Superbowl Movie Trailers

Hugo Weaving as the Red Skull from Captain America: The First Avenger

In no particular order, the movie trailers that played during the Superbowl XLV commercial breaks (and no, these aren't all of them, just the ones that I found the most interesting, infuriating, or cool):

PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: ON STRANGER TIDES (to be released May 20, 2011)
Captain Jack Sparrow encounters mermaids, zombies, and Blackbeard on his quest to find the Fountain of Youth.


SUPER 8 (to be released June 10, 2011)
Not much is known about this flick, which is par for the course for a J. J. Abrams movie - and I like it that way.  What IS known: set in rural Ohio, 1979, a group of kids are filming a zombie movie when they see something escape a derailed freight train.  A dash of Close Encounters mixed with Cloverfield with a sprinkle of E.T. perhaps?


CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE FIRST AVENGER (to be released July 22, 2011)
The cogs are finally starting to settle into place for the upcoming Avengers movie.  After the credits rolled in the first Iron Man, we get a quick scene with Samuel Jackson as Nick Fury introducing the "Avenger Initiative."  A good observer can also find Cap's shield in the background of one scene in the original Iron Man (the shield makes another obvious appearance in Iron Man 2).  Then there's the scene in The Incredible Hulk with Tony Stark meeting up with General Ross.  Finally, after the credits rolled for Iron Man 2, we got a shot of Mjollnir, Thor's hammer.  It will be interesting to see what secret scenes, Easter eggs, and nods this year's Thor and Captain America movies reveal.


THOR (to be released May 6, 2011)


TRANSFORMERS 3: DARK OF THE MOON (to be released July 1, 2011)
I still hate the name of this movie.  It still reminds me of Ozzy's Bark at the Moon album.  I have a strange feeling this movie will actually be better than part two, but that's really not saying much.  It's fairly easy to be better than shitty.


BATTLE: LOS ANGELES (to be released March 11, 2011)
I know almost nothing of this movie aside from what we get from the trailer.


COWBOYS & ALIENS (to be released July 29, 2011)
The graphic novel this is based on is great in concept but doesn't really play out all that well, in my opinion.  Since I don't do full reviews, I won't go into it but it's far from terrible.  How it grabbed Jon Favreau's and Alex Kurtzman's attentions are way beyond me, though.  What boggles me the most is the trailer doesn't have a single scene that's even remotely reminiscent of the comic.  This one really could go either way: really awesome or absolutely terrible.


PRIEST (to be released May 13, 2011)
Manga publisher Tokyopop brought the comic series Priest to the United States from Korea back in 2002.  It circulated really well within the horror genre circles but never really took off.  I don't know much aside from the fact the comic had a lot of vampires, guns, martial arts, angels, and demons in it.