Figured it was about time I filled some of the larger gaps in my Brendan Fraser filmography knowledge last night, so:

Monkeybone (2001):

I loved this way more than it probably has any right too. But here's the thing, you put Brendan Fraser, Dave Foley, dropdeadsexybloodythirstycatwomen, and crazy dream-logic surrealism and the director of Nightmare before Christmas in the same room and there's no way I'm not loving whatever comes out of it, that's just a known fact of the universe. I absolutely loved it, and think we need waaaay more stuff like it.

Airheads (1994):

I REALLY enjoyed this one. Brendan Fraser is great, Steve Bucsemi is rocking the shiiit out of that rocker look, and I didn't hate Adam Sandler like I usually do. When it started out I was pretty much just expecting your typical "unknown rockers want to be famous so by the end of the movie they organize some giant  mission impossible style scheme" style 90's comedy thing...and then it started to do that...and then HARD RIGHT TURN, and suddenly they were right in the middle of a full-on Dog Day Afternoon spoof and I didn't even notice until they were in the thick of it. And once they hit it, they put the peddle to the metal and ride it all the way to the end, it caught me totally off gaurd, and it was amazing.

Definitely reccommended if your looking for a solid comedy that doesn't pander to the lowest common denominator, (Which is a weird thing for me to say about a movie with Adam Sandler in it... ow! ow! okay okay stop throwing things at me, I'll watch Happy Gilmore one of these days). (Also, a half naked Ellie Bartlett...so that's...a thing)

And I actually went to the theater (second run one, but whatevs) for the first time since last year and saw:

Monster University (2013):

I loved it. I really really did. And I was one of the guys going "W.T.F. is Pixar doing?! There is no way in hell this isn't a money grab." right up til release. But it was great.

Although, through pretty much the entire 2nd and third acts I just couldn't stop thinking about what the "Toy Story has a horrible horrible message and should never be shown to any child ever." crowd would have to say about MU because...

But all that (the spoilered stuff) aside, I loved it, it was a cool take on the whole 80's college movie thing while also being a solid addition to the Monsters universe.

I don't know what you guys are talking about, I laughed my ass off.

Wait, now I'm confused. I thought the 3 movies were the pinnacle ones from our childhood, TENG came out in 2000.

Uh oh, I think we know who's getting kicked out of the Cool Guy Club at the next meeting. For shame.

Niiiiiiiiice. I've seen that one before (oogie), but you can never see it enough.

I'll redirect things a bit with a mashup of epic proportions.

Interesting tidbit: The performer who plays Kate Monster in Avenue Q also plays the patient in Scrubs' My  Musical.

Teague. Have a read through of my first post in this thread I'm hardly one that NEEDS the girl
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But thanks, I needed a bit of Kitt in my life tonight.

Spoilers contain performances of Cabaret, you'll have to make the judgement call of how SFW that is.

So I recently found out that Michael C Hall used to perform in the revivial of Cabaret as the emcee, and immediatly went and sought it out, because my gods, and found out that there were actually quite a few familiar faces that had their run as the emcee. So here we go. All performances are Wilkommen from Cabaret. (unfortunately the video recordings aren't the best, but they're still entertaining as hell)

Michael C Hall

Neil Patrick Harris

Alan Cumming

John Stamos

Adam Pascal

Personally in this little showdown I have to give it Michael, that's some serious commitment right there. Love it

And unfortunately for me, but mostly Brian I would think, somewhere out there in the universe there is a recording of Lea Thompson as Sally, but I can not for the life of me find a copy. Most unfortunate.

It does kinda sound like something you might find in a Tekwars novel or something come to think of it.

Oz: The Horrible and Mind Boggling

Alright, I knew this one was gonna be bad, but boooooy howdy did it ever blow harder than I ever imagined. This one actually makes an interesting counterpoint to the Croods that I talked about in my last post. They both depend heavily on me buying into this really wacky and wild universe and letting that carry the bulk of the weight. And where the Croods succeeded in that, this failed HARD. The problem is that at all times it feels like it's screaming "LOOK HOW COOL IS THIS!! OH MY GOD IT"S SO WEEEEEEIIIIIRD!! DON"T YOU THINK?? IT'S SOOOOO COOOOOOOOOOLL!!"all while trying to shove pages of crayon scribbles and glitter as far into my eye sockets as possible. It suffers from the same problem as Burtons Alice In Wonderland, that tried and failed to do the same thing; it overuses it's digital-ness and so everything very quickly becomes this same monotone digital smear across the screen that fails to hold any attention whatsoever.

The...erm..."acting"...and I use that term incredibly loosely was so overdone and...just bad. I lack the synonyms to properly express it, it was just painful to watch at times. I'm pretty sure everyone thought it was supposed to be awfully charming, but it's like no one even cared. When the characters aren't trying to be some variation of charming they are so completely overdone as to be completely laughable (Literally at the transformation of Mila Kunis' character, I literally burst out laughing, threw my hands and in the air and said "I'm out".

The digital characters felt about as lifeless as the environments did, again just adding to that digital smear accross the screen, not really making themselves known, but not truly blending into the background either. They were just kind of there and apparently I was supposed to care about them, but...eeeh....not so much with the that.

It's been said before, but I'll say it again, James Franco is usually great and can carry a lot on his shoulders, but in this either the weight was too much or something. My main problem with his character is that he such a MASSIVE dick to everyone indiscriminately and without cause. It's like the screenwriters/Franco (Cause I know half that shit was improv) got a one line character description and had to run with it: "Is a massive dick but then later isn't, kinda." Even up til the end his an asshole: Spoilers for the end, but trust me you don't care.

Ultimately the movie just fails on every front it tries. It's just bad. i can't even say it's pretty because after 30 seconds in Oz everything blurs together and I just wind up feeling like my eyes are at some sort of paint flinging orgy or something. And yeah, just bad... horrible. Adds nothing to the Oz universe and is just 2 hours of an un-entertaining mess.

Honeslty what hurts more than ANY of that... we have James Franco, Mila Kunis and Rachel Weisz, threee incredibly talented and gorgeous people, all on screen together. And it's....this. Ugh.

I'm just gonna be over here in the corner crying.
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So BDA...tell us how you really felt.

From what I've been able to tell, it works fine if you've visited the image before and it's already buffered on your computer , but it doesn't work if someone is trying to load it through the hotlink for the first time.

At least that's what I've been able to see through my experimentation.