Get ready to get your mindless action flick on, because that’s what I expect Pacific Rim to be. Bolstering my opinion in this regard is the 30 second international TV spot that really tells us to expect nothing more than a lot of action and robots and stuff.

This Guillermo del Toro film will open in theaters on July 12, 2013, and stars Charlie Hunnam, Idris Elba, Rinko Kikuchi, Charlie Day, Ron Perlman, Robert Kazinsky, Max Martini, Clifton Collins, Burn Gorman, Larry Joe Campbell, Brad William Henke and Diego Klattenhoff. I only recognize one name in that list, and he’s not a huge player…

Melissa McCarthy knows how to interrogate a suspect in The Heat. You throw “the book” at him!

This film has the potential to be good, funny, goofy, with a side of character development. But I was burned by the last Melissa McCarthy film I saw (my first introduction to her) so I’m a little gun-shy. But, I often like Sandra Bullock’s films so maybe this will be good. There is the potential. But there’s also so much that could go wrong with this film. The only thing for it is to wait and see.

In this clip which aired during the MTV Awards, Tony’s house is blowing up around him while he tries to use a prototype Iron Man suite that appears not to be quite ready, can’t fly, and more.

This clip is really just an extended look at the full scene already shown in trailers of the house being blown up by missiles and helicopters all around him.

I sure do hope Tony Stark is alright, I hope he survives, what will happen? The suspense is killing me. /sarcasm

In all seriousness, I’m looking forward to this one a lot.

Also check out the new teaser trailer:

Now this is one I’m really looking forward to. Despite some of my irritations with the style of the first film and the characteristics of the filming, I found much more to like than to dislike about the first film (check out my review here, the fourth review ever written for MovieByte). Not the least of which is of course the cultural commentary carrying over the from the books.

And so far, though they seem to be changing some details from the books, they seem to be doing it in the right way. In fact I’m sort of hopeful that the films can correct some of the problems and weaknesses I…

First up is a 30 second TV spot from the UK (the spot also runs in Australia) for Star Trek Into Darkness and features a little bit of new footage, and a lot of already seen footage from the myriad of other trailers. Despite my skepticism and my lack of love for the new JJ-Verse of Star Trek I can’t help but start to get excited for another Star Trek film. I hope it’s better than the 2009 film.

Second, the 21st Century Orchestra performed the score for Star Trek 2009 live to a projection of the film. It looks pretty cool. Here are a couple of clips (and check out the whole article…

This video tells us almost nothing except that it’s going to be a computer animated extravaganza. Looking at the cast list on IMDb, it looks like Val Kilmer and John Cleese are the two big names that I recognize so there’s that.

John Lasseter is a producer and I love his work so I’m willing to give this thing a chance I suppose. After all, Disney did turn out Wreck-it Ralph which was some very spectactular animated filmmaking, and John Lasseter was behind the scenes on that one too. Still, I’m going to take some convincing that this will be any good.

Planes makes its debut on August 9…

Coming this summer from director Louis Leterrier (The Incredible Hulk, Clash of the Titans) comes a film that looks fairly interesting. I’m not really sure where this is going. Is there really magic going on here, is this a completely fanciful world? It’s sure looking that way from here. But I do love the look of this movie and I like this trailer as well as the previous trailer.

The film stars Jesse Eisenberg, Mark Ruffalo, Woody Harrelson, Melanie Laurent, Isla Fisher, Dave Franco, Common, Michael Kelly, Michael Caine, and Morgan Freeman, and releases on May 31.

Synopsis:

Now You…

Does anyone else have a bad feeling about this film? Maybe it’s just me, and I can’t quite put my finger on it, but it looks like they are making this film simply for the Jonny Depp humor and weirdness factor. And yeah, it will probably be a little bit funny and fun, but I don’t expect there to be a significant amount of plot. Probably just action and funny scenarios for Depp. I hope I’m wrong.

In any event, catch the second TV trailer:

Is it May 3 yet? Because I’m ready to see this film. In this Featurette Robert Downey Jr. thinks its the most emotionally satisfying of the three.

I’m still wondering if we’re going to see a beloved character die. I won’t say which, and I hope not. We’ll find out in less than a month!

And some TV Spots.