Welcome to the exact moment when Ridley Scott’s upcoming Prometheus ceased to be the ambiguous sci-fi mystery of the summer, and revealed just about every possible plot spoiler pertaining to its Alien prequel-dom that it seemingly possibly could.  Thanks to a just-released international trailer, we now have three full minutes that basically lay out Prometheus’ entire plot—don’t want to know about Charlize Theron’s character?  Not curious who has an alien inside of them?  A warning, then: view this at your own risk.

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In a series of quickly edited shots drenched in a palette of the prerequisite orange and teal, featuring actors fake-baked and color-corrected to an unnatural orange hue and surrounded by a CGI landscape of kabooms, slow-to-fast motion collisions, and Bruce Willis in full-on late-period-bald-Bruce-Willis-paycheck-role mode, the full trailer for G.I. Joe: Retaliation is basically every other action trailer you’ve seen over the past 10 years.  But hey, it’s got The Rock being all The Rock-y, and a storyline that rips off The A-Team.  Check it out, courtesy of Paramount Pictures.

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Just in case the mysterious teaser trailer, the adrenalized full trailer, or eight minute preview of the opening scene weren’t enough, The Dark Knight Rises is getting a new full trailer—and it’s going to premiere and run with a new little flick called The Avengers.

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Last month, we gave you a peek at the red-band teaser for David Cronenberg’s adaptation of the Don DeLillo novel, Cosmopolis.  Featuring as it did a delirious amount of sex, gunplay, Tyrannosaur-sized rats, and shocking violence, it was a dizzying tease into the cinematic version of DeLillo’s cold and darkly humorous world.  Now we have a full trailer to expand upon the themes of the teaser, and to give us a plot sketch—a billionaire traverses NYC in a high-tech limo, going through, riots, women, violence and assassination attempts, all to get his haircut.

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Steven Soderbergh continues his streak as one of modern cinema’s most unpredictable, genre-skipping directors (his last few films were a spy thriller, a medical disaster film, a documentary, a true-crime comedy, and an experimental character sketch of a prostitute, respectively) with Magic Mike, a dramedy about a male stripper who really just wants to design custom furniture even as he takes a new young dancer “under his wing and schools him in the fine arts of partying, picking up women, and making easy money.”  Yep, really.

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Ridley Scott’s Prometheus is currently running neck and neck (or space helmet and bat-cowl, if you like) with The Dark Knight Rises for the title of Most Mysterious Action Film of Summer 2012.  More and more plot elements, both leaked and featured in the excellently spooky trailer, indicate that Prometheus is a full-on prequel to Scott’s 1979 sci-fi horror classic, Alien…and a newly released Prometheus viral ad posing as an android infomercial, only serves to strengthen the connection to the original Alien.

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We’re living in a strange era of the movie trailer—in an effort to boost hype and gain attention, ad companies and movie studios are coming up an increasingly bizarre series of attempts to make the movie trailer more interesting.  Some are successful (like the backwards trailer for The House at the End of the Street); some are not (just about every “trailer for the trailer” ever).  The teaser for Looper (itself pretty cool) not only has a series of behind the scenes previews leading up to its premiere last week, it now has a director’s commentary by Rian Johnson.

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Try saying that headline three times fast.  Then wrap your head around Looper’s premise: Mobsters from the future, in an effort to properly dispose of evidence, send their victims 30 years into the past to be executed by hired assassins called ‘Loopers.’  One such Looper is Joe (Joseph Gordon-Levitt), who one day arrives at the job to find himself with tasked with killing his future self (Bruce Willis), which is where the wackiness (including Gordon-Levitt doing his best Willis drawl under some subtle makeup FX) begins.

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We watch a lot of movie trailers here at ScreenCrave, and, as we inch closer to summer with its ever-increasing torrent of new films, we’re seeing more and more previews with each passing day. As we do so, we can’t help but notice some similarities, repetitions, and clichés among them. Here at Trailer Park, we’ll be offering a rundown of those clichés, where they come from, and which trailers share them. For our first installment, we’ll be breaking down one of summer’s most ever-present previews: The Indie Dramady Trailer.

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