Final Cut 2014

Here's another mashup of films released in 2014 edited by Nick Bosworth:

2014 Movie Trailer Mashup (The Sleep Skunk)

It's the time of year when we get a million recaps of the year, top 10 lists, and mashups. Our favorite movie trailer mashups always seem to come The Sleepy Skunk, and they're out now with their mashup of 2014 movie trailers.

Check it out:


Credits are below the break....

The Pixar Theory

This is actually super cool.

What if I told you that all Pixar movies are connected? That all the characters in those movies actually live in the same universe, only in different times? How is that possible, watch this video and you'll find out.

Totally worth checking out.

Aquaman has always been one of my favorites

Okay, random post apropos of nothing (except I hear Aquaman has a cameo in "Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice," and there are rumors of a spin-off movie), but Aquaman has long been one of my favorite DC superheroes. I always loved him in the 1970s "Super Friends" television series, and I never understood why other people always gave him such a hard time.

This handy infographic helps explain why:

His powers are pretty bad-ass in the right environment. A summary from the infographic:

• He can breath underwater
• He can survive at the bottom of the ocean
• He has enhanced super senses
• He's as strong as Superman
• He has powerful telepathic abilities
• He can command all aquatic life -- whales, sharks, dolphins, and more.

Oh, sure, he needs to be in the ocean or a great sea for his powers to be particularly useful. But since water covers over 70% of the earth's surface, most of that in oceans, I think that gives him a pretty damn big territory to work with.

I'm not entirely thrilled with the casting of Khal Drogo as Aquaman. Too big and barbarian-like, in my opinion. If I were doing the casting, I'd make him more like a Santa Cruz surfer dude. And I'd tweak the costume: yes to speedos, no to tights. The makers of "Smallville" made a pilot for a potential "Aquaman" series that I was fortunate enough to see, and it did an excellent job capturing my own vision. I think it would have been awesome if it had become a full-fledged series. Sadly, it wasn't picked up.

But regardless, it's plain to me that Aquaman gets a bad rap. His powers are pretty bad-ass.

Best mashup of 2013 films

Every year, people far more talented than I am create mashup videos of some of the best movies of the year.

This year, someone on Youtube called The Sleepy Skunk has posted one that I think may be the best movie mashup of all time, using 324 clips from 197 different films. The clip-by-clips credits are listed on his Tumblr.

Here's the video:



The complete list of films featured include:

The ABC’s of Death; About Time; The Act of Killing; Adore; After Earth; All Is Lost; American Hustle; Anchorman 2; Another; August: Osage County; Bad Grandpa; Baggage Claim; Battle of the Year; Beautiful Creatures; Before Midnight; Berberian Sound Studio; Best Man Down; The Best Man Holiday; The Big Wedding; Black Nativity; The Bling Ring; Blue is the Warmest Color; Blue Jasmine; The Book Thief; Broken City; Bullet to the Head; The Butler; Byzantium; The Call; The Canyons; Captain Phillips; Carrie; Charlie Countryman; Chinese Zodiac (CZ12); Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 2; The Colony; The Conjuring; The Counsellor; The Croods; Dallas Buyers Club; Dark Skies; Dead Man Down; Delivery Man; Despicable Me 2; Dhoom 3; Don Jon; Drinking Buddies; The East; Elysium; Emperor; Ender’s Game; Enough Said; Epic; Escape From Planet Earth; Escape From Tomorrow; Escape Plan; Evil Dead; The Family; Fast and Furious 6; The Fifth Estate; Filth; 47 Ronin; 42; Frances Ha; Free Birds; Frozen; Fruitvale Station; G.I. Joe: Retaliation; Gangster Squad; The Gatekeepers ; Getaway; Gloria; God Loves Uganda; A Good Day to Die Hard; Grace of Monaco; The Grandmaster; Gravity; The Great Beauty; The Great Gatsby; Grown Ups 2; The Hangover Part III; Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters; A Haunted House; The Heat; Her; The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug; Homefront; The Host; How I Live Now; Hummingbird (Redemption); The Hunger Games: Catching Fire; I Give It a Year; I’m So Excited; Identity Thief; The Incredible Burt Wonderstone; The Informant; Inside Llewyn Davis; Insidious: Chapter 2; The Internship; Ip Man: Final Fight; Iron Man 3; Jack the Giant Slayer; Jobs; John Dies at the End; Kevin Hart: Let Me Explain; Kick-ass 2; Kill Your Darlings; The Kings of Summer; The Last Exorcism: Part II; The Last Stand; Last Vegas; The Lone Ranger; Lone Survivor; Lords of Salem; Machete Kills; Mama; Man of Steel; Man of Tai Chi; Mandela: A Long Walk to Freedom; Metallica: Through The Never; Metro; Monsters University; Mood Indigo; The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones; Mr, Nobody; Mr. Nobody; Much Ado About Nothing; Mud; Nebraska; Now You See Me; Oblivion; Oldboy; Olympus Has Fallen; Only God Forgives; Out of the Furnace; Oz: The Great and Powerful; Pacific Rim; Pain and Gain; Paranoia; Parker; Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters; Philomena; The Place Beyond The Pines; Planes; Populaire; Prisoners; The Purge; R.I.P.D.; Red 2; Riddick; Romeo and Juliet; Room 237; Runner Runner; Rush; Saving Mr. Banks; The Secret Life of Walter Mitty; Shadow Dancer; Shanghai Calling; Short Term 12; Side Effects; The Smurfs 2; Snitch; The Spectacular Now; Spring Breakers; Stand Up Guys; Star Trek Into Darkness; Stoker; Stories We Tell; Texas Chainsaw 3D; This is the End; Thor: The Dark World; The To Do List; To The Wonder; A Touch of Sin; Trance; Turbo; 12 Years a Slave; 21 and Over; 22 Bullets; 2 Guns; The Unknown Known; Upside Down; Upstream Color; V/H/S 2; Violet and Daisy; Walking With Dinosaurs; The Wall; Warm Bodies; The Way Way Back; We’re The Millers; White House Down; The Wind Rises; The Wolf of Wall Street; The Wolverine; World War Z; The World’s End; and You’re Next.

Again, you can find the clips listed in order on his Tumblr.

Jar Jar Binks dies

At the first Cosmo Awards, voters overwhelmingly voted for Jar Jar Binks from Star Wars: Episode 1: The Phantom Menace for Movie Character You Most Wish Had Been Killed Off in the First Five Minutes of the Film.

Now in Youtube clip, fans can finally see how that would have looked.