previews

[sasha_feather]

Previews we saw yesterday before Guardians:

Interstellar:
This looks wonderful! An SF movie about a mission to find a habitable planet for humans to live on. Unfortunately it is directed by Christopher Nolan (man pain expert) and stars Matthew McC. The words "family" and "love" were used a lot in the preview. It will probably have a terrible, white dude story and great special effects.

Big Hero 6:
An animated film. Looks very cute. I look forward to reading meta about the inflatable robot and depictions of fat characters.

Dracula Untold:
Looks boring and gross. Again man pain central. Some medieval dude needs to protect his wife and kid so he becomes a vampire! snooze.

The Hobbit next chapter:
I'm not paying much attention to these tbh.

The Hunger games next chapter:
YAAAAAAY!

Into the Woods:
Has some cool actors and looks neat; the preview was minimal.

Night at the Museum sequel:
Looked cheesy to me and not funny? There was a joke about a monkey peeing on some miniaturized characters, which... I guess if you find that funny, you'll like this film. I never saw the first one. Has Robin Williams in it.

Comments

[meganbmoore]

The first Night at the Museum was entertaining enough for one viewing. The second had entertaining parts, but decided to make Amelia Earhart careless and gungho and was a "any advice or objection to any idea of mine means YOU ARE A HORRIBLE SEXIST PIG WHO HATES ME BECAUSE I'M A WOMAN. Your explanation that an evil pharaoh has woken up and collected an army of villains from the past and that's why you think we should plan first IS JUST AN EXCUSE. YOU ARE TRYING TO HOLD ME BACK BECAUSE I'M A WOMAN. Also, I am incapable of focusing on anything important for more than 5 seconds." parody of feminism. Alas, my nephews love them, and so I had to see them yet again a few weeks ago.

I forget the Hobbit movies exist except when people are talking about them.

[sasha_feather]

Ugh, that sounds really frustrating.

[meganbmoore]

IT WAS. And Amy Adams does the best she can with it, but she doesn't seem to be into it either.

It does, though, give me a better appreciation for Hilary Swank's Amelia. Because while that had it's share of problems, I think it at least "got" Earhart, and conveyed her protofeminist views and importance to young women she inspired, without slipping into any of NatM's nonsense, or going the "modern 2nd wave feminist in period clothes" route. (Swank was also great as Alice Paul in Iron Jawed Angels.)

[jesse_the_k]

Was there lovely singing in the Into the Woods preview?

[sasha_feather]

nooooope

[avendya]

Interstellar is based on some ideas in theoretical physics by a professor of mine (Kip Thorne); he also executive-produced the movie. It should be interesting.

[sasha_feather]

oh neat!

[torachan]

Huh. That's almost totally different previews from when I saw it. The only ones I saw of those were Night at the Museum and Big Hero 6.