{"id":7375,"date":"2016-04-20T22:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-04-21T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/today-in-movie-culture-my-neighbor-totoro-theme-park-ride-stoner-movie-tributes-and-more\/"},"modified":"2016-04-20T22:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-04-21T06:00:00","slug":"today-in-movie-culture-my-neighbor-totoro-theme-park-ride-stoner-movie-tributes-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/today-in-movie-culture-my-neighbor-totoro-theme-park-ride-stoner-movie-tributes-and-more\/","title":{"rendered":"Today in Movie Culture: 'My Neighbor Totoro' Theme Park Ride, Stoner Movie Tributes and More"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Christopher Campbell<\/a><\/span> <\/p>\n

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Here are a bunch of little bites to satisfy your hunger for movie culture:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Dream Theme Park Attraction of the Day:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Disney<\/strong> theme park designer John Ramirez came up with this idea for a My Neighbor Totoro<\/em><\/strong> attraction, which sadly will never exist (via Geekologie<\/a>):<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Fandom Splurge of the Day:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Star Wars<\/em><\/strong> fans rented a billboard to make a plea to Disney<\/strong> and Lucasfilm<\/strong> to resurrect the Expanded Universe (via JoBlo.com<\/a>):<\/p>\n

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Animated Recap of the Day:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

If you don’t have time to see all of Hardcore Henry<\/em><\/strong> at the theater, here’s a 60-second animated version that goes for a side-scrolling game style rather than POV shooter (via Geek Tyrant<\/a>):<\/p>\n

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Cosplay of the Day:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

The Jones family (aka cosplayer Coregeek’s family) dressed up as the four main characters from Mad Max: Fury Road<\/em><\/strong>, but swapped all the genders. See more photos at Fashionably Geek<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Movie Comparison of the Day: <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

With its sequel coming out this week, here are 24 reasons Snow White and the Huntsman<\/em><\/strong> is the same movie as Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom<\/em><\/strong>:<\/p>\n

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Vintage Image of the Day:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Ryan O’Neal<\/strong>, who turned 75 today, breathes oxygen from a tank on the set of Stanley Kubrick<\/strong>‘s Barry Lyndon<\/em><\/strong> with the filmmaker by his side:<\/p>\n

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Cinema Tribute of the Day:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Speaking of Kubrick movies, artist Andrew Valko has a beautiful series of paintings of drive-in theaters featuring movies on the screen, such as the one below with The Shining<\/em><\/strong>. See more at One Perfect Shot<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

Movie Trivia of the Day:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

In honor of 4\/20, CineFix shares nine things you may not know about Half Baked<\/em><\/strong>:<\/p>\n

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Supercut of the Day:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

And also in honor of 4\/20, Jacob T. Swinney compiled a supercut of stoner movie scenes for Playboy<\/em><\/a>:<\/p>\n

Classic Trailer of the Day: <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

One last thing for 4\/20, here’s the original trailer for the most famous stoner comedy of all time, the 1978 Cheech and Chong<\/strong> movie Up in Smoke<\/em><\/strong>:<\/p>\n

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<\/span>and <\/span><\/p>\n

Let’s block ads!<\/a><\/strong> (Why?)<\/a><\/p>\n

Source:: http:\/\/www.movies.com\/movie-news\/today-movie-culture-39my-neighbor-totoro39-theme-park-ride-stoner-movie-tributes-more\/20482?wssac=164&wssaffid=news<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a><\/div>\n

Here are a bunch of little bites to satisfy your hunger for movie culture:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Dream Theme Park Attraction of the Day:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Disney<\/strong> theme park designer John Ramirez came up with this idea for a My Neighbor Totoro<\/em><\/strong> attraction, which sadly will never exist (via Geekologie<\/a>):<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Fandom Splurge of the Day:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Star Wars<\/em><\/strong> fans rented a billboard to make a plea to Disney<\/strong> and Lucasfilm<\/strong> to resurrect the Expanded Universe (via JoBlo.com<\/a>):<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

Animated Recap of the Day:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

If you don’t have time to see all of Hardcore Henry<\/em><\/strong> at the theater, here’s a 60-second animated version that goes for a side-scrolling game style rather than POV shooter (via Geek Tyrant<\/a>):<\/p>\n

[embedded content]<\/p>\n

Cosplay of the Day:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

The Jones family (aka cosplayer Coregeek’s family) dressed up as the four main characters from Mad Max: Fury Road<\/em><\/strong>, but swapped all the genders. See more photos at Fashionably Geek<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

Movie Comparison of the Day: <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

With its sequel coming out this week, here are 24 reasons Snow White and the Huntsman<\/em><\/strong> is the same movie as Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom<\/em><\/strong>:<\/p>\n

[embedded content]<\/p>\n

Vintage Image of the Day:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Ryan O’Neal<\/strong>, who turned 75 today, breathes oxygen from a tank on the set of Stanley Kubrick<\/strong>‘s Barry Lyndon<\/em><\/strong> with the filmmaker by his side:<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

Cinema Tribute of the Day:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Speaking of Kubrick movies, artist Andrew Valko has a beautiful series of paintings of drive-in theaters featuring movies on the screen, such as the one below with The Shining<\/em><\/strong>. See more at One Perfect Shot<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

Movie Trivia of the Day:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

In honor of 4\/20, CineFix shares nine things you may not know about Half Baked<\/em><\/strong>:<\/p>\n

[embedded content]<\/p>\n

Supercut of the Day:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

And also in honor of 4\/20, Jacob T. Swinney compiled a supercut of stoner movie scenes for Playboy<\/em><\/a>:<\/p>\n

Classic Trailer of the Day: <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

One last thing for 4\/20, here’s the original trailer for the most famous stoner comedy of all time, the 1978 Cheech and Chong<\/strong> movie Up in Smoke<\/em><\/strong>:<\/p>\n

[embedded content]<\/p>\n

<\/span>and <\/span><\/p>\n

Let’s block ads!<\/a><\/strong> (Why?)<\/a><\/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-7375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7375","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=7375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7375\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}