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Sep. 25th, 2010 10:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
marinessOh. My. God. Guys.
I have just seen the most marvelous thing: the trailer for Unstoppable, a literal – literal – train wreck of a film. It was spawned, clearly, in a meeting filled with Hollywood executives, that I can only imagine went something like this:
Dude one: Ok. So. Next flick. Disaster flick?
Dude two: Volcano?
Dude one: Been done.
Dude two: Earthquake. Plane crash! WITH ALIENS!
Dude one: Been done.
Dude three: I have it – a runaway train!
Dude one: Well –
Dude three: With TOXIC CHEMICALS!
Dude one:….I'm listening.
Dude four: Yes! And, see, they have to STOP THE TRAIN, otherwise an ENTIRE BUSLOAD OF CUTE CHILDREN WILL DIE!
Dude two: And NO ONE CAN STOP THE TRAIN!
Dude three: Except for A YOUNG BLUE COLLAR TRAIN DUDE JUST TRYING TO PROVE HIMSELF ON THE JOB TO CRUSTY OLD GUYS NEARING RETIREMENT.
Dude one:….Still listening.
Dude five: …..with DENZEL WASHINGTON!
Dude one: Well. I'm sold.
I can't remember when I last saw a trailer with so much snark potential. It is, truly, a work of beauty: starting with the clichéd dialogue of the New White Guy Who Must Prove Himself on the Train, the Wise Black Dude who will help him out (oh, Denzel...), before moving on to the Adorably Cute Kids on the bus who know Just What To Do At Railway Crossings, the Runaway Train, and topping it off, the toxic chemicals MOVING TOWARDS THE TRAIN (or already on the train and moving towards the Adorably Cute Kids, whichever; once the toxic chemicals were mentioned I lost it.)
Also, Rosario Dawson. I assume she will be showing lots of skin at some point, because it's that sort of film.
I laughed myself into tachycardia.
The movie apparently comes out November 12, which is, to say the least, an inconvenient time for me, but, at some point in November, assuming this film does not disappear after opening night, which does seem likely, I will make some attempt to be there, netbook in hand.
But, oh right. I also saw a movie, after the trailer. About that...
I have just seen the most marvelous thing: the trailer for Unstoppable, a literal – literal – train wreck of a film. It was spawned, clearly, in a meeting filled with Hollywood executives, that I can only imagine went something like this:
Dude one: Ok. So. Next flick. Disaster flick?
Dude two: Volcano?
Dude one: Been done.
Dude two: Earthquake. Plane crash! WITH ALIENS!
Dude one: Been done.
Dude three: I have it – a runaway train!
Dude one: Well –
Dude three: With TOXIC CHEMICALS!
Dude one:….I'm listening.
Dude four: Yes! And, see, they have to STOP THE TRAIN, otherwise an ENTIRE BUSLOAD OF CUTE CHILDREN WILL DIE!
Dude two: And NO ONE CAN STOP THE TRAIN!
Dude three: Except for A YOUNG BLUE COLLAR TRAIN DUDE JUST TRYING TO PROVE HIMSELF ON THE JOB TO CRUSTY OLD GUYS NEARING RETIREMENT.
Dude one:….Still listening.
Dude five: …..with DENZEL WASHINGTON!
Dude one: Well. I'm sold.
I can't remember when I last saw a trailer with so much snark potential. It is, truly, a work of beauty: starting with the clichéd dialogue of the New White Guy Who Must Prove Himself on the Train, the Wise Black Dude who will help him out (oh, Denzel...), before moving on to the Adorably Cute Kids on the bus who know Just What To Do At Railway Crossings, the Runaway Train, and topping it off, the toxic chemicals MOVING TOWARDS THE TRAIN (or already on the train and moving towards the Adorably Cute Kids, whichever; once the toxic chemicals were mentioned I lost it.)
Also, Rosario Dawson. I assume she will be showing lots of skin at some point, because it's that sort of film.
I laughed myself into tachycardia.
The movie apparently comes out November 12, which is, to say the least, an inconvenient time for me, but, at some point in November, assuming this film does not disappear after opening night, which does seem likely, I will make some attempt to be there, netbook in hand.
But, oh right. I also saw a movie, after the trailer. About that...