As you may have gleaned from the previous post, the new Twilight Breaking Dawn trailer just hit, and for the next few days, it’s sure to be the subject of many mash-ups. Hell, Seltzer/Friedberg already made a whole movie about it. Much like my cousin Stevie on the jungle gym, Twilight is what we call “low-hanging fruit.”

As such, you expect the mash-ups to be lame and predictable. George C. Scott made to watch. Hitler complaining about the plot. Some idiotic LOL cat thing. But this… this is a god damn revelation. Why didn’t anyone think of using Slapshot before now? God that is an awesome movie. And I can say that with near complete certainty, because I’d never seen it until a few years ago. Most comedy gets dated incredibly fast — you try to introduce someone new to movies that were considered universally hilarious when they came out, say, There’s Something About Mary or (and I hate to say it) Blazing Saddles, and a lot of it doesn’t quiiiite translate if you weren’t there to see it in its time. But I saw Slapshot 30 years removed and it was still hilarious. And you know you can trust me, because I’m a handsome scientist. (*spills test tube on bare chest, winks, trips over coffee table*)

[Thanks to JoBlo for the video. Sorry for saying you sucked that one time.]

I now present to you one of my favorite videos in a long while (or at least for as long as I can remember, which is about 30 minutes). It’s called “Tom Cruise Gets a Letter From His Australian Cousin,” and FilmDrunkard Jon sent it to the Frotcast today, saying, “Hopefully this will become the next ‘Hitler reacts to stuff’ video meme.”

I guess I could see that, but the original scene is from Cocktail, and what really makes the video is the letter, which had me laughing right from the salutation, “gday yer big poof!” (The cheerleader handwriting makes it that much better). And then right through the first line, “So how ya goin, ya kweah! Me, Pongo, Dilwash, and Japseye ah coming ta visit again!”

God, it’s perfect. When I lived in Australia, I played rugby with a guy everyone called “Bedpan.” One weekend his parents were in town to watch him play, and while we were warming up, someone yelled “Bedpan!” At that point, another guy piped up and said, “Oi, don’t be c*nts, don’t call him Bedpan in front of his mum.” So then everyone just called him “Pan,” because no one could remember his real name. True story.

[via AdamBuxton, HighDefinite]

Remember Jim Carrey’s creepy (or funny, depending your perspective) video love letter to Emma Stone from this morning? Well last night on the Frotcast, Brendan suggested that the video would’ve been a lot funnier if he’d delivered it from his ass, like in Ace Ventura (to be fair, everything is funnier that way). Well now, thanks to the magic of the internet and Frotcast listener Jeremy, we know what that would look like. Watch, share, and enjoy.

Great job, internet. You make me so damn proud sometimes.

Early this morning, I was awoken by three consecutive wall thumps coming from my crawl space, which, as you all know, is the signal from our video editor, Oliver Noble, that he’s completed a new supercut. After I let him out, we watched it, and it was pretty good, so I rewarded him with a few minutes with his gimp mask unzipped and gave him some bactine for his welts.

This is actually our second crowd-sourced supercut, where Oliver provided the topic and you the FilmDrunk reader gave scene suggestions. The result is Cinema’s Greatest Mirror Pep Talk. In a way, it’s kind of like a cross between 40 Inspirational Movie Speeches in Two Minutes and Rich from FourFour’s Mirror Scare Supercut. So basically, we’re doing mash-ups of mash-ups now. Also, we took the liberty of blurring out Mark Wahlberg’s penis in Boogie Nights, which, to my knowledge, is cinema’s only example of a character giving his penis a pep talk in the mirror. I know it’s a prosthetic (which is what I assume every time I see an above-average sized penis now, thanks for that, Boogie Nights), but do you notice that the penis actually hangs below his fingertips? The guy’s got arms like a t-rex. He looks like he needs an assistant to adjust his own collar.

(full list of films used after the jump)
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Courtesy of Noah Harald, here’s a mash-up of the actual trailer for Adam Sandler’s Jack and Jill, and the South Park parody of it. An obvious mash-up choice, perhaps, but still fun. That’ll do, internet, that’ll do. The best part about South Park’s parody is that because they got it out before Jack and Jill had a trailer, when people saw the actual Jack and Jill trailer, at least half of them thought, “Wait, isn’t this the fake movie from South Park?” Mmm, that’s a good burn.

Also, did anyone else notice that in the film, Jack apparently has two children, an Amish girl with a doll replica of herself and an Indian kid with a dildo strapped to his head? I feel like not enough is being made of this.

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