This is either incredibly awesome or it sucks bad enough to be cool again. Either way we win, with this promising-looking trailer and film poster.
Kommandør Treholt & Ninjatroppen is the true story of how Commander Arne Treholt and his Ninja Force saved Norway during the Cold War. The story takes place in the time right before Treholt’s arrest on espionage charges in 1984, and reveals a spectacularly different version of our recent past than has been previously known.
Need some inspiration for your next encounter with that despicable arch-enemy in your life? Here’s 10 minutes worth.
Charming Maggie Gyllenhaal’s “You can go suck a fuck” from Donnie Darko is my favorite of the bunch. Although, the classic line from Road House, “I used to fuck guys like you in prison”, is tough to beat. I’ve used that one actually.
Like all great things in modern popular culture, Hitchcock did it already. Decades before Michael Scott would popularize “That’s what she said” jokes, Alfred Hitchcock used one masterfully in this 1928 screen test for Blackmail.
You dog! It’s the earliest known recording of this kind of joke, and Hitchcock proves once again he does it better than anyone else. That’s what she said!
The first teaser trailer is out for Disney’s newest animated feature, about Rapunzel… one of the few remaining “princess-in-peril” fairy tales the company hasn’t ruined tackled.
Tangled is apparently a catchy title designed to trick boys into watching a film which is pretty much about the silken beauty of long blonde hair. I’m skeptical about how exactly the plot could be stretched to feature length… will Rapunzel’s hair at one point become, horror of horrors, tangled?! But Disney did a good job with their last feature, The Princess and the Frog, so I’ll give them the benefit of the doubt.
However, there’s very little chance it will match the majestic and haunting beauty of the Barbie version. (Ray Harryhausen’s 1951 take on the story isn’t actually all that bad, though!)
Feeling down on humanity? Massive oil spills, terrorism, never-ending wars, religious strife… nowadays, it’s easy to be a bit depressed about ourselves. But this look back on a century’s worth of FX is really a pick-me-up. It won’t solve the BP oil slick in the gulf, but it’s proof of humanity’s enduring ingenuity. We’re always getting better!
A trailer for a movie called Super 8 being shown before Iron Man 2 is the latest “viral” marketing maneuver from JJ Abrams. I usually find this kind of marketing fun, but this is kind of annoying. Tell me what you’re about, or get out of my face. Take it away, Twitchfilm:
We’re running a trailer for a secret new movie in front of Iron Man 2 but we can’t tell you anything about it because it’s a secret. You hear me? It’s a SECRET! JJ Abrams made a NEW, SECRET MOVIE that we CAN’T TELL YOU ANYTHING ABOUT! So don’t even ask. It’s called Super 8. Tell your friends.
Predictably the interweb has been all abuzz with speculation that this is some sort of Cloverfield prequel or sequel – speculation Abrams denies, incidentally – as this non-news spirals all over the place. And I think that’s the bit that bugs me. The lack of news has itself become the news, a fact that the producers and PR people are very cynically – and expertly – playing on. Me, I just figure that if your movie is any good you should just go ahead and show me part of it and then I’ll get excited about what actually exists instead of what doesn’t.
The guys at Ranker.com have collected 15 of the greatest movie trailer re-cuts on the web. A lot of them you might know… The Dark Knight re-imagined as an 80s-style dramedy, how Wes Anderson might have done Saving Private Ryan… but each one is worth a look. The creativity and talent of people surprises me every day.
“Scary Mary” Poppins is my favorite. I always found that movie kind of creepy anyway.
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