Try this out, blogolytes:

Which movie would you rather see?

A.  Movie A is really super terrific!
B.  Movie B is a shit-ass-fucking good!

Presto, you’re knocking back Milk Duds at a screening of Movie B, wondering how they sucked you into a film with such a crappy title.  It’s simple: People like you better when you swear at them.

Which brings us to the R-rated (red band) trailer, showcasing all the kaka-jokes, cussin’ and boobies in a movie in an effort to goad us to into watching it.  First employed by 99's American Pie, the current viral boom has caused a red band renaissance of late.  Knocked Up was the first to get it right, and the Atapow camp followed with an excellent red band for Superbad this past summer.

Now it seems everyone wants in on the action.  A new red band hit the web this week for the upcoming Harold and Kumar movie, and the always pathetic Dane Cook has thrown his hat in the ring with the preview for Good Luck Chuck.  (You can download it here.  It’s a 70 MB file and entirely not worth the trouble.)  The format favours comedies, but why stop there?  The Coen brothers stitched together this mildly interesting clip for No Country for Old Men, while Zemeckis is offering up this trailer for Beowulf, mostly to give us a better look at Angelina Jolie’s jugs.

So am I going to see Movie B?  No, and I’ll tell you why:  Movie A has a semen joke in it that’s not in the commercial, so I gots to spend 14 dollars on that!

Have a happy Friday, and a somewhat amusing weekend,
Reggie.