Moe Lane

Sometimes we don’t appreciate the horrors that Honest Trailers has to view. Multiple times. Just to make us laugh. When that happens, they give us their take on true horror. Like… Howard the Duck.

Note that I’m not putting up an Amazon link for that movie. I’m not a monster. If you haven’t seen it… treasure your ignorance. Treasure it, and cling to it, and never let it go.

Brutal, but presumably fair. I didn’t actually see Mortal Engines, and apparently neither did almost anybody else. I probably should have, but this Honest Trailer raises a compelling argument as to why I was probably right not to, all along.

…And a part of me is going ‘Dammit.’ It was, perhaps, just not gonzo enough.

I’ve been waiting for this one, and Honest Trailers still managed to achieve tactical surprise for their take on Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse*. I won’t spoil things. Go ahead and watch; it’s clever.

They did remarkably little in the way of analysis of Aquaman.

They mostly went with “Do you see this? Do you SEE this?,” on the grounds that since the movie started with full-out gonzo and stayed there there’s not much more to say. And, indeed, there is not: except that this movie was awesomely fun. You should watch it.

Short version: none of us missed much. Either too silly, or just not silly enough. Or both?

I do agree with Honest Trailers, though: Robin Hood 2058 (‘a “rogue MI5 agent on a mission to avenge injustice” in a dystopian future London”‘) sounds like it might have been fun. It seems to have disappeared into development hell, though. Pity.

I’m actually wondering now whether I should see A Star is Born 4.0.2.

I didn’t bother because it’s, as the Honest Trailer points out, simultaneously a remake of all the other Stars Are Born and apparently pulling stuff from a movie called Crazy Heart, which is also apparently drawing from the Stars, and it’s all very meta, no? — But apparently (as one reviewer put it) Bradley Cooper can sing, and Lady Gaga can act. Go figure.

Moe Lane

PS: I was expecting to see the Spider-Man: Into the Spider-verse Honest Trailer today, honestly. But that was because I thought the DVD release date was laste week, not next month. My bad.

Honest Trailers was mostly “it was all right” about Halloween (2018)…

…but when they got to the true crime podcasters in that movie, well.  Honest Trailers had views on them, let me tell you.  Somewhat waspish views, too.  The kind that professionals have when Hollywood gets the technical details wrong.  Seriously, listening to said views was what made me put this one up.

They maybe don’t really want to admit it too loudly, but Honest Trailers liked Venom.

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Every time I start to worry if I rely on Honest Trailers a little too much for content, they do something like this.

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Word of advice: don’t have a mouth full of Stove Top Stuffing* when you watch this one.

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