I don’t know what we were thinking taking on the new J.J. Abrams movie (with Spielberg on deck) Super 8 as our latest Trailers Without Pity video. How can you snark on something that looks so purely good? Perhaps you have to find humor in your own squeeing fannishness, which is what we tried to do. It doesn’t hurt when you’ve got period clothing, probably aliens and Kyle Chandler from Friday Night Lights. That is a good way to sell me a movie ticket.
At least it’s not a superhero movie. (At least we don’t think it is. What a bummer it would if Superman jumps out of that wrecked train.)
I really wasn’t too thrilled about doing a video for a fivequel since I never even saw the last X-Men movie (the Origins one with Wolverine) and I didn’t think we’d have anything interesting to say about it.
But I apparently underestimated our ability to make three minutes of digital hay out of a stinky field for our Trailers Without Pity on the subject of X-Men: First Class. We were able to get a lot of the video done while I was in Las Vegas vacationing, which just goes to show that you can do an awful lot of collaborating and work online as long as there’s decent Wi-Fi around. Our next video will be for the J.J. Abrams/Steven Spielberg summer space jam Super 8.
I was not a fan of Cars. I saw it once on DVD and just was bored silly. Come to think of it, I’ve never been fascinated by cars, lowercase, wheeled. Sure, I had some Hot Wheels when I was a kid, but I was never slavishly devoted to them (or dinosaurs for that matter). I mean who wants to roll a vehicle around the carpet when there are Transformers fighting for Cybertron and G.I. Joe trying to defend the country against insane terrorists? I mean, jeez. Do you really think this is the time for a joyride?
Pablo indulges me in the Trailers Without Pity video for Cars 2 in which I rant against the only Pixar movie I really don’t like and which I’ll probably do a 180 on when I see the sequel. (Yes, I’ll probably see it. I’m not completely made of stone when it comes to Pixar.)
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.
In this new Trailers Without Pity video, for the upcoming period romance Water for Elephants, we take a break from aliens, superheroes and knife-wielding maniacs to tackle a Reese Witherspoon/Robert Pattinson movie. But then we found out that Christoph Waltz from Inglourious Basterds is in it and he probably wields a knife at some point. Win some, lose some.
As we say in the video, it reminds us a lot of a blockbuster movie about seemingly doomed romance and giant things you ride on. (In this case elephants, not luxury ocean liners.)
Next time, we go back to the comic-book-movie grind with Thor. Enjoy!
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.
