(trailer review) - Street Fighter

 

When I first saw this trailer, my first thoughts were "wait, what?" With that said, I continued to watch it, take in all the visuals, the acting, the costumes and the only thing I could think of when the trailer was finished is that, this looks like people cosplaying as characters from a computer game, creating a fan film, with a few eccentric characters, over the top acting and with a tone of RoboCop. The RoboCop is a classic, and it has a tone that fits what they were going for, this seems similar. What came to mind were, enjoyable trash, but I could be absolutely wrong because the Mortal Kombat film only looked ok. But it was really good, despite having an odd "New Challenger" as the lead. This, well...lets just wait for the full trailer.

The trailer starts with quick shots of the characters starting with Ryu, Akuma, Chun Li, Zangief, Balrog, Dhalsim, E Honda, Cammy and Guile's infamous haircut. Buts its the exaggerated bouncing up and down from Ryu that got me rolling my eyes. Then we see M. Bison, Dan and Vega. The run up from Guile is not great leading to the Moonkick sending Vega through the wall, a lot of quick shots of fighting between Chun Li, Ryu, and even Akuma with a crot h shot thrown in for good measure. The Ryu and Ken team up is nasty work and the intercut between what looks like Chun Li and Ryu was seemless, but the icing on this bizarre cake, is the end of trailer tag with the beating up of the car like in the original Street Fighter II game. It is a wild trailer and thisnfilm based on this trailer could crash and burn, but it does seem to "fit" the wacky world of Street Fighter. Lets see.

(trailer review) - Project Hail Mary

 

A few months ago, I saw the trailer for this, and it looked ok, just ok. It looked like there may have been more to it, but I was not initially sold on the movie at all. Since that trailer, I keep hearing about how great the book is, and this film is going to be really good, and Ryan Gosling is this and that, and having now seen this trailer, this trailer sold the film for me more than the first trailer did. This trailer is funny, it has heart, and I understand more of what the trailer is telling me, storywise, and we get to properly see the alien. A couple of moments that made me smile or laugh were two moments: the moment he says, "Rocky", puts on a puppet show for his tiny brain to understand and the moment where he asks about being expendable and she turns around to the group to discuss, two great moments.

So the trailer starts off with Grace knocking on a window to communicate with the alien, and the alien knocks back and shows him a model of an astronaut. We are told Grace has a doctorate in molecular biology, and he is needed to save the world due to the sun dying. "Rocky" the alien, is a genius engineer whose planet is also dying, so they work together to, I assume, help to save each other's planet or "Grace Rocky Save Stars". The trailer shows both Grace and Rocky working together with a few flashing sequences of Grace running, people cheering for him, a drawing of "saved the world" by children (children he likely teaches). This trailer exudes warmth, a dire situation, an adventure, charm and heart. Unless there is a twist at the end where the alien has notorious plans, this looks like it may end up being a really entertaining film, kind of like how the film The Martian was when that was released.

(episode review) - IT: Welcome to Derry - Episode 4

 

This series's first season is only 8 episodes deep, so technically, we are at the beginning of the halfway point, and things are starting to pay off. The kids know something is off, and from the pictures, they can see a clown, and Leroy witnesses Hallorann's behaviour is off, and he is on a highly classified mission which seems to be getting weirder by the moment, with no real answers from Shaw. Leroy's wife, whilst trying to adjust to the town, is trying to fight all the injustices; a lot is happening, and this episode is where we get into more of the real 'meat and potatoes' of what is going on.

After the photos were dismissed by the authorities, the kids are at a loss as to what they can do to get the adults on their side. With that said, Leroy takes Will fishing, but when Will is attacked, both Will and Leroy see a red balloon. Afraid to tell his mum, Will eventually tells her, but at night, Will cannot sleep and uses his telescope to look around, only to see Pennywise the Dancing Clown looking at him. Marge tries to pull a cruel prank on Lilly just to fit in with the other school children, only for her to end up with a vision leaving her attacked. Charlotte, Leroy's wife, visits Hank only to find out that although he did not kill the children, his whereabouts may have him killed. Hallorann goes into the mind of Rose's nephew Taniel, and he discovers the entity's origin and how the natives imprisoned him.