OH MY GOODNESS YOU’LL WANT TO SEE THIS!!!!11!! It’s Gandalf and Radagast wondering around in a dark cave!!!!!!! AHHHHHHHH.

But seriously it’s kind of cool to see the first clip, I guess. Personally, when I found this I was hoping for a clip of Martin Freeman’s Bilbo with the Ring or something. This is sort of… meh. But it’s something, and that’s… something, I guess.

The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug opens on December 13, 2013.

So, this is a pretty neat idea if you ask me.

BIG NEWS: We’re gonna be on TV! 
“Hit RECord on TV” is gonna be a new kind of variety show. I’ll host the show and also direct our global online community to create short films, live performances, music, animation, conversation, and of course, more! Each episode will be focused on a different theme. And like always, anybody with an internet connection is invited to contribute. 

I’m super excited to get started!

Are you RECording?

Alright, so after all the teasing, the full trailer is here. Actually two of them — an international trailer and a domestic trailer. Considering that The Wolverine premieres on July 26, the first trailers seem like they are coming sort of late to the party. As comparison, both Man of Steel and Iron Man 3 coming out this summer debuted trailers last year.

But in any event, here are the trailers. I was only able to find the domestic trailer on Apple Trailers which has a terrible embed experience, Click through to see it in HD and the like. The International trailer is from YouTube and looks…

Man I am really loving this. The set up in the clouds was not shot on green or blue screen but they used real footage and practical effects. YES! This is the way to do it people! This will give the film so much more a sense of reality, and it will also improve the acting. I don’t care how good an actor is, if he’s acting in front of a green or blue screen, it’s hard to “act” like something is there that’s not there.

It really looks beautiful from here. I can’t wait to see it on the big screen. It’s going to be awesome.

I do so hope they aren’t raising my expectations of this film too…

Because Iron Man is awesome and he deserves a better film than the travesty that was Iron Man 2. But I think that was just a hiccup in the machine that is the Marvel Cinematic Universe and I think we’re in smooth sailing territory now. I sure hope so. I want this to be a good film.

And this look good to me. Also, can that guy jump into that Iron Man suit or what? It’s like become a thing with Stark, jumping from heights and getting suited up in the air.

First there was the Vine teaser video, now there’s a 20 second teaser. All this leading up to the real trailer scheduled to drop sometime this week. That marketing team is milking this for all it’s worth.

Personally, I want to get back to the main X-Men universe (actually, what I really want to do is pretend X-Men: The Last Stand never happened and re-make it, but that will never happen). But still, this could be fun.

I love films as much as anybody, but I often get annoyed by how overly unrealistic many things are portrayed. Computers are the worst offenders often. It’s one thing to portray unrealistic things in Sci-Fi, but it’s another to portray them wrong in more real to life scenarios. I especially love all the bleeps and bloops computers made as on screen actors interact with touch screens (that aren’t really touch screens) and the little digital scrolling noises browsers make as they scroll (if my computer really made that noise I would turn it off so fast…).

I realize this is the movies and we…

Best use of Vine ever. I have not used the Vine video service, nor particulalry cared, but this is awesome and may have singlehandedly made me more interested in the serivce.

James Mangold has put it to great use, with what is apparently clips from the full teaser trailer. Some on Twitter have taken to calling this the Tweaser.

Check it out.

The tweaser. vine.co/v/bDExaiMjJ1F

— James Mangold (@mang0ld) March 25, 2013

I like Cars and as such, I thought I would post these new short films from the franchise. They aren’t really anything special. But I like Cars. Yes even Cars 2 is better than people give it credit for. No it’s not nearly as good as Cars was, or as good as most everything else Pixar produces (most, not all), but it’s still pretty good. Anyway, these are not spectacular or anything, but here they are.