This just in from sportspickle:
A week after rocking the NBA with charges that the 2002 and 2005 playoffs were rigged, former league referee Tim Donaghy hit basketball fans with another gut shot today by charging that beloved 1986 basketball movie “Hoosiers” was also scripted.
“Everyone from Gene Hackman to David Stern might try to deny it,” said Donagy, “but I know the truth. I saw a copy of the script a few years go. A street vendor was selling it in Manhattan.”
While Donaghy alleges that NBA referees merely influenced those playoff series in 2002 and 2005 with biased officiating, “Hoosiers,” he ...
This is a re-cut "trailer" for Ferris Bueller's Day Off set to the theme song for Requiem for a Dream (which, if you've even seen the movie once, you know). Aside from it being a tad too long, it is absolutely brilliant.
Wow, I am on an absolute posting frenzy!
But this was just too good for me not to share it with my faithful readers. I present to you the 50 greatest comedy sketches of all time, including videos to almost every one. Good shit.
This is easily the greatest idea for a movie ever: take the idea behind "Super-Size Me" (man eats McDonald's for 30 days and sees whether he gets fat) and switch "McDonald's food" with "marijuana." Comedian Doug Benson (surprisingly named High Times Magazine's 2006 "Stoner of the Year") has put this idea to fruition AND called it "Super High Me" to boot. Watch this trailer and tell me that this movie won't blow "There Will Be Blood" out of the water. Apparently, this will be released on DVD on June 10th, so mark your calendars.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7vMqowaPig[/youtube]
And, since I suck ...
Fight Club, as you may know, is a complex movie and one in which all of the viewer's questions are, purposely, not answered in the end. Thus, theories abound as to whether Tyler Durden really exists, or not, etc. A profound theory that I cannot believe had never come to me myself, however, is that Fight Club is just a real-life incarnation of the comic strip "Calvin and Hobbes". Read it yourself, but here's a snippet to whet your appetite:
In the film Fight Club, the real name of the protagonist (Ed Norton’s character) is never revealed. Many believe ...
Republic nightclub in New Orleans has a sign on the door that reads, “If it’s on Jersey Shore it’s not coming through the door: No Affliction, No Ed Hardy, No Christian Audigier, No Exceptions.”
Middle-of-the-night sources reported that Jobs then began work on double-spacing his Keynote presentation and increasing the font size to make it appear longer.