16 Sunday Dec 2012
Posted in Kick ass trailer, Trailer Tracking
Will Smith teams up once again with his son Jaden, and for the first time, with director M. Night Shymalayan, to bring us a pretty cool looking sci-fi flick for the summer of 2013. Looks pretty cool to me; what do you think?
07 Thursday Jun 2012
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Academy Awards, horror, Ridley Scott, Sci Fi, Thriller, visionary
Ridley Scott
A king has his reign, and then he dies – it’s inevitable. ~ Prometheus
After months of teasing and taunting, Ridley Scott’s latest film, Prometheus, lands in theaters this week. The legendary filmmaker has been directing features for over 30 years, but his recent output has been less than stellar.
Is Prometheus a return to form for Sir Ridley?
14 Monday May 2012
Posted in Kick ass trailer
By Late Night
All of the spectacular action sequences we’ll enjoy this summer at the movies are made possible by the same computerized image manipulation that make the most popular videogames possible. Check out this mix of 3D game action versus feature film super hero action, served up by trailer-slicer supreme Crispafull (the “live action” stuff starts about halfway through, featuring clips from The Avengers, Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter and many, many more):
Is it possible we may be witnessing the birth of a new artform?
09 Monday Apr 2012
Posted in Television, Visionary or Hack
Tags
Cloverfield, Drew Goddard, horror, Joss Whedon, Mashup, Sci Fi
Drew Goddard at the 2012 SXSW premiere of The Cabin in the Woods
By Late Night
First-time director Drew Goddard steps up to the plate in a big way with the sci-fi/government conspiracy/slasher horror/monster movie mashup, The Cabin in the Woods (opening April 13). Goddard is the writer of the thoroughly entertaining sci-fi/monster movie Cloverfield (2008), but he is better known by his work for the small screen, as a writer/producer for Lost, Alias and Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
It is no accident that many visionary directors write their own material. And it’s readily apparent from this short clip that Goddard can build interest and suspense with just a few words:
07 Saturday Apr 2012
Posted in Kick ass trailer
Presented entirely for your cinematic enjoyment, the following is a masterfully-edited selection of the most fantastic action sequences of recent years, set to the wildly shifting time signatures of modern electronic music. The full title on YouTube is Actionary 720p in Dubstep styles (fix), and it claims to only use footage from official movie trailers. Consider it the uber-trailer for the entire genre of big-budget action films; it is not concerned with context, it is only about celebrating the moments of kinetic movie magic created by hacks and visionaries alike, perfectly matching the on-screen motions to the ebb and flow of the dubstep track (and on a related note, it is also a perfect example of why dubstep is taking over the world).
Prepare to fall in love with the movies again:
31 Thursday Mar 2011
Posted in In the Lobby
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Opening this weekend, “Source Code” looks like a promising entry in the time-shifting, crime-solving sci-fi subgenre. I really enjoyed Duncan Jones‘ first feature, “Moon” (2009), an entertaining riff on the “man alone in space develops space madness” theme, and by the looks of the trailer, we may have another future visionary on our hands.
12 Saturday Mar 2011
Posted in Hack
Jonathan Liebesman: Hack
It’s a sad day when millions of dollars are once again wasted on a high-concept sci-fi film, which falls far short of delivering the goods. Hack Director Jonathan Liebesman is behind the latest alien invasion film, Battle: Los Angeles.
Liebesman’s first feature, Darkness Falls (2003), wasn’t necessarily horrible, but certainly nothing memorable (let’s not even touch his attempt at a Texas Chainsaw prequel in 2006). The biggest disappoint here is that Battle: Los Angeles (the film) was preceded by the fabulous Battle: Los Angeles (the trailer).
