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Who Buys This Shit?
The world is full of a lot of stupid shit. And a lot of it you can buy. Take, for example, some of the recent offerings unveiled for merchandise that ties into the upcoming The Avengers movie next year. The website Comic Book Movies posted several of the images today, and I just have to roll my eyes at how insipid some of these items are. You can check them all out at the link I just posted, but I have a couple of my least favorites.
Who in their right mind would buy some of this garbage? It has nothing to do at all with the Avengers movie other than to slap the logo on a product, along with some highly detailed character images, and then just throw it in stores.
It’s like that scene in Death to Smoochy where the executives sit around a big table making check marks next to all the pointless drivel that will now that Smoochy’s face stamped onto it. Or all the jokes in Spaceballs. So much for either movie being some kind of satire.
I mean, c’mon, look at this shit:
Who in their right mind would pay money for any of this crap? Who needs an ‘Avengers’ bicycle helmet? It’s just a bicycle helmet with Avengers stickered onto the side. There’s absolutely no thought or creativity in any of these items. And that just disgusts me.
But those little plushie Avengers toys were adorable!
The Hobbit Trailer Restores My Faith in Trailers
A week of awesome movie trailers continues with the first trailer for The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey! The movie is an entire year away, but damn if this trailer isn’t full of energy, excitement and a chilling finale! I’ve mentioned a few times in the past few weeks how trailers are letting me down, from The Dark Knight Rises to Men in Black 3.
Well leave it to Peter Jackson and his Lord of the Rings style to save Hollywood!
Such a fantastic trailer! Fun with the dwarves, awesome with the song they sing and chillingly badass with the surprise cameo at the very end. This movie is just part one of a two-part adaptation of The Hobbit. I have never read Tolkien’s books, but I agree with the rest of the world that Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings trilogy was complete and utter brilliance. To see the same characters, same actors, same director and same visual style brought back together for The Hobbit is a real treat.
Hollywood isn’t usually this nice to us, so we must treasure this gift.
Robin Will Be Appearing in Dark Knight Rises
Sort of.
At least in Easter Egg form.
The first full trailer for the third and final chapter of Christopher Nolan’s Batman movies was posted online yesterday. And even though Nolan has repeatedly said that Robin will not be appearing in his films, did everyone happen to catch this brief bit during the football game scene in the trailer?
I have no idea what that middle letter is though
Word on the Internet has it that fans were told to bring their own signs, so kudos to the fan holding that letter ‘R’. But even still, Nolan is the director and editor. So he or someone high up edited this trailer and cut and spliced the movie together. Someone has left this ‘R’ in the film and there is no way they couldn’t see it. You see it, right?
If not, check out the Robin logo:
You see it now
Clever girl.
Full Dark Knight Rises Movie Trailer!
The first full length movie trailer for The Dark Knight Rises was released on the Internet today, and it’s…pretty cool. As I mentioned only a few days ago, I haven’t been wowed by a movie trailer in a long time, and this one does not break that streak. It’s uninspiring. I don’t get chills watching this trailer. It just sort of throws a bunch of characters and potential catch phrases at us. And the thing with the football field looks…fakeish.
Anyway, watch for yourself:
Neither Bane or Catwoman (who is only seen as Selina Kyle in this trailer) have much of a presence. Neither one comes off as menacing or memorable, like the Joker from The Dark Knight. And we barely see any Batman at all in the trailer. There are a bunch of characters we don’t know, something political to do with Commissioner Gordon and then just vague shots of Bane in his less than stellar mask/costume.
Not gonna lie, I’m disappointed. Still, I’m sure it’s going to be an awesome movie!
I Used to Really Like Movie Trailers
I don’t know what’s happened to the state of movie trailers these days, but it’s been a good many years since I was last captivated and enthralled by a good movie trailer. The sound bites, the music, the clips of a movie I was salivating to see; trailers were works of art in and of themselves. I used to lovingly watch the show on the E! Network called ‘Coming Attraction’s, and it was nothing but movie trailers!
What a sorry world we live in.
Anyway, here are two trailers that recently came out. The first is Men in Black 3:
I’m definitely not impressed. I mean, really, Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones don’t have better things to do? Who in their right mind was calling for a Men in Black 3? It’s been more than a decade since the last movie came out, and even that wasn’t very popular. But then I’ve been disappointed in the series ever since they got rid of the female agent from the end of the first movie. I liked the idea of getting new agents, instead of just the buddy comedy set up.
Next is G.I.Joe: Retribution.
Cooler…but not captivatingly so. It’s got some neat stuff with ninjas, it has the Rock, and it’s better than the original G.I.Joe trailer, but I’m not sold. The first G.I.Joe movie trailer was a thing of cringing.
Though I will say that this trailer has convinced me to finally see the first G.I.Joe movie. So I guess it’s done that right.
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