Adam Riff™

Blomkamp initially approached Ninja of Die Antwoord to play the lead in Elysium. Ninja didn't want his first screen role to be an American-accented character in such a high-profile film.

Blomkamp subsequently approached Eminem, who was interested—but only if the shoot took place in his hometown of Detroit. [source]

[checks to see if this is a joke or not]

Huh. Not a joke. Dude really wanted to cast a white rapper.

I think Slug (Atmosphere) would've worked.

• JOURNAL OF A SHUT-IN: VOL. 2

My brother is seven years younger than me.

When he was little, I thought it would be fun to see if I could get him hooked on the film Batman Forever.

So whenever he grew restless, I would pop Batman Forever in our VCR, and lo, he gradually began watching it without my prompting, and later fast-forwarding to his favourite parts for a quick fix.

I finally saw Friday Night Lights the film. Mike Winchell's lack of sideburns bugged me.

Television has kinda ruined film bildungsromans for me. A film like The Kings of Summer or The Way, Way Back, I dig the characters and I dig the world, but I wish it was 10 hours longer so that character development felt more natural. As is, I am left unsatisfied.

At Berkeley is a documentary film about the University of California at Berkeley. The film explores the major aspects of university life of America's premier public university with particular emphasis on the administrative efforts to maintain the academic excellence, public role, and the economic, racial and social diversity of the student body in the face of severe budgetary cuts imposed by the California legislature.

Who wants to watch that?

Better question: Why would you document that?

I'm surprised that BART let Fruitvale Station film at its Fruitvale station – at the exact location where a BART police officer shot Oscar Grant.

Idea: Black Community, a black version of the NBC comedy Community. Jamie Foxx as Jeff Winger. Garrett Morris as Pierce Hawthorne. Andy Samberg as Troy Barnes.

Josh: What is the black version of Abed?
Jon: Danny Pudi would reprise the role, like how Peter Dinklage plays the same character in both the white and black versions of Death at a Funeral.

Gay Community – Cheyenne Jackson as Jeff Winger. Kate McKinnon as Britta Perry. Neil Patrick Harris as Abed Nadir. Jonathan Slavin as Dean Pelton.

Hispanic Community – Marc Anthony as Jeff Winger. John Leguizamo as Ben Chang.

Josh: Mario Lopez as Troy. Dustin Diamond as Abed.

Beard Beer
Rogue Ales brewmaster John Maier discovered that the wild yeast growing in his beard could be cultivated to a state suitable for fermenting beer.

If you manage to get past the mental block that goes with drinking an ale with human beard yeast in it, you'll find a very fruity beer that smells and tastes of ripe bananas and pineapple.

You know what really grinds my gears? Fancy taquerias that don't allow you to mix and match tacos. If I'm paying $12 for two tacos, I don't want to eat two of the same taco! And they're typically unfilling too.

I have yet to eat a taco with shredded meat that wasn't wretched. Similarly: Corn tortillas. The leathery texture…bleh. #teamflour

When the fish in a fish taco is grilled instead of deep fried <<<<<<. It's like Taco Bell's soft taquitos – a lesser experience.

Future shantytown slum Earth was shot in Mexico City, while off-planet paradise Elysium was shot in Vancouver, Canada. Hmm…

The Sea of Monsters is the Bermuda Triangle. Ah so…

Did a five-year-old write this? Percy Jaxecop.

Why don't comic book characters retreat to warm climates? You know, hide out in Borneo.

Red-haired, odd-shaped-face girl is doing that thing where an actor jerks a steering wheel left and right to convey "driving," never mind that the car would be zig-zagging.

I can't not see CM Punk.

Close-up action is difficult enough to follow, and then you add shaky cam?

Ask a physicist to critique this train top sequence.

Yashida's English is remarkably good for a Japanese native in 1945. Where did he learn a colloquialism like "that's it"?

If Aronofsky directed this, we would've seen Wolverine pull the spider out of his chest.

Idea: A supercut of film/television characters performing self-surgery – or extracting stuff from their bodies.

The weather in Japan is fucked – rainy, sunny, sunny and rainy in the same day, and now snow!

Is Wolverine the most high-profile comic book character to say "fuck" in a film?

CM Punk vs. Coyote Tango.

Lulz at Tensai being repackaged as Krang's mechanical body.

What was the purpose of Mariko's archer friend? His character motivation confused me.

Shorter Wolverine: Wolverine gets over killing a girl he liked by killing the entire family of a girl he likes.

Carey Mahoney writes:
Jon, have you ever had a nickname?

Uhh…

July 1996.

On the first day of a summer school English class, the instructor asked each student to fill out an index card with information about themself, and draw a self-portrait on the back. After gazing at my self-portrait, I noted that it "looks like Ben Stiller."

Little did I know that the instructor would go through said index cards in front of the class.

"Looks like Ben Stiller? Who's Ben Stiller?"
"Uhh… He's an actor, and a director. He directed The Cable Guy."
[crickets]

Now Ben Stiller was not unknown in 1996. He had had a show on network television with his name in the title, and he was one of the leads in Reality Bites, and he had just hosted the MTV Movie Awards.

But he was unknown to everyone else in that classroom.

And so, for the next six weeks…

[raises hand]
"Yes, Actor/Director Ben Stiller!"

Jon "Ben Stiller" Yu.

Idea: A Netflix-like service for sporting events. I'm surprised one doesn't exist yet. Every sport, every game ever, in its entirety, on demand. Subscribe as fan, a scholar, or a scout. Watch with the original commentary or just natural audio (if available).

—The search feature could be hyper customizable. Like, I'd want to see all the catches Randy Moss made of over 40 yards; and then it shows a list and u can view the games the plays are from or just the plays themselves.
—Or a different query, like show me all goals Wayne Gretzky scored from a Mark Messier assist or w/e.
—The search fields would differ from sport to sport; you could search football plays by formations that a specific team runs, just look at a guys at-bats when there's two outs in late innings.

Whenever I pitch an idea to Mike, I am flabbergasted by where he runs with it.

—I've been thinking a lot about that plane crash theme park ride.
—You could cater to different market segments; families could be split apart, new couples together, all singles on one side, a 50/50 race split.
—And they'd have to beat the other side in some competition.
—Could be capture the flag or some Survivor rigamarole.

—Choosing the landscape/cityscape over which the plane would break up would be a lot of fun as well.
—New York and Las Vegas are the obvious favorites. Chicago would be pretty dope. Sydney. A volcano.

[pause]

Last night, I dreamt that I was scraping my teeth off like seeds on the walls inside a pumpkin, which led to dreaming about pulling my face off my skull like my head was slow-cooked pork.

I wonder if any people don't like any type of music except country.

Not even classic rock?

I like all types of positions, except contrary.

I made some stuff in Photoshop: