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Viral Video

2008: The Cinescape

A montage of 2008 movies made by Matt Shapiro.

The song is Hoppipolla by Sigur Rós and the films in order of appearance are:

– The Dark Knight
– Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
– Wall-E
– Quantum of Solace
– Iron Man
– Defiance
– Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
– Australia
– Forgetting Sarah Marshall
– Wall-E
– The Curious Case of Benjamin
– The Dark Knight
– Frost/Nixon
– Wall-E
– The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
– Slumdog Millionaire
– Milk
– Seven Pounds
– Revolutionary Road
– Pineapple Express
– Speed Racer
– Burn After Reading
– Ghost Town
– Revolutionary Road
– Quantum of Solace
– Rachel Getting Married
– Australia
– Role Models
– Choke
– The Tale of Despereaux
– Cloverfield
– Zack and Miri Make a Porno
– The Visitor
– Milk
– Be Kind Rewind
– Synecdoche, New York
– The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
– Doubt
– Wall-E
– W.
– Get Smart
– Iron Man
– Tropic Thunder
– Iron Man
– Tropic Thunder
– Doubt
– The Reader
– Happy-Go-Lucky
– The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
– Valkyrie
– Frost/Nixon
– Yes Man
– The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
– The Wrestler
– Revolutionary Road
– Snow Angels
– In Bruges
– Waltz with Bashir
– Wendy and Lucy
– Rachel Getting Married
– Get Smart
– Hamlet 2
– Hancock
– The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian
– Cloverfield
– Wall-E
– The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
– The Day the Earth Stood Still
– The Dark Knight

– FADE OUT

– FADE IN

– The Dark Knight
– The Incredible Hulk
– Wall-E
– Seven Pounds
– Wendy and Lucy
– The Wrestler
– Australia
– The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian
– The Dark Knight
– Wall-E
– Cloverfield
– Australia
– Miracle at St. Anna
– Waltz with Bashir
– Valkyrie
– Harold and Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay
– Rachel Getting Married
– Pineapple Express
– The Dark Knight
– Defiance
– Che
– Valkyrie
– Australia
– Defiance
– Quantum of Solace
– Slumdog Millionaire
– The Wrestler
– Revolutionary Road
– The Dark Knight
– Defiance
– Australia
– Iron Man
– Cloverfield
– The Strangers
– Defiance
– Wall-E
– Slumdog Millionaire
– Revolutionary Road
– Synecdoche, New York
– Defiance
– Iron Man
– The Day the Earth Stood Still
– Waltz with Bashir
– The Dark Knight
– Australia
– The Wrestler
– Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
– Cloverfield
– The Dark Knight
– Pineapple Express
– Defiance
– Rachel Getting Married
– Milk
– Quantum of Solace
– Defiance
– Kung Fu Panda
– Pineapple Express
– Seven Pounds
– The Wrestler
– Iron Man
– Eagle Eye
– Frost/Nixon
– Revolutionary Road
– The Reader
– Milk
– Harold and Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay
– Gran Torino
– Che
– The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

[Link via /Film]

> My favourite films of 2008
> All the films I saw at the cinema in 2008

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Viral Video

Whassup 2008

The Budweiser Whassup?’ ad has been reworked as a viral campaign video for Barack Obama.

For anyone who doesn’t remember the original from 1999, here it is:

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Amusing The Daily Video Viral Video

The Daily Video: Hayden Panettiere PSA – Vote for McCain

See more Hayden Panettiere videos at Funny or Die
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Interesting Short Films

Beached by Keith Loutit


Beached from Keith Loutit on Vimeo.

The above short film is actually Tamarama Beach in Sydney, shot as though it was a model.

The music ‘I Feel Fine‘ by Sonido Lasser Drakar.

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News

Dan Aykroyd Vodka ad

Is this video – in which Dan Aykroyd talks about Crystal Head Vodka – a joke, a viral ad or something else?

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Amusing The Daily Video

The Daily Video: The Dark Knight 1989 Style

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Viral Video

Obama viral ad about John McCain’s Seven Houses

A clever viral ad from the Obama campaign called Seven that has already got over 600,000 views on YouTube since it was posted yesterday.

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Amusing The Daily Video Viral Video

The Daily Video: Matt Damon’s impression of Matthew McConaughey

Matt Damon does a great impression of his old friend Matthew McConaughy, as this Letterman appearance from last year demonstrates.

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Interesting Viral Video

Viral Video: Where the Hell is Matt?

This is another viral video of games designer Matt Harding – who travelled the world and shot footage of himself and others dancing in various places across the globe.

This is the third video of his to become a huge viral hit and already has 529,142 views on YouTube.

> Matt’s official site with more about him and a FAQ
> Check out his first dancing video from 2005 and his second from 2006
> More videos on Matt’s YouTube channel
> An interview with Matt at Payscale
> More about Matt at Wikipedia

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Amusing TV Viral Video

Badly dubbed films for TV

Have you ever laughed or sighed when a film on TV has a ridiculous piece of editing to replace ‘offensive’ language?

This Basic Instinct video that compares the original film with the badly dubbed version altered for sensitive TV audiences.

Check out the differences between Scarface and the US TV cut (“this town is like one big chicken, just waiting to get plucked!”):

How about the safe-for-TV version of Die Hard 2? (“Hey turkey!”):

Or what about this scene from the TV edit of The Big Lebowski, with possibly the strangest substitute line ever? (“This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps!”)

And what about Casino, where the f-word is said 422 times?

This scene with De Niro and Pesci in the desert finds a way of avoiding it completely (“You better get your own fighting army pal!”):

Den of Geek has noted some other TV dubbing disasters:

Goodfellas: “Go fu*k your mother” bizarrely becomes “Go feel your mother”.

Ferris Bueller’s Day Off: “Pardon my French but you’re an AARDVARK!'”(????)

Field of Dreams: “We were going to ask Ty Cobb to play, but none of us could stand that son of a squid”

Robocop: “You’re gonna a bad mothercrusher…”

Lethal Weapon: “We bury the funsters!”

The Last Boy Scout: “I POPPED your wife, and later I’m gonna POP her again”

If you know of any others, just leave them in the comments below.

> Melon Farmers reprint an official BBC response as to why Thelma and Louise was cut for TV
> Bad TV Edits
> More edited-for-TV movies at Den of Geek

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Viral Video

Weezer’s Pork and Beans YouTube video

Weezer have done a video for their single Pork and Beans which features a number of people who became famous on YouTube.

Look out for:

> Official site for Weezer
> A timeline of Internet Memes at Dipity

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News Viral Video

Chris Matthews vs Kevin James on MSNBC

Just days after Bill O’Reilly’s timeless meltdown was leaked all over the web, here comes another contender for the YouTube Hall of Fame.

MSNBC’s Chris Matthews is having a debate with a conservative radio host named Kevin James.

The subject was President Bush’s recent comments in the Knesset, that compared Barack Obama to Nazi appeasers like Neville Chamberlain.

A couple of moments to look out for:

  1. Why are you screaming? (1.14)
  2. What did Neville Chamberlain do wrong in 1939? (2.18)

> The Huffington Post on Bush’s comments about Obama
> More on Neville Chamberlain at Wikipedia
> Official site for Hardball with Chris Matthews

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Amusing Viral Video

Gay Top Gun

Quentin Tarantino explains the gay subtext of Top Gun:

Tarantino’s speech is from the 1994 film Sleep With Me.

> More on Top Gun at Wikipedia
> Popmatters with a review of the Top Gun sepcial edition DVD

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Amusing Viral Video

Bill O’Reilly is Angry

When Fox News presenter Bill O’Reilly was on Inside Edition at CBS in the early 90s, he could still get angry:

UPDATE 14/05/08: A YouTube user has done a fine dance remix of the video with music from RevoLucian:

UPDATE 16/05/08: Stephen Colbert has his take on the video:

Bill’s arch nemesis, Keith Olberman of MSNBC has his take:

And Bill himself comments on the video in a piece on Fox News:

> More anger from The O’Reilly Factor
> Find out more about Bill O’Reilly and Inside Edition at Wikipedia

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Amusing Viral Video

The Dogway Melody

This is one of the strangest viral videos I’ve ever come across.

Called The Dogway Melody it was a short made in 1930 that recreates scenes from early musicals, such as The Broadway Melody. As you can see the cast are trained dogs with humans providing the voiceovers.

It was directed by Zion Myers and Jules White and is part of the MGM produced series of Dogville shorts.

[Link via Cracked]

> IMDb entry for The Dogway Melody
> More discussion on the MGM Dogville shorts at ToonZone