Trailer Talk Thursday: Winnie The Pooh, The Eagle and the final Tron Legacy Trailer

Hey everybody, Travis of the Movie Encyclopedia here with another edition of Trailer Talk Thursday where I bring you the latest trailers to hit the silver screen.

I decided to add another trailer this week, mostly because any chance I get to talk about Tron: Legacy is a chance I'm willing to take. But Tron isn't the only blast from the past getting a new movie that I'll be talking about this week. I'm also going to bring you the first trailer from the upcoming Winnie the Pooh movie. Now before you go run off thinking this is just toddler/young child fare...give the trailer a look. Fans who thought they were too old might re-find that spark that they lost. Also on today's edition we got the latest Channing Tatum movie and believe it or not it actually looks pretty decent.

First up though is Winnie the Pooh-

 Winnie the Pooh has been part of the Disney universe for a long time now. So much so that people forget that he existed before those first short films were ever released. He was created by writer A.A Milne back in 1926 as a character in a collection of short stories that he used to tell to his son. He focused it around a bear named Winnie the Pooh and his friends in the Hundred Acre Wood and thusly titled it after our main hero. The name came from a bear named Winnie and a swan named Pooh. It was later adapted into multiple short films that were created and animated by Disney Animation and the rest is pretty much history.

The sad thing though is like all successful Disney franchises at the time, they wanted to milk the living daylights out of it so as time went on after the short films were released they started milking the series for all it was worth. They hit a jack pot in the mid to late 80s when they turned Pooh's escapades into an animated series called the New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh. The series was so widely popular that they turned it into multiple motion pictures, all of which were pretty good. The key though to Pooh's longevity and why so many people loved him was that he appealed to not only kids but adults. The films and the show never talked down to the audience instead grasping that inner child we all have. But sadly in the mid 2000s and all the way up until this year Pooh became fodder for toddlers and slowly faded out of existence (the latest iteration was recently cancelled) save for a few books and greeting cards.

Now Pooh is back however with all new stories and it looks really good. Handled by veterans of Disney animation and original music from Hans Zimmer, this version looks to re-capture that magic that it once had.

Here is the trailer-

I think it looks pretty good. If you do Pooh well and put a lot of effort into it, it'll show and people will come.

Next up is The Eagle-

There isn't as much to say about this film other than it's done by the same people who did Last King of Scotland (Academy Award Winner Kevin Macdonald and BAFTA winner Jeremy Brock) and it's based on the 1954 novel "The Eagle of the Ninth." If you see any similarities to the recent Centurion, you're not wrong. But what's interesting is that this film is from the perspective of people RELATED to the Ninth Legion. In Centurion it showed what happened to the legion and in this it's about the son of one of the legion members who goes to look for him and find out what happened to him and if he was killed to retrieve his Aquila (or Eagle standard...hence the title).

Here is the trailer-

It seems pretty interesting for me. The story seems good, the acting not half bad and the action is pretty intense. I want to see more and I'll reserve my judgement till after I see the film but as of right now it looks decent. A good companion piece to Centurion if nothing else.

Finally is the last Tron Trailer before release- 

There isn't much point in talking about the film as this film has been hyped to no end on screen and online. It's the long awaited sequel to the Disney masterpiece that made us really look at special effects in a way he hadn't before. It's written by the guys who did Lost, directed by first time director Joseph Kosinski (of Halo commercials fame) but with help from the original directors and writers to make sure they kept everything straight. They also have the return of Jeff Bridges as Kevin Flynn as well as Bruce Boxleitner as Alan Bradley. New to the cast is Kevin's adult son Sam (played by Garrett Hedlund) who goes into Tron to look for his father. Quorra (played by Olivia Wilde) a program designed to help Sam and Jeff Bridges (you read that right) as CLU 2, an exact replica of him who wants Kevin Flynn dead. The score is done by visionary DJ and Techno group Daft Punk and it was shot in 3D.

That's everything in a nutshell. And it looks amazing. I personally can't wait for it and with this last trailer we get just enough new stuff to hold us over until December 17th. 

Here's the trailer-

Brilliant. Simply Brilliant.

But that's just my thoughts. What are your thoughts on Tron Legacy? Overhyped crap or potential masterpiece? What about Pooh? Were you a fan? And does the Eagle hold your interest whatsoever? Leave a comment below and I'll see you all next week on Trailer Talk Thursday.