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Heck with the teaser! Here is the first full trailer and it looks great!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yj0l7iGKh8g
Sure it gives away the first full episode, but still it is a great setup, and it allows for all the Justice League to get in on the action!
Well since I have been posting all the other DC TV show promos why stop now? The CW has released their first sneak peek of The Flash, and it is a very small peek at that, but here it is anyway. Keep watching until the end:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnXsnR-2AvU
So there is not a lot to glean from all of that. With the success of Arrow, I am guessing that they didn’t feel the need to give a lot away. It still shows that it is an Arrow spinoff, and it at least looks like The Flash will have more of a sense of humor. It is fine for the Green Arrow to be all sullen and gloomy because he is pretty much Batman, but The Flash is supposed to enjoy himself, and with his two lines it looks like that is the case.
I also noticed that his costume is not very form fitting. It is actually pretty loose, which is quite the change from the comic books, and you would think it would be hard to run at supersonic speeds with loose fabric everywhere. If once the show starts that is my only complaint, then it is no big deal. We will see in October I guess.
The Flash is the most recognizable superhero DC is bringing to small screen (junior Batman not withstanding), so it will be important to get him right. Nobody in the comic book world really cared if they screwed up the Green Arrow, but that will not be the case with The Flash.
The running special effects look fine for TV, but I don’t think a teaser is a place to fully judge them. Still sizzling brings back comic book imagery, so that is nice.
It will be interesting to see how closely the two CW shows interact with one another. Like if they are showing up in each other’s show once or twice a season, or not at all. Whatever the case it is nice to DC building a media universe somewhere even if it is not in movies, and I am quite excited to see The Flash come to TV once again.
Update: Here is a taste of the humor The Flash should have:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSQ-h_2WGkw
In an interesting turn of events a Warner Bros owned property, Hellblazer, will take on a Warner Bros run show, Supernatural, or at least that is the feeling I am getting from the new trailer NBC released for Constantine. You can watch it right here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPE2oBnzROY
I will say after the less than good movie with the same title staring Kenau Reeves, it is nice to see Constantine be British again. Though it doesn’t appear like he is in the UK for some reason. It must be too expensive to film there if you are not the BBC. New Constantine actor Matt Ryan has brought the appropriate level of snark to the character, or at least the trailer seems to indicate that he has, so let’s hope they can make his surrounding universe just as fun.
It will also be interesting to see if they make Constantine “heroic” or not. In the comic book he is usually doing the right thing, but he generally doesn’t care if people get harmed in the process. In other words he has no problem ‘making the hard call’. In fact he makes the call a little to early sometimes. Something tells me TV producers wouldn’t let that fly in prime time, but I guess we will get to find out soon, since NBC has ordered a full series of this show to replace its now canceled Dracula.
I am still waiting to hear how Preacher and Hourman are coming along, but I only have so much time to watch TV.
When I first heard of the idea of Gotham, I was excited about a cop show set in Gotham without Batman, but then they started talking about all the high school aged villains in the show, and I got very unexcited. I didn’t want a Smallville but with Batman, but the new trailer has won me over. I will wait here while you watch it below…
It looks pretty good right? I was surprised by how much this looks. I am still not sold on the junior Bat-cast, but if they are used sparingly it could be pretty cool. Jada Pinkett Smith is killing it as an up and coming mob boss, and Ben McKenzie looks fantastic as a wide-eyed Jim Gordon trying and failing to clean up the streets.
While so far DC has been unable to capitalize on their franchises for movies, their TV studio looks to continue to pump out the hits. Supposedly this trailer and pilot have gone so well that Fox has already ordered a full season of Gotham. Which is fairly unheard with five months to go until the air date. We haven’t heard how the Preacher (AMC), Hourman (CW), and Constantine (NBC) shows are going, but with three of the six DC shows already fully ordered (Gotham, Arrow, and The Flash), I will have a lot of TV to watch.
The first Amazing Spider-Man was surprisingly good since people had such low expectations for such a quick reboot to the franchise. The Amazing Spider-Man 2 unfortunately takes a few steps back from its predecessor. It is an unfocused mess, and it is a shame because there is a good movie in middle of all that mire.
The movie picks up directly after the first Amazing Spider-Man, with Peter Parker (Andrew Garfield) still madly in love with Gwen Stacy (Emma Stone), but Gwen’s father’s death is weighing on Peter and complicating their relationship. To complicate matters further Peter is also trying to figure out what happened to his parents. Meanwhile OsCorp is taking over New York’s power grid, and it is being worked on by the mild-mannered electrical engineer Max Dillon (Jamie Foxx). Plus Harry Osborn(Dane DeHaan) returns to be with is ailing father.
The problem with this movie is that there are too many things going on at one time. You got Peter and Gwen’s relationship, Peter looking in to his parents’ deaths, Max’s transition in to Electro, Harry dealing with his father’s death, and Harry becoming the Green Goblin. There are five story lines right there, and I may have left some out. This movie is two hours and twenty minutes long, and there still isn’t enough time to deal with all this stuff.
The actors do what they can, and Garfield and Stone really shine in this movie with great chemistry. They bring life to Parker and Stacy, but they also get the most air time, so their story develops naturally. Foxx and DeHaan are not given that luxury, so they have to play their parts way over the top giving the villains in this movie a very Batman Forever feel. Which would be fine if the rest of the movie wasn’t so serious. It is quite jarring.
They just should have left a few things out. Parker doesn’t need to investigate his parents’ deaths. He already has daddy issues thanks to Uncle Ben’s death, he doesn’t need more, and it doesn’t amount to anything. We didn’t need the Green Goblin in this movie. They could have saved that for the third one, and given DeHaan the time his character needed. That extra screen time would have helped Foxx’s Electro out quite a bit. Maybe at least he wouldn’t have come off so zany.
The special effects in this movie range from excellent to crappy. Spider-Man zipping around New York is awe inspiring. The finally battle between him and Electro looks like a bad video game. With a budget as big as this movie had, it seems like they could have fixed it up quite a bit.
The Amazing Spider-Man set this series up for success. Sadly the Amazing Spider-Man 2 wastes most of that potential. There are parts of this movie that work and are really fun, but there is so much bloat that this movie just can’t keep its momentum. This is not the worst Spider-Man movie (That is all you Spider-Man 3!), but it is close, and I hope that for Sony’s sake they can turn this franchise around.