Top Movie Trailers

For some movie enthusiasts, one of the most exciting elements of going to the movies is the chance to see trailers for upcoming film projects. Movie trailers, which are also known as previews, give audiences an initial glimpse at movies that have not yet been released. These previews are supposed to build excitement for films by quickly drawing you into the storyline; however, they could also be misleading. Since a great number of trailers advertise what are ultimately disappointing films, here is a list of the five things you can look for to determine if a previewed film is worth the hefty cost.

Pay Attention To The Cast

Many actors such as Michael Fassbender and George Clooney have a reputation for getting involved in great projects. Everybody knows Meryl Streep movies are good. Therefore, if she is starring in the film, it shouldn’t be disappointing to see it. Alternatively, actors such as Nicolas Cage, have a more suspect track record. If you have enjoyed the effort of a certain actor in the past, there’s a decent possibility you’ll enjoy their upcoming projects – particularly if they are Academy Award winners or nominees. Another hint that a movie is likely to be great is the casting of new actors in the lead role. Sometimes these actors have spectacular skill and achieve stellar performances.

Don’t Believe The Hype

The bottom line is, movie trailers are a marketing ploy for studios that have an objective to entice you to buy something that might not appeal to you otherwise. Studios implement many tactics to build anticipation about their films. If you see a previews for an action movie that consists mostly of explosions, car chases, and a loud soundtrack, it’s likely there’s not much else outstanding about the film. All motion pictures are should have some action, drama, and comedy. If the trailer doesn’t have one of these elements it’s unlikely the film will be able to live up to the hype. Your best bet will be to search for a combination of action, drama and comedy in every trailer.

Know Your Movie Directors

What first comes to mind when you see a film is directed by Martin Scorsese, Clint Eastwood, James Cameron, or Stephen Spielberg? Most people would think, “That’s destined to be an excellent film.” If that’s what you’re thinking, most times, you’d be right. In the past ten years, these industry giants have nabbed seven of the Academy Nominations for Best Director. Scorsese tops this list with the highest number of nominations; four during the past decade – with a win for “The Departed” in 2006. Be on the lookout for other repeat nominees like Joel & Ethan Cohen (Best Director, 2007, No Country for Old Men) and David Fincher, or recent winners like Michel Hazanavicius (The Artist).

Avoid Sloppy Sequels

While some movie sequels are just as good if not better than the original – notably “Terminator 2,” “The Dark Knight,” or “Rocky IV” – many are an awful new addition to the earlier version. Quality usually decreases in follow up versions of a great movie because studios often race sequels to the theaters so they can exploit the hype generated by a hit movie. When the movie makers have actor contracts, production teams, together with other film making ingredients already set up, they often push these less expensive films through the pipeline in an effort to squeeze every dime out from a franchise. As a consequence, they will end up with lackluster flicks like “Matrix: Reloaded,” “Blair Witch 2: Book of Shadows,” or “Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights.” If you ever wasted money on any of these films, you may be hesitant in the future to spend money on a sequel.

See What Film Critics Say

One of the most effective ways to avoid dishing out hard-earned cash for bad films may very well be to trust the movie critics over the movie trailer. The very function of a film critic, also known as a movie reviewer, is to advocate on behalf of the moviegoing consumer and inform audiences on what’s good out there. They identify the way a film relates to the social context of the day. For instance, a good movie critic would be able to convey to moviegoers, who grew up reading Marvel and DC comic books, playing with Transformers and G.I. Joes, or watching superhero cartoon characters on TV, how true a current movie adaptation remains to the original work’s storyline. There are plenty of reputable film critics, who write for newspapers, magazines, broadcast media, an internet-based publications, that can provide you with the scoop on which movies are worth the trip to the theater. Some well recognized examples are Roger Ebert & Richard Roeper (Chicago Sun-Times, At the Movies with Ebert & Roeper), Joel Siegel (Good Morning America), Elliott Stein (Village Voice), and Forest WV (Who Got The Role).

So, although there is no foolproof way to understand which trailer is advertising a bad movie, adhering to the five recommendations above may help you reduce the number of occasions you’re seriously dissatisfied at the theater. Now you should be better able to make Hollywood be the fool to pay the price for horrible movies promoted by good trailers.

written by Eon Black \\ tags: Movie Trailers

Today, Hollywood presents to us one of the greatest and remarkable personalities: Arnold Schwarzenegger. Being a multi-talented person, he had a great acting career. Today, he is well known as a politician, businessperson, bodybuilder, film producer, director and super star. He is a strongly self-motivated person, having the necessary determination to accomplish everything he wants in life. For sure, looking back at his life we are going to realize that we can learn many things, being a great example for anyone. In case that you think that Arnold Schwarzenegger’s life was great, you are about to find out that it was not like this. Only his will to succeed made him to reach the greatness. Yesterday, a Hollywood super hero turns today into a great Governor of California.

The Austrian Life Known as Austrian Oak, the child Arnold Schwarzenegger was born in Thal, a small Austrian village. He had a rough childhood being encouraged to work hard for a good living. From his young days, Arnold Schwarzenegger despised the common life. He always dreamed for a better life and it seems that his dream, after many years, came true. His childhood was quite difficult, as his parents imposed strict rules. Maybe for this reason, Arnold used to dream having a free life and this is why his father always considered him a rebel.

Starting Life: Bodybuilder and Model As a teenager, Arnold Schwarzenegger chooses bodybuilding for his career. After seriously training for years, he enrolled in the army respecting the Austrian laws. After finishing his military stage, back in 1965 he won the title Mr. Europe. The dream to become Mr. Universe brought him to America, the choice of his life. In America, he won Mr. Olympia for not less than seven times, which is a great accomplishment. Anyway, he remembers encountering different issues especially because of his strong German accent. Even today, after living for more than 30 years in America he still has a strong accent.

Personal Life Arnold Schwarzenegger was married with an English woman, Barbara Outland Baker. Anyway, the cultural and mentality differences separated them and as a result, in 1974, they get divorced and both of them continued their lives. After few years, Arnold Schwarzenegger remarried to Maria Shriver, President J.F. Kennedy’s niece. They have four children.

His Acting Career After 1970, Arnold Schwarzenegger was asked to play in Hercules and he accepted. After this debut, as he enjoyed acting, he accepted many roles in different movies. Of course, all of them were searching for heroes, role that Arnold Schwarzenegger was able to successfully perform. Some of these great movies are The Villain, Stay Hungry, Long Good Bye and many others. After these roles, he accepted to perform the role of Conan the Barbarian, which was a huge success. As well, he also starred in Terminator, still considered a great movie. After these remarkable successes, he played even more great characters in movies such as The Running Man, Raw Deal or Commando.

Business and Political Arnold Schwarzenegger has begun a partnership with Franco Columbu, a bodybuilder fellow. After this profitable partnership, he also opened a restaurant Schatzi on Main at Santa Monica. He sold the restaurant back in 1998 and today he runs some small businesses.

Of course, we all know that his political life is going to reveal us many things, as today Arnold Schwarzenegger is one of California’s Governors.

written by Arnold Zeiger \\ tags: Movie Trailers

Steve Martin is a veteran actor that is well-known for his comedy films. He has been around for more than 30 years and has accumulated numerous awards from his films. He’s not only an actor but also a stand up comedian, a writer, producer and a musician.

Before he got into the movie industry, he was a stand up comedian. It’s pretty obvious that he is still is until now with the way he charismatically joke around the press during interviews. With his natural ability to entertain the audience, it’s always an experience full of laughter when watching Steve Martin movies.

His first appearance was in a movie Disneyland Dream, way back in 1956. The movie was about a family who won a trip to Disneyland. Steve, who played as a Disneyland worker, appeared about twenty minutes into the movie. You would see some good old shots of the Southern Carolina in this movie. Recently, the US National Filming Registry found this movie as being historically and culturally significant, and thus endorsed the movie for preservation.

Steve’s biggest hit came in 1977. He played a part of a poor waiter who can’t seem to do anything right, in a movie entitled The Absent-Minded Waiter. This was only a very short 7-minute movie, but it was nominated in the Academy Awards.

Steve Martin’s ability to portray a different character other than a comedian was tested in the 1989 in a movie entitled, Pennies from the Heaven. He had to totally switch his persona to this new, more serious plot. He even had to learn tap dancing as his role had to have some dancing scenes. To the delight of his fans, he did perform really well. On that same year, Steve Martin won the Golden Globe Awards for Best Actor, which definitely was the pinnacle of his career at that point.

Steve has been around the movie business for quite a while now. He has some extensive list of great movies that has entertained many of us.

It was just a year ago that one of his most popular movie, The Pink Panther 2, was released. He played a detective, a very clever and fashionable one, who teams up with other detectives around the world to bring in The Cat Burglar, the movies own rendition of a cat woman type of villain. This movie is definitely a great sequel to it’s predecessor that was released way back in 2006.

Another one of the later Steve Martin Movies which was just released in 2009 is It’s Complicated. If you’re asking what the movie is all about, well, it’s complicated. This romantic comedy film portrays the complicated life of a woman (Jane) who is still into his ex-husband and now plays the “other woman” role in the affair. Steve plays the guy who’s in love with Jane, and finds out her affair with her ex-husband through a webcam. I know, that’s why the movie is entitled, It’s Complicated.

Disney will be releasing another movie this 2010 and Steve is part of the cast. It’s an animated movie so the guy is expected to do a voice over to one of the characters. We must admit, he’s becoming a regulary guy at Disney.

These are just some of the many Steve Martin Movies out there and for sure there are still some to come in the near future. In today’s very busy lifestyle, it couldn’t hurt once in a while to sit back, relax and enjoy some good-feel movies, and definitely, Steve Martin movies should be on the list.

written by Arnold Zeiger \\ tags: Movie Trailers

Will Ferrell, once voted “most annoying performer in Hollywood”, has since become one of the biggest comedy stars in the world. He’s one of those rare performers who seems to reach across all barriers and have some appeal to, well, just about everyone. He’s funny and he’s fearless, not to mention charming. This is the right combination to have just as much appeal to the fratboy comedy crowd as to your grandmother. Here are some of the best Will Ferrell movies…

Talladega Nights

Talladega Nights: The Legend of Ricky Bobby, is simply funny from beginning to end. It’s one of Ferrell’s best roles, and a big part of this is the fact that it’s a real movie, in spite of being a spoof. It’s not like Scary Movie or Meet the Spartans where they just cite some popular films and call it a day. It’s actually got good story telling, it has likable, interesting characters with real depth and pathos, and by the end, you’ll really find yourself rooting for them.

Night at the Roxbury

A Night at the Roxbury is… Okay, not one of his VERY best, but it really has its moments. It may seem odd to take the idea of guys bobbing their heads left and right to “What is Love?” and try to flesh it out into a full length feature film, but… Ferrell and Kattan do a lot to make the most of a B grade script. So while it’s not one of his very best, it’s one of the best examples of just how funny Ferrell can be whether or not the script is there for him.

Ben Stiller’s Zoolander

In Zoolander, Ferrell plays one of his funniest roles, even to this date, as the fashion obsessed, flamboyant villain. He’s incredibly over the top, throwing hot coffee on his assistant and cursing like a sailor. The funniest scene has to be “Gasoline fight”, which Ferrell actually didn’t get to participate in, but he has every one of the rest of the movie’s biggest laughs.

written by Arnold Zeiger \\ tags: Movie Trailers

Morgon Porterfield Freeman, Jr. popularly known as Morgan Freeman is a famous narrator, actor and television personality. He is well known for his distinctive voice. The popular African American actor is one of the most respected actors in Hollywood.

Morgan Freeman won a Golden Globe Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award. For his best performances on screen he was nominated for the Academy Award for the films Street Smart, Invictus , Driving Miss Daisy and won an Oscar for Million Dollar Baby in 2005 to name a few.

　 About Morgan Freeman: Morgan Freeman was born to Mayme Edna and Morgon Porterfield Freeman, Sr., in Memphis, Tennessee in 1937. Freeman was married to Jeanette Adair Bradshaw from October 22, 1967, until 1979. He married Myrna Colley-Lee later in 1984. 　

Morgan Freeman as a child had strong fascination for theatre. He was not much interested in academics and athletics. Morgan Freeman also served the Air force for 5 years i.e., from 1955 to 1959.He moved to Los Angeles in the early 1960′s and worked as a transcript clerk in Los Angeles Community College. Healso lived in New York City working as a dancer at the 1964 World’s Fair.

Freeman acted in an off-Broadway production of The Niggerlovers and with Pearl Bailey in an all-African-American Broadway production of Hello, Dolly in 1968.He worked in television for the PBS channel. He played Easy Reader on the PBS children’s educational series The Electric Company from 1971 to 1976. Freeman made his movie debut in a children’s film “Who Says I Can’t Ride A Rainbow”.He earned good name for his work in the prison drama Brubaker. He was also praised for his regular role in the day time drama Days of Our Lives from 1982 through 1984.

Acting career Freeman played an impeccable role in the movie Street Smart which was released in the year 1987. He was nominated for the Oscars under the ‘Best supporting actor’ category. His second movie in the succeeding year was Clean and Sober. The movie Driving Miss Daisy gave him another opportunity to enter into the Oscar nominations for the second time. Morgan Freeman is such a talented actor that he can perform any role really well. His acting skills are evident in the movie Prince of Thieves which was released in the year 1991.

Through the great roles that he played, Morgan Freeman shows us that he is a great actor. He is able to interpret not only the specially created roles for African-American actors, but also any type of parts. He performs his role presenting an excellent acting talent and exquisite skills. The Prince of Thieves is a great movie exemplifying his unique talent.

Later, he shows interest into a director career and tries his chance with the movie Bopha. Anyway, as this did not present a favorable result, he accepted the role in The Shawshank Redemption, a prison drama. He also interprets great parts in movies such as Kiss the Girls, Unforgiving, Amistad or Seven and many others.

The year 2005 gave him great success. He was involved in 3 block buster movies War of the Worlds, Batman Begins and March of the Penguins. The Dark Knight in 2008 was another blockbuster. Freeman played the role of Nelson Mandela in the film Invictus. He earned a Golden Globe nod, as well as his fifth Academy Award nomination.

written by Arnold Zeiger \\ tags: Movie Trailers