Staring this thread so folks can post videos they find on the web that just crack them up.

I'll start:

Video 1 for me is Alanis Morrisette tackling the Black Eyed Peas and their My Humps song. Great Stuff:

Alanis: My Humps

The next video was sent to me by our own Marc Buhmann who clearly knows my sense of humor.

Spiders on Drugs

It beat Pan's Labyrinth to the foreign film oscar, and as I haven't seen that yet I can't say whether that was the right decision, but The Lives of Others was very worthy of the oscar. Put simply it is terrific.

Great script, great performances, direction was pitch perfect (nothing too flashy). Thoroughly enjoyed this film.

Appears the US already had a limited release in February so you will probably have to wait until the DVD. Add it to your Netflix queue.

Dave

PS apologies if someone mentioned the film already, nothing showed up on a search of the forum.

I know you've got your hands full, but I was wondering if there has been any word on your and Monteleone's graphic novel?

Also I'll volunteer myself as an advanced reader for the YA novel seeing as how I spend a lot of time reading YA novels.

I know there's quite a few Buffy and Firefly fans on here. I figured that this would be a great place to drop a few lines about my favorite show, which desperately needs new viewers.

There will be a new episode tonight at 9 pm on CW.

I know you'll like it


a quick summary of the show

There was Seth MacFarlane pitching the idea for a cartoon called "The Life of Larry".

It's interesting to see some familiar jokes played out by different characters.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=Qn8TAyoEtDg

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Wasn't Richard Westphalen gobbled up by Rakoshi, and like his aunties considered 'Missing' rather than dead due to the lack of body?

If anything ever happend to Gia and Jack needed to get Vicky before the state did, couldnt he just pose as Ricky Westphalen and claim her? I'm sure he could fix it somehow.

I was just thinking about how rubbish it would be if Repairman Jack ever managed to become Citizen Jack, and how frustrating it is that he would even want to. I don't think the Jack from The Tomb would sell himself out to the system instead of trying to screw the system instead.

And in any case, what would be so wrong with taking Vicky and both of them being off the system? She's only a kiddo, the Inland Revenue (or whatever it's called in the US) wouldn't even notice her leaving.

http://www.empireonline.com/news/story.asp?NID=20603

First view of the ironman suit - sort of!

Made you look.

Heehee.

I just started Infernal tonight. I'm about 20 or so pages into it and BAM, dealt a real blow already!

SPOILERS - don't read further if you've not read this novel yet.

I'm ticked, really ticked at FPW right now, but at the exact same time, he's got my admiration and respect in a big way.

So few writers have ever been able to get genuine emotion of out me. When I read Jack's father's death, I actually cursed out loud, scaring my wife who was in the bedroom. Then, I had to explain what happened and of course I was embarrassed! =)

She said what I was thinking - it's only a fictional character. But even though, hell and damnation, I was really upset at this.

Again, I have a great deal more respect and admiration for Mr. Wilson now, even if he made me angry, and I made a fool of myself in the process!

Chris

Sequels are hardly ever better than the first film. Even Superman II which is hailed as a superior film is truly not when compared with the original. It fell flat when compared with the polished perfection of its predecessor.

Horror films, if remotely successful, spawn usually more than their fair share of sequels...none of them any good save for the SAW franchise which manages to keep the stories well written and intriguing.

Hills 2 is a rare exception to sequels where it not only is worse than the original but could possibly be the worst film ever made.

Absent from the helm is Alexander Aja, creator of the intense (and Intensity ripoff) Haute Tension (AKA High Tension/Switchblade Romance). Aja seemed perfectly suited for the 2006 remake of Hills especially after his debut with Tension.

Hills 06 was a decent little flick that upped the ante on the original film by Wes Crave, but stuck to the premise faithfully. It created a tense and often unrelentingly violent portrayal of a family in the wrong spot at the wrong time.

The villains were henous and barbaric and the kills were methodically slow and torturous. The tag line "The lucky ones die first" was appropos.

It amazes me how fast Hollywood churned this sequel out, less than a year after the first film horrified audiences. Even more surprising was the lack of advertising this film received. Justly so, after having seen it I wouldn't have heavily advertised it for the sake of saving money.

I consider this the studios "ugly" child. Kind of like a proud parent boastng; "I have 3 beautiful children. I have 4 total, but 3 of them are beautuiful...the other one...eh...not so much."

Fox Atomic, the evil step-sibling of Fox Faith distributed this film with little to no fanfare. The general premise is a group of national Guard trainees screw up their training so poorly that they have to die for it. I am sure that wasn't the writers intent, (Wes Craven's son took the helm from the competent hands of Aja) but it sure came across that way.

After failing miserably in a training session (where apaprently live rounds are used) a rag-tag group of military rejects led by a smart-mouthed Sgt. head of to the desert to deliver supplies to a group of researchers. Upon arriving they find camp desolate and abandoned. From there it goes downhill and is rife with cliche.

The group includes the war-weary soldier with the heart of gold, a single mother serving her country part-time who spends a majority of time looking at a video of her son on her cell phone (the equivelant of a soldier showing a picture of his loved one to his friends in the trenches...clearly she has never watched a war movie in her life.) There is the ready to rumble troop who hates everyone just because it is cool to do so and a cast of other forgettables who serve no purpose other than to die. (Including an overweight soldier with a lisp.)

I am not sure what branch of service this group serves, they state Army but can't seem to help calling their Sgt sir. (Sir, yes sir!)

The scares are few and far between, actually nothing was really scary. Gross out scenarios replaced the thrills from the first film and inculde memorable shocks such as someone in the waste tank of an outhouse and a prolonged rape scene complete with slimey drool and abnormally long Gene Simmons inspired tongue.

The game of cat and mouse begins and the soldiers fight to stay alive. Roll credits.

The underground sets were designed by the people who made the cavernous sets for The Descent. I only mention this because they are perhaps the only thing interesting in the entire movie. If you like cavernous sets this is definitely for you. Rocks abound!

The villians in this film are cookie-cutter assembly line mutants. No care was given to flesh them out as was done in the first. No names were given to them as they were simply there to quickly dispatch the soldiers. Even the one mutant who tries to help (he must be vegetarian) doesn't stick with the audience.

Perhaps, God-Willing, we won't have anymore Hills movies to look forward to. But I am sure there will another piss-poor franchise waiting in the wings to take its place.

If one day you and some friends are sitting around and one of them says, "Hey, let's see The Hills have Eyes 2" simply lacerate their eye with a pen cap. Oh, it'll sting for a while, but they will be much better for it.