Sandra Bullock and Channing Tatum just seem like they belong together.
Here’s the 30-second TV spot:
And here’s the full Super Bowl trailer:
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Here’s The Trailer for Doctor Strange In The Multiverse of Madness
It’s Super Bowl Sunday, and that means we should be seeing a lot of ads for a lot of films. I’ll do my best to keep up with them here at the site!
Here is the new trailer for Doctor Strange: Multiverse of Madness!
My 2022 Super Bowl Prediction
Bengals 27
Rams 24
It’s hard for me to make a prediction when Tom Brady isn’t playing the game. This is a new situation for me but I guess it’s one that we’re all going to have to get used to. I don’t know much about either team but I’m going with the Bengals because I like Cincinnati more than Los Angeles. The Bengals achieving their first Super Bowl win would be the perfect ending for a season that few saw coming.
The Rams are fierce, though. They’ll put up a good fight. I think this game could go either way but I’m picking the Bengals.
8 Things That I Am Looking Forward To In February
Ah, February!
February is usually one of my favorite months of the year. Not only do we usually have a lot of Oscar scenarios to which to look forward but it’s also the month of Valentine’s Day! This is the month of love, people! Admittedly, pre-COVID, this was also the month when I would usually take my vacation and get out of town for a while. My vacation’s going to be a little bit later this year, though.
What am I looking forward to this month? Well, there’s always a chance of snow! Of course, last year, it snowed in February and we ended up going without power for a week. That was a difficult time for a lot of people down here in Texas. It really wasn’t that difficult for me, though. I kind of enjoyed the snow. Even without the lights, I could still read a book late at night because of the light reflecting off of all the snow. That was kind of fun. But I should probably be careful about admitting that too loudly.
Anyway, here are eight things to which I am looking forward in February! What are you looking forward to? Let me know in the comments and maybe I’ll send some snow your way. (And by snow, you mean cocaine, right? No, I mean metaphorical snow. Wait a minute, who am I talking to?)
- The Oscar Nominations
The Oscar nominations will finally be announced on February 8th! With any luck, I will be posting my personal nominations on the 7th. I have a lot of movies left to watch and I know I’m probably going to miss out on a few because there’s only so many hours during the day. That sucks but I’m going to do my best, I promise.
2. The Winter Olympics
Am I looking forward to the Olympics? On the one hand, I am because I’m love ice skating and curling and all of that good stuff. On the other hand, I’m like, “This is the most problematic Olympics of my lifetime.” I know that some people believe that we should have totally boycotted the Olympics this year. I don’t agree with that because that wouldn’t accomplish much beyond punishing our athletes. Instead, as a proud Irish-Italian-Spanish-American, I will be cheering on all of our athletes, even the really obnoxious ones and I will also be hoping that the coverage of the games will be honest when discussing why they are so controversial this year.
3. Death on the Nile
Speaking of controversy ….. Death on the Nile is finally getting released! First, it was delayed by COVID. Then it was delayed by Armie Hammer. I’m just curious to see how it does at the box office. Personally, I like the idea of Kenneth Branagh playing Poirot and solving murders. To me, it’s interesting that he directed this film before Belfast but it’ll be opening at a time when it’s success or failure could effect Belfast’s Oscar campaign.
4. Cyrano
Cyrano is apparently going to finally get a wide release on February 25th. I guess the hope is that it’ll pick up some Oscar nominations and, when it opens, everyone will be like, “Finally! We can see what the Academy is so excited about!” I hate platform releases but I’m still looking forward to finally seeing Cyrano.
5. Marry Me
This looks like the best romantic comedy of 2004! Seriously, sometimes you see a trailer for a movie that is so destined to be bad that you just have to watch it.
6. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
My Marry Me comments apply here as well, except for the romantic comedy part. Don’t worry. If this latest reboot/sequel doesn’t work, they’ll just try again in 2024. Many years ago, someone got mad at me because I pointed out that no one would care about a Vermont Chainsaw Massacre. I stand by that opinion.
7. Super Bowl Sunday
Yes, I watched a bit of football in January. It was an experiment to see if I could get into the sport. It turns out that I can’t. But I’m still looking forward to the Super Bowl commercials and the trailers and the tweets! Always, the tweets….
8. Valentine’s Day
I love Valentine’s Day and I never quite get the bitterness that it seems to inspire in some people. Of course, I don’t think I’ve ever been single on Valentine’s Day, either.
As for what I’m not looking forward to in February …. the return of Celebrity Big Brother. Ugh. I’ll watch it but that doesn’t mean I’m looking forward to it.
Here’s The Super Bowl Spot for Nobody!
Somehow, last night, I missed the Super Bowl spot for Nobody. Then again, I also somehow also missed the streaker running across the field. I was probably busy jotting down notes about the commercials that I had just seen. Who knows? It was a strange night.
Anyway, here’s the Super Bowl spot for Nobody!
Bob Odenkirk, action star! That’s kind of a strange idea but I guess it could happen. Bryan Cranston went from doing comedy to doing heavy drama. John Krasinski is another example. Watching The Office, you would never expect to see Jim Halpert blowing away the bad guys but that’s exactly what happened. Of course, it looks like there’s going to be a lot of humor to go along with all of the action in this film so I guess that’s good. Eventually, someone will cast Bob Odenkirk in one of those grim and depressing cop films where he’s like an alcoholic who spends all of his time looking at old case files and searching for that one clue that will put the murderer away. I fully support the right of Bob Odenkirk to do new and different things!
My Top 6 Super Bowl Commercials
Let’s just admit that the Super Bowl was weird this year.
I’m not talking about the game. To be honest, I could really hardly care less about the game. When it comes to winners and losers, I’m one of those people who wishes that both teams could win. I think the coach of the winning team should let the losing team score a touchdown so that no one’s feelings get hurt. I worry about concussions, broken ankles, and compound fractures. I can handle some of the most graphic zombie films ever made but football just freaks me the fug out.
Instead, I’m one of those people who watches for the commercials and this year, the commercials were odd. I guess that’s to be understood, all things considered. But even when you take into account the pandemic and the general sappiness of modern American culture, the commercials felt weak. There were a lot of inspirational commercials. Bruce Springsteen gave a two-minute monologue about America while sitting in a jeep. There was a Ford commercial about how we’re all in this together or something like that. The beer commercials were less surly and more cringey this year. There were a lot of commercials with celebrities where the whole joke seemed to be, “Hey, look! A celebrity!”
There were precious few commercials for any upcoming movies or TV shows. In fact, there were four. FOUR! Every previous year, I’ve worked myself to a beautiful exhaustion trying to keep up with all the movies being advertised during the big game. This year, I wrote a few — very few — words about Coming 2 America, Old, The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, and Raya and the Last Dragon.
Anyway, with all that in mind — here are 6 commercials that I did enjoy. I don’t know if it’s right for me to say that any of these really qualify as a “favorite” because I really didn’t have any favorites this year. But, the important thing is that I enjoyed the commercials below.
6) Edgar Scissorhands — Cadillac
I guess Edward is dead or something? Because Edward’s definitely not in this commercial. I can only assume that he died or he moved to Paris and was later judged to be too problematic to be invited back to appear with his son. Well, regardless, this is a cute commercial. I wouldn’t necessarily say it’s a good commercial because people are going to remember Edgar on the bus more than they’re going to remember the Cadillac but still, it was nice.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nO4AOxyPzmE
5) Adam Levine Sets Up Gwen Stefani and Blake Shelton — T-Mobile
But if not for the spotty network, Gwen and Blake never would have gotten together! Oh well. What matters is that Gwen and Blake are a cute couple.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxllNfjYw2U
4) Jason Alexander Hoodie — Tide
This was actually kind of a disturbing commercial but then again, I like the idea of clothing that screams at you.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YvjuL6Bci6M
3) Doritos — Flat Matthew McConaughey
It was weird enough to work.
2) Alexa — Michael B. Jordan
It was sexy enough to work.
This made my night. This ad was short. It wasn’t pretentious. It didn’t pretend that it was going to bring America together. It didn’t feature Bruce Springsteen doing his Kerouac imitation. Instead, it popped up for five seconds, it freaked a lot of people out, and it kind of gave the finger to the whole silly culture that’s sprung up around Super Bowl advertising. That was brilliant. (Considering that Reddit has now become the favorite scapegoat of the establishment, I applaud them for raising their profile as opposed to just meekly waiting for the storm to pass.)
Reddit wins the night! And, just in case the above video gets taken off of YouTube for some reason, here’s the ad:
The Shattered Lens Live Tweets Super Bowl Sunday!
Today was probably the most low-key Super Bowl Sunday is the history of the Shattered Lens.
The reasons for that are fairly obvious. The Super Bowl is tradition. It’s something that people look forward to as a sign of normalcy and continuity. Some people care about the game. Some people care about the commercials. But the main thing is that the Super Bowl is always there and it’s always a big deal. This year, though, was different.
For one thing, the commercials were different. Usually, we struggle to keep up with all of the movie advertisements but this year, there were only four to share. For another things, no one really had a team in the game. Jeff was excited about Tom Brady winning another Super Bowl. Leonard wanted anyone but Brady to win. But it’s not like anyone here at the TSL is a huge fan of either Kansas City or Tampa Bay.
So, it was a subdued Super Bowl Sunday. Everyone observed it in their own way:
In the end, the team that score the most points won so congratulations to them! Here’s hoping that next year’s Super Bowl’s commercials will be a little bit more memorable.
Congratulations To The Super Bowl Champion Tampa Bay Buccaneers!
The Super Bowl just ended and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers have won their 2nd Super Bowl! Tom Brady has won his seventh. Though the Chiefs scored first with a field goal, there was never really any doubt as to who was going to win the Lombardi Trophy. As soon as I saw Tom Brady’s face after the Chiefs got those three points, I knew he was going to be unstoppable.
The final score was 31 to 9. Though the Chiefs may have fallen short, Patrick Mahomes showed that he is the quarterback of the future. He’s scary good. He may not have won tonight but he’ll definitely get another chance to win his second super bowl.
For now, though, the Buccaneers are your Super Bowl champions and Tom Brady has added another chapter to an already amazing career. Congratulations, Tampa Bay!
Here’s The Super Bowl Spot For Coming 2 America!
We finally got another movie-related Super Bowl spot!
Here’s the Super Bowl promo for Coming 2 America!
Coming 2 America premiers on Prime on March 5th.
Here’s The Super Bowl Promo For Raya And The Last Dragon!
There haven’t been that many movie spots during this Super Bowl. It’s a shame but I guess it’s to be expected, given the current state of theaters and studios and everything else. During the first half, we saw trailers and commercials for Old, The Falcon and The Winter Soldier, and this very brief one for Raya and the Last Dragon:
It’s a short commercial but …. hey, it looks cute! I’ll watch it when it comes out.
Through the Shattered Lens 