The Great Geek Manual

I want to like Sucker Punch so much, but every trailer makes me more nervous than the next. Pleeease be more like The Matrix than Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow.

Just received this press release about the upcoming indie film Grave Encounters from Twin Engine Films. It looks like a film version of Syfy’s Ghost Hunters, with a Blair Witch Project twist. In fact, 1 min 45 secs in you can see that they quite explicitly pay homage to the conclusion of the Blair Witch Project.
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This Your Highness trailer features butt-sex jokes, dragons, and a medieval thong! It’s almost enough to make me forgive Natalie Portman for Revenge of the Sith. Almost.

It’s kind of like a raunchy American version of The Black Adder.

Relativity Media and Universal have released the teaser trailer for Battle: Los Angeles, a big budget alien invasion movie due out in March. If it looks a lot like this weekend’s release, Skyline, it’s not a coincidence. Skyline directors Greg and Colin Strause are the heads of Hydraulx, the visual effects house that did the effects for Battle: Los Angeles. After the Straus siblings had a chance to look under the hood of the film, they quietly produced Skyline and slated it for release four months before Battlefield. The entire incident is the subject of a reportedly bitter falling out between the two films’ studios.

Personally, I don’t see what all the fuss is about. I could watch aliens destroy Earth all day. It just doesn’t get old. In fact, there ought to be a cable channel devoted to rampant mass destruction 24/7. I mean other than Fox News.
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The first theatrical trailer for Skyline really didn’t do it for me, but this one looks like an amazing mix of Independence Day and War of the Worlds. At least, amazing in terms of visuals. I’m still withholding judgment, as a lot of recent Hollywood invasion movies has bombed at the box office lately, and the actual plot behind the film sounds suspiciously like Cloverfield. You know the one. Aliens land, people run, people run some more.

Still, just from the visuals in this trailer, I can already tell that I’m definitely going to see this one at some point. The question is whether I’ll pop for a ten dollar ticket or wait to Red Box it.

Carfeul Harry, he doesn’t have a nose! It’s funny, because you never stop to consider how ridiculously over-dramatic trailers are until someone draws your attention to it.

The trailer for Matt Reeves’ Let Me In remake was released this weekend. Reeves directed episodes of “Felicity” as well as J.J. Abrams’ monster movie Cloverfield. The mix is an odd one, but fitting, given the subject matter. The film will be released nationwide October 1st, making this the first Halloween season in recent memory to feature a good, solid horror movie in theaters.

I’m surprised to see that this movie actually looks like it’s going to have some broad appeal. I didn’t expect that, despite loving the book.
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