Friday Five: Recut

July 11th, 2008 by Justin Thibault · 8 Comments

Taking things out of context is one of the oldest political gimmicks around (see any liberal on John McCain’s “100 years” comment); and it makes for funny video.

This week’s Friday Five: Movies completely changed by “recutting” them in to trailers with completely different themes. I promise…you will laugh at least once.

5. Ten Commandments…as a High School Comedy (note: some might be offended by one scene)

4. Office Space…as a horror film

3. Titanic…as a Sci-Fi drama

2. The Shining…as a touching romantic family movie.

1. The Brokeback Mountain version of Top…no, wait.

Let me say something.

This “Brokeback Version” gimmick is old. Seriously. You could take a video of me sitting next to some dude on a plane and put some Celine Dion to it and *boom* “I can’t quit him”. No, no - this has to end. It was funny the first 100 times someone did it; but now it’s old.

So, in it’s place. I’m going to show you the gimmick that gets old next year: The Spartans At Thermopylae (AKA 300)

This version performed by the Toy Story cast

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8 responses so far ↓

1 Chris McCartan // Jul 12, 2008 at 10:15 am

All great, but the runaway winner is “Shining”; “Office Space” probably the 2 seed. “Titanic” was alright, but it used clips from a boatload of other movies…
2 JustThrewUpaLittle // Jul 16, 2008 at 6:46 am

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3 Justin Thibault // Jul 16, 2008 at 8:36 am

Chris - Thanks, it was harder than I thought to narrow it down. There were plenty that hit the cutting room floor.

JustThrewUp - So, if the Robin Hayes campaign avoided paying taxes on his campaign workers would we not hear about it ad nauseum? Just like Al Gore creating more greenhouse gases than everyone who visits this site before lunch and Mike Easley raising our taxes to pay for his $50,000/week limo in Europe - certain politicians follow a different set of rules.
4 JustThrewUpaLittle // Jul 16, 2008 at 10:00 am

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5 Justin Thibault // Jul 16, 2008 at 10:51 am

JTUL - So you’re claiming that Hayes’ campaign staff are all government employees?
6 JustThrewUpaLittle // Jul 16, 2008 at 11:33 am

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7 Caleb Seamone // Jul 16, 2008 at 12:43 pm

JustThrewUp:

If you can produce evidence of your “illegal” claims, and a judge that would hear it, that’d be great. No question that it is illegal to run your official congressional business and campaign business out of the same office, but it certainly isn’t illegal for a federal employee to campaign for someone. Robin Hayes has a separate office for Campaign business in Concord, and his two offices are just a couple of miles from each other. If you were to call the business office looking for info on the campaign, they would direct you to the campaign office. Hayes has a staff that handles campaign work, and one that handles congressional work. Just because someone works for a Congressional Staff does not mean that they can’t campaign for their boss. They just can’t do it from their Congressional Office. No “hammering square pegs” in that statement, its just the facts. If you can find those that are running an illegal campaign/congressional business scheme, then by all means, give me a name.
8 Justin Thibault // Jul 16, 2008 at 1:05 pm

JTLAL -

It’s a right to work state.

Well, if Larry Kissell and his friends have their way it won’t be for long.

I look forward to discussing issues with you in the future should you decide to cover any.

There are 565 posts on this site that cover any number of issues.

The one that you referenced - “The Price of Honesty” spent more time grousing about government regulation than Larry Kissell’s skirting of the same. Of course, a Kissell fan wouldn’t think that 1 out of 3 dollars in the economy in service to the government to be a problem - except that the fraction should be closer to 1 out of 2.