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By now you understand our tastes when it comes to movies. Some have called it snobbery. Others have called it just plain weird. We call it, ‘not wasting money or time on any more of your bullshit shennagins cause it doesn’t matter how many motherboards you melt rendering a giant robot’s balls thinking it’s a funny joke or that racist little robots are the pinnacle of comedic genius we’re not watching your film abortions any more, Michael Bay! You here that!? Never a-damn-gain!’

Where were we again?

Oh right: movie snobbery.

Now it would appear that a flick named HOT TUB TIME MACHINE automatically falls into that area located directly beneath the nose. You would think this. Hopefully, you didn’t take bets because you would be dead wrong.

Maybe it’s John Cusack owning up to his humble teen loser years. Maybe it’s Craig Robinson’s deadpan Aside Glance as he quizzically ponders how they partied in a hot tub in 2010 one night and woke up in 1985 the next night. Maybe still it’s Robinson’s all defining question, “What color is Michael Jackson?” that spared the cash on opening night.

The trailer lurks below.
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DON’T YOU FORGET ABOUT ME: A John Hughes Documentary

Posted by mistergroonk in Documentary, Movies, Trailers on March 8, 2010

Because of the John Hughes tribute during the Oscars last night, we learned(via Twitter, of course) of the documentary Don’t You Forget About Me. In which a group of filmmakers set out to find the 80s teen movie director. Johns Hughes died unexpectedly during their production. They shifted focus and dedicated the film to his memory.

Being an affirmed child of 80s movies we would love to see this documentary but we’re having the damnedest time tracking the flick down in the USA.

Official Site: http://www.dontyouforgetaboutmethemovie.com/

Production Blog: http://www.dontyouforgetaboutmethedocumentary.blogspot.com/

(via the documentary blog)

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Jimmy Kimmel Shares New IRON MAN 2 Trailer. Internet Gasps Collective, “AWESOME!”

Posted by mistergroonk in Just Freaking Neat, Movies, Trailers on March 8, 2010

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ABRAHAM LINCOLN, VAMPIRE HUNTER, Butt Kicker, and All Around Guy Who Gets Things Done

Posted by mistergroonk in Books, Just Freaking Neat, Trailers on March 5, 2010

Be a slave to vampires no more!

Seth Grahame-Smith gave us Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (which is followed by Ben H. Winter’s Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters) and now he slays us with Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter. Grahame-Smith is an author that’s too good to be true. He takes the tried, true and, at times, boring subjects, mixes them with monsters and makes a mint on the awesome aftermath. When the title of your book is Lincoln as a vampire hunter, explanations are clearly not needed . So have a look at the book trailer below:
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Skinput: Make Future “Booty Calls” from Actual Booty

Posted by mistergroonk in Just Freaking Neat, Science, Technology, The Future on March 5, 2010

The device works via an armband, which contains a small projector that beams whatever relevant interface you need onto your hand or forearm. Then you simply press the appropriate part of your skin just like you were tapping the screen of an iPhone. An acoustic sensor in the armband can tell where you are tapping because of the different bond densities, tissues, and other differentiating factors inherent in your body’s geography.

Bluetooth then transmits the corresponding signal to the appropriate device; if you’ve just dialed a phone number, it sends the info to your phone and dials the call.

It’s been far too long since we’ve shared anything future science-y.

(via popsci)

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Oscar Nominee Christoph Waltz Orbits Quentin Tarantino Graciously

Posted by mistergroonk in Movies, Quotables on March 5, 2010

Oscar nominees of 2010 please pay attention. This is how you thank a body in public:

“A year and a half ago, I was exposed to the gravitational forces of Quentin Tarantino,” Waltz said at the Golden Globes in January. “He took my modest little world — my globe — and with the power of his talent and his words and his vision, he flung it into his orbit – a dizzying experience.”

Waltz capped off the speech by calling “Basterds” a “big bang of a movie,” adding: “I wouldn’t have dared to dream that my little world, my globe, would be part of that constellation. And now you’ve made it golden.”

(via latimes)

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MusicMonday: OK Go Creates New, Fully Embeddable, Video for “This Too Shall Pass”

Posted by mistergroonk in Artist, Intertube Madness, Music, Versus, Video on March 1, 2010

Many zotons ago, OK Go debuted the video “Here it Goes Again” on You Tube. The video was them doing synchronized dancing on treadmills. It was awesome and the Internet agreed. Fan response involved many, many You Tube embeds to personal sites and the like. This built up momentum, which built up hype, which garnered OK Go rave reviews and much free advertising.

Four years later, the suits have stepped in. It seems EMI and You Tube don’t get paid for how many times a video is embedded. They only acknowledge visits to the main site(You Tube). The specifics on why they can’t monetize a fan’s embed remain hazed in the clouds of legal wrangling and mind-blinding deals made behind desks full of faceless executives.

What EMI and company fail to understand is how Internet works. It’s through this type of sharing that acts or idiots gain popularity. It’s through this popularity that money can be made. While they remain steadfast in the old systems of management, OK Go understands the new road. They even did an Op Ed Piece in The New York Times about the troubles of marketing in this Internet age. (Excerpt below)

As the age of viral video dawned, “Here It Goes Again” was viewed millions, then tens of millions of times. It brought big crowds to our concerts on five continents, and by the time we returned to the studio, 700 shows, one Grammy and nearly three years later, EMI’s ledger had a black number in our column. To the band, “Here It Goes Again” was a successful creative project. To the record company, it was a successful, completely free advertisement.

Now we’ve released a new album and a couple of new videos. But the fans and bloggers who helped spread “Here It Goes Again” across the Internet can no longer do what they did before, because our record company has blocked them from embedding our video on their sites. Believe it or not, in the four years since our treadmill dance got such attention, YouTube and EMI have actually made it harder to share our videos.

Their new video “This Too Shall Pass” has been unable to build the same traction as “Here it Goes Again” because of their label’s restrictions. Obviously we would have posted it eons ago for it was awesome. Not as mind blowing, frenetic as dancing on treadmills but more of a liquid state of awesome. Later today, OK Go will release a new State Farm insurance sponsored and, we’re guessing, fully embeddable version of “This Too Shall Pass” which will be featured on the band’s website 6:00 PM CST and in this post as soon as we’re able to access it.

Update begin: The sound has rendered. The video is here. We’ve rethought our position on the first video(involving the marching band) and the new video(involving the Rube Goldberg device). The Rube Goldberg device defeats all previous and future music videos of “This Too Shall Pass”