The Way, Way Back: Trailer
God I hope this is as good as it looks. Steve Carrell as a dickhole, Sam Rockwell as a wise slacker, Alison Janney as anything…
Apparently these guys also invented “Warm Bodies”.
Training montage montage!
Happy new year! Use this to get motivated about your resolutions. Especially if your resolution is to watch a very small portion of many movies.
I’m thrilled with this supercut for a lot of technical reasons you probably don’t care about.
“While unemployed and midway through writing the first novel with the character as yet unnamed, Lee Child visited his local supermarket with his wife. An elderly lady approached him and asked him to reach an item off a high shelf for her. His wife commented: ‘Hey if this writing thing doesn’t work out, you can be a reacher in a supermarket.’”
Origins of the name “Jack Reacher” on Wikipedia
This is the stupidest thing I’ve ever read. Jack Reacher is called Jack Reacher because the guy who wrote the Jack Reacher books reached for a thing once. No, really.
Can’t wait to read more stories about Jack Reacher and his friends John Mopper and Fred Milkdoublebagger.
Hobbit Dwarves Cheat Sheet
via dancinggpenguin
The 24 types of Christmas movies you’ll see on TV this year
Here’s a taste:
When TV shows break for the holiday season, what remains is an entertainment vacuum that is quickly filled up with Christmas movies. From now until 2013, whenever you flip through the channels you’ll come across a wide array of different Christmas movies — some good, some bad and some not even Christmas movies to begin with.
Here are the 24 types of Christmas movies you’ll inevitably encounter on TV this holiday season, whether you like it or not.
1. Classic Christmas Movies – The vintage stuff your grandparents like to watch this time of year like White Christmas and Miracle on 34th Street. The standard Christmas movies we’ve been watching for the past umpteen years, where people sing and dance and decide not to kill themselves at the end.
2. Animated Christmas Specials – Charlie Brown, Frosty the Snowman, the Grinch — the usual crowd. It’s not going to feel like Christmas unless you see them and you’re definitely not going to see them because who the hell even knows when they play that shit anymore. Like 6 PM on a Saturday in November?
3. Claymation Christmas Specials – Speaking of which, you’re also going to miss the Claymation Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer with the Bumble and Hermy and the goddamn Charlie in the Box. But you will catch any of the bastardized sequels where Rudolph and Frosty celebrate like Cinco de Mayo or something.
4. Christmas Comedies You Could Watch All Year – You could feasibly pop in National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation if you wanted to watch Cousin Eddie empty the shitter in the middle of August, but it just never feels quite right. If the themes of movies like Elf and Scrooged weren’t so intrinsically connected to “that Christmas spirit” we’d probably be watching them year-round like we do with Groundhog Day.
There are 20 more of these! Kris Moore has nailed every single possible option for Christmas movies! Read the other 20 types of Christmas moveis you’ll see on TV this year.
This is one of the most impeccable executions on an idea I’ve seen at Slacktory.
Adele’s song ‘Someone Like You’ was originally cut from Mary Poppins (1964)
Last night (and into this morning), Twitter people were playing#LessInterestingMovies. I feel like we’ve played this hashtag game many times before. Which makes it less interesting and thus PERFECTLY SELF-REFERENTIAL.
See the rest of our favorites at #LessInterestingMovies: A Twitter game
I never got that “National Treasure” was kind of a joke title until “Regional Treasure”.
“I mean, it started out great! The ninja kids were all like sarcastic and had badass attitudes. And they were always surfing, like even when they were driving they were surfing. So far the movie was definitely delivering on the surfing stuff.”
Every Teaser Trailer Ever
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