Being a smartass

Remember that hilarious video depicting Darth Vader being a smartass?



Well, it gave ideas to other YouTube users, resulting in this scene where Saruman (Christopher Lee) is being a smartass to Gandalf (Sir Ian McKellen):



Now the Emperor himself pisses Vader off:



"Don't make me destroy you!"

Bonus (for those of you who've watched 300:

The 100 voices guy

Simply amazing, although it's not perfect.

Some LOTR stuff

A new kind of comics has appeared: you take stills from any movies (in this case from the Lord of the Rings trilogy) and you add texts. But since people (and myself) are never serious, the texts get really silly…



"Why the hell are you looking at me like that? Fuck man this. I'm leaving. You're drunk again."

My little hobbit…

I think Waldorf is going to like this parody video from the 2002 MTV Movie Awards ceremony:



BOROMIR: "It is a gift!"
JACK BLACK "You're damn right it's a gift. It's called Prince Albert and it's… my precious!"
SARAH MICHELLE GELLAR "So, you're telling us that you took the fabled Ring of Sauron, the One Ring that could destroy all of Middle-earth and attached it to your… your little Hobbit there?"

Black Books

Professor Vandelanotte posted today (at 11:38, but it's not a reference to George Lucas' 1138, I'm afraid) on germ@namur a blog entry about the return of Never Mind the Buzzcocks on BBC. The name of Bill Bailey was of course mentioned, for he is one of the guest presentors. In fact, I knew Bill Bailey already because he played the part of Manny in this tremendously brilliant series called Black Books (three seasons of six episodes were made between 2000-2004).

Basically, the action is set around three characters: Bernard Black (Dylan Moran), Manny Bianco (Bill Bailey) and Fran Katzenjammer (Tamsin Greig, whom we have also seen as Dr. Caroline Todd in Green Wing, another Britcom). All of them are completely crazy, but in their own way.

There's a YouTuber who actually put some episodes online. To give you a kind of Hors d'œuvre, here's the first episode of the first series (in three parts), called "Cooking the book".

Part 1

Part 2



Part 3



Note that Manny was given many nicknames throughout the whole series, e.g. Gandalf, Thor or Bigfoot, but my favourite was Gengis Khan.

I wish I had the DVDs so that I could watch all the episodes. But what am I saying? I don't have the time!!! I'm already looking forward to being on holiday in July…

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Fart

As long as we're talking about farting parodies, why not watch this one?



Brilliant!

Oh, and there's a second one:

They're Taking the Hobbits to Isengard!

I'm not fond of techno music or what do you call it, but this is an exception, because it's a parody…



Legolas: They're taking the Hobbits to Isengard!

Gollum: What did you say?

Celeborn: Tell me where is Gandalf, for I much desire to speak with him.

Legolas: A Balrog of Morgoth.

Gollum: What did you say?

Gollum: Stupid fat Hobbit!

One of the Best Battles Ever

The Lord of the Rings (yes, the article on Wikipedia is one of the longest I know… can you find longer?) trilogy is among my favourites. I wish I had more time: I could write many things about Sir Christopher Lee, that brilliant actor, and about Sir Ian McKellen, that wonderful actor.

This scene comes from the first film, The Fellowship of the Ring.



Another example of a promise of power…

Their voices are terrific, especially Saruman's!

Howard Shore's music deserved an Oscar®. He got it.

Saruman must have one hell of a heating bill… Silly.