And the genre musical hits keep coming.
Repo gets a full trailer…
I’m still not ready to say that I think this is going to be good. The music isn’t grabbing me, and the images seemed cramped. But it’s a ballsy, interesting thing, and I applaud them for giving it a try.
There’s been a lot of interesting meta-media showing up around the upcoming Batman film. They seem to have done a good job building the context of the world that the movies exist in.
This is an in-depth documentary about the life of Bruce Wayne as shown on Gotham Cable News. If anything it’s played almost too straight.
There’s tons of other fun goodies on the site as well, including web sites for Harvey Dent, and Gotham City Rail.
I was wrong. It turns out the summer of ‘08 has started out with a bang
My one sentence review for Iron Man is as follows:
This is the best possible summer blockbuster you could make about a guy in a hi-tech super suit.
I suppose there could be quibbles, there always are, but it’s really an amazing movie, managing to keep to core premise and internal logic. But more than all of that the film has a tone that it stays true to as well. It has a sense of playfulness that infuses even the most serious moments, and Robert Downey is a master at the self-effacing put-down, managing to make fun of himself and everyone else around him at the same time. That means Tony Stark is kind of a jerk, but he’s our kind of jerk, an American jerk. And there’s a moment when he first appears in public as Iron Man where he proves that for all his faults he is a genuine hero. I’m a sucker for that kind of stuff, and the film really plays it up. I’m looking forward to seeing it again, and seeing if it holds up on a second viewing.
It’s a good start to the year, and sets a high water mark for the other big summer films that are following it up.
This looks interesting. If nothing else it feels like they may have made an actual Indiana Jones film.
I’ll be honest and say that I never felt like the second two films lived up to the promise of the first one. Somehow they got bogged down in the cliches of the summer blockbuster (which the franchise helped to invent) and became artifacts of the 80s rather than having that spirit of timeless adventure that the first movie had.
Let’s see if this can bring back the magic.
Although Vin Diesel is clearly a very successful member of the nerd tribe, his career has been somewhat rocky lately. His last big hit had him playing a Navy Seal taking care of babies in The Pacifier, and since then it’s been a rocky road. Certainly there’s been no big sci-fi epics along the lines of Riddick.
Babylon A.D. may be the beginning of the comeback trail…
It’s hard to know everything from a teaser trailer, but I’m getting a definite old school action vibe from this. The kind of bombastic neo-futuristic film that Arnold Shwarzenegger made until the 6th Day.
And of course, it looks like it’s combined with just a whiff of French cheese:
We’ll see.
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