TDS Time Machine | Summer Blockbusters
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What does Stephen Colbert think about movie trailers?
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Welcome back to the program. This past Sunday was a banner day for fans of the Star Wars series. As Fox aired the first glimpse of the latest installment of the saga, Attack of the Clones.
We must stop them before they're ready.
Beginning this Cold War has. Joining us now, our resident expert in all things science fiction, Stephen Colbert. Stephen, you've worked with Bradbury, with Huxley, understudied many of them. What did you think of this particular trailer? John, I loved it. The special effects were mind-blowing.
The editing was crisp. Jimmy Smits was in it. I don't want to tell you the ending, but what the heck.
I'll just show it to you.
How did Samuel L. Jackson feel about his character's evolution?
Your first chance to see the trailer for Star Wars.
Look at this.
Now for those of you who don't know how to read, they're telling you that this is the exact same trailer you can see this Friday during previews before the showing of the new Fox animated classic, Ice Age.
I have got to see that. Ice Age? No, the new Star Wars trailer. But it's... It's the same trailer you just saw on TV. Right, right, right.
But it's going to be on the big screen in a big theater. I can't impress upon you how the largeness of it will increase its size. You see, at home, I'm bigger than my TV.
But in a movie theater, the screen dwarfs me. The TV trailer has only whet my appetite. The feast is this Friday.
What insights does Sigourney Weaver share about Avatar?
So you're really looking forward to this movie? No. Did you not like episode one? No, I mean, I loved the trailer, but I heard the movie was terrible, you know?
It was like 133 minutes. I could watch 30 or 40 trailers during that same time.
You just like trailers? What's not to like, John? I mean, you've got the buttery-voiced narrator asking me to imagine a world where something happens, or every so often a film comes along that does something, you know? I love the excitement when the trailer is fun and upbeat, and then you hear that needle scratch, like, ah! And everything sort of stops, and then someone mugs for the camera, like, wah-wah-wah!
Or when someone's about to say a dirty word, then they cut to a tanker truck exploding like, suck my .
You know, that, that my friend, is trailertainment. It is, it is, it is. You don't like,
How does Lupita Nyong'o describe her experience in Star Wars?
Movies at all? I love movies, John. I just don't see why they have to be so long. You know, nobody walks out of trailers because they're perfect. In fact, there is nothing in this world that wouldn't be better in trailer form. I mean, take this Star Wars commentary, for instance. Wouldn't it have been a lot better if we had just done it like this?
In a world where one man loved it.
John, I loved it. Jimmy Smits was in it. He's about to get more than he bargained for. I'm pregnant.
Movies are just watered down trailers. The Stephen Colbert trailer commentary. Winner of the coveted bomb door.
What challenges did George Lucas face with Star Wars storytelling?
Suck my... Coming to The Daily Show three minutes ago. Welcome back. My guest tonight, an actor, his new film is called Captain America, The Winter Soldier. Please welcome back to the program, Samuel L. Jackson.
Samuel L. Jackson.
Soak it in. Soak it in. GM, baby. It's all about that, right? This is a continuing saga of the badassery... of Samuel. Thank you more more and more. These films. These characters have been around for 50 years.
Yeah, Nick Fury was around when I was a kid I used to read Nick Fury comic book, you know he was a white guy with a cigar in a patch.
How does the audience react to the new summer blockbusters?
Yes.
But then he became David Hasselhoff for a while, and then he became me. So the evolution of Nick Fury continues. It does indeed.
And may I say, it's been upgraded.
I believe.
I believe that Samuel L. Jackson is upgraded.
I'd like to feel that way, too.
But I almost wonder, you know, they were never able, the technology of movies was never at the advanced level that it is now that these superheroes could on screen really appear realistic and it could you could get the jolt I wonder if that's why it's only now that these movies are so big.
I think part of the technology and I also think part of it is the accessibility of what we're able to do as real people now you know when I was a kid, I would read a comic book and I would want to be in a world where you know that women walk around in tights with green hair and blue hair and sure folks had capes on and they were wearing boots and they call that Francisco.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What does Stephen Colbert think about movie trailers?
0:01–1:13
2
How did Samuel L. Jackson feel about his character's evolution?
1:13–1:58
3
What insights does Sigourney Weaver share about Avatar?
1:58–2:57
4
How does Lupita Nyong'o describe her experience in Star Wars?
2:57–3:47
5
What challenges did George Lucas face with Star Wars storytelling?
3:47–5:01
6
How does the audience react to the new summer blockbusters?
5:01–6:09
7
What comedic elements did Rob Riggle bring to the movie discussion?
6:09–6:54
8
What are the highlights of the summer movie season according to the hosts?
6:54–39:55
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