And here I dreamt I was a soldier

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I hate commercials; I try to avoid them at all costs. I also hate trailers, because even the ones for halfway decent movies now run well past the premise and into the second plot twist, which seems to defeat the entire purpose of a first act. But I do watch The Daily Show, and I don't know what flicker of color or image it was that got me to look up from my laptop and turn the sound back on, but I thought, You know, this actually looks like an interesting story. World War II America, this clever, undersized, determined kid who's been rejected by five different draft boards until a German-accented stranger offers him the chance to help the war effort in a top-secret way—so who's he going to end up with? The OSS? The SIS? Some department I've never . . .

. . . no, apparently it's Captain America.

That's the best trailer I've seen in years. I don't even care about the mythos and I might have to see this film. It could have been a straight-up historical drama until things started glowing.

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Whazza?

The Snickers Feast adverts, collected.

I find myself slightly disappointed, or at least dissatisfied, seeing them as a collective, although there are moments in them I still find funny or at least amusing, especially the one at the end where they're singing "Greensleeves." Perhaps it's simply the humour that's on me at the moment.