trailers with The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug

[kate_nepveu]

In honor of finishing my immense Tor.com post about The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, to be linked here when it goes live, notes on the trailers!

Unfortunately the notes I took in the theater got eaten, so I have to reconstruct this by looking at upcoming movies on IMDB. Let's see, the new-to-me ones were:

Earth to Echo: almost content-free trailer about teenagers finding an alien something in their neighborhood.

The Amazing Spider-Man 2: I didn't see the prior one, but this looked derivative and boring as fuck.

Edge of Tomorrow: an SF-war meets Groundhog Day story in which Emily Blunt has way more screen presence than Tom Cruise.

Jupiter Ascending: seriously epic-looking SF from the Wachowskis, with a female chosen one (yay!) who seems to be in peril a lot (boo!), and . . . stuff, I honestly don't know what else, just a lot of stuff. Oh, wait, Sean Bean, who presumably will screw up and die in some more-or-less affecting way.

Also, we got the Captain American: The Winter Soldier trailer, which is not new to me, but eeee big screen! I already talked at great length about that (spoilers for more than just the trailer), so let me just add that there was a scene of mass destruction without Inception-style horn blares on the soundtrack, hooray.

Comments

[tree_and_leaf]

You had better trailers: I can't remember what exactly we got, but it definitely included "Anchorman 2", "The Wolf of Wall Street", and "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty."

I got a strong sense that the cinema had just given up on trying to work out who might be watching "The Hobbit".

[kate_nepveu]

We had Mitty too, but I'd talked about it before and had nothing new to say about it.

Edge of Tomorrow

[krfsm.livejournal.com]

This one's based on a novel titled All You Need Is KILL (http://www.haikasoru.com/all-you-need-is-kill/) by Hiroshi Sakurakzaka.

Re: Edge of Tomorrow

[kate_nepveu]

. . . so the character Tom Cruise plays is Japanese in the original, based on that link.

Well then.

Re: Edge of Tomorrow

[krfsm.livejournal.com]

So is the character played by Emily Blunt... (And everyone else too.)

Re: Edge of Tomorrow

[kate_nepveu]

Her character's name wasn't obviously Japanese to me, though I admit I didn't check up on it further.

[daidoji_gisei]

I'm interested in seeing your Hobbit post. I haven't seen it, but the internet informs me of things which, if true, make me want to curse passionately for several and varied reasons.

Also, still incredulous that anyone would turn a book that short into THREE MOVIES.

[kate_nepveu]

I've seen some fairly divergent opinions on certain aspects, but I'm glad to be a data point!

[daidoji_gisei]

Your opinion will be more useful to me than Random Internet Report A, because I've read your comments on other things so I have calibration. :-)