A few trailers that have come out recently are the kind of trailers that definitely get posted to this site.

First up, is the new trailer for Man of Steel, the Superman reboot from Director Zach Snyder.  A good Superman story strikes a balances putting Superman in a situation where his otherworldly power is on full display and showing his personal struggle with being the ultimate outsider and the people’s champion at the same time.  From what I can tell, this definitely looks like the people involved in putting this movie together understood that.  That said, the Watchman trailer looked good, too, and any fan of the graphic novel can tell you that movie missed the point entirely.  Still, I’m cautiously optimistic about this retelling of the Superman story.

Next is Guillermo Del Toro’s Pacific Rim.  Here is a trailer that made me laugh.  Unfortunately, it’s not a comedy.  I actually really like Guillermo Del Toro and Idris Elba, but I don’t think I’ll be paying full price for this one.  Some ideas are just too dumb for great director and actors to fix.  This may be one of those things.  Pacific Rim looks like a movie I will be seeing at the theater with $3 tickets two months after it comes out.  My words cannot do justice to the absurdity seen in this trailer.  Don’t get me wrong.  It looks fun.  It just looks like the kind of dumb fun you keep to yourself unless someone asks about it.

Finally, we have Star Trek In To Darkness.  This is the follow up to 2009′s Star Trek that rebooted the series and set the familiar characters down a new timeline.  While I’m excited to see their story continue, I’m most excited about Benedict Cumberbacht─you may know him better as Holmes from Sherlock─ as the villain.