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I’m sorry. I know I need to focus on movie trailers and we have some new movie trailers to talk about and this is the part of the week where the important thing is movie trailers, but I still can’t get over this Geraldo stuff. I mean, GOODNESS GRACIOUS! It kind of reminds me of that scene in Naked Gun when Leslie Nielsen wears a microphone into the bathroom. The difference, of course, is that Leslie Nielsen’s character was supposed to be a buffoon, whereas Geraldo Rivera has decades and decades of media training. Also, when Leslie Nielsen went to the bathroom with his mic on, you just heard a really long pee, not a disgusting racist rant. Dunk his head in a toilet! Give him a swirlie on the jumbotron! Jerk. OK. Enough. Movie trailers!
Sound of My Voice
Huh. So it’s like Maggie Marcy Mister Maggoo meets that $10 movie about time travel from seven years ago that I’m too lazy to look up the name of? Well that sounds like a pretty good combination! This movie looks good except for the part where the guy and the girl are freelance self-employed investigative journalists AND boyfriend and girlfriend? It’s too much. Also, when he demands to know how far she is willing to go for the truth, she should really answer “as far as the bank to cash our paychecks,” because at a certain point who is this story even for? Utne Reader? But the movie looks pretty good.
Cosmopolis (NSFW)
CRONENBERRRRRRRRRG! For every Dead Ringers there is an ExistenZ, so we’ve got to be careful with this guy, but what are we going to do, NOT see it? Hahaha. Don’t make me FREAK OUT.
The Host
WHERE R THA VAMPIRES?! TEAM VAMPIRES JUST KIDDING! Whatever. This looks like, what, Invasion of the Body Snatchers? Who knows. As a grown man, telling me that this is based on a Stephanie Meyer book is NOT a selling point, but I do love stock photos of “ethnic” faces!
Jesus Henry Christ
This looks REAL ’90s. Is it going to turn out that the mom and the dad are brother and sister or something? Sometimes writing these trailer reactions makes me feel like the annoying guy at the movie theater. WHO’S HE? WHY DID SHE DO THAT? Shut up, Gabe. I bet the title of this movie is going to piss Kirk Cameron off, though.
Death of a Superhero
Myyyyyy preciouuuusssssss! Get it? Serkis! It’s actually pretty incredible how James Cameron built a new kind of movie camera so that they could CGI map a lifelike Andy Serkis creature and lay him over Andy Serkis in a motion capture bodysuit to play Andy Serkis in Good Will Hunting 2: Dying Young (1991).
Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted
The kids are alright.
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i am really sorry, i just had to get that off my chest.
oh ive screwed everything up. ill leave now.
RE: The Host: APPARENTLY four of those ethnic faces were, like, fans who won a contest to be in the trailer. So. I really liked this book and it’s got a pretty decent cast I think? William Hurt and Frances Fisher and ol’ Sorsha.
What about the new Prometheus trailers? Holy crap that looks like it’s going to (hopefully) be amazing. At the very least it has Idris Elba & Michael Fassbender & some guy who looks just like Tom Hardy in it! I’ve been camped outside of Fandango all week!
“i see sperm donors” – jesus henry christ, sitting in the car with his mom, Toni Collette
You know somebody’s nephew was responsible for The Host trailer.
The subplot about Lesbian mothers is missing in that Madagascar trailer
Apparently Noah Baumbach wrote the screenplay for the new Madagascar, so maybe your wish will be granted (no it won’t, but maybe (no it won’t)).
OMG Flying Birdman was a hoax. Not really related but they should make a movie of that.
Jesus Henry Christ is based off of a short film of the same name. From the trailer, the short looks very different but it was very good and hilarious. A professor showed it to me, ’cause he went to Columbia with the director and we all agreed that he basically ripped off Rushmore.
Primer is the time travel movie from 7 years ago. Boy did I not enjoy that movie. I was less confused by the engineering language* and more confused by the fact that the characters had super similar names and were just white bro dudes in button downs.
*the engineering language was super confusing to the point of annoying, but the names bugged me more
Watching Primer is the oldest I’ve ever fault. I kept pausing the movie and being all “uh, so…what’s going on?” and they’d explain it to me and I’d nod like I understood but I really had no idea and, oh man, it really opened my eyes to what an idiot I am.
Making Kirk Cameron angry is reason enough for me to see that movie. I also watched the trailer for Conception that popped up after Death of a Superhero because of Jason Mantzoukas.
http://youtu.be/FrNHTNL9_rc
It looks like every movie ever made about people having babies all rolled into one, i.e. terrible. Except I’m still going to watch it. Rafi!!!
eXistenZ rules, and I’ll not hear otherwise. Jude Law makes a tooth gun out of gross made-up Chinese food!
eXistenZ does indeed rule. And I really enjoyed Cosmopolis but it’s been years since I read it. Still just based on a 30sec French spot, I’m sold. But why the Enter the Void-style titles? It’s just a blatant half-assed rip off.
I didn’t really grasp which out of existenz and dead ringers was supposed to not be a terrible movie
Sound of My Voice sounds like a neat idea and I’m sure I’ll see it, but Another Earth had so much promise and was so crappy that I’m wary because this looks like it will be the *exact* same kind of let-down.
Also, only journalists in movies talk about being journalists the way those two just did and that makes me think it will, in fact, be as disappointing as Another Earth.
If I had to guess, I would guess Jesus Henry Christ’s parents were married before and that the other girl is their daughter. That’s my guess.
Michael Sheen and Andy Serkis could play each others’ brother. Full brother not just half-brother through sperm donation.