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DJ Mayhem’s Aliens Rap

DJ Mayhem and Mouthmaster Murf of The Anomalies and DJ crew The Farcical 3 have done a rap based on Aliens.

They say:

‘This video is in no way trying to take credit for this almost flawless masterpiece, it is merely a tribute to how spectacular it is’

Right on.

(N.B. I wouldn’t watch this unless you have seen the film as it reveals major plot points)

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The Crying Wife

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I’m not sure if these videos of a man filming his wife crying at films are real, fake or part of some kind of internet spoof.

The deal is that the husband claims his wife:

‘cries after almost every movie we see with a happy or sad ending’.

It started when they watched all 6 episodes of Star Wars (one per day) and she started to lose it.

He then filmed it and uploaded it to YouTube (I hope with her permission).

He then filmed her after watching The Lord of the Rings, Back to the Future, AI and Marley and Me (she really loses after this one).

I should add a dash of scepticism by saying that the husband claims to work for a company that “handles ninja affairs” but he’s probably joking of course.

Spoof or not, it does highlight that one of the primary reasons people watch films is for an emotional release.

Although one frequent complaint by mainstream audiences is that something is ‘too depressing’, some of the most successful films of all time like Love Story (1970), E.T. (1982) and Titanic (1997) were openly sad at their core.

One of the ideas Ancient Greeks had about drama was for it to provide catharsis and purge us of our negative emotions within a social situation.

Tragedies and their modern movie antecedents are a form of art based on human suffering, that paradoxically offers the audience pleasure.

Despite all the joking around in these videos, they actually hit upon this truth.

What films should this guy show his wife next? I’d go for Up, Stand By Me or The Shawshank Redemption.

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Dirty Harry meets Rain Man

Just the thought of Harry Callahan taking on Raymond Babbit makes me laugh.

[via xkcd]

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Arnold Schwarzenegger Can’t Say Avatar

US late night host Jimmy Kimmel recently had some fun with Arnold Schwarzenegger‘s inability to pronounce the title of James Cameron’s latest blockbuster.

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Julia Roberts and Tom Hanks on NBC

Julia Roberts and Tom Hanks were interviewed live by NBC on the Golden Globes red carpet and had some rather amusing things to say about the network’s recent problems.

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Up (in the Air) Mashup

This mashup of Pixar’s Up and George Clooney’s monologue from Up in the Air is simple but surprisingly effective.

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James Cameron’s Pocahontas

Someone has done a quick rewrite of Disney’s version of the Pocahontas story with some Avatar influenced notes.

(Click the image for a larger version)

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The Shatner Khan Meme

I have to confess that the whole internet meme based around William Shatner screaming the name of the villain in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan kind of passed me by until now.

But Shatner’s overacting and the ‘pleasured’ look on the face of Ricardo Montalban are hilarious.

> Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan at Wikipedia
> YTMND Khan page

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Peter Sellars does English accents

Whilst filming Dr Strangelove Peter Sellars did this press interview on the phone with a US outlet and demonstrated his incredible mastery of British accents.

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Up meets Gran Torino

A very amusing mashup of Pixar’s Up and Gran Torino.

[Via Hollywood Elsewhere]

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The Real Life Russell from Up

The real life Russell from Up

Apparently this is the real life inspiration for the character of Russell – the young kid in Pixar’s Up.

(Another picture can be found here)

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[Link via Buzzfeed]

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Scar Wars: Scarface meets Star Wars

Someone has done a mash up of Harrison Ford’s most famous roles (Han Solo and Indiana Jones) with some Scarface audio.

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Tarantino Softbank Ad

This Japanese advert for Soft Bank mobile starring Quentin Tarantino is a little bizarre (read CNET’s full explanation).

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Worst British Accent in Movie History

Back in 2001 Josh Hartnett was in a film called Blow Dry, which was a comedy about Yorkshire hairdressers (I’m not making this up).

The above video demonstrates that he has the worst British accent. Ever.

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North By Northwest Trailer

The original trailer for North By Northwest (out recently on Blu-ray) was introduced by Alfred Hitchcock and done in the manner of a travel show.

Can you imagine directors today being this funny?

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Casino: The F**k Version

When I first saw Casino I remember thinking that it contained more f-words than any movie I had seen and someone has done this f-only edit of the film.

Interestingly there is a Wikipedia entry for ‘films that most frequently use the word f**k’

The world record for most uses of the word is a 2005 documentary called (appropriately) Fuck with 824 uses of the word, which works out at 8.86 per minute.

When it comes to feature films, Summer of Sam (1999) follows with 435 and then Nil By Mouth (1997) with 428.

Casino comes in on 398 and then Alpha Dog (2007) with 367.

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Star Trek meets The A Team

PhamtomKnight has done a great job mashing up the latest Star Trek movie with The A-Team.

[Link via BuzzFeed]

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Robin Williams talks Sarah Palin on Letterman

Robin Williams was recently on Late Night with David Letterman and had some amusing things to say about Sarah Palin, Bono, and his new movie Old Dogs.

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Shia LeBeouf says no a lot

Shia LeBeouf seems to say the word ‘no’ a lot in the films he has been in.

Transformers, Disturbia and Surf’s Up were all major no-fests.

Someone has even done a mash up with 2 Unlimited‘s No Limit:

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Christopher Walken & Julian Schnabel Cooking Together

Christopher Walken and Julian Schnabel eating and cooking together in New York on the IFC show Split Screen back in 1999.

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Lady Gaga / Christopher Walken / South Park mashup

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Hot on the heels of Christopher Walken’s spoken word rendition of Lady Gaga’s Pokerface on Friday Night With Jonathan Ross, Half Mast/Hat has done a mash up with Eric Cartman from South Park thrown in for good measure.

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Reservoir Turtles

A clever trailer mashup of Reservoir Dogs and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

[Via BuzzFeed]

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Nicolas Cage on crack

This viral video for Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans is actually quite a good taster of the film’s gleeful insanity.

I love the fact that it directs you to a site called luckycrackpipe.com

Read my full thoughts on the film here.

N.B. If Cage’s lawyers are reading this, the title of the post clearly refers to his character in the film being on crack. Happy? Good.

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When Titles Are Said in Movies

A friend of mine once told me that he always likes it in a film when the title is used as a line of dialogue.

He’s going to love the above compilation.

[Link via Thompson on Hollywood]

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David Hasselhoff at the Berlin Wall in 1989

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The moment the Soviet Union really knew that capitalism had triumphed was when the star of Knight Rider and Baywatch sung on the ruins of the Berlin Wall in December 1989.

(Look out for the firecracker that almost hits him at 3.22]

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Chaotic Mr Fox Poster

Fantastic Mr Fox Antichrist

A clever poster mash-up of Fantastic Mr Fox and Antichrist by Sam Smyth.

And let’s not forget that YouTube mashup:

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Wallace and Gromit Google logo

Wallace and Gromit Google logo

This Google logo to celebrate the 20th anniversary of Wallace and Gromit is rather clever.

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Christopher Walken performs Lady Gaga’s Pokerface

Christopher Walken was on Friday Night with Jonathan Ross where he performed a spoken word version of Pokerface by Lady Gaga.

It reminded me a little bit of his rendition of the Three Little Pigs on Ross’s Channel 4 show a few years ago.

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Paranormal Saw

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Funny or Die have posted an amusing spoof of Paranormal Activity and the Saw franchise called Paranormal Saw.

(My favourite line: “he [Jigsaw] looks like John Lithgow with makeup on”)

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Pulp Fiction with a laugh track

Someone has re-edited a famous scene from Pulp Fiction with a laugh track.

[Link via Buzzfeed]

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Tom Cruise inspired American Psycho

Cruise Bale Kermit

Director Mary Harron has admitted in an interview that Tom Cruise inspired Christian Bale’s portrayal of Patrick Bateman in American Psycho.

Which in turn has led to an updating of that Bale-Kermit the Frog meme from a few months back.

Cruise Bale Kermit 2

[Link via Buzzfeed]

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The Wrestler: Grindhouse Version

A very well executed Grindhouse trailer for The Wrestler by jkpyle

[Link via /Film]

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Peter Serafinowicz movie lines

Peter Serafinowicz does his favourite movie lines (some killer impressions here of Marlon Brando and Robert De Niro)

[Link via Edgar Wright]

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George Clooney in Street Hawk

George Clooney in Street Hawk

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George Clooney has three films showing at this year’s London film festival – Fantastic Mr Fox, The Men Who Stare at Goats and Up in the Air.

Fox got a big gala premiere last night, Goats screens tonight, Up in the Air shows on Sunday and even The Times wrote a gushing editorial declaring him ‘Fantastic Mr Clooney’. Which, to be fair, I’d mostly agree with – of all the major A-listers he is perhaps the most consistent in doing interesting work within the Hollywood system.

But before he became a big star in the 90s with ER, he paid his dues in TV such as Street Hawk. For those who never saw this 80s show, the premise was basically Knight Rider with a motorbike (i.e. former government agent becomes a crusader against crime with the aid of a hi-tech vehicle).

Clooney was in an episode called A Second Self and here is some of his appearance in two videos.

In this one he comes in around the 2.00 mark.

For some reason this one is dubbed in French:

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Tom Hanks on Letterman

Tom Hanks on Letterman recently, post all the extortion plot hoopla.

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Chaotic Mr Fox

What happens when you mix Wes Anderson‘s Fantastic Mr Fox with Lars Von Trier‘s ‘chaos reigns’ fox from Antichrist?

Chaotic Mr Fox, that’s what.

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Oliver Reed on Letterman in 1987

One of the all time Letterman appearances from a drunken Oliver Reed in 1987.

[Link via HE]

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Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert argue over Full Metal Jacket

This classic exchange from 1987 shows Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert argue about the merits of Full Metal Jacket after Roger had given a thumbs up to Benji The Hunted (!) but a thumbs down to the Kubrick film.

I’m with Gene on this one despite Roger’s impassioned defence about context.

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Up balloon flies under Tower Bridge

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Disney and Pixar have flown a balloon under Tower Bridge in London ahead of the release of Up, which is out at UK cinemas next Friday.

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28 Days Later in 1 minute

Danny Boyle‘s 2002 horror film 28 Days Later re-enacted in one take that lasts exactly 1 minute.

A marvellous feat of compression.

[Link via Buzzfeed]