And Action!

There have been a lot of 'action film' trailers released recently. Some for films I would highly recommend to you, some not so much.

These trailers, although they are all for films a similar genre, have very different connotations. Whether its a sequel to a massive blockbuster film starring every single beefy man you can think of with The Expendables 2, a low budget independent movie which snuck its way in under the radar with Chronicle, the first part to an epic futuristic sic-fi at ion series with The Hunger Games or a nonsensical follow up to a Stephen Sommers 2009 summer flop, with G.I. Joe: Retaliation.

G.I. Joe: Retaliation

Back in 2009 a very large budget movie was released staring a number of pretty darn good actors. Joseph Gordan-Levitt, Dennis Quaid, Channing Tatum & Christopher Eccleston were all on that list. However, despite its large number of top notch A-listers, it managed to flop, quite considerably. With a Metacritic score of 32/100, G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra was a complete let down.

Flash forward to 2011, now arrives a trailer for the sequel. A SEQUEL!? To one of the worst movies of 2009?! Staring Bruce Willis?! And Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson.. Well, any film staring Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson has to be awesome right..?

So the trailer does a good job of explaining a whole load of nothing. Yeah, so its got a whole load of big money action shots, but whats happened to Channing Tatum? Was he not the main character in the first film?

Feel free to splash out and go see this movie if you so choose. But I will steer clear of this one.

The Hunger Games

I have only just read this book series on my Kindle and boy was it breathtaking. One of the most engrossing story lines I have read in a very long time. The premise is fairly simple and somewhat unoriginal, in fact the author Suzanne Collins had a few issues with critics claiming it was a direct ripoff of Battle Royale, but the way the story progresses throughout the series, is on a much more epic scale than that of any other story of similar nature.

This trailer is very effective. It sells the story to people who haven't read the books but doesn't show too much for it to ruin the entire story. And for people who have read the book it does nothing but whet the appetite for what looks to be an incredible trilogy of movies.

Feel free to post your opinions below.

Chronicle

This gem appeared out of nowhere!

Wow.. That is all.

The Expendables 2

Fresh off the back of the success of the first movie in storms The Expendables 2.

I have to admit that I have not had the chance to watch the first one yet. So I will leave this one up to you guys to make your own decisions. Watching this trailer makes me want to see the first one, so that must be a good thing.

Best of the Rest

There are a lot of other trailers for action films coming out soon. So many that I'm not going to cover them all in detail.

• Liam Neeson stars in the action adventure film The Grey, which looks a little like 'Alive' on steroids.

• Marvels superheros team up to form The Avengers. Filmed by Joss Whedon, this could be even better than Iron Man, Thor and The Hulk put together!

• The trailer is finally here for Men In Black III, set kind of as a semi-prequel lets hope this is an improvement on the second one.

• Disney try to make a film combining Avatar, Star Wars & Prince of Persia and came up with John Carter. A Sci-fi epic based on a book series written in the early 1900s.

I hope you have enjoyed reading and watching. My next post should be landing at some point next week and will look at the best and worst of 2011.

Have a great Christmas.