Rewind: Back to the Future Biff
Posted by Chris on Thursday, December 31, 2009

I spotted this on io9.com along with some heated discussion about how old this clip is. Hey, I’ve never seen it. Of course, I would be singing a different tune had I posted it before io9 because I am a hypocrite just like everyone else. Enough about my terribly sexy life, here’s Biff singing the answers to all your Back to the Future questions:

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Tales of Mere Existence: “God”
Posted by Chris on Thursday, December 31, 2009

Lev has always entertained me with his Tales of Mere Existence videos.

via milk & cookies

I swear I have posted previous videos by Lev Yilmaz, but I may have taken them down as they were pulled from youtube. Click the video above to watch more. Procrastination is good, Horny is funny, but of course my favorite is How to Break Up.

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Death At A Funeral: The Remake
Posted by Chris on Wednesday, December 30, 2009

There’s this amazingly funny movie called Death At A Funeral that came out in 2007. So, Hollywood decided they could do better than director Frank Oz (The Muppets Take Manhattan, Little Shop of Horrors, Bowfinger, What About Bob?) and remake it. Oh, aside from all those movies Frank Oz directed, he was basically Jim Henson’s partner for 27 years. The man knows something about entertainment.

What the original 2007 movie lacks is the Hollywood cliché of STAR POWER! Thus, they’ve taken the original and threw a bunch of stars at it. Since the movie is barely 3 years old, watching the trailer just makes me think CollegeHumor or SNL did a parody trailer. Look, they put Martin Lawrence in a suit and a pair of glasses, he must be playing the successful brother. How rich.

You’re saying, “Chris, what’s the big deal? Nothing is original.”

While I agree that there is much imitation in art, this remake is practically a carbon copy. They are so lazy that they’ve cast the same guy as the little person. There has to be more little people actors, right? Obviously, Hollywood has decided to go for the African American box office money, so why not get Tony Cox from Bad Santa and all those awful parody movies like Epic Movie.

To me, this movie is the poster child for everything that is wrong with the industry. The only motivation for this film is cash money. They’ve rehashed a script, at least one actor  and probably the original score just to throw it at a demographic. This is not your tongue in cheek remake of The Brady Bunch or a tween reboot of Star Trek. It is not re-imagined in 3D with robots or cute woodland creatures. While all that stuff may be more gimmicks to make cash, there are still creative things happening somewhere in the production. Good or bad adapting the story, characters & iconic imagery for a new audience is at least, a bit artistic.

If you’d like to compare, the original movie’s trailer. According to BoxOfficeMojo the original film’s budget was $9 mil and worldwide it grossed $46,686,101.

And while I am bitching about remakes, why can’t they make a Robin Hood movie with someone below the age of 50 playing Robin Hood? Truthfully, a guy running around in tights who is a bad ass with a bow & arrow is quite dated and boring. Yet, it would seem like easy Hollywood money if you put Michael Bay at the helm with Shia LeBeouf & Megan Fox in it.

Now if you’re lucky burdenday will swoop in within the next hour and post a remake of this rant.

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RC Plane vs. Fireworks
Posted by Chris on Wednesday, December 30, 2009

Hey, this looks fun. An expensive gamble if the plane and camera actually get hit, but life isn’t about money. Oh wait, we’re capitalists. Everything is about money.

via Dvice

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Star Wars + A-Team Mashup
Posted by Chris on Tuesday, December 29, 2009

To me, this is offensive to the integrity of the A-Team.

via Laughing Squid

Sorry, I am just all Star Wars-ed out. I can’t even enjoy the original trilogy now because I watch it through the filter of the new stuff and hear the dialogue for how awful it really is.

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I’m on a Mac
Posted by Chris on Monday, December 28, 2009

While it is true that I use Apple’s OS, I am not a fanboy. I prefer it over Windows for everyday use, but I will use whatever is necessary to get a job done.

I can’t swear fanboy allegiance to Macs because I simply can’t think of one Mac user that hasn’t had a hardware issue of some kind, from iPod to desktop. Thus, they are no better than any of the crappy PC manufacturers. Of course without Apple fanboys, there would be no such thing as a Microsoft fanboy. Seems to be the only time people come out of the woodwork to defend Microsoft is when some douchebag does something like this:

via Laughing Squid

Owning a Mac is like being an atheist for me. I don’t want to admit it because I’ll be persecuted. Smug, obnoxious people who will probably make this song their ringer on the iPhone make regular users like me look bad.

If you like the song, maybe you’ll like their other video, Mac or PC.

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Happy Holidays From The Animals of Youtube
Posted by Chris on Monday, December 28, 2009

As much as I try to be a cynical son of bitch and say I am done with cutesy animal videos, the internet keeps pulling me back in.

I laughed. Out loud.

via Daily What

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