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[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQ3By6n8CI8[/youtube]

Deadpool trailer #2

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIM1HydF9UA[/youtube]

Yessss! The red-band version is out as well, basically the same though.

spoodie wrote:For old style Star Trek fan made stuff like this can help to fill that void.
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1W1_8IV8uhA[/youtube]

Despite making a load of money on KS/Indiegogo and looking like it was actually going to be made, lawyers are now involved:
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-enter ... 91126.html

Boo, hiss and all that, as it looked like it could be quite decent.

buzzmong wrote:Despite making a load of money on KS/Indiegogo and looking like it was actually going to be made, lawyers are now involved:
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-enter ... 91126.html

Boo, hiss and all that, as it looked like it could be quite decent.

It's probably okay as it's not-for-profit as stated in the wills of the creator and his late wife, the only thing they could argue was whether it was infringing the JJ Abrams-era stuff, and who the fuck want to copy that?

I'm not clear why this one is different from all the other fan made Star Trek works, like Star Trek Continues and Star Trek Phase II. If it's the Kickstarter, both of those other examples accept donations, so that doesn't really add up.

What is happing in this trailer?

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmbU8RlAmF8[/youtube]

Japan

High-Rise

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYmY2tBYins[/youtube]

Very much looking forwards to this as I loved the book. The author, JG Ballard, also wrote Empire of the Sun, Crash, and The Atrocity Exhibition. The latter is fucking bonkers, but is very similar to Naked Lunch if you like that sort of thing (which I do, a lot).

I, too, look forward to that. Didn't read any of those books though. Yet.

Looks like the usual madness from Ben Wheatley, I loved A Field in England.

And I learned there's an audiobook read by Tom Hiddleston. But to watch the film before listening to that?

10 Cloverfield Lane

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQy-ANhnUpE[/youtube]

I was all set to mock the need for a Cloverfield sequel, but that trailer actually makes it look interesting.

True, and it's not found footage this time which is a minor plus. I do hope they've got a different monster though, because the cloverfield one was shit.

Ooh, interesting. Certainly is a different direction. And I thought the Cloverfield monster was great until you saw it, and then it was just a kind of Godzilla thing. Still fine, but it's just one of those things.

Of the last three trailers, the vampire yakuza one makes the most sense to me. I couldn't work out what high rise was supposed to be about from the trailer and I didn't watch Cloverfield because it sounded tedious for the reasons Pants describes.

Suicide Squad

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CmRih_VtVAs[/youtube]

Keanu

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pIQVzn57is[/youtube]

Ghostbusters

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3ugHP-yZXw[/youtube]

So yeah. Dunno.

Yeaaahh. I know it's a trailer, but it screams slapstick comedy trying to be funny and riff of the originals, rather than being like the originals which had a semi-serious plot and base, but with comedic moments.

Could go either way due to it being trailer. Don't have much hopes though considering the shots of the pistols and the punching that sneaked in there.

Is Hollywood capable of making a comedic, black, female character that isn't the same old hashed out 'sassy, loud, "oh no you didn't!"' cliche? It's embarrassing. I mean the Fresh Prince of Bel Air managed it 20 years, so why is it such a problem now?

Other than that I agree with Buzz - I get the impression it's going to be slapstick and insufferably knowing. Still, it's incredibly entertaining watching some people lose their shit because it's an all female cast. Can't say I'll be watching it though.

Side note: I was reading something the other day about reboots of 80s films. It said something along the lines of 'the people who they are aimed at [30-40 year olds] are the ones who aren't actually going to the cinema any more'. It pointed to the poor showings of the Point Break, Robocop, Total Recall etc reboots (though it could have been that they were just shit). Instead we're now going to be seeing more 90s reboots - Men in Black, Independence Day (technically a sequel) etc, and even the recent Spongebob film apparently did well.

Question: is this a good thing? Personally I've always found self-declared "90s kids" to be far more obnoxiously nostalgia driven than most (I think I probably fall into the technical category of a 90s kid having been born in the early 80s, but I'm specifically referring to the ones that bang on constantly about how the 90s were the best thing ever). People have moaned in the past about the lack of originality and remakes, so is it going to get worse?


Remember people: nostalgia is a disease that kills forward thinking and originality. They say that those who forgot the past are doomed to repeat it, but I say those who don't stop looking at the past are doomed trip up and fall on their face.