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How excited is everyone for SUPER BOWL SUNDAY? Very excited? “I just watch it for the commercials.” Just kidding. Why would you do that? You can see all of the commercials on the Internet the next day. I watch it because that’s what my friends are doing, and I love their company. Also I enjoy picking a team at random and rooting for them. It actually gets kind of intense. It’s actually kind of a nightmare once I get going. That’s the reason I don’t watch sports most of the year: I don’t want to HURT anyone who gets in the way of MY TEAM. I’m sure that’s the real reason. Anyway, lots of big movie trailers premiering during the Super Bowl, but for now, let’s watch these other movie trailers:
Red Lights
This looks very spooky! DO YOU THINK HE’S A REAL PSYCHIC?! Haha. Just kidding. I mean, I don’t know! Maybe he is? I bet it turns out that he isn’t, though. Because of how psychics don’t exist.
Game Change
Game Change is supposed to be a really interesting book, although I haven’t read it. I’m sure it’s filled with lots of crazy power-grab stories that we civilians can’t even imagine. But while this movie is filled with lots of good actors and I do like political movies and stuff, there’s something about watching a condensed movie version of the 2008 election only four years later that feels like a real waste of time. WHO DO YOU THINK BECOMES PRESIDENT?! NO SPOILERS!
Get the Gringo
Wait, why does George Clooney do the voice over for this trailer if it stars Mel Gibson? Hey, remember when Mel Gibson threatened to kill that one woman and also denies the Holocaust? #FUN
The Cold Light of Day
My favorite part of this trailer is when Bruce Willis tells the guy that he’s in the CIA and the guy asks him why he never told him that before. Uh, have you ever seen a single movie before? That’s, like, the CIA’s whole thing.
God Bless America
This movie was directed by Bobcat Goldthwaite and it is a “dark comedy.” I could not make it through the trailer, so I will not be seeing the movie. I don’t like when murder and violence is turned into a weird joke. “But Gabe, don’t you like action and adventure movies in which violence and murder are treated as spectacles.” Yes I do, and maybe you have caught me on some kind of moral-point that I need to examine further. I just know that I’m not watching this.
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I have been looking forward to this all week, because I want to see God Bless America SO MUCH! This is my Hunger Games, only instead of adapting a popular series of novels, their source material was all those unpublished stories I wrote about going on a cross-country murder spree with Bill Murray’s brother. I’m not sure why they made my character female, or why they didn’t keep our pet tiger in the script, but other than that, HOLY CRAP I WANT TO SEE THAT MOVIE.
i want to see that movie so bad also. its sort of like my personal fantasy as well. except that when i watch reality tv like that i never know if i want to MURDER EVERYONE ON EVERY SHOW or give them all tiny kisses on their stupid cheeks.
It’s about time someone cast Joel Murray in a starring role. FREDDDDDDDYYYYYY!!!! Also, the tone of this movie sort of reminds me of Heathers, but a little broader/farce-ier.
Heathers, yes… wasn’t the pool floatie thing kind of Heathers-ish? and also Little Murders meets the Bucket List. I don’t care if you call it dark comedy, black comedy, whatever, that trailer alone was absofucking cathartic! If they can keep up the pace for 90 minutes, this thing will be a national treasure. ( just nothing like the actual movie, National Treasure, of course.)
I just watch the Super Bowl for commercials and by “for commercials” I mean I go to parties to get free food, smoke weed and play on grindr.
I feel like there’s something almost revolutionary about going on grindr during the Super Bowl as the Super Bowl is kind of the masculine ideal
All those sweaty men are gonna get me in the mood. #justsayin
My guess is that the trailer for God Bless America is at least a little misleading, and that there will be significantly more to the movie than the Tarantino-in-overdrive satirical revenge fantasy. But maybe not! But all of Goldthwaite’s past movies are, while certainly not for everyone and definitely provocative, pretty interesting, with unexpected reserves of empathy and insight.
You’re probably right. I really don’t care what they do with it, because just HINTING that it might involve Freddy Rumsen killing a Kardashian puts this movie right to the top of my list.
i thought both Sleeping Dogs Lie and World’s Greatest Dad were and are two great and incredibly underrated movies.
i’ve been looking forward to God Bless America since I heard the concept when he was on WTF.
and gabe, i think the “some kind of moral-point” you’ve mention will probably be examined further in the movie. as Goldthwaite’s track record can attest, it will be about something much more than what the surface-level plot suggests
The Cold Light of Day would be a lot more interesting to me if it was set on the moon and Henry Cavill was the president’s daughter.
Henry Cavill shirtless is plenty interesting for me.
Sometimes, I wish there could be a 4 year ban on movies about hitmen and spies as a kind of cultural cleanse, but then I think Hollywood would go bankrupt.
Heathers was good; God Bless America looks sort of like that.
I was thinking more like Idiocracy meets Falling Down.
I have many opinions about a trailer for a movie that was released yesterday and somehow did not make the list.
Yeah, funny how that trailer got left out, isn’t it?
But I think we can all agree that “The-Trailer-Who-Shall-Not-Be-Named” is awesome.
Except FOR THE PART WHERE THE MOCKINGJAY PIN IS IMPROPERLY TRANSFERRED.
Plus it needed more Haymitch.
You guys are totally talking about this trailer right?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=c2_J2j-Dpxg
Ok. I thought as much.
The scary thing about the Red Lights trailer was the fart noise at the end.
I can’t watch the trailer because I’m at work, but as a Traffic Engineer, can I just say this in response to the movie “Red Lights”:
FINALLY!!!!!!!
For me, the pinnacle of Superbowl commercials was the ’96 Diet Pepsi ad starring Cindy Crawford and Malcolm McDowell. The bulk of the commercial is an animated sequence directed by Peter Chung (creator of Aeon Flux), starring an Aeon-esque Cindy in red leather, flipping around on the hoods of speeding cars and dodging bullets and missiles and stuff. (youtube only has a super-lo res, 40sec version of the originally MINUTE-long commercial, and it really doesn’t do it justice)
I was 14-15, and at the time I was having regular, annoyed discussions with my mom about watching Aeon Flux and MTV’s other animated programs (Liquid Television, Beavis & Butthead, The Head, The Maxx, etc), because they grossed her out and she disapproved of me watching them. So when this ‘Cindy Flux’ commercial aired during the Superbowl, I was in awe of it as I watched what was basically a 60-second, bad-ass Aeon Flux action sequence with my entire family, and no one so much as batted an eye at its content. “Oh, so if it’s on during the Superbowl it’s ok, but if it’s on MTV then garbage,” I thought to myself, brain-shaking my mind-fist at my mom.
There have been much better commercials in the history of commercials & Superbowls, for sure, ones that really sell the product. I don’t give a care, son. To be honest, the more Superbowls there are, the more boring the commercials get for me. Every year I wonder if I’ll see a spiritual successor to the Cindy Flux commercial– an ad completely besides the point of the product, made extremely on the fly (Chung made the commercial under a super-tight deadline), and ridiculously cool for the sake of it– and every year it does not happen.
Attention advertisers, I have a message for you: You can’t give it, can’t even buy it, and you just don’t *get* it. *catches a fly with eyelashes*
” …I thought to myself, brain-shaking my mind-fist at my mom….” perfect. you could bottle this and sell it.
Yeah, I don’t really need to see Game Change for two reasons.
1. I can’t take 90 minutes of Julianne Moore struggling to maintain an Alaskan accent.
2. I hated it the first time around when it was actually happening, except for the part when Obama won of course. Can the movie just be that part for 90 minutes?
She and Leonardo DiCaprio are set to star in “Talented Actors Who Are Inexplicably Terrible At Accents”
Why is Elizabeth Olsen in a terrible situation in all of her movies?!
I saw God Bless America at the Toronto Film Festival last year and let’s just say I hope it was a really, really rough cut. It started out funny, but quickly became exhausting, preachy and heavy-handed. We get it, Bobcat, you don’t like celebrities or teenagers or soccer moms or American Idol or pretty much anything, but you can do better than conjuring a paper-thin plot to tie together sophomoric fantasies of vengeance.
Oh, and the Freddy Rumsen’s teenage costar overacts the shit out of it.
After the God Bless America trailer, talking about things that basically “need to die” … it autoplays the Battleship trailer. I’d like to think that whoever put those trailers back to back has a sense of humor.