Yowzers! I think it’s safe to say that Zack Snyder at least partially nailed it. He held nothing back in this trailer and it looks exactly like I’d want it to. Salient point: he even made Billy Corgan seem cool again, which, given his last few albums, almost felt impossible. The song used was actually “The Beginning is the End is Beginning” from the Batman and Robin soundtrack. Yup, that shitty George Clooney Batman movie. Much better used here.

Also, I’m a bit surprised that they showed Dr. Manhattan and featured him prominently as he’s the only character with super powers, but again he looks fantastic and that was always thought to be the most difficult thing to accomplish.

Also: EW has The Watchmen on their cover this week and they have a few new photos and an decent article about the movie. By the by it comes out on March 6, 2009.

The first teaser trailer for McG’s Terminator Salvation is choppy, hard to watch and a bit annoying. But, it’s nice to see a freshly sheared Christian Bale as John Connor. Hopefully, Connor will be able to save the humans from Skynet, though, in this teaser he thinks that might be impossible.

The early footage looks okay, but if this is supposed to be an apocalyptic war movie, with robots!, then why are producers going for the PG-13 rating? Why not just say screw it and go for the hard R.

Regardless, it looks like McG, who hasn’t really made a good movie yet, might step up and deliver a movie that we should have gotten instead of the useless Terminator 3. Also, it might be nice to see a movie without Arnold in it.

This is one filthy trailer.  Thrown off-guard by just how much nudity, language, and sexual situations are involved with this movie - or at least in how much they are using that to sell the movie.  To young teenage boys or adolescent men?  Hard to say.  But, I’m not sure this makes me want to see the movie any more or less than previously.

I was under the impression the movie was about something more than the main character’s sex addiction, but now I’m not so sure.  MORE »

An international trailer for Max Payne has arrived courtesy of Filmweb.pl.  Mark Wahlberg looks to get back on track after starring in M. Night’s The Happening. Here he stars as Max Payne, a DEA agent undercover and looking to revenge the killings of his family.

The visual style, which was a hallmark of the video game (which itself was nothing more than a rip off of The Matrix’s bullet-time), comes off as dark and darker here.  It almost reminds me of what the first Punisher movie should have looked like.  Promising first trailer, but we’ll wait until October 17 when the movie is released to reserve judgement.

Honestly, our actual reaction is “lots of potential” but we suspect that this will be just another cliched action picture, nothing special.

Max Payne is directed by Irish filmmaker John Moore, of Behind Enemy Lines, Flight of the Phoenix, and The Omen previously, with a screenplay written by first-time writer Beau Thorne. The film is based on the popular Max Payne series of third-person-shooter video games that first arrived in 2001. Fox is debuting Max Payne in theaters on October 17th.

The Mutant Chronicles is an original sci-fi flick that’s out the periphery of our dradis.  It star Tom Jane, Ron Perleman and John Malkovich and was directed by Simon Hunter.

It’s got a super cool premise and look to the film (it’s like steampunk blended with World War I trench warfare).  Basically, in the future, after Earth’s resources have been depleted, the world is controlled by four corporations (The Capitol, Bauhaus, Mishima and The Imperial) and their respective Armies.

The trailer debuted on Tom Jane’s official website.

Official Plot Synopsis: Mitch Hunter (Tom Jane) and Nathan Rooker, battle hardened Capitol soldiers, fight a desperate battle against a Bauhaus advance. When an errant shell destroys an ancient stone seal, they find themselves facing a new enemy: hideous necromutants, with boneblades that grow from their arms. Mitch barely manages to escape. Nathan does not.

The mutants multiply by millions and they destroy all before them. The Corporations’ leader, Constantine (Malkovich), is about to abandon the planet and leave countless innocents to their desperate fate, when he is approached by Brother Samuel (Perleman), leader of the Brotherhood, an ancient monastic order.

Samuel is keep of the Chronicles, a book that prophesies both the rise of the Mutants, and the ‘Deliverer’ that will destroy them. Samuel believes he is that Deliverer destined to journey deep into the earth and destroy the source of the mutant scourge.

He manages to recruit Mitch, along with a handful of like-minded soldiers: Steiner, honor bound Bauhaus officer; sword wielding Severian; street fighter El Jesus; fearless beauty Duval; and stoic warrior Juba.

“Mutant Chronicle” follows Mitch and Samuel’s mission to venture into the very heart of the darkness in an attempt to save the planet from marauding hordes of deathless mutants.

This might be the last item we post about The Dark Knight until we actually see the movie and share our thoughts on it. But again, the movie is getting boffo reviews from the flood of early screenings. The buzz is this isn’t just a great Batman movie or comic book movie, but this is a great film. I’ve read one review that said this is the first mainstream movie to adequately deal with this country’s post 9/11 fears. And it’s from a writer I admire and not just some fanboy going apeshit.

Anyway, the new trailer is a Joker monologue cut with the usual scenes we’ve already been seeing. Oddly, it has something to do with Domino’s Pizza. The trailer premiered on their website. MORE »

The teaser trailer for the latest James Bond adventure has finally surfaced.  This one is going to be attached to Hancock if you’re looking to see it up on the big screen.  I would say this isn’t much of a teaser but a full-blown first course.  We’ve given a bevy of fight scenes, car chases, beautiful women, James Bond going off the reservation and only a sliver of the plot.

It looks badass and the idea of a Bond movie being a direct sequel to the previous movie sounds intriguing.  All Bond movies heretofore have all existed in this little vacuum.  It’s nice to finally see some emotional connection to the women in Bond’s life - how it drives him, shuts him off emotionally, etc.

Quantum of Solace is in theaters November 7.

For those few readers that stick it out around here day to day, you probably have an inkling about my anticipation for anything and everything Joss Whedon. And when you throw in Neil Patrick Harris and Nathan Fillion into the mix for a superhero musical, well, my anticipation gasket just about blew.

We finally have a trailer for Joss’s Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog. If you remember, “It’s the story of a low-rent super-villain, the hero who keeps beating him up, and the cute girl from the laundromat he’s too shy to talk to,” Whedon says.

The goggles on NPR are perfect and as someone who has been to one of those Buffy “Once More With Feeling” sing-along musical episodes held at a theater (yes, dear internet you’ve taken my last shred of dignity), I can attest that Joss knows his musicals.

Look for this to hit the internet sometime this summer, broken up into three ten-minute chapters.

Director DJ Caruso’s techno-thiller Eagle Eye has been banished to the wasteland of September, which is odd given the movie looks like it could be a first rate action flick; it stars Shia LeBeouf, Michelle Monaghan, Billy Bob Thornton, Michael Chiklis, Rosario Dawson, and Ethan Embree (shockingly good on Showtime’s Brotherhood).

LeBeouf and Monaghan are pawns in a terrorist cell’s plot to assassinate a political figure.  There’s a mysterious woman controlling the action and we now know why the flick is titled Eagle Eye. It’s based upon an original idea from Steven Spielberg.  The trailer will, in all likelihood, be attached to prints of Wanted this weekend.

From the hysteria on the internets I think this David Fincher movie has already won not only the Oscar for Best Picture, but probably has earned the title for supreme chancellor of the universe.

Yeah, okay, he ages backwards. And the cast is purdy. But how come no one else has mentioned that Brad Pitt looks curiously like a young Val Kilmer in this movie. That’s just weird.

Let’s take a look at the trailers that have piqued our interest this past week.

The Dark Knight

Yeah, like this needs any explanation. Some new footage to look at.

Star Wars: Clone Wars

It’s another blatant attempt from George Lucas to milk the teet of his cash cow. We won’t blame him for doing so, but just because Lucas comes out with new Star Wars doesn’t make us interested. Especially when you come at us with this lame animation - the human characters look too angular.

In this Pixar animation world we live in you better come strong with an animated project and this doesn’t hold up. The other problem is that this animated movie/show takes place between Episode II and III. Do we really care about what happens between the prequels?

Yet. We’d be lying if there wasn’t some tiny part of our heart, possibly the seven-year-old part who dressed up like Luke Skywalker or possibly the sucker part that is curious.

Mirrors

We need more J-horror movies like we need more press coverage of Paris Hilton. But alas, Keifer Sutherland decided to star in one, so we’re obliged to shrug our shoulders and pretend to care. Ho-hum.

Miracle at St. Anna

When he’s not arguing with Clint Eastwood over such pithy things at depictions of African-Americans in movies, Spike Lee is also a filmmaker. And a pretty damn good one to. It’s interesting to watch the late career development of Lee. I get the feeling that something is going on and you can almost see him reinvent himself on the screen. Inside Man felt like a smart thriller and was a radical departure for the director. Miracle at St. Anna continues that trend. Here Lee combines a WW II war movie, Italian superstition, and an investigative journalist into something of a mystery. We haven’t been this jazzed about a Spike Lee movie since, well, never.

Punisher: War Zone

Count us among the five who didn’t hate Punisher, mostly due to Thomas Jane’s deft turn as vigilante Frank Castle. Yes, setting the movie in Tampa was dumb as was John Travolta’s hammy turn as the heel. However, it was okay in that bored on a Saturday afternoon I think I’ll see what’s on TNT, TBS or USA kind of way.

Now we get a redo, much like this summer’s Incredible Hulk. Director Lexi Alexander constantly surprises us and if this is a hard R than we’ll be excited. Ray Stevenson doesn’t look bad as the new Frank Castle.

Mostly, this teaser trailer makes us wish Thomas Jane had this kind of material to chew on.

Death Race

Another lame remake from hack director Paul W.S. Anderson. This time we’ve got Jason Stathem as some sort of criminal who must run the gauntlet against killer cars for his freedom. We’re still shocked that this material was able to secure a rather B-List cast, but with Ian McShane, Joan Allen, Tyrese Gibson and Stathem is it possible that the actors could elevate the material and direction? Also the use of G’N'R doesn’t hurt either.

Wanted

The first seven minutes of this summer action flick is online. James McAvoy and Angelina Jolie are guided by the ever mellow Morgan Freeman to assassinate people and bend bullets and essentially rip off the Wachowski Brothers, but it’s all good in the hood.

Also: The first seven minutes of the Steve Carrell comedy Get Smart are available for an exclusive iTunes download. But you can watch it below.

And yes, we’re huge supporters of releasing the first seven or five or ten minutes of movies ahead of time.

Sony Pictures Classic has finally cut a full trailer for Jonathan Levine’s The Wackness. Nothing so far about this marketing campaig