Tag: movies

  • Trailers Without Pity: Scream 4

    We’re not quite sure what to make of this horror sequel, this Scream 4 cinematic venture, which has a trailer that seems a little ripe and not in a good way. In fact, I daresay it might be overripe! Criminy!

    I’ll tell you a short story about my bathroom.

    My wife and I share a sink. There are two sinks in our bathroom but for some reason that has never been explained to my satisfaction, we only use one. The other sink is like a catch-all for clothes and junk. MOVING ON!

    So this sink we share gets my shavings, my wife’s curly-hair products, both our toothpaste leavings, all manner of hair and gunk from picking up and cleaning the baby (don’t even ask) and plenty of other gross stuff that I don’t even remember well enough to recount.

    Every six months or so, this sink gets clogged up and I have to go in there with a wire hanger and dig whatever’s backing things up. Invariably, I’ll pull up a giant black wad of sticky, tar-like shit with hair and a funky scent and I have to keep back my gagging as I collect it in a wad of toilet paper and throw it away, hangar included.

    That’s how I felt when we tried to do a video about the Scream 4 trailer. What is this gunk we pulled up out of the sink and how did normal, human things turn into this… this… thing? Who is this for? Why does it exist?

    That’s Scream 4’s trailer in a nutshell. My bathroom sink’s tar shit.

    Enjoy our video about it!

  • Trailers Without Pity: Sucker Punch

    Not much to say about this one except that I assumed, like I sometimes do, that something that looks so dumb and ripe for parody would be easy to make fun of. Then I started scripting and realized that the trailer was already so ridiculous on its face (and its fishnet-clad legs, especially) that there wasn’t much more to do than recount the silliness.

    Not to say it might not be a good movie, but… OK, let’s not kid ourselves. This probably won’t be a good movie. But it might be interesting to look at, like a mysterious orange puddle in the street or a car accident where you aren’t personally involved. Let’s hope!

    So, here’s our Trailers Without Pity for Sucker Punch.

    Next we’re tentatively doing Scream 4.

  • Trailers Without Pity Episode Guide

    Trailers Without Pity was a web video show written, voiced and edited by brothers Omar and Pablo Gallaga. It ran on NBC Universal/Bravo-owned TelevisionWithoutPity.com from October 2008 through 2012 for four runs of shows. Episodes typically ran 4-5 minutes long and featured the “Super Gallaga Bros.” in animated form talking about movie trailers, intercut with stills from the film (often with word balloons or captions) and stock photos.

    After several versions of a test episode called Trailers Trashed (“Season Zero”) for the movie Hancock were made in the Summer of 2008, the eventual format, which is more of a visual recap of a trailer rather than a re-enactment/puppet show, was settled upon and continued to be the template for the series. It was heavily influenced by the format of Daniel “djb” Blau’s The Week Without Pity videos.

    For the purposes of this episode guide, all links from the movie titles go to the original entries where they appeared on Terribly Happy/Bloggystyle. There, the context and back story of each videos is often explained. Due to issues with outdated video embed codes, TWOP links are also provided as direct links to where each video can still be viewed. If you’re trying to view the videos on an iOS device, you’re better off downloading the official iOS TWOP app, where the videos can be viewed on an iPhone/iPad, etc.

     

    Season Zero

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    Season One

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  • Trailers Without Pity: Black Swan

    Our last Trailers Without Pity video for 2010 is for Darren Aronofsky’s Black Swan, a harrowing look at the world of ballet that’s due in theaters in December.

    In the video, we learn that ballet is as brutal as pro wrestling, that Aronofsky is like a cuddly, beloved version of Lars von Trier and that ballet + malaise = ballaise.

    The plan is to return with new videos in January. In the meantime, I want to create a episode guide blog post that lists all the Trailers Without Pity episodes we’ve done so far with links to all of them. I think we’re up to almost 60 episodes dating back to October 2008. Look for that in the next few weeks if things don’t get too busy and overwhelming around here.

  • Trailers Without Pity: Morning Glory

    This one was a lot of fun. Morning Glory is a holiday movie starring Harrison Ford, Diane Keaton and Rachel McAdams about a national morning TV show, which I’m sure will make for lots of mockery. (It sure made for some easy second-hand mockery on our part.)

    We’re still figuring out the future of Trailers Without Pity; I think it’s most likely that we’ll either stop doing them after October or at least take a very long break. I’ll let you know when we know for sure. In any case, if either of those things happens, we’re probably down to the last two or three videos.

    Anyway, here it is, the Trailers Without Pity for Morning Glory, which includes a fresh new background from Pablo. Follow the link if you can’t see the video embedded below.

  • Trailers Without Pity: Due Date

    Our latest Trailers Without Pity is about the upcoming Robert Downey, Jr. / Zach Galifianakis comedy Due Date, directed by the guy who did The Hangover and Old School.

    It’s nice to go into a comedy and know that you’re in competent hands for a change.

    We’re still knocking out videos, but haven’t yet made a decision about what we’re doing after our contract is up in October. I think we could both really use the free time, but on the other hand, the videos are still a lot of fun to do and don’t seem to be taking as long to produce as they did when we started. In any case, enjoy! Here’s the link to the video if it doesn’t appear embedded below.