Tag: Movies

Parents’ Guide to the Movies, Video Games, and More

Post author By web gangsta
Post date May 28, 2009

These days, parents have a hard time keeping track of what is good for their kids, or what their kids should avoid – if only due to the sheer amount of content that parents need to stay up with.

Did any of the parents who brought their young kids to a free concert in Central Park last week know what to expect when Green Day took the stage? The concert was sponsored by ABC’s Good Morning America and Walgreen’s, so nothing offensive was going to happen, right?

Watching that clip, you can see the parents with their kids happily singing along to every curse word used in the song. But I’m sure there were some families in the crowd that did not expect a TV morning show concert to contain profanity.

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Movies Websites

How Long Can You Hold Your Pee at the Movies?

Post author By web gangsta
Post date May 21, 2009

Does this ever happen to you?

You go to the movies and stop at the snack bar for the “small” soda and popcorn before settling into your seat. Then you sit through 10 minutes of slideshow movie trivia and 20 minutes of trailers before the movie you came to see finally starts.

And then you have soda regret. The opening credits are rolling, and your bladder is full. But you’ve been waiting for this film for months – you don’t want to miss anything by running out to the bathroom now…

Pop quiz. What do you do, hot shot? What do you do?

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Movies Websites

If Your Life Were a Movie, What Scene is “Now”?

Post author By web gangsta
Post date May 11, 2009

WHERE ARE YOU IN THE MOVIE? is a web gadget that calculates where you are in your current lifespan, then applies that figure to one of several different movies in order to show you what scene in the film represents your “now”.

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Book Games Movies

Game: Here’s the Plot, Guess the Story

Post author By web gangsta
Post date May 3, 2009

Post Modern Barney has compiled the WORST PLOT SUMMARIES EVER WRITTEN, and summed up a few dozen movies and books into bite-size nuggets.

The twist is that these are not your traditional plot summaries, but rather a synopsis of the more lurid details of the story. Unfortunately, many of the hundreds of commenters on the original post think that the idea is to write about how the story ends. This is not always the case.

I’ll give you the plot summary, all you have to do is guess the name of the story it came from. Click the link for the answers.

Tags Book, game, Movies, Party Talk

Funny Movies Music Video

The Top Viral Videos of All Time…so far

Post author By web gangsta
Post date May 2, 2009
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Visible Measures, a company that measures online video usage, has released a report that they’ve entitled THE MOST-VIEWED VIRAL VIDEOS OF ALL TIME.

They determined that this particular listing is the first one to compile videos solely based on being viewed more than 100,000,000 times each. Their sample size is based on 100 million different videos that appear on 150 different video sharing destinations, as opposed to just counting those videos that were viewed directly on the YouTube website. Those “embed” tags really proved their worth here.

18 videos made the list. Here are nine of them, including the top five most viewed videos:

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Disney Movies

D23 exclusive screening of Pixar’s “UP” (and you’re not invited)

Post author By web gangsta
Post date April 14, 2009

Details are starting to emerge about the upcoming exclusive screening for D23 members of Disney-Pixar’s latest film, UP.

All you have to do, it seems, other than have your Disney D23 membership card at the ready – is to go to the El Capitan Theater in Hollywood, California for the special showing on Thursday morning May 28th, at 12:01am.

Of course, further details are scarce about whether there is going to be any actual D23 preview ticket distribution or similar, in order to control the massive crowd that is sure to show up for this fantastic D23 benefit.

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Disney Movies

A Business Analyst Reviews Pixar’s “UP”

Post author By web gangsta
Post date February 19, 2009

Pali Research analyst Richard Greenfield has taken it upon himself to turn movie reviewer, and according to a blogger at Barron’s Online, has offered THIS REVIEW OF PIXAR’S UPCOMING FILM “UP”. The film was partially screened for movie critics at ComicCon in New York.

Here are some of his thoughts:

Although he only saw the first half of the movie in an unfinished state he came away “concerned” that the movie won’t be able match last summer’s WALL-E performance. WALL-E generated $224 million in domestic box office receipts, and $534 million worldwide.
The early stages of the film were “somewhat slow”.
He doubts younger boys will be that excited about Carl (the older protaganist), though they should like Russell (his young sidekick).
There is no female lead character, “which may be an issue in terms of the movie’s appeal to young girls.
“We did not come away from Up with the sense that consumers would view it as a “must-own” DVD.”
Finally, he thinks it may be challenging to monetize the characters in the form of consumer products.

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Disney Movies

Pixar’s WALL-E Snubbed at the Oscars

Post author By web gangsta
Post date February 17, 2009

You would expect The Los Angeles Times to have a blog dedicated to The Oscars (it is Oscar season, you know). Their latest entry is entitled CAN WALL-E MAKE OSCAR HISTORY?

You know how WALL-E would make Oscar history? If WALL-E had won the award for Best Picture or Best Director (had they been nominated, of course). Sure, Andrew Stanton and the rest of Disney/Pixar are going to put their best face forward and graciously accept the nominations they did receive (Best Animated Feature, Best Music Score, Best Song, Best Original Screenplay, Sound Editing, Sound Mixing)… but deep down, you know that this is one case where the Academy needs to stop considering animated films as a red-headed stepchild to be regularly ignored or swept away.

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