Trailer Watch

I love the Super Bowl. We get all kinds of new trailers on the commercial breaks. Most of these movies end up being terrible. Case study: Van Helsing. But back to the point, Super Bowl brings all kinds of trailer goodness. The G.I. Joe trailer is supposedly making it's debut during the commercial breaks this year. Here's a very brief first glimpse. Cast includes Dennis Quaid (Vantage Point), Channing Tatum (Stop-Loss), Sienna Miller (Stardust), Christopher Eccleston (formerly The Doctor on Doctor Who), Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje (LOST, The Bourne Identity), and Rachel Nichols, that really irritating chick from the final season of Alias. Nichols was in P2 if you want a non-Alias reference. Anyways, thoughts on this clip or the cast? To be honest, the only one I'm excited about is Eccleston, because he's the Doctor. 

In other news, for all you Trekkies out there, here's a Star Trek trailer with commentary from nearly everyone involved. Is it just me, or is Eric Bana more laughable every time you see him in this? Anyways, check it out. Zachary Quinto pops up a few times, Heroes fans. You can find it here. And yeah, since when did Esurance become cool enough to host this video?

I finally found the U.S. trailer for Chocolate. It's a lot sillier than the Japanese trailer, but then, Japanese trailers seem to be better than U.S. trailers a majority of the time. Go figure.

I love Mos Def, but I'm not sure about Next Day Air.

Enough with inspirational films. I'm tired of inspirational, coming up from behind sports movies. It's old. Time for something new Hollywood, and it isn't Sugar.

Finally, if you saw Taken this weekend, you probably caught the trailer for Crank 2. I'd already seen the leaked unrated trailer when it hit the web last week, so I wasn't really surprised by anything new. Katie, on the other hand, almost fell out of her seat laughing so hard. I don't blame her. It's absurd. I really don't understand Jason Statham's recent acting choices. Death Race? Really Jason? Crank was bad enough. Do we really need a Crank 2? Did your horrendous hair in Revolver damage your career that badly, or is this all Uwe Boll's fault? I've forgiven you, Jason, for Revolver. I'm trying to come to terms with In The Name of the King. Please, please stick with stuff like The Bank Job and stop trying to earn yourself a Razzie nomination. Heavens know, you'll probably get one for this.