Submitted this to BoingBoing already, thought you'd be interested : Space Stallions, the best 80′s cartoon that never was. From the minds of the danish animation school "The Animation Workshop", comes Space Stallions, the alternate universe lovechild of He-man, Silver Hawks and Thunder Cats. #observationdeck
It's called Photic sneeze reflex, and I have it too. It only affects me with natural light, and can be triggered even during a cloudy day, if the sky is "white" enough. I can supress it by closing my right eye, but if I close my left eye instead, I sneeze instantly.
I totally misread the title as "Cristopher Walken screams in the Wicker Man sequel". Now that, would awesome. "The bees... ow ! They are... in my mouth... you know ? Not the bees... know what i'm sayin' ?"
Even more bizarre is the obsession of Dupieux to cast Eric Judor and Ramzy Bedia in each of his movies. You might not know them, but for french audiences they are the equivalent of Harold & Kumar, only even less funny. Back when Dupieux first feature "Steak" came out, a lot of kids fans of Eric & Ramzy saw the movie and were veeeery confused about the tone.
Eric & Ramzy are also known for being the most blacklisted actors in the country. Both by critics and directors, who judge their potty humor despicable. Working with them is a sure way to get bad and/or inexistant media coverage in France. Dupieux is kinda the last one to work with them these days, wich either means that they are very good friends or that he's got a very peculiar fascination with failure and rejection.
Dreamworks would also feature fart/belch jokes and the girl protagonist would be a rapping hysteric suburban princess. Kilt humor can be brought by fine dialogs, edited out for the trailer, I trust Pixar on that one.
I just love the derpy 30 % of the american population that think there is no alien presence but still think the government lies about it ! It's like an opinion poll equivalent of a double negation. If extraterrestrials learn anything from pop-culture, they will land anywhere BUT in the U.S.
POV generalisation, man. A lot of countries, including the UK, South Africa and Australia for the english speaking ones, are familiar with Tintin. This is not just a "thing marketed for the french" (nobody in Hollywood, even stuffed with coke up to the nostrils, would do that). Believe it or not, the french have come to peace with the colonialist bourgeois undertones of Tintin, accepting it as a testimony of the fifties mindset. The Spielberg movie is happily welcomed by both the great audience and the "tintinophiles" fans.
Now, for a little explanation about the mysterious lack of success of the Tintin comic books in the US, did you know that in the original edition, half of the speech balloons were left blank, because censorship could not stand drunkery and free-mixing of races displayed in some albums of the series ? The mangled (and badly translated) remains puzzled most US readers, leading to an ealy stop in the publication.
A lot of other european comics in the US met the same fate, leading to the suspicion of disguised cultural protectionism towards european comic authors (to their credit, they never have so much troubles publishing their work and meeting success in any other country worldwide).