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127 Hours trailer, you guys:
SPOILER ALERT: Marley chews his paws off. And before anyone bothers saying anything, please allow me: isn’t it outrageous how Danny Boyle exploited those penniless caverns for his own personal gain?! Just kidding. Look: Slumdog Millionaire is awful, and will go down in history as being one of the worst movies ever made. But Danny Boyle’s made good movies, too. I know that. We all know that. 28 Days Later? Very good! Trainspotting? I am not sure how well it has aged, but I greatly enjoyed it at the time! Admittedly, Sunshine stabbed itself in the face with that last half-hour tonal shift to horror movie? What was that? But everything leading up to that rare miss of an ending was putting it in the running for one of the better space dramas of the last 50 years. Oh well. (And let’s not talk about Millions, the second worst movie ever made after Slumdog Millionaire.) What I am trying to say is that 127 Hours could really go either way, but James Franco is a compelling actor (LADIES!) and I recognize that a 2 minute teaser trailer about a man trapped in a desperate situation re-examining the path his life has taken before mustering extraordinary will and courage to survive is much less enticing to the average movie-goer than an ad for Jack Johnson Sporting Goods: Just Chill It. And so we are left with only one option: let the Videogum Movie Club decide. See you on November 8th!
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I am constantly irritated by the need for hollywood to put sex into a movie that is not sexy. “This movie is about a guy who gnaws his own arm off. But let’s not forget the car crammed full of nakeds scene!” – Hollywood
Yeah – I was really confused by the tags and the images I was seeing, and the last twenty seconds locked it in… I was so out of it that Up to that point I was thinkin this was some Movie About A Famous Rich Guy I Had Yet To Hear Of and His Kick Ass Adventures. I Saw Franco, and I giggled. Now I’m thinking about what I would do if I had to remove my own arm…
Wait, he gnaws his own arm off? He looks like he’s just trapped under a big rock. “Let me just chew my arm off. There! Oops, still under this rock. Oh, well, high five for trying! Oops. How did I already forget that I just ate my own arm off? Must be something all these vultures are doing to me. These vultures that look like flying hot dogs.”
He cut his arm off with a pocket knife shnarf.
Did you see how he popped that wheelie? Someone give this man an Oscar!
I can’t wait to see him pop a one handed wheelie
So…
plus
SPOILER ALERT: He will never be able to turn his own socks right-side out again.
James Franco hasn’t had to turn his own socks right-side out in a decade.
Best new masturbation slang that no one in my real life will understand.
This is a masterpiece of weblog commentary.
Best, Coach.
I don’t see what the big deal is. If my life depended on it, I could easily cut off James Franco’s arm.
So What you’re saying is that after he cuts his arm off he’ll either walk to civilization to find that it has been taken over by a terrible zombifying disease or said civilization will be full of cute kids living in tragic poverty? (In a cute way!)
I’d like to bed 50 spacebucks on zombies, please.
Now that’s a movie I want to see- sex with spacebucks on top of some zombies.
I want it to be known that if I’m a woman in the middle of THE DESERT and a attractive man comes up to me to randomly show me around THE DESERT that not only would I follow him blindly but then once he puts me in a situation where he gets away from rocks by first saying “Remember that everything will be fine” and then drops seemingly into the abyss that I would also follow him blindly.
It’s not just an attractive man… It’s James Franco!
The part where they fall for him wasn’t included in the trailer. James describes the desert as desert colored and they immediately take their shirts off. I mean, who wouldn’t with command of the English language like that?!?
Maybe it’s just me, but if I were approached by any man in the desert I would think, “Oh shit, I am about to be rape-raped.”
thisismynightmare, you truly capture what it’s like to be a woman.
The title threw me.
I thought 127 hours was about Chinese traffic jams.
Nope that’s 127 days later.
I watched Human Centipede last night with my roommates (back at college guys, what did you want us to do study?) and I feel like this movie has the same basic problem. You have an interesting idea: what if you had to cut off your own arm? Then its just sort of about that idea for 2 hours. “Oh man do you see this guy? Has to cut off his own arm. Are you gonna be able to watch? What would you do? Oh we’re getting close, he’s really gonna pull the trigger on this one.” This is gonna be exactly like Human Centipede.
So “127 Hours” + “Human Centipede” =
Call me crazy, but I’m kinda looking forward to this movie. Not for the gross-out factor of watching someone cut off their arm, but the psychological battle that I’m sure Franco will overact.
It’s nutz to think about, but honestly, what would it take for you to cut off your freaking arm?
If my arm was trapped in the cinema chair after being drugged and dragged to this movie…
Yup, that’d do it for me.
I can only guess how many flashbacks we are going to get in this movie…and I am guessing there are a lot.
127 hours worth
The trailer’s attempt to be bouncy and fun could not overcome the fact that I KNOW HOW IT ENDS!!!
*spoiler alert* he cuts off his own forearm!
“that’s what everyone said to me about this one….”
-James Cameron
I spy Clémence Poésy in this trailer, and that makes it worthwhile for me…
I thought for sure when he dropped into the pool, it was going to be filled with feces, but he would manage to not ruin his camelback by holding it over his head.
That wasn’t meant to be a reply. But hot pic of Fleur Delacour!
Spoiler Alert: The guy this film was based on is a complete moron that went out alone into the wilderness without telling anyone where he was going. This whole 127 hours and arms being cut-off could have been completely avoided. But then we wouldn’t have this movie (and the continuation of blind praise for that jack-off).
“How’s the arm you chewed off?”
“The movie would have been so much better if he didn’t have to cut his arm off.” -My future idiot date to the movie theater
So, this is like the prequel to the The Fugitive?
*SPOLER ALTER* he survives with the help of his only friend…
the image was not that big on google. WILSON! You Jokester!
Danny Boyle has described this movie as “An action movie with a guy who can’t move.” (?)
So basically it’s just another “Into the Wild” about some idiot kid who puts himself in harms way for no good reason.
Also was “Sunshine” was amazing, even after it weirdly morphed into “Event Horizon”.
Man, Sunshine disappointed me for a whole year. It had everything I ever wanted in a movie. . .scifi, isolationist mind-fuck, Cillian Murphy and Danny Boyle. And then it was Event Horizon, only not as “good”, I guess (I didn’t much like Event Horizon). dammit Danny!