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The crew behind the website Screen Junkies has a popular video series entitled Honest Trailers, in which they take requests for a movie and make a hilariously honest trailer for it. They will take footage from the movie and skewer it with hilarious commentary and a damn good voice over to boot. In the series’ latest entries, the lampooning has taken a new approach by picking action movies and analyzing what would ACTUALLY happen to a character who takes a nasty fall three stories onto concrete. Spoiler: they wouldn’t simply get up and be ready for more punishment.

I was particularly impressed by the video focusing on Harry & Marv from John Hughes’ Home Alone movies because who hasn’t watched theses films and scoffed at the ridiculousness of what happens to the criminals let alone how they could survive half the things that happen to them? This video answers exactly that and in a most hilarious fashion. The real answer to it all is that, in real life, they would not survive the shenanigans of Home Alone 1 or 2. Check out the Honest Action video for yourself to see the many deaths of Harry and Marv played famously by Joe Pesci and Daniel Stern!

I always get a kick out of watching these movies, especially when they are on almost every day on cable around Christmas. However, what seemed like harmless fun when I was a kid quickly morphed into kind of a disturbing bit of violence for what are widely considered kid’s movies. The injuries described during the course of the video are nothing short of painful and cringe-inducing even though this is meant to be fun and games. All that said, it’s still pretty funny to see some of the injuries described – especially if you’ve ever sat there and wondered what exactly would happen if this wasn’t all pretend. Some of my favorites include “Penetrating Rectal Trauma, “Penile Puncture Wound” or just the fact that Marv is killed 4 times in a row in one scene and has almost double the amount of deaths compared to Harry in the end!

The reality of it all of course would result in a pretty short and really unfunny movie – assuming of course a kid could actually get half of his contraptions to function as they are supposed to. If you got a kick out of The Wet Bandits Honest Action video then you can head on over to Screen Junkies’ YouTube Channel for the Die Hard video as well and see how John McClane measures up. Or you can also see the equally hilarious Honest Trailer for Home Alone or any number of other clever videos!

What’s your favorite trap from the Home Alone movies? Do you concur with the medical diagnosis of the injuries sustained in this video? Which of the Home Alone movies is your favorite if any? Sound off below!

Via: Screen Junkies’ YouTube Channel

The big announcement this past Wednesday evening is that World Wrestling Entertainment, after years of hints and months of speculation, are finally launching their own 24/7 network. The term game changer, though overused, is definitely apropos in this case.

At 9 a.m. on February 24th, the WWE Network will join the ranks of Major League Baseball, the National Hockey League, National Basketball Association and National Football League as organizations touting an around the clock network. This will be a streaming service priced at ten dollars a month and will require a minimum six-month commitment. Subscribers will have access to all twelve pay-per-view events (normally each priced at between 40-50 dollars each), as well as classic WWE programming, their reality shows, documentaries, even vintage matches from World Championship Wrestling and Extreme Championship Wrestling.

Devices with streaming capability such as iPad/iPhone, Roku, Samsung Galaxy or gaming devices like the PS3 or Xbox 360 can join the Mac book/PC users via WWE.com to access the nearly 1,500 hours of available programming.

This is possibly the smartest business decision that Vince McMahon and company have come up with in quite some time and I will be watching the numbers on this one very closely in the coming months. A few million subscribers will ensure that they do more than break even as fans wanting to watch premium entertainment don’t break the bank. Hopefully, the network will be a win-win for the business and the fans who support it.

Will you be signing up for the WWE Network? What other types of programming are you hoping to see on the channel? Let us know what you think in the comments!

And for even more wrestling goodness, you MUST check out what our friends are doing over at All Rings Considered. Every podcast is main event quality.

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Martin, Chris, Ashley and JC all are deep in the shit of Oscar season reviews. Although they all agree that the Mark Wahlberg-starring “Lone Survivor” being submitted for awards consideration might be a bit presumptuous, it doesn’t change the fact that it’s a nail-biter of a movie.

Wahlberg, Ben Foster, Emile Hirsch, and Taylor Kitsch all fight for the right to be the titular spoilery Lone Survivor in this film by Peter Berg, more than making up for whatever the hell possessed him to make “Battleship”. Check out our thorough analysis right here on Highly Suspect Reviews!

Whether he’s saving the president of the United States from certain doom or a portraying a grieving father who seeks to bring down the judicial system via elaborate deadly schemes whilst in prison – Gerard Butler sure has a thing for silly action movies. So it seems fitting that news comes that the action star is about to grab a surfboard and ride the casting wave into the remake of Kathryn Bigelow’s 1991 film, Point Break. I guess that’s better news than a new rom-com starring him and Katherine Heigel.

The remake is being put together by The Fast and the Furious cinematographer Ericson Core from a script by Kurt Wimmer. Wimmer is the screenwriter who recently penned scripts for the Total Recall remake, Salt and one of the aforementioned silly action films starring Gerard Butler, Law Abiding Citizen. Core on the other hand does not have much in the way of directing experience minus the 2006 football flick Invincible starring Mark Wahlberg.

I’m not holding out much hope that a remake of Point Break is going to be even slightly good. I anticipate that it will be similar to the Total Recall remake that just came out in that it will have style to spare, but will feel completely insubstantial to the original film ,leaving us all to wonder what the point was to begin with. Of course we will all know the answer – to make money- and if that’s the case I don’t know that it will break the bank in that regard either.

The original film starred Keanu Reeves and Patrick Swayze where Reeves played an FBI agent that goes undercover in order to catch a gang of surboarding bank robbers. The remake places Butler in the part of Bodhi (played by Swayze in the original) as an extreme sports athlete who saves and recruits Johnny Utah (played by Reeves in the original) to be a part of his group of international criminals. It is not yet known who will be cast to play Johnny Utah in the remake.

What are your thoughts on a Point Break remake? Is Gerard Butler the right choice? Who would you like to see play Johnny Utah? Let us know what you think in the comments below!

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Football is a game of halves, but to win you have to take your opponent to the fourth quarter and give 110%. Before we, the Inside the Locker crew, sat down to record a live commentary for the BCS National Championship game, I thought these were merely overly-cliched platitudes. As it turns out, they were the subtle harbingers of our undoing.

We were live and kicking in the first half. J.C., Elliott, Adam, and I were joined again by their friend and sports nerd extraordinaire Andrew Crawford for plenty of jokes and non-sequitur hijinks. We were answering questions and, like Auburn, we were rolling.

But then, fortunes shifted. The router at The Red Keep, a device that had never previously been the subject of a single controversy, decided to stop giving even 1%. We therefore couldn’t take our live game into the fourth quarter as Florida State definitively and spectacularly did with Auburn.

However, we still recorded our thoughts, jokes, and geeky conversations and have compiled the whole commentary here for your listening pleasure. It sucks that we couldn’t broadcast live what turned out to be one of the best college football national championships in history, but we hope our half-live version entertains you.

Enjoy!

And never mock the platitudes.

Did you like that picture? I think it’s a little off to be honest. There’s just something about it that makes it look…AB-normal!

Where the hell are my rim shots?!

Yeeup, it’s official. Mr. Nicolas Cage is now an old man. On January 7th, 2014, he turned to the ripe old age of 50. That is literally half a century old! It sure looks like this Cage is getting rusty (Yeah, I hate myself). That being said, Cage’s career has been really diverse and interesting to say the least. His roles have ranged from baby kidnapper all the way up to crackhead detective, and everything in between. Usually portraying crazy ass characters, his fame has basically become a cultural phenomenon, especially on the internet. One might say that he has become a… National Treasure!

Okay, no more jokes. I promise!

So in celebration of his long and prosperous career, we’ve decided to give Mr. Cage 6 candles on his cake (costing 10 cents each of course!), and each candle represents a role we wish he played! Why did we give him an extra candle? Well (A) we missed his birthday by a day. And (B)…

So Nicky C., close your eyes, take a deep breath, and make a wish!

1. Meth Crazed Hitler

Adolf Hitler received methamphetamine injections quite regularly, which would probably explain why such a short guy, contained so much Führery (for the record, that sounded better in my head). So who better to portray a crazed man flying on meth that shouts excessively and angrily? I would pay money to see Mr. Cage dawn a Nazi uniform, snort some meth, and just go bat-shit insane for an hour and a half. Just imagine Nic Cage giving one of Hitler’s energetic speeches while throwing his body across the stage like a rag doll. Throw in a poorly done German accent, and you’ve got Nazi gold!

2. Spock

This one would be completely the opposite of his type cast… which is exactly why I want to see it! For a man who runs on a chaos engine, it would just be so bizarre to see him play someone that is completely cold and logical. I personally don’t think he could do it, but it would be quite entertaining to watch scenes where you can tell that he is trying really hard to restrain himself. Although, I do want to see Spock lose his shit for once, and boy can Nicolas Cage lose his shit! Can you envision how awesome it would be to see Nicolas Cage Spock in the sex-crazed Vulcan rage of pon farr? I would give every last dollar I had to watch him running around the Enterprise screaming and humping everyone.

3. Chucky

Come on! A psychopathic serial killer demon doll?! Why HASN’T this happened yet? Chucky has this weird charisma to him that I would have LOVED to see Nic Cage portray. He probably would go all-out psycho, and to see his most absurd faces poorly CG’d on a knife-wielding doll would create an image that would stick with me in my nightmares forever. And the god-awful one-liners would be the worst kind of drivel known to horror films, which is certainly saying something.

4. The Doctor

OKAY, so before you send out your homemade Dalek prototypes to exterminate me, hear me out! GOD FORBID they ever do an American version of Doctor Who. That is something that nobody wants to see, and should never be touched nor entertained as an idea. However, with Elementary basically being the Americanized Sherlock, let’s just entertain this idea for a second. IF there were to be an American Doctor, I would love to see Nicolas Cage have a crack at it. If he dialed his craziness back a bit, and brought out his more intellectual side, I believe he can deliver on the time lord’s fast talking quirkiness.

OR, it could be so unspeakably horrible that it becomes a fixture of our culture, similar to that of Troll 2. Allons-y Doctor Cage!

5. The Joker

If you haven’t figured out already, Mr. Cage is one crazy guy, and nobody embodies crazy like the Joker. If you haven’t seen Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans, in where he plays a cracked out detective, let’s just say that there is something almost Joker-esque about his performance. Not necessarily a Heath Ledger Joker, but leaning more towards a Jack Nicholson Joker. Also, I feel like he can add a little bit of flamboyancy to make the Joker closer to that of what we see in Batman: The Animated Series. I’ll just let this video speak for itself.

6. Gollum/Smeagol

I love me some Andy Serkis. I really do, and it is a CRIME that he didn’t get the recognition he deserved for this role. But damn it, would I kill to see Nicolas Cage have a crack at portraying a creature with a multiple personality disorder. To see him talk to himself in two distinct yet equally grating voices and contort his body in an inhumanly manner would be worth the price of admission alone. In fact, forget The Hobbit, let’s just have the movie be about the adventures of Gollum, played by Nicolas Cage! That would be quite… precious.

So fellow OOUies, why don’t you wish Mr.Cage a happy birthday by telling us what roles you want to see him play! Whatever your thoughts, comment below and let One of Us know!

Ten years of waiting have finally paid off! After watching DC mistreat Gail Simone for a decade (the same why they do with MOST of their writers), it is time to rejoice! Gail Simone has announced that she will working with Marvel once again! Not only has Simone returned to the House of M, but she is writing Deadpool again, at an important moment of the character’s life: his wedding! I cannot contain all of this happiness!

Simone is one of the best comic book writers working today in my opinion, and the fact that she’ll be writing one of my favorite Marvel characters once more is beyond amazing news. In the past, she has written books for both of the big houses. She has worked on such comics as Birds of Prey and Batgirl at DC and she also had an amazing run with Marvel characters Deadpool and Agent X ten years ago.

It has been revealed that Simone’s story will be set during Deadpool’s wedding. That’s right, The Merc with the Mouth is getting hitched. Of course, nothing concerning Deadpool is simple or clear and this announcement is no different. We have no idea who his bride will be. Still, we have some idea about who might be on the guest list. If this image released to promote the event is any indication, it’s going to be a grand affair.

This will certainly be an event to remember and I’m looking forward to a Deadpool-style wedding. Gail Simone apparently shares my enthusiasm. The scribe had this to say about the news on her personal Tumblr:

“Am I Excited? To be writing my first Marvel story in TEN YEARS? Yes I am!”

Simone will not be the only writer working on this story. In fact, many of the other writers have written for Deadpool in the past. Fabian Nicieza, Mark Waid, Joe Kelly, Christopher Priest, Jimmy Palmiotti, Frank Tieri, Daniel Way & Victor Gischler will all be contributing to story, which is coming to stores this April. I wonder how many items on Deadpool’s registry also appear in the United States military’s weapon inventory?

Are you pleased to see Gail Simone return to Marvel for this occasion? Who do you think Deadpool’s bride-to-be is? Share your thoughts and well-wishes in the comments!

Source: ComicbookResources

Without a doubt, one of my favorite modern actresses is the kick-ass Katee Sackhoff. Ever since her brilliant performance as Starbuck on Battlestar Galactica, Ms. Sachkoff has retained a loyal following of geeks and nerds (myself included) who enjoy the emotionally-layered and strong female characters she often plays.

In a recent interview, Sackoff spoke passionately about her love for Star Wars and how much she would love to be in the upcoming movies.

“Star Wars meant everything to me growing up. Star Wars was, I mean, it was the first time I remember seeing three movies that all kind of went together. It was just an amazing final understanding of what a trilogy was. I was absolutely obsessed… The sad thing is, I never wanted to be Princess Leia, I always wanted to be Han Solo! …If J.J. would listen, I would play a rock in the Star Wars movies.”

Sackhoff has already done some Star Wars work as a voice actress in the animated series, Star Wars: The Clone Wars, but to get her in one of the live action movies, even in a small part, would be a treat. Although the thought of Sackhoff wielding a lightsaber does sound pretty cool, were Abrams to cast her, I would hope that he would be clever enough not to make her a Force user, but instead play some sort of warrior or smuggler/mercenary.

Other highlights from the interview include Sackhoff expressing interest in getting to play Harley Quinn, the chance that her character from the Riddick series, Dahl, might make further appearances, and talking about her experience auditioning for the Wonder Woman TV show and being told that she wasn’t the “Wonder Woman type” but could audition to play the heroine’s best friend.

The sad part of the interview is that it is all about projects she and her fans would like to do rather than actual projects Sackhoff is doing. This isn’t to say that Sackhoff hasn’t been busy, as she has been playing Deputy Victoria “Vic” Moretti on the greatly underrated A&E series, Longmire since 2012. Longmire is set to release its third season this year and the first season is currently available on Netflix, so if you are hungry for more Katee and just a good modern western on TV other than Justified, I highly recommend you give the series a shot.

Sackhoff as Vic Moretti

So, do you think Sackhoff should be in the upcoming Star Wars movies, and if so who should she play? Let us know in the comments below!

Via Total Film

You asked for them incessantly and we listened: One of Us now has its very own forums! Finally, you and other fans of the site can come together and discuss our podcasts, blogs, live shows, and other features, as well as anything else that interests you! All you have to do is head over to forum.oneofus.net (or click on the link at the top of the page).

In addition to a miscellaneous discussion board, each show has its own specific section for your perusal. One section I’d also like to point out is the board dedicated to gathering your suggestions about One of Us. We’re always looking for feedback and new ideas about the content we create for you, so please sound off there often!

All right, there is an innumerable amount of subject matter you need to be arguing about in the forums, so hurry up and get posting! Enjoy!