Monthly Archive for March, 2010
Micmacs
This is the trailer for Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s (Amelie) new movie about a group of misfits who devise an intricate plan to destroy a weapons manufacturer. Looks very French.
Planet Raptor
“It’s been ages since breakfast.” Ages? Well damn, on the planet called Planet Raptor, who the hell forgot to feed the Raptors? I mean, come on people!
Honorable Mention: Emo Cowboys (5 Second Film)
Alright, this isn’t an actual trailer, but it has to be the best 5 second short film ever. Check out a montage of the Top 20 short films from 5 Second Films, a site that specializes in 5 second films. Some of them are better than others, especially Irresponsible Tio, which is kind of a minor masterpiece.
Honorable Mention 2: Scarface School Play
This is a bunch of children acting out scenes from Scarface for a school play. Really not much else to say. Just watch.
Chicago Edition:
- Overzealous census taker.
- Crazy person from the train you made eye contact with for longer than five seconds.
- Documentary crew/lonely alderman.
- That Comcast employee you berated on the phone the other day.
- Overbearing guardian/cooky uncle.
- Bondsman.
- Greenpeace.
- That guy from your physics class who keeps insisting you went to high school together.
- Any of the starting lineup for the 2010 Chicago White Sox.
- That guy from the juice bar at X-Sport who keeps quoting The Hangover and asking for your number.
- Hipster Werewolf.
- Rod Blagojevich.
- The Hobbit may be in trouble. [The One Ring]
- Jamarcus Russell does not want to talk about his weight. [NBC Sports]
- That guy with his piano continues to do things with his piano. [ChatRoulette]
- Further proof that Bill Murray is awesome. [Youtube]
- The Battlefield Earth screenwriter finally apologizes for his crimes against humanity. [Popeater]
- A Lost comic about Sawyer and Amelia Earhart. [Comics Alliance]
- A pretty awesome PSA from SXSW about staying indoors to watch more movies. I endorse this endorsement … er yeah. [Film School Rejects]
- Denzel Washington wishes … you had … more time (5:02 mark) [Denzel Angry]
“Look at your fine self. You look like you should be married to one of the San Diego Padres.”
Tracy Morgan will never be irrelevant, because he is a secret genius.
Edgar Wright + Michael Cera = I will see this movie.
The Good, The Bad And The Weird
Oh those quirky Koreans. They’ve gone and remade The Good, The Bad and The Ugly and added their trademark lovable misfit character to the mix. Normally shuffling the roster of a classic of these proportions would be movie blasphemy, but Kango-ho Song, who plays the Weird, is like Korea’s Tom Hanks and by extension, awesome.
The Mechanic
I think they need to recheck the title of this script, because it was supposed to be called The Transporter 4. I swear to God, Jason Statham isn’t trying anymore. He just gets really liquored up, shows up on set, puts his head down and grinds his way through the day.
The Best Worst Movie
The Best Worst Movie chronicles the unlikely rise of Troll 2, a cult film that is considered by some to be the best worst movie ever made (although it has some competition these days with Tommy Wiseau’s The Room, Shark Attack III, which is my personal favorite and there are a select few who will make an argument for Munich being in contention).
After the video of the infamous chatroullete improv piano guy circulated around the internet last week, many people believed that the mysterious Merton was actually in fact music superstar Ben Folds. Well, it turns out it wasn’t. But Ben Folds, being the great dude that he is, decided to do a live tribute to Merton.
Even though people told him it couldn’t (or shouldn’t) be done and that is was an abomination of moving parts and creepy headshots from the 80s and 90s, that didn’t stop all around winner at life Ben Heckendorn from completing the greatest pinball machine ever; the Bill Paxton pinball machine. Check out Heckendorn’s site to see the time and craftsmanship that went into this machine. The demo video below also showcases all the sweet Bill Paxton quotes that the machine utilizes. I don’t hear any of his crazy talk from Frailty though. Disappointing.
(Via Cinematical)
