May 7 2008 'The Rocker' Trailer: Better Than Watching an Old Man Being Carted Off by Paramedics
Being a blogger allows one a lot of luxuries you don't get when you have to go into an office. You can stay in your pajamas as long as you want; play loud and/or obnoxious music; work anywhere with an internet connection; and, when the occasion calls for it, you can watch half an episode of Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood while you eat a bowl of Kashi, like I did yesterday. Since most of you probably weren't afforded this extravagance, let me give you a brief synopsis: Mr. Rogers visited a couple of EMTs. A firm believer in "show, don't tell," Rogers was placed in a neck brace, strapped to a gurney (he was first instructed to "hug himself," to give more of the illusion of a corpse), and thrown in the back of an ambulance--just like he really broke his neck! The entire time, a huge grin was spread across his face, as he asked questions like, "Do you have something smaller to strap a kid into?" (They did.)
As is probably apparent, it was utterly terrifying--particularly when they actually brought out the child-size straps and showed how they'd velcro in a kid's limp head. But, as Fred would later explain, the point was never to give children (or me) nightmares of a dead Mr. Rogers, the sheet slowly being drawn over his permanent grin; he just wanted to prepare us in case we break our neck.
Similarly, I now present you with the trailer to The Rocker, starring The Office's Rainn Wilson, Jeff Garlin, Will Arnett and some other funny, talented people. I show you this not because it's so worth watching, but because it looks very mediocre-at-best, and it's better you know that now than to feel the shocking disappointment in theaters. I assure you, it's much less scarring than the Fred Rogers death simulation I watched yesterday.
'The Rocker' Trailer [Yahoo!]
Aug 31 2007 I Want Someone to Eat Cheese With Trailer
What's the best part about the new romantic comedy I Want Someone to Eat Cheese With? Clearly that it's written and directed by Curb Your Enthusiasm star Jeff Garlin, and stars him, Sarah Silverman, Richard Kind, Amy Sedaris, Bonnie Hunt, and other genuinely funny people, so it could turn out pretty decent. What's the worst part? That I mistakenly assumed the title I Want Someone to Eat Cheese With referred to the desire by the overweight, when eating cheese, to actually consume human flesh with the cheese. When the line is used in the trailer, it ends up making far more sense.
