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Imagining Scott Pilgrim's Gruesome Alternate Ending
Filed under: New Releases, Comic/Superhero/Geek, Fan Made
As a love story about a dude who fights his new girlfriend's evil exes video game-style, there are a lot of theories and interpretations that can be applied to Scott Pilgrim vs. The World. Personally, between the books and film, I always wondered just how much of the tale happened as it said, since Pilgrim is known for blowing memories to sensational heights. If Scottie could remember punching out a regular high school kid as a death-defying fight to save a friend, who knows what really happened as Mr. Pilgrim faced Ramona Flowers' evil exes.Add that to the fact that the movie was written before Bryan Lee O'Malley finished the series, and Edgar Wright had a whole lot of possibilities to end his cinematic adaptation -- including framing it as a gruesome dream. (Spoilers after the jump.)
Fan Made: Robert Downey Jr. Is a Pin-Up Girl
I've seen a lot of strange, cinema-centric fan projects in my time. Thanks to the Internet, we've now got access to loads of fanatic fervor that stretches well beyond some Trekkies meeting up for conventions every year. We've shared Jar Jar Binks Salads, Twilight character embryos, and my favorite -- also from the sparkly vamp realm -- Bella's felted womb.But this latest fan goodie is of an entirely different (but just as strange) vein. We've seen Robert Downey Jr. as a teen jerk, a reincarnated man, Charlie Chaplin, Iron Man, and even Sherlock Holmes. What I never expected to see was RDJ, Pin-Up Girl, playing with his hair, showing off his femme curvature, and arching his back just so to offer the most titillation possible.
Which is the Best 'The Social Network' Trailer Parody?
Filed under: Fan Made
Looks like the good people of the internet are already hard at work spoofing The Social Network, the upcoming David Fincher/Aaron Sorkin collaboration about Mark Zuckerberg (Jesse Eisenberg) and the legal battles over who originally created Facebook. It's a strange and very amusing thing to see people so creatively (not sarcasm; these trailer parodies are pretty fun) send up something that hasn't even come out. It signals that now that the Inception meme has created a demand for new DIY movie parodies. And lo, the internet provides what the internet seeks.
After the break, take a look at some parodies of The Social Network's gorgeous trailer, y'know, the one where the Children of the Corn sing Radiohead? Each one is themed around a different popular website, like eBay or Twitter. Each one is funny in their one way. But which one is the best send-up? Find out after the break.
Watch This: Firefly's Lost Retro '80s Intro
Filed under: Fan Made
Fill-in-the-blank-punking things seems to be a trend that fellow geeks can't seem to stop doing and it's easy to see why. I mean, the X-Men are cool but what would happen if they were the Steampunk X-Men?! Yeah, that happened and fairly recently too in an issue of Astonishing X-Men that ur-nerd Warren Ellis wrote. There's oh so many other Nounpunk trends yet to be capitalized but the one that we don't even consider is Retropunk. Yes, that's right, I took a thing and I put "punk" after it. Feels liberating, let me tell ya.If I had to define retropunking, I'd say it involves taking something and reconfiguring it so that it looks like a throwback to a specific time period. More often than not, this has been expressed in the way people take contemporary TV shows and rework footage or images from them to look like they're from something else. J.J. Abrams shows seem to be especially popular with retropunks, including this retropunk'd version of the Lost theme ala a mod show from 1967 or this one of Fringe that re-imagines the show as something that should follow Manimal reruns on basic cable early Sunday mornings. And take a look at that Saul Bass-styled Locke poster for Lost. To quote Mr. Griswold: "It's a beaut, Clark!"
Now there's a fun little retropunk'd version of Joss Whedon's short-lived scifi western thing Firefly as if it too were originally aired in the '80s. Fun stuff. Check out the video after the break.
Celebrate 30 Years of Laughs With This 'Airplane' Quiz
Filed under: Comedy, Fandom, Retro Cinema, Fan Made
This summer has seen a lot of great films celebrate big anniversaries. Jaws is 35, Psycho is 50, The Blues Brothers is 30 ... the list just keeps going. Another classic film is celebrating its third decade in existence today, Airplane -- one of the best zany comedy spoof films of all time. Hard to believe it's been three decades since Leslie Nielsen first uttered the line "I am serious -- and don't call me Shirley." The film has aged well in the intervening years and the producers of modern day films like Epic Movie would be advised to spend time with this Zucker-Abrams-Zucker flick to see how it should be done.
In celebration of the film's birthday, website Mental Floss has come up with an Airplane quiz -- 11 questions guaranteed to test your knowledge about one of the funniest movies in history. And since every good quiz deserves an epic cram session beforehand, here are some fun facts from IMDb about the film to get you in the right frame of mind.
- Both David Letterman and Barry Manilow were considered for the role of Ted Striker
- Kareem Abdul Jabbar's part was originally going to be played by Pete Rose, but the scheduling didn't work out. Jabbar was paid $35,000 -- enough to buy a new Oriental rug.
- The film was shot in 34 days and cost $3.5 million.
- In a 2008 interview on Today, Peter Graves explains that he was actually offended by the script at first. Friends and colleagues convinced him to take the part.
- Graves, Stack, Bridges, and Nielsen were all selected because they had serious actor personas. This added one more level to the satire.
Celebrate 'Psycho's' 50th with this Cool Clip
Filed under: Horror, Fandom, Trailers and Clips, Fan Made
Hard to believe it was fifty years ago today that Alfred Hitchcock changed the face of modern horror cinema forever with the release of Psycho. I wasn't alive when it premiered back in 1960, but as a horror fan it has been a part of my life for almost as long as I can remember. The effect Hitchcock's film had on horror and suspense cinema is undeniable and has been well documented -- so rather than rehash ground already covered, we've decided to celebrate Psycho's birthday in a different way.Website Classic-Horror.com decided the coolest way to mark the film's anniversary was to make a tribute video -- but it isn't some goofy YouTube clip. Instead, it's a genuine homage to the film's most memorable sequence: the shower scene.
Nate Yapp decided to remake the seminal sequence by splicing together footage from the various rip offs and homages featured in film and television over the years. The result is amazing. Yapp has managed to edit together dozens of different scenes in a way that almost perfectly mirrors the original. He notes in the accompanying article that the Gus Van Sant remake wasn't nearly as close to the original as most people believe and that the web short The Horribly Slow Murderer with the Extremely Inefficient Weapon was the most accurate recreation in terms of camera angles and shot duration.
Stick around for the end of the clip -- which you can find after the jump -- for a complete list of all the films and shows used in the video. When you're done there, share your favorite Psycho memories with us in the comments section.
'Footloose' Remake Due Out This Summer (But Not THAT One)
Filed under: Comedy, Drama, Paramount, Fandom, Remakes and Sequels, Fan Made
The last word we got about Paramount's Footloose remake was that Craig Brewer would be taking up the reins as director while Chace Crawford had dropped out as the film's lead, pushing the release date back from this summer to who knows when.But this isn't stopping 52 different filmmakers from collaborating on their very own remake, one that will be out this summer. "Our Footloose Remake" sees the film remade scene by scene by fans from all across North America, and it'll have its prom-themed premiere on July 1st in Los Angeles before making its way across Canada and the U.S. and eventually being made available online -- for free.
It's curious to see fan-made novelties like this, one-man First Blood remake Flooding with Love for the Kid, and the legendary Raiders of the Lost Ark: The Adaptation break out beyond YouTube (Be Kind Rewind was right!). Now I'm especially curious to see how this Footloose remake plays up against the studio's own replacement -- a Grease sing-along release.
Watch This! 'Iron Man 2' Trailer Remix
Filed under: Action, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Paramount, Comic/Superhero/Geek, Trailers and Clips, Fan Made
To the few of you that didn't rush out to see Iron Man 2 yesterday, let me present Mike Relm's Iron Man 2 trailer remix, approximately one minute of undiluted money shots set to a thumping beat made up in part of choice lines and sound effects from the trailer. If this isn't enough to make you sweat red and gold, I don't know what is.
I'm hoping for an extended version of the track to pop up somewhere soon, so that I have something to listen to on a non-stop loop during the long, cold wait for Marvel's eventual Avengers film. I wish I was kidding. I've been an Avengers fan for decades, and May of 2012 will be my birthday/Christmas/virginity loss all rolled up into one two-hour film. To me, Iron Man 2 is just the foreplay.
You can watch Mike Relm's trailer remix after the jump.
Watch The Live-Action 'Street Fighter' Short
Filed under: Action, Fandom, DIY/Filmmaking, Comic/Superhero/Geek, Cinematical Indie, Trailers and Clips, Fan Made
Chun Li this ain't. Fed up with the shabby video game movies Hollywood has turned out in the past few years -- okay, in pretty much forever -- British actor and martial artist Joey Ansah (Desh from The Bourne Ultimatum) conceived, choreographed, co-wrote, and co-directed a faithful live-action adaptation of the Capcom fighting game Street Fighter featuring top-notch fight action, crisp production values, and yes, those ridiculous Street Fighter eyebrows. Hit Down, Down + Click to watch! (By which I mean scroll down for more.)
Filmed in HD, Street Fighter: Legacy stars Jon Foo as Ryu and Christian Howard as Ken, who meet in a wooded clearing as Ryu is shaking off memories of a recent run in with Akuma (portrayed in a cameo by Ansah). Fans of the Street Fighter games will recognize a ton of signature moves, positions, grunts, and details, including Ryu's hadouken and hurricane kick and Ken's fire-fisted shoryuken. Action cinephiles should enjoy the fact that Ansah and co-director Owen Trevor have packed their film with gorgeous visuals and dramatic fight choreography, making this three-minute piece instantly more watchable and more faithful than both Steven de Souza's 1994 live-action Street Fighter feature and Andrzej Bartkowiak's Legend of Chun Li.
The Costumes of WonderCon 2010
Filed under: Fandom, Comic/Superhero/Geek, WonderCon, Fan Made
Although San Francisco's annual WonderCon has been and probably always will be the spunky younger sibling to the ginormous pop culture behemoth that is San Diego Comic-Con, it's certainly got its upsides: namely, fewer lines to get into panels and more breathing room everywhere you go, even if the sickly sour stench of sweaty nerds wafting in and out of the convention center air ducts unfortunately remains the same. What else remains the same, con after con? My undying love for the good folks who take the time and care to dress up in costume at every convention, celebrating their favorite comics, movies, and series with pride among the strangers who share the sentiment the most, whether they're wearing their geek badges literally on their sleeves or not.
As a Bay Area native, it was particularly nice to return to my old stomping grounds and see plenty of enthusiasts representing in the city by the bay. As always, there was a heavy Star Wars contingent -- to be expected in the land of George Lucas -- and quite a few nods to favorite spandexed superheroes. Some of my faves from the WonderCon floor: Admiral Ackbar (and cereal), the Hitcher from "The Mighty Boosh," and the zombified guy in military gear who went to the trouble of wearing the freakiest contact lenses ever made. (Gotta love that dedication to detail!)
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