February 9, 2010
Have you ever thought to yourself, “I have seen this trailer a hundred times” or “how many damn trailers are on this movie” or “good lord, did the projectionist who created this trailer pack have advanced delusionary schizophrenia with involuntary narcissistic rage”? Well, this junkie has, and decided to track all of the trailers that I see over the course of the year.
Here are some stats for January:
Most Viewed Trailer(s): I had a three way tie this month with three viewings each:
- Cop Out – Starring Bruce Willis, Tracy Morgan, Seann William Scott. My first thought on this movie… “Is this for real?!” It seemed like the kind of movie 30 Rock’s Tracy Jordan would make.
- From Paris with Love – Starring John Travolta and Jonathan Rhys Meyers. It took me almost the full trailer to recognize John Travolta beneath that Mr. Clean exterior . Thinking back, I am not entirely sure what the movie is about. So I asked Junkie 1, here is her synopsis: “Some dude gets a partner who is crazy. They are in Paris. Hikinks ensue…?”
- The Wolfman – Starring Benicio Del Toro, Emily Blunt, Anthony Hopkins and Hugo Weaving. My experience with Werewolves in movies to date consists of a bunch of poorly animated, extremely fake looking prostetic-filled duds that fail to evoke any emotion other than humor out of me. Will this movie live up to the hype… I hope so.
Longest Trailer Pack: I know its nice to have a long trailer pack in case you are running late to the movie, but this is just ridiculous. This months longest trailer pack award goes to Carmike Cinemas with a whopping seven trailers on Lovely Bones. (Note: this does not include any commercials that were attached before the movie trailers)
- Season of the Witch
- The Wolfman
- Dear John
- Extraordinary Measures
- The Last Song
- She’s Out of My League
- Shutter Island
So as you can imagine I saw a lot of trailers, so I figured I’d try to capture my thought process to show how successful the various advertising was for me.
What movies caught your eye this month?
February 9, 2010
Little Junkies crossed the 100,000 visit mark today, and I couldn’t be more shocked! Thanks to everyone for reading and I promise to keep it real…ridiculous & random (hence the massive inky battle–click to zoom). Woo!
February 9, 2010
Tonight’s alright…for fighting (I hope) on the third hour of LOST’s final season. Of course everything is top secret-y, but it’s all in the name: “What Kate Does.” Word on the street is Sawyer and Kate may be on the run from the other Others tonight on the island, but no speculation has been made about Kate and Clarie’s magical mystery tour with their cabby in L.A. (maybe she’ll go into labor!?). Personally, I’m excited for the return of moody/broody bad Sawyer!
Also, because I love LOST …you, I’ve scored access to the LOST Bingo cards from SCIFIWire (click on the pic to download a PDF of the full set).
Fun Fact: The origin game of Bingo, Lotto, is traced back to Italy in 1530, and Americans didn’t start officially calling it Bingo until 1929 (formerly Beano).
I’m hoping for a vertical run on the left hand side of this baby tonight.
“Kate acts stupid”….I can almost guarantee you’ll see that, too.
February 8, 2010
Good ol’ 2010 Movie Project! So ZRose25 & I finally took on the data from our first month of movie screenings. It’s a bit of a wake-up call–knowing that we’ve made over twice as many trips to the theater in one month than the average American makes in an entire year. The resulting minor sticker shock is subsided by the friendly wager with our good friend Boothboy. We are tracking every movie we watch this year, but Boothy is only concerned with who can see the most theater screenings. He’s got us this month, but I think we can make a comeback.
It’s pretty standard data this month, but I am planning on getting a little more creative with my metrics…like how many on-screen deaths will I see in February? Or how many movies made me cry? Cruise all the way to the end to see my entire list o films this month. Note: check back tomorrow for ZRose’s movie trailer pack rundown.
Movie Delivery Vehicles
Fun sidenote: Two of the eight DVDs were only watched because we had a hankering for a Rifftrax! (The Bourne Identity & Casino Royale); both were as hilarious as ever.
The Genre Breakdown
It’s pretty simple; I just scored the first two genre tags from IMDB for each movie I saw and plopped them in the pie chart…Mmmmm pie chart. Look how many dramas ZRose begrudgingly sat through!
Average Rating
(Ode to The Power Station)
Some like it hot and some sweat while the heat is on.
We like it mild and only slightly wild.
Random Actor Double Play: Mads Mikkelsen
I had some major unintentional double-vision this month. I saw two Gywneth Paltrows (Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow & Persuasion), two Judi Denchs (Casino Royale & Quantum of Solace), two Daniel Craigs (Casino Royale & Quantum of Solace), two Clive Owens (King Arthur & The Bourne Identity), two Jude Laws (Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow & The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus), two Rachel Weiszs (The Mummy & The Lovely Bones), two Saoirse Ronans (City of Ember & The Lovely Bones), two Jason Stathams (Mean Machine & In the Name of the King), two Ron Perlmans (Outlander & In the Name of the King).
But none seemed more random than this fella: Mads Mikkelsen.
By no means did I intend to see two movies starring the king of Danish cinema. It was quite a surprise, really, since I thought he was someone else in 2004’s King Arthur & audibly giggled at his name in the credits of Casino Royale. To my ever-increasing delight, I found that his voice was also credited in Quantum of Solace…and a baby credit makes three. Also, Maddy will be popping into my 2010 once more as Draco in Clash of the Titans (due out this April).
Full list o’ movies (in order):
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February 4, 2010
Still reeling from Tuesday’s LOST premier? I’ve already got some hard theorizin’ going on: like the hatch button/clock was all meant to keep the Smoke Monster/Evil Dude at bay (hence hieroglyphs at the end of the clock), the bomb never went off, Jacob found a loophole via Sayid’s corpse, Juliet will appear in alt world, good Locke will return, Richard was responsible for smoke monster losing his body, and more!
I thought it would be best to keep things a little less heavy while I’m fleshing out my theories (mostly to keep my brain from exploding). But I can’t shake the LOST bug. Hmm…what can I do that is LOST-related but not brain bursting guesstimations?
I know! Turn all food items in my house into Dharma Initiative-issued foodstuffs! Luckily, I like to share so go here and nerd it up, island-style. I suggest you move quickly, before Disney makes them pull this down. I fully intend to label some peanut butter, eat it, and keep the empty and eat invisible peanut butter like a total freak…
I think I love you most of all, Dharma produce!
