The infamous Altamont Speedway free concert happened fifty years ago last Friday. Not many humorous moments on that harrowing day, but a priceless one occurs above at about 3:47 as a Hell’s Angel sizes up Jagger.
Rat-Soup-Eatin’ Motherfuckah
https://youtu.be/X3cdVVMf9jc
Pure genius. NSFW.
Abby … Someone
You Get The Finger
Part 6 of Ronald Finger’s 1985 Fiero Revival. Addictive as hell.
Why The Prequels Sucked
Star Wars was more of a team effort than George Lucas would have you believe.
Fake Products in Real Stores
Some dude named Jeff started playing jokes on stores by creating fake products, and placing them in stores. Not totally hysterical, but pretty clever. Here’s a few examples, but if you need more go here…
Fixing The Worst VFX Shot Ever
Fascinating!
I can easily remember sitting in the theater watching The Mummy Returns with the wife, laughing my ass off when the shot in question popped up. This loud, idiotic sequel was annoying as shit already, and somehow, a rubberized Dwayne Johnson at the end was the perfect cherry on top.
The fix isn’t 100%, which these guys readily admit, but it’s a million times better.
Ready Or Not?
This looks fun! Careful, this is the red band trailer.
READY OR NOT follows a young bride (Samara Weaving) as she joins her new husband’s (Mark O’Brien) rich, eccentric family (Adam Brody, Henry Czerny, Andie MacDowell) in a time-honored tradition that turns into a lethal game with everyone fighting for their survival.
And There’s A Podcast
Two episodes in to HBO’s new miniseries and I’m hooked. Thanks for the recommendation, Droog!
The attention to detail is amazing, all the way down to the slightly fucked up font used in the credits. There’s a great interview with writer/producer Craig Mazin on Vice regarding his motivation to get it right.
Chernobyl accomplishes this, in part, by adhering as closely as it can to historical fact. Every major character save one—a nuclear physicist played by Emily Watson—has a real-life counterpart, from the scientist in charge of cleanup efforts (Valery Legasov, played by Jared Harris), to the wife of a firefighter at the scene of the explosion (Lyudmilla Ignatenko, played by Jessie Buckley). The clothing Chernobyl’s characters wear, the cars they drive, the cigarettes they smoke, the glassware they drink from, the wallpaper in their homes—all of it is staggeringly accurate, a product of more than two and a half years of research.
So anyway, podcast. It provides additional information for each episode in the five-part series, so watch an episode and then give the podcast a listen.