We’re waiting to see if Ride Along 2 has the clout to beat Star Wars: The Force Awakens at the box-office, but there’s also plenty to cheer when it comes to films in the future. This week was the first great one of 2016 when it came to sneak peeks at long-anticipated features. Well, one of them only became anticipated this week. We didn’t know the movie even existed until a couple of days ago. There’s one clunker, too, but that’s buried at the end of these exciting new previews…
Blue Mountain State: The Rise Of Thadland
Blue Mountain State isn’t just hitting the big screen this year. It also looks ready to hit the big screen with a decent budget to back up a plot about a massive house party. These are multiple blessings — assuming we’re all living in cities where Blue Mountain State: The Rise of Thadland actually plays in theaters. The official synopsis says that Thad graduates BMS and is drafted into the NFL while quarterback Alex fights to save their house from being shut down by the vengeful university president. Fans know that clichéd story promises a lot of greatness, and this trailer is a lot more than we expected….
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePExeW5gWMM]
Ip Man 3
You’ll want to catch up if you missed the first two Ip Man movies, because the third installment of the martial arts series has even more Donnie Yen and adds Mike Tyson to the mix. Watch them quick, though, because this thing is out on January 22, 2016. Tyson plays a crooked land developer in 1959 Hong Kong, and it’s kind of like watching him play The Kingpin in a Daredevil episode where the big fight is a contractually-obligated draw. There’s other good action, though. Also, you get to see Ip Man (temporarily) turn down Bruce Lee as a potential student…
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yo7z8c87Egg]
10 Cloverfield Lane
Yeah, J.J. Abrams and the Bad Robot crew have done it again. They’ve snuck out another Cloverfield movie — and we don’t have many answers about this first trailer, either. Some say it’s an existing script that Bad Robot bought and turned into the first step for a potential Cloverfield franchise. Others say it’s really a continuation of the Cloverfield monster saga. We just know that it was easy to make cheap because the entire thing looks like it was filmed on two sets. That’s how Tales From the Darkside did it back in the ’80s…
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQy-ANhnUpE]
Zoolander 2
This one starts out more like a commercial parody for Zoolander’s “No. 2” scent, but then it becomes a more traditional trailer with plenty of Will Ferrell and Kristen Wiig. Then it pays off again with another commercial parody at the end that’s better than the first one. Let’s hope the whole thing is in the movie…
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKmbnKB62xA]
Money Monster
We had to put up with this damn thing filming in our neighborhood, and now it turns out to look like the worst kind of “taut and tense” big Hollywood thriller where a bunch of millionaires make a movie about the horrors of milllionaires. George Clooney is the TV show finance guy who gets taken hostage (along with his producer, Julia Roberts) by a desperate investor after the pundit pushes a stock that crashes big. Everything you need to know about this one is summed up in the scene where Clooney punches the guy who will most likely be the evil stock guru who engineered the stock crash. Put it in the trailer to promise the rubes a feel-good ending…
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qr_nGAbFkmk]
