When I saw this comment, my first thought was "this explanation must be useful for people who don't get internet references, like old people". And then I remembered the movie is from 2006. Oh god we're the old people making not so topical references to ancient stuff and wondering why the young people don't get them.
One of the scariest moments in my life was when I went to Portland to visit my cousins. We got to talking about their parents, my aunt and uncle and so forth.
We were all getting up in years, just as their parents and mine did.
And then one of my cousins said "now we are them!"
I went along to the midnight premiere of this film at my local cinema. It was completely full, and the crowd was... quite a different crowd to what the cinema usually attracted. At one point before the movie started someone loudly said "it feels like the whole Internet is here!"
Same -- went to the midnight (iirc they just moved it ahead to 10pm, since unlike LotR/etc no one cared) show at the Cinerama in Seattle and it was packed. People brought pool noodles to wave around, the whole crowd was hissing -- I've actually never rewatched it because I assume nothing could compare to the experience of watching it in that setting.
For anyone unaware of Samuel L Jackson as bringing a character to the character in his movies, see the (NSFW) video below. There are a lot of actors who do similar, but Jackson is maybe the best and most versatile among them. Not sure he is top tier among Hollywood actors, but he's got a great niche, and has become a cultural icon IMO.
Let me just add, he was also in Spike Lee’s Do The Right Thing (1989), a movie that absolutely everyone should see. But it’s not in the clip above because he plays a DJ (Mister Señor Love Daddy) and doesn’t say MF.
likewise, in "A Time To Kill" (1996) where he plays a good role, but does not say MF.
That one is just an "ok" movie but it has an incredible cast: Matthew McConaughey, Sandra Bullock, Samuel L. Jackson, Kevin Spacey, Oliver Platt, Donald Sutherland, Ashley Judd, Kiefer Sutherland and more.
IMDB has him at #42, but I'll be honest, I don't have much appreciation for their top 50 list. I do think he rates as top tier, though, by my arbitrary judgement.
If he had to atone by planting a tree each time he uttered an expletive, I have no doubt he'd have replanted the entire Amazon forest by now. He's great.
YouTube's CDN doesn't enforce authentication, only the UI, account backends, etc do. So if you can determine the URL(s) for retrieving the video from their CDN, you can watch it without auth.
Apparently, youtube-dl can't do this anymore (assuming it ever did), since trying to download an age-gated (which was my strat) video fails where it used to succeed.
> "Many of the early fan-made trailers and later other viral videos and commercials circulated via YouTube, and captured media attention there with such titles as: Cats on a Plane [...], Snakes Who Missed the Plane, All Your Snakes Are Belong To Us [...], Steaks on a Train, and Badgers on a Plane
I'm dying at how creative these internet names/early memes where