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As we all know, Disney makes their money off of everyone’s beloved fairy tales that they gut out and stuff with their own brand of morals, sexism, recycled animations, and stereotypes. Their newest endeavor is called “Tangled”, and is loosely based around the story of Rapunzel and her mane of long, blonde hair.
In an attempt to reach out to the younger male crowd with their animated movies, they’ve given Rapunzel a new twist. Allow me to show you the trailer.
See? It is now a romantic comedy. Boys love rom-coms!
Devin Faraci over at chud.com asks: What if Jaws was made today?
It wouldn’t just be about a huge shark who terrorizes and eats people. The shark would have a dark past and every character connected to it would also have a story behind them as deep as the ocean. Here are a few of the changes that Devin thinks we would see:
● Michael Cera stars as Matt Hooper. He has an extensive backstory where we learn that his connection to the shark is deeply personal.
● Of course there’s a CGI shark, but this CGI shark will be doing things no other CGI shark has ever done, including insane acrobatics. But more importantly this is a character story, so Andy Serkis will be hired to do the mocap for the CGI shark.
● All of the Orca scenes are shot against a greenscreen in a water tank. It’s just more reasonable on the budget.
● Webisodes are released revealing the important missing moments, like what happened to Ben Gardner, what Hooper did after the cage was destroyed, and how Michael won his school talent show with an original song.
It practically promises to kill the suspense the original Jaws built up so well and it would, unfortunately, sell pretty well. Let’s hope JJ Abrams doesn’t get any ideas.
Crocodiles are supposed to be cold-blooded creatures without much aptitude for long-distance swimming, so how is it they get so much travelling done? According to Australian ecologist Hamish Campbell, estuarine crocodiles can surf, riding currents on the open seas for hundreds of miles.
Nowhere is safe from crocs. They’ve always been a danger to other living animals, but with their discovery of leisure travel, they’ve become a far worse creature – the annoying tourist. They’ll want to visit castle after castle in the English countryside under the mistaken assumption that tour guides taste better, insist on pretending they’re holding up the Leaning Tower of Pisa in their photos of the landmark like no one ever thought to try that before they came along, and make tacky, vaguely racist comments about the Chinese during their Great Wall of China stop.
They will, in short, be more of a nightmare than they ever were when they just wanted to end our lives.
Deepwater Horizon is the biggest oil spill ever. In the history of the universe. In all of time, including the future. That will probably be due to our descendants giving up fossil fuels because the Earth’s reserves ran so low running machinery on them was no longer tenable, but still. Really, can anyone deny this with their cold, hard science facts?
More oil is spilled from the [Niger] delta’s network of terminals, pipes, pumping stations and oil platforms every year than has been lost in the Gulf of Mexico … That disaster, which claimed the lives of 11 rig workers, has made headlines round the world. By contrast, little information has emerged about the damage inflicted on the Niger delta. Yet the destruction there provides us with a far more accurate picture of the price we have to pay for drilling oil today.
The Guardian forgets the cardinal rules pertaining to caring or even paying attention to human tragedy: 1) America is the center of the universe, and 2) It doesn’t count if it’s in Africa. If something happens outside the United States we can be expected not care, and if it happens in Africa, we can be expected not to notice.
