Trailer Talk: Comic Con Trailers 2018

Here are some of the Trailer that came out of Comic Con 2018 on Saturday and some brief thoughts on them.

 Aquaman.  2018 Release   Grade  B  

The trailer has some really great moments--but also has some cheesy moments.  I really don't know know what to make of it.   Plus not being a comic book fan I still picture Aquaman as the blonde guy in tights from the Super Friends.    You know lame Aquaman.  Obviously Jason Momoa's version is already a cooler Aquaman.

DC has a bad track record for me Wonder Woman was good --but Batman vs Superman, Justice League and Suicide Squad were all disappointing.    Where will Aquaman fall?   

I really like Jason Momoa ever since I first saw him as the island bartender on a prime time soap style show called the North Shore.  He was also great in  (the not successful --but good in my opinion) Conan reboot and of course Game of Thrones.    I just don't know if I can trust what DC is going to do with the character of Aquaman.   My thoughts are to keep my expectations low for this movie and hope that it turns out good.

Shazam!  2019 Release   Grade C-

Ugh.   I wanted to like this .  Zachary Levi was amazing as Chuck in a TV Series that if you think about it mirrors the character of Shazam in many ways.   In Chuck Zachary Levi played an intelligent guy who ends up working at the Buy More as part of the Nerd Herd that fixes computers.  His character accidentally gets downloaded with amazing spy powers which made for a great fun spy/comedy tv show.    Shazam is very similar in that a kid ends up with Superman type powers.    This trailer was underwhelming and made me wish that they did a Chuck movie instead of Shazam.  Really is there anyone that was dying for a Shazam movie?   It feels like a super hero movie Shaq would star in.   

 I'll rent it because I like Zachary Levi

Glass  2019  Release    Grade B-   

As a trailer it looks pretty interesting.  Unfortunately it is directed by M. Night Shyamalan whose movies after the Sixth Sense --seemed to get worse and worse with each film.  The Happening was one of the worst big budget movies I've ever sat through.   Signs was great until the lackluster and insulting to the intelligence of its audience third act.    If you like M. Night's movies then this is probably a dream come true .  The film has good cast and links several previous films.   Being fair to the trailer I think it does a good job of setting up what could be an interesting movie.   For me........    Just tell me the twist and I'll save my 10 bucks......    I 'm not getting suckered into another M Night film.

Godzilla King of the Monsters    2019 Release    Grade B-

The trailer looks decent but all Godzilla movies look okay in the trailers.   They keep trying to do a big budget Godzilla and it always turns out to be not as good as you hope it will be.   I think Cloverfield and the first Pacific Rim have done it better.    The silly monsters that the old man in a rubber suit Godzilla used to fight are back in this film.  Eleven from Stranger Things is in this movie  , but they make her look exacly like her Stranger Things character that audiences may think she is Eleven.  I wonder if maybe Godzilla works better in the rubber suit.   I'm sure I'll see this when it comes out on DVD-- but not necessarily in the theaters.   

Based on these  Comic Con trailers  I probably see Aquaman in the theaters.   The other 3 films ----I'll see eventually --but probably not until they hit Netflix.

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The Battles of Godzilla: Godzilla vs. Megaguirus 2000 5 out of 10

Godzilla vs Megaguirus  2000 5 out of 10

Godzilla is back and he is hungry for Nuclear energy.   Some Japanese scientist think that it is a good idea to create a weapon that makes black holes to defeat Godzilla (Not a good idea) .  They try and use the black hole weapon on Godzilla but all they accomplish is opening a pathway for some flying dragonfly creature to deposit and egg.  The egg opens and releases a monster that kills people in the streets of Japan and then lays more eggs which hatch and attack Godzilla in a cheesy battle.   Watching Godzilla battle a bunch of flies isn't that thrilling.  Godzilla blasts the swarm with his laser breath and the survivors return to mom to give her the DNA that extracted from Godzilla which turns it into a giant flying monster.   Then the real battle starts which was a decent by Godzilla standards.

Skip the movie and watch this music video for it instead

The Battles of Godzilla: Godzilla 2000 1990 6 out of 10

Godzilla 2000  --1999   6 out of 10

With a new big budget Godzilla in theaters Chiller TV was running a Godzilla Marathon and so I decided to watch a bunch of these older cheesy Godzilla movies.

Godzilla 2000 is the 23rd movie in the franchise and comes on the heels of the big US theatrical release, but returns  Godzilla to his rubber suit roots with a new look.    The movie is called Godzilla 2000 because Godzilla vs the Flying Space Rock sounded too lame.   The flying space rock turns out to be a UFO that wants Godzilla's DNA.   Godzilla and the cheesy flying rock battle.  The rock gets a hold of Godzilla's DNA and mutants into a Godzilla like monster and they battle some more (why not).   Godzilla ends up the winner in this all out battle and then takes off to destroy some more stuff.    It was a decent entry in the Godzilla franchise with some fun battles.  

Too bad the movie isn't as good as this great trailer.

The Battles of Godzilla: Godzilla vs Mechagodzilla 1974 out of 10

Godzilla vs Mechagodzilla   1974 4 out of 10

The Franchise

This entry in the Godzilla franchise is the 14th in the series and is  a jumbled mess.   The one consistent thing in the franchise is that it features cheesy looking monsters as played by stuntman in rubber suits doing goofy WWE wrestling moves on top of set with models of cities.   Other than that the movie series has no continuity to speak of. All the movies are written as if none of the other sequels exist.  Godzilla can be good and protecting Japan in one movie and evil in the next.  It makes no sense, but you can always expect some silly enjoyable battle scenes.     

The Plot

  This movie had a crazy mixed up plot about some outer space monkeymen (in bad Gorilla masks)  trying to use Mechagodzilla to take over the world.   Godzilla is a good guy in this goofy flick in which he and another Guardian monster called King Caesar (that looks look a guy in a dog costume with bat ears)  battle Mechagodzilla.  It features a bunch of mixed in elements like some characters escaping the underground liar of the James Bond like Monkeyman villians. There is also a  strange song that seems completely out of place that is used to summon the  cheesy Dog Monster.  The battle scenes are decent and really the only reason to watch these movies, but the conclusion where Godzilla uses electricity from lightning to turn himself into a magnet and pull Mechagodzilla to his doom was super dorky.