Oh yeah, pure awesomeness.

BREAKING-NEWS: Susan Sarandon, legendary sex pot, cult movie hero, and liberal tree hugger, has broken up with her long time partner, the legendary sex pot, cult movie hero, and liberal tree hugger Tim Robbins.

Their age difference (she is 63, he is 51), their high-profile careers, and the fact that they never married drew criticism over the 23 years they were together, but Sarandon was quoted as saying, “I won’t marry because I am too afraid of taking him for granted or him taking me for granted — maybe it will be a good excuse for a party when I am 80,” which is basically the most romantic thing ever.

A publicist for the couple announced that they had split over the summer and refused further details, but you know me, I am not above wild conjecture and People magazine. So, um… oh, wait, People doesn’t have any other details. Neither does E! Online… What the HELL, Hollywood? Do these people not Tweet?!

I predict an onslaught of photos of Sarandon with Pierce Brosnan. This tasty old-people combo wrapped up filming for the upcoming drama “The Greatest” earlier this year. The film is due to be released next March. Sarandon and Robbins are basically the Brad and Jenn for the over-45 set anyway, so an on-set meet up and break up would only be fair. Pierce Brosnan, you are the new Angelina Jolie. Congratulations!

So I turned in the man card this afternoon to watch Julie/Julia Project movie with the little lady.  I agreed to watch this movie for a couple reasons.  One, it has Amy Adams in it.  Smoking hot.  Two it’s about a blogger who blogs and makes oodles of money (the movie is the book she wrote after she blogged. Here is the original blog btw.)  Three its about cooking and food.

It wasn’t bad, but it was definitely a chick flick.  On the bright side you get to see Amy Adams in some revealing poses.

Anyway, it makes me think that wetwired has been around for 10 years and we have yet to really do a damn thing with this site.  Many blogs have risen and fallen since we launched back in 1999/2000.  Most of it has been that this site is a hobby site and we lost direction many years ago and have been floundering ever since.  Things are going to change for us.  Whether its a new blog or a new direction for this site, who is to say at this point.  But we’re going to change.

What is a spit-take?

A spit-take is a comedic technique in which someone spits a beverage out of their mouth when they react to a statement during a take.

Clerks 2 Lord of the Rings vs. Star Wars at the 3:17 second mark

Utah Saints :37 seconds in when the MC Hammer dance comes out.

Clerks 1 when Randal spits in customers face.

Dead Man on Campus – “That one’s not beer.” at the 2:10 mark

Space Balls Mr. Coffee at the 1:02 mark

Have some other funny moments similar? Post them in the comments below.

This is a pretty amazing video using tilt-shift photography.

HP “Create Amazing” – Director’s Cut from Keith Loutit on Vimeo.

Update: The guy who created this – had to pull it until he got permission from HP.

In the meantime check out this video by the same guy:

Bathtub V from Keith Loutit on Vimeo.

They are working hard on this one to make it as “real” as possible to drum up curiosity.  It looks like it might be a good movie.

http://www.thefourthkind.net/

Take it with a grain of salt its very much like the Blair Which Project – people thought it was real….

If you search for Dr. Abigail Tyler, Nome Alaska, a website called “Alaska Psychiatry Journal” provides a “biography” of Dr. Tyler with “related articles” on the topics of sleep disorders, emotional issues, hypnotherapy and regression therapy. However, the website does not have a homepage or contact information.

The website was registered on GoDaddy in August 2009. A real online-medical publication would have such information, so this leads to the conclusion that the website is a viral marketing ploy, much like the promotion for the upcoming “2012” movie and the for “Institute for Human Continuity.”

Yep.

Okay, fan-made trailers as a rule usually blow.

I mean, let’s face it. Normally they’re pretty damn stupid, and involve some pretty crappy ideas.

However, this one? This one is pretty much awesome, and I’d pay money to see this movie. Thus… submitted without further comment.

Out.

A couple of days ago, i saw the new “Star Trek” movie here in town. Awesome flick, and I’ll see it again. I absolutely loved it, and the people I saw it with felt the same. It’s a truly well-made film, respectful of the work that has come before it while being accessable to anyone who hasn’t boned up on 40 years of canon.

When I got back to my hotel room, I went to my two binders full of DVDs and found to my shock and horror, though, that all of my previous Star Trek series, movies and other items that I’d owned had disappeared from existence. They had never happened, now that I’d seen this movie and some of the events that had occured in it. JJ Abrams had robbed my childhood, and I would never be the same again.

…

At least, that’s what some of the ubernerds out there are bitching about with the latest movie.

Okay, from this point on there is  A MAJOR SPOILER AHEAD.

Seriously. Don’t read further if you don’t want to know anything about the movie.

Read the rest of this entry »

Saturday afternoon. MSNBC Entertainment news. Top two stories.

Jackie Chan: Chinese need to be controlled

Best quote: “Chan said the problem with Chinese youth is that ‘they like other people’s things. They don’t like their own things.’ Young people need to spend more time developing their own style, he added.”

Jackie Chan is an honorary professor at my college. My college is looking more and more like a pyramid scheme run by cranky elderly neighbors.

Bill Murray hospitalizes woman with golf shot

I’m not sure why this makes me feel so warm and fuzzy inside, but it really, really does.

Isn’t it an invasion of privacy? Sounds more like an abuse of power – he’s sporting some Ron Paul stickers and he was scrutinized.

Ok, I saw the movie Watchmen over the weekend. I am going to say this up front: I. did. not. read. the. graphic novel.
So this review is strictly on what I saw and perceived and not a comparison to the adaptation of the graphic novel in any way. Fanboys, don’t mob me. I have, however, talked to boys who have read the graphic novel and have discussed what the differences have been in the movie adaptation. So here’s a girl’s review of the movie:

I don’t know if it’s my age (I had a milestone mid-life crisis inducing birthday last week) or if it’s because I have a therapist and am chronically still single at this age, but one of the things that I realized in the Watchmen was that every single one of them was a classic archetype of Which Guy Women Should Avoid/daddy complexes:

The Comedian: The Bad Boy. Hot, super alpha-male, oozing testosterone, smart but not to be trusted. He’s got an unsettling mean streak.
Doctor Manhattan: Emotionally Unavailable, Peter Pan syndrome. Passive Aggressive and oh so emo.
Ozymandias: Intellectual Narcissist.
Rorschach: Sociopath, Moral tight-ass, with short guy syndrome rage.
Nite-Owl: non-alpha male, weak chin, kind of wishy washy but the nice guy, you like his respect for you, but wish he was more like the Comedian in badassery. You hope he’s into more than missionary, but he probably isn’t. Yes he’s nice. He finished last.
And they all kinda hate women on some level. They all came from pretty dysfunctional parental backstories.

I do like the panel by panel adaptation, and once I flipped through the graphic novel, I have to give props to the casting director, because the casting of the actors was excellent. I’m not sure what made the movie so meh, it’s not like it was garbage in=garbage out. I understand why the graphic novel is so acclaimed. Maybe it’s because the superheroes really were just people, and when it comes down to it, people and their foibles really can be pretty…meh.

http://www.skynetresearch.com/

That’s right, they are doing some online marketing…

If you’re a fan of the Half-Life series and have played Half-Life 2 then you will know exactly what this is.  Basically an independent group got together with Valve to produce this pretty impressive mini-series.  This is Part One.

That’s right, we’re heading downtown to check out the Office Space 10 Year Reunion Movie/Cast Party thing. Finley, Prax, Mimzi, and I are all heading down shortly and we’ll be doing two things:

1. Updating this post with pictures and info.

2. Updating the twitter feed on the right.

Stay Tuned:

We’re here at the Paramount Theatre in Austin Texas (Home)

Media ariving red carpet about to come out

More pre-star interview

G4 Personality

Lumberg: Gary Cole

Mike Judge (he plays the boss of Jennifer Aniston in the movie in case you didn’t know.  Mike is also writer/director of the movie, King of the Hill, Bevis and Butthead, etc..)

Mike Judge again

Michael Bolton: David Herman, who does a good amount of voice work now as well as TV.

Milton: Stephen Root

Samir: Ajay Naidu

Bob Slidell: John C. McGinley..you might also know him from Scrubs as Dr. Cox.

TPS report comes from Mike Judges engineer day Test project set

The cast gathering after the movie shows for a q&a – including “Payable Nina Speaking”

The squirels they were married was improvised line by Stephen “Milton”

Lumbergs coffee cup was pepsi or water.

Bobs “I celebrate the entire collection” was improv from John C. McGinley

Ha miginley is like dr cox in real life same personality.

Sequal ? No

There were 4 staplers, Mike Judge has the burnt one.

David Herman stated the whole movie is a blur, apparently he was “medicated”.  He later stated that he was the only member of the cast that was not on drugs at the time.

Gary Cole stated he hadn’t seen the movie in 10 years.

Diedrich Bader said his most interesting memory was of Stephen Root coming to his hotel room at 3 in the morning and asking him if he was really his friend several times – Deidrich assured him that he was and Stephen then said, “ok well I killed the prostitute, help me with the body.”

Hitting the printer/fax with bats

More destruction

The aftermath

Guy in front of us got his DVD signed by most of the actors and Mike Judge.

Lawrence : Diedrich Bader “Look out for your corn-hole”

Samir looking at the machine.

All in all, a lot of fun, we got to shake hands and meet most of the cast that was there – John C. McGinley is freaking tall.  Ajay (Smair) is pretty short.  Mike Judge does have a new movie coming out we were going to see a clip of it but due to technical difficulties we didn’t.  We may see a premier here though… cross your fingers.

When we were taking pictures, the Local Fox 7 news was standing next to me when he was recording the beating of fax/copier machine and interviewing Gary Cole. Check out the video of that happening here.