There’s a lot to love in this music video dedicated to a girl who really likes Harry Potter (Quotable: “Harry Potter changed my life, and I have NO idea how to deal with it.”). But if you put a gun to my head and told me I had to choose a favorite moment, it would probably be at the 9-second mark, when there’s a brief-but-unmistakable shot of a dog taking a dook in the background:

OH GOD YES, AN OUT-OF-CONTEXT, BACKGROUND DOG DOOK! THE BEST! I’m pretty lukewarm on the whole Harry Potter franchise, mainly because I’m way too far behind and I don’t have six months to burn catching up on the mythology. But if they’d only trained a few dogs to walk through the background randomly taking huge dumps every five or ten minutes, I would watch that in a heartbeat. Such an easy fix! Will it be wet? Will it be solid? Ooh, there he is, look at him squat! Get on it, Hollywood.  Anyway, it’s tempting to make fun of this girl, but to be honest, I felt the same way when I got down to the last few episodes of The Wire.

[via Rhett&Link, Commercial Kings]

UPDATE: The video initially got pulled not long after I first posted this, but it should work now.

I hadn’t gotten around to posting the trailer for Devil (watch it after the jump), a horror movie from Universal on which M. Night Shyamalan gets story credit. I thought it was a little weird that the trailer would so proudly advertise M. Shyammy’s involvement for all the world to see the same week that people were comparing watching his Last Airbender to being the subject in a human centipede experiment.  It just doesn’t seem like something you’d want, or need, to publicize. “See this butt plug?  This was Hitler‘s butt plug.”

Anyway, FilmDrunkard Patrick was at a screening of Inception recently, where he filmed the audience’s reaction to the Devil trailer that played before it.  Their response to “From the mind of M. Night Shyamalan” bit at the 15-second mark is priceless.  Someone should cast Shyamalan in a show set at a bar like Cheers. He could be like the reverse Norm who’s always showing up to ruin everyone’s time.

“Look everyone, Manny’s here!”

“AWWWWWWWWW!”

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With all the hubbub and abstinence and wombs made of felt surrounding the Twilight phenomenon, often overlooked are the real victims: the cats forced to watch against their will.  This video, cats reacting to the Twilight: New Moon trailer from TheFabLife, shines a spotlight on those all-too-often invisible victims.  The result is simple, yet moving.  Hey wait a second, was that Wilford Brimley?

Pff, you can’t sneak a Brimleycat by me.

I could tell you why Boondock Saints sucks till I’m blue in the face, but you can’t deny that even 10 years later the film has one of the most rabid cult followings in all of film fandom (Oh my God, bro, Irish dudes kill bad guys and then pray?  It’s like the War and Peace of comically self-important Punisher ripoffs!).  The long-gestating sequel, Boondocks Saints II: All Saints Day, will supposedly have a theatrical release November 1st (I’ll believe it when I see it), and writer/director Troy Duffy premiered the trailer at Comic-Con over the weekend.  Shortly afterwards, /Film was able to capture some reaction footage of the rare species known as the Boondock Saint fanatic in their natural habitat (the state of irrational excitement).  I could ridicule them for their crunchy hair and abundance of man-jewelry, but I sort of respect their willingness to let their freak flags fly.  They’re like the film version of Juggalos.  Duffalos, say.

PS – Anyone else find it weird that the white-looking dude is named Javier and the Latin-looking one is named Brian Sawyer? [more on the film over at /Film]