(trailer review) - Michael

I had to watch this trailer a few times because the first time I watched it, the thought that came to my mind first once it was all done was, "That's creepy". One of the thoughts I had whilst watching was, "Look at that nose!" but other than those two initial thoughts, the more prominent one was how creepy the trailer looked. Now I mean creepy in the best way possible in that, not only does this look great and Jaafar looks a tad off (because its not Michael) but damn, if all the musical performance shots and footage is recreated for this movie and is not old footage or repurposed footage using ai or whatever, this film looks like it is shot for shot the real deal. It is uncanny how much Jaafar Jackson looks like his uncle Michael Jackson, and all the moves and mannerisms are simply down to a fine art, like...did they manage to download Michael Jackson's mannerisms, behaviour and dancing into Jaafar like the Kung Fu moves into Neo in The Matrix Movie. Honestly, I was dumbfounded. You see, growing up with Michael for those who are 50-65 plus will possibly watch this and be taken aback.

The trailer has various shots of Michael getting himself ready to start recording to performance in front of hundreds of people. Putting on the Headphones and Quincy Jones (I assume) saying, "I know you've been waiting a long time for this...", a baseball stadium filled with fans, the iconic glittery suit and white glittery socks. Shots of the family at the table together and lists of songs to be written or already written to be put together for an album, Michael dancing, the famous outfits Michael used to wear at appearances and the Thriller video, which is quite possibly the most iconic video ever shot and rehearsed in history. All quick shots until the end shot of Michael asking for the lights to lower the lights and it sounds JUST like Michael and his soft speaking voice. The laugh and the security assisting someone who fainted, something that would happen at shows, the crying and fainting of fans, the Michael Jackson spin AND the Moonwalk. This movie looks great! I am just wondering where it will end because this was meant to be one film, but due to legal issues and legal content and such, it looks like the film may be chopped up, and if this movie does well, I guess we will get the second part. Let's just hope that Michael's early life and story have not been tarnished as much as his latter life and how a lot of things went down for him, truth or not.

(trailer review) - Top Gun: Maverick

(Big Spot Game Trailer)

(Original Trailer)

I just want to say that I'm not sure if it is my love for Ethan Hunt, or my love for the character he plays in 'Edge of Tomorrow'...hell, it could be simply my love for Tom Cruise - in which I didn't think I had any, but his role as Ethan Hunt might have made me like him more, but although I have not seen the original Top Gun, I am definitely down for this one.

The breathing in this trailer makes it soo much more atmospheric than the previous trailer and that plane sequence in which I'm pretty damn sure was filmed with a small go-pro camera in a real life cockpit as Mr. Cruise's dedication to the craft holds no bounds, is absolutely legit and exhilarating.  For that sequence alone AND the bad boy attitude accompanied by obligatory fight and break up scene, has definitely made me want to watch the prequel before this one comes out!

Directed by Joseph Kosinski and starring Tom Cruise, Miles Teller, Jennifer Connelly, Jon Hamm, Glen Powell, Lewis Pullman, Ed Harris, Val Kilmer

(trailer review) - Top Gun: Maverick

I've not seen Top Gun.  I mean Tom Cruise was never my speed.  I got into his movies when I watched the Mission Impossible franchise.  However, this trailer has me interested and I might even go back, in fact, I will go back to watch the first one.  But I've seen a bunch of his films, you can read my reviews here.

Actually, A Few Good Men?

Directed by Joseph Kosinski and starring Tom Cruise, Miles Teller, Jennifer Connelly, Jon Hamm, Glen Powell, Lewis Pullman, Ed Harris, Val Kilmer

(film review) - Fantastic 4

I've been watching this develop from when they first announced it. I knew they were going to reboot it at some stage because the previous 2 didn't do that well and had they not rebooted the franchise, the rights would have went back to Marvel. With that said, Fox are having a decent time with X-Men due to First Class and Days of Future Past, but for Fox to keep a hold of their franchises, they will need to make a film every so often or reboot the franchise and do them well. This means, anything Mutant related belongs to Fox and Fox needs to come up with scorchers to keep them or break them up as much as they sensibly can and make great films which brings in money (spin-offs). Deadpool, Gambit and even X-Factor. A New Wolverine is coming but this is meant to be Hugh Jackman's last time. So unless they recast the role, Fox needs to pull more rabbits out of the hat. In Fantastic Four's case, Fox pulled out a Skunk.

Fantastic Four is about a man named Franklin Storm (Reg E. Cathey) who is looking into inter-dimentional travel with his student Viktor Von Doom (Toby Kebbell). He goes to a science fair with his daughter Sue Storm (Kate Mara) and finds a teenage Reed Richards (Miles Teller) along with his buddy Ben Grimm (Jamie Bell) who has somewhat cracked inter-dimentional travel when he was young but has found a way to complete the entire transition. Pleased with what he has seen, Franklin asks Reed to join him in completing a grander design in order to be the first to achieve such a feat. Reed accepted and once he enters the Baxter building and joins Viktor and Sue in the project, they decide to travel through the device only to re-enter earth horribly disfigured. However, once they hone their powers, Doom has his own plans and the team are required to band together to defeat him.

First of all, I'd like to say that this film is better than the first 2 put together, but it isn't a good film at all. The film tone-wise is great. Dark and horror-like for the first half of the film, but after that, the film seems choppy, rushed and just full of nonsense. The dialogue was boring and not very clever. The character's aren't very well developed or their back-stories at all. They had plenty of time to flesh them out. When Dr. Doom arrives, everything goes to sh*t. The special affects are standard, there are some inconsistencies and there is "logic" which makes no sense. There was barely any action and the "Boss Fight" is barely watchable. Again, I say, they had plenty of time to flesh things and plot points out. 

Don't get me wrong, the film wasn't absolutely garbage as I have seen some terrible films in my time, and some terrible superhero films, but this film just isn't good. The acting was perfectly fine, even the plot wasn't that terrible, but the cinematography and direction was appalling. For myself, the best bit in this film was when they came back and were all disfigured. That felt like a horror. It was dark, frightening and twisted, but that is the only redeeming thing about the film. Oh, and the throw away remark regarding Dr. Doom's name was excellent and the part in the woods was OK but just wasn't long enough.

This film lost its beat and travels at a ridiculous pace and kinda reminded me of The Amazing Spider-Man 2 at the end but as badly as that was done, this one is worse.

Watch with caution if you really like this from the trailers but to be honest, you are probably best to wait until it arrives on Netflix.

P.s...half of the things in the trailer aren't even in the film and the other half is is the film.

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