In one of the least-convincing Internet hoaxes since a certain Nigerian prince sent a message of an “urgent, private” nature, a video purporting to be the teaser trailer for The Flash made the rounds last week.
There are a few dead giveaways, not the least of which is that it looks terrible beyond even Roger Corman’s Fantastic Four, or Legends of the Superheroes. Another tell is the preface that attests the trailer was shown before a “private screening” of Watchmen. (While footage of the Zack Snyder movie has been shown to journalists around the country, none of the reports mention anything about The Flash teaser.)
And did I mention the teaser is god-awful? It’s so bad that Defamer asks for a moratorium on “dorm-room exercises masquerading as official teasers.”
“Your mastery of Windows MovieMaker is impressive, but seriously, enough.”
I think they’re being kind, though.
October 27th, 2008 at 12:19 pm
Hahaha…or maybe Hollywood wasn’t lying about the recession based budget cut backs we’re going to see next year?
October 27th, 2008 at 3:08 pm
I’m gonna do what I always do and rebel against the defamer.
I demand more fake trailers made to look like bootlegs.
October 27th, 2008 at 3:35 pm
I watched this without sound last week, and I hate to say it, but it’s actually better that way.
Oddly enough, it seems to be whetting the appetites of at least some fans to see a Flash movie.
October 27th, 2008 at 4:46 pm
What gets me about these things is that we live in the Internet age and people still expect us to fall for this stuff. Do you really think that if filming had started on a Flash movie, we wouldn’t know about it already?
October 28th, 2008 at 10:02 am
It looked terrible, but I still wanted to get excited over it (the hairs on my back stood up even though I know it was obviously faked).
October 29th, 2008 at 8:30 am
Reminds me of the teaser for the first Spider-Man movie
October 29th, 2008 at 11:29 am
I’m just impressed at how they were able to make a fake bootleg trailer, with audience cheering none the less.
January 17th, 2011 at 8:16 pm
Where is the “like” link !