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  • Trailers Without Pity: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

    The Trailers Without Pity train keeps a-chuggin’ with the latest from indisputably potent director David Fincher, the adaptation of Stieg Larsson’s popular The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.

    As with Valkyrie, I’m always puzzled when something so insanely dark and grim is trotted out as holiday fare, but then, as we say in the video, maybe that’s the antidote people need when their late December gets a little too sugary and sweet.

    I still haven’t read the books, but I’m tempted to make a sprint through the first one before the movie comes out. Worth it? Let me know in the comments and enjoy the video.

  • Trailers Without Pity: New Year’s Eve

    Our new Trailers Without Pity is for the new Garry Marshall romantic something, New Year’s Eve. If it sounds familiar, it’s because he also directed Valentine’s Day and this one is basically the same thing with a new, cheap paint job.

    I can only remember one such romantic comedy I’ve actually watched in the last three or four years and that was Going the Distance and it didn’t. And a movie overstuffed with characters and storylines and meet-cutes and a midnight deadline to declare your love… that just sounds exhausting. How do singletons do it? Texting? Dating via Facebook? The belly folds and dank alleyways of this culture are a mystery to me, as nebulous in my mind as a monster’s deep, foreboding pit.

    Anyhoo! This is our second video of the season and things are rolling along. We should be back next time with The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. Speaking of dank, foreboding and mysterious.

    You can check out the video below or on TWOP. Please watch the video since we dressed up in tuxedos for it.

  • Trailers Without Pity: The Muppets

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    We’re back! Season Four of Trailers Without Pity has begun. The first movie we’re doing after our lengthy break is The Muppets.

    I know there’s been a backlash against The Muppets and a backlash against The Muppets and as we were doing this video, it made me a little sad to realize that I fell right in the middle; I just don’t really have an opinion on The Muppets right now. I still find them funny when I watch them, but I don’t go out of my way to seek them out and my kids haven’t yet latched onto them. (Although Carolina’s favorite thing to say right now is, “ELMO! ELMO! ELMOOOOOO!”)

    The first movie I ever remember my parents taking me to was The Muppet Movie. I don’t even remember the movie, I just remember the experience of going and hearing my dad tell people how much he liked the movie, too.

    So, I really hope the movie is good and maybe we’ll end up taking the kids and they’ll remember that experience someday. Maybe Elmo will make a cameo and that will really make it memorable for Carolina.

    Video below:

  • Trailers Without Pity: Conan the Barbarian

    We’re down to the last two episodes of Trailers Without Pity for the season (we’re not even sure what the last one will be; we’re still deciding). Our penultimate video for Season Three is this one for the pec-tacular Conan the Barbarian, a remake (or a reimagining? I’m willing to bet it was more making than imagining at work here) of the Arnold early 80s sword and crotch-garb classic.

    I’m a sucker for these kinds of movies (or at least mocking these kinds of movies from afar); my favorite episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000 remains Cave Dwellers, starring Ator the Juiced. I could watch that a million billion times. The new Conan looks even dumber and more expensive. It’s kind of thrilling, really, how respectably goofy it looks.

    Enjoy!

  • Trailers Without Pity: Green Lantern

    When we made the list of some of the summer movies we would be covering on Trailers Without Pity, I was alarmed to see so many superhero movies. I didn’t think there was any possible way we’d have much to say about them (and, honestly, I really stopped watching them after Dark Knight. I mean, who’s gonna top that?).

    But then I saw the trailer for Green Lantern, which is genuinely weird. And not really in a bad way. This movie has big, glowing green balls for how out there it seems to be. I thought Thor looked nuts, but this looks even stranger.

    Which is all to say we had more fun than usual with this one. I might even go see it! (OK, probably not). Enjoy our Trailers Without Pity video for it!

  • Trailers Without Pity: Thor

    Some movies we do for Trailers Without Pity sound like a good idea at the time, but then we sit down to script and watch the preview over and over and it’s like, “Wow, this has really soured us on the whole idea of this movie.” It’s like eating little Tootsie Rolls until you suddenly realize you ate too many and you never want one again.

    This was happily not the case on Thor, the superhero movie due out in May, which actually got better the more times we watched the two trailers that are out for it. It just got dumber and funnier and more absurd the more we watched it. I am hoping the movie retains some of that “So ridiculous it’s awesome” magic. (Not that I will pay to go see it. I mean, come on. It’s fucking Thor.)

    So here is the video we did for it, which is one of my favorites that we’ve done. You really can’t put me and hammer jokes in the same room and not expect me to have a good time.

    We’re figuring out the schedule for the next few videos but we are likely to do Cars 2 next.