Hope this is the last parody...

February 4, 2006 1:06 PM

Romance Of The Jedi. Yet another Brokeback-esque mashup, but at least this one doesn't use text nor that guitar song. Please, PLEASE, let this be the last one.
posted by HiveMind (30 comments total)

Um, when you post something here, you are at least supposed to be of the opinion that it's worth seeing.
posted by Protocols of the Elders of Awesome at 1:09 PM on February 4, 2006

Relax, POTEOA -- HiveMind's going for schadenfreude, also know as "I've suffered for my art, now it is your turn."
posted by eriko at 1:12 PM on February 4, 2006

The Brokeback Meme.
posted by ericb at 1:16 PM on February 4, 2006

This is a character-building exercise. Now shut up and watch the horrible movie.
posted by iron chef morimoto at 1:16 PM on February 4, 2006

Okay, okay. I give in. It's jumped the shark. MERCY! MERCY!!!
posted by VulcanMike at 1:26 PM on February 4, 2006

That was bad.

This isn't.
posted by Citizen Premier at 1:48 PM on February 4, 2006

It's coarse, rough, irritating and it gets everywhere. Four Stars!
posted by hal9k at 1:54 PM on February 4, 2006

That was awful. Here is a video of an octopus eating a shark.
posted by dsword at 1:56 PM on February 4, 2006

That was awful.

Here's a monkey washing a cat.
posted by Hlewagast at 2:05 PM on February 4, 2006

Ahhh the mainstream has discovered the fun that is slash. Thumbs up! This will never get old for me.
posted by Hildegarde at 2:15 PM on February 4, 2006

I getting really sick of the word "mashup"
posted by jeblis at 2:15 PM on February 4, 2006

The URL contains "a55hat," and that says it all.
posted by Floach at 2:18 PM on February 4, 2006

I wish I could quit these.
posted by PlusDistance at 2:20 PM on February 4, 2006

dsword, thanks for the downloadable video of my favorite thing.

hlewagast, the Raymond Scott soundtrack on that really made it for me.

oh, and nothing beats the vadercoaster.
nothing.
posted by Busithoth at 2:27 PM on February 4, 2006

OK, that's enough. The smart people are done with this and the dumb ones have moved in.
posted by pracowity at 2:28 PM on February 4, 2006

Ever since seeing The Shining trailer remix I have been keeping my eye out for more. I found a few. And some are definately better than others. Unfortunately the meme rapidly devolved into simply gayifying trailers, athough sometimes creatively, and finally the artistically limiting brokeback mashup meme. I had high hopes for it but I have yet to see one that is truly as awesome as "Shining." I think the popularity of it has ensured I never will.

On preview, what pracowity said.
posted by chemoboy at 2:31 PM on February 4, 2006

I haven't looked at one of these yet. Am I missing anything?
posted by melt away at 2:41 PM on February 4, 2006

The only thing worse than these Brokeback Mountain mashups is the "it's okay to make gay jokes now" phenomenon the movie has unwittingly engendered. (I swear, if I hear Jay Leno make one more lame homo-joke I will reach through the TV and snap his neck like a twig.)

That being said, this wasn't completely awful.
posted by wakko at 3:13 PM on February 4, 2006

melt away, you should definitely view the octopus and the monkey washing cat.
posted by Citizen Premier at 3:16 PM on February 4, 2006

Previously...
posted by jca at 3:35 PM on February 4, 2006

Check out The Shining one, melt away, otherwise - naw.
posted by PurplePorpoise at 5:14 PM on February 4, 2006

I'm still looking forward to "Brokeback Shire" C'mon somebody make it...it's too easy.
posted by samsara at 6:25 PM on February 4, 2006

The Jedi one would have actually been funnier with the "Brokeback" music.
posted by ColdChef at 7:23 PM on February 4, 2006

Yeah, it doesn't seem to be a brokeback mashup at all. Just jedi gay-ness.
posted by vodkadin at 7:31 PM on February 4, 2006

"Brokeback Heat" was fairly funny.
posted by ColdChef at 7:31 PM on February 4, 2006

I'm still looking forward to "Brokeback Shire" C'mon somebody make it...it's too easy.

I seem to remember that Peter Jackson made little clips for most of the principal stars of LotR. There was one video made of Aragorn/Legolas interactions to the tune of "Hungry Eyes" that supposedly left the actors and crew rolling on the floor. PJ has sworn that none of this stuff will be released but who knows, maybe on the 10th anniversary, when New Line needs a cash infusion, some of this stuff will surface with reissues.
posted by Ber at 8:12 PM on February 4, 2006

samsara, here you go. Click, and you will discover fandom -- or at least hours of entertainment. Possibly the best part about the whole thing is that they're entirely serious.

If you want a sort of summary, go here and scroll down to "I Could Die for You." And don't expect me to pay for any keyboards you do spit-takes into.
posted by booksandlibretti at 9:14 PM on February 4, 2006

Metafilter: Same Fark links, slightly smarter commentary
posted by nightchrome at 10:46 PM on February 4, 2006

Same Fark links, slightly smarter commentary

snob
posted by jeblis at 12:55 AM on February 5, 2006

"Brokeback Hour", the one based on "rush hour" with Jackie Chan nearly made me spit tea on my laptop.

Obviously every "buddy" movie has homosexual undertones if you want to read it that way. I like this dumb mashup crap - of course, I like YTMND.com, so perhaps I just have low standards.
posted by GuyZero at 6:59 AM on February 6, 2006