Before we get started today, a big congrats to Snath, whose wife gave birth to a 6 lbs 3 oz son. Better yet, it’s almost definitely his.
Here are the ten sexiest damsels in distress. And yes: Princess Leia is accounted for. (Screen Junkies)
Stipe42’s brilliant Burning Violin column has its own home now. Appropriately, the theme for his latest is, “Home.” (Burning Violin)
Check out the latest movie poster for Angels and Demons, featuring Tom Hanks in what appears to be a hair net. Dude: Get some Pantene. (Ropes of Silicon)
Here’s a useful iPhone app: It locates the nearest public restroom. (PopCandy)
Somebody done and screwed with the subtitles on the U.S. DVD release of Let the Right One In. (MovieGeeks)
The new Crank 2 trailer is so EXTREME that it will eff up your web browser. Great marketing! (FilmDrunk)
Screen Rant offers up its favorite cult movies of all time. (Screen Rant)
Stace is out today, but that doesn’t mean we can’t give you cute puppies, although this is possibly not the context you’d like to see them in. (QuizLaw)
George Lopez is getting his own late-night talk show. (LatinoReview)
That iPhone app is genius. I wonder if it works in rural Ecuador? I can't tell you the number of holes in the ground that are labeled 'toilet' in that country.
Also, due to low water pressure or just really bad plumbing, each time you use a public restroom in Ecuador you have to pay the toilet monitor. Usually it costs about 10 cents, and she or he will hand you one square of toilet paper to use. And, you can't flush the paper.
I spend too much time ruminating on public toilets.
Posted by: rayliota at March 25, 2009 1:16 PM
For the dog the alone...
I hate you Dustin Rowles. Ew...just...ew.
Posted by: Smokin at March 25, 2009 1:17 PM
*clicks on QuizLaw link* Awwww beagle... Now about that story... Wai-wha... AH!!!
*sobs* You can't just support Cur Overload like a normal Linker, can you?!?
Posted by: Kayanne at March 25, 2009 1:19 PM
Yay for Snath and Mrs. Snath! Congratulations!
Posted by: Kolby at March 25, 2009 1:23 PM
Props to the list for including Fisher, but it goes to hell once they start with: Kirsten the Drunk? Kate "the bulimic avenger" Bosworth?
Any list with those two skags should have "Disgusting" in the title
Posted by: BarbadoSlim at March 25, 2009 1:24 PM
Those screengrabs of the bad US subs in Let the Right One In remind me of the hatchet job done on the poor, unsuspecting 6 Films to Die For. That was bad translation used to dumb down some high concept Spanish horror. This is extra work done by a company to wreck a film. I don't get it. If the subtitles already exist, why not use them?
And, of course, Congratulations Snath!
Posted by: Robert at March 25, 2009 1:27 PM
Congratulations Snath and family!
Posted by: Cindy at March 25, 2009 1:27 PM
Oh and congrats Snath, and I commend you on contributing to the world's overpopulation problem.
Posted by: BarbadoSlim at March 25, 2009 1:28 PM
I just hope Tom Hanks doesn't sport the same look in the toy movie as he has in the Dan Brown movies. He is not one for flowing man locks, he is one for a nice short cut, receding hair line and all. I really hope that hairdo is for movie purposes only. Although when I read Angles & Demons and The Da Vinci Code I never pictured the protagonist looking so lame.
Come on Tom, old people will not continue to love you with that hair.
Congratulations Snath! Having two children in the house is...interesting.
Posted by: katy at March 25, 2009 1:28 PM
"...locates the nearest public restroom..."
Pfft! I'm a man living in the goshdamned U-S-of-A! If I've gotta make a batch of dook, you'd better turn your head or step away, Miss Prissy-pants, 'cause I'm gonna crap out what my belly's done with, toot-sweet. Shit, there's a good chance I won't even hunker down - I'll just let my feces-flag fly "as is". This ain't France, and as far as I can tell, the Pope ain't lookin'... Yeah, some rooty-toot Doctors might try to label how I roll as IBS, but me and Toby Keith like to call it as we see it - and we call it one thing - Freedom...
Posted by: Skitz at March 25, 2009 1:29 PM
I was glad when Sherilyn Fenn got cut up in Boxing Helena. I despise her and all incarnations of her. She sucked on Twin Peaks and she even ruined Gilmore Girls. That list is a crock.
I think it says a lot about me when I wasn't expecting an actual dirty garage when I watched the trailer for The Dirty Garage. That's not where I would park my rig.
Posted by: admin at March 25, 2009 1:30 PM
Netflixed Let the Right One In. As gorgeous and innovative as the film was, it had english dubbing. The dubbing? Was crap. SOOOOO bad. At points, I had the concentrate and breathe through it just to maintain.
Posted by: Sweetie Dahling at March 25, 2009 1:34 PM
Given the choice between saving a trolley car full of New Yorkers and Kirsten Dunst . . . I'd go have a sandwich.
Also, the dog was clearly asking for it.
Posted by: Tracer Bullet at March 25, 2009 1:38 PM
Baby Snath FTW! Congrats!
Also, The Dirty Garage made me laugh like no hipster is supposed to laugh: earnestly... and out loud.
HEY!!! QUIET! QUIET! I think we have enough babies now foooooooor:
First Annual Ultimate Pajibabymaniafest!!
Two babies enter one baby crawls out
BE THERE! BE THERE!
Posted by: BarbadoSlim at March 25, 2009 1:45 PM
Yay Baby Snath! Another young recruit for Pajiba's Force of World Conquest. It's lead by Kolbaby, and one day they will rule the world. Nay, the universe!
And...Oh, no. Tom Hanks stole Nic Cage's toupee. I'd recognize that dead-squirrel anywhere.
I forgot to congratulate Snath. You won't get any sex or sleep for the next 6-18 months, but I'm sure you'll be too overjoyed raising my kid to care.
I mean your kid. (cough)
Posted by: Tracer Bullet at March 25, 2009 2:02 PM
Lainey, I rented Let the Right One In last week-there is the option for both subtitles and dubbing. I didn't know about the subtitle controversy when I watched it...I loved the movie. Whatever I may have missed out on, I wasn't aware of when I watched it.
Ok, about that list of cult favvorites on Screen Rant... Am I confused? Do I just not understand the definition of cult classic? The lists are full of stuff like Office Space, The Princess Bride, The Breakfast Club, and Ferris Bueller's Day Off. Are those really cult classics? They can't be. Everyone I know has seen all of these and most of what's on their lists. Almost everything on their lists just seem so mainstream. So, somebody tell me, am I wrong?
Posted by: Elsie at March 25, 2009 2:12 PM
Thanks, Jules. I haven't seen it yet, so I wouldn't notice any problem with the subtitles. I was just concerned from Sweetie Dahling's comment that the only one Netflix was sending out was dubbed instead of also subtitled.
Yay for Stipe! Although I have to say on the last one, I was somewhat disturbed to find out he had a real name. I got over it though, because one of those names is Lloyd, which has long been a favorite of mine, ever since an elementary school crush. Anyway, I'm psyched that he has his own space now, and it's already been bookmarked.
Also, Yay! for SnathBaby! (Apparently, the SnathBabies taste like SnathBabies.)
Also also, I picked up Let the Right One In, and enjoyed it thoroughly in Swedish with the (wrong) English subtitles. I always assume something is lost in translation, so I tend to pay more attention to the interaction of the actors/characters for the intent than the words, though, so I likely would never have realized anything was amiss. I guess I missed out on that Morse code thing, though. Why, indeed, would they go to the expense of changing subtitles when they were already done correctly? Stupid companies.
Dammit, Toby, you're cuttin' in on my trade, you better just BACK OFF, dawg! And tell that crazy bitch owner of yours she wouldn't have to make it smell like Beggin' Strips to get me to lick it. AvB puts a Hershey's Kiss on the sweet spot.
---
Well done, Snath, well done. Regards to your babymomma.
I'm ready for a Kolbaby / Snathbaby Gerberstrainedfruitwrastling match.
Just put them in the same crib with their Murdertank bibs and a video monitor, and post the link in Pajiba and let the cuteness roll.
Posted by: BWeaves (from a different IP address) at March 25, 2009 2:53 PM
Elsie, I agree. I don't know in what universe "Breakfast Club" or "Ferris Bueller" would be considered cult classics. Everyone has seen those movies. Absolutely everyone. They play on TV just about every weekend. They have universal appeal. I thought the definition of 'cult' was that they weren't that popular, and never have been, but slowly become popular with one minor group of people.
I can't help but wonder if the problem is that these are all young writers who are just now "discovering" some of these movies and think that they and their douchey friends found something unique that no one else knows about and have no idea that a lot of these movies were anthems for their parents' generation.
Posted by: elsie at March 25, 2009 3:17 PM
BOXING HELENA!!!
*spins on torso 3 times and falls over in box on the dining room table*
Posted by: gp at March 25, 2009 3:31 PM
That's a very real, and very depressing possibility, Elsie. Damn this new generation.
Gotta love how someone got hoisted by her own petard. It reminds me of Keira Knightley's movie Domino and one of the most memorable lines of dialog in any movie ever.
Howie Stein: And to our female friends here today, we must not abuse of our dogs with the lure of a peanut butter snatch. We must channel our horniness into extracurricular activities.
Posted by: OscarTamerz at March 25, 2009 4:27 PM
Congrats to Snath and Mrs. Snath!
And NOT what I was thinking when I demanded more cute puppies.
Now excuse me while I run to the store. It appears I'm out of peanut butter.
Posted by: Austin at March 25, 2009 4:56 PM
yes: Princess Leia is accounted for.
More like lazily tacked on as an afterthought, and then someone trying to impress his girlfriend by including Buttercup. I was expecting to just roll my eyes at Dustin giving Star Wars shit yet again. But no...it's some new nabobs.
Damn this new generation.
No no, it's FIGHT this generation. Yeah, those cult lists have plenty of bullshit too.
"Yeah, I have blockbusters (who doesn’t) but the discs that bare scratches from being played too often are the following.”
The Dewey number for English dictionaries is 423. Look under "C". Then come back so I can hit you again and again and again and again. "Pulp Fiction".....JEEZUS!
Weeeeeell not really, because you obviously still think the statement you made above is true, even though the German parade accordion woman played "Twist and Shout" for Johnny Carson that summer while MTV started replaying the old Beatles cartoons, while the previous year "Don't You Forget About Me" seemed to be quite a ubiquitous hit and Molly Ringwald had been on the cover of "Time", and, as I'd noted previously, there seemed to be a lot of people who didn't know what the word "cult", let alone the term "cult film", actually meant and were literally saying things like "this is what it means to me", which isn't entirely, you know, allowed, linguistically speaking. But hey, what can ya do? I'm just one man and can't staunch it all myself. Some people can't be told. In the end all you can do is laugh and let them go.
I do understand what you're saying and even in our offline discussion it came up that some of those might not be considered cult under every definition of the term. Regardless, it's sparked a lively discussion over there and people have come up with films that were favorites of mine that I'd completely forgotten about, so I'm thankful for that.
One of my writers will actually be writing a post asking "What is a Cult Movie" in a couple of weeks and I'll refer him back here to read yours and others' comments.
Congrats Snath!!!