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 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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Nov 3 2009 Singin' in the Rain Special Edition: The Way George Lucas Originally Intended for Gene Kelly to Intend
You'd think Lucas could get James Earl Jones or anyone else for voice-over instead of this guy. But personally, I'm more upset Debbie Reynolds no longer sings the Yub Nub song at the end.
Oct 26 2009 Fuse 'Paranormal Activity' and 'Saw' and You Get...
Paranormal Saw, obviously. Important viewing if for no other reason than the startling revelation that the Jigsaw puppet really does look like John Lithgow in makeup.
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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 Han Finally Pays for All That Careless Laser Firing on the Death Star
Yeah, funny... Except EVERYONE knows the Death Star's compactors are insulated with a special alloy of Nabooan materials chosen specifically for their sound dampening qualities!!! This video is NOT canon.
(Thanks, Ray.)
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 'Skyscraper' Outtakes: Not Every Anna Nicole Smith Performance Was As Flawless As 'Naked Gun 33⅓'
Believe it or not, Anna Nicole Smith didn't knock every take in her 1996 Die Hard rip-off, Skyscraper, out of the park. Even our greatest actors have their off days, and she's no exception. Which is great for us, because these insane outtakes are the most amazing way we could ever hope to remember America's Princess:
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 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 15 2009 Old Fashioney 'Raiders of the Lost Ark', 'Forrest Gump'
The man who brought us the brilliant, well-crafted trailer for Ghostbusters (if it were made in 1954) has at last satisfied our collective desire for more trailers for modern movies as if they were made way back when. This time we've got Raiders of the Lost Ark starring Charlton Heston and Forrest Gump with Jimmy Stewart.
As a warning, I think the trailer for Raiders of the Lost Ark (1951) includes spoilers if you haven't seen the 1951 version of Raiders of the Lost Ark.
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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 21 2009 'Avatar' is Basically 'Delgo 2'
Someone who did a good job noticing things has put together some side-by-side screenshots comparing the new Avatar trailer to the 2008 animated adventure Delgo, and the visual similarities are pretty astounding. Does this mean Delgo is the revolutionary game changer?
(via PopCandy)
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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