The Best Way to Waste Time Online
My first post not about movies. Ish. Technically, it’s about a book, but the book is about movies. So it counts. Right?
Movies in 15 Minutes started when Cleolinda Jones decided to share her brilliant comedic talents with the world. Just in a movie-related way. It started on livejournal (don’t they always) and became a book! A book, only available in the UK. Or, luckily, UK Amazon.
Here’s a link with the basic rundown of her parodies online: http://community.livejournal.com/m15m
They are the funniest parodies for movies I’ve read or seen, considering modern parodies take form mostly in those crappy movies made by the Scary Movie plebes. Feh.
The book, if you so choose to venture into purchasing, contains the Hollywood Blockbusters from 1993-2003, namely Jurassic Park, Braveheart, Independence Day, Titanic, The Matrix, Gladiator, Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Sorcerer’s Philosopher’s Stone, Spider-Man, Attack of the Clones, and all three Lord of the Rings.
As the little subtitle tells us, this is a book of “Hollywood Blockbusters for People Who Can’t Be Bothered.” Joy! I can almost never be bothered to watch blockbusters. I’m just amazed that I’ve even seen most of the movies on this list. But seriously, this is fantastic entertainment. This is what I waste my time on when it’s one AM online and I’m still not going to bed. What’s nice about the book are the connected threads between the parodies, such as the Third-Age Limbo Championship and Our Lady of Soundtrack Sorrow.
There are gems in the book and online, so make sure to check out both of them. Cleolinda writes sharply and with excess wit to spare, because she is awesome. My personal favorites online are Phantom of the Opera, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, and Van Helsing although the awesome abounds in all of them. What’s nice is, you can really read the parodies without watching the movies if you can’t be bothered. They get summed up nicely. And then the internet takes the best of the parodies’ lines and turns them into icons, so there’s some visual component up there, if that’s your taste.
