New Trailers Debuted at Comic-Con Include Aquaman, Shazam, and The Simpsons (tvguide.com) 42
Today Comic-Con attendees were treated to new trailers and previews for a slew of upcoming geek-friendly movies. An anonymous reader writes:
Besides footage from Wonder Woman 1984, there were also trailers for DC's Aquaman movie, plus a new DC superhero franchise with a lighter tone, Shazam. (And there was also a very apocalyptic preview of Godzilla: King of the Monsters.)
Numerous celebrities were on-hand to tout their upcoming films. Johnny Depp introduced the trailer for Fantastic Beasts 2: The Crimes of Grindelwald -- in character -- while Bruce Willis and Samuel L. Jackson introduced the trailer for M. Night Shyamalan's Glass. Jamie Lee Curtis even plugged her return to the Halloween franchise 40 years after the original, revealing that her character has been waiting all these decades to kill Michael Myers after his release from prison.
TV Guide has collected most of the trailers for TV shows, including season 11 of Doctor Who, the revival of Star Wars: The Clone Wars, and new seasons of Marvel's Iron Fist and Fear the Walking Dead. There was apparently also a trailer for Marvel's mutant series The Gifted -- and a preview for the 30th season of The Simpsons featuring this Halloween's "Treehouse of Horror XXIX", which includes a parody of Invasion of the Body Snatchers.
Numerous celebrities were on-hand to tout their upcoming films. Johnny Depp introduced the trailer for Fantastic Beasts 2: The Crimes of Grindelwald -- in character -- while Bruce Willis and Samuel L. Jackson introduced the trailer for M. Night Shyamalan's Glass. Jamie Lee Curtis even plugged her return to the Halloween franchise 40 years after the original, revealing that her character has been waiting all these decades to kill Michael Myers after his release from prison.
TV Guide has collected most of the trailers for TV shows, including season 11 of Doctor Who, the revival of Star Wars: The Clone Wars, and new seasons of Marvel's Iron Fist and Fear the Walking Dead. There was apparently also a trailer for Marvel's mutant series The Gifted -- and a preview for the 30th season of The Simpsons featuring this Halloween's "Treehouse of Horror XXIX", which includes a parody of Invasion of the Body Snatchers.
Now I feel old... (Score:2)
I think it was the very first movie that Roger Ebert and Gene Siskel reviewed on their show....
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I watched the original Halloween when it first came out.
So did I.
We are old.
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They rebooted it?
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And she get paid well for it. :P
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Exactly. Convention and fan nerds were always there; she realized there was money to be had at appearances, directly, and indirectly by helping promote the movie to fans who yap to friends. And blog.
She just needed less money over the years, unlike most franchise actors (think TV shows) who had little success elsewhere and wild horses can't keep them off the circuit.
Shazam Nailed Billy Batson (Score:2)
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They could have just gone back to Captain Thunder, which was his original name when his first comic was in development. DC have actually used that name a few times in different contexts, sometimes for alt-universe versions of him. Wikipedia has all the lowdown on that if you're curious.
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When did they start confusing the two? Confusion was the default state. The truth is the shocker.
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The guy playing Shazam himself I can kinda take or leave. I'd blame it on being hard to pull off the look but the guy playing Aquaman did it. That said, I'll probably stick to the animated movie that made not too long ago.
Meh. He was good enough in Chuck, playing a childish man who accidentally got some superpowers. Pretty much the same character here, except instead of accidentally getting leet spy skills he gets other super powers. They probably considered his work in Chuck when making their decision. The only other thing I've seen him in was in the Psych! movie where he did a terrible job of playing a villain.
Although, in Chuck the series didn't really get good until the second season, and then went downhill in the four
Where's Isis?? (Score:2)
Shazam without Isis is heresy.
Re: Where's Isis?? (Score:2, Funny)
Isis had to change her name after the recent terrorist debacle. She's now going by Roseanne!
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Well, there is a She-Ra reboot now... Maybe it will last longer than the He-Man reboot.
About time (Score:2)
plus a new DC superhero franchise with a lighter tone, Shazam
Do they mean that in a figurative sense, or are they just going to stop applying the color dulling filter for this movie?
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It's a comedy. With children. And wizards. [youtube.com]
Which is not exactly a bright idea, as they are clearly grafting it onto existing Justice League universe.
One of the two will have to be "adjusted". A LOT.
And my sunk cost fallacy sense [youtube.com] tells me it will be Shazam.
Funny how with Aquaman they do get that if the character is too stupid for modern age you shouldn't try to do the origin story but simply establish the character first.
THEN do a quick fill-in of the details and move on.
local chaos (Score:3)
As a literate person who can spell 'omphaloskepsis', I worry about the future when shallow comic characters are the pinnacle of entertainment. People try to convince themselves that this it sci-fi, but it's only fantasy. The pornographic costumes are the main attraction to pubescent viewers and more than a few others. The simplistic moral lessons are mind numbingly stupid; good versus evil over and over with magical powers on all sides.
But there's always a hope that they will gravitate toward real sci-fi and real human drama that makes interesting storytelling. On the other side of the equation are 'literary' types who have no imagination or creativity and look down on sci-fi. ComicCon should be a bridge to bring us all closer.
Gotta say that San Diegans are in turmoil this time of year. Many hate the colorful fans and congestion and confusion. Of course there's money to be made which pleases a few. I'm happy to have this happy chaos in our conservative city.
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I worry about the future when shallow comic characters are the pinnacle of entertainment.
Mainstream entertainment has always catered to the lowest common denominator. In ye olden days, an execution could easily draw as big of a crowd as a well-rehearsed play.
No one is stopping you from picking up a tome in your favorite esoteric genre.
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As a literate person who can spell 'omphaloskepsis', I worry about the future when shallow comic characters are the pinnacle of entertainment.
They probably said the same thing about stuff considered "classics" today. Shakespear, for example, was the Justin Bieber of his time.
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As a literate person who can spell 'omphaloskepsis', I worry about the future when shallow comic characters are the pinnacle of entertainment. People try to convince themselves that this it sci-fi, but it's only fantasy.
It's not sci-fi or fantasy, it's comic book. The comic book genre is essentially standard action blockbuster with a bit more drama and philosophy than usual.
The pornographic costumes are the main attraction to pubescent viewers and more than a few others.
They're a secondary appeal, but I'd say they're far from the main attraction. To the expect that pubescent viewers go on about them they're just tying to show off for their friends. As opposed to traditional films they're probably unusual to the extent that the leading actresses are able to keep their clothes on.
The simplistic moral lessons are mind numbingly stupid; good versus evil over and over with magical powers on all sides.
Did you see the latest Avengers? The plot [vox.com]
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Never, ever, not no way, not no how, forget this philosophical comic "dilemma" is a fraud driven by the company's interest to keep characters around for later reuse.
You don't think Rick spared Negan because he wanted to honor childish wishes of a child who almost died twice, almost had his arm cut off, and ultimately did die because of Negan?
No, it's needed for the corporate wishes for The Continues Stories With Negan.
Like nerd stories? "Mixelplik" has visited this surrounding world with what would, by comi
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I lost interest in Shazam! when.... (Score:2)
The ship has sailed, I know... but it's still my own personal objection.
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Yes, it grinds. But then I don't think DC have ever understood the character or known what to do with him ever since they acquired him from Fawcett. If you go back and read the original comics that made him a huge success back in the 1940s, they're silly, they're whimsical, sometimes surreal, they're fun, and they're the absolute diametric opposite of the DC mentality where every comic has to become the Dark Knight. I watched this new Shazam movie trailer, looking for some hint that they know where they
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Let's face it, DC never knows where they're going with any of their characters (except batman, then it's always "darker").
Sad but true...
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