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You know what the Hunger Games needs? More explosions, or maybe more romance-based comedic scenes. Whatever your favorite Genre, EW probably has a poster translating the young adult novel into a film you’re certain to enjoy. As a non-Michael Bay fan, I love their take on his take of the movie.
Do you prefer Peep Swan, Inpeeption, West Side Peep or Silence of the Peeps? Whatever your favorite movie, you can be sure that someone at some point will probably parody in Peeps. Check out some of the best Peep shows over at Mental Floss.
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December 1, 1986 was a big day for Princess Diana and Prince Charles. It was the day they met a real-life monster at the Labyrinth Royal Premiere. While film goers soon learned just how sweet Ludo was, keep in mind, this meet up occurred before the royals saw the film -for all they knew, he was a fan of ripping people’s arms off and munching on roasted fingernails like John used to do before we weaned him onto Corn Nuts. Of course, if you look at the expression on Di’s face, it looks like that’s what she assumed.
Via io9
If you love movies and classic video games, then you’ll certainly appreciate these great posters combining the two.
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The premiere of Mad Men was last night, but for those of you who can’t get enough of Don Draper, Aaron Saucier offers a great series of jewelry based on the show. For the ladies, there are necklaces, for the gents, the cufflinks and tie clips are quite classy.
Link Via Laughing Squid
Artist Victor Hugo is a big fan of Iron Man and Pixar, which is why it made perfect sense for him to create this delightful mash up of the two. Now wouldn’t that be a fun, whimsical movie?
Link Via The Daily What
If you haven’t already heard, thanks to all the non-stop commercials and serious internet buzz, The Hunger Games just hit theaters today. In honor of what is already the biggest book/movie series since Harry Potter, here are some fun and fantastic arts and crafts based on the series.
I have to admit that my favorite fan art creations were those created by Etsy seller PurpleCowPosters. Just look at the simplistic design and the great use of texture on this poster and it’s easy to see why.
In fact, I couldn’t just pick one design from PurpleCowPosters, so I thought I’d include this design for District 12 just to show off the serious skills used in their creations. In fact, even if you don’t really dig The Hunger Games, I highly recommend visiting their store where there are over 100 cool posters for a variety of movies and TV shows available for sale.
What happens if you mix the Obama campaign posters by Shepard Fairey with The Hunger Games? You get this fantastic Snow poster by Tumblr user Pixhunter.
With the subtle tree imagery in the background and the shockingly bright mockingjay front and center, this poster, by Bart Van Ackooij is as beautiful as it is striking.
Yes, it might look like a manga cover than a poster for the upcoming film, but regardless of what the design actually looks like, there’s little debate as to the quality of art in this great piece by RatGirlStudios.
Sure it’s a considered horror classic nowadays, but that tends to be among those who are already into that sort of thing. When you show Videodrome to a group of randomly selected audience members, your reviews will likely read like those of the original screening audience of the movie. Read more funny reviews at the link.
If you are a big fan of the Captain America movie, then you just might recognize the rebirth pod where Steve Rogers is transformed into a superhero. Want to own it? You can for approximately $4,000 as it and a bunch of other Captain America props are going up for auction at the Chicago Comic and Entertainment Expo on April 14. Captain’s shield and hero costume will also be up for grabs.
Apparently someone in Puerto Rico thinks this is what the new Avengers movie will be like. I don’t know about you guys, but I’d pay extra to see this amazing flick.
Link Via Geekologie
If you’re hesitant to see the new Lorax movie because you worry it will completely compromise the integrity of the book, well, you’re probably right. But just in case you thought Dr. Seuss books couldn’t get any worse, io9 has a great series of fake titles that show just how bad things could get without too much more effort.
The world has so many more feature films available than you’ll ever know if you just browse the TV listings or Red Box. There are many reasons the movies in this list are considered “underappreciated”: it may be old, released as video only, contained unknown actors when it was released, or it may be, as in the case of the New Zealand movie Black Sheep, a foreign film.
Probataphobia is the fear of sheep. It is a real thing, and at least NONE of my friends suffer from it, which makes this movie timely and socially conscious as well.
I also have to give props to Oliver Driver for his performance as the lead in this film. It is his palpable fear of sheep that makes this movie so damn funny. We all know someone with an irrational fear (I fear that Bethesda will one day make a glitch free game), and to take the idea of that fear and make it something worth fearing was quite well played, even though it’s just for laughs.
Yes, this list is an opinion piece, but take a look; you might find something right up your alley. Link
That’s it. We won’t need to ever see another movie again after this. It’s got everything! And everyone! -via Jimmy Kimmel Live
When the first Star Wars film came out in 1977, George Lucas said there were nine chapters in all -and hinted there would be nine films. As the other movies arrived, it became apparent that he was making them up as he went along. After Revenge of the Sith, Lucas said there would be no more Star Wars films. So how should the existing films be presented to young people who didn’t grow up seeing them in theaters? You could see them in the order in which they were released, or watch the three prequels first to stay in the chronological order in which they occurred in the fantasy universe. But there’s a better idea. Rod Hilton calls it Machete Order.
I recently discovered my college-aged brother-in-law’s girlfriend had never seen any Star Wars films and wanted to watch them all over winter break. Armed with the new Blu-Rays, we all went about watching them, and I showed them in Machete Order. It actually works even better than I originally anticipated – it’s almost as if this is somehow the intented order. There’s a great pattern here, taking the viewer on a series of emotional ups and downs. IV ends with a victory that seems to have some sinister undertones, then V is dark and unresolved, II ends with victory with sinister undertones, then III is dark and unresolved again. It works incredibly well, and when III ended everyone demanded we immediately watch VI to see how everything gets resolved.
Read about the reasoning behind this idea. Link -via Metafilter
See also: When to Introduce Star Wars to Your Young
You’ve seen a lot of hype about the Oscars this past week, but it’s much more fun to follow the Golden Raspberry Awards. The Razzies are given to the worst films of the year, and there are plenty of stinkers in contention for 2011. Nominations were announced this weekend, and Adam Sandler’s film Jack and Jill received twelve nominations, despite the fact that it was only eligible in ten categories. Sandler himself is nominated for both Worst Actor and Worst Actress for his roles in the film. The awards will be bestowed on April Fool’s Day. See all the nominees at Time. Link
Poor Miss Piggy, she’s totally right, it’s complete pigism that prevented her from getting the nomination. Hollywood, your prejudices disgust me.
Via The Mary Sue
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It’s obviously a great weapon to strike down your foes, but all that power has a price. If you’ve ever wondered just what that price might be, then you’d better check out this great article over on the economics blog Centives that goes into figuring out just how expensive the Death Star would be to build. The response might surprise you:
at today’s rate of steel production (1.3 billion tonnes annually), it would take 833,315 years to produce enough steel to begin work. So once someone notices what you’re up to, you have to fend them off for 800 millennia before you have a chance to fight back. In context, it takes under an hour to get the steel for HMS Illustrious.
Oh, and the cost of the steel alone? At 2012 prices, about $852,000,000,000,000,000. Or roughly 13,000 times the world’s GDP.
Of course, that’s only the price of steel, what about building costs, electric, etc.? That’s a big price to pay for a little intimidation and destruction.
Link Via The Daily What
Serious Eats put together and photographed nine styles of hot dogs based on the movies that are nominated for the Best Picture Oscar. Since I haven’t seen any of the movies, I’m not sure whether the thinking behind these makes sense or not. If it does, you might be able to pick out which movies the hot dogs in this group picture go with. If not, you can see each along with an explanation at the post. Link -via Buzzfeed
In the mood for some action movies this weekend? Ranker has some suggestions for killer swordfighting films. Yeah, we all know they are choreographed down to the inch, but some films do it so well that you can suspend your disbelief and wait for one or the other combatant to triumph over his nemesis. Check out these seven films with fight critiques and video evidence. Link
We’ve featured plenty of minimalist posters on the site before, but nothing compares to Jed Stoneham’s minimalist posters that are truly as basic as you can get.
Link Via BoingBoing
Anne Baxter wins in 1948
Neatorama presents a guest post from actor, comedian, and voiceover artist Eddie Deezen. Visit Eddie at his website.
Okay, maybe it’s pure sexism, but the surest way an actress can grab a Best Actress or Best Supporting Actress Academy Award is by playing a prostitute. Whether a “hooker with a heart of gold,” a high-class call girl, or a destitute woman who turned to the streets, any actress knows well that if she takes on a role dealing with this occupation, she had a better shot at an Oscar win.
Sexism? Hmmm… well, I may be wrong on this count, but I don’t think any guy has ever won an Oscar for playing a male prostitute. Jon Voight was nominated for his male hooker role in 1969′s Midnight Cowboy, and I think that’s as close as it ever got.
Well, let’s not digress into social discourse about “why women become hookers” right now. Suffice to say that the social structure through the ages has definitely made it harder for women than for men to go out and earn an honest living. And of course, there is the obvious (to any fair-minded observer) difference in the sexual makeup of men and women.
By the way, it’s not just Oscar “wins” -many of movie’s well-known “women as hookers” performances, i.e. Julia Roberts in Pretty Woman (1990), Shirley MacLaine in Irma la Douce (1963), and Elisabeth Shue in Leaving Las Vegas (1995) did not win Oscars (I mistakenly thought both Julia and Elisabeth had won for their roles), but they did get nominations.
So far, 13 known actresses have taken home an Oscar statuette for playing “a woman of questionable repute” (okay, I think I’ve about exhausted the list of hooker metaphors). Let’s take a look at these 13 actresses. Eleven of the 13 definitely played prostitutes; two are a bit nebulous.
1. Janet Gaynor in Street Angel (1928)
At the very first Academy Awards ceremony in 1929, Janet received the first-ever Oscar, but for three different movies, not just Street Angel. Interestingly, for the only time in Oscar history, an actress got an Oscar for three different films. So, although Street Angel was only a partial contribution, Janet still was technically the first.
2. Helen Hayes in The Sin of Madelon Claudet (1931)
A very melodramatic old movie where Hayes’ main character suffers nine misfortunes, one of which was becoming a prostitute.
3. Anne Baxter in The Razor’s Edge (1947)
Anne plays tragic alcoholic Sophie Nelson. She was a “thrown-away woman who turns to prostitution.” Pretty overwrought, huh?
4. Clare Trevor in Key Largo (1948)
This is one of two nebulous prostitution labels on the list. Clare plays a boozy, broken-down torch singer in this, one of my favorite Humphrey Bogart films. Although Clare may or may not have been a hooker in this film, she did specialize in playing the “hooker with a heart of gold.” In the classic Western Stagecoach (1939) she played a frontier prostitute “reformed” by John Wayne. Also, in the wonderful 1937 film Dead End, Clare played Bogie’s ex who was forced into prostitution by unforeseen circumstances. Clare received Oscar nominations for both roles.
5. Donna Reed in From Here to Eternity (1953)
It’s a long way from playing Mary Bailey in It’s a Wonderful Life (1946) to playing an Oscar-worthy hooker seven years later. (Maybe it took more money than George thought to pay back the Building & Loan!) Now, to be fair, this designation is nebulous, too. Donna pays a “dance hall girl” in the film. She is obviously very “friendly” and “entertains” her guy customers who “visit” her, but she is not a definite hooker. Remember, too, this was the Fifties, a very conservative era in movies. It wasn’t like most scripts could openly say a woman character was a prostitute. They relied, usually, more on intimation. So I can’t honestly say Donna was a hooker here, but her character acted in that direction.
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Consider this list of movies as those you will want to avoid before your planned vacation. Nothing puts a damper on your enjoyment of an expensive holiday trip more than that nagging feeling that some stranger will want to cut you into little pieces like that film you saw just before leaving home. Link
Kirby Ferguson has released the fourth and final part of his Everything is a Remix series. This episode is called System Failure, and it’s about the concept of intellectual property, patents, and copyrights. Link
Previously: Part one, part two, and part three.
Plot holes in otherwise enjoyable movies don’t bother most people -until they are confronted with them in large print, on an image macro. Unreality magazine points out more flaws in your favorite films that you’ll remember every time you think about those movies in the future. Link
We know you love movie quizzes, so here’s a challenging one. This animation from Evan Seitz shows you clues to 26 films, one for each letter of the alphabet, in order. They go pretty fast, so you might have to back up or watch the whole thing more than once. If you get completely stumped, the answers have been compiled at Buzzfeed. Link
They say that a lot in movies, but they never seem to actually call back! The list of clips used in this supercut is at Slackstory. Link -via The Daily What
Comments Off Disney released this great real life version of the classic moment from Lady and the Tramp to celebrate the upcoming release of the film on Blu-ray. While Tramp doesn’t look quite right and the spaghetti slurping isn’t exactly the same, it’s still pretty true to the original, which is pretty impressive when it comes to directing real dogs to act like animations.
Via Laughing Squid
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Artist Binksy completely captured the entire problem with The Phantom Menace in one perfect creation.
Link Via The Daily What
This Valentine’s Day supercut is the perfect way to make the object of your affection go all gushy inside, in case you want to send it to someone you love. It worked for me! This was edited as a labor of love by Matthew Belinkie, who tells about how he selected and organized the clips at his website. Link -via mental_floss
Let your geekiness show in the valentines you send! Express your love for your sweetie plus your love for your favorite video game, online community, scientific discipline, movie, or TV show. There are lots to select from, but you won’t find them in your local greeting card store -no, these out-of-the ordinary valentines are found on the internet. Shown here are some valentines based on the TV series Breaking Bad, by Beth at Butt Horn. See the rest of the collection at mental_floss. Link
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