Tinker Tailor Baseball Cards
Focus Features needs to get the lead out and start selling Tinker Tailor Solder Spy baseball cards with a little rectangle of pink chewing gum inside each package. Sell them at newsstands and at Starbucks and Best Buy stores and 7-11s. Because that’s exactly what these iTunes image profiles look like. There are at least 18 or so characters in Tomas Alfredson’s film, which comes out in December, so it would take a while to collect them all.
I would buy all I can and keep them in a shoebox and trade them with my friends. “I’ve give you two of my extra Jim Prideaux cards if you’ll give me your one extra Peter Gulliam. C’mon…what are you going to do with the extra? Okay, the two Prideaux cards plus $10 bills. You still won’t trade? Jesus…what are you looking for?”
I stuck a Roy Bland in the spokes of my Schwinn Scorpion to make it sound like a motorcycle.
Ripped it to shit, which sucks because now mint ones go for like a thousand bucks on Ebay.
Is this ever going to come out? I feel like I’ve been seeing promotional material with Oldman on it for a year now. Sometimes its better to just release a film before expectations build up of both quality and content. Remember the months long Constant Gardner campaign that made it look like a violent revenge thriller? How’d that work out?
I got a whole bunch of Batman baseball cards from the early-to-mid-90′s. I was way to young at the time, but now I realize that they span a couple movies (I think), and show fairly significant plot details, so I doubt they’re promotional.
I wonder how much they’re worth…
I know Jeff would STRENUOUSLY disagree and say (likely sight unseen) that the recent KILLER ELITE was a meathead Statham movie for the Eloi, but it was actually a drably gray period piece downer British action drama in the spirit of DOGS OF WAR shot in ugly dusty grays… and it tanked… and that was billed as the “FUN!” version of this material– remember those rock ‘em sock ‘em Scorpions-scored trailers aimed at the CRANK audience, even though the movie was a drab espionage eyesore?
Just saying, hasn’t it tanked pretty hard? They’ve gotta be worried about this now, since it’s THE SAME FUCKING MOVIE.
I miss the days when a movie would put out a set of bubble gum cards. They should just put them out to sell at theaters that offer Toblerons and sparkling water.
Used to have TONS of those movie trading cards. Still do probably up in the attic. All the Star Wars flicks, Close Encounters, E.T., Raiders, Rocky I & II, Star Trek: The Motion Picture, Alien… hell, even Mork & Mindy.
The craziest ones I have: F.I.S.T. trading cards!
“I’ve give you two of my extra Jim Prideaux cards if you’ll give me your one extra Peter Gulliam. C’mon…what are you going to do with the extra? Okay, the two Prideaux cards plus $10 bills. You still won’t trade? Jesus…what are you looking for?”
In this economy? A savings account.
The baseball cards were awesome — I still have some from CE3K and Star Wars. I used to be able to buy programs or other merchandise for the movies right in the theater, too — Temple of Doom, Gremlins, Return of the Jedi. I still have some of that stuff. Studios and exhibitors should bring that back, because it lets you take a piece of the movie home with you right from the theater and continue the experience, spread the word about the film (trading cards and such) and so on.
The kids today don’t want to collect cards – they’d rather save up their pennies to buy the DVD and own the movie. Kinda like how novelizations have fallen out of vogue.
“Why is Firth the only one not doing something with his hand?”
“Oh, he is. He is.”
They aren’t baseball cards unless they have baseball players on them!
I have a set of trading cards for T2 (somewhere), and was baffled to see a card detailing a scene where they remove a chip from the Terminator. Later, they change their minds and put it back in. I don’t remember that scene at all! Apparently it was cut after the cards were already printed.
I had the Star Wars cards, which included images from the cast photoshoot they did in 1978, which were confusing at the time because Mark Hamill had his new nose and Harrison Ford had his Apocalypse Now haircut.
Not to be “that guy,” Tim, but Apocalypse Now wrapped in summer ’77.
Not saying that Ford didn’t have the “same hair” the following year — but if he did, it seems quite unlikely that it had anything to do with AN.
I have watched every second of this wonderful movie trailer. I look forward seeing the full stuff
i won’t do it again
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