Last night someone sent me this brilliant breakdown of Bill Maher’s Religulous (another video after the jump), made by a couple of goth Christians calling themselves The Rapture Right. The video is long, but definitely worth a watch if you’ve got the time. The first thing I noticed was that actual hardcore Christians are never this funny, unless they’re speaking in tongues. Not to mention that the guy who directed Religulous also directed Borat.

I did a little digging and found their MySpace page, which features their song “Heaven”, and the lyrics “They’ve got X-Ray glasses and hoverboards in heaven.” I too have always associated heaven with Back to the Future. And then there’s a little jam called “Jesus Touched Me” (Je-sus/touched more than my heart…). They also have a website with some pretty sweet flash graphics, and cartoons like the one I’ve included at right.

I talked to some people at Lionsgate who swore that as far as they knew, these guys aren’t affiliated with the movie, and that the studio already has a separate viral site and campaign of their own. It’s possible the Lionsgate people didn’t know, but there’s no way these guys are for real. They are pretty funny though.

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It’s recently come to the attention of the movie blog world that for all its success, The Dark Knight isn’t doing very well in Japan. In two weeks it has made just $8.7 million, and in it’s second week got beaten by The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor and What Happens in Vegas. Explains Japanese film critic Chika Minagawa:

“The story is very pessimistic. It has a dark and gloomy texture that Japanese movie fans do not find appealing in a ‘comic hero’ film… Japanese movie fans expect such films to be fun and action packed, for the hero to be attractive, for the villain to be loud and outrageous, and for the movie itself to be easy to understand and light.”

Minagawa later added, no tentacle rape? No robots? No schoolgirls lactating blood? It just doesn’t seem very realistic.

The full trailer for Max Payne hit the web last night, and except for a horribly miscast Mila Kunis, dare I say, it actually looks kind of cool. Their newfangled slo-mo technique looks purdy neat. Although between the demons and dragons and 15-year-old goth chick music, it does seem like they’re trying a bit hard. Like if they’d really gotten their way it’d be called Maxxxx Paaain.

Just for fun, here’s Marky Mark the Masturbating Cat again.

Brett Ratner recently spoke with MTV, who were interviewing him in conjunction with his nomination for a “Best Director” Video Music Award for Miley Cyrus’ “7 Things”. Now, before I get into the Guitar Hero story, please watch the video and tell me I’m not crazy. I’m not missing anything, right? It’s really just a bunch of people in a white room singing along to the song? I think she could’ve saved a lot of money by making this in one of those booths at the mall. Get it? She sang about text messaging and a girl held up her cell phone! Oh my God, you’re a f-cking genius, Brett Ratner! Anyway, here’s the stupid thing he said today:

“I love ‘Guitar Hero’ and I think it’s a part of pop culture. I would love to do a ‘Guitar Hero’ movie, if Activision would ever let me. I’m trying to convince them, but why would you have a movie screw up such a huge franchise? Not that I would make a bad movie. So that would be cool, to do a ‘Guitar Hero’ movie. ”

What, you mean like that South Park episode?

“It could be about a kid from a small town who dreams of being a rock star and he wins the ‘Guitar Hero’ competition. One of these dreams-[come-true] kind of concepts.”

Could it be a Chinese kid who gets paired up with Chris Tucker? You know, it sounds suspiciously like he’s just talking out of his ass to promote Guitar Hero as part of his marketing deal. C’mon, give it to us straight, oh soulless whore of Hollywood.

“I have a deal with Activision for their branding,” he said. “For instance, naming ‘Guitar Hero: World Tour,’ coming up with the new ‘Guitar Hero game name. It’s sort of like [MTV's] ‘Rock Band.’ So they said: ‘Come up with a name.’ And I did, and it became ‘Guitar Hero: World Tour.’” [Source]

That’s right, Brett Ratner got paid (probably millions) for coming up with the words “World Tour”. Think about that next time you’re making 12 bucks an hour to edit a Power Point slide about “Teamwork!” or getting drooled on by the retards you teach. He should change the name of Brett Ratner Brands to Proof That There is No God.

Paramount just released the poster for Ghost Town, starring Ricky Gervais and Greg Kinnear. He sees dead people, they annoy him - doesn’t get much more straightforward than that. Is it just me, or does this movie feel like it should’ve come out in the 40s?