Archive for March 2010
Marmaduke (Trailer): Well, The New Fox Logo Looks Nice
No, I don’t want to know why you’re in the pen, Marmaduke. But I guess I have to find out.
Here’s a trailer for Marmaduke, a family comedy (shudder) about a dog who gets moved to sunny California and, like in most family comedies, “hilarity” ensues. I’m not saying that the movie doesn’t look funny, I mean, there were some parts that made me chuckle like the “6 languages” part, but that was about it. But watch the trailer for yourself and let me know what you think.
Despicable Me (Teaser Trailer)
The teaser trailer for Despicable Me, a family comedy about an evil genius who plots to steal the moon.
http://www.traileraddict.com/emd/17125
I think those minions are going to steal the show.
Eat, Pray, Love (Trailer)
The trailer for Eat, Pray, Love, a movie based on Elizabeth Gilbert’s book, which, in turn, is based on her own life experiences. Julia Roberts plays Elizabeth, a woman who takes an around-the-world journey after divorcing her husband. The movie comes out in summer. You can find more about it at www.EatPrayLove-TheMovie.com.
Tron Legacy (Trailer)
The trailer for Tron Legacy. From TrailerAddict.com:
“Tron Legacy is a 3D high-tech adventure set in a digital world that’s unlike anything ever captured on the big screen. Sam Flynn (Garrett Hedlund), the tech-savvy 27-year-old son of Kevin Flynn (Jeff Bridges), looks into his father’s disappearance and finds himself pulled into the same world of fierce programs and gladiatorial games where his father has been living for 25 years. Along with Kevin’s loyal confidant (Olivia Wilde), father and son embark on a life-and-death journey across a visually-stunning cyber universe that has become far more advanced and exceedingly dangerous.”
New Movies for Friday, March 19th, 2010
- The Bounty Hunter. Comedy. Gerard Butler plays a bounty hunter whose next mission is to track down his ex-wife, who has just jumped bail. Rated PG-13 for sexual content including suggestive comments, language and some violence.
- Diary of a Wimpy Kid. Family/Comedy. Based on the book series, this movie tells the story of Greg Heffley navigating the trials and tribulations of 6th grade. PG for some rude humor and language.
- Repo Men. Genre: Sci-Fi. Jude Law and Forest Whitaker play reposession men who, erm, dispose of people when they can’t make payments. However, when Law fails to make his payments on a heart transplant, he must go on the run from Whitaker. R for strong bloody violence, grisly images, language and some sexuality/nudity.
Those are all the movies for this week. Here are their official websites.
Yahoo! Answers and Blurtit
These two sites offer answers to just about every question you have. Yahoo! Answers is arguably the largest “Q&A” community on the Internet, with questions ranging from “Why do we pinch people who don’t wear green on St. Patrick’s Day” to “Can hamsters drink out of a bowl”. You have to sign up for a Yahoo Account first, though. Blurtit is very similar. You can sign up for the service, but you can also use Facebook Connect (which is very handy). The website also allows you to include a picture with your question, and you get “points” for answering questions and referring your friends (the use of which I am not sure).
Iron Man 2 (Trailer)
The Iron Man adventure continues in Iron Man 2, where the title character (Robert Downey Jr.) must battle a new villian, Whiplash (Mickey Rourke).
Green Zone (Trailer)
This movie looks okay, but it also looks confusing. The only things I gathered from it is that Matt Damon is the good guy, and Greg Kinnear might be the bad guy. Not a very good description, so here’s one from the trailer site.
“During the U.S.-led occupation of Baghdad in 2003, Chief Warrant Officer Roy Miller (Damon) and his team of Army inspectors were dispatched to find weapons of mass destruction believed to be stockpiled in the Iraqi desert. Rocketing from one booby-trapped and treacherous site to the next, the men search for deadly chemical agents but stumble instead upon an elaborate cover-up that inverts the purpose of their mission.
Spun by operatives with intersecting agendas, Miller must hunt through covert and faulty intelligence hidden on foreign soil for answers that will either clear a rogue regime or escalate a war in an unstable region. And at this blistering time and in this combustible place, he will find the most elusive weapon of all is the truth.”
Green Zone comes out this Friday.
Legend of the Guardians (Trailer), Plus An Awesome Music Video!
Here’s an awesome trailer for Legend of the Guardians, a family fantasy adventure movie from the guy who did “300”. It’s too confusing for a brief description, so here’s one I found on TrailerAddict:
“Acclaimed filmmaker Zack Snyder makes his animation debut with the fantasy family adventure Legend of the Guardians, based on the beloved books by Kathryn Lasky. The film follows Soren, a young owl enthralled by his father’s epic stories of the Guardians of Ga’Hoole, a mythic band of winged warriors who had fought a great battle to save all of owlkind from the evil Pure Ones. While Soren dreams of someday joining his heroes, his older brother, Kludd, scoffs at the notion, and yearns to hunt, fly and steal his father’s favor from his younger sibling. But Kludd’s jealousy has terrible consequences–causing both owlets to fall from their treetop home and right into the talons of the Pure Ones. Now it is up to Soren to make a daring escape with the help of other brave young owls. Together they soar across the sea and through the mist to find the Great Tree, home of the legendary Guardians of Ga’Hoole–Soren’s only hope of defeating the Pure Ones and saving the owl kingdoms.”
At first I thought “Owl heroes, okay, fine,” but the trailer makes it look really good.
http://www.traileraddict.com/emd/19276
Oh, and speaking of awesome, check out this (unrelated) music video for OK Go’s “This Too Shall Pass”:
The Karate Kid (2010 Remake) (Trailer B)
The second trailer for The Karate Kid, a movie about a boy (Jaden Smith) who goes to China and learns kung fu from Jackie Chan.
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