So with the long awaited release of the Turtles trailer I thought well why not take a look at two of the other big trailers for this summers blockbusters as well. Which to be honest none of them completely wowed me or made me excited for whats coming to are screens this summer. The 1 thing I was glad with the turtle trailer was why it showed the odd big set piece it kept most of the film under wraps including the turtles. Which when you have Michael Bay's name is behind it I was surprised especially when you look at the train wreck that was the transformers trailer.
So lets start with the Turtles:
So while I'm guessing this was meant to be less of a official trailer and more of teaser trailer which now a days can be as long as 3 minutes. So seeing a trailer of 1 minute 30 seconds didn't really surprise me but I was surprised about just how vague it was about the overall story and the turtles themselves just giving up quick glimpses till the end. Its funny because I think they left all the story out of the trailer and decided to bring it out as a press release instead being as their was a press release that gave us the whole plot. Which to be as vague as possible April O'Neils father and the soon to be come shredder saw the crime and destruction being waged on their city so created superheroes in the form of the turtles. So while it was vague in the trailer they did touch upon this my only problem with the whole shredder thing is less that he helped create the turtles its a great way to bring in a new era of fans my problem is that shredder is white. Now I know that they are trying to get a brand new audience in but being a fan of the original films the 2nd film with the ooze being a masterpiece in my opinion. But in all versions of the show and films before this shredder has always been Asian which in my opinion is the way its meant to be it keeps to the original story some what and makes sense with the whole ninja thing. What I found interesting with the trailer is that they have really modernised everything from the old 80's/90's versions of the turtles. With such things as April being modernised with what looked like her filming her report on her phone and her clothes were much more modern and current. From the trailer you get that April is going to be a main part of the story if not the key part which as long as Megan is nothing like she is in Transformers then its fine by me. I couldn't find much wrong with the trailer to be fair to it apart from the main fact WTF is going on with the design of the turtles. You can tell that they have been mo capped with real actors and it looks like they are taking some of the real actors faces and portraying them in their respecting turtles. Apart from the faces the rest of them what you saw I found quite slick and cool apart from their size because I never remember the turtles being 7ft tall. While I didn't mind the trailer it certainly didn't grip me or certainly get me excited for the film like I hoped maybe thats just coming off the fact that I had such high expectations for the film. But what I can't understand watching the trailer is why it took them so long to get the trailer out for it. With most films that are releasing in the summer having release their first trailers last year it makes me wonder why it took them so long. Maybe its just simple marketing tactics and they are trying to get the hype up for the film by keeping people keen with a short window before the film. Or it could just be that with a film like this they weren't prepared for the massive undertaking that was going to come with making it. But then again it makes me wonder how it took so long to get the trailer out for this and Transformers both with Michael Bay's name under them is this just his marketing tactics. Or is this just Michael being his usual self spending most of the money on massive set pieces so his team is spending hours on end bringing them to life on the screen. All I can say for the film is that I just hope that it works out for them because we could be looking at a brilliant new franchise if this first one works out for them. But at the end of the day its the fans that you have to impress which so far hasn't been bad I mean I certainly didn't mind the trailer apart from those weird creepy faces on the turtles.
So lets go onto the second trailer that I watched which to be honest I don't have to much to say on it. This film hasn't really excited me since the films announcement the only thing that I really did like was the look of Angelina Jolie in the film. My problem with this film mostly is that ever since the realise of Alice in Wonderland Disney have now rehashed it with other films in their catalogue. First with the OZ film and now with this they all just seem like they are doing this with as many films as they can now this being the next one. It left me feeling bored and less gripped then the turtles trailer did. It also just started to bore me more as the trailer went on and it left me feeling like I had seen the whole film like the new spiderman film. I find thats just become the norm now in films is for you to release the whole film in the trailer or well all the big set pieces thats you watch the film for. Thats what I came away feeling like with this film with this weird new take on a classic with a gothic tone splashed on it I didn't really get the point of the film. It just takes me back to a previous post that I wrote about how were looking at an age of remakes, sequels and rehashed versions of the film. Again I do go back to that maybe we need to look at whether the people running Disney need to change get new fresh blood in.
So then the last trailer that I watched was the trailer for probably 1 of the most anticipated films to be release this year Day of Future past. Which to this point I had managed to avoid all the trailer because I really didn't want to know as I personally think First Class is the pinocle and the masterpiece of the X-Men series. So to get a sequel to that and a sort of tie in sequel to the original trilogy we won't talk about the last stand less about that said the better. But I just couldn't keep myself away from watching this trailer and to be honest Im glad that I waited till now to watch any sort of trailer for the film. And this trailer defiantly showed that we could be looking at 1 one of the best films to come out all year and a visual masterpiece at that. With an all star cast and story finally bought to the screen this could be the best outing for the X-men. But then again it could just go down the toilet and end up dive bombing and being one of the worst films and biggest flops of the year. Its a hard task taking on such a big cast and story like this to do it right so while I am looking forward to the film and think that its going to go well and turn out to be brilliant theres still that small part of me that thinks that it could just back fire and blow up in their faces.
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