My Favorite Scene: Cloverfield (2008) “Headless Lady Liberty”

Cloverfield was a brilliant marketing campaign.  Much like it’s follow-up, 10 Cloverfield Lane, which opens Friday, Cloverfield appeared out of nowhere from the black hole of secrecy that JJ Abrams apparently owns a timeshare in.  The concept is great.  It’s basically experiencing a Godzilla attack from the standpoint of the tiny ant people running out of its way.  It uses the “found footage” style of filming, but the conceit is that the attack happened at a party where they were filming it so it largely works.

I say “largely” because it doesn’t quite get pulled off, but it’s still a lot of fun and I enjoyed it.  My favorite moment is at the beginning of the attack when the stakes are announced by Lady Liberty’s head bouncing down the street toward our group of survivors.  Statement made.  JJ Abrams produced it, Matt Reeves directed it and went on to do Dawn of the Planet of the Apes and writer Drew Goddard is the showrunner on Daredevil.  10 Cloverfield Lane looks like a completely different film and Abrams has already said we won’t see the monster, but I’m intrigued to visit this world again.

Trailer Time: Deadpool Trailer #1 (2016) *….ok so this is happening*

I have very little in the way of explanation that can take Deadpool and introduce him to people who have never heard of him.  Ok, let’s try….  He’s a mutant.  He’s a ….well, he heals very well, kills very well, thinks he’s a character in a comic book, is insane in a way that makes the Joker look rational and he’s very, very talky.  Which is ironic, because FOX used Reynolds as Deadpool in X-Men: Origins Wolverine and sewed his mouth shut and used him as a zombie villain.

Since then Reynolds had Green Lantern bomb on him (which I do not hold him responsible for), and then seemingly had a kind of psychotic break.  He decided he was going to make a Deadpool film for the hardcore comic Deadpool fans (of which I am not one….Deadpool is something for tiny doses).  He launched a one-man campaign, often in costume, to get the weirdest, truest version of Wade Wilson on-screen and it looks like he just may have succeeded.  Make no mistake, this is the tamest, most G-rated trailer I think they could possibly make for this film and there’s a red band trailer on the Deadpool film website if you want a better idea of what this film is going to be like.  I’ll tell you this, though, I don’t think we’ve ever seen anything remotely like what is going to come out on February 16. 2016.

Trailer Time: Big Hero 6 Trailer #1 (2014)

This movie has kind of snuck under the radar, but I’ve been hoping for a great full trailer since the teaser a few months ago and here we have it.  How to Train Your Dragon 2 wasn’t all that I wanted it to be, so I’m still looking for a home run animated film for the year and this could very well be it.  I’m looking forward to seeing this when it debuts on November 6th.