Trailers...

Here are the trailers we caught before Iron Man on Sunday...








Okay, The Happening. I happen to find M. Night's work fascinating...all of it. I love it. The problem is that I have to rent these movies. I can't go see them in a theater because his stuff freaks me out so bad. I don't know what it is...I think his stuff is the most suspenseful out there. But then again, I'm a bit of a wimp. So, there is that. Trailer looks great, though. Fun to read all the theories of what the plot is. I may have to go see this with Robert Conn. After our Cloverfield experience, I don't think anybody can match his abilities as "scary movie partner." Is that weird? (That sounds a little weird now that I read it back...)

Then, The Dark Knight. Yeah, we'll be seeing this one in some giant theater with a sound system big enough to make the walls shake. I loved Batman Begins and I gotta' say that even the limited amount of Heath Ledger's Joker that I've seen looks pretty brilliant. I'm betting this performance ends up beating Jack Nicholson's version. And I have a bit of non-sexual crush on Christian Bale.

Prince Caspian...a lot of you know that I wasn't nuts about The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe. As big as that movie was, it just couldn't capture the epic nature of the book. Good movie, but I think I expected too much. However, I read Caspian again a few weeks ago and I have a feeling that this movie will impress me. The trailer doesn't necessarily convince me of that; I think Prince Caspian the book has great parts, but isn't that great of a story. I feel like it ends too quick...the book builds so nice, but the end always reads a bit more mellow than I'd like it. Because of that, I think the movie can only make this story bigger and louder, which is apparently what I need from Caspian.

There was also a trailer for Adam Sandler's You Don't Mess With The Zohan. The trailer I saw was pretty funny, but all of the YouTube versions I found were a little inappropriate. I also think it's weird that an Adam Sandler movie got lumped in with The Happening, The Dark Knight and Prince Caspian, though. Oh, well...I'm sure somebody in a board room somewhere had demographic evidence to show why such a combination should occur. I guess the Iron Man crowd is actually an Adam Sandler crowd, too.

So far, looks like a good summer for movies.

And Iron Man was awesome. A lot of folks are saying the best superhero movie in ten years. (I'm putting it a close second to Batman Begins and tons better than any of the Spidey movies. I loved all the X-Men films, but I think Iron Man was still done better.)