After the initial trailers for The Wolverine depicted our favorite stogie-smoking X-Man in a vulnerable state, his adamantium blades are singing once more. This CinemaCon clip features Hugh Jackman’s character battling a barrage of baddies, including the fierce-looking Silver Samurai, and taking on some heavy arrow damage. Not everyone wants him dead though. In between relieving his rivals of their extremities, the trailer also indicates Wolvie finds time for romance.
There’s even more footage of him and Jean Grey looking loved up around the 27-second mark, although the gauzy quality of scene suggests a flashback or dream sequence.
The Claws Are Out
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From Thailand, by way of the website Kotaku, comes this Sweded shot-for-shot remake of the Iron Man 3 trailer that , frankly would have made Michel Gondry’s Be Kind Rewind a better movie. My favorite scenes are the one in which the Tony Stark stand-in gets a toilet plunger for an oxygen mask in the operating room, the falling Air Force One flight attendants and the shots of Stark’s iron army assembling in the night sky.I laugh every time the blue Iron Man hovers then makes a beeline for the camera.
Check it out below:
Iron…Man, That’s A Parody!
[Kotaku]
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The deaths keep coming in the red-band trailer for Eli Roth’s earthquake gorefest Aftershock. I count seven distinct deaths in this clip, which is just shy of two minutes, but with all the lootin’ and a stabbin’ going on in the background, I’m clearly being conservative. Roth gets to preside over his own frightfest, too. He’s front and center in this video as Gringo, a sensitive-sounding guy who just wants to meet a nice girl at an underground Chilean disco. Alas, as the old Nazareth song goes, “Love Hurts.”
Here’s my tally of the grisly deaths (and one amputation) that take place in the trailer. I left out the very last scene because, no matter how bad things look, it’s no fait accompli.
*Death by nightclub speaker
*Death by cement pillar
*Amputation by falling shelving unit
*Death by immolation
*Death by falling concrete slab
*Death by Ax
*Decapitation by speeding truck
Can anyone out there tell me whether that large crucifix that falls over in the movie has an actual human body nailed to it? I’ve paused it a few times, and I think it’s just a life-size facsimile of Jesus, but I’m not entirely sure. That would up the body count to eight.
If The Earthquake Doesn’t Kill You…
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My palms get sweaty just watching this extended clip of what I hear is one of the most riveting sequences in Iron Man 3. Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) has to suit up in a jiff and attempt to save 13 flailing, screaming people who’ve been sucked out of what looks like a crippled Air Force One. (If that’s the case, it will be the first of two times the Presidential airliner gets blowed up this summer season. The trailer for Roland Emmerich’s White House Down shows the plane’s wing being blown off.
But I digress. Although those two unlucky souls who hit the plane’s fuselage on the way out should probably be dead as a result of the impact, Shellhead’s valiant attempt to rescue everyone when Jarvis is telling him he can only handle four sure does make for some effective dramatic tension. How his first save, Heather, can hear Stark above her own (justified) screaming and the wind is beyond me, but I’m suspending disbelief. The “I’ll electrify your arm and you won’t be able to open your hand” is a nice expository touch, too. Check it out:
We can do this, Heather!
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My palms get sweaty just watching this extended clip of what I hear is one of the most riveting sequences in Iron Man 3. Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) has to suit up in a jiff and attempt to save 13 flailing, screaming people who’ve been sucked out of what looks like a crippled Air Force One. (If that’s the case, it will be the first of two times the Presidential airliner gets blowed up this summer season. The trailer for Roland Emmerich’s White House Down shows the plane’s wing being blown off.
But I digress. Although those two unlucky souls who hit the plane’s fuselage on the way out should probably be dead as a result of the impact, Shellhead’s valiant attempt to rescue everyone when Jarvis is telling him he can only handle four sure does make for some effective dramatic tension. How his first save, Heather, can hear Stark above her own (justified) screaming and the wind is beyond me, but I’m suspending disbelief. The “I’ll electrify your arm and you won’t be able to open your hand” is a nice expository touch, too. Check it out:
We can do this, Heather!
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If you follow this site, you know I’ve expressed quite a bit of skepticism about Guillermo del Toro’s upcoming giant-robots-and-monsters movie, Pacific Rim. But that was before I saw this trailer that was unveiled at Wondercon in Las Vegas earlier this month.
This clip answers a lot of lot of FAQs about the plot and how the human pilots operate the Jaeger robots in tandem, although it does make me wonder how they ingest that yellow mind-meld fluid so quickly and keep from bugling it right back into their helmets.
Better yet, this clip finally torques up the dramatic tension to a level more befitting of a movie this ambitious and big. We get more of the human element, in the form of two Charlies — Hunnam & Day — a relatively civil Idris Elba, Rinko Kikuchi and a pimped-out Ron Perlman. And The Kaiju (monsters) finally look fierce and fast, and the scene of the Jaeger collapsing on the beach is a nice dramatic touch, as is the one where the Jaeger takes a tanker upside the head of one of the glowing creatures. “Go Big or Go Extinct” is also a lovely tag line.
Kicking Monster Ass
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A few weeks ago, I wrote about how the Baz Luhrmann’s trailer for The Great Gatsby contained ample scenes of Leonardo DiCaprio, Tobey Maguire and Jason Clarke screaming. Now, after sifting through more than 50 photos from the movie that Warner Bros. has released into the blogosphere and watching an exclusive trailer that the UK’s Daily Mail has posted, I can also tell you that, amid all the Art Deco opulence and Roaring Twenties hedonism, there will be plenty of brooding, too. There must be a lot to think about.
Check out this romantic (and thoughtful!) trailer first then ponder the photos.
One more thing: Conan O’Brien should have Joel Edgerton on his show and do a skit where they both play Tom Buchanan.
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An eight-minute alternate ending to David O. Russell’s Silver Linings Playbook has landed on the Internets, and though it wraps up things a little too neatly (with virtually all of the main characters), it’s fun to watch. It also yields a quick-and-dirty recipe for braciole, those seasoned skirt-steak roll-ups that Jacki Weaver always seems to be making in the movie. My Sicilian grandmother taught me to secure the steak around a hard-boiled egg before letting it slow-cook in the pasta sauce, but the recipe Weaver employs in this clip is much simpler. (And yet, Chris Tucker just can’t seem to get the hang of it.)
In this MTV exclusive, Robert De Niro also reveals a key rule of etiquette that often applies in Italian-American homes from that generation: the man of the house can sample the food his wife is preparing for dinner, but, hey-yo, everyone else has to wait.
[MTV]
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If you simply must Hoover up any new footage of Star Trek Into Darkness footage that’s out there, then have a look at this Japanese trailer. There are a few new morsels to be found in the footage, including a shot of Spock in the volcano looking perilously close to becoming one with the magma churning around him.
There’s also a scene of Peter Weller’s character, Admiral Marcus, telling someone to “run this bastard down.” Presumably, he’s talking about Benedict Cumberbatch’s mayhem-causing character John Harrison, who’s getting high marks for his performance in early reviews of the J.J. Abrams-directed movie. Here’s what Lucy O’Brien wrote on IGN:
“Cumberbatch himself has never been better. While he’s proven his ability at volatile emotional-detachment with his role in Sherlock, he is, here, a true snake; an expressionless, sliver of a man whose mask only slips when he lunges for his prey. The Enterprise crew look trivial against him, their uniforms retro and goofy against his men’s magazine sleekness. Even Spock, quite the regal figure, looks small next to him.”
Nice description, although in this clip, Spock doesn’t look small. He looks very, very hot:
I’m not too worried about him though given this photo, which surfaced a few weeks ago:
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Back in November, the New York Times reported that a planned sequel to Top Gun, with Tom Cruise aboard, had fallen apart in the wake of director Tony Scott’s suicide last August. So, I did a double take a few minutes ago when I read this Tweet from what is supposedly Val Kilmer’s official account:
I've got a great title for the TOP GUN SEQUEL:
DOG FIGHT—
Val Kilmer (@ValEKilmer) April 24, 2013
Time will tell whether the Tweet is a joke, a leak or a sign that the actor has awakened from a long contemplative slumber that resulted in him missing months of pop-culture news. If a Top Gun sequel is back in play and an Iceman cameo beckons, Kilmer should invest in one of those P90X cross-training videos that former vice presidential Paul Ryan favors. In the most recent pictures I’ve seen, the six-pack that the actor sported in Top Gun had evolved into a full keg.
UPDATE: Five hours after Kilmer posted his idea for a Top Gun 2 title, he returned to Twitter to explain himself: Before the “Dog Fight” tweet, he had posted a photo of him and Tony Scott talking on the set of the original movie. Here’s what he had to say:
I am fully aware that we have lost one of the most considerate kind directors and that everyone involved in this project has put it on hold.—
Val Kilmer (@ValEKilmer) April 24, 2013
I posted a photo of me and Tony and thought of the last time we talked about the sequel and wrote you all what I told him.—
Val Kilmer (@ValEKilmer) April 24, 2013
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