About four million people sent me this tip in the last two hours, and deservedly so--this incredible fan-made trailer for a Thundercats movie is awesome on several levels. It does look great, and it's very well edited, which already puts it above most fan videos. But--and it took me a second to realize this, sadly--but the trailer is assembled entirely from footage of other movies, photoshopped with incredible skill to transform Brad Pitt from Troy, Vin Diesel from the Riddick movies, and Hugh Jackman as Wolverine into Lion-O, Panthro and Tygra, respectively. They all look incredible, as do the spy Kids as WilyKit and WilyKat, and the CG Garfield as Snarf.
Even more impressively--and how good the trailer looks is pretty goddamned impressive already--creator WormyT managed to grab sound clips of the actors saying appropriately Thundercatty things, but even assemble clips to make it sound like Diesel and Jackman are saying "Lion-O." Frankly, even if a real Thundercats movie ever, ever gets made, it will never, never look even half as good as this trailer.
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Lo Pan said:
Oh good! Yet another fan trailer that's better than anything Hollywood could come up with. Snarf frickin snarf...
Matt D. said:
Easily the best fake trailer ever. I guess the horrible economy leaving skilled people jobless has one benefit...
Garyx said:
I can only dream they could make such an awesome movie.
I mean, lazyness has produced the most awesome things you can imagine.
I mean it. Do you think I could own a USB fridge if it wasn´t for lazyness?
Anonymous said:
A very impressive effort. When a potential movie was announced, I thought a live action effort would be impossible but this shows me that it could actually be done. The actors look fine with the CG "makeup", especially Diesel.
Teagan Blackthorne said:
Don't I wish! Sadly, you are right about the real deal not looking half as good as this.
mxyzplk said:
That is so bad ass. If they "hid" the source scenes a little more (like maybe changing the color palette of the LotR "eye" in the Sword of Omens) you could even maybe not notice the scene-steals!
They should just take this trailer and say "OK, let's make the rest of the movie to fit this."
andrew said:
it's awesome up until the point where they have a disclaimer that says they made the movie as a technical excercise and "for a laughs". :-|
Jason Allen said:
That was completley awesome, and I HATE the ThunderCats.
Mike said:
My favorite part is Snarfield,
McTool said:
Regrettably, the FFF from two weeks ago is still seared onto my brain, preventing me from enjoying this.
bob said:
I think i came a little
Halfazedninja said:
Was Cheetara Daphnie from Heroes?
windy said:
Nah, Cheetara's Chiana from Farscape.
Jay said:
I've never watched a fake trailer so many times. The one thing I'd love to see Vin Diesel do, and it's not even real. Sad.
PrfktTear said:
Wow...
Now the true test, who can name all the movies they stole scenes from! ;-)
Kurono K said:
This is all sorts of graphical wow.
Yakko said:
I love how they kick the whole thing off with the "He chose poorly" Crusader from "Last Crusade."
Brillant. And it managed to get me excited about a Vin Deisel movie.
Friginator said:
This looks great! When does it come out again?
HELLO said:
What the hell? You guys are kidding, right? This is like those sad fuckers who photoshop super hero costumes on swimsuit models, except it moves and talks and sucks more.
First of all, anyone who thinks this is cool and wants a real Thundercats movie needs to remember they aren't eleven years old anymore.
Second, even if it was a real trailer and all those people were really in it, that movie looks like it would suck. You people pan that live-action Dragonball shit for being gay and generic, but then you cream your collective pants over this? The only difference between this "trailer" and the Dragonball trailer is that somehow, through the grace of God, nobody has actually tried to make a shitty Thundercats movie yet.
Hypersapien said:
HELLO,
Why are you even on this site? Do you honestly not have anything better to do than take joy away from other people?
Kay said:
I get the feeling HELLO up there was mauled by a cat when he was very young and bears some pretty deep emotional scars about it.
It's a silly (yet totally awesome) fake trailer. Allow us our fun.
Anonymous said:
Dude lion-o in this trailer is Brad Pitt from Troy not Hugh Jackman, nice try. Oh I guess you were screwing with by being that inacurate funny.
Jason said:
He said "Brad Pitt from Troy, Vin Diesel from the Riddick movies, and Hugh Jackman as Wolverine into Lion-O, Panthro and Tygra, respectively"
That means in the order listed
Hater of Anonymous said:
yeah "anonymous" you think your being funny by being inaccurate. Who says "Oh I guess you were screwing with by being that inacurate funny."
JiffyBag said:
That is the coolest thing I have ever seen. Not really including boobs though. Those are pretty cool too.
Anonymous said:
Awesometown! Too bad the creator of this trailer doesn't have a life!
Anonymous said:
ok here are the list of movies those scenes were taken from that i could identify i'll list em as they appear in the trailer in order
the chronicles of riddick
farscape
pitch black
troy
x men 3
spy kids
garfield the movie
underworld
aliens
if i missed a movie seen it is cause i could not identify it
cheers n i enjoyed the trailer but good thing the talks of the movie is that they are doing it in cgi
cheers n seeya :)
Anonymous said:
i am blessed NO i am freeking mad that they think they can take a classic toon and turn it in to somthing better HELLO DO YOU HAVE BRAINS
