The first official trailer for “The Expendables” is up. It’s a movie about a group of mercenaries, featuring Sylvester Stallone, Jason Statham, Jet Li, Dolph Lundgren, Randy “The Natural” Couture, “Stone Cold” Steve Austin, Mickey Rourke, Bruce Willis, Danny Trejo, and Arnold Schwarzenegger. It may be a random hodge-podge of action stars, but I’ll still see it.
Edgar Wright is responsible for two of my favorite movies, “Shaun of the Dead” and “Hot Fuzz,” so when he directs I new movie, I take notice. “Scott Pilgrim vs. the World” stars Michael Cera as the titular Scott, who must defeat his new girlfriend’s seven, evil, super-powered, ex-lovers in order to continue seeing her. Despite the weird plot and the lack of Wright’s normal cohorts Simon Pegg and Nick Frost, the trailer has an endearingly goofy, arcade-style video game quality to it. Wright hasn’t disappointed yet, so I’m willing to keep an eye on this project.
Beyond fond memories of me and my friends getting the shit scared out of us by “Resident Evil” on N64, I’ve never been a huge fan of the game series. I care about the spin-off film franchise even less, as it has always represented cut-rate special effects, substandard plots, and tepid acting. The trailer for “Resident Evil: Afterlife” just continues in the same vein as the previous entries, stranding Mila Jovovich’s Alice in another bland, zombie-infested locale. Oh, looks like she has dual-katanas this time though and James Cameron appears to be involved. Wait, never mind, that title card at the 48 second mark is actually just advertising that the movie will be using the same cameras as James Cameron. That’s a new low in advertising. Coming in two to three years to a late-night SyFy channel airing near you.
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