Imagine being one of the avid Tom Green fans who rented Freddy Got Fingered on VHS fourteen years ago and forgot to return the tape, what would you expect to happen?
Probably not much since VHS tapes have gone the way of the Dodo, but a North Carolina man discovered that failing to return a VHS tape can result in an arrest warrant and a fine.
James Meyers, aka MadInfluence, was pulled over for a broken tail light and then served by Concord police officers for failing to return a VHS copy of Freddy Got Fingered 14 years earlier.
When Tom Green heard about the incident he offered to pay the $200 fine if that would help James out, but James should really just sell the VHS tape on Ebay as an "internet oddity" to raise the funds.
Even though The Legend Of Zelda: Ocarina Of Time came out for the Nintendo 64 back in 1998 it continues to fill the heart containers of gamers young and old with joy while it fills their heads with sweet little ocarina ditties.
While Majora's Mask may have more of a fan art presence, Ocarina of Time has something that other game doesn't- lots more gameplay elements that can easily be made fun of in comic strip form.
Dorkly has gathered 12 Ocarina Of Time Comics That Will Fill Your Heart Container to remind you how a classic video game is just like an ocarina- it's fun to play, looks cool on your shelf, and people tend to make fun of you for liking it so much!
Back in 1989 the Rolling Stones were winding up their Steel Wheels tour and looking to do a pay-per-view broadcast, but the only place tour manager Michael Cohl could find to book was the Donald Trump's Plaza Hotel and Casino in Atlantic City.
I opened my big mouth in the meeting with The Rolling Stones where they go, "This is all great, but we're not going to be affiliated with Donald Trump. At all. Screw you." And I go, "I will control Donald Trump! Don't you worry!"
So, we signed the contract. Donald agrees that he will not be in any of the promotion except in Atlantic City, and he will not show up at the gig!
The Stones were then set to give an interview before the show, but Trump swooped in and made himself the star of the show:
I give him the [come here gesture]. "Come on, Donald, what are you doing? A) You promised us you wouldn't even be here and, B) you promised you would never do this." He says, "But they begged me to go up, Michael! They begged me to go up!" I say, "Stop it. Stop it. This could be crazy. Do what you said you would. Don't make a liar of yourself."
The Stones were understandably upset about the Don's double-cross, but Keith Richards was downright livid:
They call me back, at which point Keith pulls out his knife and slams it on the table and says, "What the hell do I have you for? Do I have to go over there and fire him myself? One of us is leaving the building – either him, or us." I said, "No. I'll go do it. Don't you worry."
Don't mess with knife wielding vampires, Donald, or you might get cut...
Who is this? It’s DeviantART member problematiiques, all decked out for cosplay! But who -or what- is she dressed up as? She’s BMO, an animated video game console!
Adventure Time‘s BMO is a simply delightful character. Completely asexual, adorably cheerful and both a friend and source of entertainment in the post-apocalypse, BMO is the electronic friend we only wish we could have. While BMO may not be real (at least not yet), we can at least celebrate him/her through the power of cosplay and here are some of the most delightful BMO cosplays out there.
Now that the Mythbusters have officially called it quits many fans are starting to fill in the gaps by watching every episode they missed over the last twelve years.
MythResults delivers the busted, plausible or confirmed results for each of the over 1,000 myths in one sentence, and they've even included a link to each episode's main page, so you can get the full story fast.
The Pokémon entertainment franchise turned 20 this year. Early in its history, Pokémon was a trading card game. So to celebrate the occasion, British artist Quentin Devine created an enormous mosaic depicting the original Pikachu card.
Video Gamer reports that Devine arranged 12,987 cards into a mosaic measuring 770 square feet. This secured Devine a Guinness World Record for the largest trading card mosaic.
You can see a video showing how Devine made it here.
It's easy to identify a Randy Newman soundtrack song, and his scruffy dog voice and hammy piano tinkling has sent many a movie viewer home with one of Randy's songs stuck in their heads.
However, Randy's cinematic track record wasn't enough to convince director Zack Snyder to hire him for the new superhero flick Batman V Superman, which is why that movie is sure to suck.
Twitter has officially been around for a decade now, and in that time Twitter didn't revolutionize the way we share on social media, nor did it kill Facebook or Instagram like so many claimed it would.
Instead it quietly made history in one hundred forty characters or less, serving as a platform for discussion and promotion that even the POTUS could get behind.
We just made history. All of this happened because you gave your time, talent and passion. All of this happened because of you. Thanks
There have been plenty of magical moments shared via Tweets in the last ten years, including Ellen DeGeneres' epic “selfie” at the 2014 Academy Awards.
The Fox show Drive became the first TV show to live-tweet with fans, which is now common practice, and Beyonce almost broke Twitter when she announced she and Jay-Z were expecting their first child.
Last night at 10:35pm ET, Beyonce's big MTV #VMA moment gave Twitter a record bump: 8,868 Tweets per second.
The iconic look of that quaint seaside village featured prominently in the 1980 motion picture adaptation of Popeye makes it seem like a location from another time, but surprisingly it was built in Anchor Bay, Malta for the movie.
Designed by Wolf Kroeger, the elaborately detailed and fully functional set took a crew seven months to build, and when the filming was done they didn't have the heart to tear it down so they left it up for future generations to enjoy.
Today it's a popular tourist destination dubbed “Popeye Village”, where visitors can rub elbows with scrappy, spinach munching sailors and spindly-limbed dames named after cooking oil.
The YouTube channel How It Should Have Ended takes a left turn with their latest video. Instead of taking The Force Awakens and making it more logical (which they’ve already done), they imagined a scenario in which Kylo Ren and Luke Skywalker face off in battle. And it’s in LEGO!
HISHE collaborated with Brotherhood Workshop to produce this video for SXSW’s Video Game Awards ceremony. They should do more of these. Contains minor spoilers. -via Tastefully Offensive
The differences between models used in feature films and the toys of today are negligible, and the incredible detail found on most licensed toys makes kids feel like they own a piece of their favorite films.
To demonstrate how easy it is to turn a toy into a camera ready model artist Tristan Elliott added a masterful paint job to Hasbro's Battle Action Millennium Falcon toy and turned it into a ship Chewie would be proud to co-pilot.
Tristan added damage and distress details to the otherwise dull gray ship, and with each new added detail another piece of the puzzle of how the Falcon ended up on Jakku falls into place.
Last week, we linked the story of Paramount’s search for a story to tell in the first Star Trek feature film. The followup is the tale of how the movie got made, although it was a mess of a production from the beginning. After dropping the idea in 1977, Paramount suddenly decided in 1978 that there would be a Star Trek movie one way or another, and it had to be made within a year. That led to all kinds of struggles, even after the principle filming was finally finished. For example, the computer visual effects, which the producers were counting on.
“They made some really big, fundamental mistakes in trying to pre-vis on computers that weren’t ready for primetime,” Trumbull told The Hollywood Reporter. “They spent a year and nothing was finished, and nothing worked.”
As a result, Trumbull found himself at the centre of a massive panic at Paramount. Theatres had paid advances amounting to $30 million with the understanding that Star Trek would open on December 7th. Yet here they were, with the movie just months away, and not a single effects shot had been completed. The size of the situation was such that, if Paramount couldn’t deliver the movie, they’d almost certainly be sued into oblivion by angry cinema owners.
Your facial hair is the first thing people see when they look at your face, and when your chin hairs enter the room before the rest of your face you can be sure people are going to stare at it and wonder.
Sometimes they're wondering why you don't shave it all off, or what you would look like when you're clean shaven, and a few jealous facial hair fans will wonder how long it took you to grow out your fabulous look.
But as you'll see in this illustrated guide created by Caldwell Tanner and Susanna Wolff your beard and moustache typically does most of the talking for you, giving the world a hairy glimpse into your soul.
We showed you Batman vs. Superman, the 1949 version. Then there was the 60s-80s remix. Here we have a trailer from 1995, which seems like just yesterday. But you don’t realize how much the standard movie trailer style has changed in twenty years until you see it recreated. Screen Crush did just that, with their “VHS version.”
If animators have done their job well then viewers don't think too hard about how they designed their backgrounds or characters, they just watch the wonderful animation and go squee.
But all artists work with real life reference, and for anime this reference often includes photos of Japanese cities like Tokyo that serve as a backdrop for the storyline.
The 2013 anime feature The Garden Of Words takes place in Tokyo, so director Makoto Shinkai used photo reference to create stunningly beautiful backgrounds that set the picture firmly in the city during the rainy season.
