Someone has mashed up the infamous Christian Bale rant with that spectacularly misjudged Tiger Woods Nike advert.
[Link via BuzzFeed]
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Ring Prank
This video of a Chinese girl freaking out people who walk into a building reminds me a lot of Asian horror films like Ring and The Grudge.
She just stands there silently but their reaction is act like they’ve just seen a ghost.
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Oscar Thank Yous
An amusing montage of famous actors and directors saying who they’d like to thank at the Oscars.
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The ‘Mirror Scare’ in Horror Films
I think it is fair to say that too many horror films have used the ‘mirror scare‘ cliché.
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Team Avatar: Pandora Police
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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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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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Up meets Gran Torino
A very amusing mashup of Pixar’s Up and Gran Torino.
[Via Hollywood Elsewhere]
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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Hollywood Destroys New York
A video compilation of New York being destroyed in various Hollywood movies, set to the music of George Gershwin.
[Via BuzzFeed]
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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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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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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.
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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Ukrainian cameraman caught being sleazy
I just came across this clip on YouTube which is accurately titled: “Ukrainian cameraman caught perving during Ukraine vs. England, FIFA WCQ telecast”.
[Link via 100 Great Goals]
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Rocketboom’s Know Your Meme series explains the evolution of the Christian Bale rant.
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Ben Stiller is online
Ben Stiller demonstrates his familiarity with the internet.
This long form advert for Johnnie Walker whisky with Robert Carlyle is a pretty incredible piece of filmmaking.
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Entitled The Man Who Walked Around The World, it features Carlyle walking and talking to camera, discussing the history of the famous Scottish beverage.
It was directed by Jamie Rafn and the copy was written by Justin Moore of BBH.
Rafn explains in this interview with Shots that:
- It was all shot in one take.
- They blocked it out in Hyde Park with a small HDV camera and then in Scotland with some index cards marking where the props would be.
- The take used was the final one they filmed at 8pm on the last day of the shoot (Take 40).
- It was shot near Loch Doyne in Scotland.
- The Steadicam operator was George Richmond, who was sat on the back of a rickshaw being pulled up and down the hill by two grips.
N.B If the YouTube video gets pulled then you can watch it on the official Johnnie Walker website.
Between Two Ferns is a spoof talk show hosted by Zach Galifianakis and the latest episode features Charlize Theron.
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Star Wars Airwolf Mashups
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The Best of the Vader Sessions
You may have missed the original Vader Sessions viral video from a couple of years ago, but the premise was brilliantly simple: revoice Darth Vader with audio from other James Earl Jones movies.
Here is a ‘best of’ edit.
> The original Vader Sessions video and the Darth Vader is coming to Alderaan edit
> James Earl Jones at the IMDb
A 5 minute montage of landmark visual effects in the movies from The Enchanted Drawing (1900) to The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008).
10,000 of Japan’s biggest Harry Potter fans recently competed for a chance to travel to the UK and visit the set of the Deathly Hallows films.
A thrilled young girl named Kana was the eventual winner but as it was for a comedy TV show named Sanma Akashiya‘s “Karakuri Terebi”, they planned a few surprises for her.
Little did she know that she was actually going to meet her wizard idols Daniel Radcliffe (Harry Potter), Rupert Grint (Ron Weasley) and Emma Watson (Hermione Granger).
First she meets Rupert and falls in love with his eyebrows (“You look so cool!”). After that she gets to meet Emma Watson, who she shares a drink with:
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And then, best of all, she gets surprised by Daniel Radcliffe whilst dreaming of being in Griffindor with Harry (“Amazing! I can hear his heartbeat!”):
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[Link via Amanda Dobbins & Buzzfeed, Japan Probe and David Cho]
Someone rung up the answerphone of a cinema in Navan, Ireland and recorded the manager warning potential customers that Brüno will ‘will offend every prejudice in the book’.
Is it just me or is there a sly tone to the guy’s voice?
(Also note how multimedia this video is – a guy filmed his phone, whilst ringing up a cinema’s answer machine, in front of a newspaper …and then put it on the internet).
One of the strangest viral videos I’ve come across recently was this combination of the 1982 TV film Desperate Lives (an anti-drug teen drama starring a young Helen Hunt), the video for Hall and Oates‘ 1980 single You Make My Dreams and a keyboard playing cat.
Warner Music Group have gone on one of their periodic YouTube purges which I’m sure is the very reason more people will now be looking for it.
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> Wired and CNET on the story
> The original cat video
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Web Site Story
West Side Story has been transformed by College Humor into this spoof which drops in all manner of references to Twitter, Facebook and a bunch of other websites.
> More on the original musical at Wikipedia
> We Didn’t Start the Flame War
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CPDRC inmates do the Jai Ho dance
You might have already seen the inmates of Cebu Provincial Detention and Rehabilitation Center (CPDRC) – a maximum security prison in the Philippines – do that famous dance to Michael Jackson’s ‘Thriller’.
They are also the latest group to do the Jai Ho dance from the end of Slumdog Millionaire.
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They have also recently done a tribute dance to Jackson.
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Han Solo P.I.
Tom Selleck was the original choice to play Indiana Jones but had to turn down the role because he was in Magnum, P.I. at the time.
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With that in mind, check out this mashup TheCBVee have done which reimagines Harrison Ford (playing Han Solo) as the TV detective.
And check out the frame-by-frame comparison.
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> Magnum, P.I. at Wikipedia
> Star Wars official site
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100 Movie Lines in 200 Seconds
Liquid Generation have edited one liners from 100 films in to the following 200 second montage.
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How many of the films can you name?
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Christian Bale vs Bill O’Reilly
What do you get when a classic piece of viral audio meets a vintage viral video?
Christian Bale versus Bill O’Reilly.
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Transforminators
A clever mashup of Transformers and The Terminator films.
Terminator Salvation opens in the UK on June 3rd
> The now infamous Christian Bale rant on the set of Terminator Salvation
> More on Transformers at Wikipedia
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PS22 Chorus sing Eye of the Tiger
The PS22 Chorus have been getting a lot of views on YouTube and this is them singing Eye of the Tiger from Rocky III.
> PS22 Chorus
> Eye of the Tiger at Wikipedia
> Rocky III at IMDb
The Onion have a new video report on what Star Trek fans think of the new film.
Trekkies Bash New Star Trek Film As ‘Fun, Watchable’
> Star Trek at the IMDb
> Official site
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The Tarantino Mixtape
This rather cool mashup of the films of Quentin Tarantino is by Eclectic Method.
[Link via /Film]
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Susan Boyle on Britain’s Got Talent
This clip of Susan Boyle on Britain’s Got Talent has now got over 8 million views on YouTube.
> BBC News with more on the Scottish singer
> Find out more about Britain’s Got Talent at Wikipedia
> Jazz FM on the version of Cry Me A River she recorded in 1999
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We Didn’t Start The Flame War
An amusing video from College Humor about comment flame wars set to We Didn’t Start The Fire by Billy Joel.
The original video from 1989 is here:
> More on the song at Wikipedia
> Find out more about flaming at Answers.com