Category: Trailers

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San Diego Comic-Con 2015 Wrap-Up!

Another Comic-Con is gone, and all it gave us was a ton of awesome trailers.  The Nerve!  Oh, wait that is totally rad!  I mean in the new Batman v Superman trailer (watch it here) we got to see Wonder Woman blow some stuff up.  If you were quick enough to watch the trailers before they got pulled you got to see Deadpool murder people and make jokes in a very Deadpool way and the Joker get creepy.  Both looked great.

Honestly Warner Bros. and Fox should know better and just release the trailers to the public.  They can’t want their movies’ first intro to the public to be crappy blurry cam shots can they?  We are all going to see it anyway, why fight us.  Embrace the 21st century and let us watch our superhero footage!  It is all we really want.  We just want to watch guys and gals in capes punch each other!  Is that too much to ask?  I don’t think so.

Instead of a new trailer Disney released a behind the scenes reel (shown above), and it all looked very exciting.  Especially Simon Pegg in an alien suit, so we will see where he turns up.  The practical effects look amazing; I just want to go roll around on their set.  I don’t care if I hate the heat (fat nerd syndrome) – I will make it work.

There is a lot, and I mean a lot of genre TV coming out, so if there was ever a doubt that geeky stuff is now mainstream, there isn’t now.  But the coolest news for me was that we learned that The Flash is going full on multi-dimensional by introducing Jay Garrick the Golden Age/Earth 2 Flash, so now instead of just time travel we have multiple earths.  Heck, I am in!

But the very best news of all, the news that I am happiest about:  Pacific Rim 2 starts filming at the end of this year.  So excited!  I loves me some giant robot, that isn’t the abomination that is the Bayformers, action.  My top news was almost that they are making a Green Lantern Corps movie, but since that isn’t until 2020 it is hard to get too excited about it (though I am pretty excited).

That is my wrap-up, what did you guys like from this year’s show?

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Shmee Is An Omeganaut!

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I don’t talk about myself much here on Shmee.me (besides my opinions that is), even though this my blog, so I should talk about myself all the time.  I am pretty wonderful.  Anyway this is the first time I have been in anything kind of cool enough to talk about.  I will be an Omeganaut at this year’s PAX Prime!  Which means I will be playing in the PAX tournament known as the Omegathon.  Twenty (or at least I think it is twenty it usually is) of us will play games to the death (or elimination, probably elimination) for a fabulous prizes.

I have gone to PAX/PAX Prime every year since this thing started except for 2013 (I was in Hawaii, cry for me), and this is the first time I have gotten to compete, so if you are at PAX Prime this year come and cheer me on, or if you want to stay home I am sure it will be on Twitch or YouTube.  Anyways wish me luck!

Hey just for fun watch this video for Alan Tudyk’s Con-Men!

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We Get To See Supergirl In Action!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lm46-envrHo

I wasn’t going to talk about trailers all this week, but that terrible Jem and the Holograms trailer yesterday forced my hand, and now CBS released their trailer for their new show Supergirl.

The first thing I thought when watching this trailer was that you can tell it is being made by the same people making The Flash.  Same light tone and crazy action, so I was surprised by all the hate it was getting on social media.  Yeah it is not perfect, pilots rarely are, and it is clear that she is the female version of Clark Kent, and not the spunky teen cheerleader Linda Lee Danvers from the comic books, but that is fine.  It is what people are familiar with when a person named ‘Super’ is around.

The only thing I wasn’t a big fan of was the Devil Wears Prada rip-off with Calista Flockhart as her annoying boss.  If they can retool that part of the show before it launches next year that would help out a lot.  I am looking forward to it, and besides The Flash she will definitely be the biggest superhero on TV.  With all the superhero TV shows on the air now, there will not be a lot of time for shows not based off a comic books.  It is a hard time to be a geek.  There is just too much stuff to watch.

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I Can’t Believe I Am Going To Say This … We Need To Talk About The Jem And The Holograms Trailer!

So what the heck was that?!  It wasn’t Jem and the Holograms!  There was no supercomputer named Synergy.  No crazy super earrings.  This a was just a terrible looking Disney Channel movie.  No wait, I take that back.  Disney probably would have made a rock and roll superhero movie, but they would have modernized it, still bad, but not this.  This has the 80’s glam but none of the superhero antics.  <sigh>  Speaking of antics, where are the Misfits?  Who is supposed to be trying to throw these girls off a cliff to become the number one band in the world even though they are in a completely different genre of music?  No one?  Just bad teenage relationship angst?  No thanks.

Universal could have had a fun crazy superhero movie targeted to young girls.  The first one that I have heard of.  They could have owned that market, but they blew it, and instead they made a generic looking bore fest.  Jem and the Holograms deserved better.  Watch the old cartoon it is bound to be more fun than this looks.