Category: Trailers

Clearly Michael Bay has decided that if you can’t write a coherent plot you just need to cram the movie full of more stuff so audiences can’t tell.  In the first Transformers: The Last Knight trailer alone we got the Arthurian Legend, Unicron, Bad Optimus Prime, and a dragon that is probably Nemesis Prime.  I mean you spend thirty minutes with each of those plot lines and you get a two hour movie.  Will it make any sense?  No.

I can only hope that much like Transformers: Age of Extinction that none of the plot lines truly intersect.  Like the Robodragon from the Author timeline is a totally different dragon from the one they have to fight in the future, and that the Unicron killing sword has nothing to do with Excalibur.  Then when we are all scratching our heads trying to figure out what just happened, we will get Rodimus Prime because why else would Hot Rod be in this movie.  Plus he can put a bow on everything to get us ‘excited’ for Transformers 6.

Remember how The Mummy was fun in an old school campy adventure sort of way?  What if they ditched all that, made it serious, and then added Tom Cruise?  You are in right?  No…  Well, ¯\_(ツ)_/¯, you are getting it anyway!  Man, The Mummy’s brand is already in the drain due to too many poor sequels and spin-offs, so this teaser does nothing to help it.  Maybe the real trailer will interject the fun this series needs so desperately, and for all Tom Cruise’s faults, he is a decent action star.  As of now though I am staying far, far away.

This is one of those movies that I have no idea how it got green-lit.  Made for TV special? Maybe, but Monster Trucks is a full fledged release, and a misleading one at that since there is only one monster and he is not a truck, he is living in a truck.  It looks like someone in California started smoking weed before it was legal, but hey I am all for more kids adventure movies, so hopefully Monster Trucks pans out.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxeR9Nu0nQs

Okay it wasn’t the most controversial thing to happen this weekend, but Twitter definitely wasn’t happy with it, and honestly I get the backlash.  Scarlett Johansson is playing a Japanese woman in a very Japanese looking movie, and this is the time and age where if you have a Japanese character they should probably be played by a Japanese person.  Though it is easy to see how this happened.  Hollywood is just now getting on board with women leading action movies, so to sell this movie Paramount got the most bankable woman they could find to star in it.  I am not saying it is right, I am just saying this shouldn’t have been a shock.

Hopefully women staring in action flicks becomes more common, so that we will have a larger and more diverse group of ladies to pick from in the near future, and this doesn’t happen so often.  All that being the case this movie looks pretty good, and 2017 is shaping up to be a good one for blockbusters.

Luc Besson is known for making crazy and fun films, and Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets looks no different.  It is easy to see that this movie shares DNA with the Fifth Element.  It is always great to see Sci-Fi that is not Star Wars or Star Trek out there, and I can’t wait to watch this movie next summer.  Oh, and I almost forgot it has Rihanna in it, so for all you people who were on the fence that should help you out!