The hotly anticipated Spider-Man 3 trailer debuts tonight, everywhere. At roughly 10 pm it will appear (deep breath) on BET, CBS, Comedy Central, Logo, MTV, MTV2, Spike TV and VH1, with promotions and commercials and teasers and whatever else they can shovel in. Along with mentions on the networks’ websites, the trailer will also pop up on AddictingGames.com, AddictingClips.com, BET.com, MTV.com, IFILM.com, Nick.com, ComedyCentral.com, GameTrailers.com, LOGOonline.com, Neopets.com, SpikeTV.com, The-N.com, VH1.com, and Xfire.com, with a HD version on iFilm immediately afterwards. Ha! Just try not to see it!
Even though I’m looking forward to this movie that reunites the director and crew from the previous two successful films in the Spider-Man franchise and adds two fan-favorite, CGI-heavy villains, I plan to spend tonight sitting on my back porch, sipping a drink, enjoying the cool November breeze, and counting how many Viacom employees parachute into my yard to force pre-loaded laptops and video iPods in my line of sight.
Okay. I saw it. I didn’t want to but there it was in spite of trying to avoid it all night long. I almost got away. It started with a disclaimer about the world premiere of the Spider Man 3 trailer and as I started to get up off the bed where I was watching CSI and reading the Publix insert from the News-Journal, I tripped over the empty box of sugar-free Oreos that had inadvertantly fallen on the floor beside me. Unfortunately, it took me nearly a full minute to get untangled for escape and by then it was too late. I’d seen it against my will. I saw Spidey turn to the dark side. The only cure for that image will be successive viewing of Santa Claus 3/The Escape Claus over at Ocean Walk as soon as possible. I sure hope they have plenty of treacle at the consession stand.