The output from the HISHE team has been less this year it seems, but they do occasionally drop some greatness on us. Given that Joe and I are going to be talking Star Wars with Jim Metzendorf this evening when we record The MovieByte Podcast, this one is pretty timely and addresses something that’s always bothered me. The Stormtroopers are supposed to be the elite soldiers of the empire, and yet most of the time it seems like they can’t hit the broad side of a barn. Worse, Obi-Wan Kenobi points out to Luke at the beginning of A New Hope that the blast points are “too accurate” for sand… Read The Rest

I have quite the bag of mixed feelings when it comes to modern trailers. In same ways I think they tend to be formulaic in our modern time. But in other ways, I watch some of those older trailers and remember how awful they were. It was really quite terrible.

Then again I think of how much fewer spoilers older trailers tended to have and I wish a little for those days.

But for the most part, I think our trailer landscape is far better than it has ever been and I love a good movie trailer. I don’t find trailers tend to spoil my own enjoyment of a film and so I always look forward to and…

I’ve got a little bit of Monday morning fun here for you. The first teaser trailer for The Force Awakens hasn’t been out that long, but we’ve already got some alternate fan and/or hate cuts going on that I’d like to share with you.

First up, it appears George Lucas has already gotten his grubby hands on the new film and plans to release the George Lucas Special Edition replete with banthas, a whole lot more storm troopers on Tatooine, Jango Fett clones, Jaba the Hut, force ghost Hayden Christensen Anakin force ghost, crazy amounts of Tie Fighters ganging up on the Falcon, and of course,…

This is completely cheesy and corny, and I completely loved it… except for the end maybe. I’m not convinced that was the correct outcome, and it seemed a little too easy.

I’m also not sure what the point was, and I’m also not sure I care. The production quality is actually pretty incredible. And Jon-Charles Cordery did a pretty impressive Darth Vader voice.

Hollywood, CA–At a press conference today outside his estate in Beverly Hills, acclaimed director Peter Jackson announced his plans to make a 72-film adaptation of J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Silmarillion. “It was the next logical step after doing Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit,” Jackson said. “In Lord of the Rings, we took over a thousand pages of novel and adapted it to the big screen in three extremely long films. Then in The Hobbit, we took a children’s book a fraction the length of Lord of the Rings, and also made it into three extremely long films.”

Jackson then unfolded his plan for…

Funny, as always, particularly the end part with Batman and Superman — which is the trope they always love to do now.

The HISHE guys don’t seem to put out nearly as many How it Should Have Endeds as they used to, so when they do release something, it’s kind of a special treat.

In this one, prepare to have your childhood ruined, or the childhood of your, well, children with the more recent Disney films.

The Marvel Cinematic Universe will grow even bigger than ever before with Phase 3!

At a special event held at the El Capitan Theatre in Hollywood, Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige took to the stage to announce the full slate for Phase 3 of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, featuring a mix of fan-favorite characters along with a number of heroes set to make their big screen debut in the coming years.

And while the confirmation of upcoming sequels to the successful Captain America, Thor, Avengers and Guardians of the Galaxy franchises would have been enough to send fans into a frenzy of…

No, I’m not kidding. The latest Honest Trailer makes a solid case for this premise. It’s pretty striking in some ways.

And as always, it’s a lot of fun. So watch the trailer for the film that “has the mutant power to make Brett Ratner disapear.”