Baz Luhrmann crazied up ‘The Great Gatsby’

I’ve never actually read F. Scott Fitzgerald‘s 1925 novel The Great Gastby, mostly because no one ever reads that unless it’s for a high school English class. That being said, I’m pretty sure it didn’t have Kanye West songs with weird, sparkly, colorful stuff festooned all around it. Yes, Baz Luhrmann is basically trying to remake Moulin Rouge all over again, which means throwing modern theatricality at the 1920′s, hoping something sticks. I’m not sure how much of it does stick, but at least it might be fun to watch?

The Great Gatsby

Exactly How It Sounds: Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter

It’s Abraham Lincoln. KILLING VAMPIRES. Honestly, the only time anyone should have to explain to you why this concept is awesome is if you’ve just won a battery-eating contest. Yes, it sounds like it was written by opening a can of alphabet soup and pouring it over Mad Libs, but seriously: ABRAHAM LINCOLN VAMPIRE HUNTER. This is the most awesomely nonsensical mashup of great things since Turducken.

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‘Bait’ (in 3D) looks awesomely stupid!

Don’t you just hate it when you go grocery shopping, and then people with guns come in and hold everyone up, and then a tsunami hits and floods the entire store and also a 12-foot long great white shark gets swept in to? Oh, wait, that never happens to anyone in real life, but it is the premise of Bait (in 3D), which looks so awesomely stupid that I have to see it. Granted, I’m a little disenchanted with the whole shark grindhouse genre after last year’s Shark Night (also in 3D) limped through a neutered hour and a half, but at least there’s enough gore in the trailer that promises us something fun to watch and laugh at.

Bait

Super Preview: The Amazing Spider-Man

Everyone knows that something becomes immediately better the moment you put the word “Super” in front of it. Case in point: super hero, super sandwich, super nanny … all of those things are better because they have super powers. And now the people behind The Amazing Spider-Man (July 3rd) is releasing a four-minute super preview, which is really just a trailer with an added minute and a half of Andrew Garfield saving a little kid from a burning, falling car. Also, this version of Spider-Man apparently has a fear of small spaces, because he will not pass up an opportunity to take off his mask. He’s like the male stripper of super heroes. “Did anyone call for … *rips off clothes* … a Spider-Man? PELVIC THRUST!”

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Red Band (and awkward) Trailer: The Watch

Here’s the awkward thing about The Watch: Originally, it was called Neighborhood Watch, and it was about a bunch of paranoid middle-aged guys (including Ben Stiller, Vince Vaughn and Seth Rogen) on a self-appointed neighborhood watch with guns. The movie coincided with the Trayvon Martin case, wherein a paranoid middle-aged guy on a self-appointed neighborhood watch shot a defenseless kid in Florida. See how that might be seen as unfortunate? Well, it turn out the movie (out on July 27th) is actually about aliens or some shit, so at least it’s somewhat removed from reality. Still, that is some crap timing.

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Trailer: ‘The Amazing Spider-Man’

Good news! The new trailer for the upcoming Spiderman reboot, The Amazing Spider-Man (opening July 3rd), is finally here, and not only does it look awesome and well-written, but there’s absolutely no sign of emo Peter Parker jazz dancing while everyone talks about their feelings for two damn hours. Yes, I did watch Spider-Man 3. Yes, I am still furiously angry over it.

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‘The Expendables 2′ trailer goes KABOOM!

For the sake of clarity, the following post has been translated into male id, the only language capable of accurately expressing the themes of The Expendables 2. Boom boom smashey crashey pow pow pow kick punch GUN boom. Rifle explosion testicles kick boom crashey F*CKIN’ AMERICA BOOOYAH. Bullet smashey boom punch kick punch erection. GUN! GUN! GUN! GUN! Chuck Norris. KABOOOOOOM! The Expendables 2 opens in theaters on August 17th.

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‘Men in Black 3′ features … interesting motorcycles

All right, I’ll be the first to admit that this new clip from Men in Black 3 looks pretty damn good, and interesting, but ummm … how do I put this … does anyone else feel like the vehicles Will Smith uses look kind of like Mr. Garrison’s “It” vehicle from South Park? Remember that one? It was like that gyroscope motorcycle that basically made you look like a total party bottom? I swear, that’s all I was able to see the entire time I watched this. Anyway, dirty minds aside, the clip and the movie look like a lot of fun, so be sure to check Men in Black 3 out in a few weeks when it hits theaters on May 25th.

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Terry Crews on behalf of ‘The Expendables 2′

The sequel to the veritable man-meat buffet that was The Expendables (or as I like to call it, Pow Pow Boom Splodey Testicle Happy Fun Time Hour) is coming soon, and to hype up the impending trailer for The Expendables 2, IGN enlisted the help of former NFL player Terry Crews to yell at you for thirty-seconds while shit goes KABOOM and Crews gets an erection from this teaser trailer. That’s what I’m going to assume anyway, because the guy literally does not take his hands off his balls for the duration of his screen time. Not that I blame him … oh crap, I just said that out loud, didn’t I?

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New Trailer: The Dark Knight Rises

This is roughly my reaction to the new trailer for The Dark Knight Rises in its entirety: so there’s a storm coming, kind of like Game of Thrones I guess … oh crap, is that Bane? Oh man, I can totally understand him this time around. Uh-oh, Batman’s falling into a well and Bane is hijacking a plane from another plane in midair and EXPLODING MAHF*CKIN’ BRIDGES AND THE KIDS ARE WATCHING oh snap, that’s the Batmobile and Batcycle and oh sweet man, it’s Alfred! I love Alfred man, he’s a badass! Damn. Riots in the street and explosions and hovercrafts and BANGBANGBANGEDYBOOM BATMAN AND CATWOMAN FIGHTING TOGETHER AND TAKING OFF IN A ROCKET OH SWEET YES FUCK! Towel please.

The Dark Knight Rises

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