"Shooting fish in a barrel" is a phrase that has a negative connotation, implying that it's too easy to shoot fish which are trapped in such a contained space. But what if the fish really have it coming? Find out as the Honest Trailers guys work their magic on the most anemic of opponents, Batman and Robin!
    
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Maps of the world are typically written with the language of the viewer in mind. But the zoomable Endonym Map takes a different approach, writing each country's name in one of that country's own languages.
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Cheers! We've got the exclusive premiere of artist Alex Pardee's take on Edgar Wright's apocalyptic pub crawl movie, At World's End.
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As enamored as you are with the idea, your gut says that Elon Musk's Hyperloop is never going to happen. The good news is that the tech, according to experts we've talked to, is actually feasible. That bad news? That might not matter. Musk's plan is futuristic, beautiful, and sound. It just might be more ambitious than the problem he's is trying to solve.
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We've seen tons of steampunk versions of classic scifi characters in cosplay form, but what makes this group especially great is that they've assembled a larger steampunk Ghostbusters team, including Gozer and a vest-wearing Stay Puft Marshmallow Man.
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On last night’s The Daily Show, the sublime fill-in host John Oliver freaked out when a reporter for the NBC Nightly News got a basic fact wrong about Elon Musk vis a vis Tony Stark.
I’m going to miss John Oliver hosting this show!
You can watch movies for pure enjoyment. You can watch movies for the art. Or you can watch movies for lots of weird little insider-y trivia and gags. The latter is a lot of work, so how about you just kick back and enjoy this episode of The Screen Junkies Show, while the Screen Junkies Show gets dirty figuring out the minutiae of some of our favorite films.
Take a gander.
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Poem: Dammit I’m mad.
“Dammit I’m mad.
Evil is a deed as I live.
God, am I reviled? I rise, my bed on a sun, I melt.
To be not one man emanating is sad. I piss.
Alas, it is so late. Who stops to help?
Man, it is hot. I’m in it. I tell.
I am not a devil. I level “Mad Dog”.
Ah, say burning is, as a deified gulp,
In my halo of a mired rum tin.
I erase many men. Oh, to be man, a sin.
Is evil in a clam? In a trap?
No. It is open. On it I was stuck.
Rats peed on hope. Elsewhere dips a web.
Be still if I fill its ebb.
Ew, a spider… eh?
We sleep. Oh no!
Deep, stark cuts saw it in one position.
Part animal, can I live? Sin is a name.
Both, one… my names are in it.
Murder? I’m a fool.
A hymn I plug, deified as a sign in ruby ash,
A Goddam level I lived at.
On mail let it in. I’m it.
Oh, sit in ample hot spots. Oh wet!
A loss it is alas (sip). I’d assign it a name.
Name not one bottle minus an ode by me:
“Sir, I deliver. I’m a dog”
Evil is a deed as I live.
Dammit I’m mad.”
CoreyI just noticed this for the first time the other day while watching this and just saw this trivia.
Interesting.
In Ghostbusters, just after Winston explains that you answer “yes” whenever anything asks if you’re a God, Ray chooses the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man as the form of The Destroyer, and the pillowy sailor begins menacing midtown New York. They were supposed to clear their minds, but he says, “It just popped in there. . . I tried to think of the most harmless thing. Something I loved from my childhood. Something that could never ever possibly destroy us. Mr. Stay Puft!”
We all know that, and we all know the trivia that the mascot who looks like the Michelin Man’s cousin appears sprinkled throughout the movie (on Dana’s counter top, on the side of a building), and that’s where there’s a far better reason for why Ray just happened to think of Stay Puft.
It’s not just his childhood. It’s that he saw him every single day while working as a Ghostbuster.
That billboard is across the street from the firehouse where the Ghostbusters made their home and base of operations. They slept there, ate there, contained ghosts there. So, day in and day out, Ray had the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man silently smiling and waving at him from the side of a tall building. Every time they rolled out on an investigation, Stay Puft was weaseling his way into Ray’s subconscious. Every time Ray went for a smoke break, he was there, a constant present in the most exhilarating part of his professional life burnt into his brain, a guardian overlooking his entire existence.
No wonder he just popped into Ray’s head. Summers at Camp Wauconda aside, it probably could have been any of the Ghostbusters that conjured Stay Puft up.
Thanks for indulging a bit of Tuesday trivia, but I’ve never seen this theory presented anywhere else, and after watching the movie again this weekend, it seemed like an excellent bit of connective tissue that makes everything make even more sense. It’s like when Agent Kujan finally sees the bulletin board that Verbal Kint’s been using to lie. Except Keyser Soze doesn’t erupt into giant mounds of fluffy white goo.
Universal Studios has expanded Springfield Fast Food Boulevard within its Orlando, Florida theme park. The initial outlets, including Krusty Burger, Moe’s Tavern, and Luigi’s Pizza will now be complemented by a Lard Lad doughnut shop, a Bumblebee Man taco truck—serving Korean Beef tacos—and a Duff Beer Garden that features views of the Wizarding World Of Harry Potter’s Diagon Alley. There might not be alcohol in the Flaming Moe, but Duff will proudly be served. There’s another tour video to show off the recent additions, as well as statues of Duffman and Chief Wiggum, but no view of the magical neighbors across the way from the beer garden. Presumably, if the second wave is a success, The Gilded Truffle and The Singing Sirloin will follow. Now if they’d only do something about restocking those “BORT” license plates.
Read moreCoreyBrilliant.
Syfy have announced the title of the Sharknado sequel and it is…
Sharknado 2: The Second One.
Not exactly a hilarious title but it does raise a smile I suppose.
The title news was announced via EW and Thomas Vitale, executive VP of programming at Syfy, was also quoted there.
Since Twitter played such a huge role in the success of the original movie, we wanted to use that platform to ask our fans to name Sharknado 2… This response is another reminder of how Sharknado has become a pop culture phenomenon. We want to thank all our viewers for their wonderful contributions to keeping up the shark-mentum.
The title was reportedly plucked from 5,000 submissions on Twitter but nowhere in the report at EW does it say who came up with the winning suggestion. I did a search on Twitter and can’t find any reference to the that title before today.
Surely the winner should be rewarded in some way for picking the title. Or at least get some sort of recognition. Presumably they’ll come forward soon. Assuming it was a member of the public that actually picked the title.
By the way, you may have heard word that Jedward – if you have no idea who they are I suggest you remain ignorant – were set to appear in the Sharknado sequel.
Apparently that was just an “idea”,
It’s just an idea to have @planetjedward in #SharkNado2 but theres no script yet who else do u think should be in it? #ideas
— Tara Reid (@TaraReid) August 4, 2013
Sharknado 2: The Second One will produced by The Asylum and will arrive on Syfy in July, 2014.
CoreyI really enjoy this.
We bet you didn’t think the first piece of new music from Robyn following her masterful Body Talk albums would be a guest spot on a Lonely Island song that urges you to “whip your fucking dick out” and to “punch your best friend” and “go stupid, get stupid / because we said to do it.”
We’ve heard several tracks from The Lonely Island’s The Wack Album, but “Go Kindergarten” is handily the most ridiculous, hilarious and intelligent. And also: it has Robyn on the hook.
The Wack Album is out June 11. We’re waiting for songs featuring Justin Timberlake, Lady Gaga and Kendrick Lamar. Check out the Solange featuring “Semicolon” here.
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Tags: Robyn, The Lonely IslandIf you’re a late night TV junkie, you might’ve noticed Stephen Colbert doing a lot of dancing to Daft Punk’s “Get Lucky” lately. We were sure he was just a fan of the song like everyone else in the world, but it turns out there’s another agenda at play, too – according to members of his July 25 studio audience, Colbert confirmed to them that the French duo would be appearing on the show next week, Tuesday, August 6, and now, the Huffington Post has confirmed that as well. No one’s sure yet if they’ll be performing, being interviewed, or both, but we’re excited to see what goes down. Stay tuned!
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Tags: Dat PunkIf you’re not in the UK you probably have no idea how successful the first Inbetweeners movie was, but it was most definitely a phenomenon.
I like to think it’s because my friend Dominic’s bald patch makes a very prominent appearance in an early scene, priming the audience for big laughs, ultimately leading to great word of mouth.
Okay, so it probably wasn’t that. It was probably the way the TV series had slowly and steadily built up a hungry fan base through TV reruns, DVD sales and perpetual buzz.
But, for whatever reason, it was a bona fide smash, and so a sequel was all but inevitable.
And so I’m not too surprised at all, really, that I’ve just received official word that, yes, The Inbetweeners 2, or whatever they call it, will shoot later this year for release in August 2014.
Creators and co-writers Iain Morris and Damon Beeseley said:
We couldn’t be more excited to be making another Inbetweeners movie with Simon, Joe, James and Blake. Frankly it’s pathetic how much we’ve all missed each other. A new chapter in the lives of the Inbetweeners feels like the very least we can do to thank the fans for their phenomenal response to the first movie.
But… what will it be about? Didn’t the last film not tie things up rather cleanly?
My guess is that we’ll see the characters trying to enter the working world now. And that they won’t find it easy. Maybe the thing they’ll be Inbetween this time is jobs.
Inbetweeners Movie Sequel To Shoot Later This Year For Release August 2014
