Alternate movie posters

What happens if someone reads a movie title incorrectly as an anagram? The whole cover changes, too!

"Negotiation, Jerry, that's what I do: negotiation" (George Costanza in "Seinfeld")

The following clip shows you one of the best (if not the funniest) scene from Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather Part II, starring here Robert DeNiro as the young Vito Corleone, who was building his "empire" at that time in the storyline. Enjoy the Vito Corleone negotiation technique:

The Frogfather

I want to show you a Muppet parody of The Godfather, but first you should watch the following two scenes to understand the spoof. The first one is the opening scene, with undertaker Bonasera talking to Don Vito Corleone (Marlon Brando) to ask for "justice" because two thugs attacked his daughter. (Notice Bonasera's combover.)

I believe in America --> One of the best opening lines in the movie history.

That I cannot do. --> My foot!

Bonasera. Bonasera. What have I ever done to make you treat me so disrespectful?

Be my friend? … Godfather? --> I think he shit his pants…

Second scene: Michael Corleone (Al Pacino) has to go and kill Captain McCluskey, a corrupt policeman, in a restaurant:



And now, the Frogfather:



Maybe we should ask Statler and Waldorf (I mean the original ones) to comment on that:



A pot-pourri of some of the many comments they made during The Muppet Show:



A last word:

"Hello, Mr Horse" (David Walliams as Lou Todd, in Little Britain season 2)

Audi came up with a terrific commercial for its new R8:



This was a perfect example of a commercial that will never work with most people, because it's a reference to Coppola's Godfather. Maybe it would be interesting to situate the scene first: Johnny Fontane came to his godfather, Vito Corleone (Marlon Brando) because he needed his help: Jack Woltz, an influent Hollywood producer, turned him down for playing the main part he wanted in a new movie. Johnny is a bit desperate:



So, Don Vito sends his consiglieri Tom Hagen (Robert Duvall) to Jack Woltz in order to make him an offer he can't refuse… But Jack Woltz still refuses to take Johnny Fontane for the role—in fact because Johnny slept with one of his mistresses. Tom has no other option than to take the hard way:



The spoofed scene in the commercial is thus Jack Woltz finding the head of his valuable racehorse Khartoum when he wakes up!

P.S. Note that the character of Johnny Fontane presents uncanny resemblances to Frank Sinatra's career, who was "mysteriously" helped…


Today's featured Uncyclopedia article: The Godfather, of course!

The film is widely accepted as the greatest film in cinema history, voted number one on most internet websites like Fresh-Tomatos.com and the IMDB. However, it is also the subject of great controversy. Ever since the films release, mass cults have formed. Often, people claimed The Godfather's Vito Corleone was made in the image of Jesus Christ. Evidence for this claim comes from the characters title:

God = Shows the religous side of Vito.

Father = Shows that his father is God.

Putting both words together gets the title "Godfather." Some people continue to believe he has the title because it sounds cool.

The film also arose the disease known as MCD (Marble Cheeks Disease). This disease is caught from when people try to be like Marlon Brando and put marbles in there mouth, only what they fail to realise is that this can lead to a very serious disease, depending on how clean the marbles are. People who still want to pretend to be Marlon Brando have to make sure they sterilise their marbles with bleech before putting them in there mouths.

Brilliant!

79 golden awards

The 80th Academy Awards Ceremony took place a week ago, and now it's time to watch a four-minute summary showing the 79 films that were awarded the Oscar® for the Best Picture before the 80th (No Country for Old Men):



For an exhaustive list, I refer you to the Wikipedia entry.

When Al meets Robert

Heat is an action film starring two of the most popular movie stars ever: Al Pacino and Robert DeNiro. Both had already played in the same film, but never appeared in the same scene. Such a weird configuration occurred in The Godfather II (by Francis Ford Coppola): Pacino played Michael Corleone, head of the New York mafia, and DeNiro played his father Vito Corleone/Andolini in several flashback scenes showing his arrival in the Big Apple and his rise to power, acquiring the prominent function of Godfather. (Trivia: ote that DeNiro and Marlon Brando — who portrayed the older Vito Corleone in The Godfather are the only two actors who won an Oscar for playing the same character.)

I don't remember the story of Heat, but at some point the characters played by Pacino and DeNiro meet in a restaurant to talk about something. The point is that this scene was made into a spoof by the same guy who did the brilliant parody of the "Indy meets his father" scene in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (I refer you to that earlier post). The result of a clever "re-subb" of the scene is a death match to decide who's the best actor:



Five stars!

Tribute to Five Second Movies

Some guy set up a pot pourri made of guywiththeglasses's famous 5 second movies. Enjoy!



I wonder whether guywiththeglasses has actually got a job: with all the time he spends making those absolutely brilliant videos, either we can think he's jobless, either we can think he's wealthy and doesn't have to work. Or maybe he gets money from YouTubers. We'll never know. We don't even know his name…

A Rainy Day in Seraing

Four pics instead of one! I took them the day Guy Mathot, a maffia godfather and mayor of Seraing (a derelict, polluted, post-industrial area in the suburbs of Liège), was buried. It was rainy, lots of people in the streets were walking towards the church—strange, because as a socialist, he shouldn't have gone to a church… Anyway, this day (26 February 2005) was a red-letter day (again, for a socialist, all is well that ends well…) because it was the end of the egemony of Guy Mathot. But guess what? he was succeeded by his son, Alain Mathot, who since then has been elected as mayor of Seraing. Result: the Godfather's aura is still there.
On the pictures (that I took from the back of my car), you can see a steel factory, a animal-food shop, the logo of a supermarket and Seraing's main mall (it's crappy, I know), and I haven't shown you the worse of Seraing!