There are quite a few trailers this week so lets get right to it with the new trailer for The A-Team. I find myself somewhat divided on this film. At one time I really want to enjoy it because of its amazingly talent cast (Bradley Cooper, Liam Neeson, Sharlto Copley), but then again these trailers suck. It feels kind of like a worse version of The Losers, which itself doesn't look too good but at least they gave us some semblance of a plot. With A-Team, it seems to be action and comedy simply for the sake of action and comedy which they've already tried to, and failed at doing (G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra). As an added note, can whoever is playing B.A. stop trying to sound like Mr. T? Here's the trailer if you want to see it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYvhqct2FMQ
Then there's Salt, which has somehow pulled off what I've long thought impossible: Making a film in which Angelina Jolie is not in the slightest way attractive (or at least as attractive as she usually is). Maybe it's because she is playing a role originally meant for Tom Cruise. All I know is that based on this trailer Salt is shaping up to be exactly the same as every other action movie the actress has ever done. The trailer does leave us unsure of if she is a russian spy or not. It also leaves not caring, and that's pretty much the vibe I'm getting from the trailer, which can be viewed here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHUPQaK0XUc
Next is the trailer for The Expendables, the long awaited action film from Sylvester Stallone. With Stallone there is never a guarantee of quality, and quite often there isn't much. The only guarantee is masculine action, and there is plenty of it here. The film focuses on a group of hired guns hired to kill an evil dictator of a South American country, and they are obviously doublecrossed. If this film only exists to get the most bad-ass actors still alive (Stallone, Jason Statham, Jet Li, Bruce Willis, Mickey Rourke, and Arnold Schwartzenegger) into one solid movie, I'm okay with that. This film doesn't claim to be anything that it isn't, and for that I'll probably see it. But I'll let you be the judge of this trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6RU5y2fU6s
Finally, Step Up 3D. I'm going to go out on a limb and say this film won't be good. The first two films failed to give us anything motivating, or interesting, and neither will this one. The thing that makes prospects for this film so bad is that when the other two films were released they didn't have competition with Dancing with the Stars, or So You Think You Can Dance. The only selling point of this film is 3D, and at the rate ticket prices are excellerating I don't think people will be willing to spend that much money on this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89TLbK6o-og
Please leave comments on what you think of these trailers. I could definitely use a fresh set of eyes on these films.
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