Re: Random movie talky stuff.
Something blurted out in the hate thread finally reminded me of the fourth trailer that I saw when I went to go see X-Men first class this past week. Gives you an idea on how effective the trailer it was if it took *checks stub* five days and a quote from the ORIGINAL MOVIE to make me remember it.
The apparently forgettable trailer was for "Rise of the Planet of the Apes." I remember thinking that it looked at least decently well done, what with gorillas and chimps going apeshit (yes, pun intended) all over the place, but when I walked out of the theater, what trailers did I remember to tell my mother about a few hours later?
Real Steel - Basically, Rock'em Sock'em robots meets Rocky meets Over the Top. And it stars Hugh Jackman. My gamer guy friends have Transformers as their "bright shiny pieces of crap" popcorn movies. I think this one will be mine.
Three Musketeers - Seeing Millia Jovovich pulling off Alice-style moves in a corset made a lot more sense when I found out the same guy as did Resident Evil was doing this one. Still, it looks like a kickass reboot and, as my mother put it, "You can tell Orlando Bloom is getting older when they cast him as the villain and not one of the Musketeers."
Those two. Of four trailers. That, again, I remember. If there were more than four, apparently the trailers were so not memorable that I blocked out that they even existed. At least Apes I remembered there was a fourth trailer, I just couldn't remember what. As for the third trailer, it was that body switch one with Jason Batemen and Ryan Renolds. Should also tell you something that I've seen that trailer *twice* now and can't tell you the name of the movie.
But, backtracking a little. Did see First Class, after all. I enjoyed it. It was an interesting reboot/prequel sort of thing. I'm interested in seeing where they go with this. Was it a fantastic movie? Not wholly, but it cost me five bucks and I'm probably going to buy the DVD when it comes out, albiet at the lowest price I can manage, but still... (Hey, I'm still unemployed after all.) Also, Hugh Jackman's cameo made it completely worth it. I did like that they used characters that aren't mainstream X-men (Darwin, Havok, Pixie [Angel will always be Warren Worthington to me. And this chick had faerie wings, c'mon.], Banshee, Beast and Mystique.) and watching them develop their powers is always a favorite narrative device of mine. Even the villains weren't the usual mainstream big-bads. They had enough personal touches to make them interesting and were nasty enough to be a real threat.
I know it's been out for a while, but if you haven't seen it and you get a chance and if you're an X-Men fan, give it a go. I think it's worth it.
