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May 5, 2009

Treasure Blind: "God Gave Me 20/20 Fingers"

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Treasure Blind appears to be a movie about a schlubby, silent man who finds a treasure map in braille to the tune of a musak version of the "Steak Beef: It's What's For Dinner" commercial. Then a little blond blind boy shows up on his doorstep. Then suddenly, the little boy and the schlubby silent man are driving around together unsupervised by the boy's parents, Mr. Wizard-style. And then the boy says "God gave me 20/20 fingers."

And then, at the end, the silent man speaks!:

I know the kid is talking about braille. But that's a weird line for a trailer that only has two spoken words of dialog, and you don't have to be a person whose full time job is to watch creepy things on YouTube to see blatant creepiness in places where it's not intended. Trailer-making must be so hard! I'm loving all these bad trailers, and I don't want them to ever stop making them, but why do so many bad trailers have that thing where they show characters SPEAKING but don't use the audio, they just play their trailer-music over people mouthing words? Doesn't Columbia Trailer School teach a class about how this is a bad idea? (Thanks for the tip, Adam!)

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I was a bit confused by what appeared to be a motel room beat-down.

Posted by: meANDmy_mONKEY profile link at 05/05/09 5:42 PM  | Reply
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1. BEEF is what's for dinner.
2. Is that Explosions in the Sky?

Posted by: etc profile link at 05/05/09 5:43 PM  | Reply
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Oops, you're right. I guess all I remember was the steak.

Posted by: Lindsay profile link  in reply to  etc's comment at 05/05/09 5:46 PM  | Reply
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dats like fat basturd on austin powers. grr baby o yea. righty-o baby. get in ma bellay!! baby is wats for dinnar!! but my all tim faverite part is wen dr evil is like zip it zip it good den says succle on my zipple?

Posted by: Pistachio Disguisey profile link  in reply to  etc's comment at 05/05/09 6:16 PM  | Reply
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That sure sounded like Explosions In the Sky, but with violins.

That sure sounded like Aaron Copland, but much shorter than "Beef: It's What's For Dinner" or "That Sports/War Movies Song".

Posted by: Vampires Suck  in reply to  etc's comment at 05/05/09 11:41 PM  | Reply
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1:09!! Krod Mandoon up in this shit!

Posted by: Ben at 05/05/09 5:58 PM  | Reply
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blind peple are borin. but i see dem all da time on campus. dey don ware glasses so i see da creepie eyes. i liek deaf peple becuz when dey talk it s funy!!!1 LOL it sound like a bare gettin a back rub.

Posted by: Pistachio Disguisey profile link at 05/05/09 6:02 PM  | Reply
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I NEVER thought I'd say this but... WELCOME BACK!

Posted by: Becca profile link  in reply to  Pistachio Disguisey's comment at 05/05/09 6:10 PM  | Reply
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agreed, i love you cake eatur

Posted by: Johnny profile link  in reply to  Becca's comment at 05/05/09 7:38 PM  | Reply
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I find myself voting up his comments for no reason! I don't know what that means! I'm just glad to see it.

Posted by: ManDMo profile link  in reply to  Becca's comment at 05/05/09 9:24 PM  | Reply
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I wonder what he did with the rest of them?

Posted by: Kenugent profile link at 05/05/09 9:21 PM  | Reply
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i couldn't even hate watch this piece of shit.. it makes me taste vomit..

Posted by: heronimous profile link at 05/05/09 11:19 PM  | Reply
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20/20 taste?

Posted by: Elliot profile link  in reply to  heronimous's comment at 05/05/09 11:53 PM  | Reply
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It's called Appalachian Spring by Aaron Copland. The section of music from the beef commercials borrowed extensively from a folk field recording and when this was discovered a few years ago it caused a huge controversy.

Posted by: judasconstant profile link at 05/06/09 2:40 AM  | Reply
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If that kid is the one ringing the doorbell, someone get him a nail clipper stat! Also, why is the nice lady at church holding open the hymnal from which she is reading in the BLIND KID'S LAP!??!?

Posted by: Huh McWhatsit at 05/06/09 9:10 AM  | Reply
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I keep googling the innernette, waiting for the da cake eatur's blog

Posted by: Hanso at 05/06/09 11:54 AM  | Reply
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