Dec 16 2008 Monty Python Box Set Contest Results!
Results! Thanks to everyone who entered (ed: see this contest, webheads!) to win this Monty Python DVD Collector's Set, and to A&E Home Video for providing it. Henceforth, you should buy all of your arts and entertainment wares from them.
And I've subjectively deemed the winner is...
The Imaginary Reviewer with:
The Christmas Presence
When their daughter refuses to go anywhere near the gifts under the tree, Sam and Jane (Kiefer Sutherland and Jennifer Connelly) suspect there's more than meets the eye to their new box of baubles. They find themselves battling an otherworldly entity that has taken the form of spherical shiny seasonal tree ornaments, in a fight that may consume their very souls!
Congratulations for striking a good balance between stupidity and feasibility, having apt casting, and being one of the few to actually contain the summary in one or two sentences. Plus, I like the arbitrary avoidance of mentioning "bulbs". "Box of baubles" is a phrase that will consistently make me do a nose-exhale laugh.
Below the jump, I've posted some others I liked for various reasons, and all the entries are still available for your perusal here. If yours didn't win or isn't mentioned, or you thought other ones were so much better: sorry. It's because I'm a stupid, unfunny idiot.
Dec 5 2008 Reminder: Monty Python DVD Contest Ends Monday
Don't forget, this weekend is your last chance to win this massive Monty Python Collector's Set courtesy of A&E Home Video. Why haven't you entered yet? Don't you want this? This is your chance to finally understand all those Python quotes your nerdy friends kept throwing around in high school. Over the course of this 21-disc collection, you'll learn how they weren't just being obnoxious; they were being obnoxious by referencing some of the best comedy ever made.
So take a look at the rules and get entering over here. No essays, please.
Dec 1 2008 CONTEST: Win This Awesome Monty Python Box Set
** That's that. Thanks to everyone who took the time to submit something. I'll go through these and get back with a winner and some honorable mentions as soon as I can. **
Alright, everyone who likes classic British comedy readily available in their home video collections: it's contest time! A&E Home Video has been kind of enough to provide a copy of the Monty Python Collector's Set, a 21-disc box set with four seasons of the series, two new-to-DVD documentaries, two live performances, and six "personal best" compilations, and you can win it.
Here's how to enter: holiday movie season is here, so what I want is your best (by which I mean worst) idea for a seasonal movie that has not yet been made. In the comments, provide a title and a very brief (one or two sentence) summary or tagline for your film idea. For example:
- 'Twas the Knight- Nicolas Cage decrypts a code hidden in 'Twas the Night Before Christmas that unlocks the power to transform into an Arthurian knight, thus saving Christmas.
- HanukkAHHH!!! - Eight nights of murder. Don't forget to light your candles.
You get the idea. Hopefully yours will be better than those.
So, in summary:
1. Come up with a fake holiday movie title and accompanying one or two sentence summary.
2. Post it in the comments of this entry using a valid email address, so that I can contact you if you win. (Emails will not be published or sold or anything, you paranoid.)
3. Pray a producer doesn't steal your idea.
The entry I deem best wins. Contest ends Monday, December 8 at 5 PM EST. Let's make this the best contest ever.
(More standard official rules stuff here.)
Jun 25 2008 'Watchmen' Veidt Commercial Contest Winners
Back in April, director Zack Snyder opened a contest/marketing ploy in which fans were asked to make an '80s-style commercial for Veidt Products. The winning commercials would have the chance to be shown in the background of a scene in Watchmen, forever making the winners really annoying to watch Watchmen with as they continually point out that their commercial is coming up.
Well, the winners have been picked, and you can now see them all here. Below the cut, I've included a couple of the better entries that will have you remembering, "Oh yeah, I guess the '80s did have some stupid commercials."
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Apr 23 2008 Be an Advertising Stooge for 'Watchmen'!
Sometimes when you're watching a movie, you can't help but notice a fake ad for a fake product airing in the background and think, man, why didn't I get to make that commercial? Zack Snyder has heard your pleas! The director is asking for submissions to his YouTube-affiliated "Veidt Enterprises Advertising Contest", in which you create a commercial to be featured (in the background) of Watchmen. Submissions must be 15, 30, or 60-seconds in length, advertise a Veidt product, fit the tone of Watchmen and 1985, and be "cool" and/or "awesome". Below the cut, see a just-awoken Snyder's personal call to action and a couple sample fake commercials starring Fake Kirsten Dunst and fake obnoxious hipster high-tops. Full contest details here.
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