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December 15 2005

Trailer for Summer Glau's new movie, Mammoth. Under Current Projects, then Mammoth. Thanks to Andy for the heads up. Be warned, you may laugh out loud when you see this (not meaning to be mean... Just - watch it!).

gossi | Cast&Crew | 03:01 CET | 20 comments total | tags: mammoth invasion, a very funny movie trailer, summer glau

Well, it is regularly described as a "sci-fi comedy."

theonetruebix | December 15, 03:05 CET

Oh, exactly. "We have an alien mammoth on the loose, and if we don't stop it the government are going to kill us all" is probably my favourite trailer line ever.

gossi | December 15, 03:08 CET

I love Summer's wicked grin and her embarrassment after her character kicks that guy. Heh heh. This looks much better than some other sci-fi comedies (say it with me: "Evolution", bleh).

chickenbird | December 15, 03:13 CET

I liked Evolution. Well...I liked Stifler. Mostly just Stifler.

SpikeBad | December 15, 03:16 CET

This might give Snakes on a Plane a run for its money.

Xkot | December 15, 03:21 CET

It's good to see that the tradition of the really cheesy Sci Fi channel movies is continuing.

Simon | December 15, 03:29 CET

Was a bit worried when I saw the director's previous credits were called Alien Lockdown and Larva. But the trailer looks kind of fun, in an extremely silly way. Sort of Men in Black Meet the Prehistoric Elephant. And I liked that shot that parodied the much-referenced shaking glass of water from Jurassic Park by having dentures in it (I didn't imagine that, did I?). Plus always nice to see Tom Skerritt.

And I agree with chickenbird; Evolution was just dreadful.

Special Agent Dale Cooper | December 15, 03:30 CET

Is this the quality project Summer was holding out for?

KBP | December 15, 04:33 CET

Summer Glau and Vincent Ventresca, the Invisible Man, in the same movie! Aaiee! I'm actually going to watch a silly made-for-the-SciFi-Channel movie!

zencat | December 15, 04:38 CET

Me too!

nemo | December 15, 04:49 CET

You're right, gossi - I did laugh out loud. Still, I'll watch it 'cos my pal Summer's in it.

m'cookies actual | December 15, 04:53 CET

I think you were MEANT to laugh out loud, but that could just be me. Deliberate cheese rocks.

zeitgeist | December 15, 05:33 CET

So in the preview, they say they are looking for Sherrif Marion Morrison, isn't that John Wayne's real name (not the "Sherrif" part, of course). I guess I'm just a fan of westerns, but then, many of us on this site are in one way or another, I suppose.

Anna von Ovonov | December 15, 07:21 CET

Good catch, Anna Von Ovonov.

zeitgeist | December 15, 07:51 CET

Yep. My dad, Marion Morrison Marks was named after good ol' John Wayne.

Knickname? Red. Red Marks. Try going through kidhood with that moniker. Oh well, better than "Marion" I guess...

Willowy | December 15, 08:10 CET

Yay for Summer and all the silliness. This has been billed all along as a comedy. I'm guessing it is an attempt at the Airplane of Scifi.

TamaraC | December 15, 10:28 CET

So, John Wayne's real name was Marion; I knew that, but just realised you can remove four letters and you wind up with the hero of Canton! Is this charming coincidence old news?

On topic- looking forward to the mammoth laughs.

Gemini Webster | December 15, 11:22 CET

Looks like it might be kinda funny. Parts of the trailer were hilarious. I kept laughing uncontrollably at the "alien mammoth" bits.

Kris | December 15, 11:23 CET

Well, I'm gonna have an open mind here. Atleast it looks like it's better than recent crap feast like Darklight, Slipstream and Groom Lake. Not gonna give up on it just because of an... dare I say it... an alien freak mammoth.

Edit: Just noticed that this is the studio behing Alien Lockdown and that movie was atleast standable (not anywhere close to good though). And this time around it seems like they're gonna have a talented cast aswell, something that Alien Lockdown really wasn't blessed with.

[ edited by Djungelurban on 2005-12-15 11:04 ]

Djungelurban | December 15, 13:01 CET

There is a time and place for silly, and that is now and here!

redfern | December 16, 17:04 CET

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