“Hot Tub Time Machine” was one of my favorite movies of 2010, and the Apples in Stereo’s “Dream About the Future” was one of my favorite songs of 2010, so I thought I’d combine the two for one epic movie music mash-up. Enjoy!
Check this video out, it’s an actual filmed alternate ending to the 1997 epic James Cameron smash hit, “Titanic”! The clip is a bit long, so I recommend skipping to about 3 minutes in to see how the movie could have ended. Needless to say it is horrible. In the original unaltered ending, we just see Rose throw her billion dollar diamond over the boat without anyone knowing. In this version, the entire crew of the Titanic Recovery boat she’s on confronts her before she does it. Rose gives one last speech about embracing life, but unlike before when her words were inspiring, here they just sound cackling and crazy. Then she lets Bill Paxton touch the diamond for another crazy reason, and proceeds to drive the fat guy with the beard insane by throwing it over. It is interesting to note that the fat guy shouts something like, “hey what’ll my wife think about this??” And its like wow, you’re married? Then it all ends with Bill Paxton trying to hook up with Rose’s granddaughter. I guess he was inspired by Rose story where the message was sex trumps money…Anyway, the point is, if Cameron ended the movie with this cacophonous resolution, the movie would have ending up being a million times worse. I mean, there is no way that this ending was intended as a joke, but it is so comically bad. Give it a whirl folks and let me know what you think.
Today, July 13th 2010, is a sad day. It marks the death of one of baseball’s great original characters, George M. Steinbrenner III, owner of the New York Yankees. Now we here at internetclub91, while huge baseball fans, are official Yankee haters. So while we cried in our respective childhoods as Yankee dominance crushed our little Met dreams time and time again, we took great solace in Jerry Seinfeld and Larry David’s wicked cartoon-esque parody of Steinbrenner on the legendary Seinfeld. So in honor of the man on his day of passing, we present these clips to all Yankee fans and haters alike. Enjoy.
Clip #1 is Steinbrenner (voiced by Larry David) at his annoying best, singing Heartbreaker while George is trapped under his desk in his makeshift bed…Hilarious!
Clip #2 is George Steinbrenner blissfully recollecting all the people he’s fired in his tenure as Yankee boss. The magical part was how Steinbrenner slips up and names then current Yankee manager Showalter who actually would be soon fired after this episode aired and replaced with Joe Torre.
Clip # 3 is from the Seinfeld series finale. Steinbrenner is called to the stand to recollect his years when George worked for him..Needless to say it doesn’t go so well for poor George who is accused of being a communist!
The last clip is a compilation of many of the great Steinbrenner moments from the show. Here we see how George managed to get improbably hired by Steinbrenner, how Steinbrenner plans to use George as a pipeline into Communist Cuba, and “Big Stein’s” growing obsession with calzones. CLASSIC stuff.
Whoo! I’m getting excited about 20th Century Fox’s reboot of the X-Men series. The X-Men are my favorite comic book franchise, and I was very upset when the whole shebang went downhill with the emergence of X-Men 3, and continued its horrible ways with “Wolverine: Origins”, which turned out to be less of a Wolverine movie, and more of a terrible prequel to the whole X-Men trilogy.
Anyway, after FOX ruined the series by killing off Cyclops and Professor X, and never settling on a hair style for Storm, they have wisely decided to reboot the series with director Matthew Vaughn in a film entitled, “X-Men: First Class.”
English director Vaughn got his start helping out Guy Ritchie, who did a few indies himself, but is now known for having helmed the decidedly uneven “Kick-Ass” flick. However, for this kind of movie, I think he will be a fine choice. He is no where near as offensive as the likes of McG or Brett Ratner.
The film itself will start at the beginning of the X-Men saga where psychic Professor X, to be played by the excellent James McAvoy (Last King of Scotland), recruits a bunch of teenage mutants to teach them how to use their powers to save man-kind from the likes of Magneto played by the also excellent Michael Fassbender (Inglorious Basterds).
Thankfully, from the cast list, we are gonna have a fairly original cast of mutants which will include Beast (Nicolas Hoult/About a Boy), Emma Frost (Alice Eve/She’s Out of My League), Banshee (Caleb Landry Jones/No Country For Old Men), and Havok (Lucas Till/Walk the Line). Other X-Men like Jean Grey, Iceman, and Cyclops haven’t been cast yet, but its strongly rumored that “Kick-Ass” himself, Aaron Johnson, will play Cyclops, but that is unconfirmed.
And lastly, rumors are flying that Kevin Bacon is in negotiations to play an unrevealed X-Men villain! That’s just awesome. I know Kevin lost a lot of his fortune with Bernie Madoff, and probably needs roles like this to stabilize his finances, and I hope he gets it, because he is legendary.
Anyway, I am very pleased with the way the cast and crew has shaped up thus far, and look forward to X-Men: First Class in 2011. As news continues to break on this flick, I’ll be right here bringing you all the juicy bits. Oh, and look out for my epic upcoming video series covering the entire X-Men saga, starting with the incredible X-Men Animated Series from the 90s. The X-Mania on Internetclub ‘91 is about to explode.
So, the verdict is in, and the new Spider-Man is not a cool black guy, its a poncy, English-raised American named Andrew Garfield. He was in that post-life Heath Ledger movie, ”The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus”. The director meanwhile is Marc Webb, director of the legendary chick flick, “500 Days of Summer”. And even more amazing, or bizarre, is that the new film will be shot in 3D! To me, this a whole clusterfuck of strange news. I understand they had to re-boot Spider-Man because director Sam Raimi and Tobey Maguire left due to scheduling conflicts, and that Spider-Man 3 was a massive creative abortion, but I’m not yet sold on this creative team at all. Can a romantic, weepy indie director like Webb pull off a 3D action nerd extravaganza? Like I detailed in my Donald Glover post, I wanted the producers to take a more bold 21st century type leap with the franchise…instead we are getting a potential Twilight-esque action flick aimed at scooping up teenage girls along the way. As more news comes out on the development of this movie, I’ll be posting my thoughts and opinions. Stay tuned Spidey fans.
With the release of the new Karate Kid movie, which I will never support in any way ever, it got me thinking about the ORIGINAL Karate Kid’s greatest moments. So for Karate Kid I, Karate Kid II, and Karate Kid III, I picked out my favorite scene from each movie to share with you.
From Karate Kid I, I went with the climatic final battle between Danny and Johnny. First of all, its got the legendary line by one of those Cobra-Kai douches, “GET HIM A BODY BAG, HAHAHAH!” Second, it features Daniel’s amazing Crane kick. There is probably no kid in America who didn’t at least try that kick once after having seen this movie for the first time. Legendary!
Check out this righteous piece of hardware! I think its a Commodore 64 Million. The I-Pad’s got nothing on this sucker.
I never saw an episode of Lost with the exception of flipping between the series finale and the Mets/Yankee game last May. Needless to say, I had no idea what was going on, but I was hoping that there would be some sort of scene of mass violence, or mass chaos, or mass something! None of that really happened, and I was left scratching my head. Luckily, this guy explains the entire show in 3 MINUTES for those who have never seen it and are curious about what the fucks going on. Enjoy.
Recently, there has been one of those things called a meme, basically a viral idea, that has attacked the internet with force. This one concerns Sony’s reboot of the Spider-Man franchise. With Tobey Maguire gone, the titular (hah) role is open to just about anybody, and a group of folks on Facebook had the bright idea of electing one Donald Glover to play the role of Spider-Man. Glover, a veteran writer of NBC’s 30 Rock, a star of NBC’s Community, as well as a founding member of the wildly successful underground comedy team known as DERRICK, would be perfect for the role. He is a young, skinny, athletic looking, comedian, all key qualities to the Spider-Man character. These traits fit right in with the apparent goal of the re-boot, which is to take Peter Parker back to his high school days, and have the series connect more with a teenage audience. As you might have guessed, Donald is a black man, which is a detail that has raised the ire of certain comic book purists, now desperately fighting for their opinion that Spider-Man should remain white, without trying to appear racist. Here is my glorious opinion on the matter. You “purists” are wrong on every count. Lets start by listing them one by one, and I’ll tackle all the complaints after.
1. Peter Parker has always been portrayed as a poor adopted white boy from Queens.
Wait…is that it? That’s the only complaint? Hmm…short list…Ok, well, this will be easier then I thought (Suit up for some sarcasm, Spidey fans) (more…)
Mario is a slow, fat, lazy, jumping plumber from Brooklyn. The guy from Ninja Gaiden is an athletic, throwing star, flipping machine from the mountains of Japan! Watch him destroy goombas, turtles, and the rest of Bower’s minions in this amazing video!
