Grown Up Gossip & Internet Villainy
At its essence, Back to the Future had a real Oedipus complex going on.
While Marty McFly tries to shake off his mother’s advances, she luridly forces her son to breaking point before sticking her tongue down his throat. Only in the ’80s, eh?
Well, actually that’s exactly the same sort of lows that the Hot Tub Time Machine mines for comedy in this ’80s throwback.
You know what’s great about the ’80s? John Cusack, that’s what. You know what’s also great about the ’80s? Back to the Future.
Well great Scott! They’ve only gone and put the two together in some bawdy romp about sex, rock and floppy haircuts. Hot Tub Time Machine takes a look at the radical decade where wives of film stars didn’t tell everyone that they’re husbands were smacking them around. Nostalgia, eh?
Roland Emmerich (Independence Day, The Day After Tomorrow) ushers in another wave of pixel-powered doom, this time wiping out our collective brain cells with his latest movie of mass destruction.
2012 is one of those happy movies; on one hand, serving up a doom-laden prophecy of global annihilation and, on the other, making you utterly resent the characters who survived to rebuild mankind.
The plot can be summed up by an apt analogy; akin to spreading a tiny knife-edge?s worth of butter over a mile of (computer-generated) toast. When the onslaught of global obliteration begins, the plot really is a series of people avoiding cars/buildings/comets/water/dialogue to survive until the next scene.
William Shakespeare once wrote, “What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.” And what better way to start a look at the trailer for a movie called Hot Tub Time Machine than a quote from The Bard of Avon?
But what is in a name? I don't know about you, but if there isn't some sort of chronology-altering device whose primary function is the storage of heated water for recreational relaxation therapy, I'm going to be extremely disappointed by this trailer. Let’s decode it…
It has been a long time coming but the highly-anticipated 2012 trailer has finally been released to the public with much critical and fan adoration.
Following on from the popular trailers for Independence Day, The Day After Tomorrow and Godzilla, Roland Emmerich proves that nobody is directing trailers with the same panache and reckless abandon for US monuments quite like the German trailer auteur.
Set in the not too distant future, the trailer for 2012 tells the story of a desperate families struggle to survive around the apocalypse. John Cusack stars as the father struggling to re-unite his broken family and save their lives from certain doom in this electrifying trailer performance.
If you ever want to spook out John Cusack, why not write a love letter, sign it 'Emily Leatherman', pop it in a bag of screwdrivers and throw it at him?
Because that's what John Cusack's stalker did, and she was hit with a 500ft restraining order for her troubles. Not that she stuck to it, though – Emily Leatherman was arrested again on Sunday for getting too close to John Cusack's home.
Honestly Emily Leatherman has to be John Cusack's number one fan to get herself in so much trouble just to meet him. In fact, we'd wager that Emily Leatherman loves John Cusack so much that she's watched Serendipity more times than anyone else on Earth. So twice, then.
