Thursday, August 25, 2005
Movie Trailers
This first one is not a movie trailer, it's a short animated film. However I can guarantee you'll enjoy watching it more than anything else linked in this update, providing you have a sense of humor. It's called Le Building, and I know nothing more about it than that. It may take a bit to DL, since it's a large and very high quality quicktime file, but I liked it a lot. It's completely safe for work, though there is loud singing and then crashing sound effects, so maybe you should turn down your speakers first.
I everyone made fun of the dreadful teaser trailer for Doom the Movie some weeks ago. Well, they've got a full trailer out now, and while it doesn't look any good either, they did try something inovative. There are scenes in the film that will invariably be called the "FPS Cam." They basically look like a real life version of the game, with a camera view identical to the view you get while playing a shooter. There's even a gun sticking out in front of you, a gun that's held up when a new clip is slapped in, a scene with a chainsaw against a fake-looking hellhound demon thing, and so on. I'll give them points for making this movie more like the game it's based on than anyone has done before, but um... games are fun because you're controlling them. Who wants to buy a ticket to watch someone else play? Even if you're watching slightly higher quality graphics than home computers can yet offer?
There's a new international trailer for the upcoming Harry Potter movie, and it's... another Harry Potter movie. The scenes with Harry the merboy look pretty plastic-y, the dragon looks okay, Mad Eye Moody's mad eye looks kind of Borgish, and um... yeah. Nothing awful here, but after the first 2 HP movies were boring and by the book and the 3rd one was more lively but wouldn't have made any sense if you hadn't read the book, my hopes aren't high. Even though all of the news about the movie, including the feature I just read in EW magazine, says this 4th one is the most unlike the book, with the whole "Hermoine tries to free the house elves." subplot jettisoned. We may go see it on a matinee, if we get bored one day. We still have the damn HP6 book sitting here on the desk, and the fact that we bought it the day after it came out, and neither Malaya nor I have yet so much as opened it is probably a fair sign of our general enthusiasm for all things Harry Potter, though.
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