This doesn't mean I'm doing a review of Deadpool, it's just means I'm gonna give a trailer summary and a yeah or meh.
but without further adieu
Trailers for 2/12/16:
This is a cop thriller, there appears to be a crew of high profile thieves running rampant in the city. They are highly skilled, extremely efficient, and as of yet impossible to catch. It appears these ne'er do wells work for a rather well connected and impatient blonde. She appreciates their work, but has an extremely high stakes job lines up that needs one hell of a distraction. A 999 officer down. All the cops will come running which will keep them out of the area that they need to focus on, the thing is at least one of the crew is a cop. Is he undercover, is he dirty, and who do they plan to use as the body to draw out the heavy police presence.
There is a potentially ominous scene in the trailer where Anthony Mackie's character who appears to be the cop is riding with his partner while tapping a gun on his leg, almost foreshadowing that he's gonna use his partner as the distraction. There is a lot of tension being shown in this trailer, somebody suspects it might be a cop involved. Folks are getting tired of these guys being so clean and efficient, almost knowing what to or not to take, how long they have before the police response could reasonably get there, what to drive away in and how to drive away to not seem conspicuous. That is of course until whatever this next job is where they need time and possibly the ultimate distraction so that they can really get at it.
While buddy cop/dirty cop movies used to be an 80's staple I may give this one a pass. While it looks to have a powerful cast, there are too many super hero movies and book adaptations coming out this year. I'll probably wait for this one on cable, that is unless they put out a trailer that really blows my mind story wise. I don't know when I got burned out by this style of action flick but it really didn't get my heart racing.
Ugh, another one? Smooth loves the purge movies so they at least sold one ticket but me I didn't care about the first one. I watched it, got extremely bored with it, and was surprised they made a second one. I mean I somewhat got the draw, "what if we let society revel in it's basest instincts for one night, 12 hours of completely forgiven excess. Everything is legal, and all is forgiven," honestly I may do a "what I really feel about this movie" on wordpress, just so I can not mince words. I mean a good horror flick is nice, and even a shot or two at society but really another: how many times can we go to the same well movie(yes Taken, I am looking at you. Once for the daughter then back for the wife, cool. And if in the third one Baby Girl had actually learned some of Daddy's skills in secret but Liam constantly losing his family boooooooring).
Yes there are like 8 "A nightmare on elm street movies", yes every year some dumb kids went to crystal lake to get eviscerated and disembowel while having sex on "Friday the 13"(which somehow got a hockey mask free TV show), nobody every burned down all the Good Guy factories so we had plenty of Chucky/Childs play sequels in the 80's and 90's. Hell never stayed down, Leprechauns had holes in their pockets, and Aliens kept trying to sneak into the solar system hiding in various cavities. Hollywood loves a sequel I don't have to lie and say I always do. Some sequels are worth it, some belong in the suck bin, I'm biased I admit it but seriously no more.
This has to be the most panned and yet wanted sequel ever. Any and every either Chris Evans vs Robert Downey Jr moment, or even mildly antagonistic Tony Stark vs Captain America moment has been turn by fans into a "Civil War" poster. I know we had a Thor vs Iron Man beat down in Avengers, and even a Hulk vs Thor fight but Cap vs Tony. I mean it happened in the comics and was a WHOA moment. And yes most of the people who had Major parts in the Comics Civil War can not be in this one, you can't have a bunch of mutants bowing out because registration never really worked out for Homo Sapiens Superior, cause Fox owns those rights(for now, Age of Ultron Billions, plus Star Wars Billions upon Billions and rights negotiations might just happen), Sony owned Spider-man but supposedly he is gonna get a cameo, black panther is in it.
Since they don't own the rights to the characters to make the Comic book version it seems this one follows the aftermath of Age of Ultron, after Sokovia when a Tony Stark creation damn near destroyed the world, people of many nations think our super powered saviors might need a leash. So far there is no Hulk in this movie, and due to events in the upcoming Ragnarok movie Thor won't be around either. Also Captain America thinks somebody has it in for the Winter Soldier aka Bucky Barnes, the bestie with the Shiny Arm(which is kind of fitting as a Deadpool trailer). Tony is for the Accords, while Captain America still with some 1940's sensibilities is reminiscing about the last time supposedly "well meaning" people wanted to cordon off sections of a populace to "keep them under control." Of course if you watched the Captain America:Winter Soldier you also know that the ultimate bionic assassin owes Tony Stark a debt anyway it seems Howard Starks death was no accident, it was just made to look that way by Mr. Barnes. There are a lot of potential sub plots in the movie, and it could serve as the launching point for many other story lines.
The almost final scene of the trailer is probably what has most people drooling, Captain America and Buchanan Barnes giving Tony Stark the business like he owes the Kingpin money. I know Tony can be egotistical but you kind of feel sorry for him(which is hilarious since in the comics Tony is the least sympathetic character in Civil War) because the punches, shield passes, and out right spanking he is taking, you kind of would reserve that for: Loki, Kang the conqueror, the Red Skull, and possibly even Namor(if he is in one of his douchier moods) but Tony taking that "take away the suit" what are you butt whipping, AND while he is in the suit. Word of warning if you have a chance to fight two of World War II's most enhanced soldiers, and your name AIN'T the Incredible Hulk, Thor, or Juggernaut PASS!
Plus there is going to be direct competition between Marvel and DC, Batman vs Superman: Dawn of Justice supposedly comes out near this weekend in May as well.
This is just stupid. Mike and Dave, are a couple of douches. No seriously, they are the two family members who you never invite and if you are FORCED to invite them, turn it into a completely non alcoholic affair because, property damage. Like these Dudes seem to be the offspring of Chet (Weird Science) and the old 80's trope stuck up, bubble headed party girl. Not that thats how the parents are written, but because these are the children you would assign to such a power couple.
Neither Mike nor Dave are getting married, their sister is and dad wants them to shape up or not ship out. Somehow these two geniuses decide to go on the "Wendy Williams show" to announce "hey I'm Mike, He's Dave and we are looking for Wedding dates for our sisters shin dig in Hawaii." To which the cursing girl from Scott Pilgrim(yes I know she's Chris Pratt's wife on Parks and Rec, I don't watch that show though so I'm going with what I watched) comes up with a brilliant idea "We're gonna get them to take us to Hawaii." We being her room mate that I have probably seen before but her face didn't stick out, now of course this doesn't seem odd right? The irony is, these two young ladies seem like Mike and Dave without the hairy sacks: They drink, they watch porn, they moon people at the beach, they are boisterous, super competitive, and most likely these boys perfect dates if they were being their regular selves. Thing is Mike and Dave were told to turn over a new leaf because they at a party is like Garfield running for some lasagna, the Juggernaut vs anybody BUT the Hulk or Onslaught, and a wrecking ball: Super Destructive.
I'm guessing this is supposed to be a Rom Com, I'm sure some folks will like it I'll pass though I'm not against sophomoric humor(I mean come on, I went to watch Deadpool) but at least with this trailer it looks too similar to a bunch of other buddy date movies.
Annnnd Finally.....
This is the story of Eddie Edwards, an average guy(he's British so I don't know what their common name is here it would be Joe), who dreamed of going to the Olympics. Eddie appears to be a "never say die" sports docudrama. Eddie doesn't look like much, wears thick glasses, has an average job, not a lot of money, and hell when he starts out on the career that will bring him fame(Ski Jumping) he's okay but he isn't that great, not til he gets to the big stage. Now of course for the movie they make him a little more feckless, because in real life it seems he was a decent Alpine Skier, and this might be in the actual movie just not the trailers of have seen but in the trailers they make it seem like he started out as a never gonna be. Oh he was determined, he knew he wanted to be an olympian, but he wasn't athletically built, didn't seem to be too fast, too strong, or (with his giant coke bottle glasses) that great a shot.
What he was though, was undaunted, he was going to the Olympics he didn't know in what yet but with his lunch box for his medals he was gonna get there. Mr. Edwards has faith in himself, even if everybody on the selection committee thinks he's an embarrassment and a joke. How dare this low lying creature attempt to stand with our Peak Specimens, and yeah he doesn't look like much at all, until you get him on though ramps. Well on those ramps near the end of the movie. He looked like an accident waiting to happen early on. It's inspirational fare, I'm not really into skiing, it does have Christopher Walken and Hugh Jackman in it though so I might give it a try just because Christopher Walken makes any movie hilarious.
And I'm Spent
There was a rumor that in some theaters the last Batman vs Superman trailer was going to be attached to this movie and it may be true but for the regular Digital showing of DP we didn't get it. Of the five I'm pretty sure it's a safe bet that Civil War will be the runaway hit, Purge 3 might get it's money, and depending on the next trailer it may Triple 9 as the third movie to be successful. Eddie the Eagle looks like it has potential to be an inspiring comedy but I don't know it's about skiing and while a lot of people Ski I don't know if it has a huge draw for here in the states. And the younger Dumb and Dumber/juvenile delinquent movie will probably get kids for the summer(I forgot to check the rating) but I think it's got hit or HUUUGGE miss written all over it, but hey a lot of movies don't look great in their first trailer.
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