We're hurtling into the future at warp speed - ok, maybe not quite that fast but the New Year is coming up pretty soon. It's time for our predictions for things to come next year. Will they come true - who knows, we're not psychic - we just make educated guesses based upon the facts - that's it.
Our balls (uh, ball) are (is) bigger than yours...
Predictions for the New Year:
Gas companies employees drilling deep wells in Eastern Ohio will plunge to the center of earth and befriend Neanderthals while being chased by alien lizards and dinosaurs.
Fracking's number 1 opponent
Time will stand still for awhile but few people will notice because they won't have their watches.
The first Facebook Church will open - it will become it's own religion. Eventually this will lead to a holy war against Twitter.
Wayne LaPierre and the NRA will call for armed waiters in restaurants, armed attendants in nursing homes, armed referrees at all sporting events, armed moderators on political shows, and arming the entire cast of Glee. The NRA will also create a new cartoon to emphasize to America's youth the importance of shooting first, called Bullet Buddies.
Don't know much about history, don't care for Geometry, but give me some bullets and an Uzi...
The Walking Dead will visit FX's American Horror Story for a battle of the ghouls non-reality special.
The new Star Trek movie will feature a cameo by William Shatner as a really big Tribble.
This rifle was NRA approved - on star date 2230.3
Congress will movie into negative popularity poll numbers.
Mitt Romney will come up with several more excuses as to why he lost - none of them involving him.
We will fall off the Fiscal Cliff, bounce off of the debt ceiling, plunge into the river of deflation, drown in a pool of liquidity and crawl onto the muddy plains of slow recovery after being stimulated through renewed quantitative easing.
The first step is a doozy - it gets better though...
Zombies will begin running for office as Tea Party candidates - no one will notice.
I promise to eat Democrats - A brain in every pot!
Lot's of people are planning to have sex - not all of them will be so lucky.
After going over the Fiscal Cliff, renewed budget cuts will force the government to cut all remaining aid for Mental Health - the government will declare victory however by following this year's precedent on autism and redefine all mental illness thus making 90% of currently crazy persons sane next year. This will lead to more crazy people buying assault rifles and arming the cast of Glee.
The origin of Dark Matter will be discovered - it will have something to do with peanut butter.
Kim Kardashian will need to pose naked more often to gain attention.
Kim paid a lot for that body - so look at it already - and don't stop
PCs and Macs will sign a non-aggression treaty; the peace will be short-lived after Windows 8 claims that it is "hip."
The long war between Macs and PCs has often been both ugly and vicious...
Scientists will discover the meaning of life - corporate funded 'deniers' will insist they are wrong and encourage more consumer spending.
George Lucas will change his mind about Star Wars and ask for control of episode 7 when he sees Justin Bieber cast as Luke Skywalker. Disney will try to change the tagline to "The Beliebers are with you."
Global Warming will get hotter, polar bears will break into homes all across Canada that have central air and / or a pool.
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1 - DW Griffith choosing to make the first real movie (The Birth of the Nation) an homage to the Klu Klux Klan - thus inventing all of this in one fell swoop:
Propaganda films
The Negative Ad
50 years of Hollywood Racial Stereotypes
The license to rewrite History
The Klan at a Lynching party in The Birth of a Nation...
It's a wonder Cinema ever recovered from its first feature film.
2 - Madonna appearing as a fencing instructor in the Bond flick, Die Another Day. This scene has haunted us for years.
Never Say Madonna again
3 - Movie concession stand popcorn - Yuk, it's salty toxic waste w/ fake butter on top.
4 - Jerry Lewis, Pauly Shore, The Gipper...
We're told that this seems humorous in France...
5 - Movie Critics - seriously, what the heck do we know?
6 - Ads in Theaters - We've got TV for that. Please make this go away.
7 - Ratings and Censors - It's not clear that these ever worked and we still haven't figured out what the difference between PG and PG-13 is.
8 - Credits that roll before the movie begins - Why do they deserve credit at that point?
9 - Flash-Backs with the same actor made to look ridiculously young - This is almost always embarrassing.
10 - Extreme Close Ups - no one deserves that - not the actors nor the audience.
Why does zooming in make something scarier?
11 - Copycat Movies - Remember when Sudden Impact and Armageddon came out within weeks of each other? How could studios have ever thought that competing for the exact same idea at the exact same time was clever?
12 - Teen Musicals - from Mickey Rooney to High School Musical, the outcome is always likely to be the same.
Let's have a show!
13 - The Floating Shot - A signature gimmick from director Spike Lee, we still don't get it.
14 - Blacklisting - not cool, really (and neither was Nixon).
15 - Jar Jar Binx - The racist animation that would have seemed at home in D.W. Griffiths, The Birth of a Nation.
Need we say more?
16 - The Expendables - turning being a has-been into a marketing gimmick. Only Stallone could have thought of that.
17 - Just about anything from David Lynch.
18 - Swedish films in general.
Any wonder they picked this guy to play Ming the Merciless in Flash Gordon?
19 - Caged women movies - Prison movies are peculiar genre; this offshoot focusing on women in prison is goofiest part of that genre.
20 - Adding "Drug Lord" anywhere in the synposis caption of the movie description. A recent survey of movies listed on Showtime and Encore channels showed 32% of the movies playing contained the the term "Drug Lord" in their description.
21 - The Celebrity Cameo - Feeding already over-inflated egos to the breaking point.
Mr. Fellini on a bad makeup day...
22 - Fellini - Ok, we had to watch him in film appreciation 101 - but what the hell was this guy thinking?
23 - Product Placement - Maybe this was inevitable, but we don't have to like it.
What's worse than Wayne's World - this...
24 - Bad Accents - Why can't Hollywood hire actors with the right language skills (or accents) for the role?
25 - British Accents for Romans, Nazis and Aliens - Why does everyone sound like they came out of a English boarding school? Why don't Romans sound Italian? It's just weird.
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