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.
What starts out with some footage of a bear soon descends into something far more horrifying as an “infomercial” interrupts the bear footage, but the infomercial isn’t really about a nasal spray like it appears, and instead takes a dive into far weirder territories.
It seems Guy Pearce is taking on a singing career to compliment his acting, and this is the music video that goes with his new track ‘Fly All The Way.’ The video is a parody of those crappy commercials you get with morning TV shows that tout crappy products with Pearce playing a bunch of characters including a guitarist, body builder, beauty-obsessed teenager and Steve Jobs. It’s pretty hilarious.
What was on the world’s mind in 2014? Well one way to answer that question is to see what people were searching the web for—trillions of searches took place across the world and Google have gathered together the most popular in this compilation to give a snapshot of what occupied us throughout the year.
Jordan McCabe is one of the best young basketball players in the US, whose skills on the pitch have been wowing fans of the sport and commentators for the last four years. This video clip shows his halftime performance for the Golden State Warriors game on January 21, 2011.
Remember Napster? Takes you back, doesn’t it. To a time when all this was fields and free illegal music was going to destroy everything—The New York Times takes a look back at the file-sharing site that put the boot into the music industry which has never fully recovered since.
Our concept of space and space travel has been shaped by cinema as much as agencies like NASA—and this awesome supercut stitches together 46 years of space movies which have captivated and intrigued audiences over the years. From images of Earth seen through Superman’s superhuman eyes to the underbelly of the Millennium Falcon.
Not that Tarantino needs any more people aping his style, which he himself apes from the many, many films he’s consumed over the years, but if you wanted a quick breakdown of how to emulate the bloodiest nerd in cinema, this 7 minute lesson should serve you well.
By adding two enchanted lines made ​​of unicorn dust, it creates internet magic on your screen and these images appear as if they’re 3D! Well, not quite. But it is a very simple technique: just by adding two vertical white lines to a 2D image, your brain is tricked into thinking it’s a 3D scene. The effect can be further enhanced by blurring the ‘field of depth’, which creates an extra sense of depth……Ok, we lied, it’s magic.
If you’ve seen Guardians of the Galaxy you’ll know what an awesome movie it is, and so mocking it is a hard task which the guys at Honest Trailers are happy to admit in this their latest release. But they still manage to make fun of it, calling them Space Avengers and pointing out the similarity to Marvel’s other superhero team franchise.
Eric Wareheim takes a satirical swipe at America in this short called “HAM”, which features fast food, obese people riding scooters, people wrestling over a coveted item at a store, and eventually a gunfight. It pretty much sums up parts of modern America all in under four minutes worth of footage.
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