IT'S TRAILER MADNESS: MINI-SUMMER EPICS EDITION!
Love big-budget, epic looking films but hate the unimaginative, MTV-crowd productions like Transformers 2 and G.I. Joe which infect theatres this summer? Well then read on my tortured souls because I've got a list of three films which hopefully will satisfy your taste for action and adventure with actual working brain cells.
First up is a film that has me all tingly inside - Moon - starring the criminally underseen Sam Rockwell in a 2001-esque story of a spaceman and his computer. This is one of my favorite types of stories, marooned in space, perhaps because it's one of the most terrifying things I can dream up. To be trapped where no one can easily get to you, to go mad from the isolation - it gives me the chills just thinking about it. This is from first-time feature director Duncan Jones and it looks like he's made the first worthy sequel to Kubrick's 2001 along with an homage to Solaris. Check out the trailer and you'll see what I mean - looks like a great production with as-always excellent acting from Rockwell and guess who voices the HAL-esque computer?! Kevin Spacey!
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You can feel just as stranded on June 12th when Moon hits limited theatres here in the states.
We've had very few great films about either of our Iraqi wars. Jarhead comes to mind as probably the best effort, but for the most part they are stinkers. Hopefully Kathryn Bigelow's impressive looking The Hurt Locker will change things. If you don't know much about Bigelow she is perhaps the world's only successful female action director, and a damn fine action director at that. She has helmed the now cult-SoCal favorite Point Break ("I AM AN F.B.I. AGENT!" - oh Keanu) and also the decent vampire romp Near Dark which brought Bill Paxton and Lance Henriksen together without aliens in the mix.
The Hurt Locker stars Jeremy Renner, who seems to be reprising his role as Doyle in 28 Weeks Later, and looks like a more serious Blown Away in Iraq. I'm there!
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The bombs are diffused in a limited U.S. release on June 26th.
Finally we have something that I think could take everyone by surprise. District 9 is directed by another feature first timer named Neill Blomkamp. Now you'll know Neill's name if you're a Halo fan. He's one of the top director picks for a film version of this successful video game series, as is Peter Jackson hence Jackson's name tagged to District 9. Apparently they're buddies now and Neill looks like he's made a hell of an original film based on aliens becoming refugees in South Africa while the government holds their mothership hostage. Sound strange but brilliant? That's exactly what this trailer reflects:
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And if you wanna know what the metallic grasshopper is saying click here for a translated/un-pixelated trailer.
Neill has been noticed for such a huge franchise like a Halo film for this excellent short film he directed basically demo-ing his ability to helm a Halo movie. Find it here
District 9 invades the U.S. on August 14th and is based on another awesome short he did called Alive In Joburg.
Consider me first in line for all of these films. Of course, I'll be going to Bayformers and all the rest of the Hollywood studio popcorn conveyer belt flicks, but I'm willing to bet these above films will get under my skin in a good way this summer.
First up is a film that has me all tingly inside - Moon - starring the criminally underseen Sam Rockwell in a 2001-esque story of a spaceman and his computer. This is one of my favorite types of stories, marooned in space, perhaps because it's one of the most terrifying things I can dream up. To be trapped where no one can easily get to you, to go mad from the isolation - it gives me the chills just thinking about it. This is from first-time feature director Duncan Jones and it looks like he's made the first worthy sequel to Kubrick's 2001 along with an homage to Solaris. Check out the trailer and you'll see what I mean - looks like a great production with as-always excellent acting from Rockwell and guess who voices the HAL-esque computer?! Kevin Spacey!
Click here for spacious HD
You can feel just as stranded on June 12th when Moon hits limited theatres here in the states.
We've had very few great films about either of our Iraqi wars. Jarhead comes to mind as probably the best effort, but for the most part they are stinkers. Hopefully Kathryn Bigelow's impressive looking The Hurt Locker will change things. If you don't know much about Bigelow she is perhaps the world's only successful female action director, and a damn fine action director at that. She has helmed the now cult-SoCal favorite Point Break ("I AM AN F.B.I. AGENT!" - oh Keanu) and also the decent vampire romp Near Dark which brought Bill Paxton and Lance Henriksen together without aliens in the mix.
The Hurt Locker stars Jeremy Renner, who seems to be reprising his role as Doyle in 28 Weeks Later, and looks like a more serious Blown Away in Iraq. I'm there!
Click here for explosive HD!
The bombs are diffused in a limited U.S. release on June 26th.
Finally we have something that I think could take everyone by surprise. District 9 is directed by another feature first timer named Neill Blomkamp. Now you'll know Neill's name if you're a Halo fan. He's one of the top director picks for a film version of this successful video game series, as is Peter Jackson hence Jackson's name tagged to District 9. Apparently they're buddies now and Neill looks like he's made a hell of an original film based on aliens becoming refugees in South Africa while the government holds their mothership hostage. Sound strange but brilliant? That's exactly what this trailer reflects:
Click here for other-worldy HD!
And if you wanna know what the metallic grasshopper is saying click here for a translated/un-pixelated trailer.
Neill has been noticed for such a huge franchise like a Halo film for this excellent short film he directed basically demo-ing his ability to helm a Halo movie. Find it here
District 9 invades the U.S. on August 14th and is based on another awesome short he did called Alive In Joburg.
Consider me first in line for all of these films. Of course, I'll be going to Bayformers and all the rest of the Hollywood studio popcorn conveyer belt flicks, but I'm willing to bet these above films will get under my skin in a good way this summer.
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Permalink Reply by AJizzle on -
Sweetness. I'm really glad there's some more decent action headed our way this summer. T4 left me with mixed feelings. It had chronology issues that left me distracted from the story. It had some great action moments, but I knew it couldn't match the momentum of Dark Knight. Valiant as McG's effort was, Nolan heads a film-making echelon that few will ever reach.
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