More­turi te salutant!

The trailer for Preda­tors, the lat­est addi­tion to the fran­chise that began with Arnold Schwarzeneg­ger, has arrived on the net. In Preda­tors, a bunch of elite war­riors are kid­napped from Earth and brought to another planet. There they real­ize that they are noth­ing more than prey! In a nut­shell, that’s the plot. Well, this is a movie about Preda­tors so we don’t need much of a story line, right? Oh, the world looks just like the jun­gles in the first film with a few additions.

I still remain cau­tious about the cast­ing but I freely admit that Adrien Brody doesn’t look as ridicu­lous in the trailer as he did in my imag­i­na­tion. Looks like Preda­tors just jumped near the top of my must-see list. What do you think? Will the addi­tional ‘s’ in the title make this one a bet­ter movie?

A very well done poster, I'd say.

The new Amer­i­can poster for The Expend­ables is here. This film stars Arnold Schwarzeneg­ger, Sylvester Stal­lone, Jason Statham, Jet Li, Dolph Lund­gren, Eric Roberts, Steve Austin, Bruce Willis, Mickey Rourke, and a bunch of oth­ers, most of them known faces. The Expend­ables is about a team of mer­ce­nar­ies hired to infil­trate a South Amer­i­can coun­try and over­throw a ruth­less dic­ta­tor. Of course, noth­ing goes accord­ing to plan and things will get more bloody and action-packed than every­one thought.

There are a few test screen­ing reports out in the wild describ­ing this film as insanely vio­lent. Let’s hope The Pow­ers That Be won’t change any­thing and we are going to see the movie in all its gory glory on August 13th this year. I don’t know about you but that’s def­i­nitely a movie I absolutely have to see. There’s no way around it!

A new Iron Man 2 trailer has hit the web yes­ter­day! There’s more War Machine and more Ham­mer in the trailer. And I absolutely adore the suit­case armor. Funny idea and prob­a­bly rem­i­nis­cent of the Iron Man books back in the day. Enjoy the embed­ded trailer below. If you want more splen­dor, you can find a high res­o­lu­tion quick­time ver­sion of the trailer over at Apple’s. Iron Man 2 will hit a cin­ema near you on May 7th, 2010.

Yes­ter­day, the sec­ond offi­cial trailer of the soon to be released Prince of Per­sia movie adap­ta­tion hit the web. If you want to know more about the movie, check out my first post on the topic. Prince of Per­sia will be in cin­e­mas on May, 21st. With­out fur­ther ado, here’s the trailer:

Most of us will already know that a Karate Kid remake – The Karate Kid – is in the works and slated for a June 11 release. Jaden Smith plays the 12-year-old kid Dre Parker whose mother’s lat­est career move has landed him in China. Of course, he’s not even remotely as pop­u­lar there as he was in good old Detroit. Some kid beats him up but he is res­cued by main­te­nance man Mr. Han (Jackie Chan) who will teach Dre the kung fu. Wait, did you read that cor­rectly? Kung fu? Why the hell is this remake about kung fu and not karate even though the title says otherwise?

Well, Dre of course knows a lit­tle karate which is way too lit­tle to stand up against the class bully. The lat­est inter­na­tional trailer also shows that Dre is called “the karate kid” by the bully. Appar­ently, that’s it. Dre will no doubt mas­ter kung fu and will defeat his enemy in the tour­na­ment, obvi­ously. I don’t espe­cially like the plot but I think I’m going to watch it anyway.

I saw AVATAR on Sat­ur­day and I’m still impressed. James Cameron once again employs state-of-the-art tech­nol­ogy to cre­ate some­thing we’ve never seen before. Of course, with the largest bud­get a writer-director has ever had at his dis­posal, one would expect lots of things to be done right. Unfor­tu­nately, the movie matches awe­some spe­cial effects with a lousy script. To be hon­est, that’s some­thing Hol­ly­wood has been doing for a long time now.

AVATAR is visu­ally stun­ning and very pleas­ing to watch. The story takes place on a dis­tant planet called Pan­dora which looks like a jungle-covered par­adise. It’s forests are filled with fan­tas­tic crea­tures and intrigu­ing plants. Vibrant col­ors dom­i­nate the jun­gle, even at night. Pandora’s pre­dom­i­nant species is an intel­li­gent life form who call them­selves the Na’vi. Due to the low grav­ity the blue-skinned humanoids grow enor­mously huge: they’re roughly 11.5 feet tall. The Na’vi’s move­ments are fluid and their eyes can con­vey cred­i­ble emo­tion. Well done!

While the film is great to look at, the story dis­ap­points. This is even more true because of the stark con­trast between the mas­ter­fully real­ized CGI effects and a lousy plot that goes like this: The Na’vi hap­pily live in their Eden until some nasty humans arrive to mine a min­eral known as unob­tainium. The min­ing cor­po­ra­tion comes pro­tected by space marines and, of course, they need to get the Na’vi moved because under the tree this spe­cific tribe lives in there is the biggest unob­tainium resource within the area. At least, humans can’t breathe in the atmos­phere with­out a breath­ing appa­ra­tus. Read more…