A little humor for your weekend.

Since this seems to be the week of The Avengers on MovieByte, we’ll share with you Screenjunkies’ Honest Trailer for The Avengers. I’m not so far gone in my love for this film that I can’t get some great laughs out of this one.

Please do be aware that as with much humor of this type on the Internet, there is some mildly inappropriate humor towards the end.

Enjoy.

If you don’t mind a little crass humor, the Honest Trailers series from Screenjunkies is pretty awesome. You will find yourself laughing along even if you love the film they’re making fun…

Today is announcement day

We have run the course of the active contest, and the winner has been selected to get a Blu-ray edition of the newly released Avengers film!

The Winner is…

Our very own Random-bot chose a name out of the machine, and that lucky winner is:

Karen Che

Karen, you know what you are? You’re special! You are awesome because you like The Avengers nearly as much as TJ. Like you said in your comment on the contest entry:

I’d love to win The Avengers on Blu-Ray because this is my new favorite ensemble superhero flick! The cohesion between character stories is…

TJ and Joseph before and after Episode 11 of The MovieByte Podcast. They discuss and trouble shoot their Google Docs and Google Drive issues, cleaning clicky keyboards with water and how that kills the ‘J’ key, the show outline, setting up Jospeh’s new computer to post on MovieByte, deciding what to talk about next week, they settle on ‘Looper’ and ‘Trouble with the Curve’, moving recording day to Wednesday, iCloud calendar sharing, iCal/Calendars app on Mac OS X, ‘Fire with Fire’, Bruce Willis in action films, ‘The Master’, TJ’s canoe trip, people discovering the After Dark, More Avengers stuff, the podcast art, and probably more.

All right folks, this is it. Today is the day. This is history in the making. Insert other dramatic sentances here and start some dramatic countdown music…

This is the last day you can enter our drawing to give away a copy of The Avengers! At 5:00 PM Central Time today we will cut off new entries and announce a winner in short order. So get over there and leave a comment to get your name entered in the drawing.

A good friend at Carpe Seizure brought this hilarious video to my attention. It’s funny whether you’ve seen The Amazing Spiderman or not, and there aren’t any real spoilers in it (in my opinion) but it’s much funnier if you have seen the movie and enjoyed it. Watch:

If you haven’t already heard of HISHE, it is short for “How It Should Have Ended.” It’s a YouTube channel that represents some of the most amusing twists on Hollywood films.

Hey, speaking of Marel super heroes, if you write a comment on this entry about The Avengers, you’ll be entered to win a Blu-ray of the movie! If you…

In this episode, TJ and Joseph discuss Skyfall - The upcoming ‘Bond’ film, the new TV series from J.J. Abrams, ‘Revolution’ and how TJ has probably jinxed the series because shows he likes get canceled, the upcoming straight to DVD release with actor Bruce Willis ‘Fire with Fire’, and the main topic, ‘The Avengers’. TJ and Joseph heap loads of praise on this glorious film, the writing, the dialog, Joss Whedon as well as discuss the backstory with the preceding films and what did and didn’t work in them, how TJ liked the previous incarnation of ‘The Hulk’ and Joseph did not, their favorite lines in the film, whether it is better than Christopher Nolan’s Batman films and much more.

Did you ever wonder how Time Travel works? Surely with Looper being out in Theaters now you need a primer.

Well I’m not actually sure this video will really help explain things, but it is pretty a fun mashup. It uses clips from just about every popular film that includes time travel. Film clips in this video include “Primer,” “12 Monkeys,” “The Terminator,” “Timecrimes,” and more.

Time travel films are fraught with peril!

Check out these completely new set photos from the upcoming The Hunger Games: Catching Fire movie! This time all eyes on Donald Sutherland a.k.a. President Snow, who definitely rocks! Sutherland was spotted filming a scene on the set of Francis Lawrence‘s film in Atlanta, Georgia, on Monday.

I have high hopes for this film, which means it is surely doomed. But we’ll see.

Click through to check out the images.

I missed linking to this piece below last week during actual Tolkien Week but it’s worth talking about so I decided to make a little article out of it. I don’t mind talking about the HFR controversy.

Advent Filmmakers:

But Peter Jackson’s decision to use HFR (high frame rate) cinematography on this production has cause no little stir in the cinematic community. Some are lauding it as the next great step out of the dark ages, while others are decrying its “television-like” quality, and still others are wondering if his experiment will go the way of similar experiments in the 70s (if you…