Category: Trailers

Everything to do with trailers for movies and television

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New Game of Thrones Trailer is amazeballs

Game of Thrones

Game of Thrones is going to be good. There’s little doubt in my mind of this fact because:

1. The source material is good
2. The source material filtered down through the people at HBO has been amazing so far
3. HBO is still throwing all the money at it
4. It remains perfectly cast

And now this trailer has happened:

First off, it’s bloody brilliant that they’ve used the _Tron: Legacy_ music. It’s a perfect fit for the suspense and tension the trailer is trying to build and it’s just cool to hear it again.

Second, looks like this season won’t be short on action. In fact, if it holds true to the books it’ll be full of action and that’s a good thing.

Third, Cirian Hinds as Mance Rayder? Amazing casting yet again.

Fourth, DRAGONS.

Yeah, this is gonna be good. It is known.

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Trailer: BioShock Infinite

Bioshock: Infinite

Remember how I’ve been talking about how I haven’t really been able to get excited about gaming lately and how there aren’t any games on the horizon that I’m actually excited to play?

Turns out I forgot that _BioShock: Infinite_ is a thing that’s actually happening. Here’s a look at the latest trailer.

BioShock remains one of the best games ever made for the current generation of consoles, and one of my personal favourite games of all time. The story was perfectly paced and the characters were engaging, the graphics were, _are_, stunning and beautifully realized, and the atmosphere was downright creepy. This is a game that legitimately managed to scare me the first time I played it because a few of its set pieces are perfectly executed.

BioShock 2 wasn’t quite as good, but was still a great game. Lots of interesting new story developments and gameplay mechanics, but it really did feel tacked on when the end of the first game was clearly written as a closed ending. Still, a great game and well worth playing.

So yes, I have high hopes for Infinite. Hopefully the game lives up to its predecessors.

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Trailer: Alan Partridge in Alpha Papa

Alan Patridge

It’s not for everyone, but I’m a sucker for Steve Coogan’s brand of humour. Here’s a trailer for his upcoming movie starring his long time character Alan Partridge.

Not much to say really. If you like him already you’ll like it, if you haven’t seen him before it’s a 50/50 shot whether you will.

Now all I need to know is a North American release date.

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Trailer: Kick-Ass 2 (Red Band)

Kick-Ass 2

Even as a life long fan of comics 2010’s Kick-Ass surprised me. I left that theatre with a big ol’ grin on my face because the movie was such a good time. Now Kick-Ass 2 is coming.

A couple of things strike me:

* Wow, Jim Carrey doesn’t look like Jim Carrey. I like it.
* The tone seems to be intact, but I’m dubious with the directorial change
* Chloe Moretz does not look 15 anymore.

And here’s a new poster. Huzzah!

Kick-Ass 2

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Trailer: Deadpool

Deadpool

If you’re not familiar with Marvel’s anti-hero Deadpool, maybe you should go and make yourself familiar because his game looks like it might be balls out fun.

I love it. The things that make Deadpool great, that is that he’s clearly insane and breaks the fourth wall, appear to be here in spades and also the game just looks like it might have some pretty insane combat.

Let’s not make an mistakes, this will probably be the most juvenile game to come out this year, but it looks like it might be a lot of fun too.

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Trailer: Gears of War: Judgement

Gears of War: Judgment

Ok, so apparently there is a new Gears of War game coming. My reaction? Meh. Then I watched the trailer and you know what my reaction was? Meh.

No, serious, I don’t understand what people see in this game. The characters are terrible, the story is bare bones and the gameplay mechanics, though once pioneering in the “cover based shooter” have since been done better by lots of other games.

If there’s a hope here it’s that People Can Fly are involved, and they managed to make a good Gears of War game a few years back called Bulletstorm. I’m not exaggerating when I saw that Bulletstorm was a Gears game, the look and feel were basically lifted from Gears 2 and 3, however it managed to have a little _je ne said quois_ that elevated it above it’s cousins.

So there’s a hope this might be good, or at least a different Gears game, faint though it might be.

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Trailer: Star Trek Into Darkness Teaser #2

Star Trek Into Darkness

Were you worried that the upcoming Star Trek Into Darkness would be light on action? Then check this out:

First off, yes, I know I’m a few days late posting this. Second off, this looks like it’s going to continue in the same action packed vein as 2009s Star Trek, which I am looking forward to.

There’s an argument to be made that it’s not “real Star Trek” but you know what? 2009’s Star Trek was fun. End of story. Also, this one has Benedict Cumberbatch being a total bad ass and it looks like this one is the “Captain’s Character Development” episode.

If I have a worry it’s that –whether or not Cumberbatch is Khan or not– this one will basically be Wrath of Khan all over again. That can really work (see: First Contact) but it can also really not work when there’s no existing context (see: Nemesis).

Either way, I just have one more question:

IS IT 17TH MAY YET?

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Trailer: The Bling Ring

The Bling Ring

You know what? I didn’t recognize Emma Watson the first time I watched this.

This trailer doesn’t so much, but it does show enough. The Bling Ring was a real thing. A group of young people tracked celebrities whereabouts online and then robbed their houses. Over the course of nearly a year they snatched nearly 3$ million worth.

Kind of a smart plan really, and make you never want to check in on Facebook or Yelp or FourSquare ever again. But then again, the cops caught up with them.

This trailer mostly shows the crew living to excess off their ill gotten gains (side note, I don’t care what anyone says about ‘booty’ or ‘swag’, ill gotten gains is still by far the coolest way to say “stolen goods”) set to awesome party music with only real hints of the police being on their tail. Also, this films looks very much like a Sofia Coppola film. She does have a style, doesn’t she?

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Trailer: Much Ado About Nothing

Much Ado

Oh. Hells. Yes.

Just so we’re clear, one of my favourite directors got all his friends together for 12 days and shot a modern adaptation of Shakespeare in his own house in black and white as a “palate cleanser” after doing a huge studio block buster. How is this anything other than win?

There’s a reason this is one of my [most anticipated films of the year](https://awesomefriday.ca/2013/01/matts-most-anticipated-of-2013/), and the trailer makes it look every bit as fun, witty, awesome, and damn cool as I was hoping.

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Trailer: Disconnect

Disconnect

What’s that you say? A movie about how are interconnectedness is anctually disconnecting us from people?

Oh wait, maybe not so much. This looks promising to me, but it also looks like a film that will spend the first two acts or so convincing you it will have something big to say and then in the third act everything will come to a head but we won’t actually learn anything.

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Trailer: Dead Man Down (Red Band)

Dead Man Down

This one has been off my radar so I didn’t actually realize it comes out tomorrow.

I’ve been kind of cold on this dilm to date because the trailers previous to this one have all kind of… sucked. This one does a better job of making it seem like I might like this movie, which is good because it’s full of people I like.

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Trailer: What Maisie Knew

What Maisie Knew

Have you had your heartstrings tuggeed recently? No? Well watch this trailer then.

I haven’t read _What Maisie Knew_ but I am aware of the plot. Updating it from it’s 1890s context to now is makes a lot of sense. At the time of it’s writing the book was a reflection on society in which the story was somewhat scandalous whereas now it’s story is the new normal for a lot of people. It’ll be interesting to see how much of the original criticism comes through.

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Trailer: Iron Man 3 Theatrical Trailer

Iron Man 3

So this dropped this morning at 9am. I’m a little behind, but thats because I’ve been watching it. Without further ado:

As you’re probably aware we’re pretty excited here at Awesome Friday HQ for Iron Man 3. The story they are adapting, Extremis, is one of the best of recent years plus the infusion of Shane Black’s style and humour could potentially make this the best of the Iron Man series, maybe even the Marvel Cinematic Universe to date.

I just realized that I may have slightly betrayed how high my hopes actually are. Either way, you know my butt will be in a seat come May 3rd.

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Trailer: Trance Red Band Trailer

Trance

If I’d known about Trance at the beginning of the year there’s a pretty good chance it would have been on my [most anticipated list][ma]. This is a red band trailer so it’s not exactly safe for work, but it’s a very good trailer.

I love Danny Boyle. He’s incredibly adept at pulling off completely freaky imagery. Based on this trailer I seriously can’t wait to see this movie.

[ma]: https://awesomefriday.ca/2013/01/matts-most-anticipated-of-2013/ “Matt’s Most Anticipated of 2013”