Lets begin with Jurassic World. The second official trailer for this behemoth was released two days ago and it looks even bigger and Chris Prattyer than originally anticipated. When I saw the first trailer for this film I was skeptical despite everyone else in the world ruining the pair of pants they were wearing with a combination excitement fluid lets just call "gross juice." My skepticism came from one particular part in the trailer where the female business lady says that they decided to make a super dinosaur for lol's. It was at that point where a small part of my brain stood up and said, "alright other personified brain people, I know this is a movie about dinosaurs but this is too much." He then shook a few hands hugged his wife and child and retired.
In this second trailer, they not only continue the stupidity, but they embrace it! Yeah we made a super dinosaur and you know what? She's super smart too! She's such a badass she ate her own brother! Yeah we made two super dinosaurs you got a problem with that? So for half this trailer I was back in. This was going to be a slasher movie where you root for the dumb teens having sex to be murdered by the big bad killer and I couldn't wait. But then... The unexpected. Vincent D'Onofrio showed up. And that part of my brain that retired and was gone for weeks kicked the door in and ran into the room shouting, "No you can't kill Detective Goren!" So you win Jurassic World. You've got me.
Next up lets take a look at Terminator Genisys. I hope I spelled that right, why didn't they just call it genesis? Anyway, this movie looks awesome! I hope they explain why the hell they sent back an old and decrepit Arnold Schwarzenegger model Terminator to fight a young and hot Arnold Schwarzenegger model but aside from that... This movie looks FUCKING AWESOME!
Moving on, we have Batman V Superman Dawn of Justice. Okay, before we get into this trailer I have a confession to make. I really like Man of Steel. I know, I know, die hard comic book fans hate Man of Steel because Superman did more harm than good. He killed as many people as Zod and his people and I know all of this. For all of these reasons and more I love Man of Steel. Superman is a child wielding a sledgehammer for the first time. He has never used his power to such an extent before and when he does, things get destroyed. This first teaser trailer does not show us much but it looks like Dawn of Justice is in direct response to fan criticism. The reason that Batman wants to take out Superman is because he uses his power like a child swinging a sledgehammer. Like I said I love Man of Steel so if they take all of the problems I did have with it and address them, then great!
Now lets discuss the trailer itself. First of all what is the pose Superman is doing for that statue? It looks like he's about to throw a shot-put. I like the way that the scenes in the beginning of the trailer are juxtaposed between people bowing to Superman and just generally being in awe of him, and the stupid shot-put statue that has been gratified to say 'False God'. It really sets the two-sided tone for the movie.
Now lets talk about Batman. Ignoring the fact that Ben Affleck already played this exact same role in Daredevil, that one scene of him as Bruce Wayne looking kinda sad looked alright I guess? But then he puts on the suit. I was really not sure what to expect when it came to the Bat-suit. Being an avid comic reader I know that Batman is able to hold his own in a physical altercation with Superman in his regular old Bat-suit using only a few gadgets and good old Gotham moxie! However, I knew that a regular man in a rubber suit fighting what is essentially a God would be a hard sell to your average movie going audience. The compromise that we got was pleasantly surprising. Batman has kind of got an Iron-Man thing going on. The armor explains how he will be able to take a punch from Supes without dying and how he will be able to hit him and actually get him to feel it. Best of all the armor modulates Ben Affleck's voice so now we will not have fans complaining about how stupid he sounds when he is doing his Batman voice even though HE HAS TO CHANGE HIS VOICE SOMEHOW WHAT DO YOU WANT?!
All this talk about Batman being able to hurt Superman and vice versa leads me to my biggest problem with this movie and that is the premise of the movie itself. Comics have a long tradition of having heroes fight each other for every reason you can imagine; but just because something is a tradition does not mean it is good. Every time I come across one of these issues, after sighing for an hour straight without taking a breath, I think to myself, "couldn't this entire fight be avoided by a simple conversation." Avengers Vs. Xmen, Civil War, World War Hulk, that time Jason Todd came back and was a villain because Batman never killed the Joker, all of these times and countless others could just be avoided if the heroes involved just sat down and talked. But in reality that's not possible. Much like movies, comics need to have explosive action scenes on every page because if they don't they might not sell. Which is probably why independent comics are starting to dominate the scene. I'm getting off topic. The point is that Bruce Wayne is one of the most intelligent people in the DC Comics universe! That is a universe that makes up multiple universes, if you can understand that. He is not the type of character that jumps to conclusions. The fact that the entire plot of this move revolves around Batman being so afraid of Superman that he acts without all of the facts, is laughable... But that's comics.
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