Take heed parents! Protect your children from the evil of hipsters! This film directed by Tim Goggin, edited by Tim Goggin, and written by Tim Goggin shows us the warning signs of a hipster invasion.
Category Archives: Funny
Batman Confronts Occupy Wall Street
Thanks to Richard Metzger at Dangerous Minds
Stopover: Animation by Neil Stubbings
I like this fast-paced and funny little cartoon about a driving emergency in outer space. The characters are expressive and silly. The ‘I have to pee urgently’ walk is hysterical. The computer animation has that nice cartoony/drawn look that always catches my eye. Neil Stubbings directed the film for LeMob Animation. Via Neatorama.
Batman and Robin: Amazingly Awful 1949 Columbia Pictures Serial
Batman and Robin was a Columbia Pictures serial of 1949. It starred Robert Lowery as the batman and a rather stolid little fellow named Johnny Duncan. It’s a totally awkward, cheesy and humorless affair that very perfectly captures the true spirit of the comic book. But shockingly there’s no batmobile! The caped crime-fighting duo drive around in an old Mercury convertible as if they’re married and looking for a gas station.
Look, if Christopher Nolan wants to try to convince us all that he can make gritty realistic films about Batman, go ahead and let him. He’s wasting his own time. Batman is an absurdity and should be filmed as such. Enjoy this horrendous bit of movie serial history and don’t try to figure out all the machines and criminal plots. None of it makes any sense at all!
Trip to Moon: Bizarre Bollywood Sci-Fi Spectacle
Oh dear! What have we here? This is a Bollywood science fiction (and I use that term very lightly!) film that was apparently made in 1967, though it looks more 1950s to me. It was directed by one T.P. Sundaram. It is ostensibly about an astronaut who gets kidnapped to the moon and then has to fight for the moon princess and her kingdom when martians try to invade. The movie is a roaring low-fi spectacle with songs, fights and cheesy cardboard special effects. Spaceship controls are actually steering wheels. If you want some good advice, skip through to the 2 hour 15 minute mark and just watch the glorious action sequence that closes the film. You will see grown men fighting with giant sparklers aboard a crash-landing spaceship. You’ll see robots, a Cyclops, and two men engaged in a lunar surface wrestling match that makes Captain Kirk look like Bruce Lee’s star pupil. You will then see a rhinoceros. If you are not laughing hard enough to burst a vessel of some sort, then I don’t think anything can be done for you!
Space Travel According to John: Hilarious Soap Powder Animation
Jamie Stone and Anders Jendenfors made this brilliant ‘washing powder’ animation about a kid named John who has lots of thoughts about Mars and man’s destiny in space. Beautiful and just hilarious.
Ultimate Dog Tease
Write Like a Pretentious Artist! The Arty Bollocks Generator!
German film director, Werner Herzog.
If you simply must hang your work in a gallery, then here is the tool you’ll need to make just the right impression on your viewing public: The Arty Bollocks Generator.
It’ll flawlessly create your entire artist’s statement for any truly serious and irreproachably artistic endeavor.
Some samples: ‘My work explores the relationship between the tyranny of ageing and skateboard ethics.’
‘As shifting phenomena become frozen through emergent and personal practice, the viewer is left with a statement of the limits of our world.’
Please be serious, donate to a charity, write a manifesto, and for god’s sake go to a gallery for some bloody education! Then take yourself to see a fine German movie… film, I meant ‘film.’ Okay?
Now get going.
And for further sublime examples of pretentious statement-making, try Werner Herzog’s film school!
Red Riding Hood Meets Frankenstein – A Film by Ricky Lewis Jr.
Here’s a humorous tribute to the Universal horror films of old. It was directed by Ricky Lewis Jr. and features a forest, an inn, Frankenstein, Red Riding Hood, an invisible man, vampires, fog and various comedic chills. The production has a large cast who give themselves over entirely to the mood of the piece. There’s a nice underground vibe to the proceedings and the effects are surprisingly good.
Get Down With Hamlet in a Graveyard
From Shake, Mr. Shakespeare (1936).
Constable Witch – Animation by the Brothers McLeod
An episode of Sticks by the Brothers McLeod for BBC Comedy.
The Happymeel: And Now a Word From the American Dream
MATURE CONTENT AND LANGUAGE
Aaron Kyle Brushart’s film is a glorious insult to good old American hick bigotry. The hand-drawn characters and the overall sketchy style of this perfectly timed film had me laughing pretty much throughout. It must have been fun to shoot that burger too! Just like in a commercial!
Here’s the filmmaker’s website, http://ahaltintransmission.com.
‘Twas the Night Before Christmas
Inspired Christmas silliness! I found this over at Dangerous Minds.