If someone had told me that Hollywood was making a Where's Waldo film, I would have shook my head belittlingly, had a stiff drink, and lumped it with all the other movies or non-premises like Battleship, Candyland, and whatnot. But this trailer, made by Joshua Poley, has made me a believer.I don't want any Where's Waldo movie, but I want THIS Where's Waldo movie. And I want it bad and I want it now.
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Already did. And College Humor's "Where the Fuck Is Carmen Sandiego" was much funnier. They played it completely straight.
Wow.I always pictured a "Where's Waldo?" movie as a dumb-ass comedy with Owen Wilson or something, not as an action/political thriller. :D
The Nun fighting the Ninja is what ultimately got me to turn my grin into a laugh.
I feel like this would have been about ten times better if they didn't ham it up so much and actually played it seriously. Ah well, students projects are what they are.
that was great.
my favorite, for it's subtlety, was:"does this mean he's close?""no it's just something else we're supposed to look for."
Wait.. They're making it so the movie is actually the origin of his nemesis Odlaw? Why not just have the characters already in play. That's stupid. That'd be as dumb as making a GI Joe movie about the rise of Cobra! Hollywood would never be that dumb.
Ha ha...Gotta love how they managed to fit in seemingly every major bit of Where's Waldo? mythology. ^_^
Also, that sniper scene was priceless, especially seeing the ninjas & convicts he clearly let escape as well.
Agreed. I've seen other videos handle Waldo himself better, but none of them included the extra characters or the general feeling of the pictures.
Well I would watch this! Although Rob I think you are being too hard on these premises being hard to make real movies. I mean Look at Hugh Jackman just finishing his, "Rockem Sockem Robots" movie....What? It's called Real Steel? Really?
Yeah, but in our hearts, we still all know it's Rock 'em Sock 'em Robots... they're not fooling anyone and no one can take that away from us. :)
Actually, another example that sticks out.
Harry Potter and the Philosoper's Stone => Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone.
I don't even like Harry Potter, yet that irritates me. The two word's mean different things, they aren't interchangeable...
Anyway, now I have that off my chest, we return you to your usual programming.
Seconded.
It baffles me. If something is US in origin, the UK tends to keep the title.
Where as UK (and other countries) seem to end up with different title in the US for no apparent reason.
Wally => WaldoThe Magic Roundabout => Doogal (which makes even less sense as the character is Dougal)Farenheit => Indigo ProphecyAny number of books => Different US title.
Why?
