Funny yet thought provoking article.

I came across this article on cracked.com today. I didn't even know they were still in business. I thought it was interesting and correct in many ways. It's about how 9 famous movie villains were actually correct and maybe not the bad guy they were made out to be. The one about the Wizard of Oz sounds pretty legit to me.

Check it out.

http://www.cracked.com/article_18417_the-lighter-side-dark-side-5-villains-who-were-good.html

Brilliant Idea?

Had a thought while I was cleaning up after the movie tonight. There was a bit of a problem with a talker during the show. You know how TV shows with audiences have the Applause sign that lights up when they want the audience to clap? It occurred it would be nice to have a sign beside the screen that lit up and said 'quiet please'. We could turn it on when someone talks.

We could even have one with graduated levels for various types of talkers. It would go something like this:

Quiet Please

No Talking.

Shut Up.

Shut the F^%k up.

Think it would work?

More Youtube brilliance- Gremlins mess with your DVR!

I saw Gremlins 2 in a theatre which had a fun little segment where the gremlins appeared to mess with the projector. When the film came out on VHS they changed it to a sequence where they appeared to mess with the tape. Apparently the DVD uses the theatrical version. Some huge Gremlins fan went ahead and made up this sequence that could be used on the DVR or VOD version. I think it's positively brilliant. It's amazing what creative minds are coming up with and putting on youtube.
I just hope no prick at Warner Bros decides this is a copyright issue. If anything this promotes the Gremlins movies and possibly helps with the long rumoured Gremlins 3. Click through on the image to read the creator's comments and there's a making of video also.

James Bond Meets The Incredibles

This is another mash up trailer from the same guy who did the Dark Knight / Toy Story one I posted a couple weeks ago. It's not quite as good but still fascinating how images and audio are so malleable.

100 Spoilers in 4 minutes.

Found this interesting little video. Don't watch it if you haven't seen a lot of films. I figured I would be safe to watch it but there were a couple films mentioned I hadn't seen. Most of them are well known to anyone who pays any attention at all to pop culture or film.



I wonder how many takes it took?

Funny little Darth Vader Star Wars reedit

Saw this on Cinematical today.

Funny Hancock Blooper at a theatre I was at in England.

This article was on Cinematical today. Someone shot this not quite completed billboard for Hancock. I happened to realize the theatre was the Vue in Leicester Square in London England. One of the big old theatres that had been multiplexed. I saw a couple films there.

Funny line from review of 88 minutes.

Rarely do I laugh out loud at a sentence in a movie review. I did at this line in a Variety review of Al Pacino's 88 minutes. As you can probably tell from the line itself the review was pretty scathing. The movie sounded like an interesting idea but wasn't done properly.

Here's the line:

"To play the babes, the 19 producers have seen fit to hire actresses (including Alicia Witt but especially Leelee Sobieski) with the uniform capacity to tower over the leading man, something for which he was surely grateful. "

Let me know if you agree or if I just have a weird sense of humour.