trailers with Avengers: Endgame

[kate_nepveu]

• Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw: different trailer, still like getting bludgeoned with testosterone.
• 21 Bridges, has extra opening seconds. I would like to think that Chadwick Boseman is going to pick movies that are thoughtful about the police's exercise of power, and there are a few hints toward that maybe, but based on this it's a hell of an uphill battle to get me to believe it.
• The Lion King: I just can't even.
• Long Shot, but none of the trailers at IMDB seem to be what we got? Anyway: oh look, Seth Rogen screws things up for Charlize Theron, whee.
• Godzilla: King of the Monsters: that's a lot of giant monsters, none of which looked really convincing, and also you don't get to use "One X to rule them all," sorry, you just don't.
• Gemini Man, has about one extra opening second. Will Smith fights his younger clone; I have no feelings about this.
• Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker. The thing is, okay. The Last Jedi had major problems, but I feel, in retrospect, that it was at least trying to do something that wasn't just "coast on nostalgia," that it had a point of view that it was trying to express? And this does not give me confidence that that's going to be carried through. Because giving a trilogy to different directors and letting them do, apparently, whatever the fuck they want is a bad creative decision.

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[julian]

Yah, the whole Trilogy Made Of Independent Parts is not...giving me confidence. And if Rey turns out to BE a Skywalker, as opposed to just taking a name in tribute or something (if that in fact is implied from the title, which it may not be), then RAR.

On the other hand, I paused by accident in the first bit, just as Rey was looking behind her, and just. Such an effing great character/actor meld.

(Also: The Lion King. Why.)

[kate_nepveu]

I'm trying to not read too much into the title, but yeah, I would also prefer that Rey not be biologically a Skywalker.

And because money, that's why.

[oracne]

I am pretty sure "21 Bridges" is the one they were filming in Philly. For which some areas were green-screened (The Shake Shack!), or they added fake graffiti.

[kate_nepveu]

cool!

[naomikritzer]

I started at the Godzilla preview (which I saw before Captain Marvel, too) and thought, "I understand that there's a market for movies that are basically CHECK OUT OUR MONSTERS, THEY ARE FIGHTING! LOOK, MONSTER!" but why is there a market for this when they're this poorly rendered?"

[kate_nepveu]

I'm so glad it was not just me! I found it extremely baffling.

[cofax7]

Because giving a trilogy to different directors and letting them do, apparently, whatever the fuck they want is a bad creative decision.


There isn't enough YES THIS in the world. I do not get how anyone thought this was a good idea. And I rewatched The Force Awakens last night, and Man is that a weak movie.

[kate_nepveu]

I have had no urge to rewatch it, though I suppose doing the good-parts version of Rey & Finn has some appeal.

[cofax7]

Maybe? Finn's bullshitting about how he's a Big Deal in the resistance is no more endearing than it was on the first round, I have to say. I dislike that kind of lying intensely.

Anyway, there's stuff in it that's good, but there's a LOT of wasted potential and just bad plotting. Han Solo sacrificing himself for the idiotically sentimental idea that his genocidal son was worth saving--and for no other reason!--just, argh.

[thomasyan]

I was very happy to have only two trailers. I was not crazy about either Long Shot or The Lion King, but was too grateful to not suffer through tons of trailers to mind too much

[fitzcamel]

...Yeah. We at least got Detective Pikachu and MiB trailers instead of Godzilla, which helped a bit.