Click on the photo to play “Name that Movie: Demonic Edition“

With the imminent release of Sam Raimi’s Drag Me To Hell, UGO figured it was a good time to think about where they’d be spending eternity once they’ve shuffled off this mortal coil.  Who will be there to greet us when we enter Perdition?

The Countdown

5 Child Prodigies Whose Talents we Envy – [Asylum]

The Guantanamo Bay video game has clearly been well thought out – [Double Kill]

Cars crash when you try to get away with stripping game – [Blog of Hilarity]

Amazing Surf Pictures – [Micklanders]

The Cowboys unveil the world’s largest HDTV – [DJ Mick]

Man caught whacking it in the cemetery – [Don Chavez]

Get a load of the Transforminators – [Gibbs 12]

Pictures from the set of Iron Man 2 – [Bamkapow]

One of the best high school proms ever – [Funtasticus]

6 Reasons your dog is better than a girlfriend – [Regretfulmorning]

Weird Gallery of Flexible Fingers – [Attuworld]

I really, really wish we could stamp out this trend before it even starts, but it appears it’s too late. I read this little snippet in an article about the upcoming Battleship movie that I didn’t know existed.

“Universal has several board game titles in development as part of its six-year deal with Hasbro. “Ouija Board” is being produced by Michael Bay’s Platinum Dunes shingle, “Candy Land” has Kevin Lima attached to direct with Etan Cohen writing the script, and Ridley Scott is developing a project based on “Monopoly.”

Yes, that’s right, we’re getting not only a Battleship movie, but Ouija Board, Candy Land and Monopoly movies as well. I had heard about Ridley Scott’s Monopoly project before, but I thought I was reading an Onion article so I didn’t think anything of it.

But seriously, look Hollywood, I understand that writing movies is hard. You need an idea, and a plot, and characters, and things like books and video games and comics and other movies and toys give you most of those things right off the bat so it’s easier to adapt them into a film, but that doesn’t mean you should. And now we’re scraping the bottom of the barrel with board games. I’m not sure where we’ll go when we run out of those. I guess we’ll start making movies based on cereal box cartoons (Revenge of Trix Rabbit) or commercial characters (Geicko’s Gecko 3-D!). I’m not sure the industry will survive, or my sanity along with it.

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With Parkman’s “eye” and Sylar O-face, this video has just been begging to get made. And someone with a lot of patience and editing skill happily obliged, and now we have the best Jizz in My Pants cover video to date.

On a less homoerotic note, I would totally like to see Hiro and Ando in I’m On a Boat.

[via io9]

As if enough movies from our childhoods haven’t been remade already, Disney is planning to remake “Flight of the Navigator.”  From The Hollywood Reporter:

Brad Copeland is writing the remake, which is being produced by Mandeville partners David Hoberman and Todd Lieberman.

The 1986 original told the story of a 12-year-old boy who is abducted by an alien spacecraft in 1978 and reappears eight years later, still the same age and with no memory of what happened. NASA scientists discover a connection between the boy and a downed spacecraft and try to exploit the boy, who ultimately escapes with the ship and attempts to reunite with his family.

I usually don’t get too worked up with all this remake nonsense, but “Flight of the Navigator” is one of the sacred ones as far as I’m concerned.  What needs to be remade?  Why can’t children today enjoy the original film?  Ugh.

The silver lining – and I’m really reaching here – is that Brad Copeland  has written some episodes of Arrested Development.  Yeah, I’m totally reaching.  This sucks.

Sometimes people have way too much time on their hands.  And something is telling me that we fall into that category.  But one of the advantages to having all this time is being able to find such items that can only mean that there are actually some people that have even more time than us.

I mean I thought coming up with a list of vomiting videos from movies meant that I had absolutely nothing better to do.  I was clearly wrong.  This person decided to stick a Mario mustache and hat on a bunch of pictures of random people and celebrities.

For whatever reason, I was amused by this.

Enjoy these 15 Mario pictures (for no reason whatsoever)

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Hey, yeah, remember those guys, they made every funny movie of the early 2000s, and then all of a sudden, poof! They disappeared, Judd Apatow’s minions took their place, and they were never seen filming good movies together again. Each of what I consider the five main pillars of the frat pack has had a noticeable decline in the types of films they’ve made since, opting for kids and chick movies that yes, probably made more money, but made a whole lot more suck too.

Here’s a visual representation showing what I mean. For each of them I could have picked any number of good, old movies and new, bad ones, but I tried to stick with the prime examples.

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I wrote yesterday that trailers for movies can often be misleading.  A poor trailer can make a good movie seem like crap, and a great trailer can make a terrible movie seem like it’s going to be worth watching.  But what about fan-made trailers found on the Internet?  Most of the time, they’re for movies that don’t even exist.

Inspired by the Nathan Fillion Green Lantern fan-made movie trailer I saw a couple of days ago, I decided to compile 10 of the very best fan-made movie trailers found on the Internet.  Some people out there are very creative and talented, and you can tell that they put a lot of work into these trailers. I’d even go so far as to say that many fan-made trailers are superior to the real ones put out by studios.  Anyway, you can be the judge as far as that goes.  After the jump, enjoy 10 of the coolest fan-made movie trailers for movies that don’t even exist…yet.

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It was the moment we were all waiting for this summer season: the resurrection of Terminator. The trailers were looking good, there was a Nolan in charge of rewrites, and for god’s sake we even had Batman as John Connor — how could this go wrong?

Well, if you happened to catch the movie over the weekend you know just how wrong it was. It’s time to play Monday-morning quarterback in the aftermath of one of this summer’s biggest letdowns, and so let’s try to answer one question: whose fault was it?

Click on the photo to see racism in Star Trek

By the way, I’m gonna have to agree with Mr. Tassi on his assessment on Star Trek.  I thought it was an awesome movie.  Very entertaining and a great lead in to whatever film they do next.  My only beef was Dr. McCoy.  A little much on the imitation of the TV Series guy don’t you think?

The Countdown

We’re entitling this:  This is a disaster – [io9]

Diablo III character models are awesome – [Double Kill]

Lyndsy Fonseca jumps into a hot tub – [Empire]

Michael Ian Black farts like a butterfly – [Screenjunkies]

10 artists that should have quit while they were ahead – [Spike]

Video game cosplay yearbook page – [PWN or Die]

Twelve very bizarre vending machines – [Oddee]

If classic fairy tales took place in Jersey – [Cracked]

Pet Hair fashion? – [OMG Blog]

Nintendo launches the “Catering Channel” – [Gonintendo]

What? You never a million years ever thought about the Twitter having it’s own TV show? Well, you’re just thinking inside the box my friend, and that’s why you’re not a network executive.

With the philosophy of “If it’s popular on the internet, it’ll be popular everywhere else,” Twitter is getting it’s own TV show, where….what, exactly will happen?

The show would harness Twitter to put players on the trail of celebrities in an interactive, competitive format, the show’s producers announced Monday.

“Right now, Twitter is an incredible technological and cultural phenomenon,” said executive producer Amy Ephron, who created the TV show and took it to Twitter.

The producers call their proposed series the first to bring the immediacy of Twitter to the TV screen.

“It captures what’s best about Twitter, and it’s a compelling TV show in its own right,” said Noah Oppenheim, head of unscripted development for Reveille.

What the hell? What;s this show going to be? Ashton Kutcher and Shaq reading their tweets out loud on camera, while @replies pop up at the bottom of the screen?  As much as I’ve learned to tolerate Twitter in web form, I’m not going to be able to handle it on TV, I’m just not. Lord knows they’ll probably cancel The Office and replace it with this.

Paul doesn’t really hate Twitter that much. In fact, you can follow him here.