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Hollywood didn't produce enough horror highlights to merit a top 10 of the decade. So Top10Films had to look elsewhere - lots of great horror films from mainland europe, Britain, Australia, East Asia, South America, and Canada.
What were your horror film highlights during the last decade?Hollywood didn't produce enough horror highlights to merit a top 10 of the... more
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Hollywood decided to remake not only the best horror films it could find in the east but also its own classics. Added gore, 3D, silly titles, worthless sequels, and vacuous characters were the order of the day. So, to discover the best in horror cinema during the 2000s, audiences had to look elsewhere – to Europe, South America, and Australia. There were some gems to be found in the States, but many of the most unique and frightening horror experiences were to be found elsewhere.
Top10Films presents the Top 10 Horror Films of the 2000s. What do you think? What was your favourite horror film of the decade? Has the horror genre progressed or gone backward during the decade? What was your most memorable moment?Hollywood decided to remake not only the best horror films it could find in the east... more
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Has The Back-Up Plan put you in the mood for quirky romantic comedies? You might want to check out an even more oddball film, Happy Accidents, starring Marisa Tomei and Vincent D'Onofrio. Instead of a surprise baby on the way, Tomei's character deal with falling for a man who claims to be from the future.
The Rotten Tomatoes Show is a movie review show that airs on Thursday nights at 10:30 e/p on Current TV. From reviews of the newest releases to commentary on cult favorites and movie trends, each episode of The Rotten Tomatoes Show is a fast-paced, comedic journey through the week in cinema.
For more from the Rotten Tomatoes Show: http://rottentomatoesshow.comHas The Back-Up Plan put you in the mood for quirky romantic comedies? You might want... more
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According to music licensing firm PPL, Madonna is the most played artist of the 2000's plus she is the only female solo artist in the top 10.
Sugababes was the only emerging artist in the chart at number 6. The chart data was based on the number of plays on TV, radio and public places (such as shops) in the UK between 2000-2009.
The full chart:
01 - Madonna
02 - The Beatles
03 - Robbie Williams
04 - Queen
05 - Take That
06 - Sugababes
07 - Elton John
08 - Elvis Presley
09 - Abba
10 - Coldplay
Source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/8603409.stmAccording to music licensing firm PPL, Madonna is the most played artist of the... more
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I use the internet professionally. That is, I receive payment and benefits for surfing the web, and then talking about it. I thought I should draw from my expertise to talk about this soon-to-become viral video Greenscreen Grandmas.
Right now this video has 6,468 views. Hardly viral at this moment, but you can expect hundreds-of-thousands of hits.
The video was uploaded to youtube on December 19th by TheBchismar. It was then added to Joanne Casey's blog today, December 28th at 7am GMT. This was picked up by The Daily What as part of their Early Bird Special. All of these factors would bring relative success to this video, but through the miracle of RSS readers, it was picked up by bigger fish. At 2pm EST Gizmodo added this video. It has also appeared on Holy Taco, College Humor, and Buzzfeed.
So even though it has meager views at this moment, by the end of the week, I suspect that this will be a viral sensation.
The content of this video is ripe for mass distribution.
Cute
Safe For Work
Older people
Play
Potential to become an internet meme.
In our society we have two archetype of old people: the creepy and the cute. We fear that creepy aged person, that old man in Home Alone, because they are close to death, and death scares us. The cute old person by contrast reminds us of the nurturing we received from our grandparents. That infant love we had towards older people, has stayed with us through maturity. (I'm no Freudian so don't quote me on that.)
Cuteness is often a factor in viral videos and memes. I explicated on this idea a few months ago.
This video is Safe For Work. Sometimes I forget that people find things offensive. Offensive videos are able to gain traction across our liberal side of the internet, but they don't have universal appeal. The way you do that is by creating a video without any questionable material. JK Wedding Entrance Dance is a great example of this. There is nothing offensive about it (less the Chris Brown song, which many rubes overlook) and it now has over 36 million hits.
Greenscreen Grandmas is the type of video you can send to anyone. Including your own grandparents.
And older people use the internet too! In July, iStrategy Labs published a report that in the previous six months: "there has been a staggering increase in the number of 55+ users – with total growth of 513.7%." Retirees might enjoy the things the non-Coco's-eating set like, but they probably also want to see content about themselves. I'm sure my grandmother would love this video because she likes having fun with her friends.
Furthermore this video as an example of people playing. They are just goofin', and there is something really fun about that. Play is that act of enjoyment. It's great when we are able to do it ourselves, but we get a similar sensation when we engage in play virtually, in this case through these Greenscreen Grandmas.
These previous concepts ensure that this video, is highly transmittable. A highly transmittable video or idea becomes a meme, if it is widely imitated, but still retains an identifiable relationship to the original. The internet meme of the year was Keyboard Cat, which spawned countless variations, but each of these still referred to the original.
Greenscreen Grandmas has potential to be parodied, re-enacted, remixed, mashed-up (with another meme) or referenced. I'm not sure that this video will become a meme, but others videos with similar content have. The JK Wedding Entrance Dance has been parodied online, as well as recuperated by mass media on NBC's The Office. (Grandmas is not on as grand of a scale, as JK so it's less likely to be imitated by television.)
I think these factors will contribute to this video's success on the internet. Popularity, however is not a precondition for quality. I don't like this video very much, or that it has such mass appeal. As an expert on the subject, I need to look at this video in the context of the rest of current internet content. And the direction entertainment is traveling at the end of the first decade of this millennium is disappointing.
Imagine that a group of intelligent beings light years away pickup a radio signal from an early 1900s broadcast of Hamlet. They pick up the signal and say "WOW OTHER INTELLIGENT LIFE FORMS EXIST IN THE UNIVERSE!"They are so excited that they come to our planet, and discover that we've been wiped out by global warming. All that's left is the entertainment that we most recently enjoyed.
Videos of sleepwalking dogs, people blowing up trashcans, and elderly women pretending to be on roller-coasters. These aliens will be disappointed that our society, which had so much potential, had squandered it and reduced themselves to idiots.
Luckily we don't have to be worried what aliens think of us. We can continue to watch viral videos forever. Or at least until we are inevitably tricked and subsequently destroyed by a very cute surprised kitty.I use the internet professionally. That is, I receive payment and benefits for surfing... more
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consider American Idiot, our CD of the Year for 2004; 2005’s exceptional live CD, Bullet in a Bible; and Warning, one of our top CDs of 2000 – a release that, looking back, perhaps should have signaled that something bigger was on the way. No band posted such a consistent record of excellence across the decade of the ’00s, and more importantly, no other band came close to defining the decade musically. As suggested above, American Idiot is the single, landmark moment that people will be turning to for decades to come when they think about the music that was to the ’00s what Dylan and The Beatles were to the ’60s, what Led Zeppelin and Pink Floyd were to the ’70s, what U2 was to the ’80s or what Nirvana was to the ’90s. It will be impossible to do a movie about this moment in American history without including Ámerican Idiot” or “Boulevard of Broken Dreams” in the soundtrack.consider American Idiot, our CD of the Year for 2004; 2005’s exceptional live... more
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Too good not to read, folks: "How bad did this decade suck? We are the world capital of disillusioned delusional drugged-out desperados opening fire on innocent people in schools, offices, malls, post offices, and public squares. We don’t call this terrorism. Therefore, we are safe from terrorists."Too good not to read, folks: "How bad did this decade suck? We are the world... more
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It dawned with the warmest winter on record in the United States. And when the sun sets this New Year's Eve, the decade of the 2000s will end as the warmest ever on global temperature charts.
Warmer still, scientists say, lies ahead.
Through 10 years of global boom and bust, of breakneck change around the planet, of terrorism, war and division, all people everywhere under that warming sun faced one threat together: the buildup of greenhouse gases, the rise in temperatures, the danger of a shifting climate, of drought, weather extremes and encroaching seas, of untold damage to the world humanity has created for itself over millennia.
As the decade neared its close, the U.N. gathered presidents and premiers of almost 100 nations for a "climate summit" to take united action, to sharply cut back the burning of coal and other fossil fuels.
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon told them they had "a powerful opportunity to get on the right side of history" at a year-ending climate conference in Copenhagen.
Once again, however, disunity might keep the world's nations on this side of making historic decisions.
"Deep down, we know that you are not really listening," the Maldives' Mohamed Nasheed told fellow presidents at September's summit.
Nasheed's tiny homeland, a sprinkling of low-lying islands in the Indian Ocean, will be one of the earliest victims of seas rising from heat expansion and melting glaciers. On remote islets of Papua New Guinea, on Pacific atolls, on bleak Arctic shores, other coastal peoples in the 2000s were already making plans, packing up, seeking shelter.
The warming seas were growing more acid, too, from absorbing carbon dioxide, the biggest greenhouse gas in an overloaded atmosphere. Together, warmer waters and acidity will kill coral reefs and imperil other marine life — from plankton at the bottom of the food chain, to starfish and crabs, mussels and sea urchins.
Over the decade's first nine years, global temperatures averaged 0.6 degrees Celsius (1.1 degrees F) higher than the 1951-1980 average, NASA reported. And temperatures rose faster in the far north than anyplace else on Earth.
The decade's final three summers melted Arctic sea ice more than ever before in modern times. Greenland's gargantuan ice cap was pouring 3 percent more meltwater into the sea each year. Every summer's thaw reached deeper into the Arctic permafrost, threatening to unlock vast amounts of methane, a global-warming gas.
Less ice meant less sunlight reflected, more heat absorbed by the Earth. More methane escaping the tundra meant more warming, more thawing, more methane released.
At the bottom of the world, late in the decade, International Polar Year research found that Antarctica, too, was warming. Floating ice shelves fringing its coast weakened, some breaking away, allowing the glaciers behind them to push ice faster into the rising oceans.
On six continents the glaciers retreated through the 2000s, shrinking future water sources for countless millions of Indians, Chinese, South Americans. The great lakes of Africa were shrinking, too, from higher temperatures, evaporation and drought. Across the temperate zones, flowers bloomed earlier, lakes froze later, bark beetles bored their destructive way northward through warmer forests. In the Arctic, surprised Eskimos spotted the red breasts of southern robins.
In the 2000s, all this was happening faster than anticipated, scientists said. So were other things: By late in the decade, global emissions of carbon dioxide matched the worst case among seven scenarios laid down in 2001 by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the U.N. scientific network formed to peer into climate's future. Almost 29 billion tons of the gas poured skyward annually — 23 percent higher than at the decade's start.It dawned with the warmest winter on record in the United States. And when the sun... more
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Musical list lovers, behold: the top 500 songs of the naughties. Put together for your listening pleasure, "since Pitchfork has been around for all of the 2000s, we're taking the opportunity to put together a detailed and wide-ranging story-- as told in four lists, four essays, and a timeline of events-- of what happened in music in the last 10 years. About what you'd get from a print magazine, but it's free and you won't throw it out the next time you move." AND, you can listen to most of them (something new compared to the decade lists of old) on the page itself.
What a list! There are some loves, some hates, and some huh?s.
And on a side note, AAAHHH!!! I can't believe it's almost 2010 and we now have decade lists for the 2000s!Musical list lovers, behold: the top 500 songs of the naughties. Put together for your... more
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She's busty, famous and fifty. No wonder we want to grow up to be just like her.
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Target Women is a recurring segment on Current TV's weekly television show, infoMania. In each episode of Target Women, Sarah Haskins takes a look at the often-ridiculous way the media reaches out to women.
infoMania is a half-hour satirical news show that airs on Current TV. The show puts a comedic spin on the 24-hour chaos and information overload brought about by the constant bombardment of the media. Hosted by Conor Knighton and co-starring Brett Erlich, Sarah Haskins, Ben Hoffman, and Sergio Cilli, the show airs on Thursdays at 10 pm Eastern and Pacific Times and can be found online at current.com/infomania. And make sure to check out our facebook profile for special features at http://infomaniafacebook.com.She's busty, famous and fifty. No wonder we want to grow up to be just like her.... more
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