Coolest Parents Ever Adorably Re-Create Famous Movie Scenes With Their Baby
People Are Not Happy With Jimmy Fallon's "SNL" Sketch About Gay Ebenezer Scrooge
An Xbox One/ PS4 YouTube Comment War, As Told By Shakespearean Actors
The latest in the “old men reconstruct internet arguments” series by Dead Parrot is another triumph.
If you saw this gravitas-laden reconstruction of a pointless argument between One Direction fans, you'll know that the concept of old men re-enacting flame wars are intrinsically funny. The latest installment is no exception.
35 Celebrities As Classic Paintings
Worth1000 specialise in Photoshop contests. Their latest is rather special.
Susan Boyle.
Robin Williams.
Penelope Cruz.
Uma Thurman.
An Adult Man Digitally Recreated "Home Alone" For His Christmas Card And It's Horrifying
Your daily reminder that technology is incredible and awful.
For Paul Little's Christmas card he decided to recreate famous scenes from Home Alone, but edit it so he's playing all the characters.
And when I say all of the characters, I mean all of the characters...
23 Santas Who Forgot How To Santa
This is not how we Christmas.
Are you sleepy, Santa?
Santa, is your sleigh not working today?
Chimney, Santa. CHIMNEY.
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Why is that man giving you an angry hug, Santa?
"12 Years A Slave" Posters In Italy Promote White Actors, Ignore Its Black Star
Brad Pitt and Michael Fassbender get the focus of the promotional posters, with actual star Chiwetel Eijifor getting the shaft.
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Chiwetel Ejiofor has won great acclaim — including a nomination for a Golden Globe — for his leading role as Solomon Northup in the devastating film 12 Years a Slave. You wouldn't know it from the posters in Italian theaters.
The Steve McQueen-directed movie will be released in Italy in February, by BIM Distribuzione, and ahead of the premiere, painted posters placed by the local marketing company Fantatical About Cinema have cropped up across the country. As first noticed on Tumblr, the posters (many more here) feature Eijofor running across a field, under the gazing eye of the huge, disembodied head of either of the film's two white male stars, Brad Pitt and Michael Fassbender.
Pitt is a producer on the film, but has just a small (though crucial) role near the end; Fassbender plays a large part as Northrup's wicked owner, for which he earned his own Golden Globe nomination. Still, Eijofor is the movie's clear star, and he's been downplayed in these posters, which have been featured in theaters in Milan, Rome, and other cities.
That the distributor and poster creators would focus on Pitt is keen — though dishonest — business; the Oscar-nominated actor owns a house in the country and is one of the biggest stars in the world. Fassbender is also popular in Europe, as an Irish-German actor who starred in several films that were larger hits overseas than in America.
Other marketing materials for the film, which is translated to 12 Anni Schiavo in Italy, do feature Eijofor more prominently. There is some key art that focus on Eijofor, while he is the unavoidable star of the trailer that was released earlier this month.
BuzzFeed has reached out to Fox Searchlight, the American distributor of the film, as well as Italian distributor BIM, but did not immediately hear back.
Watch The Hilarious Trailer For The New Star-Studded Season Of Jerry Seinfeld's Web Series
The Season 3 trailer for Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee , exclusively on BuzzFeed, sees Seinfeld discuss cunnilingus with Howard Stern and feces with Tina Fey. You’re welcome.
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The Unbearable Sadness Of Nintendo's New Wii U Ad
Do consumers even know the Wii U exists?
There's no way to sugarcoat it: The new ad for Wii U, Nintendo's floundering console, is a sad thing to watch. The badly-selling system, which came out more than a year ago, has suffered from profound consumer apathy, if not outright ignorance, reflecting awful branding and promotional decisions by the Kyoto company. The ad is an obvious attempt to address these issues—as the gaming site Kotaku wrote, Nintendo, in a real sense had to make it—but it renders some of the problems with the Wii U ever more glaring:
1. The name. Again and again in the ad, the narrator reminds us simply that the Wii U exists, and is a different product than the eight-year-old Wii. At the end of the video the narrator actually tells consumers to "look for the U", suggesting that Nintendo has realized that people literally don't know the difference between the Wii and the Wii U. As the camera pans over the gleaming console, the obvious question is: Why did Nintendo wait until now to properly introduce their flagship product? In 2013, the Nintendo brand is not nearly prominent enough to assume consumers will seek out news about it; in many ways it is a niche electronics company. Did Nintendo leadership think differently?
2. The GamePad. A variety of issues plague the packed-in, touchscreen peripheral: a chintzy feel, a lack of compelling support (some have written that the system's best game, Super Mario 3D World, is best played without the GamePad), and a production cost which certainly drives up the price of the now $299 system. In the ad, the first closeup of a person using the GamePad shows us someone blowing into it. If the most compelling functionality of an expensive peripheral is the ability to blow into it, you're probably in trouble.
3. Things to do on it. Now, more than a year after its release, the Wii U may have enough compelling software to make it worth considering; certainly Mario is a great game. But the ways in which the non-gaming software for the system are at all specific to Nintendo's whole-family ethos are not at clear. In the ad, we see a grandmother using the GamePad to watch instructional cooking videos while she chops carrots. If you handed my grandmother a GamePad while she was cooking, she would use it, maybe, to prop up the cookbook.
Christmas Miracle At Candlestick: Niners Shock Falcons With Spectacular Game-Winning Score
Even Santa Claus was stunned by what happened.
Thanks to a stunning sequence of events, the defending NFC champion 49ers clinched a playoff spot and sent their fans home happy in (perhaps) the final game ever at Candlestick Park.
The Falcons didn't make it easy. Tony Gonzalez scored what looked to be the final TD in the stadium's history with just over two minutes remaining.
Atlanta was now down by only three and team owner Arthur Blank was PUMPED.
The Falcons then recovered one of the most fortuitous, bounciest onside kicks in NFL history. The ball just went under Navarro Bowman's right arm — and into Jason Snelling's for the recovery.
What Americans Need To Know About Cuba
As told by Cubans and Americans.
Cuba has a repressive government, disastrous economic policies and was ruled by Fidel Castro — and now his brother Raul — for decades. But there's more to it than that. During a recent trip to Havana, we interviewed Cuban and U.S. citizens about their thoughts on Cuba, asking each person what else they wished Americans knew about the country.
"Real Cuba is not on TV."
Cuban television producer
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"Cuba is not North Korea."
American student, Semester at Sea
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"Amistad."
Translated: "Friendship."
Cuban student, University of Havana
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Disney Men Without Beards Is Hilarious
First there were Disney princesses with beards . Now here are the men without. Done by Annie Erskine .
Sultan — Aladdin
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Scar — The Lion King
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Zeus — Hercules
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Triton — The Little Mermaid
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19 Whovians Whose Christmas Game Is Too Strong
How do you even Christmas?
THESE WHOVIANS WHO ARE SINGING A REGENERATION CAROL.
This Whovian who decked the TARDIS.
And included Christmas cards from his companions.
AHAHAHA BRB UGLY CRYING.
This Whovian who is DARING you to peek at your presents.
hahahahaa have fun getting coal in 1927, u lil shit.
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18 Extremely Awkward Celebrity Christmas Photoshoots
Thank you ’80s and ’90s, for the weird and corny pinups you gave us.
Only one New Kid (on the Block) was thoughtful enough to bring a gift.
Oh my god, Christina. This is messed up.
Justin Timberlake was nearly strangled by tinsel on this photo shoot.
Geri is clearly not OK being completely covered up. She's just waiting to bust out of her santa robes in fishnets and a corset.
Two Women From The U.S. Curling Team Taught Us How To Curl And It Is Super Hard
You have no idea.
Last week Ann Swisshelm (left), the 2014 U.S. women's Olympic curling team's "lead," and newcomer Sarah Anderson (right), an alternate for the 2014 squad, visited the BuzzFeed office and took us to a local curling club to teach us more about the sport. Like many casual fans, we assumed we could immediately pick it up and dominate. We were very wrong.
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To begin with, curling is a deceptively athletically demanding sport. Since it relies so heavily on balance, players must have complete control of their body, along with a strong core and great flexibility. This lunge, which none of us could do, is just a warm-up.
After stretching, we learned how to push off the blocks with the curling equivalent of training wheels to help with balance.
For right-handed curlers, the right foot is used to push off and the left foot is used to slide and guide the body down the ice. Ideally, this is accomplished in one powerful fluid motion.
23 Signs You're Obsessed With Christmas
You know it’s never too early for a little holiday spirit.
While everyone is getting excited about Thanksgiving, you're freaking out because CHRISTMAS IS COMING. CHRISTMAS IS COMING.
Enough of this Thanksgiving crap.
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All your dreams are covered in snow.
Seeing Christmas lights brings tears to your eyes.
You think the day Starbucks' red cups come out is a holiday in itself.
Tell Us About Yourself(ie): Reid Scott
You know Reid from Veep, My Boys, and now Turbo FAST , but did you know that he doesn’t watch any reality TV? Learn even more random tidbits about Reid in our Q&A with the actor.
DreamWorks' Turbo FAST debuts exclusively on Netflix beginning Christmas Eve.
45 Moving Moments From The First Days Of Marriage Equality In Utah
After a judge struck down the state’s ban on equal marriage rights for same-sex couples Dec. 20, thousands rushed to get married across Utah, while the state’s governor continued his fight to halt the marriages in court.
Michael Ferguson and his husband Seth Anderson were the first same-sex couple to get married in the state of Utah, shortly after the Friday ruling in Salt Lake City.
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The couple proudly displayed their historic marriage license to media and onlookers at the county clerk's office.
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And Ferguson showed off his ring to supporters at the county clerk's office.
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Many more couples received licenses and married on the spot, like Kim Hackford-Peer and her spouse Ruth Hackford-Peer with their 7-year-old son at their side.
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"Sherlock" Fans Are Not Emotionally Prepared For This New Mini-Episode
The BBC has just released “Many Happy Returns,” which features Anderson, Lestrade, John Watson, and, of course, Sherlock Holmes himself.
BRACE YOURSELVES, SHERLOCKIANS.
Which "Star Wars" Character Are You?
If you get Jar Jar, you lose.