{"id":6725,"date":"2016-02-23T23:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-02-24T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/today-in-movie-culture-oscar-nominee-breakdowns-and-takedowns-and-more\/"},"modified":"2016-02-23T23:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-02-24T07:00:00","slug":"today-in-movie-culture-oscar-nominee-breakdowns-and-takedowns-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/today-in-movie-culture-oscar-nominee-breakdowns-and-takedowns-and-more\/","title":{"rendered":"Today in Movie Culture: Oscar Nominee Breakdowns and Takedowns and More"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-style:italic;font-size:16px\">By  <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.movies.com\/movie-news\/today-movie-culture-oscar-nominee-breakdowns-takedowns-more\/20142?wssac=164&amp;wssaffid=news\">Christopher Campbell<\/a><\/span>  <\/p>\n<div class=\"ftpimagefix\" style=\"float:left\"><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.movies.com\/movie-news\/today-movie-culture-oscar-nominee-breakdowns-takedowns-more\/20142?wssac=164&amp;wssaffid=news\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/images.fandango.com\/MDCsite\/images\/featured\/201602\/anna%20and%20elsa.jpg\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p><span><strong>Here are a bunch of little bites to satisfy your hunger for movie culture:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Oscar Nominees Breakdown of the Day:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Kids say the darnest things, and here they explain what they think this year&#8217;s Oscar nominees for Best Picture are about. The best is the assumption that <strong><em>The Revenant<\/em><\/strong> is about an elephant:<\/p>\n<p>[embedded content]<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Oscar Nominees Takedown of the Day:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Instead of focusing on one specific movie, this week Honest Trailers takes shots at all eight Best Picture nominees:<\/p>\n<p>[embedded content]<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Movie Parody of the Day:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Speaking of Best Picture nominees, How It Should Have Ended has a new animated parody of <strong><em>The Martian<\/em><\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p>[embedded content]<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Abridged Movie of the Day:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>And here&#8217;s more Best Picture nominee goodness. Mashable has recapped <strong><em>Mad Max: Fury Road<\/em><\/strong> in animation in under three minutes:<\/p>\n<p>[embedded content]<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Fan Art of the Day:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Artist Amanda Lee draws fantastic dual portraits for <strong>Disney<\/strong> and <strong>Studio Ghibli<\/strong> movies, including the below piece featuring a mashup of <strong><em>Frozen<\/em><\/strong>&#8216;s sisters <strong>Anna<\/strong> and <strong>Elsa<\/strong>. See the rest <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/designtaxi.com\/news\/384491\/Artist-Draws-Gorgeous-Character-Mashups-Inspired-By-Disney-And-Miyazaki-Films\/\">at Design Taxi<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Vintage Images of the Day:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Today is the 115th anniversary of the release of <strong>Edwin S. Porter<\/strong> and <strong>Thomas Edison<\/strong>&#8216;s actuality short <strong><em>Terrible Teddy, the Grizzly King<\/em><\/strong>, in which not-yet-president <strong>Theodore Roosevelt<\/strong> kills a mountain lion on camera. Watch it in full below.<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Movie Trivia of the Day:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>In honor of its 25th anniversary and the Oscars, here are nine things you might not know about <strong><em>The Silence of the Lambs<\/em><\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p>[embedded content]<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Cosplay of the Day:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Now it&#8217;s much easier for women <strong><em>Star Wars<\/em><\/strong> fans to cosplay as Stormtroopers with this FEM 7 armor on display in a group photo. Find more images plus info on how to get your own <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/fashionablygeek.com\/costumes\/fem7-armor\/#more-134242\">at Fashionably Geek<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/images.fandango.com\/MDCsite\/images\/featured\/201602\/fem-7-cosplay-2.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Adaptation Parody of the Day:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Mashable presumes you&#8217;ve only seen the <strong><em>Harry Potter<\/em><\/strong> movies in this totally wrong exploration of how they&#8217;re different from the books:<\/p>\n<p>[embedded content]<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Classic Trailer of the Day:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Today is the 20th anniversary of the UK release of <strong><em>Trainspotting<\/em><\/strong>, months ahead of its U.S. opening. Watch the original trailer for the movie below.<\/p>\n<p>[embedded content]<\/p>\n<p><span> <\/span><span>and <\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service &#8211; if this is your content and you&#8217;re reading it on someone else&#8217;s site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org\/content-only\/faq.php#publishers.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Source:: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.movies.com\/movie-news\/today-movie-culture-oscar-nominee-breakdowns-takedowns-more\/20142?wssac=164&amp;wssaffid=news\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Today in Movie Culture: Oscar Nominee Breakdowns and Takedowns and More\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.movies.com\/movie-news\/today-movie-culture-oscar-nominee-breakdowns-takedowns-more\/20142?wssac=164&amp;wssaffid=news<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ftpimagefix\" style=\"float:left\"><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.movies.com\/movie-news\/today-movie-culture-oscar-nominee-breakdowns-takedowns-more\/20142?wssac=164&amp;wssaffid=news\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/images.fandango.com\/MDCsite\/images\/featured\/201602\/anna%20and%20elsa.jpg\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p><span><strong>Here are a bunch of little bites to satisfy your hunger for movie culture:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Oscar Nominees Breakdown of the Day:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Kids say the darnest things, and here they explain what they think this year&#8217;s Oscar nominees for Best Picture are about. The best is the assumption that <strong><em>The Revenant<\/em><\/strong> is about an elephant:<\/p>\n<p>[embedded content]<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Oscar Nominees Takedown of the Day:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Instead of focusing on one specific movie, this week Honest Trailers takes shots at all eight Best Picture nominees:<\/p>\n<p>[embedded content]<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Movie Parody of the Day:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Speaking of Best Picture nominees, How It Should Have Ended has a new animated parody of <strong><em>The Martian<\/em><\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p>[embedded content]<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Abridged Movie of the Day:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>And here&#8217;s more Best Picture nominee goodness. Mashable has recapped <strong><em>Mad Max: Fury Road<\/em><\/strong> in animation in under three minutes:<\/p>\n<p>[embedded content]<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Fan Art of the Day:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Artist Amanda Lee draws fantastic dual portraits for <strong>Disney<\/strong> and <strong>Studio Ghibli<\/strong> movies, including the below piece featuring a mashup of <strong><em>Frozen<\/em><\/strong>&#8216;s sisters <strong>Anna<\/strong> and <strong>Elsa<\/strong>. See the rest <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/designtaxi.com\/news\/384491\/Artist-Draws-Gorgeous-Character-Mashups-Inspired-By-Disney-And-Miyazaki-Films\/\">at Design Taxi<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Vintage Images of the Day:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Today is the 115th anniversary of the release of <strong>Edwin S. Porter<\/strong> and <strong>Thomas Edison<\/strong>&#8216;s actuality short <strong><em>Terrible Teddy, the Grizzly King<\/em><\/strong>, in which not-yet-president <strong>Theodore Roosevelt<\/strong> kills a mountain lion on camera. Watch it in full below.<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Movie Trivia of the Day:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>In honor of its 25th anniversary and the Oscars, here are nine things you might not know about <strong><em>The Silence of the Lambs<\/em><\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p>[embedded content]<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Cosplay of the Day:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Now it&#8217;s much easier for women <strong><em>Star Wars<\/em><\/strong> fans to cosplay as Stormtroopers with this FEM 7 armor on display in a group photo. Find more images plus info on how to get your own <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/fashionablygeek.com\/costumes\/fem7-armor\/#more-134242\">at Fashionably Geek<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/images.fandango.com\/MDCsite\/images\/featured\/201602\/fem-7-cosplay-2.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Adaptation Parody of the Day:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Mashable presumes you&#8217;ve only seen the <strong><em>Harry Potter<\/em><\/strong> movies in this totally wrong exploration of how they&#8217;re different from the books:<\/p>\n<p>[embedded content]<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Classic Trailer of the Day:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Today is the 20th anniversary of the UK release of <strong><em>Trainspotting<\/em><\/strong>, months ahead of its U.S. opening. Watch the original trailer for the movie below.<\/p>\n<p>[embedded content]<\/p>\n<p><span> <\/span><span>and <\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service &#8211; if this is your content and you&#8217;re reading it on someone else&#8217;s site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org\/content-only\/faq.php#publishers.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6725\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}