It has been brought to my attention that there is a movie called Retardead and it’s about a bunch of special people who were turned into flesh-eating zombies.
It just blew my mind. It also made me realize that it’s easy to come up with a high concept when zombies are involved. Why, just this morning while I was driving to work, I came up with 6 one-paragraph movie pitches that I hope some dickhead in Hollywood would steal and develop into real movies:
Over at Patrick Goldstein’s LA Times blog, he let “a bunch of highly opinionated teenagers” review summer movie trailers with him. Pretty smart, right? I mean, most of the big summer blockbuster movies are aimed at the younger crowd. It’s only appropriate that we know what they think about upcoming flicks. NOT.
They said some things about the Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen trailer that got my panties in a bunch slightly upset me. Before I put these kids in their place, here’s the trailer:
And now for the excerpts from the critique:
Hey there, Manny “Pacman” Pacquiao and Ricky “Hitman” Hatton! You guys mind if I ask you a few questions? No? Great. Here’s the first one:
Which ancient city in southeastern Iran was destroyed by an earthquake in 2003?
Here in the Philippines, school is out. Most young professionals are taking a break from work because it’s Holy Week. This means a lot of people will be spending their time dicking around the web, probably on Facebook. And if the last couple of weeks is any indication, we’re going to see a LOT of quiz results on our News Feed.
