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It’s Not Easy Being Green

In brightest day… in blackest night…

With the arrival of The Green Lantern on Direct TV, it’s time to take a look underneath the hood of the Megabudgeted comic book movie through the lens of an awesome mashup trailer.

Some tenacious editor out there has mixed Lord of the Rings and The Green Lantern, creating ‘Lord of the Green Lantern’, one of the cleverest homebrewed mashups out there.

As witty as the vid is, what they’ve brought to light is the stunning similarity between the two stories. When the movie’s protagonist puts on a magic ring, he’s given superpowers, flies through the air screaming like a little boy in a sandbox, battles computer generated villains with glowing eyeballs, and never asks why everything’s so darned green.

At its best, a mashup trailer is funny and cute. At its greatest, a mashup like this illustrates how Hollywood continually feeds us processed, recycled stories. In the case of The Green Lantern, it’s almost disturbing how much the film owes to the greatest adventure story of the past decade, The Lord of the Rings trilogy.

Even stranger is the fact that The Green Lantern and The Lord of the Rings were created at around the same time. While J.R.R. Tolkien slaved away on his treasured literary masterpiece in England, sipping tea with C.S. Lewis at Oxford, Bill Finger penned the pulp comic books that progenerated The Green Lantern. Tolkien’s tome took a couple of decades to write – the trilogy wasn’t finished until 1949 and not published until 1955 – while Finger’s comics came out of the high-volume DC Comics wheelhouse. It’s extremely doubtful that the two literary giants (Finger is now recognized as a co-creator of Batman, and the sole creator of his nemesis The Joker) ever influenced each other. The similarities, in a literary sense, are less pronounced on the page, but the all-powerful ring and themes of fantastical heroism are definitely congruent. Great minds think alike.

There’s your history lesson for the day. Two literary giants, Bill Finger and J.R.R. Tolkien, have had their masterpieces shipped to Hollywood, transformed into big budget movies shrouded in a green mist, released on DVD, and mashed up into a fan made trailer on YouTube. Think on that as you watch The Green Lantern tonight.


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Super Speedy Trailer Submission!

We’ve been trying to put a new trailer up about every 5 days, but it takes a lot more effort than one would think.

To try and cut down on our workload, and also ensure that authors can get things the way they want, today we unveil a new submission form. This form allows you to put in all the information yourself, ensuring that we get the details RIGHT!

Click here to go to the speedy submission form

As always, we welcome your feedback!


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Mash Trailers, Win Loot!

Shooter Trailer Mashup Contest!

Win the XBOX 360 SHOOTER PRIZE PACKAGE or other great prizes! Visit the new SHOOTER MASHUP contest on Eyespot and mix and match from a selection of film clips & audio to create your own Shooter trailer.

The grand prize winner will get an Xbox 360 console PLUS three of the most popular shooting themed games: Call of Duty 3, Gears of War and Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six in Vegas! The best MASHUP wins the grand prize! Go to Eyespot and register now to show off your MASHING skills!

Catch Shooter in theaters this Friday, March 23rd!

Disturbia Trailer Mashup Contest

What’s Your Disturbia? Visit the new DISTURBIA MASHUP contest on Eyespot and mix and match from a selection of film clips & audio as well as your own personal video to create your disturbing masterpiece.

The 10 best videos will be chosen and one winner will receive an XBOX 360â„¢! Start mashing now to show us the dark side of your neighborhood.

Catch Disturbia in theaters on April 13th!


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Get Ready!

We’ve been slack with adding videos… but expect one every 48 hours from now until Christmas… and hopefully continuing on from there. We love seeing what you guys enjoy so make sure to comment and vote on the trailers you like (and don’t). Also if you see a Trailer Mash that you like and we’re missing it… go submit it on the forums!


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The Trailer Mash Forum

I interrupt your regularly scheduled Mashes to let you know that we’ve added a forum. We hope it’ll soon become the online center for all things recut trailers! So check it out, sign up for an account and make a post!

The Trailer Mash Forum


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