I’m actually rather liking the oddball titles I get when I combine titles from the trailers I’ll be listing. That’ll stick. What I don’t have yet, is a rating system — or really, a decision on whether or not to even have one. I like to think, as time goes on, the rambling that precedes a trailer will be review enough, but, I’ll leave that up to the reader. Er, readers. 
It was a slow week, and I was astounded when I sat down at my computer that it was already Tuesday again. But here we are. I found two trailers, both of which should be of interest to Geeks in general. And I’ll tell you why.
Shortcut to Happiness
Three words for this one: Jennifer. Love. Hewitt.
Three more words: What. The. Hell?
This is going to be a very odd movie. I didn’t know what to think of the trailer, beyond, “Holy crap, she looks really amazing in that dress.” Some real star power lending their talents to this film, and I’m not terribly sure… why. Basically, Alec Baldwin makes a deal with the Devil, taking, you guessed it, a “Shortcut to Happiness”. All well ‘n good. And then … I’ll let you decide.
The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters
Come on. A fistful of quarters? What do you THINK the movie is about? C’mon Geeks, wrack those brains.
VIDEO GAMES.
Sadly, the trailer doesn’t make me interested. I’m not sure why. It’s a documentary that feels too much like a parody — which, really, when you’re doing a movie based on video games, whether it’s something to the effect of Double Dragon or The Mario Brothers, or, a docu/mocu-mentary, it’s hard to avoid the parody plague. It’s hard to be taken seriously.
The thing I don’t know, is whether this is meant to be taken as a parody or a serious look at the competition between two hardcore arcade game players. If this was made clear from the start, I wouldn’t be so iffy on the movie in general.
View the High Definition (QT7) Version Here.
That’s all for this week! Enjoy.
Stefanos said
June 22 2007 @ 4:14 pm
I believe the story behind how movie trailers got the name “trailer” is that these promotional clips of upcoming movies were shown AFTER movies. Today, they are shown before the attraction, but there have been a rare number of films in recent days that have them after. The only movies that have done that in recent years, according to my recollection, are Back to the Future Part II and Matrix Reloaded. The trailers were, respectively, BTTF Part III and Matrix Revolutions.