new 2012 trailer ft adam lambert is painful

I saw This Is It last night which I will be reviewing soon, but before the film played there was a new trailer for Roland Emmerich’s apocalyptic tale, 2012. While watching the trailer the hair on the back of my neck stood up.. not because it was amazingly good, but because it was horribly embarrassing. The trailer has one of the most ill suited musical compositions I have ever heard. The song is Time for Miracles by Adam Lambert (of american idol fame), which on it’s own may be a decent song, but given the prior marketing for 2012 it just does not flow at all, you can’t suddenly change your marketing tactic and expect everyone to stay on board, I for one have jumped ship on 2012 after seeing this. The video is coupled with Lambert talking BS about the song, the theatrical version does not include the interview scenes.

The worst part is, it doesn’t even show any new footage aside from the cliche title scenes. What was once portrayed as a disaster movie is now being marketed as a human triumph struggle? Get over it, we wanna see stuff blow up.

What do you guys think?

paranormal activities alternate endings

SPOILER WARNING! IF YOU HAVE NOT SEEN PARANORMAL ACTIVITY DO NOT CONTINUE READING!

So we all know the story about Oren Peli’s road to hollywood, and how Dreamworks originally wanted to re-shoot PA as a big budget glossy flick, but after seeing how well it was screening they decided to keep at as is, except for one thing… the ending. Dreamworks had Peli re-shoot the ending to be more “crowd pleasing” and in tune with Hollywoods obession with BOO! style scares. In the theatrical ending, Katie is compelled to go downstairs, and out of view she begins screaming hysterically, Michah awakens runs down stairs and we assume she stabs him to death, because after some time passes Katie re-appears holding Micah and she throws him directly at the camera, Katie who is covered in blood walks toward the camera sniffs Micha and swipes at the camera. Its a fairly terrifying scene, and one the sticks in my mind. I liked the ending I thought it was a highlight of the film, but it wasn’t what Oren Peli originally filmed.

According to Peli there are two alternate endings, one which you can see below involving the police, and another in which after killing Micah downstairs, Katie walks towards the camera and slits her own throat. Between the two of them I prefer the throat slitting, that would of been quite disturbing. Anyways check out the ending that has surfaced online, I really don’t like it, the creepiest part is just how she doesn’t stop rocking back and forth – but tell me what you think.

NOTE ALL VIDEOS OF THE ALTERNATE ENDING HAVE BEEN REMOVED BY THE STUDIO.. AS SOON AS ONE BECOMES AVAILABLE I WILL POST IT. THANKS!

probably the most bad ass video on the internet

this needs no explanation it’s just something you have to watch.

you cant tell me that didnt meet all the criteria of the perfect internet video?

japanese girl? check

dino costume? check

oversized instrument? check

back to the future refrence? hell yeah.

story of a lonely guy

I have recently become fascinated by Craigslist’s “best of” section, I know a lot of it is fake, but as a means of keeping me entertained (which doesn’t take much) I love it. I just found this cartoon a young man named “Brian” posted outlining his failures with women, and the social hurdles he tries to overcome daily. It reminded me of my myself a few years ago and it really struck a chord for me, I think it’s quite inspiring because I know a lot of guys/girls that have this exact mentality, but just know there is always light at the end of the tunnel.. unless your Ryan Seacrest or Nancy Grace – you both deserve to be alone forever.

Anyways here is the cartoon, and next time you see that potential fling life partner.. think of Brian.

(click images for high res, three separate pics)

holy crap i can blog from the can

I’ve discovered something amazing. I can blog whilst taking a shit.

Now my mornings have more meaning and purpose other than a time to cleanse myself (and my colon). Ew I know.. but do thoughts and opinions loose value if you know they were said by somebody who stated them while creating sewage waste? I don’t know, but we will find out. Thanks to wordpress for iPhone I can blog pretty much anywhere now which is awesome, I plan to use this feature to the fullest as I am not always at a computer.

stated from the heart and the can.

the wolfman resembles max payne

Universal have released a new The Wolfman trailer which starts Benicio Del Toro and the great Anthony Hopkins, it’s been up for a couple days now and I’ve been watching the Internet comments about it and thus I have to come to a conclusion, movie studios are finally starting to realize just how important music selection is in trailers. The only problem is Universal clearly ripped of Marilyn Manson and Mark Wahlberg at the same time, a feat only Matt Damon could pull off.

How you may ask? I will show you, below you will see the trailer for Mark Wahlberg’s 2008 flop Max Payne, now while watching take notes on the music and its pacing.

Now watch the new Wolfman trailer and you will instantly notice the music/pacing similarities.

Now let’s just hope the Wolfman doesn’t have the same fate as Max, a good trailer that led to a crappy movie.

i promised a metric video

In my previous post I mentioned how I saw Metric and The Stills last night, well here is a video I took of Combat Baby, done in glorious acoustic the best way to perform music at Massy Hall. Note how sexy Emily Haines is as well, I sure did.

here you go 🙂

I saw Metric and You Didn’t

I saw Metric last night at Massy Hall, an excellent show as I didn’t plan ahead to see them my buddy had an extra ticket so I went down. They put on an amazing show. The Stills opened for them which was incredible as well.

I am currently uploading a video I took at the show but in the mean time, here is an awesome acoustic rendition of Gold Guns Girls I found.

enjoy.

hey

the long boring initial post.

let it begin.

this is where I am supposed to say welcome, hello, you found me, etc etc. but that shit is boring, but I do feel obliged to share with you what in the hell the point of this is.

It’s simple, this is me, patrick, in all unpolished truthful glory. thoughts, opinions, rambles, run on sentences and what have you. you got it here.

See I told you it was simple, as I post more the whole thing should come together and hopefully, for whatever you reason, you feel compelled to continue coming back to see what I have to say.

thanks

iampatman