Nic Cage, God of Acting (via i09) Please don’t diss. I know you can’t help but point out the glaringly obvious: the awful hair, the humorously over-the-top acting designed to overcompensate for partially blind or deaf audiences, the lecherous smile, the borderline psychotic off-camera shenanigans (ie: buying himself a pyramid as his eventual tomb).  All those things aside, there is and will be, no other like him. He will go down as the greatest and craziest, cult-movie method actor who owns every cool thing in the world and has successfully made a killing despite having entered the “I Seriously Don’t Give A Shit About My Career” phase since 1998 (that’s 14 years of Nic Cage mindfuckery). Which is why you should read this. Choice cuts:  “Nic Cage has starred in some of the greatest bad movies of all time. And he’s not like some actors, who just sort of cling to a shred of dignity while they’re roaming through terrible situations and insane moments of not-quite-comedy. Nic Cage works hard at being as bad as the movies he’s in. He studies schlocky acting until every movie is like a schlock masterclass. If watching bad movies is like a transcendent religious experience, then Nic Cage is our high priest. A truly horrendous movie can make you feel like you’re seeing the face of God. And then it melts!

Nic Cage, God of Acting (via i09)

Please don’t diss. I know you can’t help but point out the glaringly obvious: the awful hair, the humorously over-the-top acting designed to overcompensate for partially blind or deaf audiences, the lecherous smile, the borderline psychotic off-camera shenanigans (ie: buying himself a pyramid as his eventual tomb). 

All those things aside, there is and will be, no other like him. He will go down as the greatest and craziest, cult-movie method actor who owns every cool thing in the world and has successfully made a killing despite having entered the “I Seriously Don’t Give A Shit About My Career” phase since 1998 (that’s 14 years of Nic Cage mindfuckery).

Which is why you should read this. Choice cuts: 

“Nic Cage has starred in some of the greatest bad movies of all time. And he’s not like some actors, who just sort of cling to a shred of dignity while they’re roaming through terrible situations and insane moments of not-quite-comedy. Nic Cage works hard at being as bad as the movies he’s in. He studies schlocky acting until every movie is like a schlock masterclass.

If watching bad movies is like a transcendent religious experience, then Nic Cage is our high priest. A truly horrendous movie can make you feel like you’re seeing the face of God. And then it melts!

Battlestar Galactica retold in 16-bit RPG format

If there’s one problem with Battlestar Galactica being so good, it’s that long after you’re done watching the last episode, you’ll happily lap up any opportunities to discuss, relive, regurgitate or consume the remnant breadcrumbs of BSG. 

This video is brilliant if you’ve completed the series (see: reference to “in-spaceship debates as a form of resolution” once the special effects budget has been depleted). If you haven’t, you’re in for spoilers galore.

Best bit: When Colonel Tigh levels up and evolves his character.

Go watch!

Via: College Humor

Ok, so I’m probably not gonna bother with Saints Row: The Third (see: Skyrim), but for what it’s worth, it deserves a mention for being a veritable kick-in-the-gonads victory for offensively OTT games.

The complete disregard for political correctness and single-minded quest for mother-sickening outrageousness makes this look like an insanely fun game to play. That is, if you’re okay with: 

  • Thwocking your enemies with purple dildo bats (note the choice of sound effect).
  • Army camo costumes? Pfft. How about full-body furry suits?
  • Repeatedly getting yourself get hit by cars to collect insurance fraud money.
  • Manapults = catapults + humans as ammo.
  • Naked skydiving.

Added to the fact that the game developers seem like genuinely funny, albeit twisted and slightly sociopathic guys gives this game an added dose of charm. Quote: “A good night for a furry is a terrible night for the dry cleaners.”

Get this if you’re huge on GTA but wish those guys who make weird Japanese sex-fetish games had a hand in it.

Chinese old-folks choir covers Gaga’s Bad Romance

Seriously, internet… what manner of fuckery is this? I guess I can die saying I’ve seen it all. Best cover, ever? 

Also: This kinda makes perfect sense - oriental melodies juxtaposed with geriatric, bouffant haired aunties in flower print blouses. 

Things that are guaranteed giggles: 

Best part - 4:10 onwards, where they walk into a convenience store run by Asians geriatrics who just watch mesmerized, yet unimpressed.

Via: i09

Modern-day Whoopi Goldberg / LaFonza type of woman dissects the cray-cray and OTT melodrama between the lines of Adele’s lyrics, specifically, Someone Like You. Eg:

“I hate to turn out of the blue, uninvited” - cue an enigmatic Fantasia Barrino-like “Ooooh, she crazy!”

I love this. 

The Avengers Trailer (Sweded)

There’s something ineffably charming about well-executed Sweded videos. Sweded videos in and of itself seems to imply a high-level of awareness of poor production values and hilariously low-cost.

And yet, when someone decides to pull off “shitty homemade video” with an extravagant dose of (low-cost) panache, you can’t help but feel that it deserves an Asgardian-tavern ale toast and a hearty slap on the back. 

Particularly for the impressive Thor performance and Black Widow’s red hankerchief “wig”. 

Juxtapose: Original Trailer

5 minutes of El-Hadji Diouf trippin’

Right up there alongside the Birds With Arms thread, this is a showcase of unadulterated internet artistry, in the form of lo-fi, alternative renderings of El-Hadji Diouf on the receiving end of a monster tackle (no doubt, to commemorate his unflappable cunt-istry).

The best bits:

  • El-Hadji, a victim in the boar stampede scene from the Lion King
  • Inception Diouf: infinite loop of falling underneath his own tackle
  • El-Hadji: the Paperboy
  • The Blade (Wesley Snipes) vs El-Hadji

Wash’s Moustache

Took me a good 11 months or so to finish Firefly’s one and only season. Gotta say, all the repressed internet angst is wholly justifiable. This was a tremendous Whedon series and it’s a shame it got canned - I would’ve loved to see the Preacher’s dark assassin/mercenary/wrestler backstory.

On a positive note, the best part about wrapping up TV series: blooper gag reels!  

Internet Gold - Birds With Arms 

There are many things the internet is good for but there are few things better than this. Yes, it’s exactly what it sounds like. Pictures of birds with arms.  

How it works:

  • Click Link
  • Scroll downwards
  • View pictures of birds with arms
  • Feel happy

Via: Bel