The Geekscape Trailer Trash Heap: Lanterns, Cowboys, Aliens and Hornets

Welcome back to our weekly rundown of the new trailers released this week. With Harry Potter 7 hitting screens over the weekend, a ton of cool genre trailers flooded theaters in hopes of getting in front of the Muggle crowds.

Your Highness

I like to imagine Danny McBride and James Franco came up with this movie over a long session of Dungeons and Dragons. The addition of swearing and sexual innuendo is not uncommon to find laced into many a D&D game. The movie looks absurd, but in a fun fresh way. And then there’s Natalie Portman continuing to show she has a fun streak in her. We must see this, oh yes, we must…

Cowboys & Aliens

We gave our thoughts on this trailer earlier in the week, but just to be clear, this movie looking badass took a few of us by surprise. We figured campiness would play a big facotr and the trailer shows none of that. “Tombstone” meets “War of the Worlds” indeed.

Green Lantern

Jonathan gave us his thoughts when he posted the trailer earlier this week. To chime in, There has been a pile on of hate toward Blake Lively for ONE LINE OF DIALOGUE! Stop saying she can’t act when her acting ability has yet to be displayed. Could it suck? Yes, she may be horrible, but let’s not base judgement on a single line of dialogue in what is obviously a cut section of a conversation. And yes, the costume is growing on me too.

Green Hornet

This 3rd trailer finally sells me on the movie. Kato as a brilliant engineer and martial artist and Seth Rogen just taking advantage of that I can buy into. I was going to watch it, now I am actually looking forward to seeing it.

Source Code

Where on earth did this trippy little gem come from? I’ve always enjoyed quiet little small trippy sci-fi movies. And this one may look a little bigger and flashier, but it has such a specific hook, it may work.

Prom

Added simply for the fact that the “Geeky” kid seems to be having the same experiences finding a date to prom that I did. “Nostalgia Bait.”

Dead Awake

Since when did Rose McGowan start looking like Michael Jackson? And someone should tell the casting director 2003 called, it wants its talent back.

Red Riding Hood

Catherine Hardwick returns with a romanticized werewolf story wrapped in the package of Little Red Riding Hood. While I hate the Twilight series for content reasons, I thought Hardwick did a half decent job with the first Twilight film visually. When it made money and the studio didn’t trust her to make big budget films they sent her packing and replaced her with men. Is that sexist? maybe. Was it bullshit? Definitely.

Cars 2

They really made this? Seriously? Pixar, WTF? The first one was good, but there weren’t enough redeeming qualities for a sequel. After seeing this trailer I weep that Disney and Pixar feel the need to pander to a redneck audience, because those are the only people I can picture calling for this. Larry “The Cable Guy’s” Mater as the focus of a full feature? Pixar, you suck. That is until you make The Incredibles 2.

The Mechanic

An assassin that wants out of the game trains his replacement who then tries to kill him. It’s a tale as old as time. Only this time the tale is Jason Staitham playing Jason Staitham training Ben Foster to become Jason Staitham. How do you make two of the most charming actors in Hollywood seem uncharming? Remake the Mechanic with them as the leads.

Winnie

Required Oscar Bait trailer for this week. I guess no one told them Clint Eastwood made the interesting Mandela movie last year.