6 Classic Movies You Didn't Know Were Remakes. As we recently pointed out, a lack of creativity in the entertainment world is nothing new -- people have been doing adaptations, reboots and remakes since the first stories were told.
What you may not have realized, however, is that some of the great landmark motion pictures were themselves just remakes of originals that nobody remembers. The Wizard of Oz (1939) We're guessing there are zero-point-zero people reading this who don't know about the multiple award winning classic children's tale of a lion, tin man, flying monkeys and witchslaughter with young Judy Garland in her star-making performance as Dorothy. But a remake? The thing was made in freaking 1939. GettyWe mean besides pornos. The Original: Yep. The 9 Most Obnoxious Memes to Ever Escape the Web.
The internet is responsible for many terrible things, which the world tolerates as long as these terrible things stay on the internet.
But some internet memes become so popular they spill out and infect the real world in ways that simply cannot be tolerated. Such as ... Origins: In 1998, a Canadian art student began a site dedicated to her pet hamster, which features four .gifs of hamsters and a nine-second loop of an irritating song that was basically the aural equivalent of pubic lice. The popularity of the site remained blissfully small until January 1999, when it inexplicably shot up from around 4 hits a day to 15,000 thanks to a campaign of emails, early blogs, bumper stickers and what must have been a worldwide drop in taste and sanity.
Comedies That Should Have Been Awesome (And Weren't) All of our favorite comedians phone it in for the paycheck once and a while.
We can look the other way when Will Ferrell slums it up in loose, runny stool like Bewitched, so long as he's still writing and starring in great stuff like Talladega Nights. Sacha Baron Cohen made Borat: if he wants to pay for a new pool with a shitty cameo in Madagascar, who are we to judge? But what happens when it's not a "phone it in" comedy? What if it's a labor of love? What if the comedian wrote, directed and starred in the thing? Well, then you get snarky no-talents like us picking apart your crappy movie in this article, apparently. School for Scoundrels (2006) THE PITCH: Scot Armstrong and Todd Phillips, the writer and director of Old School, reteam for this black comedy!
6 Supervillains From History That Make The Joker Look Subtle. Look, we're not so far gone that we can't tell the difference between comics and reality.
Fiction demands a certain suspension of disbelief, because real-life bad guys understand that dry, drawn-out political subterfuge is much cheaper and more effective than a clone army. Then, occasionally, some crackpot leaps straight off the pages into our world. These are men with brazen, insane and often ridiculous plans for world domination that grant him comic book supervillain status. Like ... First of all, look at him: Out of frame, he's cradling a white Persian cat. You could fill a whole article about real-life supervillains from Nazi Germany, but if we're to pick just one to fill our Nazi quota for this article, we're taking Otto Skorzeny, and not just because he looks like every single Bond villain who ever existed. Picture this guy goose-stepping out to "Horst Wessel Lied. " But Skorzeny's career as a lone-gun supervillain didn't begin until after the war. Skorzeny didn't even stop there.
8 Stupid Amazon Products With Impressively Sarcastic Reviews. Everybody is a comedian these days, and the Internet has given us all an enormous stage.
Maybe the best example is a supposedly comedy-free site like Amazon.com. The deal is, anybody can write a review, on any product, whether they have bought it or not. So it's just a matter of finding a baffling/ridiculous/useless product and watching the Internet's sarcasm run wild. For instance, just check out the reviews for ... The "Guardian Angel" Acupuncture Device. 7 Reasons Computer Glitches Won't Go Away (Ever) People have been complaining about computer glitches since the punch card days.
Honestly, it's 2010. Why don't we have simple stuff like drivers and software compatibility fixed yet? Can we blame it all on Bill Gates? Well, the bad news is that there are really good reasons your PC doesn't work quite right, even now. 5 Soviet Space Programs That Prove Russia Was Insane. The thing about the Iron Curtain is that we'll never fully know what crazy shit went on behind it during the Cold War.
And that's too bad, because the little hints that leak out really make it look like these people just did not give a shit. Take the Soviet space program. We know they were the first to get both a satellite and a human in orbit, which were both pretty admirable accomplishments. What they kept hidden from the world was that maintaining even minimal levels of safety was a completely foreign concept to them.
And that the cosmonauts who flew their rickety ass spaceships must have had balls made of elephant tusks. Here are five spectacularly audacious Soviet space programs that prove that in Soviet Russia, space goes into you. #5. 7 Famous Movie Flaws That Were Explained in Deleted Scenes. Even the greatest movies will end up with some scenes on the cutting room floor. 5 Reasons Bowser Is The Most Successful Video Game Character. The Mario cast changes less than the law of gravity.
They're the most popular video game characters of all time and remain the reason 99 percent of all defeated video game enemies have footprints instead of haircuts. In Mario, Nintendo has the sort of brand identity Steve Jobs could only dream of, because you sure as hell wouldn't buy iGolf. Or Dr. Jobs.