Movie Trailer Review, Episode 5
I just got rocked so hard watching Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny. Amazingly I saw four brand new trailers.
Ghost Rider
This trailer tells the whole origin story of Ghost Riding and gives a lot away about the movie. We get to see Nick Cage as Ghost Rider with a big chain whip thing. I’m not interested in seeing Ghost Rider, but it was a fairly convincing trailer. My favorite part was at the very end when Ghost Rider drives off the roof of a building and then drives down the side of the building. Now that’s metal.
Norbit
For some reason people keep giving jobs to Eddie Murphy, and in turn Eddie Murphy keeps making terrible movies with him in multiple rolls. Norbit is a young and unconfident black man who has a large and confident black girlfriend (also played by Murphy). The trailer is pretty typical, but it had some funny moments and some gross-out moments. I’m not going to see the movie, but the trailer wasn’t half bad.
The Invisible
I dunno, some kid gets murdered but fights to come back to life by solving his own murder with the help of his still-living girlfriend. I’m not sure what they were aiming for when they made this trailer (or the whole movie for that matter) but they ended up with a steaming pile straight from the movie poopshoot. Seriously, who bankrolls these projects and do they actually expect them to make money? The trailer pretty much tells us the whole movie and then has some intense music and fast cut scenes.
Mr. Woodcock
What is this? School for Scoundrels II? Billy Bob Thornton plays Mr. Woodcock, the gym teacher at a high school who mentally scared the main character who grows up to be a self help guru. Then he finds out that his mom is dating Mr. Woodcock, can’t you just see the comedy? Thornton used to play likable characters but he seems to be stuck in a rut of playing jerks. However this was probably the best of these trailers, with Sean William Scott playing a normal (non-Stifler) roll and Susan Sarandon wholly out of her element. I might even go see this movie based entirely on the strength of this trailer.
-Josh
Phalanx Close in Weapons System
This is one badass gun. I remember that there was one of these on the carrier that my dad was stationed on, he used to call it R2D2 because of its vague resemblance to the droid.
-Josh
YoyoWiki Podcast
WHAAAAAAAT? I’m podcasting? I guess so!
Click the following link to subscribe in the podcast in iTunes
Click this link for the official article about the podcast on YoyoWiki (woah, that’s so meta)
And here is the url for the feed for you to copy paste into your favorite podcasting program
http://www.schalicto.com/podcasts/yoyowikipodcastfeed.xml
Word.
-Josh
Pathetic Creature
You might know my good friend John-Bot, he is a fellow yo-yoer and you might not know it by looking at him, but he is a robot. Of recent months John has started drawing a lot of creepy little drawing with weird perspectives and stuff. He submitted one of his designs to threadless.com, and now you should go vote for it. Threadless is a community of people who submit tshirt designs and then vote on the best ones, the winners get printed and sold. It’s a really cool deal. So once again, go create an account and vote the highest for John.
-Josh
ENTROPY by Takeshi
Takeshi is teh awesome. And I mean that, t-e-h awesome. He just rocked this video of Fizx that totally blew my mind. Seriously, I’m sitting here 24 hours later with my mind blow. I don’t know if I can ever recover from having my mind blown like this. Check it out.
-Josh
At a coffee shop flash encoding people
I have had some people ask me what I use to encode in Flash. It’s a good question. Adobe Flash is an eight hundred dollar program that is very heavy. I don’t use Adobe Flash. I found a great free tool called Riva FLV Encoder 2.0. It’s light weight and packs a lot of punch. I don’t really know anything more about it, it’s free, it’s easy and it works.
-Josh