I'm In...

It's All About The Previews...

Of course, one of the great things about going to the movies is TRAILERS!

There were a few that seemed really interesting.

Of course, the big Star Trek trailer was unveiled, but you can find that almost anywhere now. But these others were pretty new to me...



I read about this remake a month or so ago but had no idea it was coming so quick. This trailer will probably cause me to temporarily suspend my "SAY NO TO KEANU" policy. But how can he mess us up a movie about a giant black alien cloud eating up everything in sight?



Will Smith is box office gold these days. And this one looks really interesting. I love it when a trailer leaves me curious. (Too many of them give too much away.)



Yes, I do believe that Mr. Cruise has gotten a bit weird, lately. But this one does look good...a giant political conspiracy coordinated down to the very last second with a whole host of players/experts in their field? That's almost as good as a heist film, in my book.

On the flip side, if you'd like to watch a movie that further shows us how far the great Samuel L. Jackson has fallen, take a look at this...



And the fall film most destined to be used in church analogies....

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.)