Monday, March 15, 2010

More on Fantasyland

The buzz around the March 19 premiere of "Fantasyland" continues to grow.  The makers have a fairly active Facebook page going, they've posted additional videos on their YouTube page (it's not clear if they're outtakes or excerpts from the finished film), and SnagFilms has posted a trailer on their site that is worth checking out:  http://www.snagfilms.com/films/title/fantasyland_preview_premiering_on_snagfilms_march_19/

In what I've seen so far, the Facebook comments and video clips seem to focus on the fantasy-baseball-players-are-oddball-geeks aspect (tales of trades made on honeymoon nights, during shivas and funerals, while having sex for cripessakes), and while humerous, they get old pretty fast.  I'm hoping that what's been posted so far is just material collected during the search for the "regular guy" be featured in the film and is not representative of the film itself.

That said, it does look like a well made film, and as the bizare nature of the game's participants isn't the main focus, it should be alot of fun.

As an interesting side-note, "Trading the Gator" clips show up quite often in the "Related Videos" section on YouTube...

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