Trailer: Jeff Who Lives At Home
This isn’t the same typical geek bait that you’re used to seeing here on A Slice of Fried Gold, you say? It doesn’t matter; this looks wonderful.
Jeff Who Lives At Home is the latest from Mark and Jay Duplass (hey, remember when mumblecore was a thing?), and it stars Jason Segel, Ed Helms, Susan Sarandon and Judy Greer.
If you’ve seen any of the Duplass brothers’ previous work, then you know why this is a reason to get excited. I’m also anxious to see Segel in a more dramatic role, a side I haven’t seen from him before.
Jeff Who Lives At Home will be released on March 16th.
Source: aintitcool.com
This Ring Belongs In A Museum.
According to redditor Homerilag, his girlfriend is so into Indiana Jones that when it came time to propose, he custom-designed an Indy-themed engagement ring:
It was about 2 or 3 days before November, 11, 2011 (11.11.11). My girlfriend Aimee was wanting to do something special that day. So, I decided to look for an engagement ring. 11.11.11 happened and I had no ring. What should I do?! Being that Aimee is an avid Indiana Jones fan, I decided to surprise her with a ring box. When she opened the box, inside wasn’t an engagement ring - Just a bag of sand! I told her, Indiana Jones must have swooped in and stolen the “treasure” and left her with a bag of sand (just like the movie)
Being a designer and artist, I felt I had to do something special. Since Aimee is a very enthusiastic Indiana Jones fan, the thought of a coiled whip as the ring seemed perfect. I did a few quick drawings and found a custom jeweler in Las Vegas. The “bag of sand” bought me some time to have the ring custom made. And with her favorite color yellow, I selected a fancy yellow diamond which also represents “The Idol”.
The question now is - how do I present the ring? I made a custom ring box out of a 1920’s steel soap bar box and used sculpting clay to create the look of ancient ruins inside. I then presented the box mixed with 4 other interesting boxes. Now, with the theme of “You must choose wisely…” from Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, I used a magician’s trick to make her “select” the correct box. I asked her if she “chose wisely”. Then I opened her selected box revealing “The Whip”.
That’s pretty incredible. What Homerilag doesn’t divulge is whether or not she said “yes.” If not, I’m sure there are plenty of nerdy girls (and guys) in waiting who’d love to get their hands on a ring like that.
(via jbishop)
Source: ianbrooks
Hitler reacts to SOPA.
SOPA and PIPA are a very big deal folks. Nobody needs some nobody with a brand new pop culture blog like me to tell you that when sites like Google and Wikipedia are blacking out their sites today and providing all of the information you need.
But I felt the need to put my two cents in.
I have fun running this blog. I have fun running my personal Tumblr. I enjoy reading websites like AICN and /Film and the like.
If SOPA or PIPA passes, all of this goes away. Tumblr is done for. Wikipedia is done for.
This isn’t about online piracy. The people behind these bills want you to think that it is, but it’s truly about one thing: the bottom line. I absolutely agree that online piracy is an issue and needs to be regulated. But this isn’t the way to do it. The language in these bills makes is so that anything that could be considered copyright infringement would allow a website to be shut down. Without due process.
That’s unconstitutional. It’s un-American. And it’s wrong.
It means that this very post, because it contains footage from a film called Downfall, would cause my website to be shut down, and would cause Tumblr to be shut down.
The fact is that many of these corporations refused to get on the online/streaming bandwagon when they should have an now it’s coming back to bite them. The way to combat piracy is not to kill freedom of speech, it’s to create a better alternative to piracy. Make your content more available online. Give people a reason to want to purchase items directly from you.
These bills are an outrage and it’s a shame that there’s not more media coverage of it. This is primarily because most mainstream media outlets are run by corporations who support these bills. Even folks like Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert — who you’d usually expect to get a week’s worth of material out of something like this — have remained silent. Comedy Central, after all, is owned by Viacom, a SOPA supporter.
Blacking out your website, changing your Facebook profile picture, re-blogging this video — it’s all worthless unless you take action and contact your local representative. The sites below will help you do this. Let’s fight this thing, let’s fight for our freedoms and our future. Let’s make sure that Orwell’s 1984 remains a work of fiction.
Take action:
Source: jbishop
New Poster for The Woman In Black Pays Homage to Hammer’s Roots.
Although it’s being released in just a couple of weeks, I’ve seen very little marketing for The Woman In Black (granted, I don’t see a lot of live TV, so I could be missing TV spots), but what I have seen has been promising.
I especially love this new one-sheet that harkens back to classic Hammer posters. Will The Woman in Black be any good? We can hope. One thing’s for sure though: The marketing team is doing its job well.
The Woman In Black opens February 3rd.
Source: denofgeek.com
I set out with a very simple problem: There is no reason for these people to be in the same movie. So that’s what my movie has to be about. So much of the movie takes place from Steve Rogers’ (Chris Evans) perspective, since he’s the guy who just woke up and sees this weird ass world. Everyone else has been living in it.
Source: collider.com
Michel Gondry’s Sweded Remake of Taxi Driver
I seem to inexplicably find myself in the minority on this issue, but I love Be Kind, Rewind, Michel Gondry’s ode to the joy of filmmaking. One of ht emore delightful aspects of that movie is the way that the characters create their own “sweded” low budget remakes of their favorite films.
Now Michel Gondry has sweded Martin Scorsese’s Taxi Driver, casting himself in the lead role of Travis Bickle. It is, as expected, adorably quirky.
More: Michel Gondry | Taxi Driver
Source: joblo.com
Unusual Suspects by castlepöp.
On the heels of the trailer for a new Wes Anderson movie that dropped yesterday, I discovered this excellent piece of Fantastic Mr. Fox art that was created by castlepöp and is currently for sale at Society6 and on Etsy.
More: Fantastic Mr. Fox | Wes Anderson
Source: society6.com
Eric Tan’s Long Live The King.
If yo’re a movie fan and you spend any amount of time on the internet (which, clearly, you do), then it’s likely that you’ve seen the work of Eric Tan. Tan recently created this incredible piece based on The Lion King. In his own words:
Eric Hutchison, a fellow artist at Disney came up with a cool idea to create our own stylized piece based on one of Disney’s famous villains. These interpretive pieces would eventually go into a hallway gallery on campus which showcased each artists’ take on a familiar foe. I chose Scar from The Lion King.
It sounds like this was a one-off piece, but hopefully it’ll go for sale sometime in the future. As The Lion King is my favorite Disney movie, I’d kill to have this hanging on my walls. We’ll keep our ears to the ground.
More: Disney | The Lion King
Source: erictanart.blogspot.com
Trailer: Computer Error: The Worst of CGI
At least once a week, something comes across my computer monitor that makes me want to up and drop everything and move to Austin just so that I can be near the Alamo Drafthouse. This is the latest thing to make me want to do so.
George Lucas. Michael Bay. “McG.” Bloated Hollywood billionaires who’ve built their empires on the shattered remains of our childhood dreams. Since the ’90s, the advent of computer technology has graced mankind with larger stomachs, unavoidable pornography, and the complete destruction of the film industry. Big budget movies used to be packed with daredevil stunts, ambitious effects work and innovative ingenuity. Now we’re treated to an aromatic buffet of Jar Jars, Shreks and even darker offenses. No thrills, no chills… just the 64-bit machinations of overpaid, Dorito-addicted studio schlubturds. Admittedly, most of America has been too dumb to notice, but anyone with two eyes and half a mind can see that movie magic is being violently murdered, and tonight WE FIGHT BACK!! CGI is hereby on trial, and we’re presenting enough evidence for you the jury to send it straight to the electric chair! So prepare yourself for a brutal barrage of twisters, scorpion kings, sharktopuses and farting little buddies, as we hack into the mainframe of CGI retardation and set that buuuuullshit on FIIIIRRRRE!!!
If you’re in or around Austin and don’t go to see this on January 31st, I pity you for not liking to enjoy awesome things.
