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...by singing YMCA!

Hurray!

(that link leads to a crappy realplayer file, by the way, but it's most definately worth seeing)

I thought it would be interesting if we could share some of those little nuggets of movie trivia which with we have have all doubtless collected at various points throughout our lives.  Hopefully, we shall end up with an interesting (and perhaps even definitive) list.

Here, I'll start:

1) John Woo's original cut of 'Mission: Impossible 2' was over three hours long.  The bulk of the extra material is in the climactic fight between Tom Cruise and Dougray Scott's characters (Ethan Hunt and Sean Ambrose, respectively).  Instead of the fisticuffs, knifesticuffs and gunticuffs that ensue in the theatrical cut, after crashing each other's bikes together in mid-air, Hunt observes that all this fighting is really starting to get silly, and that their differences are best resolved with a dance-a-thon.  Ambrose accepts this challenge, and begins a two minute rendition of one of Michael Jackon's routines; this amuses Hunt greatly, who then counters with a ninety-minute extravaganza; a one-man broadway show with a plot, songs, flashing lights and everything.  As is to be expected, Ambrose concedes defeat, and in accordance with the agreement the two made before the competition commenced, just sits still on the beach until he dies of malnutrition.

Studio bosses at Universal felt it would be irresponsible to include this ending in the finished film - wary as they were of the amount of innocent people who would die in their cinema seats, victims of awesomeness overload - and requested Woo to film the ending which currently exists.


2) Contrary to popular myth, the 'cuckoo clock' speech in The Third Man was not improvised by Orson Welles, but was in fact devised by writer Graham Greene, who just happened to be wearing Welles' skin at the time.


Feel free to help expand this list!

Warning: contains dangerously high concetrations of rulage.

That file is about 26 megs, however, so if you're one of those unfortunate dial-up types, you can get an mp3 version here, but if you've got anything better than a 56k than it's more than worth the extra bandwith to get hold of the quicktime version above.

Also; lyrics and the comic that inspired it all!

I really am too good to you people.

This recent trend of love/hate threads (when two threads with a similar theme are posted within a short space of time, I consider it a trend.  So there) has reminded me of something I saw in another forum which I thought was a very nice idea; basically, you post something nice about the last person who posted in the thread.  Simple, right?  But just to make it more complicated:

1 - You have to post something that you honestly like about the last person; no sarcasm, or anything.  This'll be easier than you think  - for example, if it was Vel, you could just say 'I like your hat', or 'Though generally I feel your inflated opinion of yourself and tendancy to jump to the wrong conclusion as regards some issues has crafted for you a somewhat unpleasant persona within the community, I believe these are attributes which will erode away with time and effort, thus causing you to become an approachable - perhaps even likeable - individual.' So, you see, it's perfectly easy to think of something positive to say about anyone.

2 - There is no '2'

3 - To prove that I've not just started this thread to obtain a single, free compliment, the first person who posts gets to say something horrible about me (once again, honestly so); but after that it's all adulation, a'ight?

So, who's up for it, then?

There's been a lot of buzz around the California mayoral election, recently, and I'm sure those of you actually in posesion of the right to vote in it are having a lot of trouble deciding how to put said right to use - perhaps you have elected to place your support behind whichever candidate has only the most tenuous link to pornography magazines, or perhaps (like any sensible person) you are going for the one with smut closest to their heart; however, there is (shockingly) a much more reliable method for choosing California's political future.  Recently pioneered by San Francisco magazine The Wave, this revolutionary project only needs to be executed in every election ever, and your mind will be made up within five minutes.  Don't believe me?  Read this article:

http://www.thewavemag.com/pagegen.php?pagename=article&articleid=24031

Got that?  Right, raise your hand if you don't want the one with the most rediculous smile to win.  Everybody who doesn't have their hands raised, point and laugh at the single person who does.  Now kill him and eat his skin - the fool!  See?  It really is that simple, so join my campaign to have this test performed on every political candidate in the world!  DO IT NOW!

Yes, this whole post can basically be boiled down to the phrase 'cool link'.

And well, to boot - http://notmydesk.com/eo.html

NOTE: if you have no idea who Chris Livingston is, please PM me your address so I can come round and cut off you willy with a pair of those scissors that have red handles that they give you in primary school.

Sorry to use you all as a search engine like this, but I couldn't find out elsewhere, so...
Do any of you know of a music player (preferably with mp3 support) that includes hundredths of seconds in the track progress/track length timers?  I ask because I'm trying to precisely annotate a music track so that I can edit a video around it.  Thanks for any help you are able to provide.