So Comic Con 2018 was back this year, surprise!
And this year to be perfectly honest wasn’t as crazy as previous years, like there weren’t
as many announcements or trailers.
The MCU sat this year out, there was no new X-Men stuff, no publicly released Sony stuff,
but hey there was certainly still enough stuff to make a video on.
Two things to note, one, there are links down below to every trailer I talk about, and two,
I almost definitely missed something.
Like 99%, cuz there is just so much going on at Comic Con that I’m sure something
slipped through the cracks.
So sorry about that, but I think I got most of it.
Alright, I’ve divided all these announcements and such into Marvel/DC/and other, and lets
start off as usual with the other, which I’m gonna speed round a little cuz some of these
as you’ll see, I don’t have a lot to say about.
First up the Predator had a new poster and some new footage shown, the movie’s very
close so not much to say there.
I’ve heard a lot of mixed things on this movie, I think it looks pretty awesome, and
I have total confidence in Shane Black.
Then there was some behind the scenes footage shown for It Chapter 2 showing the Losers
Club kids reuniting at a Chinese Restaurant, there was more footage shown from the Nun
which by the way based on that first trailer looks just absolutely terrifying.
There was Halloween panel where the highlight was a fan telling Jamie Lee Curtis that Halloween
saved his life during a home invasion, which is a pretty sweet video if you haven't seen
it.
Buffy the Vampire Slayer is getting a reboot courtesy of Joss Whedon, sure, never watched
it.
There was first look at the new Doctor Who, and yes, I’m aware it's the Doctor, not
Doctor Who, please don’t lose your mind at me in the comments.
Walking Dead season 9 trailer, Star Trek Discovery season 2 trailer, a Steven Universe movie
was announced, Voltron season 7 trailer, the thing that all these have in common unfortunately
is that I don’t watch them.
But if you do, hey link down below to all of that stuff.
I hear Star Trek Discovery is great though.
Then there was a trailer for the new show Nightflyers, which is based on a book by George
R.R.
Martin.
It looks pretty good, but I hate the fact that I was kind of put off by this because
of the Cloverfield Paradox.
It’s frustrating because I know it’ll most probably be better than the Cloverfield
Paradox, but because it looks quite similar I just instantly went, ugh I don’t wanna
go through that again.
Kind of a similar situation with The Emoji Movie and Wreck It Ralph 2.
There was also a trailer for the Dragon Prince, which is the new thing from the people behind
Avatar the Last Airbender.
It's a very short teaser but didn't really impress me, gotta be honest.
Also there’s a live action Kim Possible movie coming from Disney and we got our first
look at it today, great.
Didn't really watch Kim Possible that much as a kid, but I played that Gameboy or DS
or whatever system game for it, that was fun.
Now finally onto shows I do actually watch, there was a Breaking Bad reunion panel, which
was awesome to see everyone back together.
Also Walt and Jesse are apparently gonna show up not in this season but at some point in
Better Call Saul before it ends.
So hell yes to that, I need to catch up, I’m still in season 2.
There was a teaser for Stranger Things season 3, which was like an 80s mall advertisement
with probably my favorite Stranger Things character in it, great.
There was a panel for Archer, where they revealed the next season will be called Archer: 1999
and will be in space, because of course it will.
I’m watching season 9 now and I’m loving it so far.
There was also a Brooklyn Nine-Nine panel, which I’m almost done with season 3 and
it has quickly become one of my favorite shows, almost up there with the Office.
Then there was a little Star Wars news, there are going to be some new books focusing on
the prequel era and then the Clone Wars tv show was saved, which I’ve never watched
but everyone seemed overjoyed by, so that was really nice to see.
Then there was a little Bumblebee news, new footage and new poster and some reveals that
I guess could be considered a little spoilery, maybe not really.
If you don’t want anything about this movie ruined for you, like some locations and a
possible cameo, just mute this video now and unmute it when this symbol disappears.
Five four three two one, alright, so apparently the movie is gonna have some scenes on Cybertron,
which is cool I guess, ties it more into the other Transformers movies, and also apparently
the footage they showed had a holographic Optimus Prime communicating with Bumblebee.
I said that might be a cameo, but maybe he plays a large-ish role, I don’t know.
Alright, all done there.
They showed some Lego Movie 2 footage which had Lego Harley Quinn in it, cool cool.
And now we get to the actual big trailers from the “other section”.
First up, Glass, the third film in the Unbreakable Split trilogy.
I haven’t seen Unbreakable yet but I have actually seen Split, and I really liked it,
especially James McAvoy, so I was excited to see more of him here.
Overall I think I’ll have more to say and be more excited once I’ve seen Unbreakable,
like to people who love that movie seeing those characters return now must be mind blowing,
but to a person like myself who's just seen Split, this still looks pretty cool.
Also the cinematography looks pretty amazing.
Then we got a trailer to the sequel to Godzilla, Godzilla: King of the Monsters, which looks….interesting?
I have some mixed feelings on it.
I like seeing Millie Bobby Brown in more stuff, apparently a lot of people hate her, I don’t
really know why, I just know that she’s great on Stranger Things so I’m happy to
see her in more big mainstream stuff.
The rest of the cast looks really great, they got Charles Dance to say a Game of Thrones-sounding
line, great.
Nearly all of these visuals look amazing, a lot of the action looks cool and I will
say, despite this also being a complaint of mine in a sec, I am intrigued by the idea
of there being like tons of monsters in this and all of them fighting or working together
or whatever, but at the same time I fear this might have jumped the shark a little?
Like the first Godzilla, people have complaints about it, I liked it and also liked the grounded
aspect of….most of it.
And this looks like it could be slipping a little more into Pacific Rim type territory,
which I know some people might like, but then It think why not watch Pacific Rim?
This could be more it's own thing.
I mean one or two new monsters sure but a whole big universe?
I don’t know, I guess they wanna make this cinematic Godzilla Kong universe, and look
it could be very fun and interesting, it just has me a little cautious.
Also this shot in particular just so reminded me of like an Independence Day type disaster
movie, and as much as I like Independence Day I’m kind of over total disaster movies
at this point.
Like I know Godzilla is gonna knock down some buildings but like an apocalypse?
I don’t know.
It looks cool, hoping for the best, not super insanely excited.
And then finally for the other, the newest trailer for Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of
Grindelwald.
I’m a huge Harry Potter fan, I feel like I don’t get a chance to talk about that
that much on this channel.
But like, before the MCU this was my favorite franchise of all time, I’ve read all the
books multiple times I’ve seen all the movies multiple times, I grew up with it, I love
this world.
All that said, I’ve been a little eh on this movie.
The first few pieces of promo stuff haven’t wowed me and I thought the first movie was
pretty good but wasn’t amazing or anything.
But this….this trailer might’ve been my favorite thing from Comic Con this year.
I am well on board for this movie now.
Sure this did play on the nostalgia a bit, what with the Boggart scene and Nicolas Flamel
showing up at the end and I’m pretty sure I spotted the Mirror of Erised in there, but
hey that nostalgia worked on me, really made me smile.
And the rest of this just looks super fun and whimsical.
The first Fantastic Beasts, a problem I had with it was that besides the parts in the
briefcase where Newt was touring around the beasts, it was sort of dark and dull and I
guess not really that whimsical, but this looks like just all of that.
Plus making Newt’s story maybe somewhat more secondary to a grander story more in
the forefront this time around with Dumbledore I think is a great idea.
Still loving Jude Law as Dumbledore, and they’ve surprisingly put quite a big focus on Johnny
Depp in this trailer, and also at Comic Con itself.
You’d think they’d try to play that down but nope, he’s a very big part of this.
Look besides all the personal stuff around him, confirmed or alleged, just as an actor,
I haven’t really loved anything he’s done in a while, but hey maybe this can turn things
around.
If he isn’t actually a terrible person in real life, which he very well might be.
But overall, it just looks like a very exciting fun time that expands on this universe that
I already really love.
That ending also gave me chills.
So yeah, count me in as very excited now.
Now moving on to Marvel, where again, the majority of the Marvel stuff didn't really
show this year.
But the little that we got was pretty good….I guess.
Cloak & Dagger got renewed for season 2, which is good I guess cuz people seem to like that
show.
Cloak & Dagger’s actually the first MCU property that I haven’t watched, cuz after
Runaways I was like, yeah that was good, but it's not something I really felt compelled
to go back to and this seemed a bit similar, but hey let me know down below if Cloak & Dagger
is amazing.
The Gifted got a trailer for season 2, I was not expecting that cuz the first season looked
very mediocre to me but apparently it was good enough to warrant a second season.
Deadpool 2 had an extreme supercut shown for all the fans with more violence and jokes
and some of those alternate end credits scenes, for example one involving Baby Hitler which
I won’t spoil if you don’t know what it is.
There was this awesome new Infinity War poster.
There was a new trailer for that PS4 Spider-Man game which looks awesome, and Iron Fist season
2 had a trailer, which I guess was the only MCU footage we saw this year.
It’s impossible to say if this will be good based on this teaser, since it's less than
a minute, the main takeaway from this for me was the release date, September 7, which
I was very sure was going to go to Daredevil season 3, but nope, it's going to Iron Fist,
cuz Marvel Netflix just won’t give me the one show I’m actually dying to see more
of.
Give us Daredevil season 3 already Marvel, please!
As far as this one, the Iron Fist episode was one of my favorite parts of Luke Cage
season 2 (review coming sometime), but I feel like he really works better as a supporting
character who sort’ve just pops up from time to time.
A whole other season, I don’t know hopefully they’ve learned from season 1.
I’d really just rather see a Luke Cage Iron Fist team up show but whatever.
Also Misty Knight’s gonna be in it, great, I loved her in Luke Cage season 2.
Then Sony had a bunch of stuff that the public didn't get to see any of, which I guess is
fair.
There was some new Into the Spider-Verse footage shown, apparently with new heroes in it.
As a lot of people predicted and hoped, this is just gonna go crazy and have tons of different
Spider-people in it, including Spider-Ham, which is amazing.
God I’m so excited for that movie, it looks incredible.
And then Venom had some more footage shown, which we’ll probably be seeing within the
week?
We actually already have this leaked still from it, so enjoy that.
There were a few takeaways from this, one, Venom is gonna be huge in this, like maybe
a little under Colossus sized from Deadpool.
He also makes like giant axes out of his hands, which does sound pretty amazing.
Two, this is gonna be really violent, apparently.
And three, the villain is gonna be another symbiote, Riot, played by Riz Ahmed.
Which a, is sort’ve disappointing that it's not gonna be Carnage, and b, even if it was
Carnage, another symbiote is a risky way to go, cuz I don’t want this to just turn into
Iron Man vs Iron Monger Hulk vs Abomination Black Panther vs Killmonger CGI two very similar
characters punching each other, oh and they’re slimy and intertwining so it'll be even more
nonsensical.
Also Tom Hardy hinted that he’d like to work with Tom Holland in the future, and a
lot of people took that as Spidey’s in this movie, but I seriously doubt that.
It’d be really awesome if he was, but Marvel Studios seems to be trying to distance themselves
from this.
Also if you’ve seen this pic going around and think it's real, yeah it's not.
It's very much not.
And now, finally, DC.
Who clearly won Comic Con, in the same way that a person would win a race if half of
the other runners didn't show up and the other half showed up with two broken legs.
First up, Teen Titans Go to the Movies had a screening and apparently it's good!
Yay.
And then speaking of Teen Titans, but on a much grittier and cooler and edgy note, there’s
the Titans tv show for the new DC streaming service, starring the very….actor Brenton
Thwaites.
Now I’ll be honest, I was kinda rooting for this show.
A DC streaming service sounds like a cool idea, and these are some good characters,
and DC’s TV shows are generally quite good (at least the ones I watch), so I went into
this quite hopeful.
And I came out of it….less hopeful.
On a scale of superhero TV I’d say it looks better than Inhumans but worse than Iron Fist.
The one thing this has going for me is not really a good thing at all, but the unintentionally
funny, which sometimes can be even better than something actually funny.
The way this show seems to be trying to be so dark and edgy is kind of hilarious, it
seems like a 13 year olds idea of what a really edgy Titans show would be.
Brenton Thwaites beating up some guys and saying fuck Batman has not once failed to
make me burst out laughing every time I’ve watched this trailer.
Besides that aspect though, the rest of this just looks poorly made.
I mean it's just a trailer, but the effects and costumes don’t look great to me (besides
Nightwing’s, that costume actually looks decent), and the whole thing looks quite cliche
and boring.
The dialogue is also pretty bad from what we see here.
I’ll probably skip this one unless everyone says it's actually really good or a huge trainwreck
that you just have to see.
Speaking of these characters….I think?
There was a trailer for the new season of Young Justice, called Outsiders.
Everyone loves that show, maybe I’ll jump on board soon.
There was also a trailer for the Flash season 5, which I started watching and then stopped
because I realized I probably don’t want all of season 4 spoiled for me.
Cuz yeah, I haven’t caught up with The Flash season 4 yet, sue me.
I just finished the episode where they go to a strip club, that’s where I’m at.
I’m working on it.
And a similar situation for Arrow season 7, there was a trailer and I didn't watch it
cuz I’m still in season 1.
Again...working on it.
Slowly.
Then there were also trailers for Legends of Tomorrow season 4, Supergirl season 4,
Black Lightning season 2, and Krypton season 2, where they use Tweets from fans instead
of critic reviews, which was a little hilarious sometimes.
Anyway, yeah, if you like DCTV, then this was a good day for you.
Then there was the announcement that we’re getting a live action Star Girl series, who
I vaguely remember from that episode of Justice League where they go to the center of the
Earth, or something.
That was a bit of a weird one.
That's pretty much all I know about her, but hey could be fun.
Also isn’t she friends with a guy in like an Iron Monger-esque suit?
Also Batwoman is coming to the Arrowverse, awesome!
Oh also DC changed it's cinematic universe’s official name from DC Extended Universe to
Worlds Of DC, but come on!
I’ve finally gotten used to saying DCEU instead of DCCU and now you’re changing
it to WODC?
Imma stick with DCEU until it becomes socially unacceptable, just putting that out there.
And now, the big DC stuff.
The movies.
Wonder Woman 84 had a quick trailer, which actually partially leaked online.
The most I saw of it was a gif on Twitter, which I won’t include in this video cuz
I don’t wanna risk this getting taken down, but I’ll put a link to it in the description.
It's Wonder Woman in a mall lassoing a few guys, great.
I’m actually really optimistic about this movie, and hope I’ll love it as much as
most people loved the first one, which I thought was pretty good but not amazing.
And then the two other big movies.
Firstly, Shazam.
We got some Entertainment Weekly covers and photos and then we actually got a trailer,
which I was hoping for but also really surprised me since this is so far away.
Then again they put out a Justice League trailer like well over a year before the movie so
I guess I should’ve seen that coming.
But anyway, the trailer.
When I watched it the first time, I was a little lukewarm on it, like yeah it looked
fun but not as good as I was hoping.
But the more times I watch it, the more I really enjoy it and start getting more excited
for this movie.
There’s still some stuff I’m worried about, but overall, I’m actually quite pumped for
this.
Zach Levi looks like the absolute perfect choice for this.
He looks like he pulls off a kid being inside a grown man superhero body perfectly, I’m
really looking forward to that aspect.
And overall the movie looks like a lot of fun, especially the Shazam training aspect
and learning about his powers.
It looks really enjoyable and there were quite a few moments where I laughed or at least
smiled.
I had a smile on my face throughout most of this trailer.
My only gripe really is that the movie just looks and feels….cheap to me?
Like not just the costume, I know there’s a huge debate over this costume and if it's
good or bad, personally it looks a little cheap to me but it's actually growing on em.
I mean the rest of the film just looks a bit like a lower budget kids movie, and this obviously
is more geared towards kids than some of the other DC movies, but I just wish it didn't
look this cheap.
Not all the time, sometimes it looks like a proper high budget cinema experience, but
occasionally it felt a little like a CW TV kinda thing.
Also not all the jokes and that kinda stuff landed, and the Billy Batson stuff looks a
lot more cliche and less interesting than the Shazam stuff to me.
Also question: so is this actually in the DCEU itself?
Like cuz we see Superman and Batman are in this world and he has like a proper Batfleck
Batarang so I guess it is.
That's pretty inconsequential, I just find it hilarious that the universe that started
like this *MoS clip* and then moved on to this *BvS clip* and was supposed to be the
super dark alternative to Marvel now is here *Shazam clip*.
But I don’t have a problem with that, cuz unlike Justice League where it tried to take
characters who are dark and more importantly who in this universe have already been a certain
way and turn the tone basically on it's head, while this tone seems to fit this character
perfectly.
So hey, I’m not like beyond excited for this,--------but I’m genuinely looking forward
to it.
And finally, there was the Aquaman trailer, which I was expecting to blow my mind and
be like the crown jewel of this years Comic Con or something like that.
And for a lot of people apparently it was that.
For me, I found it actually a bit disappointing, and I know this video probably just got a
big uptick in dislikes.
There were also some posters and images and what not but the trailer, the trailer’s
the big thing.
I didn't hate this or anything.
And overall I’m still excited for it because James Wan is such a good director and I have
confidence in him.
And there is stuff in here that I did like.
The city of Atlantis itself looks awesome.
That was a very Black Panther moment introducing it, but it looks really cool, and like something
I’ve never really seen before.
Some action also looks cool, Aquaman lifting a submarine was awesome, this shot is amazing,
--------and again, I have faith that this will actually be entertaining.
There are interesting ideas here and I think this could be really creative….possibly.
However, there’s a lot of stuff that just left me a little disappointed.
For example that origin story looks like the most cliche thing in the world, like Harry
Potter or Spider-Man or any number of similar scenes where a hero discovers their powers.
And also that shark looks horrendous.
That is some terrible CGI.
Overall some of the CGI in this looks cool, and some looks really last act of Wonder Woman
last act of Justice League CGI.
Which I would’ve thought they would’ve gotten better at by now.
Also, as good of a choice as I think Jason Momoa is for this character, I gotta be honest,
I don’t love this super bro version of Aquaman.
Like in Justice League, almost a little like that Titans trailer, I found it a little bit
unintentionally hilarious how cool they were trying to make Aquaman with the rock music
and the drinking and all that, like Jason Momoa is cool, you don’t have to go super
over the top with it.
And now in here when he’s like, I call it an ass whooping, I mean it's consistent with
the character they’ve set up so props for that, but I don’t love that part of the
character at least.
The part where he drops down in the sub, that was genuinely cool, more stuff like that would
be great.
The story and villain look a little overdone too, like a hero comes back to earn their
right to the throne from their evil family member.
And I’m a little torn on that end final battle with this giant Lord of the Rings type
underwater battle.
Like it could devolve into just nonsense CGI battle that’s not that interesting as these
superhero movies, even the great ones, sometimes do, but it could also be a really cool epic
final battle that actually feels fulfilling, which I feel like we don’t get as often
as the first option and I’m really hoping we get here.
Overall, Aquaman, hoping for the best and some stuff looks cool here, but this trailer
did not blow me away like I was hoping it would.
So those were my thoughts on Comic Con this year.
What do you think of all of these announcements?
Let me know all of your thoughts down below in the comments.
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