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Tuesday Tease: SCOTT PILGRIM vs THE WORLD Trailer B, See Ramona’s Big Hammer
Posted by mistergroonk in Movies, Trailers on June 1, 2010
Face it.
Learn it.
Live with it.
Until Edgar Wright’s (possible)adaptation genius is known, any and all Scott Pilgrim trailers will have a home here.
Tuesday Tease: Latest INCEPTION Trailer Explains Everything, And Everything Looks Damn Good
Posted by mistergroonk in Movies, One Sheets, Trailers on May 11, 2010
And INCEPTION turns out to be somewhat like we figured.
And we were very pleased with this.
What it is
Your dreams are the locked box and Leonardo DiCaprio is the criminal come to pick that box, rifle through everything you hold dear, and leave. You’ll never know he was even there.
At least, that’s our take on the trailer. Feel free to challenge this assumption.
What We Learned
Ideas are like parasites?
Can this be the same idea that, “a voice can just go somewhere… just hang out. Like a dirty thought in a nice clean mind. Maybe a thought is like a virus. It could kill all the healthy thoughts and take over. That would be serious.”
TALK HARD!!!
Why We’re Gonna Watch
Two reasons.
1) Mind-twisty goodness brought to you by the man who gave the world MEMENTO, THE PRESTIGE, andDARK KNIGHT.
2) A third act that remains secretive and is said will turn your brain into a tasty cruller.
We’d like to test reason number two. It really can’t be as obvious as the trailer leads us to believe.
When’s it coming?
July 16, 2010
Official site:
http://inceptionmovie.warnerbros.com/
New poster under the cut.
MACHETE has a Special Cinco de Mayo Message for You, Arizona
Posted by mistergroonk in Holiday, Just Freaking Neat, Movies, One Sheets, Trailers, USA on May 5, 2010
Earlier today, Robert Rodriguez released his “illegal” trailer for MACHETE. It’s a celebration of Cinco de Mayo, film savvy and that crazy fucked up shit going on in Arizona.
Cross the border and view the trailer with us:
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Tuesday Tease: THE JONESES is Clever, Moving to Your Neighborhood… Maybe
Posted by mistergroonk in Marketing, Movies, One Sheets, Trailers on April 27, 2010
In the dying weeks of our favorite afternoon talk show, The Bonnie Hunt Show, David Duchovny appeared and brought with him snark and news on a movie he made. Duchovny snark is always appreciated but we had more interest in the movie he plugged.
What it is
Demi Moore constructs the all American family, moves them into an affluent suburb, and proceeds to use the family as living models to market the hell out of anything with a price tag.
What We Learned
Demi Moore can still play a by-the-numbers bitch whenever she wants. Even though we know Duchvony is more than the sum of Fox Mulder or Hank Moody, we can’t help but see those characters struggling to contain themselves inside the actor that is David Duchovny.
Why We’re Gonna Watch
David Duchovny was right, for once. This idea is pretty damn clever. Will the satire outpace the “love story” that Hollywood feels compelled to wedge into every script that blows through its doors? Who knows. We’d still like to see the flick.
Official site:
http://www.thejonesesmovie.net/
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Late Tuesday Tease: COMIC BOOK LITERACY, Using Comics to Promote Reading
Posted by mistergroonk in Comics, Documentary, Movies on April 21, 2010
The documentary COMIC BOOK LITERACY had a showing at last weekend’s C2E2 in Chicago. This film looks to change the prevalent idea about comics in the USA by using comics as a way to promote literacy.
Just like in animation, comic books in the USA have been relegated to an Age Ghetto. The idea being if you read comics you must be addle-brained or a lazy reader. We’ve heard that countries like Japan and France don’t have the same stigma’s attached to their comic book lovers.
Back in the 80s is when Wednesday became the happiest day of the week for us. The influence of The X-Men’s resident sesquipedalian, Hank McCoy aka The Beast, is immeasurable. Fans of Chris Claremont‘s work in the 80s understands how this works.
Hopefully COMIC BOOK LITERACY will expand the US audiences perception about comics or, at the very least, help them pull the stick out.
Check out the COMIC BOOK LITERACY trailer below the jump.
Tuesday Tease: CARRIERS, Bird Flu is Still Pretty Scary
Posted by mistergroonk in Movies, Trailers on March 30, 2010
What We Learned
Bird Flu (remember that one, kids?) might make you a zombie.
What We Saw
Humans are bastards.
Why We’re Gonna Watch
To see humans being bastards.
Rich Lovatt listed CARRIERS in his recommended viewing section. Since we were impressed by Chris Pine‘s work in BOTTLE SHOCK, and a little film called STAR TREK, we figure it’s worth renting.
Live-Action PAPRIKA Film Proposed, Because Hollywood Loves Effing Up Perfection
Posted by mistergroonk in Anime, Movies on March 26, 2010
Petersen notes that his representatives first introduced him to the story through Kon’s anime film: “And I saw it and bingo, I thought this is fantastic. This is a great piece. That will be a very very interesting movie.” Although he plans to make the story a little more accessible for a mainstream audience, he compares the story to The Matrix in its scope.
We’ve learned THE NEVERENDING STORY director Wolfgang Petersen wants to adapt Satoshi Kon’s (Perfect Blue, Millennium Actress, Paranoia Agent) anime masterpiece PAPRIKA into a live-action affair. The first quote out of his mouth is to make it “a little more accessible.” Just count the ways this can go wrong.
PAPRIKA is one of those tales that lends itself to the limitless possibilities of animation. While the NEVERENDING STORY film was a favorite of ours growing up, we’d rather Peterson focus on some other project. It’d be nigh impossible to improve upon Kon’s perfection.
Check out PAPRIKA’s opening sequence which is, by our reckoning, in the top 5 best film opening sequences of all time below the cut.
@EdgarWright is Full of Love, Releases SCOTT PILGRIM Teaser Trailer
Posted by mistergroonk in Just Freaking Neat, Movies, One Sheets, Trailers on March 25, 2010
Clear you subspace pathways and behold. Director Edgar Wright appears to have done the impossible. From what we just witnessed, he’s translated Bryan O’Malley’s magical comic brilliance to the silver screen.
Master Wright has just tweeted that the teaser trailer for SCOTT PILGRIM VS THE WORLD is up. We would embed this 1 minute and 24 seconds of love but that feature is not available yet. Also, we’re too busy watching it over and over and over and over…
Click the pic above to see it for yourself.
The teaser one-sheet lay below the jump.
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Tuesday Tease Part 2: Begin Transmission. New TRON LEGACY Trailer. #flynnlives
Posted by mistergroonk in Just Freaking Neat, Movies, Trailers on March 9, 2010
What We Learned
Flynn’s kid thinks he’s Christian Slater.
What We Saw
Bliss. The powers of the sequel used for good.
Finally.
Why We’re Gonna Watch
http://www.program-glitch-esc.net/
http://www.flynnlives.com/
http://twitter.com/#search?q=%23flynnlives
End of line.
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Tuesday Tease: HOT TUB TIME MACHINE Bought Us with Unabashed 80s Nostalgia
Posted by mistergroonk in Movies, Trailers on March 9, 2010
By now you understand our tastes when it comes to movies. Some have called it snobbery. Others have called it just plain weird. We call it, ‘not wasting money or time on any more of your bullshit shennagins cause it doesn’t matter how many motherboards you melt rendering a giant robot’s balls thinking it’s a funny joke or that racist little robots are the pinnacle of comedic genius we’re not watching your film abortions any more, Michael Bay! You here that!? Never a-damn-gain!’
Where were we again?
Oh right: movie snobbery.
Now it would appear that a flick named HOT TUB TIME MACHINE automatically falls into that area located directly beneath the nose. You would think this. Hopefully, you didn’t take bets because you would be dead wrong.
Maybe it’s John Cusack owning up to his humble teen loser years. Maybe it’s Craig Robinson’s deadpan Aside Glance as he quizzically ponders how they partied in a hot tub in 2010 one night and woke up in 1985 the next night. Maybe still it’s Robinson’s all defining question, “What color is Michael Jackson?” that spared the cash on opening night.
The trailer lurks below.
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