For those of you who haven’t seen all four of the new Sherlock trailers, here they are collectively.
Everyone else has beat me to the funny GIF reaction posts, but that’s okay because I’m too busy fangirling to care. This is combination with Sheetlock is going to be too much to handle; I might have to be hospitalized when it actually premieres.
Trailer: Premium Rush - January 12, 2012
Written and directed by David Koepp. Starring Joseph Gordon Levitt, Michael Shannon, Dania Ramirez, and Aasif Mandvi.
I wasn’t expecting there to be so much action. In fact, Rush looks like a straight up action movie, on a bike, which is either recipe for greatness or disaster. The story looks pretty standard teetering on cliche (Asian mob? Really?) but the cast is top notch and the on location shooting looks gorgeous.
(via theoisjonesing)
I am so excited for this, I can’t even breathe. I saw a rough cut of this a few months ago and thought it was incredible. The trailer doesn’t even do it justice.
;) - The Sugar
This is going to be a short rant about the Spider-Man reboot. Believe me I know it’s been done before and I probably won’t say anything mind-blowing or even new, but it’s the internet I can do what I want. I just watched the teaser for the movie, which is slated to be released around this time next summer (you can watch the trailer here: http://www.wwtdd.com/2011/07/the-spiderman-teaser-is-kind-of-badass/). I’m ignoring the fact that the trailer is a bootleg, because that can’t be helped and I was happy to see any footage at all, but what I did see wasn’t impressive.
Let me start off by saying I love Andrew Garfield; I think he’s a great actor and a fluffy-headed little munchkin that I want to just put in my pocket. When he was picked to play Peter Parker (wow, that’s a tongue-twister right there) I wasn’t sure who he was and there were lots of mixed reactions towards the casting. I saw him in The Social Network and was like, hmm he’s alright, I like this kid. But his acting talent is not what’s in question; it’s whether or not we need a new Peter Parker and after watching that trailer I decided the answer is no. This movie is not going to present us with anything new or riveting. I know a lot of people are unhappy because it’s an origin story and we just got one of those about a decade ago. But let’s be real, the Spider-Man origin story is not anything new. For all of the people claiming to be hardcore fans none of the movies brought out anything new; I mean we all are aware that there is comic that came before the movies right? None of this material can be new, but the original movies were fun and engaging. They were representative of an entire generation of Spider-Man fans. I saw Spider-Man in theaters when I was eight and I subsequently saw both of the sequels in theaters as well. I bet there are tons of other people who followed the trilogy and remembered it fondly (except for part three, which we try not to talk about). It feels like just yesterday that I saw that movie for the first time, perhaps it feels that way because the last one came out four fucking years ago.
The trailer looks likes they’re aiming for a gritty reboot, which is fine, but unnecessary. Spider-Man had plenty or gritty moments; I mean his entire life sucks, but it’s balanced out by the light-heartedness of other moments. If any superhero franchise doesn’t need a gritty reboot it’s Spider-Man. The events surrounding his origin story already make me feel bad for him, I don’t want the villains to especially villainous or the city to be plagued by crimes. I want The Green Goblin to be crazy (funny crazy, not Joker circa The Dark Knight crazy) and the city to be filled with hot-air balloons for them to fight on. In my opinion the reason the 2005 Batman reboot worked so well was because the 90’s Batman was so far away from the real Batman. Sure it fit the 90’s, guys in neon tights with nipple plates on their suits and villains who looked like they were put together with items from the sale bin at Ricky’s after Halloween. But that’s not the real Batman. The real Batman is aloof, intimidating and the Joker is not a clown, he’s criminally insane. The two Batman movies released in the 00’s catered to a new generation that didn’t want Batman to have a sidekick or an easy to follow origin story, they wanted Gotham to be dark and scary and that’s what they got. Did anyone ever ask for a gritty Spider-Man? Whenever I think about it I shudder because I see a 20 year old hipster complaining about how his life went down the drain after he got superpowers while he runs around downtown Manhattan shooting pictures with his DSLR. I don’t want that in a movie. I have enough of that in real life, minus the superpowers of course. I want Peter Parker to be good-natured and naive; it makes all of his failures so much more poignant when you see that he wasn’t expecting them. I might be getting ahead of myself and assigning traits to this movie way before such assumptions can safely be made, but once again it’s the internet; I’ve seen worse assumptions made over lesser things. Maybe this Peter Parker will be naive and unassuming too, but if that’s the case then I don’t need to see this movie I can just go watch the original.
Also what was up with the POV video game CGI bullshit in the teaser? I know it’s supposed to be cool, but if I wanted to play a video game I would do so. I really really hope that’s just something they have in the trailer and that’s not how we’re going to see Spidey swinging around in the movies. Some of my favorite parts from the original trilogy were watching Spider-Man swing around because it looked so natural. I know nothing about special affects, but obviously Tobey Maguire was not leaping from buildings, but it looked like he was. I hope they didn’t do all of the wall-crawling digitally and there was some stunt work involved because if they mess that up I will most definitely not be returning for a sequel (and you know there will be a sequel).
;) - The Sugar
P.S Gwen Stacy, really? I want my goddamn motherfucking Mary Jane Watson!
P.P.S Please feel free to skip over this rant and ignore my nerdrage (guess I should have placed that little warning at the top, hehe).
Zhane is the sugar. Tally is the spice. Mix it together and you get one good time... or meth.
