I thought we’d pretty much run the gauntlet of movie mash-ups like “Sh*t People of Certain Race/Gender/Religion/Industry Say”, so when I came across the mash-up of movie middle fingers yesterday, I thought for sure it had already been done. But even if it has, screw it. It’s wonderful. It could just be Mr. Bean waving his middle finger at every passing car and I’d be content enough to watch it all day. Man, I sure do love the middle finger.

My brain isn’t working very well today, so I can’t think of any glaring omissions. My first thought was, “This mash-up better have Brad Pitt in 12 Monkeys“, because when I first watched that movie in high school, I walked around nonchalantly flipping my middle fingers like his character for weeks. Damn, now I’m going to have to watch that again just for nostalgia.

Other than that, this mash-up gets a solid A. It’s not too long, not too short. Cee Lo Green’s “F*ck You” is appropriate and fun. That is until the SOPA police kick down my door and tickle my cavities with their middle fingers. Until then, enjoy.

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I got sent a lot of mash-ups and holiday-themed videos this week, but this one was the only one that inspired me to post it. That has to count for something, right? It’s just that Die Hard is the best Christmas movie of all time, and this mash-up (“Die Hard, Interrupted”), from RigorTortoiseComedy, took a novel approach. And it’s hard to go wrong with Hans Gruber, I always say.

Join me after the jump for some additional Die Hard trivia.

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I don’t know about you, but I remember watching The Matrix for the first time and thinking, “This is OK, but I sure wish there was a way to make it more like a bar mitzvah.” Well thanks to the neverending creative juices of the internet, the inevitable has happened. Someone mashed up the lobby fight scene in The Matrix with Lou Bega’s classic hit, “Mambo No. 5.”

It’s not the most inspired mashup that I’ve ever seen, but I like the idea. I think that more classic movies should be re-dubbed with the worst songs of the 90s. Maybe The English Patient with Chumbawumba’s “Tubthumping” or Precious with Sir Mix-A-Lot’s “Baby Got Back.” The possibilities are endless. I expect more from you, anonymous Internet people.

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I loved Drive, but I’d be the first to admit that it was a good 90 percent mood. Who wouldn’t want to watch Ryan Gosling drive around when it’s set to mellow synth pop and pink script titles like Grand Theft Auto? What this video presupposes is, what if that music had been Tom Cochrane’s 1991 hit “Life is a Highway” and that crappy club song they play every seven minutes in Vegas? It’s a mash-up as simple as it is effective — in fact it kind of bugs me that I enjoy this so much. My one criticism is that they should’ve redone the titles in Comic Sans. Comic Sans is the Smash Mouth of fonts.

[FunnyorDie]

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.]