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Film Play Angry Birds — with ‘Real’ Birds; What Indiana Jones Originally Looked Like; And Clive Barker’s Aborted Hellraiser Designs

September 9, 2011 - 10:30 am

China has made Angry Birds into a real-life attraction. Meaning goodbye petty video game, hello huge Communist theme park with 15 foot tall catapult and other set pieces the government spared no expense in building — so now you can catapult those little f*ckers just as far as you’d like, if you happen to be in China.

Though if anybody noticed, there’s a crucial element missing from the game. Those set pieces really are cheap– and the giant blocks are apparently welded into the stage so that you can’t really knock anything down.

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Film The Best and Worst Movie Deaths of All Time

by Chris Gore

July 20, 2009 - 3:15 pm

Death is the true final frontier… in reality, there is no way to avoid it. We’re all building up to our inevitable death scene at some point in the future. But in the world of movies, characters can not only skirt death and return after the funeral, they can have one of the coolest and most memorable deaths ever imagined. There is no better scene than a death scene and actors often will take on a role knowing that their character will die on screen. Sometimes a death scene is Oscar bait and sometimes it’s to get out of doing a sequel. Harrison Ford famously wanted Han Solo to die in the “final” film in the Star Wars series, but George Lucas refused. Too bad. A badass like Han Solo going down would have been memorable indeed.

The Best Five…
Here’s a round up of five of the most gut-wrenching, tear-jerking, awesometacular best movie death scenes…

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