In the course of an average week, I come across a lot of cool movie trailer. But I usually don’t post them, mostly because they don’t really stand alone interest-wise.
But as I awoke this morning, it occurred to me that I could combine many trailers into one awesome post. So here you go. The first-ever installment of Movie Trailer Friday.
First of is a trailer that actually came out last week, the spot for apocalyptic father-son tale, The Road. But since I love the book and because I’m very excited for the movie, here it is anyway:
Mmm. Bleak.
Next, we have the first look at the new Bruce Willis sci-fi flick, The Surrogates. It’s based on the excellent comic by Robert Venditti, and looks pretty slick:
I’d hoped the production design would be a bit more Bladerunner-ish, but I think we can all agree that Bruce Willis looks better without hair.
On the animated side, here’s the second trailer for Shane Acker’s 9:
This movie looks amazing. And one of the characters is voiced by Crispin Glover, which more or less guarantees insanity.
This one is also a little stale, but well worth a look. It’s for District 9, an aliens-on-Earth story and metaphor for intolerance. It’s like Alien Nation, but way cooler looking.
I’m into it, but I can’t help think setting the whole thing in South Africa is a bit on the nose.
Since TV also has trailers now, here’s the teaser for ABC’s remake of the classic (and cheesy) alien-invasion miniseries V:
Finally, lest you think I only watch dystopian or apocalytpic sci-fi, here’s my pick-of-the-week. The trailer for indie Detective flick, Give ‘Em Hell Malone. It just looks violent and cool and awesome:
Hard-boiled goodness. And bonus points for using Johnny Cash’s rendition of “Rusty Cage”.
I like Movie Trailer Friday on Nuncscio!
saw the preview for district 9 recently in the theatre — immediately thought of the old short film that this is based on … about 6 minutes long, def worth a watch if you haven’t seen it (it’s been floating around for a few years now)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZ1vHRs_EOs&feature=related
Does the whole fear of the world being taken over by machines, not strike anyone else as very 1990s? I mean, as a society, is that something we still are struggling with? It seems dated to me. At least BSG had the sense to shift the question of “Dominance of Humans” to “What does it mean to be Human”, which is seems copied in each of these films, including Terminator. It just seems very “been there, done that”.