Watch that first step. It's a doozy.

I watch a lot of movies, but I guess all the movies are terrible, because I only saw 8 movies from this list of the Top 100 Movies of 2011 by Rotten Tomatoes. The highest rated 2011 movie I saw was number 34, and I only saw 2 in the top 50. How did you do?

Via Kari

If the question is, "Would I watch 'Wastelander Panda'?" The answer is yes. If the question is, "Would I have to wait for my wife to be away to be able to watch it?" The answer is also yes.
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The tale of the last remaining panda in a post-apocalyptic wasteland."




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Firstshowing.net recently interviewed David Fincher where he talked about why he made a couple of his movies. The ones he didn't talk about, they filled in from past interviews resulting in a group of quotes about why Fincher made each of his movies. Pretty neat.

The Game 1997: 'The Game was a movie that I liked the idea of this gigantic Twilight Zone episode that became The Stunt Man. That you could sit down and look at the bill and go, 'Oh, really? So you had divers when I was in the cab. That's nice to hear now. But at the time I really thought I was drowning.' So you know, there's different reasons for [choosing] everything.

Via Khoi / Stellar Interesting

In trying to clear out my tabs to reach the nirvana of Tab Bar Zero, I came to Daniel Norris's reimagined Die Hard poster. I'd meant to post it months ago. He's got a bunch of really good movie posters, but I love Die Hard.



This reminded me of Olly Moss's Die Hard poster from a couple years ago. And then I got curious about whether there were any other Die Hard posters out there, and, oh man, let me tell you there are a couple, and these are all of them that I could find. Which one is your favorite? Did I miss any?


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The previous 2 are from Buzz Brewery, which seems to be down at the moment.


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Previous two via Russell Ford


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And then, these aren't movie posters but still valid in this post, I think.


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Here's a Die Hard cross stitch.

Lastly, here's a holiday card from Nakitomi.

This is now the movie I most want to see. Opens in Boston at Kendall Theater on 11/11.

This revealing and touching film asks what happens when a generation’s ultimate anti-authoritarians — punk rockers — become society’s ultimate authorities — dads. With a large chorus of punk rock’s leading men – Blink-182′s Mark Hoppus, Red Hot Chili Peppers’ Flea, Rise Against’s Tim McIlrath – THE OTHER F WORD follows Jim Lindberg, a 20-year veteran of the skate punk band Pennywise, on his hysterical and moving journey from belting his band’s anthem “F–k Authority,” to embracing his ultimately authoritarian role in mid-life: fatherhood.

Here's the trailer:

Via Laughing Squid / Brand Flakes for Breakfast

A couple weeks ago, I posted about a Reddit post titled "Could I destroy the entire Roman Empire during the reign of Augustus if I traveled back in time with a modern U.S. Marine infantry battalion or MEU?" about the very same subject. It's a compelling read. And now it's being turned into a movie. Awesome.

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I knew following the New Yorker's Twitter account would eventually pay off. Today at New Yorker Fest, the latest news about the long rumored Arrested Development movie. Calling this project 'on again off again', is an insult to understatements. The news today? Not only is the movie on, AD creator want's to do a season of TV leading up to the movie. So... That's good.

Mindy Kaling was in the NYTimes Magazine last week and the New Yorker this week. Here she is explaining the theory that romantic comedies are a subgenre of sci-fi. I am behind this concept. I, too, watch more romantic comedies than I should.

What I’d really like to write is a romantic comedy. This is my favorite kind of movie. I feel almost embarrassed revealing this, because the genre has been so degraded in the past twenty years that saying you like romantic comedies is essentially an admission of mild stupidity. But that has not stopped me from enjoying them.

I like watching people fall in love onscreen so much that I can suspend my disbelief in the contrived situations that occur only in the heightened world of romantic comedies. I have come to enjoy the moment when the male lead, say, slips and falls right on top of the expensive wedding cake. I actually feel robbed when the female lead’s dress doesn’t get torn open at a baseball game while the JumboTron camera is on her. I regard romantic comedies as a subgenre of sci-fi, in which the world operates according to different rules than my regular human world. For me, there is no difference between Ripley from “Alien” and any Katherine Heigl character. They are equally implausible. They’re all participating in a similar level of fakey razzle-dazzle, and I enjoy every second of it.

This movie looks great.



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