It’s Wrong In My Brain
I caught a commercial for Charlie St. Cloud today. There’s a line they keep saying in every preview and trailer that airs for this particular film. The male lead makes his best “I’m deep and sensitive” face and says, “Every night, I play catch with my dead brother.”
And the viewer is supposed to go, “Awww….his brother is like an analogy for his inability to let go of his past. If only some woman could help fix his soul and make everything better.” Or they might intend for the viewer to go “Awww….he loves his dead brother so much that he is still in contact with him from beyond the grave….and he still plays catch with him…that is so sweet. If only some woman could help fix his soul and make everything better.”
What they quite probably did not intend is where my brain took this. “Awwww…. he dug up his brother’s corpse, and presumably stores in in a big jar of formaldehyde. And every evening he takes it out to the back yard and hurls it around for a while. If only some woman could…you know what? Never mind. Do not try to fix this guy, just back away slowly. And for Christ’s sake don’t go out on the water with him on your boat.”
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August 2nd, 2010 at 11:19 pm
Funny, my husband’s first thought was he went out and used some sort of hoodoo and raised the brother from the ground. He’s having trouble playing catch though. All that rotting flesh falling off the bone kinda gets in the way. And his parents are starting to wonder about the smell.
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August 2nd, 2010 at 11:21 pm
Just the brother’s skull. Being hurled about. That’s what I saw too.
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August 2nd, 2010 at 11:58 pm
Actually, this is totally what I assumed the first time I saw one of those ads. It might say something about me that I said “Sweet! Bringing back Mayan rules ball?” and was disappointed when this was not the case.
Seriously. Tuesday night skullball. Tell me this wouldn’t be HUGE.
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Redmond reply on August 3rd, 2010 9:01 pm:
Just use convicts and its all good :D
It would be awesome for t-shirts too!
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oneluckyduck reply on August 26th, 2010 10:13 pm:
I am so~o making that t-shirt…
captcha-chefula, CHI+GI87
They aren’t even worlds anymaore! T.T
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August 3rd, 2010 at 2:10 am
How twisted am I then? I thought exactly the same thing just READING it! You guy have REALLY weird TV commercials.
Captcha: refunded it – Nope. No way would they take my thoughts back.
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August 3rd, 2010 at 6:42 am
I haven’t seen this ad yet, but when I read that quote, the first that popped into my mind is tossing a football at a corpse, the same way little kids play “catch” with dolls and such.
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August 3rd, 2010 at 7:41 am
What a perverse group of people this site attracts!!!
I have never seen the trailer, but fro Skippy’s description, the first thing I thought of was a little kid playing catch with a zombie looking corpse leaned up against a tree in the back yard.
Captcha: 341 haughtier – Well…I don’t think I’m quite 341 times haughtier than most. Maybe 247 times…
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August 3rd, 2010 at 11:03 am
My mental image was that this was the lead in to a ghost/possession horror film.
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lukazaz reply on August 3rd, 2010 11:34 am:
hey… isnt that what the movie is about…. I was thinking some weird zombie head baseball movie…..
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August 3rd, 2010 at 11:49 am
And here I just assumed the guy was mental… The background music was right for some sort of “Field of Dreams” supernatural feel-good movie, but not quite right for a truly disturbing sort of mental.
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August 3rd, 2010 at 12:38 pm
My first thought was “zombie brother”.
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August 3rd, 2010 at 5:01 pm
He is playing catch with his brother who is pitching. Think about that. Not for too long though, your brain might shutdown.
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StoneWolf reply on August 5th, 2010 4:32 pm:
I…uh…too late. Ow.
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August 4th, 2010 at 11:22 am
Sadly, I’ve been conditioned by Hollywood to know exactly what they mean by “playing catch with his dead brother” but Skippys idea is WAY better
Captcha: she stitching – in a zombie movie to keep them going and all together, yes, yes she would
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August 4th, 2010 at 5:46 pm
Y’all are sick puppies, but so am I, or I wouldn’t be on this site. Skippy, are you using some kind of adhesive on the laminate flooring? And are you supposed to use a mask with it? You don’t want to kill any more brain cells.
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August 5th, 2010 at 4:34 pm
Now see, I was thinking that he used him for a bullet stop on night ops or something. This movie is about sailing? And who the hell is this Effron kid and why are all the girls horney for him? Is he Disney?
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sandy reply on August 13th, 2010 10:01 am:
high school musical (all of them) he’s the star — welcome to having a teenage daughter!
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August 11th, 2010 at 9:02 am
I had a somewhat similar response to “Legends of the Fall.” There’s a bit where one of the main characters carries his brother’s heart home from WWI in his mess-tin to bury it at the family farmstead. I guess you’re supposed to “Ahhh…Isn’t that sweet?” Of course I’m wondering “If that’s in his messtin, what is he eating out of?” And what do you think would when he explains to his seargent what he’s carrying around? He’d get sent off to Craiglockheart or someplace similar tuit suite. ‘Cause that has “crazy/shell shock/get the gun away from him” written all over it in all caps.
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