Nov 17 2009 Internet Meme Meets Vampire Fad in Most Ephemeral Fake Trailer Ever
In five years, we will have no idea what any of this referencing. And we won't care, so busy we'll be enjoying whatever our new teenage monster melodrama/ridiculous t-shirt combination is.
Nov 13 2009 Celebrate Friday the 13th -- With Laughter!
Get it? Because today is Friday the 13th. I'm not just posting it again arbitrarily. I thought it out.
Nov 13 2009 See: Wes Anderson Acting Out 'Fantastic Mr. Fox' Scenes
These clips actually make me sort of uncomfortable. Probably similar to how my dad must have felt when he caught me quietly re-enacting the "I'm Batman" Batman scene alone in the living room.
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Nov 12 2009 Seth MacFarlane's Secrets Revealed
I would have thought quick, throwaway joke asides illustrating an outlandish scenario just described would have been one of his secrets, too. I guess that's too common knowledge to be considered such.
Nov 10 2009 If 'The Matrix' Were a Charlie Chaplin Film, and Russian
I assure you it's way better The Matrix, Again Chockablocked! (1929) and Putsches Within the Matrix! (1931).
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Nov 9 2009 SNL Reveals the Sexy World of Frankenstein's Monsters
What happens if you replace all the vampires in Twilight with Frakensteins? As you'll see in this trailer, not all that much, really. Just slightly different body paint:
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Nov 9 2009 Always Remember the Parade of 1000 Rockys (Rockies?)
In need of a reason to dress up uniformly and walk around together now that Halloween zombie walks are over, citizens of Philadelphia gathered yesterday to put on yellow robes, run on steps, punch meat, and celebrate the Blu-ray release of Rocky: The Undisputed Collection. Also, Danny Bonaduce was there. (He played Rocky, right? OK, that makes perfect sense, then.)
There is video evidence:
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Oct 21 2009 'The Wrestler' Trailer: Grindhouse Edition
Feeding the Internetbeast's insatiable desire for movie trailers re-edited to look like different movie trailers, here's a trailer for Darren Aronofsky's The Wrestler made to look like a grindhouse film. It's pretty good. Hopefully good enough to settle the Internetbeast, contenting him enough that he might not release another swarm of cyber-wyrms.
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Oct 19 2009 Pixar Intro Gets Real
Almost too real. You can't un-imagine Luxo, Jr. being sodomized.
Oct 19 2009 Every Kramer Entrance from Every 'Seinfeld'
This video took me forever to watch. I felt an uncontrollable desire to pause after each entrance to hoot and applaud.
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Oct 7 2009 Jay Leno Not Just a Hack; Also a Shill
True, some of the brands were mentioned derisively as jokes but, really, what kind of joke set-up begins with "Pantene Volumizing Shampoo"? (Answer: a terrible, corporate-sponsored joke.)
We can't be more than a few weeks away from a Mug Root Beer Dana Carvey Show-style switch to The Wendy's Jay Leno Show. Bing!
(via 29-95)
Oct 6 2009 '2012' Has Some Great Performances
What happens when you cut out all the effects shots from a five-minute clip of Roland Emmerich's newest disaster film, 2012? You get a sad, shouty minute-and-a-half acting reel composed of John Cusack doing a Conan-driving-his-desk Late Night sketch:
Sep 29 2009 'Where the Wild Things Are' Production Designer Speaks!
K.K. Barrett was production designer for Human Nature, I Heart Huckabees, Lost in Translation, Maria Antoinette, and every feature film Spike Jonze has made. If he spends 18 minutes talking about his work, including his recent Where the Wild Things Are job, wouldn't you want to hear that? To the few of you absentmindedly nodding in apathetic agreement: good news for you! This is your chance to find out that designing the sets for Maria Antoinette involved more than just watching Elizabeth:
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Sep 29 2009 See Conan O'Brien Smash His Head
You heard how Conan O'Brien banged his head pretty bad while taping a sketch for The Tonight Show, right? Well, you can finally sate your concussion bloodlust, because he presented the footage and told the full story on his show last night, and now that's on internet.
Sad that this would happen to Conan after just a few months on the show, yet Leno somehow went 17 years without someone running on the stage and bludgeoning him with anything.
Sep 17 2009 Ever Want To See 'Superbad' as a Cartoon?
That's now an attainable goal in your life. Well done, YouTube user stevefalz--though, as usual, I'm not entirely sure why done.
Below the cut, the "Afternoon Delight" sequence from Anchorman, now animated.
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Sep 2 2009 Beavis and Butthead are Back! And Shilling for 'Extract'!
Hey, remember Beavis and Butthead? Mike Judge hopes you do, because he's made a new animation where the characters introduce a clip of his new film and laugh about how Jason Bateman's name contains a third of the syllables required to say "masturbate." Seeing that Judge's last film, Idiocracy, had little to no promotion and no theatrical release, I'll give him a pass on this pandering, kind of sad effort. If we're lucky, maybe it will encourage Dana Carvey to promote Master of Disguise 2 with some Church Lady videos.
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Aug 28 2009 Movie Special Effects Sure Have Improved!
As my girlfriend site Geekologie noted, here's a video of a century of special effects shots, minus all the other groundbreaking special effects shots not included. Really makes you wonder how realistically we'll be able to render talking dog mouths given another hundred years.
Aug 20 2009 Phew, They Missed! No, Wait, I'm Cut to Pieces
No more having to constantly switch out DVDs just to watch a constant string of scenes where someone gets cut apart so precisely that there are several seconds of stunned silence before the person falls apart at the slice line(s)! This montage makes indulging that base desire a breeze:
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Aug 19 2009 'Law Abiding Citizen' Has This Really Awesome Explosion!
From my electronic mailbox:
I’m working on Overture’s upcoming Jamie Foxx/Gerard Butler suspense thriller flick, LAW ABIDING CITIZEN. (Which comes out October 16th!)The director of the film, F. Gary Gray (Be Cool, The Italian Job) just tweeted from his personal twitter account http://twitter.com/F_Gary_Gray a link to a really awesome explosion that they just shot for some added special effects sequences in the film – I’ve included a quick snapshot of the video [above]
Radical, dudes! A really awesome explosion! Really awesome explosions are like my favorite thing--after pizza and neon images of skateboarding youths, of course! So sweet.
Also included in that email: this link to F. Gary Gray's Twitter account, which has a link to not the actual explosion but a YouTube search for "f gary gray explosion." I guess that keeps the link relevant, in case director F. Gary Gray posts more F. Gary Gray explosions in the future.
Video of this misguided marketing attempt:
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Aug 3 2009 'Star Wars' Home Movies: Not a Mash-Up Like It Sounds Like
Think the Star Wars DVD special features, Star Wars making-of books, and Star Wars Trivial Pursuits have shown you everything that could be known about the making of George's Lucas eternally tinkered-with sci-fi adventure? Wrong! Now available on internet: 8mm home movies of the original special effects team who made all that lightsabering possible. Really makes me wish I could go back and see it all happen firsthand, and maybe warn them about some future tragedies or make some money betting on the outcome of sporting events, because I'm assuming I get all my current memories when I go back, right? Otherwise, forget it.
