Certainly I didn't. But between the Covid shutting down productions not that long ago, the writers and then the actors strike, I guess we're going to see a lot of improvised animated films announced and released in the coming months. Like how the Sonic Movie 3 was able to start shooting during the actors strike because, well, the main characters are CGi cartoon characters.
Well.. they got me in the first half, not gonna lie. Looks pretty fun actually.
I think Chris Pratt's "everyman" voice kinda fits Garfield here a lot more than Mario.
Alright, color me hyped! I'm loving all I'm hearing from the voice cast. Mario fits. Bowser is badass. Luigi is perfect. I love the Mario Kart references! And the Galaxies! Yoshis! The Kong (I like their Aztec-inspired look in a Mario setting, but wouldn't like it for a DK spinoff/game..)
I'm still not sure how I feel about this.. movie so far.
Illumination definitively stepped up their game for this one, the art style and animation looks miles beyond anything they've done in the past. As for the new interpretation, tone and voices... hmm.. I need to see more to get used to it all.
Some bits are weirdly too serious. It acts as an origin story for the games?? The new original kingdoms feel off to Nintendo's world building. Jack Black is maybe the only thing I'm sold on so far.
The film is called "Super Mario Bros." (well, like the games, of course) but so far it didn't put much emphasis on the whole "super" nor "brothers" aspect. I do like seeing Luigi paired with the spooky elements as usual tho.
You know what all this reminds me of actually? Not the game. But the ol' Super Mario comics from way back when.
I thought I was losing interest in the current slate of recent Marvel stuff.. but they got me right back in with the last few titles. Case in point, a second Thor movie from Taika Waititi. With a Thor movie a lot more J Michael Straczynski/Jason Aaron-inspired this time around. Check this out!
Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom is coming June 22, here's a supposedly "final trailer" for the film!
Looks good! In a Lost World-kind of way! And I always love me some dinosaur movies (there's hardly any of those anymore nowadays...). I'm not a big fan how much this new trailer shows of the film and the fact it might probably have the exact same final act as The Lost World!
A new trailer's also out for the upcoming 5th Jurassic Park film, Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom!
The new trailer ran during the Super Bowl. It finally gives us a better look at the upcoming as well as the entire film's plot. Also, there seems to be a new weird frankenstein-of a dinosaur. Check this out:
Since JW was mostly a rehash of JP, this one now seems to be a patchwork of The Lost World: "Going back to the island, trying to save dinosaurs, corporate meddling in their and making bad decisions for the whole group" type of plot. Plus we get Jeff Goldblum back for the occasion!
Yet I cannot wait to see dinos back on the big screen! The film's expected for a June 7 release date.
It's that time again, time to rewatch Guardians of the Galaxy! And the best music video ever made, with complete Chris Pratt and Stan Lee cameos (no Vin Diesel, tho? aw...):
I honestly love what I'm seeing. More Chris Pratt is always fun, and the lovely Bryce Dallas Howard is also back. I love the fact they brought back Jeff Goldblum who's been basically everywhere since his return in Independence Day 2. And I also really like the whole Lost World-vibe this sequel is going for, which is much better than what I originally feared for the original Jurassic Park 3 and when they announced a sequel to Jurassic World. You know, the whole militarized dinosaurs part which was briefly alluded to in JW.
I've been seeing a lot of hate for Jurassic World and Fallen Kingdom online, lately. And I'm kinda sad.. because there's so little dinos on the big screen nowadays (not counting the few modern kaiju films we got neither).
I dig the whole volcano-part of the plot here, since it actually comes from the original book (under different circumstances, sure, but it's like when we got the aviary or the rapids in JP3). And if you've played a ton of JP games like myself back in the day, we're kinda used to seeing volcanoes on the island. Only instead of a random eruption at the end of the original story, the day the island went into its whole chaos theory-situation back in JP1, it is now happening years later. I'm fine with it.
I'm also glad we're finally seeing a "Carnotaurus" in one of these films, I only remember seeing those in a few IDW JP comics!
If you know me, you know I love dinosaurs. And that I miss the 90s dino craze... Why are dinosaurs completely extinct from our pop culture these days? Everything is spaceships and lazers nowadays.. Games.. comics... movies.. heck even TV shows..
ANYWAYS!
Universal released one short teaser to announce the proper trailer this thurtsday. GET HYPED!!
Here's the first teaser for Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom:
This seems to have a Lost World 2/survival in the jungle-vibe this time. I'm still annoyed by the lack of a Mario Bros. title continuity in the sequel (you know, my whole thing with: Mario Bros./Jurassic Park, The Lost Levels/The Lost World, Mario Bros. 3/JP3, Mario World/Jurassic World, Mario World: Yoshi Island/Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom??? Why didn't they give us Fallen Island instead!! It would have been so easy!!!).
To be fair, Jurassic Park license and dinosaurs aside, I'd watch this for Bryce Dallas Howard alone (alright, Chris Pratt gets my ticket too).
With the Super Bowl also came a brand new Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 extended trailer!
Warning! There's more spoilers this time to the dynamic between the new characters...
I'm seeing some direct bits from Dan Abnett's original run in the comics! Nice!
This LOOKS and SOUNDS really fun and promising! I'm all in for more Guardians of the Galaxy and James Gunn's brand of fun! I love the addition of Nebula in the team, as well as the little bits we can see of Mantis. Can we add Cosmos and Bug now? That's all I'm asking!!!
