I was waiting for the part where something went wrong, as the title implies. Like an obscene word accidentally was put onscreen, or he bungles the job and starts cursing out of frustration. Or does that come up in parts 2 and 3?

I liked the part where they said the same words they had just written onscreen. So kind to the illiterates they may be watching.

^ Yeah that is one seriously smart pooch. Definitely seems to realize the cat onscreen is the cat in the basket.

did anyone do the thing no one ever does and click the onscreen ad link ponyjam looks spectacular!

5/6ths? I love Gilliam too, but was he ever onscreen as a regular cast member?

I'm going to have to wait until I get home before I can watch all of these, but for now...

Sifted: http://www.videosift.com/video/Top-Gear-Communist-Cars
Because Top Gear is awesome. And watching experienced drivers critiquing absolutely horrible cars is hilarious.

PQueued: http://www.videosift.com/video/Mountain-of-Faith-Extra-Stage-1
This was a tough choice, since I like all of my PQueued videos, but for different reasons. At the end of the day though, I'm a hardcore gamer, and I love watching videos of high level play. Touhou games are especially interesting since not only are superplay runs technically impressive, but the bullet patterns are designed to create a sort of deadly beauty onscreen -- It's very satisfying to watch.

According to Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucia_di_Lammermoor#Trivia, it's been used in;

The "Lucia Sextet" (Chi mi frena in tal momento?) was recorded in 1908 by Enrico Caruso, Marcella Sembrich, Antonio Scotti, Marcel Journet, Barbara Severina, and Francesco Daddi, (Victor single-sided 70036) and released at the price of $7.00, earning it the title of "The Seven-Dollar Sextet". The film The Great Caruso incorporates a scene featuring a performance of this sextet.

The "Lucia Sextet" melody is best known to some from its use by the American slapstick comedy team the Three Stooges in their short films Micro-Phonies and Squareheads of the Round Table, sung in the latter with the lyrics "Oh, Elaine, can you come out tonight...." But the melody is used most dramatically in Howard Hawks' gangster classic "Scarface": Tony Camonte (Paul Muni) whistles "Chi mi frena?" in the film's opening sequence, as he guns down a ganglord boss he has been assigned to protect.

It has also been used in Warner Brothers cartoons: Long-Haired Hare, sung by the opera singer (Bugs Bunny's antagonist); Book Revue, sung by the wolf antagonist; and in Back Alley Oproar, sung by a choir full of Sylvesters, the cat.

The "Lucia Sextet" melody also figures in two scenes from the 2006 film The Departed, directed by Martin Scorsese. In one scene, Jack Nicholson's character is shown at a performance of "Lucia di Lammermoor", and the music on the soundtrack is from the sextet. Later in the film, Nicholson's cell phone ringtone is the sextet melody.

The Sextet is also featured during a scene from the 1986 comedy film, The Money Pit.

In the children's book "The Cricket in Times Square," Chester Cricket chirps the tenor part to the "Lucia Sextet" as the encore to his farewell concert, literally stopping traffic in the process.

An aria from the "mad scene," "Il dolce suono" (from the 3rd Act), was re-popularized when it was featured in the film The Fifth Element in a performance by the alien diva Plavalaguna (voiced by Albanian soprano Inva Mula-Tchako and played onscreen by French actress Maïwenn Le Besco). A loose remake of this film version of the song was covered by Russian pop singer Vitas.

The "mad scene" was also used in the first episode of the anime series Gankutsuou (in place of L'Italiana in Algeri which was the opera used in that scene in The Count of Monte Cristo).

The "mad scene" aria, as sung by Inva Mula-Tchako, was used in an episode of Law & Order: Criminal Intent involving the murder of a young violinist by her opera singer mother (who performs the song right after the murder).

The "mad scene" was released as a music video by Russian male soprano Vitas in 2006.

Among other selections from the opera, the "mad scene", "Verranno a te sull'aure", and "Che facesti?" feature prominently in the 1983 Paul Cox film Man of Flowers, especially "Verranno a te sull'aure," which accompanies a striptease in the film's opening scene.

The opera is mentioned in the novels The Count of Monte Cristo, Madame Bovary and Where Angels Fear to Tread and was reputedly one of Tolstoy's favorites.

"Regnava nel silenzio" accompanies the scene in Beetlejuice in which Lydia (Winona Ryder) composes a suicide note.

A portion of the opera is also used in a key scene of the film The Fifth Element, written and directed by Luc Besson.

Why is the father in Peter Pan talking to himself:
Father:"Do you know what's happened to my tie"
Father:"No I don't, perhaps it's in a draw"

And definitely on the Disney, well, and pretty much any other successful kids movie. We have land before time, Bedknobs and Broomsticks, Lion King.

Man, how do they sleep at night knowing that unsuspecting parents have bought their kids these games and those kids have been forever traumatized.

Horrible.

I had a similar gaming experience just recently. Myself and my kids were given a Wii for Christmas (huzzah), and so I was out looking for a budget game to add to Wii Sports. Well, I couldn't find anything that I'd seen a good review of, so I stupidly purchased something that was budget priced and looked like it would give the kids some fun little games to play like they do with Wii Sports (they're 4 and 5 yrs old)... well... I was stupid.

I bought this game and got it home... and then was STUNNED at the abysmal quality of it.

Something I thought would be really easy for them is the old slam the hammer on the thing to ring the bell game... NOPE. First you had to do a pumping motion really hard with the nunchuck, then you had to press a button the wiimote, then you had to spin the wiimote around and around to erm... charge up something, then you had to press another button and do a downward motion with the nunchuck.

HOW HARD would it have been to just have it be a swing down motion with the bloody wiimote?

And pretty much every game was either overly complex or just INSANELY difficult.

Then the story mode was of the same ilk as the ones in this video... stationary pictures with a few cutouts moving across the screen with no animation, and piss poor voice work.

So, because of that I will NEVER buy a game made by 'Play Zone'.

I was just glad it was the first game I'd ever bought from an EB games, because they take returns just because you thought the game was crap.

Thank god for that!

If you ARE after a good game for preschoolers, can I recommend Diego Safari Rescue. Awesome game that my kids love AND can control really easily, and yet has a large range of different wiimote actions that fit in with the things they're doing onscreen... really well made game.

These are the two vids:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9CYzOd7t3M (your)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4sDlVFlOfk (mine)

I really can't see any difference. Be sure to point of the differences if you find any.

In reply to this comment by NetRunner:
You're gonna have to watch more than the first 5 seconds, and actually look at what's onscreen.

They're two separate Youtube videos, from the same poster, with different titles. Yours is the original, and then they did an updated "reloaded" version.

In reply to this comment by rasch187:
I watched it, seemed like the exact same clip. I'll take your word for it though, sorry I guess lucky would know how to fix it.

[edit]: actually, wtf are you talking about? They're EXACTLY the same.

In reply to this comment by NetRunner:
Did you actually watch the two side by side?

It was not a dupe.

How the hell do we undo your mistaken merge?

In reply to this comment by rasch187:
it's a dupe, netrunner.

*dupeof=http://www.videosift.com/video/Baracky-The-Movie

You're gonna have to watch more than the first 5 seconds, and actually look at what's onscreen.

They're two separate Youtube videos, from the same poster, with different titles. Yours is the original, and then they did an updated "reloaded" version.

In reply to this comment by rasch187:
I watched it, seemed like the exact same clip. I'll take your word for it though, sorry I guess lucky would know how to fix it.

[edit]: actually, wtf are you talking about? They're EXACTLY the same.

In reply to this comment by NetRunner:
Did you actually watch the two side by side?

It was not a dupe.

How the hell do we undo your mistaken merge?

In reply to this comment by rasch187:
it's a dupe, netrunner.

*dupeof=http://www.videosift.com/video/Baracky-The-Movie

^ Ya, I'm glad I watched a raw feed without any onscreen effects.

I do think this was a very important part of the debate. And she answered questionably.

So you don't want a sexy young actress to sound like Carol Channing after the fiftieth take for a scene?

>> ^my15minutes:
yeah, there are a variety of ultralight herbal cigarettes available.
many use clove, for instance.
i smoke these.
i wouldn't be surprised if even the smokers weren't smoking 'real' cigarettes, much of the time onscreen. otherwise multiple takes could be a real problem.

yeah, there are a variety of ultralight herbal cigarettes available.
many use clove, for instance.

i smoke these.

i wouldn't be surprised if even the smokers weren't smoking 'real' cigarettes, much of the time onscreen. otherwise multiple takes could be a real problem.

Yeah, good call on Wiseguys. I think the only thing they left out was Henry Hills circumcision.

In reply to this comment by my15minutes:
hmm... "best book to movie adaptation"

as in, overall quality of the source text and/or adapted film?
degree to which they were faithful to the source material?
that's often just as difficult. like crunching Hamlet down to an hour and a half.

Get Shorty was an excellent adaptation. elmore leonard has a snappy paperback style that plays well onscreen. especially when it's that well-cast, shot, and edited (as was again true for Out of Sight and Jackie Brown).

i'd read 'Wiseguy' long before Goodfellas was made, and found it a remarkably good adaptation even for scorcese. it's all in there. right down to how karen hill used to hold her thumb and forefinger apart to indicate how thick a stack of hundreds she wanted to go shopping with.

hmm... "best book to movie adaptation"

as in, overall quality of the source text and/or adapted film?
degree to which they were faithful to the source material?
that's often just as difficult. like crunching Hamlet down to an hour and a half.

Get Shorty was an excellent adaptation. elmore leonard has a snappy paperback style that plays well onscreen. especially when it's that well-cast, shot, and edited (as was again true for Out of Sight and Jackie Brown).

i'd read 'Wiseguy' long before Goodfellas was made, and found it a remarkably good adaptation even for scorcese. it's all in there. right down to how karen hill used to hold her thumb and forefinger apart to indicate how thick a stack of hundreds she wanted to go shopping with.