Entries Tagged as 'ftw'

Sunday, January 4th, 2015

The Mars Underground

In this documentary pioneering Marsphile Dr. Robert Zubrin shows his dream of wanting to put humans on the red planet in the next ten years. He just has to convince NASA that his plan will work — using animation the documentary shows how the journey might play out and how a terraformed Mars might look.

Friday, January 2nd, 2015

A Nerd Fights off Bullies With The Help of Some Magical Hulk Hands

In this comedy short by Ari Fararooy a bullied “turd nugget” of a nerd gets his own back on the jocks who give him an epic wedgie, after he stumbles upon some toy Hulk hands. But these Hulk hands aren’t just any old toy, they possess supernatural powers that give him superhuman strength to beat [...]

Friday, January 2nd, 2015

The Best Fails of the Year are Collected in the Ultimate Fails Compilation 2014

If any compilation video of the year deserves 25 minutes of your hungover time, it’s this fail compilation which gathers together all the fails you probably saw and lots you probably missed too and lines them up like a bumper episode of America’s Funniest Home Videos, expect this is worth actually watching.

Wednesday, December 31st, 2014

Guy Gets Lifted 8,000 ft in the Air By Balloons

What does it take to lift a lawn chair into the air? Erik Roner finds out by tying 90 balloons to one and then filling them with 50 tanks of helium to take himself on a special and no doubt nerve-racking journey into the sky as he travels 8,000 feet into the air.

Tuesday, December 30th, 2014

Watch Speedy Ortiz’s Strange Music Video For Track “Tiger Tank”

In this weird music video directed by Matthew Caron the band Speedy Ortiz are seen playing in a basement filled with shredded paper which is juxtaposed with a girl getting dressed up for a night out—but this is no ordinary night out, this girl’s going for a night of underground amateur wrestling.

Sunday, December 28th, 2014

Guy Remixes Taylor Swift’s “Blank Space” To Create Breakup Song For Cheating Girlfriend

There are many, many ways to breakup with someone—you can do it via text, email, heck you can even tell them to their face if you’re insane. Or, like this guy, you can remix a Taylor Swift song turning it into a rap track about how you knew your girlfriend was cheating because you found [...]

Saturday, December 27th, 2014

Star Wars: Battle of Hoth – Homemade Shot for Shot

Featuring an acapella John Williams score, this homemade Battle of Hoth is more fun than all of the prequel Star Wars movies put together—sure that was a cheap shot but why not? It replicates the epic battle between the Galactic Empire and the Rebel Alliance, with all the vehicles like the AT-AT and the snowspeeders [...]

Wednesday, December 24th, 2014

Short Film Sums Up Why Having a Roommate Sucks

When you first move out of your parents home into your own place, you get all excited and it seems like a great idea to get a flat share with your best buddy. But you don’t realise that the reason you’re best buds is because you DON’T live together—once you do, that’s when the trouble [...]

Wednesday, December 24th, 2014

Here’s Your Weird Music Video of the Day

This is one of those videos where any explanation can’t really do it justice—it appears to be by a Romanian group called Sandu Ciorba and the song seems to be about bagpipes or something. It’s anyone’s guess really, but one thing is certain: the production budget for the video must’ve been close to zero.

Tuesday, December 23rd, 2014

5 Year Old Girl Discusses Princess Leia’s Slave Outfit With Her Dad

Jabba the Hut’s sartorial choices for women aren’t to everyone’s tastes, but British comedian Adam Buxton’s 5-year-old daughter is quite taken with the slave outfit Leia’s forced to wear in Return Of The Jedi. Some people might think it’s not a nice thing to have a woman dress up like that, but not Buxton’s [...]

Monday, December 22nd, 2014

Honest Trailers Take Aim at ‘The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug’

Just in time for the release of the third and final instalment in Peter Jackson’s Hobbit trilogy, the snark-masters over at Honest Trailers sling some arrows at the middle part of the trilogy—and, as you might expect, they don’t go easy on it, instead taking it to task for it length, over-familiarity, and stupid ending.