9 Most Important Movie & TV Videos Of The Week (June 11th)
This week in WhatCulture video...
As real social interaction dies a slow, painful death, it's important to watch videos these days, if only so the cold, hard reality of living doesn't shout so loudly. Luckily, WhatCulture makes a stunning array of quality productions available to you for free, every day over on YouTube.
This week, you'll find discussion of the DCEU's shiniest penny, Wonder Woman, as well as essential talk of Hollywood lazily hiring actors who look exactly like the characters they were cast to play, Hollywood firing lead actors because they weren't all that good (or easy to work with) and some Easter Egg showing off. And that's not even the half of it.
In the week that WhatCulture's main YouTube channel joined the exalted Million Subs Club, we furnished our followers' brains with the kind of entertainment and revealing FACTS that you people would usually pay good money for. What a world.
9. 10 Actors Who Look Exactly Like The Characters They Played
Who needs years of acting school and life-changing commitment to the Method school of performance when you can just hire a professional doppelganger? What luck when they also happen to be celebrated Oscar hoover Daniel Day Lewis!
8. 10 Castings For New Movies That Prove Hollywood Has Gone Insane
If you didn't already believe that Hollywood had several screws perilously unfastened, you need to get a loud of them trying to get away with casting Will Smith as the Genie for the live action Aladdin. Then again, Guy Ritchie is directing it, so it's probably just par for the course.
7. 9 Films You Loved As A Teen (But Should Never Watch Again)
No, not THOSE films. The ones that you'd swear defined you as you struggled to blossom from the awkward ugly duckling bouncing around school like a pinball into the strong, confident swan you pretend you are now. Who DIDN'T want Ryan Phillipe's douche-bag trench-coat?!
6. 10 Movie Sequels That Turn Badasses Into Total Wimps
The Raptors in Jurassic Park: Death to everything. T-Rex? More like Tea Rex, amirite, bro?
The Raptors in Jurassic Park III: Oh, so this human blowing obscenities into that fake voice box is actually just a weird shaped raptor? Sweet, enjoy eating all the real humans, good brother.
5. 10 Most Powerful Items In Game Of Thrones
Sadly not included: the power of Tormund's burning love for Brienne.
4. Wonder Woman Review & Discussion
How did the latest addition to the DCEU stack up against what came before it? Could it legitimately be the #bestcomicbookmoviefornotwankers ever made? Watch a round-table of WhatCulture nerds discuss which of them loved it the most.
3. 10 Leading Actors Who Were Fired From Big Movies
It's got to suck to be the guy who was originally cast as the character that defined one of the biggest and best film franchises in the history of cinema. It's not like you hear Stuart Townsend's name mentioned in anything like the same circles as Viggo Mortensen's, is it?
2. 10 Seriously Secret Pixar Movie Easter Eggs You Never Noticed
Stop watching what's happening in the foreground (spoiler, it's probably about the ominous forward march towards the grave or something equally devastating) and start looking at the background of Pixar movies harder. The treasure trove hidden there really makes you appreciate how clever they are.
1. 10 Most Paused Movie Moments
Remember when trying to pause a particularly sexy/weird/revelatory movie scene meant trying to contend with a screen dancing a jig? Nobody could possibly get themselves off to that, which is pretty much why Mr Skin now exists.
Anyway, thanks to the dawn of HD home release, we can now endlessly trawl through individual movie frames, picking up on so-brief-it's-hidden nudity and any tiny details film-makers (or mistakes) film-makers were never able to take full credit for. It's a great time to be alive.
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