Fall Movie Preview Spectacular! Part 3

Wreck-It Ralph

Release Date: November 2^nd

Directed by Rich Moore; Starring John C. Reilly, Jack McBrayer, Jane Lynch, Sarah Silverman, and Alan Tudyk

Wreck-It Ralph looks more interesting than any non-Pixar animated feature Disney has produced since…hmm…Lilo & Stitch? That’s probably an apt comparison, as Lilo was the last animated Disney film that wasn’t an adaptation of a preexisting story or a return to familiar Disney archetypes. It was a kind of film the studio had never done before, and from what we’ve seen so far, the same can be said of Wreck-It Ralph.

The film is set in the world of video games, something Disney has never explored before, and that alone gets me excited. But the plot – title-character Ralph is a video game villain who escapes his arcade console to find a place he can be the hero – really is a creative one, and Reilly seems perfect for the material.

I don’t know how the rest of the cast will fare – I worry Lynch, cast years ago when Glee was actually relevant, will just be playing Sue Sylvester – but I like the look of the animation and tone of the trailer.

All in all, I think this could be a very pleasant surprise from a company that hasn’t had many to offer in a long time.

The Man With The Iron Fists

Release Date: November 2^nd

Directed by RZA; Starring Russell Crowe, Cung Le, Lucy Liu, Bryon Mann, and RZA

Oh boy.

There really isn’t a whole lot I can write about this one. The trailer itself is such a crazy, no-holds-barred visual and aural powerhouse that I have no idea how to sum it up. It looks like the craziest Kung-Fu mash-up movie since Kill Bill, unsurprising since Quentin Tarantino produced the project, and RZA, the man who scored those films, directs, co-stars, and co-writes with Eli Roth.

This is a group of talent with limitless affection for and knowledge of the genre, and that passion is clear in every frame of the trailer. I cannot wait to set eyes on this one and to see this wonderful cast in action and witness the glorious mayhem RZA has concocted.

Flight

Release Date: November 2^nd

Directed by Robert Zemeckis; Starring Denzel Washington, Kelly Reilly, Bruce Greenwood, Don Cheadle, John Goodman, Melissa Leo, and James Badge Dale

Robert Zemeckis! You’ve returned! To live-action! I thought we’d lost you forever in the dark, computer-generated landscape of uncanny valley! I believed your creepy attempts at animated photorealism had consumed you! But here you are, back in the land of the living!

In all seriousness, it is exciting to see Zemeckis return to live-action filmmaking after over a decade away, especially with such a fascinating project. Flight stars Denzel Washington as a commercial airline pilot who successfully lands a crashing plane without any casualties. He is treated like a hero until it turns out he had alcohol in his system at the time of the crash, broadening the scope of the investigation.

The trailer is simply fantastic, an expertly structured primer that hints at compelling characters and intriguing mysteries. Washington appears perfect for the part (as he always does), I always enjoy watching Don Cheadle work, and the rest of the cast is equally talented.

Zemeckis seems to have returned to the land of the living in style, and that makes me very, very excited.

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obloodyhell

}}} about America’s greatest President

Many would take issue with that. While certainly a great man, he did defacto destroy States Rights, which were a singularly important part of the foundation of this nation and its controls over the Federal government. We’ve been working for the last 50 years to restore some semblance of that control, and mostly losing ground. That States Rights were seriously flawed in terms of the notion that they were not constrained by the Consitution, they were still valid at their heart. I don’t believe Spielberg will touch on those things at all, and that will be a strong weakness to this film.
obloodyhell

The truly wretched part about Twilight is that it, along with “True Blood” is an exercise in “Vampire Chic”, the notion that Vampires, which are explicitly evil, have no emotions other than the blood lust (much less a desire for, or interest in, “sex”), and pretty much cannot, as Vampires, be “good guys”. This started, within reason, with Joss Whedon’s Angel (though you could argue it started with Anne Rice), but Angel wasn’t a vampire in the strictest sense. His soul was returned to him by a curse, and that tormented him all the time, he now SAW the evil he’d done, and felt the pain and suffering of all those he’d tormented. He wasn’t a true vampire any more. The same cannot be said for those in True Blood or Twilight (or even Underworld). They aren’t going to be compassionate or understanding or loving or caring. That’s not what a “vampire” is.
Tangibulla

Crappy click-bait website, and second-rate, self-indulgent reviews. Get a job!