This popped up in my inbox this morning and I had a good laugh.

Not exactly sure why and how this happened, but I love it all the same. Thanks to the people that made it! Good stuff.

I can specifically remember the first time I saw a trailer for the film Twilight. I don’t remember which movie it was in front of, but I remember thinking how bad it looked, turning to my wife and saying “That looked awful.” She agreed with me, and then I even mentioned it in the car ride home how bad it looked and that the movie would be a disaster.

Have I ever mentioned how I’m always wrong about things?

Since then Twilight has literally exploded, and instead of the films making less money as they go along, they seemingly continue to bring in even more fans with each go around. It’s a little early to tell with Eclipse, but it’s already shattered all sorts of records in the two days it’s been in theaters for.

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The Last Airbender – Aang (Noah Ringer) is a young successor to a long line of Avatars who learns that he possesses the power to engage the Fire Nation and hopefully end their century-long war against Water, Earth, and Air nations. Prince Zuko (Dev Patel) is the son of a Fire Lord looking to capture Aang. Written and Directed by M. Night Shyamalan (The Sixth Sense, The Village).

The Twilight Saga: Eclipse – Bella (Kristen Stewart) is torn between a marriage proposal from Edward (Robert Pattinson) and a declaration of love from Jacob (Taylor Lautner). Meanwhile the Cullen vampires and Quileute werewolves must team up in order to protect Bella from an army of more powerful vampires. Based on the third book in the Stephenie Meyer series.

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Hot Tub Time Machine – John Cusack, Rob Corddry, and Craig Robinson play three best friends who have grown apart over the years. Along with Cusack’s nerdy nephew, they decide to go to an old ski resort where a hot tub transports them back to 1986. They try to live their lives exactly as they did back then while the time machine gets fixed.

Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Lightning Thief – a 12 year old boy named Percy Jackson finds out his birth father is Poseidon and he may have some god-like powers. He gets caught up in a feud between Zeus and Hades. Based on the first book in a series from Rick Riordan. Directed by Chris Columbus (first two Harry Potter films).

The Crazies – Timothy Olyphant is the sheriff in a town where the residents are affected by a toxin which turns them into violent psychopaths. Olyphant, along with his wife Radha Mitchell, join up with other unaffected townspeople to fight for survival. Remake of the 1973 George A. Romero film.

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It’s hard to believe I haven’t come up with a new short for The Zoinks since 2007. The final episode I produced was Fruit Smoothies, and the entire creation process was streamed over UStream and made in about 12 hours total.

The Zoinks shorts were originally intended to be produced on average of once a month (along with everything else, can you believe it?) but that obviously didn’t happen. Seriously though, none of these shorts actually took much time, I just never really bothered to come up with a bunch of worthwhile ideas for the characters. Each of them probably took a solid day worth of work, sometimes spread over the course of a weekend. They’re very simple, and that was always the intention. Thinking back, I think I banged out Finger Paints in about four hours one night.

Carboard Box was actually the first Shamoozal short ever produced. When I originally bought this domain I had nothing but a logo up. Not much later I had a link for the forums, and then about a month later I had put up Carboard Box as a teaser cartoon. It stayed there until I finally assembled a basic site layout and our first “real” short, Candy Corns.

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Surprise! Music Monday is coming a day early this time. I’ve been way into this band lately. They remind me of A Perfect Circle, but with a Nordic Doom Metal twist. I highly recommend you check them out. They’re coming to Philly in September and I’m seriously considering a trip to see them. Great band!

http://katatonia.com/
http://www.myspace.com/katatonia

Grown Ups – Five high school friends (Adam Sandler, Chris Rock, Kevin James, David Spade, Rob Schneider) are reunited at the funeral of their former basketball coach. They decide to get their families together to spend the Fourth of July holiday weekend reminiscing about old times and catching up. Also starring Salma Hayek, Maria Bello, Maya Rudolph and others. Directed by Dennis Dugan (Zohan, Chuck & Larry).

Knight & Day – Cameron Diaz plays a woman who gets caught up in the life of a secret agent (Tom Cruise) who finds out he is not supposed to survive his latest mission. He must bring the woman along in order to protect her while he spans the globe trying to stay alive. Directed by James Mangold (3:10 to Yuma).

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Everyone has reviewed Mario Galaxy 2 by this point. Hell, I even had my own review all typed up and ready to go but realized I offered nothing you couldn’t find elsewhere, and it very much echoed my review from the original game.

Tonight I just about wrapped up the second half of Galaxy 2. If you’re a Galaxy 2 virgin, and know nothing about the game at this point and would like to keep certain things spoiler free, I highly suggest you stop reading right now.

There, I have given you a warning.

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