ID4
Do you remember a movie trailer that featured Catherine Zeta-Jones' ass, dipping, ever so slowly, under a laser beam? Now nearly a decade old, it is a modern American classic. It has inspired fine works of art like this one which I ripped off from some artist through Google Images:
What movie it was from, I'll probably never know. But it doesn't matter.
They say that the book is always better than the movie. Well, sometimes the trailer is better than the movie and the book. Take Independence Day, staring a young Will Smith...(it was Will Smith, right?)the trailer for that film was unforgettable: ash colored space ships the size of small continents, floods and fire and shit, and the most convincing exploding White House TO DATE! But what was really revolutionary about Independance Day was it's rad nickname, ID4.
ID4: The only movie title that was better than the trailer-better-than-the-movie that was better than the book. You can't even find Independence Day in book stores or on Amazon anymore. It was so bad!
My love for good trailers and cleverly abbreviated movie titles is unconditional. But there is a newer cinematic form which seeks to sully my affections: The DVD menu montage.
Why are images from the movie we are moments away from watching, maybe for the first time, forced upon us? People should be outraged by this. What if you had never seen Jaws, and while fumbling with the remote, you look up and there's Quint getting chomped in half?!? That's an extreme example, and I'm sure, at least I hope, that the idiots who design DVD's would have the sense and discretion to exclude such key scenes. But they are guilty of giving away the aesthetic of films. They show people hugging and slapping eachother. They give away costume changes. They show buildings on fire.
I like to go in fresh.
posted by Peter @ 5:53 PM
5 Comments:
omg!
i hate that soooo much!!!!
i love to go to blockbuster to buy the previously viewed dvds. but what i hate is popping in the disc, pressing play, and then desperately hitting the 'menu' button so i don't have to watch key scenes of the movie before the movie actually starts.
it seems the dvd makers think only people who've already seen the dvds will buy them.
"it seems the dvd makers think only people who've already seen the dvds will buy them."- I was thinking that too. You would think that, like with other businesses, that Hollywood would test their products before putting them out.
It's sad.
The movie was Entrapment- great scene with Sean Connery.. Pretty hot stuff.
Peter, you've given voice to something I was too scared to mention -- my feelings of murderous rage at those assoholic dvd producers who eff everything up in just the way you've described.
Also, you're right about ID4 too and Entrapment.
Entrapment, huh? I knew Sean Connery was in it. That Scottsman's got some good genes.
They are assholic, Dale. Maybe we can start a petition?
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