Jun 17 2009 New 'Half-Blood Prince Posters': God, Harry Potter, Kiss Her! KISS HER!
New Harry Potter posters, Harry Potteriacs! There are finally enough that, if you start looking at Half-Blood Prince posters from the start right now, the last one in this set will be your final image you see before you die.
Links below for the others:
- Ron in a Lifetime Movie about a jealous love triangle.
- Hermione escaping unnecessary PDA, and birds.
- Female magician equivalent of '50s gang henchman who always wore 3D glasses.
- Sir Ian McKellen rear shot.
Jan 23 2009 'Harry Potter and that Half-Blood Prince' Trailer in the Japanese
Don't be a chump! Why wait for the new domestic trailer for Harry Potter when you can watch this Japanese version right now? Maybe because it has Japanese narration, glowing Japanese subtitles, and that annoying little picture-in-picture thing so ubiquitous in Japanese television. But if you're OK with all that, here it is:
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Nov 14 2008 'Harry Potter 14' Trailer
Remember when Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince was meant to come out in November? Those were the days, before the release change. You were supposed to be knee-deep in boy wizard next weekend! Now you're going to have to see Twilight eight times instead. Nothing is fair.
Anyway, sorry to open old wounds that are in the shape of a lightning bolt (H.P. reference, dudes), but there's a new trailer for the film to tide you over until the summer. You deserve it, dejected wizards.
Nov 6 2008 New 'Tale of Despereaux' Trailer Bans Soup, Rats
Here's the new trailer for Tale of Despereaux, the animated movie involving difficult-to-spell CGI rodents and soup that isn't Ratataouille. Summary!
Once upon a time, in the faraway kingdom of Dor, there was magic in the air, laughter aplenty and gallons of mouthwatering soup. But an accident left the King broken-hearted, the Princess filled with longing and the townsfolk without their soup. Sunlight disappeared. The world became gray. All hope was lost in this land…until Despereaux Tilling was born.A modern fairy tale from visionary filmmaker Gary Ross, together with directors Sam Fell & Rob Stevenhagen, The Tale of Desperaux tells the story of several unlikely heroes: Despereaux (Matthew Broderick), a brave mouse banished to the dungeon for speaking with a human; Roscuro (Dustin Hoffman), a good-hearted rat who loves light and soup, but is exiled to darkness; Pea (Emma Watson), a Princess in a gloomy castle who is prisoner to her father’s grief; and Mig (Tracey Ullman), a servant girl who longs to be a Princess, but is forced to serve the jailer (Robbie Coltrane).
My issue with this movie is that, if you watch the trailer, you see its entire plot hinges on the king banning rats and soup from his kingdom, which makes no sense. How do you ban rats? Tell them they're banned? Make little "no rats" signs? There's no way to ban rats. As far as I'm concerned, rats have always been banned. I have never willfully accepted co-habitating with rats. For me, a rat ban does not work as a plot device.
And don't even get me started on banning soup. No legitimate king would ever ban soup. Monarchies are too historically rooted in Panera Bread franchises to ever allow that kind of drastic change.
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Oct 27 2008 New 'Harry Potter' Trailer is the Chosen One?
For most of my life, I've been operating under the assumption that I'm the chosen one. When someone calls and asks for the chosen one, I say, "Speaking." When the Red Robin offers a free sundaes to birthday boys and chosen ones, I say, "Free ice cream, please--the latter stipulation." But if this Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince international trailer is to be believed, Harry Potter is the chosen one. Whaaaaa?
As we all know, there can be only one, so what gives? I thought I was the chosen one. If it turns out I'm not the chosen one, I am so pissed. But besides including the news that I might not be the chosen one, this looks OK:
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