Tag: CultBoxed

‘My job description didn’t say anything about getting spritzed by the boss.’

It’s difficult to say whether this fits into the ‘so-bad-it’s-good’ category or if it’s more ‘so-amazingly-awful-it-has-attained-a-kind-of-dubious-car-crash-appeal-over-and-above-anything-it-deserves’. Whichever it is, and despite some ham-fisted editing and single entendres that even Talbot Rothwell would have drawn the line at, there are a few pained chuckles to be had at one enthusiastic editor’s attempts to turn the Iron … >

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‘You dare speak to the God of Thunder in that manner?’

This video’s premise is as simple as the execution is elegant; what if Avengers Assemble was made before the actual comic book series? The answer is: it would probably have looked something like this blend of black-and-white horror movies, camp adventure serials and animation classics, and while it would have been gloriously rubbish as an … >

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‘Ow, I hurt myself changing this tyre…’

Although Family Guy’s funniest days are behind it, its power of pastiche remains undimmed, even in the widescreen era. If nothing else, you have to admire the sheer meticulousness of its artists – never better demonstrated than here in this shot-for-shot remake of the opening titles to the Incredible Hulk TV series, with Stewie taking … >

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‘How could a karaoke machine kill me granddad?’

Given the popularity of The X-Files at the time – not to mention the amount of time Mulder and Scully used to spend on their cellphones – it was hardly surprising that Vodafone decided to gently spoof the show in a series of ads for their network in the mid-1990s. Perhaps the best of the … >

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‘I can’t see anyone else smiling in here… are you sure?’

Connoisseurs of William Shatner’s musical career – or the sonically-challenged, as they’re technically known – may well argue over the respective merits of his emotive, spoken-word interpretations of ‘How to Handle a Woman’, ‘Rocket Man’ and ‘Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds’ without ever coming to any conclusions as to which is the best. One … >

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‘We got each other, sharing the laughter and love…’

It can’t be denied that The Walking Dead started dark and got progressively gloomier over the course of its first two seasons. To be fair, a show about the zombie apocalypse was hardly going to be all sweetness and light, was it? YES, ACTUALLY. It’s all a question of interpretation. Just chuck in a jaunty … >

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‘Duh-duh! Duhhhhhh! Duh-duh! Duhhhhhh! Duh-duh-duh-duh-duh!’

Despite the recent trend for shoving it somewhere unexpected, such as at the end of the movie (Quantum of Solace) or after the pre-credit sequence in a tatty bathroom (Casino Royale), the opening gun-barrel sequence is one thing that almost everyone in the known universe agrees should be restored to its rightful place in the … >

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‘Master, what is your desire at Christmas?’

They used to say that playing the title role in Doctor Who was the best job in television. If such a remark is ever repeated nowadays, it’s always qualified with reference to the incredibly long hours, the arduous hanging around waiting for shots to be ready, the stress of carrying the heavy burden of the … >

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‘The stuff of legend…’

The appetite of YouTubers for homemade Doctor Who trailers is insatiable, and although there are as many KFC buckets as gourmet feasts (and, to be fair, a lot of indigestible horrors, too), some of the very best have an enduring appeal. True, this 50th anniversary promo does go on as long as an eighteen-course banquet, … >

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