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Harry Potter: My Immortal

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Thanks to long time friend and podcast listener, Toilet for all of this joy.

We’re going to make this really easy, because I really want you to see what our world has become.  One-Sheet is going to have a field day with this not to mention some recent flashbacks to his night at the goth club and Doc Oz is going to have flashbacks to a certain texting facade …. don’t worry, he’s not Hanna.  Fo sirius.

Here’s what you need to know:

1. Fanfic – short for fan fiction.  This is where people who love an already established book series, show, or movie write their own story either  in C (cannon: strict to the original story) or AU (alternate universe: where they can change anything they’d like to meet their story needs, for instance in one Dragon Ball Z fanfic I read Trunks never came back from the future but instead was an American teenager).  While you may instantly think that fanfics are a lame attempt at wanting people to like them because they are “stealing” other peoples’ characters and stories, some of these fanfics are truly amazing.  Just really well written.  However… and this is a big however, most are not very good at all.

2. Teenagers – this breed or species most of the time eventually evolve, but when they are in their SERB (Sharked Eyed Rolling–in-the back-of-their-head) stage they are scary, annoying and over all just worthless pieces of humanity.  Are all of them like this?  No.  But let’s say the majority of them is really, really similar to this SERB stage.  Just know, that people like this are generally not good at things like spelling, thinking, contextualizing, having rational thought, spelling, grammar, thinking outside of Hot Topic clothing, and most of all spelling.

3. TeH Interwebz – has given a soap box for the masses, and yes, unfortunately that includes idiots who can’t spell, teenagers with out brain activity and asshole movie reviewers who like to podcast on Thursdays.  While the internet is a great place for spreading knowledge, ideas, and concepts otherwise lost to the universe without an outlet for them to express themselves.  But people who can’t speak, spell, or even think are allowed to get online with out a license of any kind.

With these thinsg in mind, check out the following video.  It is a dramatic reading of chapter 17 of what is being called the worst fanfic of all time, called My Immortal by XXXbloodyrists666XXX.  Below the video, I have posted some chapters from the fanfic and a link to read them all.

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Chapter 2: Chapter 2

Hi my name is Ebony Dark’ness Dementia Raven Way and I have long ebony black hair (that’s how I got my name) with purple streaks and red tips that reaches my mid-back and icy blue eyes like limpid tears and a lot of people tell me I look like Amy Lee (AN: if u don’t know who she is get da hell out of here!). I’m not related to Gerard Way but I wish I was because he’s a major fucking hottie. I’m a vampire but my teeth are straight and white. I have pale white skin. I’m also a witch, and I go to a magic school called Hogwarts in England where I’m in the seventh year (I’m seventeen). I’m a goth (in case you couldn’t tell) and I wear mostly black. I love Hot Topic and I buy all my clothes from there. For example today I was wearing a black corset with matching lace around it and a black leather miniskirt, pink fishnets and black combat boots. I was wearing black lipstick, white foundation, black eyeliner and red eye shadow. I was walking outside Hogwarts. It was snowing and raining so there was no sun, which I was very happy about. A lot of preps stared at me. I put up my middle finger at them.

“Hey Ebony!” shouted a voice. I looked up. It was…. Draco Malfoy!

“What’s up Draco?” I asked.

“Nothing.” he said shyly.

But then, I heard my friends call me and I had to go away.

Chapter 3: Chapter 3

The next day I woke up in my bedroom. It was snowing and raining again. I opened the door of my coffin and drank some blood from a bottle I had. My coffin was black ebony and inside it was hot pink velvet with black lace on the ends. I got out of my coffin and took of my giant MCR t-shirt which I used for pajamas. Instead, I put on a black leather dress, a pentagram necklace, combat boots and black fishnets on. I put on four pairs of earrings in my pierced ears, and put my hair in a kind of messy bun.

My friend, Willow (AN: Raven dis is u!) woke up then and grinned at me. She flipped her long waist-length raven black hair with pink streaks and opened her forest-green eyes. She put on her Marilyn Manson t-shirt with a black mini, fishnets and pointy high-heeled boots. We put on our makeup (black lipstick white foundation and black eyeliner.)

“OMFG, I saw you talking to Draco Malfoy yesterday!” she said excitedly.

“Yeah? So?” I said, blushing.

“Do you like Draco?” she asked as we went out of the Slytherin common room and into the Great Hall.

“No I so fucking don’t!” I shouted.

“Yeah right!” she exclaimed. Just then, Draco walked up to me.

“Hi.” he said.

“Hi.” I replied flirtily.

“Guess what.” he said.

“What?” I asked.

“Well, Good Charlotte are having a concert in Hogsmeade.” he told me.

“Oh. My. Fucking. God!” I screamed. I love GC. They are my favorite band, besides MCR.

“Well…. do you want to go with me?” he asked.

I gasped.

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I’m hurting and my 3rd grade teacher just blew her brains out.  Here is the rest of the chapters…

Now I have to go away.

Star Wars Blu Ray Features Announced

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Yesterday for Star Wars Day (May the 4th) Lucas Films announced that on May 5th, AKA TODAY, that the news would break announcing the features on the Star Wars Blu Ray sets.  The sets come in 3 versions: the original trilogy, the prequels turds, and the complete 6 film collection.  Here are the covers….

Special Features:

STAR WARS: THE COMPLETE SAGA ON BLU-RAY is presented in widescreen with 6.1 DTS Surround Sound. Special features include:

* DISC ONE – STAR WARS: EPISODE I THE PHANTOM MENACE
o Audio Commentary with George Lucas, Rick McCallum, Ben Burtt, Rob Coleman, John Knoll, Dennis Muren and Scott Squires
o Audio Commentary from Archival Interviews with Cast and Crew

* DISC TWO – STAR WARS: EPISODE II ATTACK OF THE CLONES
o Audio Commentary with George Lucas, Rick McCallum, Ben Burtt, Rob Coleman, Pablo Helman, John Knoll and Ben Snow
o Audio Commentary from Archival Interviews with Cast and Crew

* DISC THREE – STAR WARS: EPISODE III REVENGE OF THE SITH
o Audio Commentary with George Lucas, Rick McCallum, Rob Coleman, John Knoll and Roger Guyett
o Audio Commentary from Archival Interviews with Cast and Crew

* DISC FOUR – STAR WARS: EPISODE IV A NEW HOPE
o Audio Commentary with George Lucas, Carrie Fisher, Ben Burtt and Dennis Muren
o Audio Commentary from Archival Interviews with Cast and Crew

* DISC FIVE – STAR WARS: EPISODE V THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK
o Audio Commentary with George Lucas, Irvin Kershner, Carrie Fisher, Ben Burtt and Dennis Muren
o Audio Commentary from Archival Interviews with Cast and Crew

* DISC SIX – STAR WARS: EPISODE VI RETURN OF THE JEDI
o Audio Commentary with George Lucas, Carrie Fisher, Ben Burtt and Dennis Muren
o Audio Commentary from Archival Interviews with Cast and Crew

* DISC SEVEN – NEW! STAR WARS ARCHIVES: EPISODES I-III
o Including: deleted, extended and alternate scenes; prop, maquette and costume turnarounds; matte paintings and concept art; supplementary interviews with cast and crew; a flythrough of the Lucasfilm Archives and more

* DISC EIGHT – NEW! STAR WARS ARCHIVES: EPISODES IV-VI
o Including: deleted, extended and alternate scenes; prop, maquette and costume turnarounds; matte paintings and concept art; supplementary interviews with cast and crew; and more.

* DISC NINE – THE STAR WARS DOCUMENTARIES
o NEW! Star Warriors (2007, Color, Apx. 84 Minutes) – Some Star Wars fans want to collect action figures…these fans want to be action figures! A tribute to the 501st Legion, a global organization of Star Wars costume enthusiasts, this insightful documentary shows how the super-fan club promotes interest in the films through charity and volunteer work at fundraisers and high-profile special events around the world.

o NEW! A Conversation with the Masters: The Empire Strikes Back 30 Years Later (2010, Color, Apx. 25 Minutes) – George Lucas, Irvin Kershner, Lawrence Kasdan and John Williams look back on the making of The Empire Strikes Back in this in-depth retrospective from Lucasfilm created to help commemorate the 30th anniversary of the movie. The masters discuss and reminisce about one of the most beloved films of all time.

o NEW! Star Wars Spoofs (2011, Color, Apx. 91 Minutes) – The farce is strong with this one! Enjoy a hilarious collection of Star Wars spoofs and parodies that have been created over the years, including outrageous clips from Family Guy, The Simpsons, How I Met Your Mother and more — and don’t miss “Weird Al” Yankovic’s one-of-a-kind music video tribute to The Phantom Menace!

o The Making of Star Wars (1977, Color, Apx. 49 Minutes) – Learn the incredible behind-the-scenes story of how the original Star Wars movie was brought to the big screen in this fascinating documentary hosted by C-3PO and R2-D2. Includes interviews with George Lucas and appearances by Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford and Carrie Fisher.

o The Empire Strikes Back: SPFX (1980, Color, Apx. 48 Minutes) – Learn the secrets of making movies in a galaxy far, far away. Hosted by Mark Hamill, this revealing documentary offers behind-the-scenes glimpses into the amazing special effects that transformed George Lucas’ vision for Star Wars and The Empire Strikes Back into reality!

o Classic Creatures: Return of the Jedi (1983, Color, Apx. 48 Minutes) – Go behind the scenes — and into the costumes — as production footage from Return of the Jedi is interspersed with vintage monster movie clips in this in-depth exploration of the painstaking techniques utilized by George Lucas to create the classic creatures and characters seen in the film. Hosted and narrated by Carrie Fisher and Billie Dee Williams.

o Anatomy of a Dewback (1997, Color, Apx. 26 Minutes) – See how some of the special effects in Star Wars became even more special two decades later! George Lucas explains and demonstrates how his team transformed the original dewback creatures from immovable rubber puppets (in the original 1977 release) to seemingly living, breathing creatures for the Star Wars 1997 Special Edition update.

o Star Wars Tech (2007, Color, Apx. 46 Minutes) – Exploring the technical aspects of Star Wars vehicles, weapons and gadgetry, Star Wars Tech consults leading scientists in the fields of physics, prosthetics, lasers, engineering and astronomy to examine the plausibility of Star Wars technology based on science as we know it today.

DuckTales Is All Grown Up

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10 Grammatically-Incorrect Movie Titles

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If you have ever spent more than 5 minutes with the Producer, you will know that her grammar skills put librarians to shame.  She once walked into the HQ of Websters and smacked a bitch because a comma was out of place.  Now, if you’ve ever read anything I’ve written, you will see how horrible I am at editing / spell checking.  But I am going to try really hard for this one… because, I want to show just how lame Hollywood is at this.

1. Two Weeks Notice

Sandra Bullock is so bad at acting the studio decided they didn’t want any type of ownership in this movie, including the grammar in the movie’s title.  No need for apostrophes here, good sir, we have Hugh Grant. He owns enough.

2. The Ladies Man

Another missing apostrophe!? What is this world coming to? Since it is written like this, we are to assume that he is a “man of the ladies” or more directly written “A Woman’s Dude.”  I think they wanted to have us think he was a “Lady’s Man.”  Ah well.

3. Honey, I Shrunk The Kids

A better title would have been “Honey, I Shrank The Kids” or even “Honey, I’ve Shrunk The Kids.” However, they opted out of this and decided to have Shrunk The Audience of intelligent movie goers. But didn’t they do that?  “Honey, We Shrunk The Audience?” Yeah.  And on that note, they also fucked the pooch with “Honey, We Shrunk Ourselves” and “Honey, I Blew Up The Kid” which when I went to see in the theater was completely different than I was hoping it was.

4. The 40 Year-Old Virgin

This one is just nasty.  Not the movie, but the implication due to the bad grammar.  I am guessing that the studio wanted us to think this movie was about a singular man, the age of 40 years, and at the current moment he was a virgin.  Instead, the title leads us to believe that we have 40 separate 1-year-olds who are also virgins.  Well, I would hope so.

5. Who Framed Roger Rabbit

Leaving off that question mark just gave Abbott and Costello another round up at bat.  “Who framed Roger Rabbit.”  “He did?  That guy’s an asshole.”

6. Lara Croft: Tomb Raider: Cradle of Life

What the hell is this? An SAT test?

Lara Croft : Tomb Radier  ——–  Cradle of Life : Franchise disaster

7. Law Abiding Citizen

There should be a hyphen between “law” and “abiding.”  Sorry Jamie Foxx.  Otherwise, what we have now is a law abiding the citizen.  And if this is a clever twist on the grammar rule, than I am calling this the most obtusely intelligently used title for a stupid fucking movie ever.

8. Eight Legged Freaks

Go ahead.  By now, I bet you have it figured out.  I bet you can do this one all on your own.  Did you?  Congrats, gold stars!  Without the hyphen between “Eight” and “Legged” what we have is truly a scary movie about freaks with legs!  OH THE HUMANITY!  Stop those freaks that are legged.

9. Marley & Me

OK, this one might be correct, but seeing as it has Owen Wilson and Jennifer Aniston in it, I am doubting it.  If the title is referring to a sentence like “Marley and me are going to the park,” then you should be shot in the face with a flare gun.  The only thing worse than that is something my mom drove into my skull as a kid and that’s “Me and Marley are going out,” where she would aptly turn and say “Is that Marley being mean to you again?”  It taught me correctly.  Still, the movie should have been called “Marley & I” or simply “The Dog Dies In The End.”

10. You Got Served

Oh Jesus Christ. My head hurts.

 

Fucking Smart Cars

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If the government had its way, we would all be driving Smart Cars.  It doesn’t make you smarter just like a smoothie doesn’t make you any more smooth with women folk.  Be regardless, the government has issued that car manufactures all produce a line of their top sellers to resemble Smart Cars.  Take a look…

Here we see the traditional Smart Car

Here we see the Smorvette

Next up, we have the Smamborghini

If that’s not bad, we have to have the Smaudi A3

Sadly, they are making the Smorsche

Great.  So I can’t fit in anything anymore since next they are releasing the Smerrari

And for those old schoolers, the Smustang.

 

Marvin of the Movies

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Marvin of the Movies

The man with the largest private movie collection in the world.

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This is awesome.  I would have done anything to have just sat and talked with him about films.

Scott Pilgrim VS My Little Pony

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The President’s Speech Trailer

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Harry Potter 7.2 Trailer

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X-Men First Class Trailer

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New Trailer

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and in case you missed it last week, the International Trailer

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Make Believe Trailer

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DeadPool Shot

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No. Not the big budget movie that is in the works, but rather a web series actor.

To any artists out there, you are well award of the term, “suffer for your art.”  Those pain-staking nights spent huddled over your craft, sleep is but a far off dream, and you just can’t stop until you have reached a breaking point or finish the damn thing. WEell, here is the other meaning for the well-known term.  23-year-old Columbus man Sam Vestey was shot in the leg by accident while making an amateur Deadpool web series.

Vestey and friends, Casey May and Michael Galusick, were filming a scene for their fan-made Deadpool series in the basement of a house when a real gun they were using as a prop fired and struck Vestey in the leg.  Can we hear a Douche of the Week award coming?  The men had used the gun for previous projects, and had believed it to be unloaded.  Ah, and there it is.

No one is sure which of the men was holding the gun at the time of the incident, however it is generally believed to be an accident and not malicious. Said Vestey in an interview, “As he was holding it, it slipped from his hands and when he reached for it, it caught the trigger and it discharged into my leg.”

Vestey acknowledges that all things considered, he got off very easily. No criminal charges have been filed as a result of the incident, and Vestey appears to harbor no hard feelings. In fact, Vestey has said that he would be open to appearing in another episode of the series.

HOORAY!  Let’s hear it for continuity!

OK.  What did we learn today, boys and girls?  That’s right.  If you’re going to be making movies, professional or amateur, you ALWAYS FUCKING GET AN ARMORER ON YOUR FUCKING SET!  Even if the gun is fake, if you are serious about making movies, you get an armorer.  They are there for a fucking reason.  Jesus tap dancing on frog while eating a subway sammitch Christ!

In the meantime, here is an episode of the web show.

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After watching this I am so happy someone came to their sense and shot someone.

Guide To Making People Feel Older

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I think it started when I was working on my master’s thesis when I started looking at movie release dates and I used The Matrix for the 90s decade and it just made me feel oddly older than I already felt.  I remember seeing it like 2 weeks after it was released and just being blown away and my little 19-year-old mind just was amazed with the plot, the story, the characters and the effects.  I still feel old.

Worst Movie That Has Recieved High Acclaimation

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This is more of a forum type of discussion because I want to hear what you guys think is a movie that you loathe, that you hate, that you downright despise, but others, in fact, a shit load of other people think it simply amazing.

“Follow close behind, son. This is about to get shitty.”

Most movies that I think are wastes of celluloid a lot of other people do as well.  Movies like Hitch, I, Robot, Salt, Independence Day, Pearl Harbor, Transformers,  and pretty much anything by Michael Bay or starring Will Smith. However, there have been movies that get wide praise for being amazing and I think are just plain dumb.  Like last season of JunkCast I reviewed Wise Blood which every review of the film I read and listened to were all high and glowing.  Plus it was on Criterion.  But the movie was fucking stupid.  The script was beyond weak and the acting felt so forced that it felt like I was watching a bad high school play.

Careful where you’re walking, those plot holes are every where.

Other movies I just hate that the rest of the world seems to love are Gladiator, The Patriot, and Braveheart.  Now, all of these movies I liked the first time I saw them, however, I continued to watch them again.  Gladiator was fun when I saw it in the theater because it was a grand scale and exciting.  However upon watching it again there were so many fucking plot holes, forced rhetoric, and jamming down your throat emotions that I instantly turned my opinion of the film.  After my first viewing of The Patriot I was amazed at how brutal the revolutionary war was, however, I watched the movie twice.  With all the inaccuracies, fuck ups, and shitty story telling, the movie is a steaming pile.  When Braveheart came out I was instantly in love.  It was breath taking…. then I read up on the history of William Wallace.  After reading everything I read I could never watch the movie the same again… however, I do have to admit the opening 2 minutes of the movie with the commentary by Mel Gibson was awesome because he talks about how he didn’t see a need for opening film credits.  He wanted the film itself to be more important and that I completely respect.  Many movies could be awesome if they skipped the opening credits.

“Damn, I should’ve read the history book of this guy…Nah, no one will care.”

Don’t get me too wrong here. I love epic movies.  I love the grand scale of it all. Just don’t dumb it down for the audience. Tell a good story and the film will be good.

What are some of you hated movies that everyone else loves?

Mini Thor

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Remember that awesome VW commercial for the superbowl where the kid dressed up as mini Darth Vader was sulking around the house because his force powers weren’t working?  If you saw the 30 second version you got ripped the fuck off because it was stupid and didn’t have the heart of the full minute version.  Here is the full version:

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Now, when it comes to advertising, Marvel has always stuck to their guns and gone the safe route, to my knowledge, never really stepping outside the box… until now.  Thor is not a movie I am expecting to see in the theater.  The only reason I would think I might is due to the lengths that Marvel is trying to make all their super hero films at the moment link together, and that impresses me and intrigues me.  If Thor was a stand alone film I would call it a fucking piece of shit and NEVER, FUCKING NEVER want to see it.

Most of the Thor advertising so far has been fucking laaaaaaaame.  Partnership with Dr Pepper.  Lame fucking trailer commercials. And so on, and so on.  However, someone stepped the hell up and wanted to have fun with it.  This is the new commercial for Thor.

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