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Dec 05 2012
Movie Movie News

First Ender’s Game Still

Here it is, the first still from the upcoming Ender’s Game movie. I love the hell out of the book series, and I am anxious to see what the movie will be like visually, particularly the battle room sequences. There isn’t too much to go on from this still except that the kids are older than in the novel (which makes sense, it would be impossible to find a bunch of six year olds who can act), and Harrison Ford looks good as Graff. I can’t wait for the trailer to really get a sense of what this will be like.

Via EW

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Dec 05 2012
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Zombie Movie Trailers

Day of the Dead

“First he created the most frightening film ever made. Then he took his unique vision of terror on step further. Now George A Romero takes us out of the Night beyond the Dawn and into the darkest Day of horror the world has ever known. Day of the Dead.” Such a great trailer. Day of the Dead is an amazing work and is on par with Night and Dawn, but it does have a few issues that keep it from being as beloved as the first two. Dawn had this comic book adventure tone, Day is simply bleak. The characters aren’t very likable, and because they have been stuck underground so long that are very on edge and are constantly yelling at each other. This continuous arguing and screaming makes the movie much less fun to watch. While I’m not the biggest fan of the zombie makeup (the large brows make them look like cave men IMHO), the gore effects are some of the best ever put on screen. The whole movie is on Youtube:

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Dec 04 2012
Movie Movie Trailers

Primer’s Shane Caurruth finally made a new movie and it’s about…

… I have no idea. Its official synopsis is “A man and woman are drawn together, entangled in the life cycle of an ageless organism. Identity becomes an illusion as they struggle to assemble the loose fragments of wrecked lives.” So there is that… I was just talking to the Movie Movie dudes the other day about the most consistent and impressive time travel movies, Peter said it was Time Crimes, whereas I said it was Primer. The trailer looks beautiful and Primer gives Shane Caurruth a life time pass, so I am as excited as hell to see what he has in store.

Via Ain’t It Cool

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Dec 04 2012
Zombie Movie Trailers

Cemetery Man AKA DellaMorte DellAmore

I talked about there being a few gems in the 90’s in the trailer for Dead-Alive, and this is one of them. Based on the comic series Dylan Dog (which you should really read, it is incredible), Cemetery Man has a unique tone. It is simultaneously funny, serious, dreamlike, erotic, silly, and even a bit pretentious. Do yourself a favor and watch one of the most original zombie movies ever. And yes, that is Rupert Everett.

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Nov 27 2012
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Zombie Movie Trailers

Resident Evil Retribution

It has come to this. I haven’t seen a lot of recent zombie movies, I’ve been meaning to watch my copy of Juan of the Dead… The Walking Dead has really been scratching my zombie itch so I haven’t really sought out too many zombie movies from the 2010’s. But I did see Resident Evil Retribution, which the Movie Movie Dudes reviewed on a live podcast. I actually had fun with the film, it is dumb as hell but an enjoyable watch.

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Nov 19 2012
Movie Movie News

Is Beautiful Creatures the first adaptation of a Fake Movie Friday?

So it isn’t exactly the same, but this movie certainly shares a lot of things in common with Johnny Tig’s There’s no Turning Black. The movie itself looks like pretty dumb, but if it was named There’s no Turning Black I would be first in line.

Via Ain’t It Cool

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Nov 14 2012
Zombie Movie Trailers

Rec

There are a lot of zombie films to choose from in the 2000s so I figured I’d choose the one that freaked me out the most. Rec uses the found footage style to give the audience a trapped feeling. The film is really intense and the ending is simply nightmarish. It was followed up with the great Rec 2 which expands the mythology is a way that many didn’t like, but I’m a big fan of. Rec 3 came out to divided reviews, but I haven’t watched it yet so I can’t comment. The first one was remade as Quarantine which is a decent film, but doesn’t reach the same heights as the original.

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Nov 08 2012
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Movie Movie Trailers

Twilight with Zombies: Warm Bodies Trailer actually looks good

I wasn’t aware that this was happening, but I have to admit that it looks good. Yeah, the concept is basically Twilight with zombies, but that film actually looks like a lot of fun, and with some great zombie designs to boot (those skeletons look pretty good). Granted I’ll pretty much watch anything with zombies, and a love story with zombies isn’t unprecedented. Return of the Living Dead 3 is basically Romeo and Juliet with zombies, and My Boyfriend’s Back and Zombie Honeymoon both deal with trying to continue a relationship after one party has been turned to a zombie. Looks like fun.

Via Ain’t It Cool

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Nov 08 2012
Movie Movie Trailers

Maniac Trailer NSFW

Damn. The original Maniac was one of those late 70s early 80s grindhouse style films set in grimy NYC. It’s a decent film but one that’s not blasphemous to remake. The remake looks unsettling as hell and Elijah Wood looks like such a creep. I just hope the first person stuff doesn’t end up feeling like too much of a gimmick. Color me impressed.

Via Badass Digest

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Nov 08 2012
Zombie Movie Trailers

Dead-Alive AKA Braindead

The 90’s were a rough period for zombie movies. After Scream revitalized the slasher movie genre it seemed like there wasn’t a lot of room for more traditional movie monsters, werewolves vampires, zombies and the like. But luckily there were one or two gems, including Dead-Alive. Widely considered the goriest movie ever, Dead-Alive is one of my favorite pre-Lord of the Rings Peter Jackson movie. You can see elements from Peter Jackson’s early movies in his Middle Earth films. The obvious one from Dead-Alive is that the actor who plays Void is Nori in The Hobbit. People don’t talk about how much his horror movie experience added to the Lord of the Rings. I’m trying to finally get through the LOTR books and the Nazgul (black riders) don’t come off the page as being that menacing, but in the film Jackson makes them horror movie villains. The bold excesses of gore found in the lawnmower sequence is related to the excesses in the final battle of The Return of the King with it’s hundreds of thousands of soldiers. But apart from Jackson’s later works, Dead-Alive is still an extremely strong and fun film that doesn’t let the gore overpower the characters or the story.

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