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When I was a kid I missed out on collecting trading cards, I was obviously too busy running into walls and eating mud. But if I were to do it now, I’d start with The Improbable Movie Cards. The folks over at Automatic Lifestyle Dispenser mocked up a set of 80’s style movie collector cards. The results are funny, if a little odd. I especially love the stickers. Have a look at some of them below.
See more here and a few more here.
[via Design You Trust]
I may be mediocre at most things (it’s part of my charm you see), but I’d like to think our last mega trailer blowout post was decently written. And due to popular demand* I present, for your viewing pleasure, Trailer Tuesday.
Hit the jump to see trailers for The Road, The Book of Eli, Black Dynamite, The Boondock Saints II, and A Nightmare on Elm Street.
From recut TV title sequences to entire movie trailers, mashups are becoming an art form, and Empire Magazine has scoured the Interwebs to compile a list of the fifty best YouTube movie trailer mashups. Have a look at some of them below.
Double-0 Dynamite
Napoleon Dynamite meets Quantum of Solace
Matrix Club
The Matrix meets Fight Club
Kill Beast
Beauty And The Beast meets Kill Bill
Watchmen Parod-E
Wall-E meets The Watchmen
Star Hour
Return Of The Jedi meets Rush Hour
The full list can be found at Empire.
[via The Awesomer]
The name’s Bronson, Clifford Bronson. It’s the 60s and our spy has infiltrated a villain’s underground layer to retrieve an artifact that is protected by a network of deadly laser beams. Will the classically-trained spy waltz through the beams and capture the prize? Find out in this retro claymation short.
The Bronson Maneuver was created by artists Ryan Sluman, Joon Kim, Danny Dahlquist, and Mike McCain as an entry for CG Society’s “Challenge XXIV – Secret Agent”. See the full list of the entries at CG Society.
[via Notcot]
Hey, I’m in a movie. And so are you. Unfortunately, it’s not a thrilling Hollywood adventure flick where you or I save the world, get the girl, and live happily ever after. It’s quite the opposite.
In The Age of Stupid, the year is 2055 and climate change has devastated the earth, and the last surviving person, The Archivist (Pete Postlethwaite), has assembled an archive of all of humanity’s works of art, literature, and culture in a giant library. He combs through series of documentary footage from 2008, pondering the actions (or inactions) that have brought on the bleak future he lives in. He asks the question: “Why didn’t we stop climate change when we still had the chance?” Take a look at the trailer below.
Directed by Franny Armstrong, the drama-documentary-animation hybrid took three years to make and was financed through “crowd-funding” – 220 people donated between £500 and £35,000 in exchange for “shares”. The Age of Stupid was released internationally on September 21st and 22nd, in a live-via-solar-powered-satellite premiere in over 45 countries, including South Africa. I’m always late to the party so I missed it at The Labia in Cape Town, and I can’t seem to find it on the SterKinekor listings neither. Pity.
Find out about The Age of Stupid on their website, and read the reviews at Rotten Tomatoes.
[via ErnstLass]
BONUS: The Huffington Post has an interesting article discussing the good and bad points of the film. It’s well worth a read. Click Here.
YouTube user whosieyevan wondered what Steven Spielberg’s rollicking adventure flick, Raiders of the Lost Ark, would look like if it were made in the 1950s.
He did a little more than just ponder about it – mashing together footage from a variety of films, he created this most awesome “pre-make” that stars Charlton Heston as everyone’s favourite archaeologist. Take a look at the 1951 version of Raiders of the Lost Ark below.
See two more of whosieyevan’s pre-makes after the jump.
The idea behind Three Frames is to deconstruct a movie into a three-framed animated GIF that is on an endless loop. The results are bizarre, retro, and strangely cool.
It’s a basic concept, but if simple things amuse simple minds, then it’s got me hypnotized. Have a look at some of them below – a 1000 points to anyone who guesses which movies the animations are from.
See more at the Three Frames tumblelog. Note that some of the animations are NSFW and could induce seizures.
[via We Heart Stuff]
Men Who Stare At Goats. A goofy title with an equally oddball set of characters, one of whom can kill goats just by staring at them. That is all I’m going to say because, today, I’m all about brevity (read: lazy).
No goats, no glory. Check out the teaser trailer below or watch it in HD at YouTube.
Based on the non-fiction book by Jon Ronson, the film stars George Clooney, Jeff Bridges, Ewan Macgregor, Kevin Spacey, and Goat. It’s slated for November 6th in the U.S. and possibly April 9th, 2010 in South Africa according to this list.
[Thanks for the tip Macross]
Frequent commenter and all-round awesome guy Macross dropped us a message to let us know about the gem that is Ninja Assassin. Far removed from Demon Dave and his judy chops, Ninja Assassin follow the story of Raizo (played by Korean actor, Rain), a child plucked from the streets and turned into one of the deadliest assassins in the world. Trained by a shadowy society, the Ozunu Clan, Raizo breaks free of them after witnessing them execution of his friend, vowing to take revenge upon the clan.
As you can imagine that is fodder for an action spectacular, and the Wachowski brothers (The Matrix trilogy) roped in director James McTeigue (V For Vendetta) to realise their vision of acrobatic ninjin’.
You have to keep the essence of the ninja movie,” McTeigue explained. “But if you want to take it above the usual kind of ninja movie, you need to give it a decent story. But make no mistake – it’s a ninja movie.
Watch the trailer for this ninja movie below or see it in HD at YouTube.
Ninja Assassin will be released in the US in November 2009, but it seems South African audiences may have to wait until January 2010 to see it. Let us know your thoughts on this and other general ninjin’ issues.
[via MTV Asia via Macross]
It’s no secret that we’re fans of movie trailers here at Onelargeprawn, and I had intended to post these individually during the week. But now, for the sake of brevity and for your watching pleasure, I present to you Friday’s Mega Trailer Blowout! Admittedly there are only five trailers, but it took a mega-effort for my lazy-ass to compile this shit together. A simple thank you will suffice ;-)
Hit the jump to see trailers for Bronson, Zombieland, Dorian Gray, Inception, and Transforminators.