Watch 2012 Trailer Mashup Retrospective

It may nearly time for the season to be jolly (la la la) when you act like a little kid again with Christmas only around the corner, its also the time of the year the annual retrospectives. December maybe only a few days old but the first retrospective video has arrived courtesy of  SleepySkunk who delivers a trailer mashup of the films of 2012. Most you’ll recognise to some you may not as their not released this side of the world yet it’s not the perfect edit however it’s still high entertaining but most of all nostalgic especially when the memory comes flowing back. Whatever you think of this video you can’t fault on the effort and ion of Sleepy Skunk.

Horror, animation, Hollywood blockbusters, there all here in this 7 minute video and below that we have a breakdown of Sleepyjunk’s thoughts on this video and please check  his Tumblr right here, which will contain list of the films shown in this video

PRIMA PARTE – The Pruitt-Igoe Myth: Pruitt-Igoe was a large urban housing project that became infamous for symbolizing the shattered dreams of many and was subject to a great documentary this year. By the late 1960’s, it had gone from a promise of a better future for thousands of families to a place of desolation, poverty and crime. Not unlike the fate of its inhabitants, many characters in this year’s motion pictures have had to endure a vision of the future that demanded their hopes to make room for despair. From the Orwellian districts of The Hunger Games to the corporate conspiracies of Branded and the highly-controlled buildings of The Raid and Dredd 3D, dystopia certainly made its comeback this year.

SECONDA PARTE – Tick Tick Boom: A song that has been attempted in online movie mashups countless times. I always wanted to take a crack at it and celebrate every note of explosive silliness that transpire through this epic hit from The Hives. The inspiration I got from Tick Tick Boom wasn’t that it clearly promotes balls-out action all over the walls but that it does it with a sense of self-awareness and light parody. This is precisely the tone that we’ve found in offerings such as Battleship, The Expendables 2, and (last but not least) Joss Whedon’s The Avengers. These movies all know they’re silly but rather than convincing us of the contrary, they decide to embrace it and focus on giving us what we crave: great walls of fire erupting everywhere and heroes who can’t bother to look at them.

PARTE FINALE – Everything is Connected: My third segment was an attempt to explore what can only described in Hollywood as the merger of mainstream blockbusters and small independent films. Now more than ever, young and emerging filmmakers have the affordable technology in their post-production to make their shoestring-budgeted features feel as visually striking as a major studio production. On the other side of the coin, the big studios are increasing financing on their Oscar hopefuls and make sure to spare no expense in order to make a resourceful production look as indie as possible. I tried to blend the little movies, the big ones, and put my emphasis on those who happen to be one but pretending to be the other.