Super Bowl Movie Trailers

Yesterday was the Super Bowl and for those of you that watched the game, you were treated to a bunch of new trailers for some of this summer's big blockbusters. Below are the big TV spots that were shown and some of my thoughts....

I always had high hopes for the Captain America movie, but I think this trailer made me even more excited. It just seems like it has a different vibe than any other superhero movie out there, and that's why it has an edge over Thor in my opinion. I'm really digging the World War II setting and I really like the supporting casting of Stanley Tucci and Tommy Lee Jones (even though their parts in the trailer are minimal.) The trailer shown yesterday also gave us our first look at the villain Red Skull (played by Hugo Weaving). The only weird thing about this trailer was "skinny" Chris Evans which I'll apologize for if it's really him, but if it's CGI it looks terrible.

VERDICT: PRETTY AWESOME

Thor, on the other hand, was a little disappointing to me. It used pretty much all footage that we've already seen and didn't offer anything new. I'm also getting a little worried about the amount of time spent on Thor's origin before he comes to Earth as I think origin stories can be really overplayed. I think Thor is going to be a lot like a gritty Superman story, if more time was spent on Krypton in the original Superman movies. Either way, this SuperBowl ad didn't do anything to change my mind on Thor.

VERDICT: MEH

My God that sound is so annoying! Why would they use that? Anyway, anyone that knows me knows I think the Transformers movies suck. They're boring and I can never remember which robot is which. Awful. But I think this TV spot, featuring a lot of slowed down action, was really effective. The one shot with the person diving out of the plane with the other plane crashing was incredibly cool. I don't think this is going to be a good movie by any means, but this TV spot at least makes me think the movie will look cool.

VERDICT: DECENT

This movie looks so cool! Like an idiot, I totally forgot to list it as one of my most anticipated movies of 2011, but especially after this TV spot, it definitely is up there. The idea of James Bond and Han Solo fighting off aliens is pretty incredible itself, but with Jon Favreau (director of Iron Man) directing as well, I'm sure this movie will be pretty great. It's also kind of funny how some of the shots were really similar to the shots used in the Transformers TV spot. I'm sure this movie will kick that movie's ass though. Extra points for including a nude Olivia Wilde in the TV spot.

VERDICT: REALLY COOL

Didn't I see this movie four times already? It's kind of amazing that the Fast and the Furious franchise has lasted this long. I remember how cool the original one was in middle school, but it's also hard to forget how lame the other ones were. This franchise also gets points taken away for dumbest use of a number in the title of a movie- for 2 Fast 2 Furious. As for this trailer, I do like the addition of The Rock as the "villain" of the movie as I think The Rock definitely has the potential to be really good when he tries. I do think however that as cool as the car chases may be, this franchise is getting really tired.

VERDICT: BORING

Everyone knows Johnny Depp was the best part of the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise, but can Johnny Depp carry the entire franchise on his own? This fourth movie will literally strip itself of everything from the first three- nearly all the major actors and the director included. Unfortunately, I'm getting more of a bad spin-off vibe from Pirates of the Caribbean 4 than a good sequel. What's even more confusing is that based on this TV spot, it literally looks like they're going to have characters very similar to the ones Orlando Bloom and Keira Knightley played. Honestly, this doesn't look good.

VERDICT: UH OH

Whoah this is a really cool teaser. No one really knows what Super 8 is really about and this was our first clue. Although not much was revealed, we can now speculate that it is indeed some kind of monster movie, but exactly what type of monster no one really knows. I think this teaser gives off a very Steven Spielbergish feel (he is producing) similar to ET or Jurassic Park, which is a very good thing. Director JJ Abrams described this movie today as a cross between The X-Files, ET, Stand by Me, and The Goonies. WHAT. Sign me up.

VERDICT: PLEASE COME OUT TOMORROW

Well, that's it for the Super Bowl movie spots. I thought the regular commercials were pretty weak this year though. What movie trailers and commercials did you guys like?

Jared

PS- Green Bay won.