Showing posts with label Teaser. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Teaser. Show all posts

Friday, November 12, 2010

Kevin Smith Kicks Off Red State Podcast with Audio Teaser For the Film

red state_225.jpgThis week, Kevin Smith released the first episode of his “Red State of the Union” podcast, where he promises to hold an informal press conference with new information about his upcoming “Christ-sploitation” horror satire. For the first episode, those who tune in can listen to the teaser he cut for the film. Yeah, my eyebrows raised a bit too, but oddly enough, it kind of works…

Apparently a small group in the studio saw the teaser with actual images, but thus far it doesn’t look like anyone has leaked a crappy cell phone video. In this age of crazy interactive trailers, it seems like Smith could at least go wide with the entire teaser instead of just the sound, no?

That said, the audio stands alone pretty well. Smith admits that there’s not much in the way of plot here and that he mostly wanted this first piece to reflect the mood. I suppose it works in that sense, picture or no. You’ll certainly avoid eye contact with your local fundamentalist Christian preacher afterwords.

Listen to it at Smodcast, then try to guess what kind of images this audio played over. An scary preacher just speaking to the camera? A black screen with the title flashing on and off, Gaspar Noe-style? Jay and Silent Bob slipping on banana peels?

[via Empire]

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Monday, November 8, 2010

Kung Fu Panda 2 Teaser Dares You to Flinch

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In case you didn’t get enough jokes about Jack Black’s gut last week in the Gulliver’s Travels trailer, The Kung Fu Panda 2 teaser has one more! Score! Besides that it gives a glimpse of…not very much at all. In fact the rest of the teaser will remind you how long thirty seconds can really feel.

In a slightly bold move, the trailer draws out a “Kung Fu staring contest” with the audience a good ten seconds past the end of the joke. It felt long enough that I wondered if whoever cut this trailer had just watched Jean Luc-Godard’s Band of Outsiders (see clip below). Maybe this gag is a subtle attempt to weigh in on the whole Godard Oscar controversy? Or perhaps it signals an even more sophisticated and avant garde sequel to the clever original? Or I suppose, maybe it’s just a total coincidence…Yeah okay, it’s probably that. Anyway, the trailer is below — have at it.

Verdict: I lost that staring contest.

Tagged: Band of Outsiders, Jack Black, Jean Luc-Godard, Kung Fu Panda 2

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