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RoboPanda
When not counting pills for angry old people and writing for GammaSquad, RoboPanda likes to volunteer at the legless cat shelter and photoshop Mike Tyson into all of his family photos. He once resolved the question “To be or not to be?” through the clever use of General Semantics. Your mom thinks you could be more like him if you only applied yourself.

Both ‘The Great Gatsby’ Movies Combined, NBC’s ‘She-Ra’, And Other Mashups

05.17.13 Written by RoboPanda
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Good afternoon you princes of Maine, you kings of New England, you stalkers of Grant Morrison. Here are all the mashup and parody videos I didn’t get a chance to cover, thrown in your face like you’re Jodie Foster working for the FBI.

In the offing for today:

  1. FIRST VIDEO: The 1974 version of The Great Gatsby starring Robert Redford, Mia Farrow, and Sam Waterston gets re-dubbed with audio of Leonardo DiCaprio, Carey Mulligan, and Tobey Maguire from the second trailer for Baz Luhrmann’s 2013 version. [via The Hollywood Reporter]
  2. SECOND VIDEO: “This fall on NBC you won’t believe what She-Ra has in store.” Starring Kylie Minogue as She-Ra and Alfie Allen (Game Of Thrones) as “Skelly”. Being NBC, this would get cancelled after one season regardless of popularity. [via CBM]
  3. THIRD VIDEO: Someone added the Millennium Falcon from Star Wars to GTA IV– Oh, my! What have you done? It’s BACKWARDS. You flea-bitten furball! (Technically mirrored, not backwards, but I don’t know a good Empire quote for that.) [via Technabob]
  4. FOURTH VIDEO: If Breaking Bad were a cheesy drama from the ’90s, we’d still watch it. Begrudgingly. [via Reddit]
  5. Banner picture: One of the ten mashups of The Great Gatsby with Mean Girls quotes at Next Movie.
  6. Inset picture via Pleated Jeans.
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Meme Watch: ‘I Have No Idea What I’m Doing’ Sums Up The Internal Monologue Of Dogs (And Us)

05.17.13 Written by RoboPanda
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The “I Have No Idea What I’m Doing” meme is applied to pictures of animals doing tasks they shouldn’t be able to do. Typically, it’s an anthropomorphized dog, which makes these adorably silly pictures perfect for people who like the Dog Fort meme or UPROXX’s own Dog Fort webcomic.

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The New Wave Super Friends Would Save Us, But That Would Be Selling Out To The Man

05.17.13 Written by RoboPanda
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Last time we checked in on the art of Billy the Butcher, he was drawing real-life despots as comic book supervillains and mashing up Marvel comics superheroes with stills from their film adaptations. Now he’s created “The Post-Punk / New Wave Super Friends” to re-cast seven ’80s music icons as comic book superheroes.

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‘The Dark Tower’ Resurrected With Russell Crowe And At Least One Film Financed

05.17.13 Written by RoboPanda
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Ron Howard and Brian Grazer are at Cannes unveiling several projects in the pipeline, but the only one we care about is The Dark Tower, AKA Shut Up And Take My Money. The project has been beset with problems. The eight books were adapted as three feature films with two seasons of a TV show to bridge the films, with Javier Bardem signed to play gunslinger Roland Deschain. Bardem’s contract ran out and Russell Crowe signed on in his stead. Then both Warner and Universal passed on the ambitious series. Last we heard, Media Rights Capital were considering using their windfall from unexpected blockbuster Ted to take over the project, and the Vice President of Content at Netflix expressed interest in the TV show. But has anything come from these talks?

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Cosplay Appreciation: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Costumes Are For Party Dudes

05.16.13 Written by RoboPanda
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We may well end up being disappointed in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles reboot currently filming in New York City. Even Megan Fox bouncing on a trampoline may not save it. But that doesn’t mean we have to stop appreciating well done TMNT cosplay. With that in mind, let’s check out 25 awesome costumes based on Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles characters. (And check back next week for some more cosplay appreciation.)

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Wild Card! The Main Trailer For ‘Pacific Rim’ Is Pretty Cool

05.16.13 Written by RoboPanda

Warner and Legendary Entertainment released the full main trailer for Guillermo del Toro’s Pacific Rim just a few moments ago. Clocking in at the same length as first trailer and the WonderCon footage, this one nonetheless feels like it’s giving us more. We’ve already seen GIFs of robots with rocket elbows punching monsters in the face. We can’t wait to see what GIFs the internet will come up with after this trailer gets around.

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It Looks Like NASA’s Kepler Telescope Has Come To The End Of The Road

05.16.13 Written by RoboPanda

NASA’s orbiting Kepler telescope launched back in March of 2009, and it soon found scads of exoplanets, some of them even potentially habitable. To date, it’s found 122 confirmed exoplanets and 2,740 potential ones. Kepler completed its three and a half year mission last November, so all the data we’ve been getting from the $600 million project since then has been gravy.

Unfortunately, a malfunction has likely shut down the gravy pipe. Tell Abigail Mae she can cease bending over.

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‘Star Wars’ And ‘Doctor Who’ Fan Altercation Shockingly Blown Out Of Proportion By The Media

05.16.13 Written by RoboPanda
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Police were called after an argument between a Star Wars fan and a Doctor Who fan at a sci-fi convention in the UK. The media reports about it so far have been vastly overblown (probably for comedic effect), claiming over a dozen people in costumes had a “bitter row“. The argument was really only a verbal kerfuffle between one member of the Norwich Star Wars Club (NSWC) and one member of the Norwich Sci Fi Club (NSFC), says the chairman of the NSFC in a statement posted on Facebook. Well, he didn’t call it a verbal kerfuffle, but that’s how we imagine Britons talk.

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Full Trailer For Vin Diesel’s ‘Riddick’ Something Something ‘Ridiculous’

05.15.13 Written by RoboPanda
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The picture above is not from the new Riddick movie (trailer below). The picture is, in fact, culled from Vin Diesel’s endearingly looney Facebook page. We figured he could use some motivation, because we suspect this film wasn’t as sweeping in scope as he had expected. It’s just a surprise it’s getting a theatrical release, considering it was beset by problems.

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