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Hold on! I know that last week’s trailers was meager pickings, but I feel like we really shouldered the brunt of that. Come on, guys. Get fired up! Trailers are only what you make them. (That does not sound right, but I am not editing this intro and that’s final.) Why should Videogum be punished? (Again, here I may be using the word “punished” incorrectly, but until the technology is invented that allows me to quickly and easily reference the meanings of words, it will have to stand.) Whatever. Maybe you guys will be cheered up by this week’s crop which includes a new Duplass brothers comedy starring Jason Segel and Ed Helms or might I interest you in a futuristic thriller about a SPACE PRISON?! Now we are cooking with laughing gas!
Jeff, Who Lives At Home
Why is this movie trailer so annoying and so appealing at the same time? The Duplass brothers are good. Jason Segel and Ed Helms are good. Susan Sarandon is VERY good. Perhaps it has something to do with the way it reminds us of our endless fascination with adults who refuse to grow up. Hey guys, why don’t you just grow up! Let’s try that next time! But this still looks pretty good. OK. Next trailer.
Darling Companion
This is the kind of movie that I won’t see in the theater but that I might watch on hologram when I’m 100 YEARS OLD. Barf. Go to bed, grandpas. Your dog is dead and has been dead since 1973, don’t you remember?
Journey 2: The Mysterious Island
I’m not even going to watch this trailer because that still frame is PERFECT. Got it. Opening night. See you there.
Lockout
HAHAHAHAHAHA YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSS! We gather these trailers during the course of the week, but I hadn’t seen this one until just now, and I sent an email to my friend Max that just said “drop everything you’re doing and watch this trailer.” This is incredible! Have you ever noticed how it’s always the most secure, impenetrable prisons that turn out to be completely insecure and super penetrable? And also how no one who is the best ever follows, you know, basic laws of civilized society? Just thinking out loud. This looks great. I mean, you know what I mean. Best Picture. A++ would do business with this trailer again.
Seeking Justice
All of that fame and fortune, all of those years in front of a camera, and still Nicolas Cage can’t put his wig on straight. Poor guy. I guess it’s not all wine and roses. (Huh?) Meanwhile, congratulations to Guy Pearce on being in all of the movies all of a sudden!
I Am Not A Hipster
Oof. This movie apparently was all the rage at Sundance and good for it, but I’m not sure when I’ll have time to watch it since I’ll be so busy watching and rewatching Lockout. You learn something new every time. A PRISON IN SPACE AND THE PRESIDENT’S DAUGHTER IS ALSO THERE?! THAT MOVIE SHOULD BE CALLED LOLOLOLOLOCKOUT!
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Gabe how would you feel if Freida let Birdie escape?
Semi-related note: Yesterday, a movie was filming in Grand Rapids, and they were looking for extras. Although it doesn’t have a Wikipedia page, I was able to learn that the movie is called “A Dog For Christmas” and has Dean Cain in it, so it already sounds WONDERFUL. I was sorely tempted to show up at filming and shout “It’s a bird! It’s a plane!” until they kicked me out.
A Dog For Christmas is 100 percent absolutely going on my DVR for the next Falalalalifetime.
He’s been doing a lot of those movies
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1821447/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1691012/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1356395/
And I think I’ve seen every single one of them.
I was promised a picture of Peeta. Mrs. Baby Friday? Hmmmmmmmmm?
She meant the Journey 2: Now with more The Rock
That Peeta kid is charming.
And he smells like bread!
And he makes cakes and cookies and croissants!
Liz Lemon agrees
Scroll up until you see The Rock, then look to your right.
Then when you see The Rock, don’t blink. Blink and you’re dead. Don’t turn your back. Don’t look away. And don’t Blink. Good Luck
Oh dang.
Simon Cowell gets it.
I’m listening to “Fix You” right now and it’s just perfect for that gif.
Fact: the plot for Lockout was written entirely with magnetic poetry sets puchased at Washington, DC museums.
I think the part that pisses me off the most about that trailer was how they just straight up said he was a loose cannon. That is just kind of lazy, especially when the only thing they have to back it up is him riding a really fast motorcycle and questioning whether the gravity generator will hold him up (incidentally, the second most annoying part of the trailer was how that doesn’t even remotely make sense).
i think Lockout is 2012′s Dracula 3000.
I thought the exact same thing! Not only should one’s being a loose cannon never be stated outright in a screenplay, but the term “loose cannon” itself… ugh. Great minds.
I think that they’re just relying on it opening on 4/20. It would make perfect sense if you were stoned.
Wait. What? There’s a PRISON in SPACE! And the president’s daughter went for a visit?
That shit is straight up BANANAS.
B-A-N-A-N-A-S!
Teacherman and I had a whole long conversation about the ethical implications of putting prisoners in suspended animation on a spaceship. Suffice it to say, we came up with very few arguments in support of the concept.
Now here’s the question, is space prison just for space crimes, like stealing moon rocks, or do earth criminals go there too? The former would be way better
Moon rocks dispense their own justice. Didn’t you see Apollo 18?
obviously space prison is going to be a really necessary thing once president gingrich makes the moon our 51st state. most likely, the moon itself will be a penal colony, and the space prison will just be where the fed up colonial moon government will have to ship the most difficult prisoners who refuse to work in the lunar mines or try to foment rebellion.
Refuse to work? I think we need to admit the Moon as a slave state. The balance between slave and free states has been very one-sided since 1865 and that shit has got to stop.
A++++++++++++++
No need for the A+ southernbitch, I just want us to live as the Founders intended.
Not even my love for Peeta can make me go see that Mysterious Island movie, but on a related note: only two more months until The Hunger Games comes out! Did everyone see the new poster? Apparently it’s the “last official one”. I’m ready for another trailer, myself.
I haven’t noticed any new posters. Just the same poster, expressing excitement again and again.
I see what you’re trying to do here, threadjacker. I’m a trained threadjacker tracker.
You’re under arrest… for THREADJACKING!!!
just kidding I’m a stripper
I want to talk about HG as much as the next girl, but Journey 1 was so entertaining. And
this looks even campier. And I LOVE the Rock. And I love Michael Cain. I am sooo seeing this on opening weekend.
Well, see, now I want to see it. I love The Rock and Michael Cain, too. Hmmm…
Think about it like this — despite the amazing images and previews coming out of the Hunger Games, if it’s not HARRY POTTER AMAZING we are going to riot on the streets. Mysterious Island, as Facetaco pointed out so beautifully, is *so bad* that Brendan Fraser said no. So it’s going to be Ghost Rider 2 bad. It could be Wicker Man bad. And I know for a fact that if we stumble into Journey 2 with no expectations it will be an amazing experience. And regardless of how many times I see HG that Friday from 12:01 a.m. onward, I will have a shit ton of notes and critiques.
Baby Friday, there is room in our hearts for BOTH.
p.s. ROSE IS A WHORE.
Also, there is NO WAY they can make Mockingjay in anyway resemble the book without an NC-17 rating.
Right, I am adding Journey 1 to my library list. I saw that Peeta’s also in RV, but he was 14, so I’m just gonna leave that alone.
It’s a pop culture EVENT. It’s a pop culture BLOG. One of the actors featured in said EVENT is pictured ABOVE. I’m resting cases all up in this bitch.
I guess a snorefest IS a type of event, technically, but I think that’s stretching the definition a bit.
I jacked the Twitter thread to talk about Doctor Who. I will jack this one too.
I MADE IT HAPPEN!
YOU SHALL NOT PASS.
NOPE
And I will forever point out that ROSE is the worst.
I’m so conflicted! I love Hunger Games AND Doctor Who! What side do I choose?
There’s room for all of us here, no matter what facetaco says.
There there, there’s room for all of us
Jinx Baby Friday!
Also, I hate the Oods & their gross spaghetti faces. This has gotten way off track. Sorry other people!
But the Oods are so nice!
Even to that dirty tramp, Rose.
The Ood are my spirit Doctor Who character/monster! Don’t ask me why.
THANK YOU! rose is absolutely the worst. long live rory.
Rory is the best.
Also, while looking for the very *best* Rory pic, I found a whole site dedicated to theories that Rory is Rassilon.
And then I found A LOT of creepy slash fiction so don’t look it up at work.
Hey you know what movie I’m running to see? Hunger Games. Look at this bread-boy run:
Hey guys, don’t let a buddy drink alone…come with me to see The Hunger Games!
http://mockingjay.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/Cinna-Haymitch-and-Peeta.jpg?9d7bd4
I’ve been gone too long.
I will go with you in spirit. I’m making everyone I know go with me to this movie OPENING NIGHT. Let’s do this thing!
I’ve already got my Fandango alert set–as soon as the tickets go on sale, I’ll get an email. I am so ready.
74 days before since it’s the 74th Hunger Games!
Segel Fatigue maybe? There’s definitely no doubting that he’s good, but lately it just feels a bit like he’s been that same kinda good in every TV show or movie put out in the last 250 years or so. ZERO HYPERBOLE.
2012 Jason Segel = Freaks & Geeks Segel
Damn, what the hell happened to Guy Pierce in “Seeking Justice”? He looks ugly as hell…..looks kinda like Moby.
I’m excited about Journey 2! When your sequel is so bad you can’t even get Brendan Fraser to return, that sounds like a movie that is sure to have a special place in my cold, cynical heart.
COULDN’T EVEN GET BRENDAN FRASER TO RETURN!
Gabe is missing out by not watching the trailer. Who doesn’t like puppy-sized elephants?
dftba
Is that Mr. Tusks, the mayor of Tinytown?!
Yes!!!!!!!!!!! And where is he? Because Peeta was the only smart one who saved all the diamonds — so he has all the money. I can’t wait to see how they kill him off and write in The Rock. And Michael Cain!!
I AM Not A Hipster (I Am A Hipster)
True story, my 2nd grade teacher had a dog named Freeway and he was a model:
That’s what she told us anyway…
I’m Too Old To Really Be A Hipster But I’m Still Clinging To Bad Life Decisions
Question: How do you get the prisoners into an impenetrable prison?
You have to force the penetration. In general, that’s really just the best way to get into ANY prison.
Boy oh boy, you guys are really missing the point of Lockout.
“Funny how this prison isn’t as airtight as all the people in this movie say it is.” Uhh, YEAH. You’re right. You are right. It will probably be very hard for Guy Pierce to get Taken’s daughter out of it, thereby filling up the movie with (hopefully) really fun scenarios of Guy Pierce having to fight evil convicts that none of the audience will have any remorse or moral quandary about watching them die!
Why are we supposed to automatically feel no moral quandaries about killing criminals? Allow me to remind you of a certain hardened criminal who, when push came to shove, just wanted the other prisoners to put the bunny back in the box.
Oh, yeah. THAT guy from that one thing?
But to address your question, in movies like this one (or your Escape From New Yorks, or any action movie, really) they never really play up the humanity of the bad guys, and that especially happens with ‘evil’ convicts.
Back to the bunny in the box, I did not get the reference. My mind said, “Ehh, maybe Con Air.” But I couldn’t at all place it. So i just googled it and it turns out it was from Con Air. I still cannot place it in the film!
That means you are not watching Con Air often enough!
It was their barbecue, and he liked how it tasted.
Wait, Ed Helms plays a man in a not so great marriage? And Segel is a a man-boy loser? I love those guys, I really like the Duplass brothers, but how much new insights can they wring out of the same old scenarios?
Darling Companion: Sometimes you have to lose your dog to find yourself.
That was surely Woody from This Is England giving psycho on the High Rock, and I claim my “Yikes!” but also Yay because Woody’s great.
YES! It’s Joseph Gilgun, aka Woody, aka Rudy from Misfits Season 3! I wish this movie was just two hours of him talking shit about Guy Pearce’s cheekbones.
is there a rule now that every nick cage film has to be shot in new orleans? he sold his haunted mansion downtown, so where is he based out of now- his ridiculous pyramid crypt in st. louis cemetary?
hold the phone. here’s the fucking synopsis: In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, disenchanted New Orleans residents have taken it upon themselves to keep the city safe, using citizens they have previously helped as their foot soldiers next time out.
FUCK. THAT. NOISE.
ugh. uuuuuugggggghhhhhh. considering the fucking vigilante bullshit that happened after the storm- where the cops and regular citizens just straight up started murdering random african american men- that is way super gross.
Guess I won’t be dipping into my movie theater fund any time soon.
Judy Greer FTW!!!!!
Up here, Michael.
There’s only one man for the job, the only thing is, he talks with a real severe speech impediment, so it’s nearly impossible to understand him… and he’s a kleptomaniac… and racist. BUT, but he’s definitely the guy to get your daughter out of space jail.
Hold on, he’s the best, and he’s a loose cannon? I was definitely not prepared for that juxtaposition of character traits. Next you’re going to tell me he’s really good-looking, but also kind of a jerk…
Lockout is just Escape from New York but in space, right?
No, I think it’s a Newt Gingrich campaign promise.
Confessiongum: Jeff Who Lives at Home trailer made me tear up! I think it could end up being a really good movie.
Anybody else notice Rudy in the sure to be excellent Lockout?
