In which TNA are both frustrating and annoying

( The frustrations are all spoilery )

The annoyances are not spoilery:

- Just say no to political angles, TNA. They never end well. (Although if someone who actually hablos Espanyol would care to watch the Tigre Uno bit, I'd be obliged because I am willing to swear that while they're not mis-translating what he's saying, they're not translating it in exact order either.)

- Stop it with the unnecessary gimmick matches. There was no reason for Rockstar Spud vs Eric Young to be a chain match. Save those kind of gimmicks for blow off matches that actually matter, not random throw-away matches. Otherwise the gimmicks lose their "shock" value.

* I know I am in my usual minority of one on this, but I'm really digging Pope and Josh Matthews on commentary.

Trailers From Before AntMan

Significantly better than expected:

Fantastic 4 - other than a moment of reflection on the passing of my youth, because Reed Richards is played by an actor younger than me that looks about 12, oh hell yeah!

That is how you reboot something.

I will miss Michael Chiklis's Ben Grimm because he was perfect but this Johnny Storm is so much more like my darling Johnny. I may also have actually, legitimately witch-cackled in the cinema at the first glimpse of Doom!

Trailers about on a par with what I expect, not that this is necessarily a good thing

The new Zach Unpronouncable film - sorry, mainstream Hollywood comedies and I work on completely different wavelengths.

Inside Out - which much like most Hollywood films with kids leads to me going 'wait, that's supposedly bad behaviour? My Mum would have been happy if I'd been that polite!' Then again, I know who I have got the sarcasm and eye-rolling from so Mum really can't complain.

Trailer that is indescribably bad, and somehow worse than expected - Man From U.N.C.L.E.

I had issues with Guy Ritchie's take on Sherlock Holmes (and know more about Victorian autopsies than he does /bitterness) but nothing like this. It's not that I don't love Holmes but it's more that it at least looked like someone involved in them at least might have read one of the stories once. This looks like Ritchie wanted to make a stylised explodey fun spy flick and Hollywood would only front up the money if it was based on an existing property.

Now, I have no problems with explody fun spy flicks. I have no problem with any of the actors (and the department of unspeakably shallow would like to add, future caveats apart, Armie Hammer's Ilya Kuryakin is hella hot). It's just, it's not Man From U.N.C.L.E. There's none of the whimsy, the stylish, the cool. Why is Ilya punching Napoleon Solo rather than flaying him alive with sarcasm. Why is my sarcastic Russian pocket rocket suddenly a dour tall person. Why is he being distracted from the mission by a girl? Why is *he* seducing the girl, not Solo? There are rules, people!

(Sorry for the somewhat monomaniacal Ilya Kuryakin fixation. I come from a family of Ilya fans. No really, the entire family.)

As I have said in other places, I am morally, spiritually, ethically, aesthetically and ecumenically offended by this trailer. And my hyperbole is only slightly excessive.