Robby, Bane, and Ryan Gosling. If they get that, hoo wee! The question then becomes do we have another The Losers on our hands or will it go Guardians of the Galaxy. Again, I doubt Snyder is going to do it so it's a wait and see deal. That said, I will easily concede that without the Marvel Universe triumph, there would be no shared universe anywhere else. DC would never have amped up their production to this level. My opinion, more comic book movies at a high production value, made by good film makers, that can only be a welcomed future. As much as I love Bring it On, Marvel still has to earn some forgiveness for the Edgar Wright debacle. Let's also keep in mind that at the moment, the directors on one side include Favreau, Branagh, the Russos, and, best of all James Gunn, while on the flip, DC just has Snyder. This is a game of patience. Let's give DC a fun size twizzler before we decide they hog up too many God damn Twizzlers and deserve no more twizzlers. (I'm actually not that big a fan of Twizzlers.)

TFG: I've always been more of a Red Vine kind of guy.

Noop: Red Vines can suck a butt!