Well, I guess it’s about time we got one of these seeing how the sequel is finally on it’s way. By the way, anyone else notice that Roland Emmerich has trouble getting his sequels made?

I wasn’t a huge fan of Independence Day so that may explain why I enjoyed this honest trailer a lot more than perhaps some of you might.

Yes, this is from May 10. I’m a little behind the times. This highlights the fact that I’m not actually subscribed to these videos in any meaningful way (like RSS) so I can be aware when new ones come out. I must fix that.

Anyway, this was pretty good and though I liked the film, this does highlight some of the problems I had with the end fo the film. And, as usual, it’s funny. I always thought the end of that film was just a little problematic — both the way Jack got onto the alien ship thing, and the fact that only one of the other ones showed up. So watch this video, and don’t let it…

As much as I did not like the film, and by the same token didn’t care for the music as much as I wanted to, I still find this featurette fun and fascinating. It’s definitely an interesting concept to pull a bunch of drummers together with the same idea as putting a string section together to give it a big, full sound. Frankly in listening to the score you don’t really think about it having drums in any traditional sense. Using what amounts to a “drum section” really did work well.

Have I mentioned that I’m looking forward to this one a lot?

Obviously returning to the franchise are Bruce Willis, Helen Mirren, Mary-Louise Parker and John Malkovich. Newcomers are Anthony Hopkins, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Byung Hun Lee, Brian Cox and Neal McDonough.

The first film was a lot of fun and I expect no different from this film. To speed us along in that way of thinking we have here six clips from the upcoming film.

RED 2 comes to theaters on July 19^th.

What are you waiting for! Go watch it! I’ve owned it via iTunes since the first day it was available, but if you’ve been waiting for something like this, then now is your lucky chance! I named the film my favorite from 2012 and I wrote a review of it, and of course Joe and I talked about it on episode 11 of The MovieByte Podcast. For a trip back into the far reaching depths of 2012, check out those resources before (or after) you watch The Avengers on Netflix.

But surely you aren’t still reading this as you’ve already queued up The Avengers on Netflix and sat down to watch with your big…

I know you guys have some opinions about the review I wrote (some of you think a good beheading is in order — Corey, I’m looking at you), and Joe also has some things to tell me, and I him. So make sure to join us in the chat room tonight as we broadcast live. You can make your opinions heard!

And I certainly plan on having fun trash talking Man of Steel! We’ll be starting at 6:30 Central Time so make perparations people!

So, apparently this is a thing. I guess LEGO didn’t want to be left out of this super hero craze. And what with Hasbro jumping into the fray and making films, why not LEGO? I have kind of mixed feelings about this. It looks unbelievably dumb, and fun at the same time. It should certainly bring back nastolgia for me too. LEGO blocks were my best friend growing up, and I didn’t even have all those fancy special blocks all the cool kids have now. I just had regular old bricks. Sure I had the varying assortment of sizes, 2 pegs, 3 pegs, 8 pegs, etc, and a few tapered blocks. But that was it for…

I’ll say this for New Zealand, it sure is a beautiful place, and a perfect place to shoot “Middle Earth”. And actually, though at one point in the video they say it’s so beautiful and perfect you’ll think it’s CGI, I was thinking the opposite, I was thinking it does indeed look too good and too real to be CGI.

Man if this video doesn’t make you want to visit New Zealand, I’m not sure you have a soul.

Snyder has been busy directing features such as Alan Moore’s graphic novel, Watchmen, and the computer animated Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole, while also writing and directing the female action flick Sucker Punch. His latest directorial effort, the highly anticipated Superman origin story, Man of Steel flies into theaters this coming Friday, June 14.

The last few Wisdom Wednesdays have revealed the intelligent, wise, and sometimes hilarious Golden Rules of directors Danny Boyle, Steve Buscemi, and Jim Jarmusch. This week MovieMaker brings you Zach Snyder’s 10 Golden Rules…