Clive Barker Disowns Newest HELLRAISER Installment; Slams It Via Twitter
Wow. This is bad. Real bad. Never thought someone could make a HELLRAISER flick worse than INFERNO or HELLWORLD but it appears that someone has. Say hello to HELLRAISER: REVELATIONS– the sequel so bad that made Doug Bradley (who played Pinhead in EVERY SINGLE SEQUEL prior to this one) say “No”.
Turns out that this steaming pile of horse plop was produced by Dimension last year as a way of keeping the rights to Pinhead and the Cenobites (there’s a reboot in the works) from lapsing. REVELATIONS was shot on the cheap, dumped into a single theater for one night (presumably for legal purposes) alongside a new CHILDREN OF THE CORN sequel (another flick made in order to keep rights for rebooting purposes) and is now being dumped rather unceremoniously to DVD this October. Yikes.
Click on the pic to check out the trailer and see what Pinhead creator Clive Barker had to say about this whole mess…
Film Bites: There’s Something Very WILD WILD WEST About This Trailer For SHERLOCK HOLMES: A GAME OF SHADOWS
I could’ve went the rest of my life without bearing witness to the sight of Robert Downey Jr in drag. Just figured I should toss that out before presenting you with the first trailer for SHERLOCK HOLMES: A GAME OF SHADOWS. You’ve been warned.
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Film Bites: The New CAPTAIN AMERICA Trailer Makes Me Want To Shout “America, F**k Yeah!”
Sorry for the massive amount of trailers recently, but the last week was a weak one for actual movie news. I mean, seriously, SPY KIDS 4 is bringing back “Smell-O-Vision”? Michael Bay is prepping ultra-bright prints of TRANSFORMERS: DARK OF THE MOON to combat the complaints that 3D movies are “too dark”? CARS 2 is the worst reviewed Pixar movie ever? Those aren’t stories, they’re sound bites. Little bits of info that don’t need much in the way of elaboration that can be summed up in a sentence or less. I don’t need to waste bandwidth on that.
What I need to waste bandwidth on is a new trailer for CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE FIRST AVENGER! Get ready to have your face rocked and your patriotism cup filled! America, f**k yeah! I love that Steve Rogers is a hero before he ever gets an ounce of the Super Soldier Serum in his system. Brings chills. Looks like THOR and X-MEN: FIRST CLASS have a new competitor in the race for “Best Superhero Movie Of The Summer”.
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Film Bites: THOR Inspires Warner To Go Mythos-Heavy With New GREEN LANTERN Trailer
I find it interesting the changes that a single movie’s success can make on a marketplace. The first GREEN LANTERN trailer was clearly molded after Tony Stark in that it represented Hal Jordan (Ryan Reynolds) as a hotshot playboy pilot who stumbles across a magic ring that gives him green armor. Had you not known the history of the Lantern then you’d have been easy to assume that the flick was a green-tinted IRON MAN knock-off. Virtually none of the outer space stuff was shown and the whole preview was cut to cash-in on what superhero was popular at that moment – I.E. Iron Man.
Future trailers for LANTERN dumped most of the relationship/playboy stuff in favor of more sci-fi stuff, but the full marketing push towards this being a uber-comic flick hadn’t occurred yet. That is, till now. This new trailer (presumably the last big one before the movie hits June 17th) is nothing but super sci-fi mythos. Hell, this trailer is basically a three minute long prequel to the movie that throws the audience straight into the “high fantasy” stuff and doesn’t look back. What you get here is the full history of the Green Lantern Corps, the Emerald Energy that fuels their abilities, the Immortals, Parallax and virtually none of the Earth stuff. I’ve heard word that most of the movie takes place on the planet Oa and this trailer seems to reinforce that pretty hard.
Click on the pic to read more and check out the new trailer for GREEN LANTERN…
Film Bites: New GREEN LANTERN Trailer Showcases Parallax And Hector Hammond
Popping up just in time to attach itself to prints of THOR this weekend, a new GREEN LANTERN trailer is now online courtesy of Warner Bros and Yahoo Movies. This new look at the first cinematic adventure of Hal Jordan (Ryan Reynolds) is a solid mix of material from the original trailer (thankfully, they’ve dumped the corny IRON MAN-esque bits), the Wonder-Con footage (which was, to the say the least, the best peek at the movie thus far) and new stuff (big bad Parallax and Peter Sarsgaard’s Hector Hammond are prominently featured).
Looks like that extra nine mil that Warner threw at director Martin Campbell to beef up the CG in LANTERN is paying off because this looks really good. Too bad I’m not completely sure that modern audiences are going to pay money to go and see a big sci-fi soap opera. I know I will and I guess that‘s all I need to know, right?
Click on the pic to check out the new trailer for GREEN LANTERN…
Film Bites: The Teaser For HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS PART II Is Here!
Probably going to catch flack for the following statement, but here goes: I’ve never read any of the HARRY POTTER books. My only knowledge from the series is based on the movies and the insane rambling that I sometimes have to endure when AlannaLynn goes off on a Potter tangent. Outside of that, my Potter knowledge is exactly zero. Do I plan I reading the books? Not really. Do I really want to? Nope.
Want to know why? I have no interest in the books because the movies have done just fine by me. Outside of a sub-par sixth installment (HARRY POTTER AND THE HALF-BLOOD PRINCE), the films are quality entertainment of the highest degree and they are what I consider to be the franchise. Oh sure, the books sold millions upon millions of copies and are beloved worldwide. But I don’t think I could read the books and not think of these actors when reading the books and then that would remind me that there is a perfectly good series of movies I could be watching instead of reading and then I would abandon the books and simply opt for a seven (eight, if you count this last installment as a separate film) movie marathon. Whew! What a sentence. I’m sure Miss Couture, my 12th grade creative writing teacher, would have given me an F for thinking about using a sentence like that. No doubt.
Click on the pic to check out the new trailer for HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS PART II…
Film Bites: THE HANGOVER PART II Trailer
Not much to really say here other than the trailer for THE HANGOVER PART II is below and the flick looks to be more of the same. Guess that’s a good thing if you’re a fan of the first movie and a not-so-good thing if you weren’t one. Either way, director Todd Phillips is obviously going with the “If it’s not broke, don’t fix it” method for this sequel. Prep your expectations accordingly.
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The SCREAM 4 Trailer Is Slasher-ific And Spoilery
Has it really been 15 years since SCREAM? That’s a number that kicks me in the face and calls me names. I mean, seriously, I was in my senior year of high school when the original hit. Actually almost accidentally killed myself on the way to the theater to see it. No kidding. Spun out my van in a blizzard and landed it backwards in a ditch. But that’s not the story you’re here to read, is it? No, you’re here for the SCREAM 4 trailer.
And wouldn’t you know it, that two and a half minutes of slasher goodness is featured below and just waiting for you to check it out. But be warned, this trailer is mighty spoilery (Hell, they show Alison Brie from COMMUNITY die at the 1:16 mark!) for the keen-eyed viewer. Watch it like an average viewer and you’ll note that it is a well-cut trailer that plays pretty well. Examine it more deeply like a die hard movie geek (oh wait, that’s me!) and you’ll probably figure out who one of the killers is (this being a SCREAM movie, I naturally assume there are two killers).
And no, I’m not kidding about that. For those who want a little hint, check out the 2:16 mark, just before the title pops up. Note how that particular person is screaming. That’s not a scream of fear, people. That’s the scream of someone who just revealed that they are the killer and they just called 911 pretending to be in danger. It’s all in the eyes and the facial expressions.
Click on the pic to check it out…
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