Comments on: The Be Kind Rewind trailer makes even less sense than it did before.

By: Burbanked

Burbanked — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 02:00:05 +0000

“Hollywood” and “pace yourself” don’t really go together, dougie p. Witness the run-up to all the crap they’ll be making as the spectre of creative strikes looms.

And you’re right about Sleuth – when remakes start essentially just making the exact same film, with the exact same actors, doesn’t anyone in LA say “uh. wait a second…”?

By: dougie p

dougie p — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 22:58:47 +0000

Hollywood is all out of stories. They remake everything. Only with Be Kind Rewind they remake EVERY FILM in a video store. They are shooting their wad in one film.
Note: Youâ€™ve got to pace yourself, Hollywood.
P.S. I can’t wait to see Sleuth with Michael Caine and Jude Law. It will be better than Sleuth with Laurence Olivier and Michael Caine. Of course it will. Why? Because itâ€™s new!

By: Making the Movie

Making the Movie — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 22:21:46 +0000

[...] Burbanked is not feeling the new Be Kind, Rewind trailer. [...]

By: Burbanked

Burbanked — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 20:23:44 +0000

A coworker of mine raised an interesting question about this silly, silly premise: while the pair is remaking the movies, doesn’t the de-magnetizing MacGuffin inside Black’s head simply erase the tapes again?

By: Piper

Piper — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 20:05:25 +0000

Alan,

Damn you’re good.

I hate. Hate. Hate this trailer. It makes no sense and I’ve felt that everyone has been praising it because it’s from Gondry. It feels like a bad venue for Jack Black to be “Jack Black” but unlike High Fidelity where Black was brilliant, he looks annoying here.

And yes, why the hell would anyone be okay with watching cheap remakes of movies.

Nah. I’ll pass on this piece of shit. But I might like the 20 minute version shot on video by a couple of video store geeks.

By: Megan

Megan — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 19:14:17 +0000

They very well might think we are that stupid. But more likely they were instructed to create a trailer that appeals to the Lowest Common Denominator. If you have any brains at all, marketing must be a bitch of a job.

By: Burbanked

Burbanked — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 11:46:26 +0000

Either that, Ray, or all of the approvers were lulled into a dopey sense of “wow this must be really cerebral filmmaking” by Gondry.

Now I will say that some of these contrivances could be overcome by good writing, but the foolishness just seems to stack up a bit high here.

By: Ray

Ray — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 04:23:50 +0000

EXACTLY, Doug!! That’s just what I wrote in my promotion piece for this article!!

This was one of those pitches that sounded great and caused it to be greenlit before anybody in the room had a chance to actually THINK about it.

By: DougJ

DougJ — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 02:40:56 +0000

It’s a cute idea for a movie but I can’t get past thinking how recreating the movies couldn’t be less expensive than just replacing the tapes. (not to mention all of the other stuff you mentioned)

By: Be Kind, Skip This | The Rec Show

Be Kind, Skip This | The Rec Show — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 02:19:37 +0000

[...] dear friend Alan at Burbanked left us with a noggin full of questions in this articleÂ about the upcoming feature film Be Kind Rewind.Â This pus-covered intestinal fluke stars Jack [...]