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Sometimes I'll say "I'd love to see that film" and I mean the whole experience - the watching, listening, thinking about plot etc. Sometimes I just mean "see". "300", "Sin City", "The House of Flying Daggers" are examples that spring to mind.

This is a film made to be seen - it looks amazing from this trailer. I care little for the plot (but are those spaceships - that'd be neat :-) I'd love to see it on a big screen - but my 40 incg LCD on Blu-ray is a very good replacement for the cinema experience, and doesn't have annoying people crunching popcorn in my ear.

The trailer itself is great - no voiceover, so very little plot spoilerage. Beautiful scenes, stylised fighting, an epic scale. Brilliant.

Daybreakers sounds awesome. I like Ethan Hawke because I think he seems to make intelligent choices about the films he chooses to make, rather than blockbusters for cash. Sam Neill will appear in anything seemingly, but is always good.

But apart from the cast, the concept of a future world where vampires use humans as blood banks is pretty cool.

Once again, the studios are not confident enough in the concept itself selling the movie, and have decided to tell us almost the complete story, just leaving off who wins - as if we need to guess. When you think about vampirism, this kind of scenario is the obvious ultimate conclusion, and I'm surprised I haven't seen it explored like this before.

Nice to see a Kate Bush song getting an edgy remake, from Placebo

[update - just noticed that the trailer isn't playing, at least in the UK. sorry about that, I'll try and find another link]

I've been amiss, and not done any trailers for a while. Sorry.

Here's something that looks pretty special.

After the annoying advert, there is a 2 minute sequence from the ilm, then the trailer. Bits of this have been available for ages on the internet, but this is the first neatly encapsulated trailer I've seen.

First of all, it looks fantastic, in both senses of the word. Animation is such a rich medium for expression, nothing has to be left out due to budget constraints, your only limitation is your imagination.

Secondly, I'm a big fan of anthing post apocalyptic.

Thirdly, post apocalypse stuff is good even without it being science fiction (Mad Max/The Road), but SF makes it even better.

So what can go wrong then with a bunch of raggedy sackboy characters being chased by machines in a future wasteland :-)  The trailer only has a short bit of voice over, but gives away more about the plot than I knew before - this is inevitable in trailers of course, but I was more intrigued when i didn't know anything.

Really looking forward to this one, 9/9/9 is a long way off, and copying the Omen remake of an opening date of "6/6/6" is clever, but I want it now dammit!

Oh, fourthly, it's Tim burton, and more big name voice actors than you can shake a stick at.

This is a cheat - watch it then read on...

Even though this film is still a way off (June 2009 I think) it has been on the radar for quite some time already.

I am going to have to state a lot of misgivings about Will Ferrell up front, I find something about his acting annoying and I can't quite put my finger on what. He was very good in the children's feel-good christmas film "Elf", but his more adult humour slips past me somehow.

Nevertheless, this film, from the trailer, has a lot of promise. It's got time travel - things that look like aliens, and dinosaurs. But it is a comedy SF film, something that is seldom successful (hmm, need to think of some examples), and I thought I heard a joke in the trailer that i didn't even get  - US centric perhaps.

So, fingers crossed, and I hope they get it down to a PG rating so they have to work harder on the comedy rather than relying on tonnes of innuendo laden teenage crudeness.

Sometimes, maybe even increasingly, a movie has a number of different trailers. I think there are several good reasons for this: different regions, different languages, maybe different certificates. The most reasonable reason though is where most of the movie hasn't been made yet, and so you can't show that much actual footage. And as the release date comes closer, a new trailer gets made with more scenes from the flim in it. I think the above trailer is a case in point of an early release trailer, from a film that is as I write, now imminent.

What they have done though is marvellous - it is a real teaser trailer, only one minute long, that is intriguing, with details you'll understand if you've read the book, but which won't give away the story if you haven't (black button eyes).

All parents I think will want to make an effort to go and see this with their children in the cinema. If you need more convincing, well, it's in 3D. If you need to know more, and want the plot explained a bit more, here is a later trailer

And read the book too, it's good, and not too long.

"In 2009. One film. Has it all"

One thing it definitely has is a catchy title. From the trailer, I think you'll see that this isn't a top shelf movie, it's a comedy horror, and a British one at that.There is no Simon Pegg unfortunately, in fact no big names, so the quality will have to be judged completely from the trailer - and I'm not convinced I'm sorry to say. For once thing, there aren't even any funny bits in the trailer.

I'd like to be probed wrong, but if I only watch one comedy horry movie this year, I think it will Be Dead Snow.

IMDB link.

It would be nicve if the trailer makers turned up the brightness a bit for their online film previews, this one is very dark. Of course it is supposed to be, it's a grim future world film about a war with Mutants, I don't expect rainbows and pink kittens. Oh well.

This is a fairly standard trailer, sadly giving away far too much plot - probably about 75% of the whole film I'd guess. Does this matter, when it's a script most readers of this blog could probably pen themselves (err, that's just me though isn't it?). Well yes, I think it does. This tendency to leave us with very little in the way of surprises is annoying. Tease us with snippets of information, but please don't give the whole damn story.

It looks great, and I think i'll like it. John Malkovitch's voice is immediately recognizable even though he is hard to see in the gloom, and it sounded really good in thie context.

Can 20 soldiers save the world  - can't wait to find out!

[1] note to self, check the embedded link occasionally - will it disappear once the film is out?

The new Star Trek seems to be taking FOREVER to arrive. In the meantime we have this trailer, but it isn't a very good one. It only has a couple of good scenes, and one of those is technically incorrect.

This is a 'reboot' as they like to say, rather than a remake or even a reimagining (prequels and sequels being old hat) . All the characters we know and love are there - Kirk/Spock/Scotty/Uhuru, but played by new and obviously younger actors. The first half of the trailer is very disappointing, with Kirk driving a red sports car as a child and being chased by some kind of robocop across a desert. Kirk may be cocky, but I don't remember complete irresponsibility being one of his character traits. I guess we are supposed to be impressed by his forthrightness and confidence.

The first good scene is where they are building the Enterprise spaceship. Obviously security isn't that tight in the future, you can ride your motorcycle right up to it. But don't they build spaceships in space - haven't the makers seen "Star Trek - The Motion Picture"?

Some explosions follow, Uhuru takes her top off, there is a 'bedroom scene', Scotty says something with a Scottish accent, Kirk and Spock fight (wouldn't Spock just wave his index finger instead of fisticuffs [1].) I sincerely hope the finished movie removes the sex scene - what are they thinking?

Then Leonard Nimoy adds the only classy moment, intoning "Live long and prospor" with great sincerity.

I will watch this movie, every Star Trek fan will have to, but I am disappointed by the trailer and really hope they manage to make a better movie than that.

[1]sorry, 'Heroes'  reference