(trailer review) - Alien: Earth

The Terminator, Predator, and Alien franchises have all seemed to have died. Studios, trying to one-up the last project to make it bigger and better. Convuluted storylines or a lack of one, each project seems to have died a slow death. The Terminator franchise, currently, for all intents and purposes, is dead, but in the last few years, The Predator and the Alien franchise have been resurrected, and new life has been breathed into them. 'Prey' was excellent, and off the back of that, two more Predator movies are coming out, an animated and a live-action, and Alien: Romulus was also just as good. Due to this Alien project coming out relatively soon after Alien: Romulus, it seems as though this show was always on the cards no matter how good and badly Alien: Romulus did, but judging from this trailer, this looks like it is going to be a great show, or at least, it looks really good.

So it seems as though we will be following this sick girl who will have her memories transferred into a synthetic, and you have this other person, possibly a scientist or rich kid, who wants what is on the ship that crashes down on Earth. I am not sure if I missed it in the trailer, but I am assuming it is a Weyland ship, but they state, the ship has collected creatures from the darkest corners of space which makes me think (as well as them showing in the trailer) we will get the xenomorph we all know and love, but there were a few quick shots of other alien creatures. Dependant on if these creatures survive and/or are written well to be just as terrifying as the Xenomorph, the universe that is Alien (and Predator) has expanded in a way, they may do other movies (likely) or shows with these new aliens in them and maybe an origin or where they came from, maybe even, a team of scientists discovering them. This show looks really interesting, and the tone of it is precise. It looks clean, but retro futuristic like the original Alien movie and the special effects look great. I really like the Alien franchise, so it would be nice to have this show be a really good watch.

(trailer review) - Fantastic Four: First Steps

 

I decided to watch this trailer just to be nosey, really. There has been some online chatter about the film not testing great and that the film came across as just ok, with the testing audience, so I was wondering if they were going to show anything else to help sell the movie for people, and they did. But to help sell, I guess we will see, but I liked what I saw.

Seeing Sue leaning over a baby's cot and the voice over stating whatever life throws at them, they will face it together as a family, with shots of Ben Grimm pulling a ship in the sea, the fire in the sky, Johnny flaming on and then more shots of the Fantasticar driving in the street and then driving/flying in the air is just great. Seeing a bit more of the celebrity status the family have and the speech from Reed Richards stating that the Fantastic Four are the planet's defenders and that they will protect the planet. Even the line of "is it clobbering time?" got a little shout out whilst we see the same scene of Ben running through the building's structural pillars. Ha! It is a nice little 1-minute and 15-second trailer, showing us a lot more, but just enough and not overstepping the mark, just to let us know that tickets are on sale. I am doubtful about Reed saving the planet, but I am definitely interested in how the story will go. And it's Marvel, they need another win. Thunderbolts was a win, this also needs to be a win