trailer break: ‘Marmaduke’Take a break from work: watch a trailer... No, not Lee Pace! Judy Greer? William H. Macy? This is what Beverly Hills Chihuahua and its $94.5 million domestic gross hath wrought. I blame every single person who bought a ticket to that movie and later told their friends things like: those outfits on Chloe were sooooooooooooooooooo cute I was like awwwww I would so try that if I had a girl toy dog and Just saw this recently and really liked it lol anyway what did you think the funniest part was? (Those are actual quotes from the IMDB forums for the film.) Remember that a trailer is meant to entice you. It’s meant to whet your cinematic appetite. It’s supposed to make you want to see a movie. It’s not intended to make you want to bust into a Hollywood boardroom, guns ablazin’, and take hostages. Marmaduke opens in the U.S. and Canada on June 4; no U.K. release date has been announced. support
Disqus commentsblog comments powered by Disqus |
posted:
Wed Mar 31 10, 10:51AM categories: movie buzz permalink 9 pre-Disqus comments Disqus comments tip jarshare
read morerelated· Marmaduke (review) · trailer break: ‘Barry Munday’ · Love Happens (review) · new this week in U.S., Canadian, and U.K. theaters: ‘Get Him to the Greek,’ ‘Splice,’ ‘Death at a Funeral,’ ‘The Brothers Bloom,’ more · The Lincoln Lawyer (review) · opening in the U.S. and Canada May 29: ‘Up,’ ‘Drag Me to Hell,’ ‘What Goes Up,’ more · Cellular (review) · on my radar: opening 08.18-20.10 in U.K. theaters · question of the day: Which ‘Superbad’ guy has the best prospects for a long career? · wtf: daycare sends six-year-olds to an R-rated movie bloggyprevious post: question of the day: What should Syfy do with its new ‘Battlestar Galactica’ spinoff? next post: because our culture is so far beyond satire it’s terrifying |
|
|
search
follow
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
(in case of site outages or other emergencies, I'll update my status on Twitter and Facebook)
|
||
follow FlickFilosopher.com no matter where you are online
|
||
share and enjoy
shop to support
support FlickFilosopher.com when you click through here and buy almost anything at:
• Amazon U.S.
• Amazon Canada
• Amazon U.K.
• Amazon Germany
• Amazon France
• Amazon Spain
• Amazon Italy
• Chapters/Indigo (Canada)
• Amazon U.S.
• Amazon Canada
• Amazon U.K.
• Amazon Germany
• Amazon France
• Amazon Spain
• Amazon Italy
• Chapters/Indigo (Canada)
pre-Disqus comments
posted by pausner (Wed Mar 31 10, 11:13AM)
I love the deadpan style, however unintentional. Should definitely play this aspect up when a review for a very awful movie is posted.
posted by Cori Ann (Wed Mar 31 10, 11:19AM)
What. The. FRAK???????????????????
Granted I haven't read the Marmaduke comic in years, but this doesn't seem to be even remotely tonally correct. Also, CG talking on real animals = EWWWW.
Sigh. I am pretty sure this might be a sign of the pending apocalypse.
posted by Tonio Kruger (Wed Mar 31 10, 12:21PM)
Heh. MaryAnn doesn't even pretend to express surprise that Owen Wilson is in a film this unpromising. And in the past, she liked Owen Wilson.
I admit to being one of the people who bought a ticket to BHC--apparently that week I was weak and backsliding--but I don't remember recommending it to anyone.
And that trailer reminds me a lot more of just another canine "comedy" in which a large dog ran around undisciplined and all the audience members were supposed to find it cute--Marley and Me. And I don't remember recommending Marley and Me. In fact, I remember fighting with someone online--I don't remember who--about that film's very dubious merits.
So all you people who defended Marley and Me because it had a bit with a dog in it, I hope you're happy. ;-)
posted by Nathan (Wed Mar 31 10, 12:22PM)
I thought this looked pretty bad, but then I saw the trailer for Furry Vengeance
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-CimpBqZoiQ
Oh god, kill me now!
posted by Count Shrimpula (Wed Mar 31 10, 12:24PM)
Oh, one should not visit the IMDB forums under any circumstances. That way lies madness.
posted by Drave (Wed Mar 31 10, 1:30PM)
What annoys me most is that Marmaduke is pretty much the only newsprint comic animal where you are NOT supposed to hear his thoughts or voice. Bah!
posted by Emrys (Wed Mar 31 10, 5:45PM)
Listen. To be fair. Great Danes are pretty big dogs.
posted by Lanna Lee Maheux-Quinn (Wed Mar 31 10, 7:13PM)
After watching that I feel dumber.
posted by MaryAnn (Wed Mar 31 10, 10:30PM)
To be fair, in the past Owen Wilson liked Owen Wilson. I'm not sure that's the case anymore.
I did. It's actually a pretty wonderful film. Not that the trailer or the ads made it look that way.