As is made clear in the opening seconds of our new Trailers Without Pity, we sure do like boobies, so it wasn’t hard to muster up the … uh… mustard of enthusiasm for Burlesque, a Thanksgiving movie starring Christina Aguilera and Cher.
This is a movie I don’t think I’d go see, despite the flesh and Stanley Tucci on display, but hey, if it floats your boat, have a great turkey day big-screen turkey.
You can find our video here.
Next, we’re working on Tron: Legacy.
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.
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.
Our newest Trailers Without Pity is about the retired-assassins comic book adaptation Red, starring Bruce Willis, Morgan Freeman and Helen Mirren.
The video gave me the opportunity to bust out the Morgan Freeman impression I’d been storing in the closet and, ironically, the opportunity to throw in Viagra and adult diaper jokes while taking the filmmakers to task for Viagra and adult diaper jokes we only can assume will be in the movie.
Clearly we hold filmmakers to a much higher standard than we hold ourselves. I am OK with that.
Enjoy! Here’s a link to the video on Television Without Pity if you’re unable to view the embedded video below.
Our new Trailers Without Pity video is about The Social Network, an October movie from director David Fincher about the creation and subsequent world-changing growth of Facebook
It’s an interesting thing to make a video mocking a movie like this because it’s based on real people and events. I met Mark Zuckerberg a few years ago at South by Southwest Interactive and sat front row when he (perhaps unwittingly) threw a reporter to the wolves in front of an audience of several hundred people.
Mark’s a very smart guy and seems to truly believe what he says about privacy going away and Facebook’s potential to be a huge avenue for change in the world. He’s got a very young man’s confidence and all the resources in the world at his disposal right now. Which is also what makes him a little scary and very hard to relate to. When people like Diane Sawyer interview him, they will ask a perfectly reasonable question, and he’ll give a perfectly reasonable-sounding answer to a question that is different than the one which was asked. It’s a neat trick, but not one that endears you to people, really.
I can’t wait to see how the movie portrays him. I just saw Zombieland a few nights ago and really liked Jesse Eisenberg in it and think he’ll do a great job.
As for the video, it’s nice that all the time Pablo and I wasted on Facebook has finally paid off in some small way; this was a very easy script to write.
Our new Trailers Without Pity is about the new Robert Rodriguez epic Latino ass-kicking primer, Machete.
We have no quarrel with films featuring lots of Latino actors and music in which, instead of gardening or being one of several desperate housewives, they are handed a knife and instructed to hack, slice and blow shit up for dramatic purposes. I think our enthusiasm is evident in the video below. (Which you can also see at this direct link if the video doesn’t load for you.)
Next up, we’re doing the Facebook feature The Social Network.