Pig Out

April 28, 2017 12:07 AM

An upcoming Netflix movie directed by Bong Joon Ho (of Snowpiercer fame) is being teased with a fake commercial for a not-yet-existing product. Yes, that is Tilda Swinton. (more conventional teaser here)
posted by oneswellfoop (26 comments total)

wow, that looks like it is going to be an interesting one. A non-existent as this product may be we are clearly headed in that direction. I am not vegan or anything but I fell the treatment of animals in our society is deeply immoral. Looking forward to it
posted by Mormor at 1:17 AM on April 28, 2017

Why do I suddenly have a craving for samgyeopsal and kamjatang?
posted by Joseph Gurl at 2:37 AM on April 28, 2017

Forget that, that plate of giant sausages looked lovely.
posted by Samizdata at 2:45 AM on April 28, 2017

Funny how the fake ad must signal that it's a fake, that they can't go all in. Says a surprisingly lot about the movie
posted by Foci for Analysis at 3:14 AM on April 28, 2017 [1 favorite]

So this is the movie of my favourite dice game? Looks better than Battleship.
posted by threecheesetrees at 3:55 AM on April 28, 2017

They had me at Bong Joon Ho and Tilda Swinton, I don't need to watch the trailer.
posted by octothorpe at 4:18 AM on April 28, 2017 [6 favorites]

Her dialect coach should have helped her with "innovative."
posted by emelenjr at 4:46 AM on April 28, 2017 [3 favorites]

No Otis Redding soundtrack? Try a little tenderness
posted by grimjeer at 5:04 AM on April 28, 2017

It's people, right?
posted by whimsicalnymph at 5:45 AM on April 28, 2017

That website video is A+
posted by Theta States at 6:25 AM on April 28, 2017

Her dialog was deeply intentionalistic. (ish)
posted by sammyo at 6:37 AM on April 28, 2017

Dr Moreau's daughter on the Planet of the Pigs
posted by sammyo at 6:40 AM on April 28, 2017 [1 favorite]

Funny how the fake ad must signal that it's a fake, that they can't go all in. Says a surprisingly lot about the movie

I believe it says more about the producer's estimation of the intelligence of this ad's audience. They don't want to leave money on the table with too smart an ad, in agreement with H.L. Mencken's 'quote': “No one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public.”
posted by fairmettle at 6:46 AM on April 28, 2017 [1 favorite]

It's like Viridian Dynamics decided to soften its image.
posted by that's candlepin at 6:49 AM on April 28, 2017

I like the idea, but fake adverts for products in science fiction movies seem to have become a standard thing lately.
posted by CBrachyrhynchos at 7:14 AM on April 28, 2017

Pig Kong?
posted by jiroczech at 8:38 AM on April 28, 2017

Tilda Swinton was by far the best part of Snowpiercer, a movie that I really enjoyed upon first viewing at the theater and more-or-less loathed upon re-watch when it eventually came to Netflix. If I end up watching this (and who am I kidding, I certainly will) it will only be to get more Swinton on my screen.
posted by Atom Eyes at 10:11 AM on April 28, 2017

She tends to be the best thing in anything. She was the best thing in Dr Strange. If it's on the Telly, I always watch Constantine for the bit where she turns up. She and Nigel Terry so outclassed the leads in Jarman's Edward II that I found myself rooting for the villains, which is probably technically homophobia.
posted by Grangousier at 11:57 AM on April 28, 2017 [2 favorites]

Snowpiercer sucked, but Memories of Murder, Mother and The Host were as good as any movies I've ever seen.
posted by PeterMcDermott at 7:13 PM on April 30, 2017 [1 favorite]

I liked Snowpiercer well enough, though I only saw it once. But The Host is a really good film that definitely still holds up. I'm at least tentatively on board for all future Bong Joon Ho movies just based on that one.
posted by tobascodagama at 8:30 PM on April 30, 2017

OK, I think I haven't seen Snowpiercer. I think I was confusing it with Stoker. Whichever was the film about all the people on the train made by a Korean director in Hollywoood -- that was the one I thought sucked.
posted by PeterMcDermott at 7:17 AM on May 5, 2017

Whichever was the film about all the people on the train made by a Korean director in Hollywoood -- that was the one I thought sucked.

If only there were some kind of device you could put on your desk or lap (or pocket?!) that could connect to other devices for the purpose of easy dissemination and retrieval of information like that. Hmmm...TO THE DRAWING BOARD!
posted by Joseph Gurl at 7:32 PM on May 6, 2017

The first partial look at the title creature.
posted by oneswellfoop at 12:38 PM on May 13, 2017

OK, so, as I thought, Snowpiercer sucked.
posted by PeterMcDermott at 6:41 PM on May 15, 2017

Here's a more conventional trailer (slightly NSFW).
posted by octothorpe at 5:02 AM on May 18, 2017

Wait, Steven Yuen and Giancarlo Esposito are also in this?? And it's nice to see BYUN Hee-Bong back as well.
posted by tobascodagama at 11:17 AM on May 18, 2017