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Paparazzi
http://www.apple.com/trailers/fox/paparazzi/

Check this ugly shit out. From executive producer Mel Gibson, Cole Hauser is a vigilante movie star who unleashes violent justice upon a gang of psycho paparazzi photogs led by a sleazy Tom Sizemore.

This is not some kind of tv comedy sketch, this is a seemingly serious minded thriller. I felt kind of dirty after watching it.

― herbert hebert (herbert hebert), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 01:20 (twenty-one years ago)

You're clearly racist for not liking it.

― omg, Tuesday, 10 August 2004 01:33 (twenty-one years ago)

This looks so amazingly bad.

― Andrew (enneff), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 01:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Ahahahahah omg, zing ;)

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 01:43 (twenty-one years ago)

I saw a trailer for this yesterday. There's a car chase sequence that couldn't be more blatantly based on the Princess Di pursuit and crash.

― j.lu (j.lu), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 01:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Well that's how it happened in real life if I recall correctly. The beautiful humanitarian Princess Diana was murdered by sociopathic tabloid photographers.

― herbert hebert (herbert hebert), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 01:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Anytime a preview has that deep-voiced guy doing the voiceover, you know it's gonna be a stinker.

― Joseph Pot (STINKOR™), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 02:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Anytime a movie has images and sound together...oh geez, is it gonna suck!

― Huck, Tuesday, 10 August 2004 03:23 (twenty-one years ago)

In the theatre, when I saw this preview, about 10 seconds in, I did the movie voice, and said "PAPRAZZI" really sharply (like the "in a world..." voice) and everyone around me laughed. Then it turned out to be the real title.

Another great line was during the preview for the Exorcist movie, when I shouted "The power of cash compells you!"

I'm awesome

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 03:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Why would they only use 24 loads instead of 36? Like, seriously. They're all digital now anyway.

― ModJ, Photographer Slut, Tuesday, 10 August 2004 03:37 (twenty-one years ago)

...and the key word here is "indulgent"

― ModJ, Photographer Slut, Tuesday, 10 August 2004 03:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Roger, somtimes I think you would be the most fun guy to drink with, but the least fun guy to be drinking next to.

― Huck, Tuesday, 10 August 2004 03:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Thanks! I think I'm going to have to use that quote for the back of my book...

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 03:47 (twenty-one years ago)

i covered my hands with my eyes when i saw this preview last weekend. well, no, actually i didn't, but it was bad enough that you'd probably believe me if i said i did.

― |a|m|t|r|s|t| (amateurist), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 03:48 (twenty-one years ago)

If I remember correctly, the protagonist's name is "Bo Laramie"

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 03:52 (twenty-one years ago)

this preview grossed me out for, among other reasons:

1- glorifying vigilante violence
2- moving the target so low as to offend our intelligence (the paparazzi don't need to be murderous psychopaths for us to think they're kind of creepy)
3- that whole "get away from my child! don't threaten my wife!" man-is-caveman trope
4- what seemed like really bad acting by the lead, whoever the fuck he is

― |a|m|t|r|s|t| (amateurist), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 04:00 (twenty-one years ago)

"Gross" is the appropriate word.
It just reminds me of John Q. and The Life of David Gale in that its a trashy manipulative thriller made by filmmakers convinced that they're making some sort of statement on a topical issue.

― herbert hebert (herbert hebert), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 04:08 (twenty-one years ago)

"Bo Laramie"?
Now I'm convinced it was written as a joke but played straight in production.

― herbert hebert (herbert hebert), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 04:10 (twenty-one years ago)

except that the death penalty and health care are at least, y'know, actually relevant social issues... and the paparazzi... er... mel gibson produced this, you say?

― |a|m|t|r|s|t| (amateurist), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 04:11 (twenty-one years ago)

I think the fascination with celebrity is an interesting cultural subject. Not as important as health care or the death penalty but not unworthy of using art to examine.

― herbert hebert (herbert hebert), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 04:28 (twenty-one years ago)

i see your point.

an interesting movie would potentially note that the paparazzi stay in business because we keep them in business. that is, we, the same people that will be expected to cheer their gruesome deaths in this film.

― |a|m|t|r|s|t| (amateurist), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 04:33 (twenty-one years ago)

This is likt those Captain Planet cartoons where the bad guys pollute and plunder not because they're greedy and ignorant but because they're "evil supervillains".

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 12:11 (twenty-one years ago)

i covered my hands with my eyes

mm-hmm?

― ENRQ (Enrique), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 12:15 (twenty-one years ago)

what if the paparazzi had a large, powerful lobby that they used to try to defame a fine actor and producer's name? and this lobby were not going to heaven for one reason or another? do we have a pitch here?

― ENRQ (Enrique), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 12:17 (twenty-one years ago)

After the film version of "Scooby Doo", and after they actually made a follow-up to it, nothing surprises me.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 12:21 (twenty-one years ago)

This is another one I might go and see at the dollar theatre, it sounds like it could be funny.

― Leon Czolgosz (Nicole), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 12:28 (twenty-one years ago)

NO NOT THE KID'S SOCCER MATCH HAVE YOU NO DECENCY!!!?!?!

― Aaron W (Aaron W), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 12:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Did you know that there are at least 7 Air Bud movies, even though the original Basketball playing dog died after the first one?

― Huck, Tuesday, 10 August 2004 13:45 (twenty-one years ago)

I was laughing non-stop during this preview.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 13:51 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah this is definitely the funniest preview in a long time, especially all the KUH-CHING camera noises

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 13:59 (twenty-one years ago)

so many movies lately (this one in particular though) seem like "fake" movies used as jokes in comedies where one of the characters is a movie star

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 14:00 (twenty-one years ago)

I think that trailers are killing movies.

― Huck, Tuesday, 10 August 2004 14:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Has anyone seen that film starring Matt LeBlanc and a baseball playing chimp? It's exactly the kind of film Joey would get a role in. I think that whole film's an elaborate meta-joke.

― Wooden (Wooden), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 14:02 (twenty-one years ago)

I think that Matt LeBlanc is an enormous joke.

― Huck, Tuesday, 10 August 2004 14:03 (twenty-one years ago)

I was actually excited to see it until I realized herbert didn't type Rutger Hauer but Cole Hauser.

― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 14:03 (twenty-one years ago)

When Rutger Hauer is Bo Laramie I am there.

― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 14:04 (twenty-one years ago)

so many movies lately (this one in particular though) seem like "fake" movies used as jokes in comedies where one of the characters is a movie star
-- s1ocki (slytus...), August 10th, 2004.

traffic was a bitch...

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 14:07 (twenty-one years ago)

I think that trailers are killing movies

That's kind of what I was getting at. Whenever I hear that preview voiceover guy, it's like a red flag signalling "this movie takes itself way too seriously", and it ends up coming off like a "fake"/joke i.e.- the Coupon: The Movie sketch from Mr. Show

― Joseph Pot (STINKOR™), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 20:39 (twenty-one years ago)

i hate the miramax dude.

"in a time of..."

"two men, one woman..."

"a movie that will capture your heart..."

― |a|m|t|r|s|t| (amateurist), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 20:48 (twenty-one years ago)

esp. those previews for foreign films where they can't show anyone talking because OH GOD NO SUBTITLES so they just have a lot of shots of french people looking winsome or whatever. boo.

― |a|m|t|r|s|t| (amateurist), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 20:49 (twenty-one years ago)

This and "National Treasure" should make for such a choice double-header.

― Softly Weeping at the Oki Dog (Ben Boyer), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 21:11 (twenty-one years ago)

3- that whole "get away from my child! don't threaten my wife!" man-is-caveman trope

hahahahah otm

Just noticed that the character in the movie Bo Laramie is a star of a movie called "Adrenaline Force" (you can see the poster for it in one scene). I think I'd rather see that than this.

― Joseph Pot (STINKOR™), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 22:24 (twenty-one years ago)

I love Cole Hauser. He always looks really scary. And he was genuinely frightening in that movie about the two girls one straight/one gay who work in a pizza parlor and listen to patti smith with rrriioottt girrrrlllss when they are drunk.

― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 22:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Do the paparazzi kill Jesus?

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 23:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Just wait... Mel Gibson bought the option for Those Who Trespass, a "thriller" revolving around serial murders at a news network called "GNN". The author is one Bill O'Reilly.

― Joshua Houk (chascarrillo), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 23:39 (twenty-one years ago)

"I think that trailers are killing movies"

-- Joseph Pot (yaho...), August 10th, 2004.

OTM.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 23:50 (twenty-one years ago)

I think trailers these days can be kinda helpful when it comes to bad movies that I probably wasn't gonna see anyway cuz they show the plot of the ENTIRE FILM! I feel like I've seen it and thus can denounce it in an annoying film-geek manner.

― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 23:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Those trailers always remind me of Seinfeld, where they would always end up going to see something like "Rochelle, Rochelle", "an erotic journey from Milan to Minsk".

We saw "Japanese Story" on DVD the other night - terrific movie. After watching it, we looked at the trailer on the DVD - it gave away EVERY SURPRISE in the movie. If you see that trailer before the movie, it's totally spoiled.

― Layna Andersen (Layna Andersen), Wednesday, 11 August 2004 01:07 (twenty-one years ago)

The trailer turned me off on Japanese Story - it looked too much like an arty skinemax flick.

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Wednesday, 11 August 2004 01:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Please tell me that the voice-over man describes Bo Laramie as a "man who plays by his own rules" and "lives in a time of confusion".

― C0L1N B3CK3TT (Colin Beckett), Wednesday, 11 August 2004 01:17 (twenty-one years ago)

"36 oz. of cold metal. 24 shots per load. A thousand meter range. It has the power to tear a man apart. And it never misses it's target..."

*Gasp* the suspense! What sort of diabolical weapon is this?

Oh... it's just a fucking CAMERA.

― Joseph Pot (STINKOR™), Wednesday, 11 August 2004 01:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Didn't you see that Britney Spears video? A camera done gone and KILLED her.

― Allyzay Science Explosion (allyzay), Wednesday, 11 August 2004 01:46 (twenty-one years ago)

is that what happened? i could never figure that video out.

― |a|m|t|r|s|t| (amateurist), Wednesday, 11 August 2004 01:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Well I still think she killed herself but she says a camera killed her.

― Allyzay Science Explosion (allyzay), Wednesday, 11 August 2004 02:02 (twenty-one years ago)

IF YOU WATCH CLOSELY, YOU CAN SEE THE CAMERA HIT HER IN THE HEAD

― na (Nick A.), Wednesday, 11 August 2004 13:53 (twenty-one years ago)

If you watch closely, YOU KILLED HER.

― Huck, Wednesday, 11 August 2004 13:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh no it's the Kennedys all over again MICK JAGGER WAS RIGHT!

― David R. (popshots75`), Wednesday, 11 August 2004 14:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Hey, it's that guy from "Crime Story." Does anyone remember that show?

― morris pavilion (samjeff), Wednesday, 11 August 2004 19:09 (twenty-one years ago)

the worst offender I can remember is the trailer for Casino which not only gives away the fact that Joe Pesci ends up getting beaten to death with a baseball bat, but that his right-hand man is the one who does it.

― Gear! (Gear!), Wednesday, 11 August 2004 19:11 (twenty-one years ago)

now you're the worst offender, for those who have not seen the movie! (i have so we're still cool)

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 11 August 2004 19:14 (twenty-one years ago)

gee, thanks a lot, Gear :P

haha xpost!

― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Wednesday, 11 August 2004 19:33 (twenty-one years ago)

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