(trailer review) - A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms

I was definitely late jumping onto the 'Game of Thrones' wagon. If I remember correctly,  season 3 was due to start, and my mate was telling me to tune in and that I would like it. Thinking about jumping onto a show that is already 2 seasons in, an hour per episode and 10 episodes per season, with a 3rd having just started or due to start soon, it was definitely daunting, and I did not want to do it. My mate said to me, "A kid gets pushed out of a window and that's when it all kicks off". So, I watched it until the kid got pushed out of the window, and I was hooked. Great characters, a crazy story about the prince who was promised (I think, it's been a while), but 'Game of Thrones' went on for 8 seasons, and I hammered through seasons 1 and 2 and caught up to season 4 by the time it was starting. I then rewatched all the seasons from season 1 until the following season, every time a season was due out. 'Game of Thrones' had me rushing home to watch it on a Monday night, and mostly because I was invested, but also because I did not want to get spoiled the following day by mouth-breathers. When we heard 'House of the Dragon' was coming, although production is very different and the storyline is set during a different time than the setting of 'Game of Thrones', this show had to hold the bar that was Game of Thrones (in which, in all honesty, dipped by season 8), and now we are patiently waiting season 3. This new show, on the other hand, is different and maybe, the "placeholder: until we are reunited with the characters in the world of Westeros and Dragons. Based on a series of novellas called 'A Tale of Dunk & Egg', 'The Hedge Knight', 'The Sworn Sword '& 'The Mystery Knight', is a story of a Knight named 'Duncan the Tall' and his squire. Set around 75 to 80 years after 'House of the Dragon' (the dance of the dragons) and around 100 years before the events of 'Game of Thrones', this will tell the story of Duncan and how he became the famous knight of the seven kingdoms. This is just a teaser, and it will be interesting to know what the story is, what is so special about Duncan the tall. I know he has been mentioned in Game of Thrones a few times, but I cannot remember what was so special about him and what he did. As this is a teaser trailer for a show next year, maybe the following trailer will give us a bit more to go with. So far, it looks interesting, comical and well, Westeros is a loved place I am sure nobody really wants to be. I must say that the Baelor Targaryen line was really funny. I just hope that if the show is being comedic, it is thorough and well written rather than jokes that do not land; besides, it will be a little different from the previous two shows.

(trailer review) - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Chrome Alone 2 – Lost in New Jersey

 

I am actually crying! For those of you who never watched "Mutant Mayhem", please read my review. I do not go into spoilers in my reviews (or try not to if I can help it), but hopefully it will get you to watch the movie and, in turn, enjoy the movie just as much as I did. I am a grown man, and I grew up on the Turtles franchise. In the UK, they were called "Hero Turtles" rather than "Ninja Turtles", but that did not stop kids like me from wearing Turtles T-shirts, jeans and watching the Turtles cartoons. They even had games you could play, the "Teenage Mutant Hero (Ninja) Turtles" on. My first ever console was a Nintendo Entertainment System (NES for short) with a Turtles game included. The Turtles were a force in my childhood, so when Mutant Mayhem came out, I thought I'd give it a watch just to see how it was, and to my surprise, it was GREAT! It was a really good watch, fun and having actual kids voicing these characters was a nice touch, but this trailer is too funny!

This trailer short is set around the Christmas period, with the Turtles walking in the streets, unhidden from society, shopping for Christmas presents, until they come across a store with a TV in it showing the Turtles as action figures. But the depiction of the models used for the four Turtles is so funny, as none or maybe one of the Turtles has the correct name, and the rest do not. They all look dodgy and weird, with the incorrect number of fingers on some of their heads that are misshapen, and on top of that, they eat cheeseburgers, but if you know the turtles, they love Pizza. I could not stop laughing until I was crying because those action figures were too funny and their reactions were gold. I can not wait to watch this short film, whilst we await the movie. Let's just hope they bring in some other characters from Turtles lore, previously mentioned in my review, and let's expand the universe.

(trailer review) - Predator: Badlands

 

You could make an argument that the Alien and Predator franchise is going out swinging, and if this film does any good, it is making a comeback. With the Alien franchise, Alien: Romulus was really good and received positive reviews. If you put Alien: Earth next to that, whilst that show seems more like a mixed bag, I am under the impression that more people liked the show than hated it. If I were to hazard a guess, people were not sure what to make of it, may have thought it was going to be Aliens running rampant on Earth and killing people, but the show centers more on the science, the exploration, the tests, the morale of people and the nature of creatures, and in this case, the many aliens in the show. It is a show that massively expands the lore and the world of Aliens without missing a beat by keeping to the theme of the Alien franchise, dark, gloomy, alien(s) and something foreign going into an orifice at some point. For this movie, an alien, a Predator, is sent to a world where he winds up being the protagonist of the film and seemingly working with an android from the Alien franchise.

What I gather from this final trailer, is that this Predator has been put on trial, something like Survival of the fittest, a trial by fire, for the accention into the higher ranks of (possibly) his clan, a right of passage, sent to this planet, "The Badlands" and he is tasked to kill this beast whilst everything else on the planet is trying to kill him. It looks like this predator also has the help of an android who will assist him, making this an unlikely alliance to pass this "test". This trailer shows some new scenes and clips, but nothing to really have you wanting to watch it if you do not already want to watch it from the first few trailers. What I will say, though, it would be interesting if the Android helps this young Predator only to bring them into Weyland Utani by helping it to kill the most vicious creatures, to only signal Weyland troops to come in and capture him for research purposes. Hopefully, this film carries on and delivers a great film just like Prey.