The big development news this morning (more like development SNOOZE, am I right, guys?) was about ABC's television adaptation of Maid in Manhattan, a movie that didn't end Jennifer Lopez's career, but definitely captured the end of Jennifer Lopez's career. From the Hollywood Reporter:
ABC is bringing the Jennifer Lopez starrer "Maid in Manhattan" to the small screen.
The network is in negotiations for a series adaptation of the 2002 romantic comedy to be written by Chad Hodge and executive produced by Lopez, Joe Roth and the film's producer, Elaine Goldsmith-Thomas.
But that movie stinks! Everyone knows that. Your mom has terrible taste in movies and she refused to see it. She just thought it looked too dumb. She went to see Two Weeks Notice instead. Now, I know that Hollywood wants to open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to drill for ideas, but surely there's a better stop gap than this. I love romantic comedies (THIS IS A SECRET, DO NOT TELL PEOPLE) and I can easily think of 10 romantic comedies that would make better shows than Maid in Manhattan. And I have. After the jump, a list of the 10 romantic comedies that would make better TV shows than Maid in Manhattan.
Let's face it, the Olympics are boring. They were mildly exciting when they only occurred every four years on leap years, but that's because I was a kid, and when you're a kid everything is exciting. In fact, I think it was the leap year part that was the most exciting. You have to admit, leap years are weird. Did you know that time is a human invention? Whoops, sorry about BLOWING YOUR MIND.
Anyway, the Olympics. So what? In the age of YouTube and Epcot Center's World Showcase, it seems antiquated to get excited about a sports pageant half a world away. Maybe there's a reason that no one watches swimming any other time. Maybe there's a reason that people enjoy football, baseball, basketball, soccer, and hockey on a regular basis, but kind of don't care about who can run so fast. But that doesn't mean we should cancel the Olympics (although that's a real thing that I could make happen). We just need to jazz it up. Throw some new events in there. We need an Olympics that touches a new generation of jaded, ironic hearts.
After the jump, the 10 sports that should be Olympic sports.
Last week while researching a blog post about Little House On The Prairie (oops, I start sentences that way), I happened upon the phenomenon of fan-created Sims versions of TV show intros. And like Gabe's discovery of fan-created Sims versions of music videos, it was awesome. The limits of Sims technology (and fan skill) make the credits only moderately recognizable, and everyone seems to be always dancing or not knowing what to do with their hands. Bearing in mind that the word "Best" in this case means "Most Entertaining/Funny", and not "Technically Proficient Or Amazingly Accurate," here are the Top 8 Best Fan Made Sims TV Intros Of All Time So Far.
As Lindsay pointed out in last week's Friday Fight, I love any movie with fighting in it. This is mostly true. Movie fights are great, and it's surprising how few good ones there are. Hollywood, more fights please. They make any movie better. Think of all the horrible movies that don't have fights. Pay It Forward? No fights. That's a current reference that makes sense to use. In Her Shoes? Not a single scissor kick. More like In Her Lame! Anyway, after the jump I have collected my six favorite fight scenes from the past six years. Obviously. This is a totally definitive list that I've used science to create, so don't bother arguing with it, because that would be arguing against science. You know, the thing that KILLED GOD.
Yesterday, Boing Boing posted ducklings in a bathtub, which are cute, but are they the cutest? Because baby ducks are so cute that they even melted the heart of Tony Soprano, here are the 10 fluffiest, most adorable baby duck and chick videos I could find. Remember, don't buy ducks or chicks because they grow up and are annoying. Just watch them online instead.
Fan made music videos featuring The Sims aren't exactly new. Electronic Arts kind of blew the lid off of the underground nerd hobby last spring when they had Lilly Allen make a video for "Smile" in which she sang the song in Simlish, the Sims language. (I had to look it up. Take it easy, nerds.) Still, have you seen these things lately? They are the funniest thing.
I was going to collect all the best fan made Sims music videos, but the indie rock ones were so boring. And they hardly put any work into the indie rock avatars. Why, that doesn't look anything like Andrew WK. The hip hop videos featuring Sims, however, those are the Real Talk of Sims videos. They don't play games.
After the jump, the 10 Best Fan Made Hip Hop Videos with Sims of All Time, son.
The Star Wars kid has gotten a lot of shit over the years, mainly because he's not a professional. He simply didn't have the training necessary to pull off that fight sequence. On the other hand, there are lots of professionals who do have the training and simply lack the means to wield it. I'm talking about people like Aragorn, Captain Jack Sparrow, and Westley. If somehow you could only put a lightsaber in these fearsome warriors hands...Ugh, blogging. What am I even talking about? Let's just be ourselves, you guys. I found a bunch of clips on YouTube where people took fight sequences from other movies and overlaid lightsabers on top of them using magic, and they are hilarious, and you're gonna love it.
After the the jump, the 10 best lightsaber mash-ups.
This means YouTube is over, right? They've shut down the uploading function and are deleting the libraries. When you go to YouTube from now on it will just be this video along with a factually inaccurate wikipedia entry about what the site was, historically, before it ended just now.
Obviously, there are a lot of people who did not make it into this video but should have. A Top 10 Who Didn't Make It Into The New Weezer Video list after the jump.
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