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So I was  thinking as I was forced to watch the trailer for Hot Tub Time Machine — which opens today — for the millionth time on television, that there is no way this movie can be as bad as the title and premise implies.

You have to have a lot of balls to make a terrible movie AND give it a terrible title.  For example, if the movie was as bad as it sounds, they would have called it something far more vague, like The Hot Tub.

But the makers of the movie want to pull you in by shoving the ridiculous premise right in the movie's on-the-nose title, because obviously they think they have something good on their hands.

Whether it's actually any good, I'll never know, because I doubt I'll ever get around to watching it.  But according to Boing Boing, Roger Ebert thinks it's like the best movie ever or something.  He wrote: "'Hot Tub Time Machine,' which wants nothing more than to be a screwball farce, succeeds beyond any expectations suggested by the title."

Shit!  Maybe this was all reverse psychology!  I think we've fallen for it!

What do you think?  Terrible movie or title fake-out?

The Academy Awards were last night and a lot of people won a lot of awards for a lot of things. Seriously, a lot happened. I was sitting on a wooden chair (why?) and my tail bone is now bruised. The show was loooong.

If you missed it, this video will literally break down every Academy Award-winning movie from this year and years past. From here on out, you won't need to actually see any of the year's movies to know which will win.

Brilliant! I love the idea of literally explaining something as it's happening. Clever last sentence that serves as an example of what I just said I liked.

[via Gawker]

The Tosh.0 audience tweets their picks for Best Actor, Best Actress and Best Picture of the Year.

Here's what you've been waiting for!

How long did Daniel actually take to rehash the details of the movie Orphan?

See for yourself in this week's Spoiler Alert… Unedited Edition… with Bonus Footage!

How long did Daniel actually take to rehash the details of the movie Orphan?

See for yourself in this week's Spoiler Alert… Unedited Edition… with Bonus Footage!

Tosh helps the "Risky Business" girls redeem themselves by recreating all of Tom Cruise's movies.

Want more redemption? Head over to our Web Redemptions category to catch all the redeeming moments you may have missed.

And don't forget to check in tomorrow at noon when we'll post the extended interview with the Risky Business Girls, and maybe get to the bottom of why the floor needed to be so slippery.

According to Hollywood trade magazine and buzzword spew-fest Variety, James Cameron's Avatar is now the highest grossing movie of all time.

How'd he do it?

Well, as a Hollywood insider and an Internet expert, I've done a little research to help give you the exclusive scoop on how Avatar made all that moolah.

Check out the chart above from movie review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes.  Avatar pulled in an impressive $34.9 million in its 6th week!  That's almost unheard of!

And all it had to do to get there was beat our Hollywood blockbusters like The Rock vehicle, Tooth Fairy, highly anticipated sequel, Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel, and the highly praised, Spy Next Door.

How'd Avatar do it?

That's right…  All other movies are terrible.

Everything Is Terrible, the website well-known for distributing terrible found video content, has launched a campaign to get your old VHS copies of Jerry Maguire…

"Our goal is to have the largest private collection of Jerry Maguire VHS tapes in the history of mankind and we need your help."

There are only three reasons I can think of why anyone would want to accomplish this odd goal:

1. It's some sort of weird sex fetish thing.
2. They are trying to reinvent history by eliminating all evidence of a pre-digital age version of this film from the face of the Earth as some larger, but not-yet-clear plan to subvert Scientology.
3. It's some sort of weird sex fetish thing.

But, whatever.  If you want to help, send tapes here:

Everything is Terrible!
P.O. Box 47924
Chicago, IL 60647 USA

Am I supposed to feel dirty about helping someone??

[via Neatorama]

Today is the last Friday before Christmas.  And since New Year's Day also falls on a Friday, it's he last Friday you'll be working before the end of 2009.

So you probably don't feel like working.  That's why you're reading a blog, right?

You know what you need?  A 70-minute review of Star Wars, Episode I: The Phantom Menace.  Yes, 70 minutes.

When everyone else is trying to make their viral videos shorter (Personally, I can't watch anything over 80 seconds), this guy went ahead and purposely made a 70 minute YouTube video (broken down into 7 parts because the service no longer allows uploads of over 10 minutes).

The crazy thing, though, is that despite being hit or miss in the jokes department, it is watchable.  70 minutes of relatively watchable online video.

Is this the future of the Internet?  Feature length viral videos??

No.  Only on the last work Friday of the year.

Oh, and only when an idiot ruins the most beloved franchise in movie history.

So yeah, it's a rare alignment of many mysterious forces.

[via /Film]

Has your life hit a new low?

If you're spending a lot of time sitting at home watching DVDs you rented from Netflix, it might be a good idea to get out of the house.  But if you're using the envelopes from those Netflix movies to wallpaper your laundry room, it might be a good idea to see a psychiatrist.

According to Hacking Netflix (don't pick such a broad topic next time, guys!), a woman named Kim "saved the at-home dvd envelope flaps and started wallpapering my laundry room with them. I have completed two walls and 1/2 the ceiling and have no plans to stop until the entire room is red. (I always wanted a red room)."

Red room?!  Haven't you seen The Shining!  That's backwards for MURDER!  I told you this person was a psycho!

Also, judging by the photo above, she's using the term "wallpapering" pretty loosely.  Usually you don't hang wallpaper all willy-nilly with no decernable pattern.  Typically you stick with a design.

This "wallpaper" job looks more like the way you use old newspapers to cover up your dog's mess.

What's hiding behind all those envelopes anyway?

Oh, that's right… An emptiness in your heart that can never be filled.  Go rent Titanic one more time.

[via Urlesque]