DAILY VIRAL VIDEO: If “Expendables” Were A Musical…It Might Look Something Like This

Tuesday, 31st July 2012
Posted in Blog Archive, Online Video, Pop Culture
Tags: Al Kaplan, Dolph, expendables, Expendables 2, Jon Kaplan, musical, Sly, stallone, The Dark Knight Rises

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The exclamation point isn’t part of the actual title, à la Oklahoma! — but more to indicate the urgency with which it must be seen. When I saw the latest trailer for the Expendables 2 at The Dark Knight Rises, it prompted a few chuckles from the audience — not just for the bad-one-liners, but at how completely plot-less (even for the mostly teenage crowd) the movie looked.

They might be more inclined to like this, which comes via StuffIStoleFromtheInternet and which serves as a showtunes summary of the films’ threadbare plots, complete with celebrity impersonations.

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The Thing: The Musical Does What Everything the Remake Won’t…

Wednesday, 12th October 2011
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Tags: Al Kaplan, Conan the Barbarian, John Carpenter, Jon Kaplan, Jonandal.com, No Easy Way Out, The Thing, The Thing the Musical

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Now mind you the following is all based on the relatively lame and completely CGI’d-to-hell trailers of the new Thing movie that has emerged so far. The Thing re-make is set to be released this weekend, October 14, re-telling the story of an American paleontologist and a team of Norwegian scientists who fight for their lives against a shape-shifting extraterrestrial.

But how will it compare to this musical? Compiled from clips of the original 1982 John Carpenter film, and even given a lighthearted, rat pack-soundtrack, complete with a surprisingly faithful Sinatra-esque croon, The Thing: The Musical comes courtesy of brothers Jon and Al Kaplan, who did a pretty terrific job in slinging this all together. Continue reading “The Thing: The Musical Does What Everything the Remake Won’t…” »