Trailers and Films

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The Good Trailers

Planes 2 - I am so there for this. (Then again I was also there for Planes 1 and Cars. I am all the little girls that internet feminism insists have no interest in anthropomorphic vehicles.)

Expendables 3 - I am even more there for this. The trailer was incredibly good at it's job because I went from 'I'll probably see this because' to 'must see now!!!' in the space of watching it.

The Meh Trailer

Lucy - Yeah, I know, but it just looked kinda meh.

The bad trailers

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - mostly because the turtles still look less realistic than the men in suits from the '90s. And they've turned Shredder into a ninja robot. The trailer also contained not one but two references to how cracktastic the premise of the film is, which strikes me as a bad idea because the people who aren't children of the Turtle era are going to go "I don't want to spend £5.50 on cheesy nonsense that even the filmmakers can't deal with with a straight face" and us Turtle children are going "what's so cracktastic about mutant turtles, that's what mutagenic ooze does."

Into The Storm - which really looks like Twister: the Revengening, and generally bad.

The trailer so bad it is terribad

A Dolphin's Tale 2 - Now granted, I am not the target audience, dolphin-mad teenage girls are, but those dolphin-mad teenage girls are going to know, like I am, that that is not how you transport a dolphin. I could deal with the rest of the godawful animal melodrama if it didn't make several howlers along the same lines.

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On to the actual films.

How To Train Your Dragon 2



I loved Toothless, Astrid and Gobber, as I was supposed to, and Ruffnut, which I'm not sure if I was. She is adorable though, in her own way.

And the flying SFX!!! I want to be a dragon-rider.

I love how they did Hiccup's Mum at the beginning, because someone that's spoken to no-one but dragons for 20 years is going to act.


Hercules

I am the wrong person to talk about this film, because it was like

I'm reasonably convinced that this was not a good film. It was not original in the slightest, it's basically 300 meets Gladiator with bits of Star Wars and Lord of the Rings thrown in. You might notice how much I like all of those films.

I like swords, I like epic battles, I like slightly grubby heroes.

The thing I did love was that they gave me trickster warriors. I can't remember the last film that gave me that.

It's also a fine example that if you make a film well, and get good actors, even if the premise is old hat, you can get an enjoyable film out of it. Particularly if two of those actors are Ian McShane and Rufus Sewell in a chiton. Dear film-makers, employing either of those two actors, in or not in chitons, is always a good thing.

There are things I would change. I would not have killed off Tydeus, but that is because he was my favourite, Hercules, Iolaus, Autolycus, Atalanta and Amphiaraus notwithstanding. Actually, that was another really nice thing, I liked the heroes, they were people you imagine as your friends.



I really enjoyed Hercules, but it may as well have been made for me.

Comments

[opera142.livejournal.com]

Lucy stuck a meh cord in me too, which was disappointing because for the first few minutes of the trailer, I was very Fuck Yeah! Let's see a smart chick take care of some business. But then it became all about stopping time and handwavium, and that never intrigues me.

[redfiona99.livejournal.com]

>>But then it became all about stopping time and handwavium, and that never intrigues me.<< Pretty much my problem to, that and I think it gives away the whole plot which is annoying.