Some new movie trailers have been released including White House Down, Red 2, Alien Uprising, Carrie, Snowpiercer, Stranded, Man of Tai Chi, Magic Magic, Under the Bed, and The To Do List.
‘White House Down’
As White House Down is from the director of Independence Day, The Day After Tomorrow, and 2012, it should be no surprise that this movie trailer features a lot of great special effects. Whether or not it turns out to be any good or not, it still looks like it’ll be a very fun movie at the very least. I mean, Jamie Foxx as the president shooting a rocket launcher? Enough said.
In Columbia Pictures’ “White House Down,” Capitol Policeman John Cale (Channing Tatum) has just been denied his dream job with the Secret Service of protecting President James Sawyer (Jamie Foxx). Not wanting to let down his little girl with the news, he takes her on a tour of the White House, when the complex is overtaken by a heavily armed paramilitary group. Now, with the nation’s government falling into chaos and time running out, it’s up to Cale to save the president, his daughter, and the country.
‘Red 2’
Should Red 2 have been made? Probably not. Are we going to love every minute of how its going to be just as over-the-top ridiculous as the first? Absolutely.
In “RED 2,” the high-octane action-comedy sequel to the worldwide sleeper hit, retired black-ops CIA agent Frank Moses reunites his unlikely team of elite operatives for a global quest to track down a missing portable nuclear device. To succeed, they’ll need to survive an army of relentless assassins, ruthless terrorists and power-crazed government officials, all eager to get their hands on the next-generation weapon. The mission takes Frank and his motley crew to Paris, London and Moscow. Outgunned and outmanned, they have only their cunning wits, their old-school skills, and each other to rely on as they try to save the world-and stay alive in the process.
‘Alien Uprising’
The Alien Uprising movie trailer plays more like a teaser: it’s short, and we don’t see too much. What we do see looks intriguing, but it’ll take a closer look to sell most moviegoers.
A group of friends awake one morning to find all electricity and power shut off, and an immense alien aircraft hovering in the air above their heads. Suddenly this regular group of friends is battling to survive, as the entire human race is threatened by the alien army hovering ominously above.
‘Carrie’
This Stephen King adaptation has all the elements you’d expect, but it looks like it uses them better than most horror flicks.
A reimagining of the classic horror tale about Carrie White (Chloë Grace Moretz), a shy girl outcast by her peers and sheltered by her deeply religious mother (Julianne Moore), who unleashes telekinetic terror on her small town after being pushed too far at her senior prom. Based on the best-selling novel by Stephen King, “Carrie” is directed by Kimberly Peirce with a screenplay by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa.
‘Snowpiercer’
An interesting, original idea coupled with a good cast, Snowpiercer, a graphic novel adaptation, looks like it could be quite good. At the very least, it seems like it’ll be something different, and that’s always pleasurable.
“Snowpiercer,” based on the French graphic novel “Le Transperceneige,” is set in a future where, after a failed experiment to stop global warming, an Ice Age kills off all life on the planet except for the inhabitants of the Snow Piercer, a train that travels around the globe and is powered by a sacred perpetual-motion engine. A class system evolves on the train but a revolution brews.
‘Stranded’
The idea here is nothing new, and the movie trailer doesn’t really show you anything to make this version especially stand out.
When the isolated U.S. military moonbase is bombarded by a rogue meteor storm, Colonel Gerard Brauchman (Christian Slater) and his small crew are cut off from Earth with their life support failing. Before long, the crew discovers the meteors harbored alien spores…and they’re replicating. Now a vicious, shape-shifting predatory life form is loose inside the crippled facility, picking off victims one by one. Locked in a desperate fight for survival, Brauchman and the terrified remaining astronauts have one final mission…keep the creature from escaping the moon and finding a new food supply on Earth.
‘Man of Tai Chi’
The fighting choreography alone makes Man of Tai Chi look like a movie worth seeing. The plot looks somewhat interesting too, and this could end up being at least decent.
In Beijing, a young martial artist’s skill places him in position to experience opportunities and sacrifices.
‘Magic Magic’
The trailer for Magic Magic starring Michael Cera is nothing short of creepy. It’s nice to see Cera in a different kind of role. Though it did play at film festivals, this movie won’t be released in theaters. It’ll be released on DVD and Blu-ray on August 6.
A vacationing insomniac loses the ability to distinguish dreams from reality while traveling the Chilean countryside with a group of adventurers that includes her best friend and an enigmatic American in this downbeat saga. Though it came to the U.S. billed as a thriller or a horror picture, Chilean director Sebastian Silva’s Magic Magic is more aptly described as a dark psychological drama with tense overtones. Juno Temple stars as Alicia – an emotionally fragile young woman in her early 20s with a murky history. She joins her cousin Sarah (Emily Browning), Sarah’s boyfriend Agustín (Agustín Silva), the couple’s eccentric friend Brink (Michael Cera) and Agustín’s sister Barbara (Catalina Sandina Moreno) for a retreat in the countryside, but from the beginning, things don’t go as planned. In the days that follow, more tension erupts between Alicia and the other members of the group, particularly Brink, who displays extreme anti-social tendencies and grows fond of malevolently pushing the girl’s buttons. After Sarah returns, all hell threatens to break loose: Alicia is accosted by a local dog that attempts to copulate with her leg; Brink and Agustín play a dangerous game that threatens to cause Alicia grave physical harm, and it becomes increasingly apparent, throughout, that Alicia is now teetering on the brink of a full-scale mental breakdown, which terrifies the others.
‘Under the Bed’
Typically, you can tell if a horror film is bad if it has a lazy title (see The House at the End of the Street). Under the Bed looks to be no different. Here’s an idea: maybe get rid of the bed during the day. Can’t hurt.
Every child knows about the monster under the bed—Neal Hausman’s mistake was trying to fight it. Neal (Jonny Weston) has returned from a two-year exile following his tragic attempt to defeat the monster, only to find his father ticking ever closer to a breakdown, a new stepmother who fears him, and his little brother Paul (Gattlin Griffith) terrorized by the same monster. While Neal and Paul work together to try and fight the nocturnal menace, their parents are taking desperate measures to get the family back to normal. With no support from their parents, the brothers have nothing to rely on but each other, and courage beyond belief.
‘The To Do List’
Though not much is different than the red-band trailer released earlier in the month, this green-band The To Do List trailer shows a few more jokes including a particularly funny one featuring Clark Gregg.
Featuring an all-star comedy cast including Aubrey Plaza, Johnny Simmons, Bill Hader, Alia Shawkat, Sarah Steele, Rachel Bilson, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Donald Glover, Scott Porter, Andy Samberg, Connie Britton and Clark Gregg, “The To Do List” is a comedy about close friends and a special summer project, loosely inspired by the real-life adventures of first-time writer/director Maggie Carey. Set in 1993, valedictorian Brandy Klark wants to shed her uptight image before college, so she assembles a to do list of all the “activities” she missed out on in high school. Quickly realizing that she’s way out of her depth, Brandy solicits her best friends, older sister and burnt-out boss for their help and advice. If the group is going to complete the list by September they’ll need plenty of imagination and very open minds.
