>> ^Popo:
Who's the stupid airhead that made these special effects?
You can have all the superpowers in the world, it doesn't mean you can violate basic physics like inertia and lever principles.
I mean c'mon I'm fine with flying (affects only himself) but it doesn't matter if you fall 1000 feet onto concrete or an outstretched arm, you still stop in about one inch.
Is it too much to ask?


SHUT THE FUCK UP!
It's a superhero movie!
SUPER FUCKING HERO!

SHOVE IT UP YOUR ASS!

>> ^Abel_Prisc:
This trailer just explained the ENTIRE plot of the movie...


While this is unfortunately true, this trailer has made me want to see the movie now, whereas the first teaser was: ....? Meh.

But I do agree, trailers need to much more structured to 1) not give away every funny joke written into the movie and 2) not give away the entire plot structure.

Even if the movie is supposed to be dark, this trailer isn't, really. It's up to DFT, of course, but just my $0.02.

And by the way, even though the execs struggled with the ratings board, it's still going to be PG-13.

>> ^bamdrew:
According to an interview I read with the producers this teaser trailer was made to emphasize the comedy in what is actually a very dark movie, a tactic that calmed nervous production company execs.
For example, the original story apparently had Handcock getting drunk with a 12 year old and doing other more junk that was pretty beyond anti-hero.

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Seen everyone here perform live except for Freddy Hubbard-Hancock was sort of a house pianist for a lot of folks recording during Blue Note's peak-mid 50s to late 60s-

Letterman, Herbie Hancock, and Tiny Tim, too-Happy B-day Dagmar....

still not impressed with HD youtube.
http://www.apple.com/trailers/sony_pictures/hancock/hd/

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For more on Kaziah Hancock and Project Compassion Soldier Fund:

http://www.kaziahthegoatwoman.com/

Rockit, by Herbie Hancock would have been a good choice for background music.

Nah, I suspect he's entirely computer based, with only one really nice MIDI keyboard. But Herbie is always on the cutting edge. 5 years ago, I attended a demo of the future of surround music, and the main piece was by Herbie Hancock...in 10.2 channel surround.

Huh? Worst green screen? When this was made, it defined the state of the art in both green screen and music videos. Charlex, the company that made this, did a lot of work in this style including the opening for a number of seasons of Saturday Night Live. This was long before digital video editing, so they had to run a dozen analog 1" videotape machines at the same time to produce all these layers, and used a pair of the biggest video switchers made to key it all together.

Try to view things in context please. Yes, you could reproduce it on a home PC now (though it would still require a bit of rendering), but at the time it was an amazing achievement. It won "Video of the Year" over Michael Jackson's "Thriller" and Herbie Hancock's "Rockit".

that's good work!

music: "watermelon man" by herbie hancock.

the same boy, even younger, playing with bubbles.

Herbie Hancock always gets an up from me!

Ugh. Couldn't watch it past the first few seconds.
That kind of stutter-editing went out with Herbie Hancock's "Rockit".