Yesterday we posted the trailer for Cars 2.
Today we have trailers to Green Lantern and Cowboys & Aliens.
Green Lantern
Green Lantern is the iconic DC Comics character with arguably the most rabid fanbase out there. Green Lantern is more sci-fi than other comic characters, and the trailer promises lots of color aliens, unique worlds and kick ass action.Cowboys & Aliens
Cowboys & Aliens comes to us from Jon Favreau (director of Iron Man 1 and 2) and stars Daniel Craig and Harrison Ford (in a role where he actually appears to have a pulse). I have to admit this movie looks a lot grittier and cooler than I thought -- which is awesome!I'll see you in line for popcorn this summer.
I have seen the movie Cars about 167 times. Before I was a parent, I had seen Cars once. My son, like a lot of boys, is simply obsessed with wheels. The geniuses at Pixar knew this and made a movie tailor made for these kinds of kids.
As the episode revs up, we're back on the roof with Redneck Merle – Merle, as we recall, ended up handcuffed to a pipe on the roof of a department store in the middle of zombie-ridden Atlanta, left behind by the Merry Band of Survivors basically for being a racist. He was pretty pissed at the end of the ep last week -- now he's terrified and mewling like a baby. Ha! That's what you get, Merle. He gets even more panicky when he sees that the zombies from the streets below have made their up through the department store, and are clawing at the padlocked access door, eager to get to him. They're hankering for some Merle Tartare. He really should pull a Franco from 127 Hours and find a way to hack of that arm so he can get the hell out of there. But if he doesn't, I won't feel bad. If you saw the previous episode, you know Merle deserves what he gets. Next time, Merle, trying being a little less assholian. (I prefer to live in a world where it's ok for jerks to get eaten by zombies. I can think of at least five people from work that totally deserve to be zombie sushi.)
No time to dwell on that, though, because the Atlanta contingent returns to camp from their wacky adventures in Zombieopolis! And Deputy Grimes steps out of the truck! And his son and wife see him and get all excited! And Shane is standing in the rear with an expression that says: Um.
Everyone's sitting around camp the next day when sounds of a ruckus emerge from the woods – finally. (This episode has been light on gory violence so far. Don't get me wrong, I like the human element of this show and all... but without zombie hacking, it does lose some luster.) The crew heads into the woods and discovers a wayward zombie feasting on a deer. Graphically. Like, gristle in the teeth. The survivors discover him and beat him into a paste. Again, graphically. GREAT shot where the old man of the group splats his head wide open like a melon. Sweet! But hey, someone points out, this is the first time a zombie has wandered this close to their camp. Bad!
While that's happening, there's an even bigger conflict brewing nearby. Three of the other women are washing clothes at the water's edge while Ed, another fat and surly jerk, lounges nearby, smoking. The women are vaguely disgruntled about the fact that, even at the end of the world, they're the ones doing chores, while the men sit on their asses. Ed moseys on down to see what the womenfolk are laughing about, when they should be busy scrubbing out his tidy-whities. "You oughta focus on yer work... this ain't no comedy club." Nice. Ed ratchets up his jerk quotient a few more levels, and there's a big throwdown as the women stand up for themselves and Ed tries to drag his wife away from the others for some old-fashioned spousal abuse. Shane, still feeling screwed over by Lori, charges in and unleashes some hard rage all over Ed, beating him into the dirt. It's an incredibly intense scene that ends with Ed being cradled by the wife he likes to beat as the others look on – and Shane is surprised at what he just did. It would be a hardcore scene even without the end-of-the-world context.
Despite dire predictions last winter that '80s makeup was BACK(!), big bold peacock eyes and fuchsia lips never made it past the runway. Thank goodness. While we may have fond memories of our Caboodles cases stuffed with just the right blue eyeliner, I don't think anyone wants to go back to painting her eyes into architectural designs. (I personally can't keep my hands steady enough to do those lines anymore.) However, cosmetics companies seem to love the idea of '80s makeup... or rather they like "80s" in the name of their makeup.
And the winner of our very first giveaway, the Director's Cut DVD of Johnny Depp's Cry-Baby is...
