Mr. T, Winston from Ghostbusters, and prison boxing. You can’t lose. Although this trailer just shows everything that happens within the first ten minutes of the movie, it’s a pretty awesome exploitation trailer nonetheless.
And yes, there’s a Penitentiary 3, where our hero Too Sweet fights an albino villain named Serengeti and a crack-smoking dwarf.
Yep, we went and made a weekly feature for this here blog, “Trailer Tuesdays.” Perhaps we were inspired by Paul Scheer’s tweet about “White Dog,” the unreleased 1982 movie about the racist dog that kills people, or we were lazy and noticed that “trailer” and “Tuesday” both started with a T and thus was a great idea.
Either way, it feels really necessary to comment on the latest “movie as its own punchline” that’s hitting theaters soon, “Hot Tub Time Machine.”
Much like “Snakes On A Plane,” “Hot Tub Time Machine’s” title is it’s own joke, a thin concept seemingly made for Twittering and online laughs. Although lacking the bizarre “crowd-sourced” element of “SOAP’s” famous line, “Hot Tub Time Machine” appears to have a veritable checklist of basic in-jokes in the trailer directed at the interests of internet denizens. 80’s jokes? Check. “Exclusive red band trailer?” Check. Former Daily Show correspondent? Check.
If there’s any case for the argument that the Internet is making us dumber, it’s this movie. Not that it’s the fault of the Internet, but when scriptwriters can gauge their literary successes with Tweetability, the future’s not looking bright for Hollywood.
On a related note, who keeps signing John Cusack up for crap like this? First it was “2012,” where he took a Nicholas Cage-ready shitpile, and now this. It’s like he lost a bet with his friends that he couldn’t move to C-list roles in less than a year.