Movie Mistakes of 2008

Posted by Alex in Movies & SciFi on December 31, 2008 at 2:16 pm

Despite costing hundreds of millions of dollars to make, Hollywood movies are filled with "mistakes" (Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Last Action Hero even parodied these mistakes by purposely incorporating them in the film).

But one man’s mistake is another man’s bread. To wit, here’s MovieMistakes, a website dedicated to documenting the glaring, silly, and obscure mistakes that occur in some of Hollywood’s greatest hits. Here are their list of 2008 Movies with the Most Mistakes:

  1. Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull – 67 mistakes
  2. The Dark Knight – 46 mistakes
  3. Mamma Mia! – 45 mistakes
  4. Twilight – 42 mistakes
  5. High School Musical 3: Senior Year – 40 mistakes

… and the list for the Best Movie Mistakes of 2008:

  1. Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
    At the beginning when Indy is talking to Spalko, his hands keep alternating from being in his pockets to just resting at his sides between shots.
  2. Iron Man
    When Iron Man and Iron Monger are fighting, Iron Man catches the SUV, and you can see the family inside the car. Although the car is completely vertical, the hair of the people in the car seem to defy gravity.
  3. Solstice
    The moon is full every night the highschoolers are at the lake house.
  4. 10,000 B.C.
    After Evolet got hit by the arrow and presumably dies, D’leh is staring at a mammoth. Behind the mammoth, you can see that the background is a picture.
  5. Meet the Spartans
    When Britney Spears gets pushed into the Pit of Death, you hear her talk and scream but her lips are not moving.
  6. The Dark Knight
    At around an hour and a half into the movie, during Batman’s interrogation of Joker, when he picks him up and slams him against the wall, for a very brief moment you can see the camera and the cameraman in the reflection of the mirror on the right.

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Uncle Jay Explains 2008 in Song

Posted by Miss Cellania in Video Clips on December 31, 2008 at 11:33 am


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Uncle Jay wraps up the entire year to the tunes of your favorite Christmas carols. -Thanks, Duke!

 
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The Nicest and Naughtiest CEOs of 2008

Posted by Alex in Everything Else on December 27, 2008 at 2:03 pm

Glassdoor.com, a website that lets employees anonymously rate and review their employers, has released its list of the nicest and naughtiest CEOs of 2008. The nicest CEO is Genentech’s Art Levinson with a 92% approval rating and the least popular CEO is Steve Odland of Office Depot, with a disapproval rating of 80% (why that’s even worse than President Bush’s!)

What’s up with Office Depot? One department manager in Dallas Texas wrote:

“Fire Odland and kill ridiculous programs like ones listed above. Please, Please, Please give this company back to its workers. The corporate office in Delray Beach, FL is asleep at the wheel and frankly incompetent. Maybe If some of them would listen to or maybe even spend a few hours in a store they would understand their own business a little better. This company will fail If you do not get back to basics! Cheap no hassle prices and fast checkout! NO MORE PROGRAMS PLEASE!”

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In the city where I live there are Staples, Office Max and Office Depot within 10 minutes drive of each other. Guess which one they recently closed down!

 
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JibJab 2008 in Review

Posted by Alex in Politics, Toy & Video Games on December 27, 2008 at 2:02 pm

The genius comedy team JibJab is at it again: here’s their 2008 Year in Review video, complete with jokes about the economic crisis, the US presidential election, and more. Hit play or go to Link [YouTube]

 
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Viva La Pop

Posted by Miss Cellania in Music, Video Clips on December 27, 2008 at 8:39 am


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DJ Earworm has another masterful mashup, this one covering the entire year of 2008. This video features the top 25 songs of the year, according to Billboard Magazine. A list of the songs used are at his website. Link -Thanks, John “Widgett” Robinson!

 
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Buzzwords of 2008

Posted by Miss Cellania in Everything Else on December 23, 2008 at 3:37 pm


Lexicographer Grant Barrett assembled a list of the Buzzwords of 2008 for The New York Times. The biggest part of the words came from the US presidential race, and a big chunk were inspired by the economic meltdown. A couple were born from the Beijing Olympics. But the biggest is a verb turned into a noun for use on the internet. Link -via the Presurfer

 
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Pictures of the Year 2008

Posted by Miss Cellania in Pictures on December 22, 2008 at 12:50 pm


Many times we’ve linked to The Big Picture features from the Boston Globe here at Neatorama. Now they’ve collected the best photographs of the year in a three-part series featuring the most amazing images from all over. Shown is Finnish ski jumper Harri Olli competing in the Czech Republic.
Link to part one.
Link to part two.
Link to part three. -Thanks, Justin!

(image credit: Reuters/David W Cerny)

 
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Top Ten Astronomy Pictures of 2008

Posted by Miss Cellania in Pictures on December 17, 2008 at 12:26 pm


Phil Plait of Bad Astronomy blog has selected his ten favorite astronomy pictures from the year 2008. His descriptions are as entertaining as the pictures! This one shows spiral galaxy NGC 7331, which is about 50 million light years away. Link -Thanks, Amos Kenigsberg!

 
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Google Zeitgeist 2008

Posted by Alex in Blog & Internet on December 10, 2008 at 2:54 pm

We posted about Yahoo’s top searches of 2008 before on Neatorama. Well, Google has just released its 2008 Year-End Zeitgeist, and the results couldn’t be any different.

Here are the highlights from Google searches from around the world in 2008:

1. sarah palin
2. beijing 2008
3. facebook login
4. tuenti
5. heath ledger
6. obama
7. nasza klasa
8. wer kennt wen
9. euro 2008
10. jonas brothers

I had to look up tuenti (a Madrid-based social networking website, referred to many as the "Spanish Facebook"), nasza klasa (a Polish social networking website), and wer kennt wen (ditto, this time for Germans).

Link – Thanks Justin!

 
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Yahoo! 2008 Year in Review

Posted by Alex in Blog & Internet on December 1, 2008 at 8:23 pm

Can you believe it, 2008 is almost over! Yahoo! Buzz takes a look back at 2008 (well, so far anyways) in terms of what people are most interested in searching.

Taking number 1 spot is Britney Spears (no surprise there, she’s been at the top search for both Yahoo! and Google for years). The list changed somewhat from the top searches of 2007, though besides Britney, four search terms remained constant (WWE, RuneScape – an online game, Jessica Alba, Naruto – a Japanese manga series, and Lindsay Lohan).

Take a look at the entire list: Link – Thanks Jason Khoury!

 
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