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Tim Heidecker Isn’t A Fan Of The Zach Braff Kickstarter Film, And He’s Got A Page Of Fake Script To Prove It

Penn Collins — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 16:43:04 +0000

As you may have read here a couple days ago, Zach Braff, the millionaire actor, has turned to Kickstarter to crowdsource initial funding of his Garden State follow up, Wish I Was Here (ugh). How is Zach Braff, a wealthy person asking for money from less wealthy people different than Rob Thomas doing it with Veronica Mars?

That’s easy. People HATE Zach Braff.

Take Tim and Eric‘s Tim Heidecker for instance. He wrote this not-very-funny vitriolic page of script to parody or satirize or something the effort. Take a look.

Grammy Time: 7 Great Soundtracks To 7 Horrible Films

Penn Collins — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 23:37:11 +0000

With the Grammy nominees announced on Wednesday night, we at Screen Junkies got pretty jealous that the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences gets to get all judgey with music. Then we remembered that even though we’re a movie and television site, movies have soundtracks. Soundtracks made of MUSIC! (With us yet? No? Ok.) We can rank movie soundtracks. And you can read about them.

However, simply ranking soundtracks is an exercise in futility, because we would either alienate the readers with esoteric selections, or just laud a bunch of mainstream crap that’s so bland it’s offensive. Huh. I have a little more respect for the Grammy voters now.

Anyway, there are some truly horrible films out there that were a part of our lives only because they were fortunate enough to have inspired killer soundtracks that managed to outlive the legacy of their films. Seriously. When was the last time you thought of the movie Judgment Night?

Judgment Night

In the birth of his career, Denis Leary was a horrible actor. Just terrible. But because of his appeal to the MTV crowd, films managed to shoehorn him in to do his little rants and leave. No harm, no foul. He was the star heavy of Judgment Night acting opposite Jeremy Piven, Emilio Estevez, and Cuba Gooding Jr. Not good.

If only the film was as inspired as the soundtrack which exclusively featured collaborations between rock and rap acts doing original songs. While it’s a decidedly 90’s snapshot at both, where the hell else would you hear Del Tha Funkee Homosapian perform with Dinosaur Jr or Helmet mix it up with House of Pain? The results aren’t always successful, but it’s nice to hear so many angsty bands get out of their element with rappers.

Tron: Legacy

It’s all Daft Punk, all the time on this soundtrack, which serves as the one memorable aspect of the this sequel no one really asked for. Daft Punk forgoes their normal brand of electronic pop to create a much more symphonic vibe. The end result provides a gravity and intensity that the film can’t match, but if you’re working out or perhaps going to ride lit motorcycles against your nemesis in some sort of high-stakes drag race, perhaps you can do a better job than Joseph Kasinski did.

Zach Braff Takes To Reddit To Remind Everyone He Exists And Starred In ‘Scrubs’

Penn Collins — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 22:06:04 +0000

Have you felt funny recently? If so, it might be because Zach Braff hasn’t been in our lives the way he once was. With no more Scrubs, and years passed since Garden State allowed all your yuppie friends to feel emo, we haven’t seen much of the actor/writer/director.

All that ended yesterday with an all-day “AMA” session on Reddit.com. For those of you with jobs, let me explain that Reddit is essentially a user-generated portal where web denizens post links to funny stories, memes, and pictures of kittens doing stuff. And “AMA” stands for “Ask Me Anything,” a Q&A session made famous by Ashton Kutcher (which should give you an idea of the type of news we’re dealing with right here).

He revealed that he would “most like to guest star” on Zooey Deschanel‘s new Fox show The New Girl, presumably because they both cater to a similar type of Whole Foods-y quirk and angst that everyone at your advertising agency can agree on. He also shared that he’s written a play, All New People, that he’s hoping will premiere in London’s West End next year. I’m sure we will give that one a lot of coverage on our sister site, PlayJunkies.com

The marathon chat session quite literally lasted all day, and I’ve got an article on hot movie lesbians to write, so feel free to check out the back-and-forth in its entirety right here, but please put on your smug boots and smug slicker before wading into this thing.