I should be seeing this on Sunday when I traipse up to St. Louis to see The Dark Knight in Imax, but even in a super-tiny web format, Zack Snyder’s first trailer for Watchmen is absolutely stunning. It seems like more of a “mood” trailer than a story/concept trailer, and that suits me just fine.

Check it out here.

Or, for HD in radiant quicktime, click here.

Wow, this is exciting news. I never really considered myself a videophile, but after the cheap HD-DVD binge that I went on last month, I am hooked on hi-def. It seems that now, after months of denial, Microsoft is indeed working on a Blu-Ray enabled add-on drive (and possibly a system with the drive included). Depending on the price point, this may turn out to be very, very nice for Xbox 360 owners who haven’t made the jump to hi-def yet.

Well, given the recent price drops in the HD-DVD camp, I went ahead and decided to pick one up. I don’t really see myself getting a Blu-ray player anytime soon, since the only one worth having is the PS3 and I am perfectly satisfied not having one of those. I went ahead and got the add-on drive for the 360, since it has dropped in price to a measly 50 dollars. Fortunately, I still got in on the 5 free HD-DVD offer, which makes the deal even sweeter. I know it’s a dead format, the Betamax of the 2000s, but I really was just curious about the overall jump in quality and whether or not the much-vaunted advantages of Hi-def movie watching are really all they are cracked up to be. The player itself came with a copy of Peter Jackson’s King Kong, and I have a few other titles in the mail that I acquired very cheaply from half.com. I have to say, even though I don’t particularly love the film, King Kong looks pretty great. I don’t have a regular DVD to upscale for comparison, but the quality seems pretty sweet. It’s a bare-bones release without too many features to try out, but the ones that are there are well-implemented and pretty easy to navigate.

The way I look at it, even if I only buy a few titles that I like before the supply withers away, it was a pretty low-cost method of messing around with some Hi-def content. I don’t think that the difference is really enough to get non-videophiles on board at this point, but there is enough of a jump in quality that I think the move up to Hi-def in the future will be worthwhile.

In any case, it’s really all about the movies. If it’s a good film, Hi-def will make it better. If it’s terrible, well, it doesn’t matter how good it looks.

In spite of Stuff White People Like, I am very excited about pretty much anything that Michel Gondry does. He’s a film geek and an in-camera effects wiz, and I have yet to be disappointed with one of his films. As a result, I am very, very excited about Be Kind Rewind. It looks like a much smaller film than Gondry’s last few efforts, and I think the somewhat sweet, comedic tone will make for a fun experience.

You can check the trailer here.

And for additional fun, check out Michel Gondry’s one man, super-cheap version here.

I’m wiping tears away as I write this (and no, I am not joking or being hyperbolic), so I will keep it brief. The Comic-Con ’07 footage of Iron Man has swaggered it’s way onto YouTube, and I can finally die a happy man. I won’t attempt to describe it, and I will instead rely upon a single word that sums up my feelings well: hawesome. Watch it, love it, mark the date on your calendars. This, my friends, is the movie I have been waiting to see since I was 7.

Watch it here, or face my delicious wrath.

edit: The copyright police have taken down the youtube link, so I guess I will just keep my eyes open for another mirror. Amazing how a free presentation at a convention designed to build hype is somehow bad for tons of people to see (given the awesomeness of it). Oh well.

editedit: You can now download the file as an mpg here. Get it while it is hot!

edit edit edit: The trailer is now up in glorious Quicktime on Apple’s website! Watch and enjoy the delicious flavor!

Wes Anderson may very well be my favorite filmmaker. And this new trailer is only serving to reinforce that fact. Anderson just has this way of making me instantly care about the people in his movies. I need to see this film.

Check out the trailer here.

Too cool for words. Way too cool for words. Enjoy this tasty pic on the set of the new Indiana Jones movie of Harrison Ford in repose as our favorite archaeologist-cum-adventurer.

Check it out here.

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After a very cheesy song was released on the Sector7 website that was supposed to be the new Transformers theme, the actual song has been released. Penned by Mutemath (inasmuch as the Transformers theme can be re-penned), it actually refrains from sucking. 

Check it out along with the trailer on YouTube.

Aint it cool news has the scoop on the new batsuit.  It looks pretty slick to me.  Kind of robotic, which I wasn’t expecting, but it also looks sleek and kind of brawler-ish.  I trust Christopher Nolan implicitly, so I know that he will make this look awesome in motion.