Today we have a rather large harvest of trailers for you good folk’s to feast your eyes on, let’s get started.
Machine Gun Preacher
The story of Sam Childers, a former drug-dealing biker tough guy who found God and became a crusader for hundreds of Sudanese children who’ve been forced to become soldiers.
Starring Gerard Butler and directed by Marc Forster ( Quantum of Solace, Monster’s Ball). Release date, September 23, 2011.
Admittedly any movie based on a true story instantly gets me interested and wow this is some kind of story.
Red Tails
The story of the Tuskegee Airmen, the first African-American pilots to fly in a combat squadron during World War II.
Starring Cuba Good Jr, David Oyelowo, Terrence Howard and Bryan Cranston. Release date, January 20, 2012.
Dogfights!
Underworld Awakening
Vampire Selene escapes imprisonment only to find herself in a war between humans, lycans and vampires.
Starring Kate Beckinsale, Michael Ealy and India Eisley. Release date, January 20, 2012.
More of the same from this franchies but wait… its in 3d. Looks rather tame but then again I do like Kate Beckinsale in tight leather outfits.
Puncture
A David and Goliath law drama about a drug-addicted lawyer who takes on a health supply corporation while battling his own personal demons.
Starring Chris Evans, Michael Biehn and Vinessa. Release date, September 23, 2011.
Looks like it can be good but let me just put this out there, they keep saying hes a heavy user, a drug addict – are they talking about roids? That is the beefiest drug addict I’ve ever seen.
The Woman in Black
A young lawyer travels to a remote village to organize a recently deceased client’s papers, where he discovers the ghost of a scorned woman set on vengeance.
Daniel Radcliffe, Ciarán Hinds and Janet McTeer. Release date, February 10, 2012.
Red Tails has taken sooooooo long to be produced that I can’t help but feel that this movie has already been released many other times as other movies, or TV shows (I am looking at you Amazing Stories!). It just seems like a tired genre (telling the story of how black soldiers were given no respect but fought against the odds and racism in the end proving to everyone that they were heroes).
Don’t get me wrong. I actually think the trailer looks good and this particular telling will probably be better than those that preceeded it. I will definitely watch it.
Now if they want to be original, Hollywood should tell the story of white Americans from our past that fought against the odds and racism of other whites to defend black people and their rights in the end proving that America was NOT entirely a racist nation in the past. Well, no, on second thought, that would be boring and has also been done to death.
/sarcasm
Chris Evans and Michael Beihn? That’s a pretty rad combo