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There comes a time in every man’s life when too much is enough.
More sadness after the jump

Pencils down, everyone. It’s time to go home. It’s over.

This “teaser” for exit 117 proves that “a melodic group portrait of New Jersey youth and the kaleidoscope of dreams, fears, and laughs that is their last summer together” isn’t cutting the mustard anymore. Thanks to pushing this down the throats of the masses as “indie,” we are left with cookie-cutter plots that hope and prey they can strum a shitty guitar long enough to hit Juno levels.

It’s like someone decided to make an ode to the indie film, but figured at some point it would be a fantastic idea to actually make it.

No, really.

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To be fair, this is really called Amazing Tales: Three Guns and is Yimon Zhang’s remake of the Coen Brothers’ Blood Simple. That’s a mouth full, right?

Both are ideally about a husband who fears his wife is having an affair. But only Zhang’s film makes the claim it is literally half thriller and half comedy.
Check out the Coens’ trailer after the jump

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Did you know on Saturday I’m in love? With the news? Then read on and find out why.

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It seems like the Funny People experiment did nothing for Adam Sandler, except give him the idea that mixing the somewhat “mature” idea of Spanglish and then turning it into one of the People parodies.

Of course, maybe it’s for the best that this is the way we end our Week of Bad Trailers. This is just a teaser and Kevin James proves he can prat-fall after slamming into stationary objects. Maybe we should take solace in the final shot as they’re just bro-ing out and drinking some beer. Yeah, maybe everything’s gonna be okay anyway.

(Probably not.)

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An important distinction in upcoming rom-com trailers have been female leads noting their significance of their Blackberry. Jessica Biel only his eyes for it in the Valentine’s Day trailer. In Leap Year, Amy Adams, whom a majority of you know for her ass, plays a woman in love. And she’s friend with It’s Always Sunny’s Sweet Dee!

But she wants to get married! And everything needs exclamation points! So she goes to stalk follow her boyfriend to Dublin! But instead she gets dropped off in Cardiff which has SCARY THINGS! Then she meets a dashing Welshman (Matthew Goode) who drives her to Dublin! And then THEY MAY FALL IN LOVE, BUT SHE FRIES HER BLACKBERRY!!!!!

My mom is going to love this movie.

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Raleigh Lantham’s fan-trailer for Captain America looks decent. But the “red band” version above takes that decent sentimentality, turns it over and then throws it face first into a pile of cocaine on top of Cap’s shield.

That said, we dig it. Now go home.

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What exactly is HD? Is it a way to note the definition of a video? Or is it something greater, something like a generic warning that you should put your head down and not look up at the train wreck until it has significantly passed.

Maybe it’s a bit of the former mixed with the latter, but something about Jerry Bruckheimer forces me to keep my eyes open in some ode to Kubrick that I unwittingly succumb to every time. Especially when it has such subtle jokes as “Jake Gyllenhaal is keeping the knife in his anus” and “There is more CGI in this film than in the goddamn video game it’s based off of.”

That second one isn’t so apparent, but give it time.

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The mash-up has long been the staple of mixing and matching memes as online communities see fit. For obvious reasons, 2012 has been something of a comic staple when it comes to mocking the sensibility of Roland Emmerich.

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