I suppose I can buy that. Otherwise I don't know how they'd manage

 

Robot-Rhino was in the Ultimate universe, though its pilot was some nerdy guy, not, well, what we saw Paul Giamatti looking like. I guess it's an attempt to fuse the mainstream and Ultimate versions.

I kind of liked the idea they used for the Rhino in the Amazing Spider-Man video game. Instead of a guy in a suit or a guy in a mech, he was a guy fused with rhino DNA, much like how Peter's got spider DNA. That game's not canon, obviously, but it was still interesting.

 

Not sure if it goes here. Next X-men name and release date announced
http://www.eonline.com/news/488059/...en-apocalypse-gets-a-release-date-yes-already

 

Not a complaint but the spider man bits seem cartoonish. At least it gives the movie a more Comic book-y vibe.

 

Jupiter Ascending trailer.

On the one hand I like the visuals, but Wachowskis usually deliver when it comes to it. On the other everything else is rather meh.

 

Are you kidding? It's gonna be awesome, in that 90's-space-opera-anime-with-mechas kind of way. Yes, it's not going to be breaking cinematic ground, but man. I was pretty enthused about the robots and space opera everything.

It's 90s anime. But on the big screen and by Hollywood. It's like Pacific Rim all over again. Totally psyched. Been wanting something like that for ages.

 

Well the trailer looks kind of neat, but looking on Wikipedia I'm seeing some red flags that make it sound a bit stupid.

 

I'd like it more if we weren't pretending DNA was magic and that evolution is taking people towards some kind of glowing floating humanoid singularity of superiority and divine sovereignty, as opposed to merely allowing people to survive efficiently in the environments they exist in.

We didn't harp on nuclear power this goddamn long. People stopped being willing to believe radiation could turn ants and fossils into monsters once we understood how radiation works.

"But Lord Raine-"

No. Science fiction is ruled by the barely plausible, not the utterly fantastical. An explanation and some grounding in some scientific facts are necessary to properly convey a science fiction world. If you go beyond that line, it's not science fiction anymore, it's fantasy with guns and spaceships.

It's the creative work of two minutes to fix the holes the plot already has in it that a primary schooler could point out. I've already thought of three different ways you could change literally nothing about the plot, just the background details and spoken dialogue, and make the whole thing completely plausible. That they couldn't be assed to do this doesn't reflect well on the movie as a work of science fiction.

And don't cry to me that it's supposed to be deliberately retro. I don't see fucking anybody dressed up like Buck Rodgers or using a laser pistol that looks like a condiment bottle with fins and pinstripes on it. If they wanted to make it retro, they shouldn't have made it gothic as a motherfucker. It looks more like Warhammer 40k meets the new Star Trek movies. Freaking Mass Effect was more retro than this looks. Goth modern punk-punk isn't classic by any stretch of the imagination, and thank God for that.

You forget; the Wachowskis made The Matrix, but they also made The Matrix Revolutions. They aren't a golden goose. The things they come up with can be utter shit that makes no goddamn sense, and it usually is if they're allowed to percolate in their own creative juices for too long.

 

While evolution in itself is not progressive, it is plausible that it's "taking people towards some kind of glowing floating humanoid singularity of superiority and divine sovereignty" if that's what we need to survive our future.

Anyway, this movie is more science fantasy (Star Wars) than science fiction (Star Trek) and because of that I only expect it to make sense within its own rules.

 

No. It isn't. And no. It isn't.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjKO10hKtYw&feature=youtu.be

Godzilla trailer.

 

If the movie is half as epic as this trailer, it's going to be great.

 

New Nicholas Cage Movie 'Tokarev'. Trailer looks good.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KoREt4C6l3k

Another hilarious trailer for Jason Bateman movie-Bad Words
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXoZCAVTzEQ

 

I'm really impressed that they refrained from using the Inception noises in the trailer, I kept expecting to hear that sound every time.

 

The Godzilla roar was rather underwhelming, imo.

 

...Computer speakers/drivers, tralier, not finished yet all lead me to believe that it'll be amazeballs in theater.

 

Tom Cruise's Movie: Edge of Tomorrow trailer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLe_qO4AE-M

 

So, I was watching the trailer for Jupiter Ascending and all I could think of was that the armor looks very much like the Forerunner armor designs in Halo4.

 

Interstellar Teaser.
Let the hype began

 

Hype has begun, am very excited.