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CREATED BY: The Recycled Cinema Collective
MOVIES USED: Ocean’s Eleven
Danny Ocean and his crazy crew of hijackers is back. But this time, the U.S. of A. is the prime target.
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June 10th, 2007 at 9:32 pm
The mash-up is okay but the subject… I don’t like it!
June 11th, 2007 at 6:17 am
The mash is done very nicely I think. But, like mentioned by LANEULE, the subject bothers me.
June 11th, 2007 at 11:19 am
The mash-up is well done and i like it but i think that people shouldn’t make fun of tragedies like this…
June 11th, 2007 at 8:01 pm
yeah, i dont think the movie studio that made the oceans films would take kindly to this
June 11th, 2007 at 9:47 pm
Not funny. Not funny at all. I was there, running my ass off. Sure as hell wasn’t a lot of fun then, not a lot of fun now.
June 11th, 2007 at 10:55 pm
sick twisted and perverted
June 12th, 2007 at 5:21 am
so offensive it deserves a 10
BRAVO
June 12th, 2007 at 9:04 am
a little bit tasteless… it looks like you just thought of the title and then made the trailer to fit it
June 12th, 2007 at 10:08 am
Despite the content… I.. found it to be funny. Does that make me a bad person?
June 12th, 2007 at 6:07 pm
I thought it’d be funny before I watched it. It wasn’t. The music was really distracting and there was no skill involved - just clips from 911 lazily thrown into an Ocean’s Eleven trailer. Given the explosiveness of the subject, could’ve been done so much better.
June 13th, 2007 at 1:30 am
I think the idea was fine and had potential, but I had to stop watching it halfway through because of the use of genuine footage overstepped the mark I felt. If there had been clips from United 93 or World Trade Center, it might have been easier to swallow, but seeing the real thing in between the frivolity was too close for comfort.
June 15th, 2007 at 1:08 am
I don’t think this should be allowed on here, it is very offensive. Sometimes humor can cross the line and this has. I encourage whoever made this to take if off the website and think of all the families of lost lives on 911 that watch this video how they feel.
June 15th, 2007 at 9:28 am
What was the point of this? It wasn’t even done well at all. Everyone’s really funny from behind the safety of their computer. Offensive for offensive’s sake isn’t funny. This shouldn’t even be on thetrailermash.com… keep this junk on somethingawful or other crap like that.
June 18th, 2007 at 1:21 am
That’s disgusting.
June 18th, 2007 at 3:15 pm
Terrible. Not only is it a ridiculous topic, but it was not creative at all. When I watch a mash-up or remix I watch it because I want it to be humorous in the way that there is either something clever in the connections between chosen films or because it creates something new and humorous. Despite this, I still gave this one a chance, just to see what it was all about. I didn’t make it past the actual footage, though…completely tasteless and it made me want to vomit. Beyond that, though, this wasn’t even creative. If something is creative enough, sometimes it makes the offensive acceptable because it’s for art’s sake or for making a point. This was not creative in the least bit, though…it was just some 9-11 footage spliced into an Ocean’s trailer.
Completely stupid and brainless. Even if it weren’t for the subject matter this would be the worst trailer on this website. Don’t delete it because it’s offensive, because people would cry out a censorship foul…delete it because it just plain sucks and isn’t good enough to be on this site!
June 20th, 2007 at 2:44 am
I’m glad that there is a spirited dialog going on about this mashup we’ve created. We were interested in interjecting a political component to mashups which are, unfortunately totally apolitical.
If it seems like this was only created to shock you, we assure you this is not the case. The act of making a mashup is politicized not only by the copyright infringement inherent in the act, but also in the underlying commentary made by mashups–the grammar of narrative film can easily be harassed to join two disparate narratives.
We know this is crass and vulgar–we assure you we didn’t do it without considering its meaning. To me the idea was a perfect annunciation of the way Hollywood can minimize tragedy by exploiting it for
entertainment. In addition, I find the Ocean’s 11 franchise a perfect
target for this beyond the shocking pun I made with the name. Ocean’s
11 is a celebration of criminality, celebrity and materialism. Unlike
the film it has remade, the criminals are not only rewarded but are
depicted as heroic models. We actually like Steven Soderberg, but
I find this film to represent much of what is ugly about Hollywood–it
is ostensibly a festival of hollow greed and crime. To me, linking Danny Ocean and pop-culture to a horrific tragedy is a shocking (albeit inflammatory) way of suggesting our complicity in the destructive spectacle that is Hollywood.
There are too many examples of Hollywood films turning foreign conflicts which have devastating effects into light hearted action romps that fail to ever ask serious questions about the tragedies they represent. But whenever an American tragedy is put to celluloid, we are treated to a “somber and serious” cinema experience meant to tug at the emotions fictitious action films cannot.
If you find “Ocean’s 9/11″ to be technically flawed, than it is a failure on our part. However it is a simulation brought close to home of how we unite tragedy with entertainment all the time. If you are offended by this, then look no further than the enormous output of such films in the theater.
This was not meant to make light of the serious loss on 9/11. If I offended you, I assure you it wasn’t intentional, but I do not apologize for making this…you should be offended by the films being made today, and how they are (overwhelmingly) nothing more than children’s stories to lull us to a comfortable sleep.
The Recycled Cinema Collective
2007
June 20th, 2007 at 8:35 am
you guys are full of shit. that whole big essay was total bullshit. just because youve got some third rate art school back up to your crap doesnt make it any less offensive. we should be offended by films made today, so you mash up ocean’s 11 with ACTUAL footage of 9/11? oh, bravo. i hope someone lulls you into a comfortable sleep, you pretentious shmucks. ocean’s 11 may celebrate criminals…but it doesnt celebrate the death of thousands of americans. exploiting a tragedy to make a point about exploiting tragedy. brilliant. you’ve taken what should be a funny diversion at work (trailer mash ups), and ruined it. you remind me of the turds i put up with every day at film school. the grammar of narrative film. god. you made me so angry i could barely form coherent thoughts, so make of this what you will.
June 21st, 2007 at 1:14 pm
When I first saw this trailer I was offended, and now I come back on to look at the comments that were left by THE RECYCLED CINEMA and I am truly disgusted. How can you even try to defend this trailer, it is WRONG! plain and simple. You disgust me, and you are a disgrace to America. And then you go and talk about movies today how they put us to sleep; I assure you I am a big movie goer and I do not fall asleep in movies today. Let me tell you, I would rather fall asleep in a movie, then to come out and be frustrated and upset. I would love to say what I really think of yall but I will not use expletives that I want to. All I can say is you are sick to put such a cheap piece of junk together, and its NOT good or funny, its stupid and offensive. If yall are in the film business, I would think about getting out because yall have no talent at all.
June 30th, 2007 at 3:23 pm
I’ll put it simply: you cannot justify this. On technical or artistic merit. And just because you can put together a semi-coherent argument does not give that argument weight nor does it justify what you have done. As Jordan said, you are exploiting tragedy to justify exploiting tragedy. You are part of the problem and a hypocrite. What more, the sheer thought you would use the supposed banality of modern entertainment as an excuse for this is sickeningly arrogant and shows a truly self-absorbed and self-aggrandizing mind at work. Intellectually that is the same as a man beating another man to death simply because he was bored. Or, to use your putrid logic, to show the horrors of random violence by committing random violence. I truly believe that you don’t even buy into your own hype. No. Your essay is an act of desperation; a sick joke that did not get the nervous titters you wanted and instead provoked roars of anger so you quickly back pedal and try to excuse it as an intellectual exercise. Nonsense. Your mash-up is lazy, shoddy, and ultimately an abomination on nearly every level. Your essay is pretentious and shows a haphazard line of thinking that exposes a truly juvenile and naive approach towards provoking thought. I assume from reading your blog that you are a film student. Appropriate. Only a student would have the ambition without vision, the confidence without merit, the language without meaning, the expression without talent and the rebellion without a cause as a student. You think you are an artist, when in reality, you are a loud child that the adult world dismisses as another wannabe intellectual who knows little yet proclaims his loud ignorance as knowledge. You are an insult to film, to mash-ups, to us, the users of this site, and I’d much prefer you never post here again. Goodbye.
July 7th, 2007 at 2:23 am
I bet if someone made a mashup with a random film, and iraq being blown up, you wouldnt care. Dumb yanks
July 12th, 2007 at 9:22 am
No, actually i think a lot of us would care because-and this may be a revelation to your imbecilic mind-but many of us were against that war from the beginning and the majority of Americans are against it now, after seeing it turn into the quagmire we foretold it to become. The term yanks makes me believe you are possibly British, ironic since your country was involved in that war as well, Andrew. But, logic means little to such a small little child who, and this is the very epitome of what makes the internet rather flawed at times, thinks he make divisive comments and run away, feeling superior, even as he uses internet anonymity as a flimsy shield. I’ll say this to you, what if perhaps Zulu was re-cut as a heroic epic? What if Ghandi was re-cut as a comedy? What in the fathoms of your pathetic mind does it mean to have your country’s history of bloodshed exploited and ridiculed? Rule Britannia and God Save the Queen! Or, maybe I am mistaken and you are Irish. Then I can merely say Sunday, Bloody, Sunday was justified and you deserved to be oppressed by the British empire you drunken disgusting Irish man. None of those statements I truly believe, of course, I rather like the Irish and the Scottish, but I am merely feeding you the same shit you have feed us, you small, stupid, immature, impotent and worthless cunt. May the whore you call a Mother be laid waste upon the ground so she may never live to give birth to another grotesque excuse for a human being such as yourself from her rotten and diseased loins that I am sure many anonymous men have been inside and most likely have caught their deaths from some horrific illness, much like the one inflicting you now–the one could idiocy. Now go back to making paintings made out of shit against the wall. Oh, and include a self-portrait, I’m sure it will be absolutely life-like considering the materials used.
July 17th, 2007 at 11:20 am
Everyone likes the Titanic trailer right? It’s pretty funny. But at the time it was one of the worst tragedies ever recorded. Then came the world wars. We make light of that all the time. Someday, as do all things, 9/11 is going to fade. This doesn’t mean the event itself was not important, it just means we can come to terms with it, even through shocking comedy. If you cannot find humor in tragedy, just wait a while. You will.
July 18th, 2007 at 12:00 pm
I’m sorry “Tin Lantern” I must’ve missed where the humor is supposed to be in the 9/11 Tragedy — or any tragedy for that matter. Even the fool who made this particular trailer doesn’t purport anything about it to be funny. I thought his “I’m trying to make a statement” stance was the bottom of the barrel, but you sure proved me wrong on that one.
Nobody says the Titanic tragedy was funny. The trailer was a “sequel” to a piece of historical fiction that in no way attempted to trivialize the tragedy itself. The trailer on this site actually had absolutely nothing to do with the Titanic tragedy - it was an incredibly well-put-together compilation of Leo Dicaprio clips.
And I’m sorry — we make light of the world wars all the time? What? When? Who? What planet are you living on?
Your comment was the stupidest thing I have ever read. You receive no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.
And on a side note: the self-righteous lunatic who posted this video had an entire post on his blog dedicated to how “successful” his so-called political statement was on this site, in which he ripped into all those who criticized him, including myself. I don’t know what was bigger of him — attacking some of us on a site that we may never have found, or removing the entire post once I found it and responded back to him in his comments section. For the record, his response to my criticism above in its entirety was “f&*k you, f&*k you, f&*k you, f&*k you, f&*k you,” although obviously not that much was censored. Big man!
July 18th, 2007 at 1:18 pm
I am not speaking for the person who made the video. I am not defending him either. I am just stating my point of view. I am saying that I found comedy in a tragedy. I think “Ocean’s 9/11″ is funny because it’s so false. Obviously Danny Ocean didn’t perpetrate the 9/11 attacks. It takes away from the power of terror when you poke fun at it. I am not trying to be high-minded about it. It is just a fake trailer.
But I do stand by my assertion that the “Titanic: Two the Surface” trailer is the same thing. It is taking a tragedy and focusing on romantic or humorous fictional aspects of it. Just like Ocean’s 9/11.
As for the World Wars yes, I do think films like Charlie Chaplin’s “The Great Dictator” and even as recently as “The Producers” look at Hitler and his terrible acts in a humorous light. I mean, how can something be terrible if you are laughing at it? Or in Blazing Saddles, Mel Brooks makes a point of how ridiculous racism is by laughing at it.
Again, I am not saying these events are any less tragic. I am only pointing out that humor can be found in everything, and can be cathartic. So, go ahead and be offended, but realize also that someone else may deal with the issue differently.
July 20th, 2007 at 1:27 pm
I think it would be a grander tragedy if you all were to have perished in 9/11 b/c then you wouldn’t be able to write all of this crap.
July 23rd, 2007 at 6:35 am
Dear Matt,
For the record–I do think the trailer is funny. Particularly the part where Matt Damon gives a thumbs up. I took down my post not because I couldn’t deal with your comments, but because I didn’t want to engage you (or numerous other humorless twats who think that anything done with a purpose is pretentious and self-righteous) in such a silly conversation. You act like I caused 9/11. Get over it…
July 28th, 2007 at 4:42 pm
I thought 3 sequels were enough but I gotta say this is by far the funiest. Keep up the good work.
August 15th, 2007 at 6:36 am
AHHH!!!! 9-11!!!!! holy shit, runnnnnnnnnnnnnn. someone made fun of a national tragedy so quick, grab your pitchorks and your american flags and lets lynch the mother-fucker patriotically. or…..we adhere to the constitution and dont insist on freedom of speech and expression being infringed upon?
as to offensiveness, watch south park, family guy, or the simpsons. you will (or should) be far more offended, regardless of their various emmy awards for being tops in comedy.
yourarealiar: what the hell are you on? the retalliotory post to andrew was absurd! not only was he correct (we wouldnt give a damn about iraq getting blown up in comparrison to new york—for good reason) but you litterally went off the deep end mocking him over things that you had absolutley no basis.
as to everyone on here who is offended by someone making light of a horrific tragedy—think before you speak. as the author has pointed out, hollywood is no better–and in many cases they are worse. also, step of the pedastal and stop saying this is the worst trailer on here, or that this is shoddily made or what have you. first: do better before speaking. and second: once youve done that, look at a whole bunch of other trailers that are alot worse.
i laughed watching this, and thought it was pretty good, and certainly not worth a protest march. take that somewhere where it is needed, 9/11 is over and done with and one more page in the history books. we need to move on and look at things that certainly need alot more attention—like new orleans, darfur, and getting out of iraq.
September 29th, 2007 at 3:31 am
Prescient. Brilliant. Remarkable. Uncanny.
Matt Damon giving the thumbs up is, possibly, the most amazing thing in thr world.
October 10th, 2007 at 1:43 am
I didn’t find this trailer particularly funny. The idea of Ocean’s 911 is funnier than the trailer. It would have worked better as just a parody movie poster instead of a trailer.
This mixture of 9/11 clips with Danny Ocean and cool music was a little disturbing, but I knew what to expect when I clicked on the link.
To do this and post it on the internet, y’all have some balls.
November 1st, 2007 at 5:05 am
Wow, gutsy (and some would say tasteless) trailer. As a New Yorker I was a bit offended but I do believe in free speech and the arts.
November 1st, 2007 at 7:29 am
Tasteless.
November 23rd, 2007 at 7:15 am
OUTSTANDING.
The clincher is the shot (at the end) of Matt Damon on the plane, turning and giving a quick smile and thumbs up.
Or when Bernie Mac asks how we’re doing, we see the tower collapsing, then the other guy just kinda shrugs and relies “ok” nonchalantly.
Or about a zillion other times during this brilliant, extremely clever mash-up, using scarcely 10 seconds of non-Ocean’s 11 footage.
Cheers to you good sir, for having the wit to create this, the balls to post it, and brains to realize tragedy needn’t force us to forget what is so great about being alive in the first place!
Side note: if you don’t laugh at this superbly smart mash, then the terrorists win.
November 30th, 2007 at 6:56 am
FLAWLESS VICTORY.
January 13th, 2008 at 4:11 pm
This is a bad mash, the badness of which is defined by its amazing tediousness and lack of actual laughs. Its offensiveness is its only virtue - which is to say, it sucks. And because it is gratuitously offensive to actual innocents, I respectfully request that trailermash.com remove it once and for all. As for its alleged political content, as tendentiously and pretentiously put forth by its authors: boys, this sort of politics exists entirely in your own minds, (and moreover, in your professors, as I dare say your political imaginations are as lacking as your artistic ones). Being against America and mouthing about patriotic hypocrisy is so superficial that it displays your utter lack of mind - no one really needs go on about that. But instead of trying to advance your careers on the backs of mourners at a great tragedy (which, let’s face it, is all you’re doing), let me suggest that you rent a bootleg of Rendition, or Redaction, or The Battleship Potemkin, and sit down with a nice rubber pacifier. You’ll be just as happy, and this site will return to what it ought to be and has been: a place for actually funny parodies.
January 21st, 2008 at 4:53 am
I’m not 100% defending the mashup, at least in the timing of it, but, for someone to say “And I’m sorry — we make light of the world wars all the time? What? When? Who? What planet are you living on?” is unbelievably naive. The Producers… Hogan’s Heroes… even things like the Austin Powers movies have elements of parody of WWII/Nazi style themes.
February 28th, 2008 at 12:33 pm
Fuck you.
March 25th, 2008 at 4:56 pm
I guess I’d have to say I thought it was clever. It is quite risqué, but people’s responses seem to lead to interesting social insight.