Kevin's Watch

After reading about it on CNN, I might actually go see Snakes on a Plane

It just sounds like one of those movies that might be so bad it ends up being a lot of fun. Then again, there is some serious potential for awfulness there...

I can just imagine Samuel L. Jackson yelling curse words at one of the snakes...

Snakes on a Plane looks to be great!

There's so much talk about SOAP, I think I'll probably see it, but I'm not expecting much.

The trailer looks Awful. Especially that shot of the screaming woman with the snake coming up out of her bra. We watched it at work tonight and were all rolling around and laughing on the floor. I have hopes this might be one of those movies that is so horrid that it might be really funny.

Anybody seeing Mission: Impossible III? It opens Friday, and so "officially" kicks off the summer movie season (i.e., turn off your brain, and pump up the volume).

What's amusing is that, because of his performance in Capote, Philip Seymour Hoffman has stolen Tom Cruise's thunder a bit.

Not sure I want to see the movie, but I did go to the first two, so maybe I'll be a sucker for the 3rd.

I'll probably wait for the DVD, that's what I did for the first two.

Same here. I am not a fan of Cruise (to say the least) and I thought both of the other films in this series were rather long on action and short on plot and characterization.

That said, the action scenes in part two were pretty fun to watch.

On FOX tonight at 8:30pm EDT there will be a 7 minute preview of XMen 3.

X-Men looks exciting, better than Superman.

The 7 minute preview last night was awesome! I agree that it looks better than Superman, but I am more enthusiastic about Superman since the new trailer came out.

I watched the Superman trailer last night...I am a bit worried about that movie now. I am afraid, like with all too many trailers, that too much of the plot, and all of the best bits of the movie have already been revealed.

You raise a good point, duchess. Previews seem to be getting more elaborate, and they are shown so often that sometimes I think the movie itself becomes an anti-climactic event. Steven Spielberg doesn't like these kinds of spoiler-trailers either: I recall reading that, ideally, he'd like for people walking into a movie of his to know nothing about it except its title.

I'm looking foreward to taking the kids to see Cars.

duchess of malfi wrote:I watched the Superman trailer last night...I am a bit worried about that movie now. I am afraid, like with all too many trailers, that too much of the plot, and all of the best bits of the movie have already been revealed.

i am not so sure the problem are the trailers, but rather the fact that too many movies these days rely on so few set pieces and substantial scenes, with so much forgettable filler in-between, that a one and half minute trailer can give way all the major plot points of a movie.

A good point Peven. I know I've seen trailers that make me think I don't need to bother watching the movie, and movies where everything interesting was indeed in the trailer.

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duchess of malfi wrote:I watched the Superman trailer last night...I am a bit worried about that movie now. I am afraid, like with all too many trailers, that too much of the plot, and all of the best bits of the movie have already been revealed.

Yeah, the irony of it all; to get people in to see a movie they take the key parts, so that it's been spoiled.

I'm probably the only one on this forum, but Beorn and I are looking forward to Eragon on December 15th (if the date stays true).

Just re-read this thread - and I'll have to say that so far 2006 has been a very disappointing year for flicks. XMen 3 and Superman Returns were both OK, and I liked V for Vendetta. Where were the great summer blockbusters this year? Is anything good coming out this fall?

Borat looks like it could be pretty funny.

I'm not a big Will Farell fan, but am looking forward to Stranger than Fiction

Darren Aronofsky, the same guy who directed Pi and Requiem for a Dream, has a new one coming out this Nov--The Fountain. Looks like a promising sci-fi movie. www.comingsoon.net/films.php?id=5079

Saw a preview for Gibson's (directing) Apocalypiso last night, looks totally fantastic! What happened to it? (put on hold with the DUI and "remarks"?) And where the hell is Killshot?