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Why Phantom Menace Sucks Tauntaun Balls: The Definitive Text
· I hope you can carve 70 measly minutes out of your lives to watch this painstakingly researched, edited, argued and market-tested video review of why Star Wars: The Phantom Menace — the Howard the Duck of the Star Wars series — well and truly sucks Tauntaun balls. Well done, Mike of Milwaukee — and have you ever considered a career change to Christmas special narrator? Your lilting tones comfort us. (We’ve embedded part one after the jump; click through to access the next six chapters.) [YouTube via /Film]
· “We were wearing nothing but a lace g-string… and a weird wig,” said Avatar star Sam Worthington of his Hawaii shoot. I can not wait til the director commentary, when a hysterical James Cameron recalls, “And he totally bought it! Two weeks straight of wearing nothing but Lady Gaga hair and assfloss!” [BBC]
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Posted 17 Dec 2009, 6:16 PM
1. I don't have enough time, and he has too much.
2. My prom date, Wanda Guriachi, wore that same ensemble at the 1990 Senior Prom. She was ahead of her time, and doing a lot of drugs.
3. Who'd have thought that an ad for a movie called Hot Tub Time Machine could actually elevate the class level of a TV Show.
4. Who needs a 6 pack when they have a keg.
5. I just couldn't bring myself to click that link, too many flashbacks to Prom Night, and the time I let Wanda mix me a drink and I woke up buck naked, handcuffed to a polar bear and stuck on the roof of a Presbyterian Church. That took a lot of explaining.
6. Terence Stamp could use the royalties... Just kidding, he's probably not getting any!
7. Easy Reader IS God.
8. Shrek- Dead Horse Flogged.
Posted 17 Dec 2009, 6:38 PM
Thank you lord for killing Wild Hogs 2 but allowing Shrek Forever After to exist! I hope it's not asking too much, but can it be in 3-D?!?!
Posted 17 Dec 2009, 7:58 PM
So...I apparently had 70 minutes to spare.
Posted 17 Dec 2009, 9:23 PM
My buddy e-mailed me the Star Wars review last week. This guy could pull the ears off a gundark.
Posted 18 Dec 2009, 12:28 AM
I had 70 minutes to spare. Thanks for the link up!
Posted 19 Dec 2009, 1:39 PM
That pretty much sums it up.
Posted 19 Dec 2009, 1:50 PM
I'm up to the third video. It looks like a funny commentary, if a little overlong. But what's with all the "jokes" about killing hookers in his crawlspace and keeping a kidnapped woman in the basement while she begs for her life? When did that become "funny"?
Posted 19 Dec 2009, 7:04 PM
It's called incongruity. It's a form humor (though it is mostly related to satire). It's where things are inserted in places they shouldn't be, and we can draw humor from the weirdness of it. Locking women up in a basement isn't funny, but mildly going over it during a video review for Star Wars? Yea, I'd call that funny. It's a cheap form of humor, you get what you pay for. Not much else.
Posted 19 Dec 2009, 2:22 PM
Wow just watched his Star Trek reviews and now I see this here on Digg!
Seriously I made time to watch all his videos.
Amazing stuff.
Funny, insightful, and also really really messed up.
Posted 19 Dec 2009, 8:59 PM
Loved the clips from the Rocketeer. Looks like somebody else in the world knows it exists :)
Posted 20 Dec 2009, 4:20 AM
Ewan Mcdonnald as Obi Wan???? It´s Ewan Mcgregor
Posted 20 Dec 2009, 5:55 AM
Woohoo! Rocketeer! Ok, ok, I have a soft spot for that movie and I'm glad someone else kind of likes it.
Posted 20 Dec 2009, 12:22 PM
:D
Posted 20 Dec 2009, 12:46 PM
An astonishing, hilarious and superbly edited documentary.
I only pray Lucas himself watches it.
Gixman... Ewan Mcdonnald was a joke you idiot x
Posted 20 Dec 2009, 5:12 PM
sure the movie sucked but why would yo think that the reason it sucked was because of how un formulaic it was. like just because it wasnt like everyother movie doesnt make it bad.. its things that break the moldthat are real art. let me reiterate that i think that the movie blows. This review is not funny or helpful. The movie sucked because george lucas loves special effects more then he loves to tell a good story and he clearly didnt watch the older three before he made these newer ones because plot points dont line up.
Posted 22 Dec 2009, 12:18 AM
Phenomenal
Posted 20 Dec 2009, 6:40 PM
Finally got some time to watch this. Amazing how it clarifies the confusion as to why I disliked the prequels so much. I'm up to video 3 and hooked. I'll have to check out the Star Trek reviews next.
F'ing Jar-Jar!