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.
A couple of days ago, my Facebook exploded with people talking about Childish Gambino’s new album hitting the internet. If you don’t already know who Childish Gambino is, maybe you’re more familiar with Troy from Community. I did a post regarding how amazing I felt when I learned Troy was a bonafide rapper. I immediately became a fan of his work and am one of millions who await his long awaited new album, Camp. He’s already released one single on iTunes, Bonfire, that has a video posted below. But now NPR has a full album on stream for anyone interested. I’ve listened to almost all 56 minutes and am absolutely in love with it. I suggest you do the same. The link is below.
Since 1977, Darth Vader has been one of the most iconic movie characters in history. As a movie , videogame, and franchise star, his hair raising presence has struck both fear and sympathy in our hearts, a feat not easily accomplishable in movie history. So I dedicate a character profile containing awesome images and videos in his honor.
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%)
I finally got around to watching this latest installment of the Pirates of the Caribbean series. There’s a number of different things about this last one. 1) The dropping of the series main couple, Will and Elizabeth Turner, 2) The shift away from the Davy Jones plot for the fountain of youth story, and 3) A slew of new characters. For better or for worse? Does this movie recapture the magic from the first one? Unfortunately, as Captain Jack Sparrow’s legacy battling zombies, Spaniards, and Blackbeard grows, his mannerisms, sword fights, and dramatic escapes have stayed relatively the same. So just because some new faces were slapped on, Pirates round 4 doesn’t offer anything substantially new, it does however provide itself as a fairly decent action flick involving one of the most iconic characters in movie history.
All of these are absolutely hilarious. The basic premise is to take a famous movie quote [one that’s usually short and sweet], and use creative diction to turn the phrase. The results are astoundingly clever. I dare you to come up with something better. Hit more to see the others
As many of you know, I’ve recently taken Terra Nova off of my TV queue this fall. So to fill its shoes, I’ve been heavily recommended that FX’s American Horror Story is a juicy and horrifying tale of a family in a cursed house. The final push to start this series is when the latest Entertainment Weekly arrived when its two major characters and a man in a rubber suit were on the cover. So after watching the first episode, I literally had my hand over my face the entire fifty minutes and nearly successfully shat my pants . The show is graphic, tense, and even highly sexual, something that my TV queue is lacking [Dexter can only have so much blood, gore, and sex]. And I haven’t regretted starting it ever since.
Today’s Sunday Funnies is going to be a lot different from past Sunday Funnies. The old Sunday funnies that a gallery of 24 individual pictures that forced you to click ‘next’ for every picture to be seen. While this was beneficial for my purposes [each click was considered a view, so Sundays usually provided me with absurd amounts of ‘hits’], I personally would be turned off by the amount of work needed to simply be entertained for five minutes. So I’ve divided the 24 pictures into three pages of eight pictures each. So when you hit the jump, you’ll arrive at the first page containing 8 pictures. By clicking the pictures, you’ll be sent to the original pictures website where the image will be bigger if you have any issues reading. At the bottom of every page you’ll see a pages 1,2,3 logo, just hit the next page from where you are. As I continue to develop this site, I’ll start looking for ‘next page’ HTML and stuff to help facilitate. Thanks for your constant support and I hope you enjoy this new format!
This baby’s face is pretty famous around the internet. His hardcore facial features have immortalized the ‘GET TO THE CHOPPA’ picture that you’ve probably seen before. Here, I’ve compiled a couple of more based on movies. Try to name as many of them as possible.
Remember, Remember the 5th of November…V For Vendetta is a movie spawned by the popular Dark Horse graphic novel. The main protagonist, V, is an enigma who has anarchist ideologies. He’s one of my favorite characters on film so I dedicate this character profile to him. He’s wildly insane, but combines his insanity with dashes of clash and undeniably coherent reason. I honor of November 5th, I dedicate this post to V. So come tomorrow, make sure you pop in V for Vendetta and feel a little anarchy, even if it’s just for one day. Below include photos and videos of his best moments.
Whether the poster is playing off of a pun or on a cultural and racial level, these movie mash ups are hilarious none the less. These were kind of neat, so I thought I’d share them with you. This is the first image of a gallery of about 12 movies or so. Hit the jump to view the rest.
A couple of weeks ago, I did a post relating vampire movies worth your while. I got a lot of support and feedback on that, so I turned to another monster genre that held it’s own for it’s success. Zombie movies are generally a lot different from the general vampire movie. While vampire movies are more based on the ideas of eternal love, the sexual aspect of blood sucking, and the drama of hiding from the light, zombie movies are more related to the strength of human kind in the face of Apocalypse and the bad-assery of killing as many zombies as possible. Hit the jump for the list of awesome zombie movies. I apologize for missing some, especially any really early zombie movies.
As most of you know, Anna Faris’s last hosting gig at SNL was a complete blunder. It was ill-prepared, poorly written, and extremely unfunny. However, NBC has released it’s line up of the next few guests: Charlie Day, Emma Stone, and Jason Segal. This is an impressive and talented line up and I’m very excited about what they bring come Saturday Night. Day and Segal are first timers and this will be Stone’s second time.
So this weekend has Horrible Bosses and It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia star Charlie Day as host, and I have high expectations. More than often Day has had to carry It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia on some of its flatter episodes, and he certainly held his own against A-listers like Jason Bateman and Kevin Spacey on Horrible Bosses. In both of those, he clearly channels Charlie Kelly in repeated yelling, general stupidity, and absurd ideologies. Hopefully the writers will take advantage of that and write some funny skits that make use of his talents. So I’m hoping that come Saturday Night, he reaches the bar that Melissa McCarthy set. A link to his promos below.
Some movies have moments where the violence is so disgusting or the scene so disturbing, that it would disturbing or disgusting for you as a human being if you didn’t feel any antipathy towards the seen, there’s likely something wrong with you. So I’ve compiled a list of several fairly mainstream movies that have fairly graphic scenes. I’m aware there are films that are relatively close to being snuff films that show extremely graphic moments, but I’m going to stay more towards Hollywood and stuff. Hit the jump for the following scenes. WARNING: extremely graphic scenes and videos below. I don’t recommend you watch any scenes of movies you if you haven’t seen them as they might give away spoilers.
If you haven’t already noticed, the bottom right of the side bar has featured a couple of my favorite articles. At the beginning of each month [welcome November!], I’ll change them up to keep them fresh. They’re there for any new visitors who haven’t seen all of my posts to get the cream of the crop in hopes that they’ll return. It just makes for easier facilitation without the visitor having to click through weeks and weeks of posts they’re not particularly interested in. Anyways, enjoy!
How do you rank the best of the best? With loads of bias and favortism, that’s how. I recently tried to finish up the past decade of best picture movies with finally watching Crash for the first time. Now that all of that is said and done, I can finally attempt to rank each of these movies. They’re all extremely good and it’s difficult to place on in front of the other for different reasons. This ranking was as difficult as ranking Pixar’s best. It’s just way too hard for someone to do without a score system of some sort. Some have really strong supporting characters, others fantastic storylines. How put one in front of the other? In the end, I decided on placing movies I’d watch again and again as top priority. Sure, my reasoning is full of holes and my descriptions don’t often justify the ranking, but I’m more doing this to hear what you guys have to say. Anyways here’s the breakdown and thus the start of my journey to seal up the 90’s Best picture. Here I come: Shakespeare in Love, The English Patient, and Unforgiven.
Happy Halloween to Everyone! Do one/all of the following today: Dress as your favorite tv character, go eat tons of candy, go to a costume party, carve a pumpkin with your favorite movie character or watch horror movies all night long! We’ll back be with regular program broadcasting tomorrow at 12:00 hours.
The Banana Tree may be gone, but I’ll still be linking left and right to today’s top stories. We’ve recently received word that there are three sequels in the making to relatively successful films: Dumb and Dumber, Zoolander, and The Incredibles.
I have mixed reactions to all three. Dumb and Dumber and Zoolander are comedic treasures in their own right and any sequel might tarnish that. As for The Incredibles, after the last stint with Cars 2, I’m not fully on board with ‘make a Pixar sequel that isn’t Toy Story’ deal. I’d just rather have something brand new. But we’ll see how Monster Academy peers out.
It is difficult to write this because Terra Nova showed so much promise. And by so much promise, I meant there’s f*cking dinosaurs in it. So I’ve finally caught up with Terra Nova this week, and instead of doing another Fall TV check up, I decided to write a warning obituary for a specific series. In a season where TV can easily take over your life if you’re ambitious enough, you have to filter what you watch or instead you’ll also be watching your grades plummet. So after giving Terra Nova a chance, I’ve become bored with it’s clunky dialogue, uninteresting side plots, and its general lack of DINOSAURS.
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My Favorite Comedy and Why: Tropic Thunder
November 10, 2011 by Patrick
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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