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If you watch many disaster movies, you’ll have noticed that big buildings and famous landmarks are often the first thing to go when the meteorite/earthquake/tidal wave/dinosaur/mutant/giant monkey/aliens hit. Aside from always targeting certain cities rather than others, some monuments just cannot catch a break. There’s the Eiffel Tower, for instance, which gets it in Armageddon [...]

In a recent synergistic extravaganza, the folks at Slate and one of their related publications Foreign Policy held an exhaustive list-making drill on international relations in film. It started with Stephen M. Walt’s list of 10 (including Casablanca, Dr. Strangelove and – gasp – Independence Day), followed by Daniel W. Drezner’s top 8 rebuttal (which [...]

If only every self-important middle-brow cultural disappointment got the royal mashup treatment Watchmen has received. The selection of trailer mashups is so rich that Unreality has compiled a relatively selective listicle of 7 Awesome Watchmen Trailer Mashups. You’ll find our favorite, Watchmen + Team America: World Police, below:

In the shuffle of year-end lists, one of our favorites was the Huffington Post’s listicle of the 10 best YouTube clips from 2008. Bridging comedy, politics, news and entertainment, most of its entries seem poised to outlast the typical two week half-life of conventional memes. One of the most entertaining and concise of year-capping time-preservers [...]