Green House Film Reviews

Friday, July 18, 2008

EW's new WATCHMEN cover; seriously EW, hire me as your lead photographer

Entertainment Weekly has released their cover for next week's edition and the hot topic is of course, WATCHMEN. The issue features a nice article and all new pictures that you can check out right over at EW.com. Okay, now it's time for me to start whining. Ugh... first my little fuss over the TWILIGHT cover, and now this. To the untrained eye there might not appear to be an issue with the cover but if look closely...there is! It's the lighting! EW is infamous for this issue in a lot of the covers in their backlog. Now I know that EW isn't Esquire or Premiere, but their presentation would look a lot classier if they just lit and photographed their covers a little better. The cover though is a great homage to WATCHMEN covers and poster in the past like the ones posted below.

Another cool thing, the folks at Rope of Silicon have done what I was going to do myself, compare some of the screens from the WATCHMEN trailer from earlier today to frames from the graphic novel. It's definitely worth a look if you're into it like I am.

TWILIGHT done right? I'm feeling more and more unsure

Well, what did you think? Want to hear my thoughts, of course you do. Why does it keep feeling more and more like a B-movie? I understand that for the screen, the peril needs to be kicked up a notch with the whole James angle but I seem to be having the same problem with his footage as I have with other vampire films in the past several years; it's the animalistic nature of the vampire just doesn't seem...right, or rather, it doesn't seem to be done right. I really like the first half of this trailer but TWILIGHT, as well as the other books, let us feel what Bella is feeling and focus more of the understanding of vampire kind and I'm hoping the film interprets that tactfully.
Whether we like or not, the film will be what it will be. I'm actually already looking forward to the second film with Jacob and the gang and how Catherine Hardwicke (or another director, if they choose to switch it up like the POTTER films) will create the werewolves; so far, UNDERWORLD has the lead.

Thursday, July 17, 2008

WATCHMEN trailer !!...!!...!!!!!!!!!..!

Empire Online had the trailer up earlier in beautiful resolution but they have recently been requested to take it down as well as hundred of copies that were posted on YouTube. Don't worry, our beloved CraveOnline.com has the trailer and hopefully it won't be taken down.
My God it's finally happening, the WATCHMEN movie, it's almost a reality. Just several more months and Zack Snyder and crew will have completed an on screen adaptation of my most loved and the most lauded graphic novel of all-time.

This trailer is absolutely mind blowing especially if you are familiar with the graphic novel; I almost pissed my pants. It's nice to know that there is life after watching THE DARK KNIGHT. If you are going tonight to watch THE DARK KNIGHT for a midnight showing, then you will be the first ones to see this beautiful trailer on the big screen for I was only able to see trailers for TERMINATOR SALVATION and BODY OF LIES before my TDK screening. I'm sure it will be available tomorrow in HD so I'll have that up as soon as it's online.
If you aren't familiar with WATCHMEN, go back and flip through my WATCHMEN Extravaganza post and catch up on character photos, behind-the-scenes videos from the set as well as much more from the official site, WatchmenMovie.com. Just watch the trailer again, go, be quick about it.

24: THE MOVIE trailer; it's 24 meets THE CONSTANT GARDNER minus everything great about THE CONSTANT GARDNER

So here it is, the trailer for 24: THE MOVIE. It's nice to see the produces have chosen to transfer everything from the television show to the big screen including the budget and filming equipment. Seriously, I feel like I'm watch a trailer for a made-for-TV movie on the USA Network, wait, I'm sorry, that's an insult to the USA Network. And what's up with the horrible, absolutely unenthusiastic voice over; completely boring. I was a big fan of the first three seasons (though I had my gripes with them) but not so much the last few and this doesn't look to be kicking it back up to where it was but hey, I could be wrong.

TERMINATOR SALVATION and BODY OF LIES trailers

While waiting for my screening for THE DARK KNIGHT began a few nights back, Warner Bros. treated us to a few select trailer. These included Ridley Scott's new action drama BODY OF LIES starring his BFF Russell Crowe and Leonardo DiCaprio. The other one we received was a nihilistic view of the future in the teaser trailer for TERMINATOR SALVATION starring Christian Bale, Sam Worthington, Anton Yelchin and a handful of others equally talented. Seriously, I confessed my love for Christian Bale as an actor before but this man isn't doing his job if he isn't resurrecting a dying franchise every couple years.
My DARK KNIGHT review will be up when I finally get everything I want to say out, which probably means next year but I'm shooting for tonight. Also, I'm watching the new John C. Riley/ Will Ferrell comedy STEP BROTHERS tonight so I'll try to have that review out up in the next few days too. For now though, enjoy these trailers for two highly anticipated films.

BODY OF LIES

TERMINATOR SALVATION

Wednesday, July 16, 2008

Nizar's THE DARK KNIGHT review coming soon, real soon

*REVIEW COMING SOON*

Tuesday, July 15, 2008

Just Leaked: THE SPIRIT trailer; catch it before it's gone

Yep, you might've seen that sneaky teaser trailer a few months back, well THE SPIRIT now has a full length trailer. Since it's still not an official release it could get pulled down so watch it below while I still have it. And below that is the teaser trailer from a while back if you never caught that.

Well, there it was, what did you think? Me? Well, it's different and that's definitely good, but how good? I want the final film to feel like some sort of cinematical revelation. Not necessarily something epic, but something new that will jumpstart a certain part of the film industry to innovate further. Yep, that's what I think. And here, is the teaser trailer which is a little more... tame.

Sunday, July 13, 2008

If two new BURN AFTER READING posters don't lighten your mood, then maybe these nudes pictures of Agent Scully will

Let me apologize for there are no such nude pictures of Gillian Anderson/Agent Scully, but man would I love to see them. I do, though, have two new posters for BURN AFTER READING and they are both equally...quirky. Feel free to click on them to enlarge them.

Saturday, July 12, 2008

Update: MAX PAYNE trailer shoots two guns at you while jumping through the air in super slo-mo !! And now, so do the photos

The story that began in the first MAX PAYNE game was a good one but I still like the second game much better only because the game itself was put together a lot better. Mark Wahlberg stars in the MAX PAYNE film as... Max Payne. I thought this film would be more or less what the HITMAN film was but this trailer shows that it's a going to be, a lot better? Maybe. I hope so at least. Here, watch below, I'm sure it's a bit different than what you may have been expecting from a videogame based movie. Enjoy.