A big bold beautiful journey
Starring Colin Farrell and Margot Robbie
This trailer got the day off to a good start. First off, I’m game for almost any Colin Farrell movie where he gets to use his native accent. And Margot Robbie lit up the screen like she always does but per usual I didn’t know it was her until her name was mentioned. (You’d think after Barbie and especially after seeing her twice a couple weeks ago in two Harley Quinn movies I’d recognize her quicker by now).
This movie is about the two of them meeting, one’s AI personal assistant leading one to where the other happens to be, and they go through a bunch of doors to re-experience things in their lives. The good and the bad.
Not saying I’d buy a movie ticket for it but I’m highly curious how it goes from there.
Regretting You
Starring Colin Farrell and Margot Robbie
This trailer got the day off to a good start. First off, I’m game for almost any Colin Farrell movie where he gets to use his native accent. And Margot Robbie lit up the screen like she always does but per usual I didn’t know it was her until her name was mentioned. (You’d think after Barbie and especially after seeing her twice a couple weeks ago in two Harley Quinn movies I’d recognize her quicker by now).
This movie is about the two of them meeting, one’s AI personal assistant leading one to where the other happens to be, and they go through a bunch of doors to re-experience things in their lives. The good and the bad.
Not saying I’d buy a movie ticket for it but I’m highly curious how it goes from there.
Regretting You
The novel this movie is adapted from is by the same author who wrote “It ends with us”… a movie that stirred up a LOT of controversy between the harassment lawsuits and the fact the trailer promoted it as a love story when it’s actually about a familial cycle of abusive relationships.
I’ll have to read this book first but after enjoying the trailer I really hope it’s a good movie.
It revolves around a family and how the dynamic is shaken up when tragedy strikes. A pair of sisters find love and the one sister dies in a car accident with the other’s husband and for the widows left behind, there are a lot of unanswered questions they may/may not want the answers to.
Must be a bunch of books I’ve read in recent years about interesting family dynamics but I’m highly curious where this is going.
Eternity
Starring Miles Teller and Elizabeth Olsen
The career arcs of these two actors has been really fascinating and that’s not me paying them a compliment. It just strikes me as odd. Elizabeth Olsen has yet to do anything that’s resonated with me. I’m still astonished she got her own Marvel spin off. Formulaic as they are, I’d rather have a dozen more Olsen twin movies. Then with Miles Teller- the Divergent movies have been out for a decade, but I’m still astonished he was made to be the breakout star because his role in that series made him so unlikable. Now a similar thing is happening with Glen Powell who was even more unlikable than he was in the Top Gun sequel and now he’s Hollywood’s new golden boy.
Back to the actual trailer, though, it’s another fun concept I’d like to see play out, although not necessarily in a movie theater. He dies and goes to the in-between (sort of like Grand Central Station meets hotel but with millions of people) where the two are reunited. Then she also runs into her first husband who’d died in the war. The central conflict- everyone in limbo has to choose the one life they’ll live for all eternity and she has to choose which husband to stay with. Needless to say, it gets very competitive between them and there were a couple of funny jokes at their expense.
The concept of having to choose one life to stick with is an interesting one and I’m curious to see how they’ll handle it. I just hope I enjoy it more than reading "The Midnight Library"- great in concept but the fact the protagonist got to her limbo predicament via suicide because her life was unsatisfying… it was a reading experience I don’t care to have again.
Hoppers
I was admittedly half distracted during this trailer but it’s basically Avatar but with cute cuddly animated animals. And the fact Avatar is referenced in this movie pretty much tells you it’ll be another of those meta humor movies I’m not a fan of. Yet they can’t seem to stop making them…
Zootopia 2
I knew this was coming soon but this is the first time I’m seeing the trailer. It opens with Judy and Nick in work couples’ therapy. Not sure if it’s a trailer thing or the actual movie will keep coming back to this but I’d like to see more.
And it looks like the two of them are on a mission to expel a snake from Zootopia because it hasn’t had one for ages. So I’m thinking “is this a garden of Eden thing and snakes aren’t allowed in paradise?” And considering who the villain wound up being in the previous movie, something tells me it won’t be as cut and dry as “snakes are just bad and that’s the end of it”.
By the time it comes out, I can definitely see this being pitted against the conclusion of Wicked in the box office. Between the two, I know my sister would definitely prefer this over Wicked.
"Wicked for good" is definitely on my list to see just because I have to see how it ends and I'll be busy avoiding spoilers until I do.
Overall, I came away from this block of trailers hoping these movies are half as good as their trailers because they look so fresh and different.
Movies feel like they’ve become so formulaic and predictable and obsessed with inclusivity to make up for all the years they weren’t. And very little is making me want to go see them anymore.
It’s crazy how in 2025 I’d seen more movies streaming them on Apple+ when I’d spent so many years rejecting this streaming trend. It’s definitely more convenient than driving 25 minutes to the local theater. I’d bring up ticket prices but considering I’m paying roughly the same price per month for my subscription and in the past year I’ve only watched 8 seasons of different shows (three being Ted Lasso) and 3 movies, it breaks even.
Overall, I came away from this block of trailers hoping these movies are half as good as their trailers because they look so fresh and different.
Movies feel like they’ve become so formulaic and predictable and obsessed with inclusivity to make up for all the years they weren’t. And very little is making me want to go see them anymore.
It’s crazy how in 2025 I’d seen more movies streaming them on Apple+ when I’d spent so many years rejecting this streaming trend. It’s definitely more convenient than driving 25 minutes to the local theater. I’d bring up ticket prices but considering I’m paying roughly the same price per month for my subscription and in the past year I’ve only watched 8 seasons of different shows (three being Ted Lasso) and 3 movies, it breaks even.
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