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  • THURSDAY DECEMBER 13 2007 8:00 PM

"The Machine Girl" Trailer, Better Than Sunshine and Rainbows


I am sad. As documented by this very site, I've been blown away by incredible trailers before. And always, after the first look, with the really great ones, there's a hangover. A bleakness, that follows having every part of your body capable of registering enjoyment, do so in overdrive... until they empty out entirely.

That's just happened.


MUCH BETTER VERSION

I'm completely gutted, bereft of any sensations of pleasure. Seratonin levels, fully depleted. Even the "hyperbole" section of my brain has shut down in protest, after my multiple screaming utterances of "This trailer is the best thing about being alive!! I'm not kidding!" Then it was working on reserve power, until my eyes rolled back into my head, bringing darkness, causing me to slip into a temporary coma that only abated when, on my trip to the floor, my finger grazed the track-pad causing the trailer to replay... and revive me. It may've actually saved my life.

Ten subsequent screenings of the trailer have fully revitalized me, and now, I must watch it once an hour or risk death. I couldn't think of a happier way to wind down my remaining forty or so years on the planet.

You know a trailer is amazing when you have a girl with a machine gun arm in it, and it's not even the coolest part. Fuck, they have an actual flying guillotine in it, and I'm not sure that was the best part. Think about that, they made two whole movies about nothing but the flying guillotine, and they were phenomenal... And the guillotine is maybe the fourth best part of this trailer.



I've been waiting twenty years for them to bring the flying G back! I mean, how many baseball movies are there? How many movies are there revolving around a sword? Or a fast car? It's high time we get a full-blown flying guillotine genre and it starts right here. If we also get a murderous spinning drill bra and machine gun arm/with tempura option, genre, so be it.

This is like some hit the jackpot mash-up of Ichi the Killer, The Army of Darkness and everything I care about in the whole wide world.

"Coming Soon" can't come soon enough.



TheCoolerKing wishes he could tell his TIVO that although he loves "The Sopranos" on HBO he's much less excited about watching "The Sopranos" on A&E... So knock it off.

 

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MrCrisp

MrCrisp

I'm lost
August 2004

DEC 13, 2007 08:22 PM

"coming soon?" but i already came!

Varuka_Salt

Varuka_Salt

I'm lost
October 2006

DEC 13, 2007 08:26 PM

More gratuitous senseless violence as entertainment! Just what we need! Yeah!

TheDarkHarlequin

TheDarkHarlequin

San Diego, CA
September 2006

DEC 13, 2007 09:03 PM

TEMPURA!!!!!!!!!!

I'm there.

xazapdmytinu

xazapdmytinu

Fort Collins, CO
July 2007

DEC 13, 2007 09:05 PM

varukasalt said:
More gratuitous senseless violence as entertainment! Just what we need! Yeah!



It's hardly senseless! Every one of my nerves just lit up like a pinball machine!

Poor TIVO, he doesn't understand...you're going to have to put a password on A&E to get him to stop.

wastrel

wastrel

Orange, CA
October 2007

DEC 13, 2007 09:28 PM

I'm taken back to the days of Final Fantasy VII and Barrett.

CyclopsJr

CyclopsJr

Los Angeles, CA
November 2004

DEC 13, 2007 09:54 PM

My heart swells with this trailer. The rest of the movie could be awful but with these few scenes it'll still be worth it.

GeorgeLiquor

GeorgeLiquor

Seattle, WA
June 2007

DEC 13, 2007 10:19 PM

I'ts like army of darkness meets a troma movie.

Either way, this..this looks too good to be true.

Bleeder

Bleeder

USA
August 2003

DEC 13, 2007 10:21 PM

It looks pretty generic.

I would not put that anywhere near a Takashi Miike or Sam Raimi film.

Drake

Drake

SUICIDEGIRL

I'm lost

DEC 13, 2007 10:26 PM

You know, I'm still dwelling on the Speed Racer trailer. I guess that's the difference between you and me.

Lillyth

Lillyth

New Orleans, LA
November 2007

DEC 13, 2007 10:31 PM

i <3 ninjas... and tempura tongue

OctEgon

OctEgon

Tustin, CA
July 2005

DEC 13, 2007 10:32 PM

It certainly mops the floor with the Speed Racer trailer

PaulNikon

PaulNikon

Palm Bay, FL
February 2003

DEC 13, 2007 10:43 PM

Holy shit. Them is some good trailers.

Taolie

Taolie

Madison, WI
November 2007

DEC 13, 2007 10:43 PM

This looks like a great date movie!!! biggrin

Drake

Drake

SUICIDEGIRL

I'm lost

DEC 13, 2007 11:04 PM

OctEgon said:
It certainly mops the floor with the Speed Racer trailer



Apples and oranges!! tongue

unfiltrator

unfiltrator

San Francisco, CA
April 2004

DEC 13, 2007 11:46 PM

TheCoolerKing said:
Even the "hyperbole" section of my brain has shut down in protest

That's some heavy meta!

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