The people at Uproxx [which is a lot of people I might add, they maintain several websites], hilariously came up with how Robert Downey Jr. has created some of the most memorable characters in the past 3-4 years. It’s quite unfortunate that recently, he’s too busy making sequels for these multimillion dollar franchises rather stepping out and creating more characters as unique as Kirk Lazarus or any other of his eccentric and likable characters. The man is highly talented and I can’t wait to see what he comes to do next.
One of my favorite websites, Collider, has created an Oscars of their own and held some of the awarded some very accurate nominations. Hit the link below to view them all. I, and I’m sure I’m not alone, have a couple of disagreements, the biggest as labeling Andy Serkis’s character Caeser from Rise of the Planet of the Apes as a ‘supporting’ character. But simultaneously my credit could be considered a moot point because I honestly haven’t seen EVERY movie on that list. Regardless, I high suggest you check it out.
WordPress isn’t very kind to embedding videos that aren’t Youtube, so when Youtube/Google doesn’t have it in their format, I’m kinda screwed. So I’ve given you the link to a video the guys at College Humor made that makes fun of the redundancy of the mass amount of sequels we have today. Enjoy!
Collider has found a new trailer for the Avengers that gives us a couple of more glances at what the movie has to offer. Unfortunately it’s still in Russian.
Making a movie poster is highly scientific. The guys at Oh No They Didn’t broke down the generic layout of every poster and applied it to all the posters like that. It oddly makes sense and is quite the testament to the editor’s observation powers.
How does a lazy pizza boy and his small Indian school-teacher friend react when they’re forced to rob a bank? Why, they simply go to the closest dollar tree, get some spray paint, some toy guns, ski masks, and go the closest bank that’s how. Forget the hesitation, paranoia, and other basic human emotion and let’s just have them be able to outrun the cops, deal with guns pointed in their faces, and bombs strapped to their chests. That’s where 30 Minutes or Less does wrong, while it provides decent comedy in its leads, it’s not irreverent enough to qualify as the good kind of absurd nor is it believable enough carry the heart it tries to convey.
Funny Or Die is a website created and partially maintained by Will Ferrell, Adam McKay and their production company. It serves as a site very similar to CollegeHumor, that serves as an entertainment website for its readers. On occasion CollegeHumor has featured celebrities that contribute to its already popular library. But the up that Funny Or Die has is that it even more frequently utilizes A-listers to make videos that are absolutely hysterical with the 1st class production value. So I’ve compiled some of my favorite videos from Funny or Die below. I’m sure long after this post is done, they will continue to pump out more and more videos. Most of these videos are un-embeddable, so most likely, you’ll have to jump over to Youtube to actually watch them. Rergardless, enjoy below.
It’s difficult how to process this. This could easily be another fantastic Pixar hit. Or it could possibly be leaning on the lines of How to Train Your Dragon that was made by Dreamworks Animation a couple of years ago. It was almost too eerily similar. Just trade in scrawny figure for girl and it almost looks and sounds like the same movie. But Pixar usually doesn’t let us down and at least I can say the visuals look great.
If you’re into foreign films, then you’ve probably stumbled upon a plethora of Chinese movies that are essential for calling yourself a movie buff. But if you’re not into foreign films then you’ve probably never have heard of any of the movies that are on this list. When you saw ‘Chinese Movies’ in the title, you likely probably thought, Jackie Chan, Kung Fu, and subtitles. As stereotypical as it is, most of the movies on this list are memorable for those things. But instead of ignorantly typecasting these movies as “foreign blubbering, sword chucking, Jackie Chan flicks”, think of these movies as films with their own heart, story, and characters. You’ll be pleasantly surprised and will even consider some of these flicks better than some of the crap Hollywood produces today.
Wes Anderson is known for his quirky movies with quirky characters that do quirky things. So how does he make it you ask? Well iTunes has a free [hopefully still by the time this post is published] that explains his methodology in film in response to the 10 year anniversary of his film The Royal Tenenbaums. I highly recommend it. Link below.
Even while writing this article, I became confused in whether this would focus on war speeches or just characters talking for a long time. Then I decided that I could instead do both. I’ll have an article right now for great monologues, which is defined a speech from one character speaking their thoughts aloud, and I’ll have a separate one for great wartime speeches for another day. So in the movies you’ll see below, you won’t find the empowering words of William Wallace or Theoden, King of Rohan, but the long speeches that are particularly mesmerizing in their substance and delivery. This is a very broad topic, so I’d imagine the choices I made could be considered lousy, and that there are more suitable ones. That’s your job, to find them and prove me wrong.
This is neither directly movie or TV related. But more than often TV and movies enforce these stereotypes, and especially reminds me of Mean Girls where they have a map of the drama in the high school cafeteria [clip below]. Hell if you don’t buy that lame excuse for a ‘bridge’, the third element in BananaFeeds Mission Statement is ‘Entertainment’. So these images are layouts of the types of people in cafeterias at ALL ages. Be entertained.
Martin Scorsese is widely regarded as one of the best directors in the industry today. You don’t need to be a film buff to enjoy most of his work, but if you are, you can appreciate it all the more. He has a large resume of impressive movies ranging from Goodfellas to Gangs of New York. He’s directed some of the most mesmerizing performances from Robert DeNiro and Leonardo DiCaprio. The last Director Filmography Ranked I did was for Christopher Nolan, and like him, it’s incredibly difficult to place one movie in front of another. So I eventually had to base it more off of what I’d rewatch over and over again. Hit the jump for the [very flawed and biased] ranking of the 8 Martin Scorsese movies I’ve seen so far. Be sure to recommend to me any ones I missed. I’ve particularly heard Casino is very good.
Cracked.com continues to be one of the best satirical writers out there on the vast web today. Once again they’ve come up with a sensible list of obscure movie details that wows its readers with its thought-out and flawless logic. This time, they’ve taken 6 seemingly happy endings to 6 different movies and laid out how, in all-reality, bodes illness for the future. Hit the link for the extremely satisfying breakdown. Spoilers beware.
Charming/adorable, they’re all pretty much the same word and they sum up the outlook of every character on this list. By using the word ‘infectiously charming’ I mean that they’re actions/philosophy in life can only bring smiles on our faces, regardless of how naive or misguided they may be. On this list, you’ll find 5 characters who represent the pinnacle of adorableness.
ABC and NBC currently have a rivalry in the adult fairy tale with Once Upon a Time and Grimm, respectively. And now there are two live action Snow Whites currently in production. Now I’m not currently watching either of these shows nor do I plan to watch any of these movies, so if you guys have any opinions on the matter let me know. I stumbled [not through the web application, but actually came upon it on my own] across this list of fairy tales that have their target demographic as adults. So check out the list in the link I have below and let me know your thoughts.
When people ask me what my favorite movie of all time is, I give them a look of stupidity and pretension and then go into an arrogant monologue saying that I’ve seen so many movies that you’d have to divide them up into genres to truly tell you what my favorite from each one. It’s usually at that point where they’re so taken back by my blind arrogance that they default to the only genre they can relate to: comedy.
Lol, jk, that actually doesn’t happen as much as I let on, but what I mean to aim at is when people ask me what my favorite comedy is and more than often I’ll always say Tropic Thunder. Tropic Thunder delivers itself as a comedy in two different ways, based on its audience. To the eyes of a culturally ignorant, Tropic Thunder is decent comedy with its most memorable moment is Jack Black saying he’ll suck Brandon T. Jackson’s dic* if he cuts him down from the tree. Hardee-f*cking-Har. To the eyes of those who have a decent understanding of the Hollywood industry, Tropic Thunder is a pinata full of scathing satire, irreplaceable performances, and deep, well-thoughtout jokes. After the jump lies a breakdown of how this movie literally splits my sides every time I watch it and how moments that might have seemed confusing and irrelevant are actually this movie’s brightest gems.
Hollywood looks like it’s having plans to make entire movies out of popular board games. We’ve already seen the trailer to 2012’s Battleship [trailer below] and there are already plans for a Ouija Board and Candy Land movies. So IMDB posted a poll having rather hilarious theoretical plot lines for other popular boardgames. Here’s what the choices and the spread was.
Question: Which of these movies based on boardgames have the best chance of being made?
Votes Stratego: Russell Crowe leads his red army against Hugh Jackman’s blue army in the war-torn, near-future United States. (32.5%)
In Mousetrap, Christian Bale is an eccentric inventor with a new contraption that could end the world. (17.6%)
Ailing matriarch, Ellen Burstyn tries to bring her kids — Kate Winslet, Julia Roberts, Zach Galifianakis, and Matt Damon — closer together in Connect Four. (11.4%)
A virus in the Congo pits Garrett Hedlund, Olivia Wilde and Oliver Platt against Hungry, Hungry Hippos. (10.6%)
In Twister, Jennifer Aniston and Ryan Reynolds negotiate the perils of a new relationship dot by colored dot. (6.0%)
Jake Gyllen’haal is a medical student with an undisclosed health disorder in the TV show, Operation. (4.9%)
Kristen Stewart plays a blind college student trying to find her swim coach boyfriend in Marco, Polo. (4.6%)
Forensics expert Drew Barrymore follows a series of mysterious tiles that spell “trouble” in Scrabble. (4.5%)
Mark Wahlberg, Chris Evans, Common and January Jones team up to beat the house odds in Yahtzee. (3.8%)
Solitaire: This standalone story, set in the universe of Cast Away, finds Tom Hanks playing out his fate hand by hand. (3.0%)
Hilary Swank crusades to spread worldwide awareness of the Chechen War in Sorry. (1.3%)
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My Favorite Comedy and Why: Tropic Thunder
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When people ask me what my favorite movie of all time is, I give them a look of stupidity and pretension and then go into an arrogant monologue saying that I’ve seen so many movies that you’d have to divide them up into genres to truly tell you what my favorite from each one. It’s usually at that point where they’re so taken back by my blind arrogance that they default to the only genre they can relate to: comedy.
Lol, jk, that actually doesn’t happen as much as I let on, but what I mean to aim at is when people ask me what my favorite comedy is and more than often I’ll always say Tropic Thunder. Tropic Thunder delivers itself as a comedy in two different ways, based on its audience. To the eyes of a culturally ignorant, Tropic Thunder is decent comedy with its most memorable moment is Jack Black saying he’ll suck Brandon T. Jackson’s dic* if he cuts him down from the tree. Hardee-f*cking-Har. To the eyes of those who have a decent understanding of the Hollywood industry, Tropic Thunder is a pinata full of scathing satire, irreplaceable performances, and deep, well-thoughtout jokes. After the jump lies a breakdown of how this movie literally splits my sides every time I watch it and how moments that might have seemed confusing and irrelevant are actually this movie’s brightest gems.
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