Super 8 / Super Bowl - Supers Cancel Each Other Out...
Amazing to see all the hoopla over not much at all indeed - such as the trailers for a pile of wasted celluloid ripe of tired old ideas, pathetic twists on them and CGI.
Take for example what we saw on this past week-end's dear Super Bowl event - the best one of all might have been this one right here:
And it doesn't even show much of anything at all!
For mum was the word, you see, for this year's salvo of trailers: no one wanted to give away all that much, certainly not more than they absolutely had to give away for free. Thus, people just got to see tidbits and flashes of sequences from all the would-be blockbusters such as 'Transformers: Dark of the Moon', 'Captain America: The First Avenger', 'Thor', 'Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides' and 'Super 8' – the hugely secretive Steven Spielberg/JJ Abrams film seen above that might be so very secretive because it might just... well... suck.
Other likely future bombs that were also showcased in less than 30 seconds flat during the Super Bowl ad breaks included Adam Sandler's 'Just Go With It', 'Kung Fu Panda 2' and the latest 'Fast and Furious' movie (what - another one! Five of them now - count'em, five!)
Lest we forget the most ridiculous of all - 'Cowboys & Aliens', in which James Bond and Indiana Jones team up to battle extra-terrestrials in the Far West... My, who dreamed up this silliest of concepts and, worst of all, who thought it had to be made into a movie?!? Then again, gay cowboys was a terribly kitsch idea too and it actually won Oscars way back then, when the Prince of Persia was smooching with the Joker... Sheesh.
All this huge buzz surrounding most if not all of these flicks - and nothing may come out of it at all indeed (especially in the particular cases of Sore, I mean Thor - and Cap as well.) While you look at The Green Hornet which benefited from next-to-nothing as publicity and actually had word-of-mouth going for it (he can thank Kick-Ass for that!) and look at the results there: many weeks sitting on top of the box-office!
But of course, in any of these cases, you know what I am inferring and strongly suggesting right here and now, hmm: that all of this, ALL of it, is much ado about NOTHING AT ALL.
Nothing but an ever ongoing pernicious waste of celluloid, that is...
I've said my piece - or rather, I've written it!
;)
Take for example what we saw on this past week-end's dear Super Bowl event - the best one of all might have been this one right here:
And it doesn't even show much of anything at all!
For mum was the word, you see, for this year's salvo of trailers: no one wanted to give away all that much, certainly not more than they absolutely had to give away for free. Thus, people just got to see tidbits and flashes of sequences from all the would-be blockbusters such as 'Transformers: Dark of the Moon', 'Captain America: The First Avenger', 'Thor', 'Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides' and 'Super 8' – the hugely secretive Steven Spielberg/JJ Abrams film seen above that might be so very secretive because it might just... well... suck.
Other likely future bombs that were also showcased in less than 30 seconds flat during the Super Bowl ad breaks included Adam Sandler's 'Just Go With It', 'Kung Fu Panda 2' and the latest 'Fast and Furious' movie (what - another one! Five of them now - count'em, five!)
Lest we forget the most ridiculous of all - 'Cowboys & Aliens', in which James Bond and Indiana Jones team up to battle extra-terrestrials in the Far West... My, who dreamed up this silliest of concepts and, worst of all, who thought it had to be made into a movie?!? Then again, gay cowboys was a terribly kitsch idea too and it actually won Oscars way back then, when the Prince of Persia was smooching with the Joker... Sheesh.
All this huge buzz surrounding most if not all of these flicks - and nothing may come out of it at all indeed (especially in the particular cases of Sore, I mean Thor - and Cap as well.) While you look at The Green Hornet which benefited from next-to-nothing as publicity and actually had word-of-mouth going for it (he can thank Kick-Ass for that!) and look at the results there: many weeks sitting on top of the box-office!
But of course, in any of these cases, you know what I am inferring and strongly suggesting right here and now, hmm: that all of this, ALL of it, is much ado about NOTHING AT ALL.
Nothing but an ever ongoing pernicious waste of celluloid, that is...
I've said my piece - or rather, I've written it!
;)
Labels: cinema, rotten celluloid, Trailers
posted by Luminous (\ô/) Luciano™ at 7:42 AM
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