If you are like me, there wasn’t much interesting that happened with the Super Bowl: from the lack luster and downright crazy commercials (that Nationwide commercial about the dead kid was a mess), a half time performer I could care less about (although she was pretty great and MISSY!), and a winner we’re sure to hate till next year. That we’ve been subjected to Ohio State and Patrtiots wins in back to back months is just….
Anyways, this is not a post about football, but actually about the movie trailers I saw and two in particular. During the big game, we saw new trailers for Terminator: Genisys and Jurrasic World, two big summer block
First Terminator 5, a movie I am already not here for (yall just gon retcon the original franchise?) and made even more plain by the trailer. I love Anna Purna and Megan Ellison but why was that trailer nothing more than shots assembled from previous action movies. Take a gander:
That truck flip is right out of The Dark Knight, that bridge sequence was like The Fantastic Four and don’t get me started on the Arnold vs. Arnold battle. Never mind the fact that wonderful Byung Hun Lee is playing the Asian version of the Terminator played by the wonderful Robert Patrick and you have a recipie for foolishness. Is the only new idea in this movie that Sarah Conor was warned by a terminator that looks like Arnold and is now a bad ass, pre-John Connor’s birth?
More worrisome though is the Jurassic World trailer. WHile Terminator is delivering “surprises” this movie looks like it is going to just tread on previous ground (with the exception of Chris Pratt as the velociraptor tamer because wtf). Watch:
Can anyone honestly say that the second they saw those kids alone in that pod, that they weren’t going to be attacked by some sort of dinosaur in a manner similar to the original Jurassic Park film? Even crazier is that for the second time, glass is protecting these kids from prehistoric monsters. I mean my friend Sam said it best.
Also, this entire plot is based on a group of humans reviving the park and having specatators come and creating a dinosaur so menacing it gets free and stop me if you’ve seen this movie before. Am I to believe that humans would try this again after how terribly failed the original park was? But then again…
What bothers me a bit is that both of these trailers seem to rely so heavily on thing we liked in the past that I have a million concerns about the plot. It’s one thing to sort of wink and nod to past films, but when your entire marketing scheme and full scenes of your movie are presented as new but really are not is troublesome.
Am I being too paranoid?