Trailer Tuesday - X-Men: Days of Future Past

This week's Trailer Tuesday is dedicated to the first trailer for 2014's X-Men: Days of Future Past. This trailer was released last week and has me even more excited for the upcoming Marvel film. Check it out here:

Words cannot describe how incredible this film will be. Yes, I choose to be completely optimistic with the outcome of this film. Because we all know that this could also go completely WRONG. But I am hoping that director Bryan Singer wouldn't tackle this complicated storyline without having a good story to back it up.

In one of the most META films to be released in the past few years, Days of Future Past is a sequel to X-Men: The Last Stand, X-Men: First Class, and The Wolverine. Yep, it's a sequel to THREE movies. And on top of that, the film will feature stars from all three movies. How is this possible, you might be wondering. Well, the film will feature two time lines that will, eventually, cross. So you will get to see both wonderful portrayals of Professor X and Magneto: James McAvoy and Sir Patrick Stewart as Professor X and Michael Fassbender and Sir Ian McKellan as Magneto. Amazing.

Other stars from the franchise returning include: Hugh Jackman, Halle Berry, Jennifer Lawrence, Anna Paquin, Ellen Page, Shawn Ashmore, and Nicholas Hoult.

The only unfortunate thing about this upcoming film is that both Cyclops and Jean Grey will not be featured as both of their characters were killed off (wrongly so) in X-Men: The Last Stand.

If the trailer doesn't get you hyped up for the upcoming Marvel film, check out the promotional posters that has been released: 

For more on the upcoming superhero film, check out the wikipedia page here or the official movie page here.

Trailer Tuesday - Thor: The Dark World

We are due for another year chop full of superhero films! Check out the first trailer for November's Thor: The Dark World:

This is one superhero film I am really excited to see. Not a huge fan of Thor, I found myself really enjoying the first film. And not solely because they chose the best actor to portray the title character. The story was really well done. And it also helped that Kenneth Branagh was in the director's chair. Unknown director Alan Taylor has replaced Branagh which could go either way: could be good because he isn't influenced by big budget action/sets/props like some hollywood directors (Michael Bay, I'm looking at you) or it could be bad because he really has no clue what to do with a film of this size. I'm hoping it's the former and he will have a "Joss Whedon" moment with this film.

Unlike a lot of superhero films, a sequel to 2011's Thor makes sense. There were a lot of questions left unanswered with the previous film (and subsequently 2012's epic superhero mash-up The Avengers) and a lot of story left to tell. And with a dynamic villain such as Loki (portrayed by the brilliant Tom Hiddleston), there's no telling where what we will see in this upcoming film.

The trailer doesn't follow the typical superhero film trailer format. Instead of focusing on the big fight and action scenes, we see more about the characters and the story behind them. We get to see a further look into the world of Asgard (and the worlds surrounding it) that we only caught a glimpse of in the first film. We also get to see that Thor has completely embraced his "hero" fate.

The sequel sees returns from actors Chris Hemsworth (in the title role), Hiddleston, Natalie Portman, Kat Denning, Stellan Skarsgard, and Anthony Hopkins as Thor's father and King of Asgard. New to the franchise is Christopher Eccelston, who will be taking on the role of the main antagonist in this film, Malekith. I'm excited to see what he will bring to this role as he is a great actor who can take on any role.

The film is set to be released on November 8, 2013 and will unfortunately be converted to 3D post-production. Oh joy. (Have you seen Clash of the Titans? Check out our review of that mess here). 

For more information on the upcoming film, check out the official page here or the Wikipedia page and be sure to check Don't Sit Next To Us for updates!

Trailer Tuesday - The Wolverine

For all you Marvel geeks out their, check out the teaser trailer for The Wolverine:

Looks like we are in for another summer of superhero films!

Everyone's favourite anti-hero is back in this second installment in the Wolverine and X-Men series. But this isn't your typical sequel. Because Marvel likes to make the X-Men series complicated, The Wolverine takes place after the events of the third X-Men film, X-Men: The Last Stand. For those that remember, X-Men Origins: Wolverine took place before Wolverine joined the X-Men in the first film (X-Men). AND it is the sixth installment in the series, that also includes: X2: X-Men United and X-Men: First Class. The seventh installment, X-Men: Days of Future Past is already slated to be released in 2014.

Okay, now that we got that crazy background out of the way, let's discuss this week's trailer.

Hugh Jackman is back as the title character and is more disgruntled than ever. Still dealing with the fallout of the events in The Last Stand, Wolverine (Logan) is brought to Japan to meet with a mysterious man who he had once saved. The man, who is now on his death bed, presents Logan with a way to end his eternal life. Having struggled with his fate and what he has become for years, Logan is thrown into a state of vulnerability that he hasn't seen since he was a child. 

There is no doubt that this film will be successful. Jackman has proven several times over that he has become the character of Wolverine. He has also proven that he can carry his own film featuring this fan-favourite X-Men character. This film also features another fan-favourite, this time in the form of the storyline which is based on the highly regarded comic book arc of the same name.  

The last Wolverine film did not fare too well against critics so the team behind this second Jackman film decided to do something different. From a fan of the television series, I hope we get to see a few of our favourite and more well known X-Men characters which was something the previous film did. I'm still waiting for a bigger part for Gambit.

The latest in the X-Men series is set to be released on July 26, 2013. And yes, it will be in 3D. Because what isn't these days?

For more information on the upcoming Marvel film, check out the Wikipedia page or the film's official page.