Movie producer Michael Bay is famous for the explosions that unnecessarily punctuate his movies. It is a destiny that he was born to. Similarly, the delivery room staff was temporarily blinded with lens flare when J.J. Abrams was born.
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They call him Khaki Shorts. No one knows his real name, for he is a creature of the night. Also the arcade. With both hands, he throws one basketball after another into the hoop. Smoothly, the balls slide through the net, much faster and more accurately than his two competitors.
Having played with this child's toy long enough, Khaki Shorts aims for the basket on a different console! He banks the shots, sending the basketballs through the net.
Then Khaki Shorts strides off casually, disappearing into the sunset. He shall return again when we need him the most.
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Wayne Campbell and Garth Algar (played by Mike Myers and Dana Carvey) appeared on the SNL 40th anniversary special and proved they are just as loved as they were a quarter-century ago. The recurring skit “Wayne’s World” was such a hit on Saturday Night Live that it propelled Myers onto the big screen for the feature film Wayne’s World in 1992. Here’s some things you should know about both of them.
1. WAYNE BEGAN LIFE ON A DIFFERENT SERIES ALTOGETHER.
Though it’s Saturday Night Live that made Wayne Campbell a household name, the character—which Mike Myers began working on when he was still a teenager—began his on-screen life on Canadian television, first on the alternative video show City Limits and later on It’s Only Rock & Roll in 1987 in a sketch called “Wayne’s Power Minute.” When Myers joined the cast of SNL in 1989, he brought Wayne with him. "Wayne’s World" made its SNL debut on February 18, 1989.
12. “BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY” ALMOST DIDN’T MAKE IT INTO THE FILM.
In 2014, Myers told Marc Maron on his WTF podcast that using “Bohemian Rhapsody” was one of the things he fought for hardest on Wayne’s World. “They wanted Guns N' Roses. Guns N' Roses were very, very popular, they were a fantastic band,” Myers said. “Queen, at that point—not by me and not by hardcore fans—but the public had sort of forgotten about them. Freddie [Mercury] had gotten sick, the last time we had seen them was on Live Aid and then there were a few albums after where they were sort of straying away from their arena rock roots. But I always loved ‘Bohemian Rhapsody.’ I thought it was a masterpiece. So I fought really, really hard for it. And at one point I said, ‘Well, I'm out. I don't want to make this movie if it’s not ‘Bohemian Rhapsody.’”
That’s just a sampling of the things you’ll learn about Wayne’s World in a trivia list at mental_floss.
The comic strip Cathy has become a punchline for a miserable woman dealing with life’s seemingly never ending series of mundane problems. But what if, instead of chocolates and bathing suits, Cathy got real for a moment and told it like it is? Louis C.K. also talks about life’s seemingly endless series of problems and issues, albeit in a more profane manner. So why not let the forever-put-upon Cathy finally speak her mind by removing any filter and inserting C.K.’s thoughts? That’s the genius combination behind The Cathy CK tumblr, which repurposes panels from Cathy comics with Louis C.K.’s bits of wisdom. The result is a lot more f-bombs and a woman who has clearly had enough of being polite with her issues.
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Dark Horse and Rogue Ales are getting together in honor of the 21st anniverary of Mike Mignola’s Hellboy… and making a beer. The RIGHT HAND OF DOOM, a limited edition beer that will be available online beginning February 22, 2015 at www.rogue.com
“When Dark Horse Comics published the first Hellboy story 21 years ago, I never thought there’d be a Hellboy beer,” said Mignola. “But I really can’t imagine a better time for Rogue to introduce the Right Hand of Doom beer. If Hellboy was real I guess he’d finally be able to buy me a beer.”
The RIGHT HAND OF DOOM label features a Hellboy drawing by Mignola. The beer will be available for the first time publicly at an event at Things From Another World Comics store in Portland on Friday, February 20 at a signing with Mignola and fellow comic book superstars Matt Kindt (MIND MGMT), Eric Powell (THE GOON) and Brian Wood (REBELS). The event begins at 4 PM, with Mignola’s signing scheduled for 6 PM. The beer will be available nationally via http://buy.rogue.com/Rogue-Hellboy-Right-Hand-of-Doom-Red-Ale; pre-orders are now available.
Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you probably heard about the special Saturday Night Live 40th Anniversary special that aired this past Sunday night. It was a three and a half hour trip down memory lane, featuring a true dream-team of comedy’s elite.
Among the many highlights came early in the show when a 5-minute video montage was shown of cast members’ first auditions. Not fake auditions, like we’ve seen in the past. The actual, real auditions for stars like Will Ferrell, Bill Hader, Amy Poehler, Jimmy Fallon as well as classic cast members like Dan Aykroyd, Chevy Chase, Gilda Radner and John Belushi. Here, you can see them in the auditions that would change their lives forever. It’s pretty special.
As a bonus though, there are also auditions from people who didn’t make the cut. They’re people you’ve definitely heard of who auditioned, but didn’t make the show.
Below, check out the Saturday Night Live auditions video as well a few of the other highlights from the special including Celebrity Jeopardy, Wayne’s World and more.
Thanks to the SNL Youtube for the videos.
That was a pretty excellent moment. Here are a few of my other favorite moments from the show:
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Each of the 5 USB drops Bartholl installed is hidden in plain sight, buried in walls of stone or other public places. Countless others have been installed by users worldwide.
Christopher Genovese really went the distance on this piece of high fashion: KRANG from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles! This oversized belt buckle is BIG, but more comfortable and wearable than you would expect. Cast in urethane resin from an original clay sculpture, hand-painted, and hard-coated with polyurethane clear coat, it’s durable too. The best part is with just a few more items, this buckle is the perfect size to be used as part of a Krang costume for toddlers on Halloween or at comic conventions.
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CoreyI have been winning all of my staring contests lately...
The fact that men can even grow beards is probably due to sexual selection over thousands of years. Basically, beards exist purely because women dig them.
After WWII, Frank Wisner and his office had an idea for a plan to make the Soviets feel inferior in, err, size to Americans. Sadly, that plan was never carried out. But…
CoreyI wanted to see Project Almanac, and after seeing it compared to all of these movies, I want to see it even more.
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Project Almanac is the kind of movie where the characters are fully aware of other movies like it. That’s never been an unusual idea, because if you think about it, you’d be one of those characters, too. “Genre savvy” is what it’s called, and any human character who grew up on movies is going to have it. If a real slasher started killing your friends, you’d think about what happens in slasher movies, at least for a second before you just panicked because someone is murdering your friends. But it’s particularly true for more fantastical scenarios. If your world was suddenly populated by vampires or zombies, you’d consider the rules of movies about vampires or zombies. And if you managed to invent a time machine, you’d wonder which time travel movies got it right — especially regarding what happens to you if you encounter another version of yourself.
There are quite a number of other time travel movies referenced in some form or another in Project Almanac, too many to bother listing in this edition of Movies to Watch. Especially the really famous ones. One character mentions “Terminators one through four,” but I’m not going to recommend any of them. Same goes for Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure, a clip from which even appears on screen. Then there’s Timeline, which isn’t alluded to except through the way the main actor in Project Almanac, Jonny Weston, really reminds me of a young Paul Walker. But nobody needs to see that movie. So, I’ve been selective, and only one third of the following recommended titles is from the time travel genre.
The rest are the usual variety. There are a few movies that have similar style or tone or plots outside of the primary genre and another few are linked by director and cast. And as always, this list is best avoided before seeing the movie at hand, as their reason for inclusion may have to do with SPOILERS regarding Project Almanac.
Let’s get the most obvious movie connection out of the way first. From the start, back when Project Almanac was still titled Welcome to Yesterday, it was likened to Josh Trank‘s found-footage superhero movie. Sure, there are tons of movies shot like this out there, but Chronicle similarly involves high schoolers, a sci-fi situation and selfish results. Project Almanac almost feels like a remake of Chronicle just with every instance of the words “super powers” in the script being replaced with “time travel.” Yet Chronicle is a far superior movie that not just is more consistent with its found-footage logic but also very clever in its employment. At times Project Almanac is actually more aligned with the high schoolers storyline in last year’s found-footage disaster movie, Into the Storm.
From there you might as well also go back and watch this underrated Doug Liman sci-fi flick that also shows us people with super powers being more naturally selfish and greedy rather than heroic. Now that Liman has also made a great time travel movie concerned with do-overs — Edge of Tomorrow — you may consider this the Chronicle to that movie’s Project Almanac.
For a good while, Project Almanac has a bit of the spirit of an old Amblin Entertainment movie. I started to think maybe producer Michael Bay had learned some good from his Transformers producer, Steven Spielberg (co-founder of Amblin and producer of The Goonies). In the first act of both The Goonies and Project Almanac, there is a financial dilemma and some of the main characters are about to lose their home as a result. They search through boxes of old stuff in an attic and find something that propels the plot and leads them on an adventure. On the way, they end up in a basement, find a significant trap door in the floor, and suddenly a hot girl that one of them likes shows up and — then they split as The Goonies follows a treasure hunt through booby-trapped caverns and Project Almanac follows a series of trips through time that contain their own peril.
While not an Amblin production, this sci-fi teen movie, which hit theaters a month after The Goonies, has a bit of that same spirit. It makes sense, because director Joe Dante had previously worked for Amblin on Gremlins. Here we have a trio of high school nerds (Ethan Hawke, River Phoenix and Jason Presson) who build a space craft together and wind up on an alien ship. Their early scenes building and testing their invention parallels the scenes of building and testing the time machine in Project Almanac all too well. Hawke’s character also has a crush on a cute girl from school that’s akin to the one had by Weston in the new movie.
Another month went by in the summer of 1985 and then we got this very cheesy but likable sci-fi teen movie in which John Stockwell finds an extraterrestrial engine that can transport things and people through time. What’s interesting about the movie is the plot never takes us along for a ride through time. Instead, the action sticks to the present while a ridiculous Dennis Hopper, playing a history teacher, goes back to the ’60s and returns without the narrative following him. Also, more in focus is all the stuff that the machine pulls to the present from the past and future, including ancient artifacts, Vietnam War soldiers, a Morlock-type creature from the future and a Tyrannosaurus rex.
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If you’ve seen even a little bit of her Comedy Central series, you already know that Amy Schumer one of the funniest actresses on the small screen. Now she’s poised to take over the big screen as well, as the writer and star of Judd Apatow‘s Trainwreck.
Schumer plays a woman who’s utterly allergic to commitment. Actually, “commitment” seems like too strong a word — based on the Trainwreck trailer, she doesn’t even like getting to the second date if she can help it. Enter a handsome doctor played by Bill Hader, who threatens to upend her life.
The supporting cast is equally stellar, with Vanessa Bayer and Lebron James(!) as Schumer and Hader’s supportive pals, Tilda Swinton as Schumer’s boss, and much much more. Watch the first Trainwreck trailer after the jump.
Update: A Trainwreck red-band trailer has also hit, with more raunchy jokes. Plus, a new poster and new stills — see it all below.
Schumer unveiled the Trainwreck trailer on Twitter.
Here is the trailer for @TrainwreckMovie #Trainwreck We are very proud. I hope you like it https://t.co/Sla2xMbGw2
— Amy Schumer (@amyschumer) February 11, 2015
Update: And here’s the red-band version:
Apatow’s films have grown a bit shaggy as of late, and Schumer’s a big-screen newbie, but they seem to be in good hands with each other. Schumer’s unique perspective puts a fresh spin on the humor-plus-heart formula that have made Apatow’s past films so successful.
The trailer is flat-out hilarious. I particularly love the last scene, where Bayer and Schumer are utterly confused by Hader’s very polite phone call, while James serves as Hader’s helpful BFF. If Trainwreck weren’t already on our most-anticipated lists, it would be now.
Trainwreck opens July 17. Also appearing are Brie Larson, John Cena, Mike Biriglia, Ezra Miller, Marisa Tomei, Daniel Radcliffe, Barkhad Abdi, Jon Glaser, Colin Quinn, and Randall Park. Lord knows how Apatow and Schumer have managed to fit them all in, but it should be fun to find out.
Since she was a little girl, it’s been drilled into Amy’s (Schumer) head by her rascal of a dad (Colin Quinn) that monogamy isn’t realistic. Now a magazine writer, Amy lives by that credo—enjoying what she feels is an uninhibited life free from stifling, boring romantic commitment—but in actuality, she’s kind of in a rut. When she finds herself starting to fall for the subject of the new article she’s writing, a charming and successful sports doctor named Aaron Conners (Bill Hader), Amy starts to wonder if other grown-ups, including this guy who really seems to like her, might be on to something.
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Henry Cavill took a break from being Superman to be The Man From U.N.C.L.E. for Warner Bros. and Guy Ritchie, and now you can see the first footage of him in action. The film features Cavill and Armie Hammer as a pair of unlikely American and Russian spies who work together in the swinging ’60s and the Cold War.
Imagine a spy movie with the action sensibility of Ritchie’s Sherlock Holmes movies, filtered through the visual sense of the first couple seasons of Mad Men and you’ll be in the ballpark. Check out the Man From UNCLE trailer below.
The Man From U.N.C.L.E. opens in the US on August 14. Trailer via Warner Bros.
Henry Cavill (“Man of Steel”) stars as Napoleon Solo opposite Armie Hammer (“The Social Network”) as Illya Kuryakin in director Guy Ritchie’s “The Man from U.N.C.L.E.,” a fresh take on the hugely popular 1960s television series.
Set against the backdrop of the early 1960s, at the height of the Cold War, “The Man from U.N.C.L.E.” centers on CIA agent Solo and KGB agent Kuryakin. Forced to put aside longstanding hostilities, the two team up on a joint mission to stop a mysterious international criminal organization, which is bent on destabilizing the fragile balance of power through the proliferation of nuclear weapons and technology. The duo’s only lead is the daughter of a vanished German scientist, who is the key to infiltrating the criminal organization, and they must race against time to find him and prevent a worldwide catastrophe.
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Let’s face it, just about anything is better with a Louis C.K. quote.
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CoreyI love her.
By Jared Jones
Bad news, guys with laughably unrealistic aspirations: Sofia Vergara is tying the knot.
An unnamed source told E! News earlier this week that the star of Modern Family and every living human’s sex dreams had been proposed to by boyfriend Joe “Jerkface” Magnaniello on Christmas morning and yadda yadda we wish them a lifetime of happiness. (*kicks can*)
But just because Vergara is off the market doesn’t mean we can’t still look back on all the memories she left us with, right? YOU’RE DAMN RIGHT, RIGHT!! So to commemorate her engagement to Joe Jerkface, we give you 17 *more* bounce-tastic Sofia Vergara gifs.
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CoreyI can't wait.
The Jack and Triumph Show debuts on Friday, February 20 at 11:30 PM ET on Adult Swim, but so far there’s been so little out there about it. So, with just fifteen days to spare before the premiere, Triumph is making best efforts to go viral in the hopes of promoting. He really knows his audience. If he really wants to trend, he’ll have to leak nude pics of Rin Tin Tin or that fire-crotch, Lassie.
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CoreyMy fucking hero.
Redditor dfreshv is brilliant! Take a peanut butter Oreo, a strawberry/raspberry Oreo, remove a cookie end from each, combine what's left, and you've got a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. Make a bunch of them and that's a full and reasonably healthy meal.
-via That's Nerdalicious!
CoreyThe first one is so disturbing.
Is it a cute mother and baby photo or a scene from Alien? When people get too creative with a camera, you may not be able to tell. How to Be a Dad culled through the archives of Awkward Family Photos for the most ridiculous maternity photos ever shot. Some expecting couples take their prompts from Harry Potter, burlesque, and from dark parts of the human soul that should be best left unexplored. You can find more here.
CoreyDoesn't matter. Going to be awesome.
Don’t start going through old back issues of Guardians of the Galaxy hoping to uncover some details about James Gunn‘s Guardians of the Galaxy 2. In a new interview, the writer/director confirmed the story is totally new and original, and will introduce new characters that are important to both the world of the Guardians as well as the Marvel Cinematic Universe as a whole. Plus, in the most exciting bit, when Marvel first heard Gunn’s idea, they said “Whoa, that’s risky.” Read more about the Guardians of the Galaxy 2 story below.
Gunn was recently on Alison Rosen Is Your New Best Friend (thanks to FilmDrunk) and said the following about Guardians of the Galaxy 2:
It’s not really based on anything. The story for Guardians 2 is an original story that I came up with that I started working on actually while I was shooting Guardians 1, and it’ll answer some of the questions that were put forth in the first movie about Peter Quill’s father and who he is and what’s going on with that. We’ll get to know some of the characters a little bit more and then we’re going to meet a couple of new characters who will be very important to Guardians movies and probably important to the Marvel Universe as a whole.
It’s different than what’s in the comic books. Peter Quill’s father is somebody different in the comics. So then when the movie came out, we got green-lit on the sequel right away. I went in and I sat down with those guys and I’m like, ‘Okay, here’s what I think the sequel should be.’ And they were like, ‘Oh, whoa. That’s risky, but okay.’ Now I’m going to turn over the story in a few short weeks and we’ll find out how well it works.
I mean honestly, that just sounds awesome. The “Gunn-ness,” if we can coin a phrase, of Guardians of the Galaxy is a huge percentage of why that movie is so fantastic. The ’60s and ’70s music, the humor and the visually striking action were all him. Not to mention the colors, the casting, I mean pretty much everything. So if he has a “risky” idea for the next movie, bring it on. That’s what Marvel does best. Blow up what they have, then build it back up again.
What do you think will happen, or is risky, about the Guardians of the Galaxy 2 story?
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