The Trailer Mash

August 25, 2006 9:56 AM

The Trailer Mash is the spot for movie trailer recuts and mashups. We've done the subject before, but now the subject has its own blog. Current new favorites: Garden State as a murder thriller and School of Rock as a kidnap film. [via mefi projects]
posted by mathowie (12 comments total)

Not listed on the site, but one of my favorites is Toy Story 2: Requiem.
posted by Armitage Shanks at 10:32 AM on August 25, 2006

C For Cookie just made me bust out laughing in the middle of the office...
posted by NotMyselfRightNow at 10:36 AM on August 25, 2006

Thanks for posting! 10 Things I Hate about Commandments is awesome.
posted by chudmonkey at 10:38 AM on August 25, 2006

Yay!
posted by owhydididoit at 10:56 AM on August 25, 2006

I think I've heard that song in Toy Story: Requiem somewhere before.
posted by Brainy at 11:04 AM on August 25, 2006

Ha! Way to link School of Rock. I though it was a mistake, but no.
posted by seanyboy at 11:10 AM on August 25, 2006

Yeah. 10 Things I Hate About Commandments is so well-done I can't stand it.
posted by spock at 12:02 PM on August 25, 2006

Brainy: Brad Sucks is great, but I wish I could track down a copy of that specific remix.

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posted by Armitage Shanks at 12:07 PM on August 25, 2006

I was quite impressed by Must love Jaws, myself.
posted by Squid Voltaire at 12:18 PM on August 25, 2006

When they redo America: Freedom to Facism as a pro-taxation message....then I'll send love their way.
posted by rough ashlar at 12:26 PM on August 25, 2006

I just watched the Garden State mashup and it's incredible what a thumping, crescendoing orchestral soundtrack will do to a trailer. I suppose it's the same as introducing a sci-fi film, or an art movie about seventeenth century Europe, with a booming voice saying "It is a period of civil war..." Makes you wonder what the scope for a non-formulaic trailer might be, and whether it would even sell the film given how conditioned we are to accepting certain genres.
posted by greycap at 2:45 PM on August 25, 2006

watching these again just made me realize how great Shining was and how "2nd rate imitation" everything since has seemed to me. It's hard to overestimate the importance of a great, original idea.
posted by jonson at 9:08 PM on August 25, 2006