3D artist Victor Hugo gives us an idea of how Iron Man would look if it was made by Pixar. Technically, Disney owns both Pixar and Marvel Comics, so…
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3D artist Victor Hugo gives us an idea of how Iron Man would look if it was made by Pixar. Technically, Disney owns both Pixar and Marvel Comics, so…
Walt Disney Studios just released the one sheet for Tim Burton’s Frankenweenie.
With Sparky hiding behind his own tombstone just cracks me up. I can’t wait to see this movie; plus it opens on my birthday – October 5, 2012 in 3D and IMAX 3D.
Two new images from Marvel’s The Avengers (in Disney Digital 3D) arrived with Hemsworth muscles looking mighty fine.
The action-adventure movie introduces a star-studded cast of superheroes, including Robert Downey Jr., Chris Evans, Mark Ruffalo, Chris Hemsworth, Scarlett Johansson, Jeremy Renner, Tom Hiddleston, with Stellan Skarsgård and Samuel L. Jackson.
Directed by Joss Whedon, the movie features Marvel Super Heroes Iron Man, The Incredible Hulk, Thor, Captain America, Hawkeye and Black Widow. When an unexpected enemy emerges that threatens global safety and security, Nick Fury, Director of the international peacekeeping agency known as S.H.I.E.L.D., finds himself in need of a team to pull the world back from the brink of disaster. Spanning the globe, a daring recruitment effort begins.
Marvel’s The Avengers is based on the ever-popular Marvel comic book series “The Avengers,” first published in 1963 and a comics institution ever since.
The movie opens wide May 4, 2012.
“I live. I love. I slay…I am content.”
- Conan The Barbarian
The most legendary Barbarian of all time is back this Summer. He is yummy looking! A quest that begins as a personal vendetta for the fierce Cimmerian warrior soon turns into an epic battle against hulking rivals, horrific monsters, and impossible odds, as Conan realizes he is the only hope of saving the great nations of Hyboria from an encroaching reign of supernatural evil.
Deftly adapted from the original works of Robert E. Howard and faithful to the mythology and thought provoking ideas of his iconic character, Conan the Barbarian stars Jason Momoa, Rachel Nichols, Stephen Lang, Rose McGowan, Saïd Taghmaoui and Ron Perlman. The film is directed by Marcus Nispel, and written by Thomas Dean Donnelly & Joshua Oppenheimer and Sean Hood.
The soundtrack to the trailer is wicked, totally techno.
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Seems like a lot of movies are kicking off with disclaimers lately. This time we get “This film contains scenes with very large, very loud 3-D creatures, which may not be suitable for younger viewers. Parental discretion is advised.” We’re talking today about Dinosaurs: Giants of Patagonia, which the folks out at Image Entertainment sent out for me to review.
Dinosaurs: Giants of Patagonia is about exactly that: dinosaurs. We’ll follow their history, their evolution, and their eventual extinction as best regular people can piece it together. And of course, we’ll be doing it in mind-blowing 3D.
A word about that before we carry on into the movie itself–everything about this movie screams. More specifically, it screams both “big” and “loud”. This was originally geared toward IMAX presentations, but it’s been scaled down, just a bit, for our consumption. Naturally, this means that things will be very loud, and things will go flying at your monitor, sometimes screeching at you.
When we went diving into Panthalassa, I jumped just a bit. It was definitely a surprise, and worth watching.
But despite the big nature of what we’re watching here, there will be more than a few problems. Frankly, Donald Sutherland is hit or miss as a narrator–sometimes he’s downright compelling, and sometimes he sounds like he’s just so sick and tired of reading this script that he just wants someone to cut his check so he can get out of there. And backup narrator Dr. Rodolfo Coria occasionally manages to sound like a man reading a script at gunpoint.
As for the graphics themselves, which are substantial portions of the movie (after all, they’re not going to get actual dinosaurs to play this) are no Jurassic Park, and Jurassic Park was around about fifteen, twenty years ago. It’s a dark sign that a big 3D movie actually features less believable dinosauria than a twenty year old adaptation of a Michael Crichton novel could pull off.
Oh, and one more thing–this has a total run time of forty minutes. It’s a little bit short, in all honesty, and though it’s certainly taking full advantage of 3D capability, it’s not putting up a whole lot in general.
If you’ve got kids who are dinosaur enthusiasts, you might do well here, especially if you have the proper home theater system to handle the 3D and the incredible soundtrack. Otherwise, you’ll likely want to skip this one.
The Screenhead Ten Scale gives Dinosaurs: Giants of Patagonia a five out of ten. It’s good, and for a variety of reasons, but there are entirely too many conditions to meet for many people to actually be able to enjoy this. You need the right components and the right audience in order to get the most out of it, and movies that come with strings attached just can’t get that much of a recommendation. Still though, if you’ve got the hardware, or something near it, it will make a decent rental.
Directed by Chris Miller, Puss in Boots is about the events leading up to the sword fighting cat’s meeting with Shrek and his friends. He teams up with Humpty Dumpty and street-savvy Kitty to steal the famed Goose that lays the golden eggs.
Even though he is of small size, Puss can fight any larger opponent because he is skilled with a sword and has such fast maneuvers he dances around his enemies. His trade mark is using his cute nature by staring up at his foes with an innocent, wide-eyed expression, which softens any heart.
In the first Shrek movie he practically stole the show, if it wasn’t for Donkey. The energetic voice of Antonio Banderas creates a unique character that I truly enjoy watching. I just hope Puss in Boots isn’t saturated with this one character. Hopefully, we will be introduced to other fun, loving characters like Donkey, Shrek and Fiona.
And so we segue into the final installment of the Saw series, the added gimmick of 3D ready to turn an already blood-soaked romp into a blood-soaked romp where chunky bits occasionally go flying at you. The culmination of seven years sits before us today, and the questions will finally be answered. Who is the ultimate inheritor of Jigsaw’s legacy? Is it Jill Tuck, Jigsaw’s devoted widow? Or the maniacal Detective Hoffman? Or will Saw 3D, in truest Saw fashion, do something completely unexpected?
Saw 3D, or Saw 7 as some call it, rejoins events already in progress where Detective Hoffman escapes from the reverse bear trap that Jill Tuck put on him in the last movie. And now, a new angle has emerged as a self-help guru in the making, Bobby Dagen, attempts to cash in on his story of survival. But as is so often the case with an installment of Saw, there’s a lot more going on than what we see on the surface. And when Bobby finds himself in Jigsaw’s clutches, the end result will be one of sheer terror.
Yes, this is in many ways more of the same. In fact, it’s a lot like Saw IV, in which one man, largely unaffected, will be wandering from trap to trap in a bid to free people that will largely go awry mostly because the effort required comes just a little bit too late to help anybody. But this one will amplify things a bit, especially toward the end, as we get a good look at how the last six movies actually managed to make a culmination toward the first.
It’s always about what you didn’t see with the Saw franchise. It’s easy to scoff at Saw, saying that they just tack on details later to explain whatever they try to do with a bit of a flashback and a hearty, “oh yeah, by the way, then this happened”, and from a narrative standpoint, that’s irksome. But this same irksome quality is also something of the charm of the series, making the strangest things entirely possible, like the last five minutes of this one. To tell you more would be to spoiler on an epic scale, so I won’t.
Suffice it to say, meanwhile, that Saw 3D will prove to be a shockingly potent mass–the traps are as impressive as they ever were, most of the loose ends will be wrapped up fairly well (the question over who ends up with Jigsaw’s legacy is a little bit in question yet, though a small assumption can be made around the basis of who’s the last one standing, but I hate making assumptions when it comes to a movie plot) and the whole thing will end with a pretty satisfying riff on the original movie. And that’s always a plus.
Still, despite a few minor flaws, Saw 3D will be an exciting and thoroughly impressive ending to a series that’s made Halloween since back in 2004. For a miserable year that had precious little going for it movie-wise, Saw was a high point, and as such, this end to the series was pretty important indeed.
The Screenhead Ten Scale hands the only slightly flawed and terribly exciting gorefest that is Saw 3D a nine out of ten for actually managing to bring a twisty series to a reasonably satisfying close. Considering how some other “final chapters” went, that’s quite an achievement.
I announced the release of Avatar Blu-ray 3 Disc set earlier this week. Then, stumbled upon the Blu-ray release trailer, which is breathtaking and gorgeous as ever. I also stumbled upon the complete list of contents in the disc set. I like what I see, but still wish it was in 3D format instead of 2D format.
Avatar Extended Collection’s Edition: 3-Disc Collector’s Edition Blu-ray:
Disc One
Disc Two
Disc Three
Avatar Collector’s Edition: 3-Disc Special Edition DVD:
Disc One & Two
Disc Three
Avatar with special edition discs will hit the store shelves on November 16th, 2010 domestically and November 15th abroad.
According to THR, the DVD and Blu-ray disc versions of the James Cameron epic will include 45 minutes of additional footage not included in the original theatrical version and 36 minutes more than included in an August re-release of the winter theatrical blockbuster. The special edition discs are the first to include bonus special features.
But the movie will be presented in 2D. Avatar in 3D Blu-ray won’t hit the streets until next year. That’s interesting because the technology is there and Cameron doesn’t give a clue to his reasoning.
“I told our team — let’s do the ultimate box set of Avatar, with everything in it the fans could possibly want,” Cameron said. “There’s an extended length cut that’s sixteen minutes longer, plus documentaries, behind the scenes featurettes, artwork and over 45 minutes of deleted scenes. Everything worth putting into a special edition is in this set.”
Except the 3D aspect that made the film so unique and beautiful. Don’t get me wrong, I am a behind-the-scenes fanatic, and I can’t get enough of the stuff. Avatar is a good story, but the 3D gives the film a certain edge of beauty that stands out from the rest. I want the 3D movie and will wait until next year to get one for my library. Are you reading this, Santa?
I’m still having a hard time wrapping my head around the existence of the Smurfs 3D movie. I mean, sure, there have been Smurfs movies before, and they went to theaters too. But those were decades ago–are there any Smurf fans left besides the ones who laugh when Seth Macfarlane or Seth Green skewer them on their respective cartoons (or in Green’s case, approximations thereof?)
Apparently someone thinks so, because two new Smurfs posters have emerged, hawking the fact that the movie will be in 3D. Oh, yeah, and we even have a bit of a plot now–somehow (probably Gargamel-related) the Smurfs will be transported to modern day New York, where if there’s any justice they’ll be eaten by sewer rats which are, relative to them, the size of charter buses so that no one else can dig up this particular corpse EVER AGAIN.
No, sadly, they’re going to go seek help from a young couple (played by Jayma Mays, who I’ve never heard of and actually wasn’t supposed to be here at all but I’m being told is here, and Neil Patrick Harris, who I guess is still enjoying a resurgence thanks to Dr. Horrible and Harold and Kumar) to get them back home to whatever parallel existence allows tiny blue men to live.
And as you’ll see from the second poster, this is due in theaters August 3, 2011.
