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5 Things You Might’ve Missed in the Sucker Punch Trailer

by Michael Suen | 1:10 pm, July 27th

Style over substance he may be, but Zack Snyder undeniably creates knock-out visuals. His trailers for 300 and Watchmen were two of the most hype-generating previews in recent cinematic history (the lackluster exception being his upcoming CG movie Legend of the Guardians). Now, it looks like he’s turned the volume higher (all the way to eleven!), with this tease of nearly every geeky trope possible: girls with guns and swords, seedy mafia goons, giant samurais brandishing Gatling guns, steampunk zeppelins, fire-breathing dragons, spaceships, futuristic cities, and enormous robots.

But there might’ve been some things that slipped your notice in the trailer:

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The title pretty much says it all

The 15 Best Exercises from Training Montages

by Susana Polo and Jamie Block and Michael Suen | 5:11 pm, June 11th

A remake of 1984′s Karate Kid comes out this weekend, where the main character learns Kung Fu.

We’re just as confused as you are, but, we do fondly anticipate one thing: another entry into the long cinema tradition of training montages in action movies, full of kicks, punches, defeat, perhaps a loss of hope, and then comfortingly certain triumph.

But the other thing that training montages have to be full of is things that would make even professional personal trainers raise an eyebrow. We’ve collected fifteen of our favorite training montage exercises, from the ones that made us go:

“…what is that even supposed to do?”

To the ones that made us go:

“WTF THAT IS HARDCORE.”

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Five Tarantino References Worth Catching in Lady Gaga’s “Telephone” Music Video

by Robert Quigley | 11:52 am, March 12th

So: After endless anticipation, Lady Gaga‘s music video for “Telephone” is here, featuring Beyonce. True to form and expectation, it’s really weird: In a good way, though, IMO.

For one thing, “Telephone”‘s nonmusic/music ratio rivals Martin Scorcese‘s 18-minute music video for Michael Jackson’s “Bad”: the thing is nine-and-a-half minutes long, with about three minutes of highly stylized female prison drama and Lady Gaga naked-making before you hear a single note.

But then… there’s the stylization itself. Lady Gaga told E! that “There certainly is a Tarantino-inspired quality in the video;” while there are other influences swimming around in there (we’d like to propose Twin Peaks), the Tarantino shines through the most.

You may recall that Beyonce’s “Video Phone” started off with a reference to the slow-mo walk in Reservoir Dogs; where’s the Tarantino in “Telephone”?

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