Comments on: Trailer remixes

Trailer remixes

londontube — Thu, 26 Jan 2006 13:11:47 -0800

First it was the remixed Shining trailer and now there's Brokeback Top Gun and a remixed Sleepless in Seattle trailer. [via kottke]

By: geoff.

geoff. — Thu, 26 Jan 2006 13:18:17 -0800

Ebaum AND CollegeHumor? The Brokeback/Top Gun parody isn't funny because Tom Gun is way too homoerotic to begin with. Sleepless in Seattle, meh. The Shining so far has been the only one to do this really well, which lends itself to the creepiness the film has.

By: prostyle

prostyle — Thu, 26 Jan 2006 13:21:03 -0800

Burn

By: mikeh

mikeh — Thu, 26 Jan 2006 13:21:46 -0800

Boo to the ebaumsworld link. Seriously, can we get a mefi anti-ebaums pact?

By: lalochezia

lalochezia — Thu, 26 Jan 2006 13:22:29 -0800

Please don't link to Ebaums world. They are thieves.

By: mr_crash_davis

mr_crash_davis — Thu, 26 Jan 2006 13:22:35 -0800

If these aren't "re-enacted by bunnies" I'm not interested.

By: mathowie

mathowie — Thu, 26 Jan 2006 13:23:52 -0800

The sleepless in seattle one is good, on the level of the Shining, the top gun was amusing but I've already seen half a dozen brokeback parodies and have a feeling it's going to be this years "1. blah $1 2. foo $3 3. blahing your foo: priceless" joke.

By: numlok

numlok — Thu, 26 Jan 2006 13:34:50 -0800

Don't forget Jack Abramoff's Red Scorpion (Quicktime Movie)...

By: shoepal

shoepal — Thu, 26 Jan 2006 13:36:52 -0800

Ebaums and Kottke in the same post. yikes. might as well have included LGF, fark, and the site with the first rule that states that I can not name it.

By: Busithoth

Busithoth — Thu, 26 Jan 2006 13:48:34 -0800

I missed that Shining trailer whenever it was net born, but belatedly take my hat off the to maker(s), because it frigging rocked my day. Really, a great testament to the power of editors. and not much more ludicrous than some previews I've seen completely misrepresenting the movie proper.

By: billysumday

billysumday — Thu, 26 Jan 2006 13:50:03 -0800

Obligatory Tarantino monologue from "Sleep with Me": He goes to her house, all right? It looks like they're going to have sex, you know, they're just kind of sitting back, he's takin' a shower and everything. They don't have sex. He gets on the motorcycle, drives away. She's like, "What the fuck, what the fuck is going on here?" Next scene, next scene you see her, she's in the elevator, she is dressed like a guy. She's got the cap on, she's got the aviator glasses, she's wearing the same jacket that the Iceman wears. She is, okay, this is how I gotta get this guy, this guy's going towards the gay way, I gotta bring him back, I gotta bring him back from the gay way, so I'm do that through subterfuge, I'm gonna dress like a man. All right? That is how she approaches it.

By: justgary

justgary — Thu, 26 Jan 2006 13:50:59 -0800

This is what you get for ripping off a guy who rips links from other guys AND GETS PAID FOR IT!!!!11 =)

By: Richard Daly

Richard Daly — Thu, 26 Jan 2006 13:51:33 -0800

Actually, we all ought to link to ebaum's world. It uses their bandwidth, yeh know. Just don't click any of the ads.

By: team lowkey

team lowkey — Thu, 26 Jan 2006 13:53:58 -0800

The most startling revelation to me with the Top Gun trailer was that he says "You can be my wingman anytime". I could have sworn it was "You can ride my tail anytime". I could actually hear the line in my memory. Turns out that's a myth created in Sleep With Me. Or has Cruise used his thetan powers to re-write history and deflect the gay rumors that plague him so?

By: dgaicun

dgaicun — Thu, 26 Jan 2006 14:01:40 -0800

Sleepless in Seattle was very good by the standards of these remixes.

By: sellout

sellout — Thu, 26 Jan 2006 14:04:12 -0800

Richard Daly: Unfortunately, they're getting paid just to show the ads, too. So no, never link to them.

By: furtive

furtive — Thu, 26 Jan 2006 14:07:18 -0800

I prefer The Guns of Navarone.

By: Lazlo Hollyfeld

Lazlo Hollyfeld — Thu, 26 Jan 2006 14:17:29 -0800

Um, the above is NSFW.

By: odinsdream

odinsdream — Thu, 26 Jan 2006 14:31:11 -0800

The Sleepless in Seattle one was great... geez this is a tough crowd. Who the fuck cares what website it came from?

By: aparrish

aparrish — Thu, 26 Jan 2006 14:33:42 -0800

The Sleepless in Seattle one was brilliant from a technical standpoint, but it didn't really sell me on the story. Is Meg Ryan going to kill Tom Hanks? Is she some kind of ghost/zombie? Is she a ghost zombie who is going to kill Tom Hanks? The Brokeback Top Gun one was lame because Mav should hook up with GOOSE, not Iceman. OBVIOUSLY.

By: The Monkey

The Monkey — Thu, 26 Jan 2006 14:39:43 -0800

The "From the producers of The Bourne Supremacy, & Daredevil" bit in the Sleepless one got me laughing. The Top Gun one didn't get me laughing at any point.

By: dgaicun

dgaicun — Thu, 26 Jan 2006 14:41:21 -0800

but it didn't really sell me on the story. Is Meg Ryan going to kill Tom Hanks? Is she some kind of ghost/zombie? Is she a ghost zombie who is going to kill Tom Hanks? Seriously? No, she wasn't a zombie, just a psycho female stalker, of the 'if I can't have'im nobody can' variety. I thought it was well-played.

By: JackarypQQ

JackarypQQ — Thu, 26 Jan 2006 14:58:29 -0800

Waaay too many cuts in the top gun trailer. Kinda liked sleepless in Seattle, but doesn't come close to even the west side story trailer from the original contest, not to mention Shining.

By: phaedon

phaedon — Thu, 26 Jan 2006 18:37:42 -0800

well the sleepless cut is very, very well done. but how can you possibly beat the shining, with the narrator saying: "he's a kid... looking for a dad" with the little boy writing 'REDRUM' with a red crayon on the door. awesome.

By: mary8nne

mary8nne — Thu, 26 Jan 2006 19:34:51 -0800

the TOP GUN one was awful. Those Fades were doing my head in. whoever editied it is hopeless. the Shining is all class though.

By: The Confessor

The Confessor — Thu, 26 Jan 2006 19:57:50 -0800

*Confessor smiles* When the opening chords of Solsbury Hill broke out in the middle of the The Shining trailer I broke down laughing.

By: geekhorde

geekhorde — Thu, 26 Jan 2006 21:01:21 -0800

Yeah. Shining is great. I want to see that film. Where can I rent it?

By: You Should See the Other Guy

You Should See the Other Guy — Thu, 26 Jan 2006 22:40:10 -0800

Watch for eBaum's TV Show... or email those responsible (bottom of the page) to let them know who they're getting into bed with.

By: hincandenza

hincandenza — Fri, 27 Jan 2006 01:09:21 -0800

This is the reason The Shining or Big work, while the rest don't. The point, to me, is to elicit humor and appreciation not simply by recutting the trailer, but by recutting it in a way that makes the movie seem to come from a completely opposite genre. SIS is already pretty stalkerish, and Top Gun is already pretty homoerotic. The Shining is a chilling suspense/horror film recut to look like a happy warm-hearted family film- the sheer surprise of seeing those same scenes cut in such a way as to seem completely different is what is impressive. Most of the rest don't hardly measure up...

By: shoepal

shoepal — Fri, 27 Jan 2006 19:38:50 -0800

londontube, in the spirit of a kinder/gentler MeFi, I apologize for my unnecessary and inappropriate snark.

By: dgaicun

dgaicun — Mon, 06 Feb 2006 10:15:32 -0800

Fight Club Hopefully, this will get it out of the way, so no one wastes more space on the FP. Please no more trailer posts - the art form died in the delivery room.