A teaser is out for "The Matrix Resurrections" ahead of the first full trailer on Thursday. Also, the first still photos are out, giving us a look at some of the characters and environments from the new movie.
The movie will debut in theaters and on HBOMax on December 22.
First reviews are in for Christopher Nolan's "Tenet." Rotten Tomatoes Critics Consensus says:
"A visually dazzling puzzle for film lovers to unlock, Tenet serves up all the cerebral spectacle audiences expect from a Christopher Nolan production."
The film is currently scheduled for release in theaters on September 3.
Having yet another group of charisma-free actors in a Godzilla movie doesn't help. And, are all the monster scenes going to happen in the dark again? Is the budget too low to show the monster battles so we can see them?
Christopher Nolan's new war drama "Dunkirk" has received its first reviews! The film has received special attention for being shot with IMAX and 70mm film cameras.
After the teaser was "leaked" online yesterday, Warner Bros. has put the teaser online officially today. Personally, I believe the "leak" was just an excuse to try to cut into "Star Wars," since their Celebration Anaheim is currently going on in California.
The teaser itself is the usual dark, depressing stuff you would imagine it to be. Ben Affleck sulks around and then confronts Henry Cavill, who says nothing. Oooooo, exciting! I don't understand why Superman has to be so dark and depressing. It should be the one superhero who should be hopeful. But, in Zack Snyder's hands, that definitely ain't going to happen!
If you haven't done a Google+ Hangout, this is the day to do one! "Interstellar" is having one today at 5:30 p.m. EST / 4:30 p.m. CST.
It is being done live from Smithsonian's Air and Space Museum. The cast of the film, including Matthew McConaughey, Jessica Chastain and Anne Hathaway, will be taking questions from online participants. You can go to the Hangout page and submit your question now. Questions will be taken from those submitted online.
Comic-Con ran this past week. And, what's great is that: those of us who don't go can still get the news, trailers and more in the comfort of our own homes!
George Miller (no relation, unfortunately!) is back to direct a new version of his "Max Max" films, this time starring Tom Hardy, or "The Dark Knight Rises." Looks pretty good to me!
The first full trailer for "Interstellar" is spectacular! I was really floored. As a hard-core Science-Fiction fan, I have been wanting to see a film that is truly Science-Fiction, and not a well-worn story that is just set in space.
Writer-Director Christopher Nolan has only occasionally done much of anything for me. But, this new movie could be very cool! And, having the great Matthew McConaughey in the lead is a master stroke!
(SPOILERS) - Best to Read if You Have Already Seen It, or Don't Care!
I thought the new "Godzilla" was just okay. It just got over the mark of being okay from being disappointing. I love Godzilla, and was hoping that this movie would do it right, but it didn't. Only the monster action at the end gets the movie over that line.
I get it. Director Gareth Edwards was trying to recapture the feeling of the great original Japanese 1952 "Gojira," which I have just seen. Yes, I know! It took me all this time to get the original from Criterion. And, it's much better than the choppiness of the Americanized 1954 "Godzilla: King of the Monsters."
In that film, there is really only about 10 minutes or so of actual Godzilla crushing stuff. The rest is the human drama with the well-drawn characters. But, in that movie, those characters are very well realized. They are fully fleshed out, and the drama that plays throughout carries through to the emotional conclusion.
The problem here is that all the characters, except Bryan Cranston's, are bland and uninteresting. Plus, there isn't a compelling storyline here, as there was in the 1952 "Gojira." And, most critically (MAJOR SPOILER) Cranston's character dies early on. He could have been used as that tragic character who has to sacrifice himself. But, unfortunately, he just dies and that's it. (END SPOILER).
I almost titled my review "Godzilla Without Godzilla," since there isn't that much Godzilla in the movie, and when we get to see him, it's mostly in the dark. You would think, 16 years after the much-laughed-at 1998 Emmerich-Devlin "Godzilla," we'd technologically be at the point where we didn't have to stage the monster action in the dark and/or the rain. But, the $160 million spent here doesn't seem to be enough to make that happen.
Hopefully, since Godzilla lives to fight another day at the end of this movie, we'll get a sequel where we get to see some good old fashioned monster action. In the daytime, please!
I have posted the six movie posters from "Gravity" on my flickr page! It is interesting to see how the artists were trying to figure how to market this film.
I am getting back onto flickr, and will be posting new photos soon!
Excellent suspense film! Even though there is the Science-Fiction backdrop, the movie is, at its heart, a suspense film, as two astronauts try to survive after their shuttle gets hit by space debris. As seen in the trailer, we spend a good amount of time following Sandra Bullock's character. And, thus, the film ends up being kind of like "The Perils of Pauline," with Bullock going from one calamity to another!
The Visual Effects are very impressive! But, what makes the film work is director Alfonso Cuarón. He directed what I think is easily the best of the "Harry Potter" movies, "The Prisoner of Azkaban." He treats his characters as humans, instead of just playing pieces on a game board. What he does is to not get himself too caught up in the Science-Fiction and Fantasy genres. He sees the humanity in the characters, and that's what makes his films work.
The 3-D is very cool! The cinematography by Emmanuel Lubezki is excellent. He shot "The Tree of Life," and has been working with director Terrence Malick on his past few films.
What I didn't like was the film score by Steven Price. He has done a few films, but while he gets the tone just right in many of the quieter sequences, he gets quite overwrought in the action sequences. That bothered me, and distracted me. I would have preferred a composer like Tangerine Dream, who worked on films like William Friedkin's "Sorcerer" in 1977 and Michael Mann's "Thief" in 1981 and are still active today.
