Aug 13 2008 Here's Some 'The Rocker' Internetty Stuff
Well, another movie is coming out, so you know what that means: viral stuff! This time, Rainn Wilson has convinced his Office costar Jenna Fisher to help him promote The Rocker by pretending she's locked in the trunk of his car. From Jenna's MySpace:
A PERSONAL MESSAGE FROM JENNA’S "FRIEND", RAINN WILSON
Hey there Jenna's MySpacers!
My name is Rainn Wilson and I've kidnapped the lovely Jenna, put her, bound, in the trunk of my firebird and logged onto her MySpace to send out this bulletin.
To free America's sweetheart, Pam Beesly, one half of the magic which is 'Jam', you must attend my new movie, 'The Rocker', which opens August 20th.
As soon as the film grosses 18.7 Mil, she will be released and given a peach smoothie.
I just want to say that Jenna Fisher is one of the best co-workers ever. When I worked real jobs that required pants, I was covertly using other people's coffee mugs, trying to shimmy things out of the vending machine, and wasting time in the bathroom to avoid going back to work. Whereas she's making mediocre videos to support her coworker's other projects. But did she ever fix the toilet when the chain thingy was stuck? I didn't think so.
And there are some videos:
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May 16 2008 'The Rocker' Poster Looks Strangely Shrutey, Apatowy
If the above, heavily-lipped, bespectacled child looks more than a little bit like Dwight Schrute of The Office, that's because it is. Just as Growing Pains opened with actual young shots of the cast under the crooning vocals of B.J. Thomas and Dusty Springfield, The Rocker has taken a young Rainn Wilson, heavily photoshopped him, adding glasses and a promotional tattoo, and made it a poster. So if you thought it was a poster for a Judd Apatow-produced comedy about a nerd that grows an enormous penis, you were dead wrong. That Michael Cera comedy doesn't come out for another year.
Young Rainn Wilson Rocks the Poster for 'The Rocker' [Cinematical]
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!]
