"In A World....." Movie and TV Show Trailers

[theatremouse]

I had to laugh at the ads for "yay, TGIT is coming back!" where Kevin McKidd uses his American accent instead of his native Scottish accent, as if he's playing his Gray's Anatomy character in the ad.

That ad confounds and irritates me because clearly, no one else in the ads are in any implied to be playing their characters in the ad. So it makes it seem like what really happened is network honchos said: not enough people know that's not his real voice; just do it in the voice you use on the show. I know it's not rational that it bugs me as much as it does, but it really bugs me.

[xaxat]

Hey! Nobody told me The Voice is now going to be a fight to the death! 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mklE_nrWNww

 

I might actually watch.

 

[Lola16]

I've seen too many commercials for Fresh off the Boat.  Nothing that would make me watch.  And now, I've seen the trailer.  I'm guessing it's copying itself after Everyone Hates Chris or that show about a blind man with a kid?

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOutgc-GG6g

[topanga]

The trailer from "Ted 2" makes me want to see the movie. And I never wanted to see the 1st one! Maybe it has something to do with Tom Brady's cameo and his golden...bedsheet. Even though it was deflated at the time.

[ParadoxLost]

Hey! Nobody told me The Voice is now going to be a fight to the death! 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mklE_nrWNww

 

I might actually watch.

 

The Voice always does clever commercials (relatively speaking).  The extended version of this is much better.

[Rick Kitchen]

I'm not a big Will Forte fan, so I probably won't watch "Last Man on Earth", but then the idea that a series is only going to have one character on it gives me pause. At least, that's what the previews would have one believe.  But when I go and look at the show's listing on imdb, it shows several actors as appearing through the show's run.  How is that going to happen?  Is the whole thing going to be flashbacks?  That doesn't seem to make a whole lot of sense, given the show's premise.  I'm just confused.

[peeayebee]

I'm really looking forward to this one. I assume there'll be a lot of flashbacks.

[Cobalt Stargazer]

 

 

*dies the death of a thousand LOLZ*

[riley702]

That is SO wrong.

[janie jones]

But so right.

[Ubiquitous]

Is Liam Neilson contractually obliged to be in movies that are rip offs of Taken?

[Actionmage]

Can we get one where he holds puppies and babies for 90 minutes and does awesome stuff while doing that? (If it worked for  Andre Braugher on TV...; I'm just suggesting.)

[AimingforYoko]

Love the promo for the last season of Mad Men, it's just so '70s:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S46R5G0vhaw
 

[xls]

A question about Tinker Bell and the Legend of the NeverBeast is the Neverbeast the same flying dragon that looks like a puppy in The Neverending Story? Just a rip-off?

[proserpina65]

I had to laugh at the ads for "yay, TGIT is coming back!" where Kevin McKidd uses his American accent instead of his native Scottish accent, as if he's playing his Gray's Anatomy character in the ad.

I was amused by the one where he says "I'm not a doctor, but I play one on tv." because I am old enough to remember the cough syrup commercials which had Peter Bergman (who played a doctor on All My Children at the time) saying that exact line.  Actually I found all the TGIT ads using Kevin and Sara Ramirez, among several other people from ABC's Thursday line-up, to be rather funny because they were actually playing variations on their characters.

[Prevailing Wind]

I used to belong to a forum where a woman showed up claiming to be a doctor and she wasn't.  She was an invalid/recluse trying to make herself seem more "important."  Once we discovered she was a fraud, we started calling her Inad Bipooti...acronym for I'm Not A Doctor, But I Play One On The Internet.

 

I was surprised at how many folks remembered that commercial.

[spaceytraci1208]

Every commercial I see for that Will Ferrell/Kevin Hart movie Get Hard only strengthens my desire to not see it

[Mystery]

Just saw a preview for "Furious 7" and I swear the Rock said "Woman, I'm the Calvary." I wonder. Did no one notice? Or did he try a dozen takes and he just couldn't say "cavalry"?

Edited March 26, 2015 by Mystery

[Matryoshka]

I'm so glad someone else hears that too. It's making me crazy every time I see the ad.

[St. Claire]

Just saw a preview for "Furious 7" and I swear the Rock said "Woman, I'm the Calvary."

 

Maybe he means he's the venue for people to be crucified. Notably for other people's wrong-doing. It is the season, after all.

[xaxat]

I find the commercials for NBC's newest Biblical epic, A.D. to be so unintentionally hilarious. In one, the narrator intones, "From the producers that brought you The Bible." I know what they trying to say, but I'm pretty sure the Bible is a little bit older than the crew making this movie. 

 

The latest one quotes a reviewer as writing that the show is a combination of "Game of Thrones" and "House of Cards." If that person thinks the New Testament is ruthless and brutal, they really should try reading the Old Testament to find out what brutal truly is.

[Prevailing Wind]

What kills me is the perfect Hollywood teeth on Jesus.  I half expect that Orbit sparkly star to twinkle on his incisor.

[bubbls]

I am so sick of the commercial for "Home." I can only assume it's not the blockbuster they claim since they're still bombarding us with ads for it 24/7. 

[Lola16]

There's a FB page that I recently found that "curates" movie trailer parodies.

 

https://www.facebook.com/1letterwrongmovie?pnref=lhc.recent

 

There's one called Super Fast, which if that's what Fast & Furious really was like, I'd watch it. 

[CarpeDiem54]

This teaser is super creepy. First it sounds like Matthew McConaughey narrating some kind of post apocalyptic Lincoln commercial and then shows some weird looking kid. Doesn't make me particularly interested in watching this show.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=npnTXEgxpuQ&feature=youtu.be

[peeayebee]

I hadn't seen that before. I like that actor ever since I saw him in HBO's The Pacific. Generally USA shows don't appeal to me, but that promo actually peaks my interest.

[Rick Kitchen]

That's the Pharaoh from the Night at the Museum movies.  Took me a while to figure out who he was.

[mojoween]

I find it odd that "Age of Ultron" premieres on Friday but I haven't seen any commercials for it.

I've seen commercials with the characters, for Target and some car and whatever, but not an actual trailer for the actual movie.

I mean, it doesn't even need the publicity, but it's still weird to me.

[Jamoche]

I find it odd that "Age of Ultron" premieres on Friday but I haven't seen any commercials for it.

I've seen commercials with the characters, for Target and some car and whatever, but not an actual trailer for the actual movie.

I mean, it doesn't even need the publicity, but it's still weird to me.

I'm kind of glad of that - thanks to a recently broken ankle, I won't get to see it until I'm back on speaking terms with gravity, so I'm trying to avoid spoilers and trailers are horrible for that.

[ParadoxLost]

Encore has a new series of adds that I find kind of amusing.

 

Scene from Casualties of War where Michael J Fox hits a guy with a shovel.  Tagline....Crazy like a Fox.

 

Scene from Aliens 3 in the mess where Ripley tries to convince everyone aliens are already there...Ripley Believe it or Die.

Edited April 27, 2015 by ParadoxLost

[Actionmage]

Every commercial I see for that Will Ferrell/Kevin Hart movie Get Hard only strengthens my desire to not see it

 

spaceytraci, this is exactly how I feel about the Sophia Vergara/ Reese Witherspoon movie, the name of which I haven't bothered to remember. I like both actresses, but this movie? No.

 

Added: I think the ads are cute, but only the first handful of times. I laugh at them, especially the older/shorter one and the white powder blowing everywhere -- "cake" "paper maiche" (or something like that). Still not paying to watch it.

Edited April 28, 2015 by Actionmage

[mojoween]

I don't even get the premise. Is Reese a cop protecting Sofia? Is Reese on the lam? The commercials are not clear.

[ParadoxLost]

spaceytraci, this is exactly how I feel about the Sophia Vergara/ Reese Witherspoon movie, the name of which I haven't bothered to remember. I like both actresses, but this movie? No.

 

I have no desire to see the movie but I thought the joke where Resse got shorter and Sofia got older through the trailer was mildly funny.

[Bruinsfan]

That ad confounds and irritates me because clearly, no one else in the ads are in any implied to be playing their characters in the ad. So it makes it seem like what really happened is network honchos said: not enough people know that's not his real voice; just do it in the voice you use on the show. I know it's not rational that it bugs me as much as it does, but it really bugs me.

It used to really bother me that the WB's voiceover promos mostly had actors introducing their shows as themselves, but Angel had James Marsters start his off with "Hi, I'm Spike" in a faux Cockney accent. Of course, Marsters basically hasn't done anything since the turn of the century that DIDN'T get on my last nerve.

 

What kills me is the perfect Hollywood teeth on Jesus.  I half expect that Orbit sparkly star to twinkle on his incisor.

Hey, if you can cure blindness and leprosy and resurrect the dead I'm guessing tooth decay isn't that big a problem.

 

spaceytraci, this is exactly how I feel about the Sophia Vergara/ Reese Witherspoon movie, the name of which I haven't bothered to remember. I like both actresses, but this movie? No.

Oh God, I was all set to avoid that movie like the plague until the latest trailer revealed that Rob Kazinsky not only appears in it as a love interest, but apparently has a farcical nude scene. Maybe I'll just buy some ear plugs before attending.

[pandora spocks]

How many of you want to smack the living shit out of Alton Brown after seeing his smirky pose in his Cutthroat Kitchen promos?  I know I do!

Edited May 15, 2015 by pandora spocks

[ABay]

Even more than I usually do.

[mojoween]

When Jeremy Piven says he found that one guy in a Mentos commercial is he saying that as Jeremy Piven or his Entourage character? Because it makes me curious to see the Mentos ad if it was a real life thing.

Never saw the show and the movie doesn't interest me too much, but I'd like to see the Mentos ad.

[Rick Kitchen]

Aren't Mentos ads from the Netherlands with English language overlays?

[riley702]

Aren't Mentos ads from the Netherlands with English language overlays?

According to Wikipedia, "Part of Mentos's popularity in the US can be attributed to its campy TV commercials and catchy jingle, which debuted in late 1991 on American television. Shot in South Africa, individuals facing various day-to-day dilemmas consume Mentos and are subsequently inspired to solve their problems at hand in a creative, often-humorous fashion. These unusual behaviors are typically witnessed by nearby, sometimes antagonistic characters, and a roll of Mentos is boisterously displayed by the commercial's respective protagonist to the observer as an explanation for their actions."

[Sandman87]

I crack up every time I see the new ad for Spy when the actress gets hit by a car and she yells out "Mother Butler!" That's the most hilarious swear substitution censorship I've seen since I saw the censored version of Die Hard: "Yippie ki-yay, melon farmer!"

[spaceytraci1208]

I crack up every time I see the new ad for Spy when the actress gets hit by a car and she yells out "Mother Butler!" That's the most hilarious swear substitution censorship I've seen since I saw the censored version of Die Hard: "Yippie ki-yay, melon farmer!"

That...is awesome LMAO. I submit this from the censored version of Snakes On A Plane: "I've had it with these monkey-fighting snakes on this Monday to Friday plane!"

Edited May 18, 2015 by spaceytraci1208

[Ubiquitous]

When Jeremy Piven says he found that one guy in a Mentos commercial is he saying that as Jeremy Piven or his Entourage character? Because it makes me curious to see the Mentos ad if it was a real life thing.

Never saw the show and the movie doesn't interest me too much, but I'd like to see the Mentos ad.

I never liked the show and only watched a few eps here and there, but I do not remember the main char being discovered in a Mentos ad.

[spaceytraci1208]

Just saw a commercial on MTV for Scream: The TV Series...I don't know how to feel about it. Maybe my sensitivity comes from the realization that the movie is almost 20 years old now (damn!)

[smittykins]

I think I'm going to have to lay off Discovery Life until Psych Week is over because if I see that promo for "Children With Tourette's" one more time...

[crowswork]

Every time I see the trailer for San Andreas I thinks it's going to be the most expensive Scyfy (Whatever the spelling) movie of the week

 

Lets see. Daddy has a responsible job an estranged wife? a daughter? when disaster strikes he drops his job to rescue THEM.  If flying sharks emerge from the rift and are beaten to death by the Rock with a crocodile... I'm just sayin.

Edited May 25, 2015 by crowswork

[Moose135]

If flying sharks emerge from the rift and are beaten to death by the Rock with a crocodile...

 

That might make it the most perfect movie of all time!

[Muffyn]

I saw the trailer for San Andreas this weekend at a theater in San Francisco.  The audience laughed.  When it was over, someone yelled out, "Who's going to see it?"  Crickets.  Then laughter.

[crowswork]

The only thing that could be more SCYfy is if a group of military people are about to die in a bunker and the General (middle aged TV character actor) says to the 'kids' "Go ahead and clear out, I can handle it from here" And the young soldiers stand and say... "Sorry Sir. We have to disobey this order."

[Ubiquitous]

Am I imagining things, or do they infer "global warming" is the Big Threat in the trailers for Tomorrowland?

*rolls eyes*

[Cobalt Stargazer]

I saw the trailer for San Andreas this weekend at a theater in San Francisco.  The audience laughed.  When it was over, someone yelled out, "Who's going to see it?"

 

*raises hand*

 

I can't even lie.