Help finding a MeFi SLYT FPP

July 13, 2010 2:48 AM

Well, I give up. I've been trying to find a MeFi post about a super-violent testosterone soaked movie trailer- was it a real movie, even? I don't recall- for the last few weeks, but I'm coming up empty. Surely someone remembers the FPP?

My computer is old, reeeeeally old, and until just recently I haven't been able to watch anything with a frame rate greater than 3 per second. I'm catching up on memes now. The slyt I'm thinking of had sort of a 70's look, w/ one mullety guy fighting all comers. The FPP was worded oddly, IIRC, and my search-fu is failing me. Anyone know what I'm typing about?

posted by biddeford to MetaFilter-Related at 2:48 AM (34 comments total)

A Cinco De Mayo message to Arizona: Machete?
posted by artlung at 3:01 AM on July 13, 2010 [2 favorites]

Was it an Indian guy?
posted by doublehappy at 3:03 AM on July 13, 2010

This?
posted by doublehappy at 3:08 AM on July 13, 2010 [1 favorite]

This, even.
posted by doublehappy at 3:12 AM on July 13, 2010

I know what you're talking about it was a real movie. It was posted here, maybe in a comment? I can't find it, just wanted to confirm you weren't hallucinating (about this anyways).
posted by marxchivist at 4:02 AM on July 13, 2010

I think maybe this?
posted by smoke at 4:12 AM on July 13, 2010

Could it have been this one? It links to Everything is Terrible's post on the b-movie "Deadly Prey".
posted by micketymoc at 4:23 AM on July 13, 2010 [3 favorites]

It's awesome how many of these posts are coming out of the woodwork... got myself a nice little youtube playlist lined up now.
posted by doublehappy at 4:34 AM on July 13, 2010

By the way, I see that the trailer of Machete was pulled from youtube by 20th Fox. How does this even make sense? Do trailers have some raison d' etre other than publicity for a film that I don't know of and/or can be monetised? Genuinely curious.

P.S. I'm so watching Machete when it comes out.
posted by ersatz at 4:51 AM on July 13, 2010

These are so awesome!

You might also want to check out Concrete TV, which I grew up with in NYC. NEVER HARD ENOUGH.
posted by Admiral Haddock at 5:49 AM on July 13, 2010

This?

Sample comment: "That was pretty weak until he slapped that guy six times with a severed arm and then cried while he scalped him. THEN I KNEW IT WAS ON."
posted by vapidave at 6:18 AM on July 13, 2010 [3 favorites]

Oh man vapidave that was teh awesome. Anyway, is it possible that you are looking for the thing about the little girl that kills people?
posted by Mister_A at 7:27 AM on July 13, 2010

Let's just make this thread about awesomely and pointlessly violent movies:

Versus.
posted by empath at 7:30 AM on July 13, 2010

I once linked a comically violent movie. What have you done for Metafilter?
posted by Burhanistan at 7:33 AM on July 13, 2010

By the way, I see that the trailer of Machete was pulled from youtube by 20th Fox. How does this even make sense? Do trailers have some raison d' etre other than publicity for a film that I don't know of and/or can be monetised? Genuinely curious.

The trailer was actually fake, and not really representative of the movie. Rodriguez mashed together bits from the fake trailer from grindhouse and the actual movie to make a commentary on the new Arizona law. It was never intended to be a real trailer for the movie, and I don't think he expected it to get the amount of attention it did.
posted by empath at 7:36 AM on July 13, 2010

> Rodriguez mashed together bits from the fake trailer from grindhouse and the actual movie to make a commentary on the new Arizona law. It was never intended to be a real trailer for the movie

You're breaking my heart. He'd better go reshoot that thing then and deliver on the goods as promised.
posted by Burhanistan at 7:37 AM on July 13, 2010

Dead/Alive (from the Academy Award winning director - Peter Jackson) (warning: Over the top gore)
posted by empath at 7:38 AM on July 13, 2010

Super-violent testosterone soaked movie trailer? It must be The Expendables. I don't see a post though.
posted by rtimmel at 7:59 AM on July 13, 2010

He'd better go reshoot that thing then and deliver on the goods as promised.

Here's the real trailer. I have no worries about this being good.

I mean, it seems pretty clear that if you were to cut this movie open, it would bleed pure awesome.
posted by quin at 8:06 AM on July 13, 2010

micketymoc!!! And vapidave!1! At last, I'll get to see a man use the severed arm of his foe to beat down that very foe. My day has been made, thank you both.
posted by biddeford at 9:09 AM on July 13, 2010

Is it the Rambo trailer where he turns a guy into hamburger with an anti-aircraft gun?
posted by cowbellemoo at 9:52 AM on July 13, 2010

> Is it the Rambo trailer where he turns a guy into hamburger with an anti-aircraft gun?

It was a .50 machine gun, but yeah.
posted by Burhanistan at 9:55 AM on July 13, 2010

It was a .50 machine gun, but yeah.

Lets just split the difference and call it . . . Hamburger Helper.
posted by cowbellemoo at 10:15 AM on July 13, 2010

Oh crap! I totally missed the Deadly Prey trailer post! I was in another, more recent David Prior film (Zombie Wars), and it was a blast—better than Deadly Prey in every way. Less misogyny, better effects, "better" dialogue and "better" plot.
posted by infinitewindow at 10:40 AM on July 13, 2010

Well, not a trailer, exactly, and the violence is frozen. But pretty awesome nonetheless. Carousel.
posted by umberto at 12:03 PM on July 13, 2010

Less misogyny, better effects, "better" dialogue and "better" plot.

I hope this was the poster copy.
posted by empath at 1:23 PM on July 13, 2010

Ah ha ha, from Deadly Prey's YT page: "The special effects budget was so low that they had to actually shoot people. "
posted by rhizome at 2:36 PM on July 13, 2010

was it "a serbian film"?
posted by slater at 2:39 PM on July 13, 2010

The trailer was actually fake, and not really representative of the movie. Rodriguez mashed together bits from the fake trailer from grindhouse and the actual movie to make a commentary on the new Arizona law. It was never intended to be a real trailer for the movie, and I don't think he expected it to get the amount of attention it did.

Thanks!

I'd still see that version of the movie.
posted by ersatz at 3:28 PM on July 13, 2010

Gah. micketymoc had it two hours before I did. I swear I moused over the links before I posted.

Proof I'm an idiot at 6:18 in the blessed AM.
posted by vapidave at 4:24 PM on July 13, 2010

Mortal Kombat Rebirth (it's not real yet)
posted by mad bomber what bombs at midnight at 6:08 PM on July 13, 2010

Oh, now that we found the awesome movie trailer biddeford was looking for, I have a request.

In a comment in some Lady Gaga thread (I think we have those on Metafilter), someone linked to a page that endlessly repeated the "Ga Ga Ooh La La" opening of Bad Romance. Anyone know where that thing is? I haven't had any luck searching Metafilter or the wider world web.
posted by marxchivist at 6:34 PM on July 13, 2010

Here ya go, marxchivist.
posted by biddeford at 11:36 AM on July 14, 2010

Thanks, I was wondering if anybody read the threads down here.
posted by marxchivist at 3:11 PM on July 14, 2010