Tag: videos

  • 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 Due to issues with outdated video embed codes, TWOP links are also provided as direct links to where each video can still be viewed.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: Tron Legacy

    Our penultimate Trailers Without Pity for the year is for Tron Legacy, a sequel to Tron that brings back Jeff Bridges and, you know, light cycles and discs of Tron and stuff.

    Sometimes, lost as I am in an adult world of mortgage payments and shitty diapers, I forget that once upon a time I was quite the nerd and my classmates didn’t let me forget it. It’s nice to know I can always dip into my nerd hurt reserves when the need strikes. This was one of those times.

    As for my use of the word “Penultimate” above, here’s the deal: we decided in the spring that when our two years of doing videos for TWOP was up (and when the latest run of our contract expired) in late October, we’d stop doing Trailers Without Pity. We asked for a raise and didn’t receive it, which we kind of expected, but we were starting to feel things had run their course anyway and that we should wind it down.

    We held off on a final decision all summer and, weirdly, the videos kept being fun to do and seemed easier to put together the longer we kept doing them. So we decided to keep the door open and it looks like what will happen is this: we’re going to take a long break after the next video (for Black Swan), and then return in January with new videos.

    The show would be broken into smaller seasons (maybe 10-12 episodes per run) and between those seasons we’d take a few months off. What’s really been killing us isn’t producing videos every two weeks, it’s doing that indefinitely without breaks or vacations. We’ll see how that goes, but I’m excited to have a break for us to catch our breath and to come back fresh in the ’11.

    So, enjoy this one and we’ll see you for one more in another two weeks.

  • Trailers Without Pity: Burlesque

    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.

  • Trailers Without Pity: Scott Pilgrim vs. the World

    trailers w/o pity presents: Scott Pilgrim

    The first time Pablo and I saw the Scott Pilgrim vs. the World trailer, we were wowed, but in the course of putting together the new Trailers Without Pity video, you could say we got a little disenchanted.

    For one thing, I couldn’t get over the Michael Cera-ness of the proceedings and for another, surprising, eye-catching special effects often wear out their welcome when it seems that’s the most interesting thing going on.

    Nevertheless, it’s directed by the guy who did Hot Fuzz and Shaun of the Dead, so you gotta give it the benefit of the doubt. Or, I mean, I do. You might not give a damn.

    I’ve embedded the video here, but if it doesn’t work for you, but do us the favor of giving this link a 64-hit combo click and watching it for yourself on the TWOP site.

    Next time, we’re doing Piranha 3-D.


  • Trailers Without Pity: Knight and Day

    Trailers w/o Pity presents...

    (This was previously posted on the old Terribly Happy site. The movie is in theaters this week.)

    We made a list recently of our next six Trailers Without Pity movies, a task we’d neglected until we had exhausted our last 12-week-old list. We gazed upon the list of summer bonanzas — action, comedy, super-hero drama (check, check, check) — among them, we had this odd-duck movie with Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz. It’s due out in just a month and except for a few commercials, this movie has almost no buzz.

    The press site: barren of even a smattering of images that might flesh out our idea of this movie.

    Tell me if you can figure this trailer out. While I’m sure the production values will be high and the movie will be professional in its format output, I don’t know if I see a movie that humans want to consume in there. Maybe I’m off and this will made $100 million+ in its first week, but my gut, the one that also likes gourmet donuts, tells me this will not come to pass.

    If there is buzz on this movie, it’s anti-buzz, the kind that comes from a flying attention-hungry vampire insect, one that is not striped in black and yellow, but in the very colors whose lack of pigment cause you to turn away, bored.

    Knight and Day, folks:

  • Trailers Without Pity: Dinner For Schmucks

    Dinner for Schmucks

    This week on Trailers Without Pity, we take a break from talking about big-budget, superhero-laden summer movies to address the summer comedy Dinner For Schmucks, which stars Steve Carrell and Paul Rudd (and like a half-dozen other comedians you probably really like).

    We spend a good deal of time examining what the word “Schmuck” actually means because when you have a clear avenue to penis jokes, you take it and push the accelerator to the floor.

    As such, this video is a little more “Not Safe For Work” than usual. Make sure your boss isn’t peeking over your shoulder.

    You can get to it directly at this link or view the video embedded below. If the video below doesn’t load, try the link instead. Enjoy! Next up we’ll be doing Christopher Nolan’s amazing-looking mindbender, Inception.