Movie Morsels 77: Skyfall Trailer

Well, the new teaser trailer for the upcoming James Bond film Skyfall but the only place I read about it was on LaineyGossip and she only featured its link on a French site! So... this makes me think that people aren't as excited about movie as they perhaps should be. And, to be honest, the only thought I had while watching the trailer was "Was Daniel's hair that short in the other movies? I don't like it."



We'll go see it, of course, but I hope it doesn't require any remaining knowledge of Quantum of Solace 'cause I hate that movie and refuse to watch it again! So, if that's the case, I hope Daniel looks super hot in the movie (read: his unflattering haircut is featured only in a flashback) so I have something to look at while I am confused.

Movie Morsels 76: The Dark Knight Rises Trailer

So, this is verrrrrry belated but I couldn't just let this slip by without some degree of fanfare, however small. Of course, the trailer to The Dark Knight Rises look awesome and I can't wait to see it! Though, after reading through EW.com's dissection I'm ever-so-slightly concerned that my main bat may not survive the series and that would majorly bum me out. I would understand the death thematically but I feel like it would really make the whole thing end so morosely. I know that's TDK's 'thing' but I don't want my hot men to perish! Bah! I'm less attached to Christian since I found out he is a man-whore but still...



Here's the link to EW.com's dissection. I strongly recommend it as it points out a lot of probabilities and possibilities that hadn't occured to me. The Dark Knight Rises: Trailer Clues?

My New Obsession

Is The Hunger Games. I loooooooooooove it! I resisted it for a long time, writing it off as a young adult book that wouldn't interest me but both my friend, Kristine, and one of the techs at my clinic have just raved about it over the last couple of months so I finally caved. Kristine has all three books of the trilogy as MP3 files so she handed them over to me and I just finished the first book Thursday. The story was so good I couldn't wait to listen more and find out what happened! I loaded it onto my iPod and listened to it in the car, while I cooked and even in the shower. So good!!! Now I'm devouring every trailer and morsel of information I can find about the upcoming movie adaptation (out March 23) because, as I said, I'm obsessed. I already have a date with Kristine to see the movie when it comes out and if any of you are waffling on whether or not to give the books a whirl, I say go for it! I will totally share my audio files with you. :o)

EW.com dissects the new trailer!

The Hollywood Reporter : The High Stakes of The Hunger Games

And I have to add that I am so excited that Josh Hutcherson is one of the lead roles. Were I 16 years old, I would be squeeing over him massively! Seriously. It's kind of embarrassing. I just think he's the cutest darn thing and a good actor to boot. I've liked him since Bridge to Terabithia (I have always been a sucker for a guy an actor that can cry) and I'm happy to see him grab a big, meaty role. But I realize I am a creepy old lady with an inappropriate crush so I will just have to fangirl on the inside... 

Movie Morsels 76: Trailers! Trailers! Trailers!

I was chatting with Wade and Robert about the new The Dark Knight Rises trailer and neither had actually seen it. It was then that I realized my reduced blogging schedule is beginning to hurt the people I love. So I must take a quick moment and post some much buzzed about trailers before it gets too late!

(Make sure you click the little red bubble in the lower right-hand corner of some of the videos to remove the annoying annotations.)

The Dark Knight Rises:



Assessment: Looks awesome! Of course. Though I could've used more hot Christian. And I hope I can understand Bane without subtitles...


The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey:



Assessment: I love that Martin Freeman has a job! He's adorable. And Robert and I started our 'movies on New Year's Eve' tradition with the first LOTR movie so it'll be nice to have another to watch at that time of year.


Prometheus:



Assessment: I've never seen Alien (I know... sorry) so this doesn't really mean much to me but I like Michael Fassbender and Noomi Rapace so I would be willing to give it a whirl. If it isn't to scary/stressful.


Wrath of the Titans:



Assessment: I like Sam Worthington and all but Clash of the Titans was Stupid (note the capital S). A sequel seems completely and utterly unnecessary. And that song is horrid and adds nothing to the trailer. At all. Plus, was Perseus Australian in Clash? Preeeeetty sure he was supposed to sound British. I'm all for actors getting to use their natural accents but let's have a little consistency, please! But I'll probably still rent it because I'm a sheep and will want to see if it's any good, even though I already know it isn't.

Movie Morsels 73: More Dragon Tattoo

A second - and much longer - trailer for the film has been released and while I like it, it doesn't have the cool urgency of the previous teaser. Plus, I miss the awesome song from the first trailer, too. This trailer does give you a much better preview of the actors' performances, though, and I can't help but wonder why Rooney Mara is portraying Lisbeth with a Swedish(ish) accent, Daniel Craig's Blomkvist just sounds British. Not a huge deal. Just something that twanged in my ear.

Movie Morsels 71: The Woman in Black

Being the crazed Potterphile that I am, I have known a little about this movie for awhile but the second teaser trailer for Daniel Radcliffe's first post-Harry era movie was released yesterday. Yahoo! had a little blurb to go along with the clip but you can read more about it here. I am totally fine buying Dan as a character other than Harry - that's not a problem. Will I buy him as a father young son? Jury's still out on that one.

Movie Morsels 70: Amazing Spider-Man

This teaser trailer will air before Captain America (starting tomorrow) so it's not a huge sneak peek but...

Movie Morsels 66: Final Deathly Hallows Trailer

LESS THAN A MONTH, PEOPLE!!!!! Oh, and I thought I couldn't get more excited... LOVE this trailer!

Movie Morsels 65: The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo

Yes! It's actually an entertainment-related post! Weehoo!!! Here we go...

The 'red band' trailer for TGWtDT was released late last week and since I am a fan of both the books and the Swedish films, I thought I'd pass it along.

UPDATE: Okay, so I've had to embed this video twice in as many days for it being removed from YouTube so here's the 'green band' trailer instead. Exactly the same but with a shot of people at a dinner table in lieu of side boob. Done.



According to EW.com:

Though the teaser plays out with rapid-fire imagery set to Trent Reznor and Karen O’s cover of Led Zeppelin’s Immigrant Song, we get our first major glimpses of star Rooney Mara... as the gothic, damaged super-sleuth. There seems to be less of Daniel Craig, and his sullied journalist Mikael Blomkvist appears to be far more vulnerable — or at least far more easily wounded — than Salander, which is as it should be. He’s kind of the damsel in distress in this tale, no?
The footage in the teaser surprisingly plays out in near chronological order, practically the entire story with each scene reduced to a single fraction-of-a-second shot. It could almost be a black-and-white film, with such stark contrast between the snow and so much use of shadow and silhouette (including a little side-nudity that probably earns this clip its “red band” NSFW status.)

I didn't really get the whole 'the entire story was revealed' thing from the trailer but I've only watched it once so maybe I was too sleepy and need to see it again. Regardless, it looks like it's going to be a good movie and I'm glad it's retained the gritty feeling of the book. I'm still curious to see how big a role Erica will play in the film, since she wasn't really in the Swedish version but she's being played by a big name (Robin Wright). I also just reeeeeally hope they don't have distractingly bad accents...

Movie Morsels 63: There's Another DH Trailer?

Indeed there is. (For part 1, anyway.) And it's a doozy!! SO GOOD. Oh. I can't wait for November! And then June. :o)

Trailers! Trailers! Trailers!

This week has been a virtual extravaganza of trailers for movies with Hot Men! Unfortunately (for me), I don't actually find most of them hot in their respective films. :o( Johnny Depp is always a hit-or-miss kind of guy for me but Christian is usually pretty good, even when the movie is dreck. (Actually, that's a lie. As I was typing that sentence I thought of The Machinist and Rescue Dawn so I guess Christian's really rather hit-or-miss himself. Hmm. Depressing.) Andrew Garfield looks the most promising in his trailer, but his overall Hotness has yet to be confirmed. (Have YOU seen him in anything else? Didn't think so. He will, however, be the new Spider-Man so there's definite Hot potential there.) Still, I haven't had a Hot Men post in aaaages so here you go!

Here's a too-skinny-and-balding Christian Bale in The Fighter:

(Mark Wahlberg has never really done anything for me so his being a topless boxer isn't a huge draw.)

Here's Andrew (and Carey Mulligan and Keira Knightley) in the trailer for Never Let Me Go:

The movie is based on the book of the same name by Kazuo Ishiguro; and believe it or not, even though it sounds like a smart person's book, I've read it! Robert actually bought it for me several years ago because he'd read a lot about it and thought I'd enjoy it. I did like it but it's very... different. For me, anyway. And had I not read the book, I don't think I'd have any idea what's happening in the trailer. Which, on one hand, is good - nothing really gets spoiled. But on the other, I don't think I'd be drawn to the movie at all! The trailer that was shown at the London Film Festival sheds a little more light on the film's plot:

The big reveal is a little more revealed here and while it makes things seem more interesting, I feel like it sort of ruins the intrigue of the story a bit. Either way, I'm glad I've already read the book!

And here's Johnny Depp (and Angelina Jolie) in the trailer for The Tourist:

Johnny's character seems very cute, personality-wise, but I've never been a fan of shaggy men. And Angelina's British accent isn't the worst on screen but it's still sort of distracting. Will Robert see this movie? Eh. Hard to call. We haven't been going to the movies all that often lately and this one doesn't scream "ROBERT!" We'll see.

On a sort of similar note, here's a little behind-the-scenes video of Conan O'Brien's recent promotional photo shoot. You can read a little about it here.

Movie Morsels 62: New DH TV Spot

It doesn't add much to the already-released-and-super-awesome trailers but a new Deathly Hallows TV spot has been released. Only 70 days to go! Woohoo!!!

Movie Morsels 61: New DH Trailer!

The first official trailer (for parts 1 and 2!) went online at 4 PM PST but I was away from a computer. Now I'm here and I'm posting the new AWESOME trailer ASAP. Did I mention it's awesome? 'Cause it is. AWE.some.

Movie Morsels 60: More Deathly Hallows!

I am old so I haven't watched the MTV Movie Awards in quite some time. However, my interest in all things gossip gives me a pretty good idea of what happens each year - usually nothing that's very interesting. But! This year, there was a sneak peek of Deathly Hallows! Yay!! I'm a geek! I'm still about 200 pages away from the end of DH and I can tell I'm sort of dragging it out because I don't really want to finish the series. 'Cause then it's done*. :o(

* As much as I love finishing a good book (or, in this case, series) and finding out how the story ends, I'm always sad that the good story is over. I hate starting new books - you just never know how good it's going to be! I'd rather stay in one that I know I'm enjoying. (Sort of perfectly exemplifies my 'no change is good change' credo, doesn't it?)

Movie Morsels 57: Iron Man 2

New trailer just released (to ride on RDJ's current Sherlock Holmes publicity wagon). It actually doesn't look terrible... Let's hope that's actually true. (I'm still worried about a Spiderman-esque villain saturation problem. War Machine [who's not necessarily a villain but it's in the gray area], Whiplash and Black Widow? Could easily become a case of too many characters spoil the story, you know?)

Movie Morsels 55 - Toy Story 3

I do love the first two Toy Story movies greatly ("You are a sad, strange little man" is a regular favorite quote of mine) so I hope Disney*Pixar doesn't Matrix-ize the series with this one!

And just because it tickles me so much, one of my favorite scenes from Toy Story (fast-forward to the 3:25 mark). Mrs. Nesbitt makes my day.

A Hot Men Movie Morsel

Oh, Hot Men. I haven't posted about you in so, so long. I have missed you. And Ewan? I haven't seen you since last year! My, my... How the time flies. ;o)

Luckily for me, Ewan has started making the festival rounds to promote The Men Who Stare at Goats. (Yeah, George Clooney's in it, too, but he's never done anything for me. Sorry.) The film is based on the book of the same name and stars Ewan as a reporter investigating a "top secret unit within the American military whose purpose is to develop mind-control powers for 'psychic spying.'" I'm never a huge fan of Ewan's American accent - though it could definitely be worse - and the plot sounds pretty iffy on paper. But the trailer actually looks kind of funny... And even though Robert and I are the only people on Earth who didn't love Jeff Bridges as The Big Lebowski, I am always oddly drawn to Jeff Bridges' movies. He's a cutie.

Anyhoo, check out the trailer and see if you agree that it makes the movie seem at least a little bit more interesting than you thought it was going to be:

I also snagged some photos of Ewan at the Venice Film Festival. Admittedly they are not his best - but a less-than-his-best Ewan is still a lot better than many other actors in my opinion. ;o)

Movie Morsels 54: Harry Potter

Less than a week to go, people!! (For Harry Potter, that is; the wedding is a whopping 10 days away, which is why I've had so much free time to blog the past couple weeks. Whee!!!) I can't believe I have to wait until after the wedding to check it out... Then again, I DO have a few other things on my mind so, you know, I might not notice. :o) Anyway, a new scene from Half-Blood Prince was released yesterday so check it out - if you haven't already.

Movie Morsels 53 - Time Traveler's Wife

I absolutely LOVED The Time Traveler's Wife but it's definitely a book that people I talk to either love or hate. For me, it was one of those rare books I couldn't wait to read to see what happened next. And the book was indeed a bestseller which, of course, means a movie has been made. It's coming out this August and it stars Eric Bana (yum) and Rachel McAdams. I've heard that the movie is not so hot. It's been in the works for a while and was supposed to come out last year but was instead rewickered and is coming out in a month not known for great film debuts. This usually does not bode well. I don't care - my ass is seeing it! As is the rest of me. :o) And Robert.

The trailer came out a couple days ago - check it out:

Movie Morsels 52 - Public Enemies

A new 'trailer' for Public Enemies debuted during the MTV Movie Awards on Sunday so, of course, I must fulfill my Hot Men oath and pass it along. Great googlymoogly - Johnny Depp looks FOIN in this movie!!! Ha cha cha!