For Your Consideration: Best Community Generated Content
This Earmuff Award category is where fans of the Frat Pack really shine. These are where creative types can show off how much they really, really love the Pack. In past years this was exclusively driven by content on our site but this year we continue to look for great expressions anywhere on the internet.
Here are the nominees for Best Community-Generated Content
- Frat Pack Origins: Zoolander – Mike Simmers
- Dueling Observe and Report Reviews – Drew Hunt and Rick Duran
- Frat Trek (trailer mashup) – Mike Simmers
- Star Trek: Old School – Sputnik Animation
- G.I. Joe: the Rise of Apatow – Mike Simmers
- Funny People premiere photos – Cary Bagell
- The Frat Pack graphic design project – Greg Barone
Each of the entries is shown below. Please take a minute to review them before you submitting your Frat Pack Earmuff Award Ballot. Entries are due on February 6.
Frat Pack Origins: Zoolander – Mike Simmers
Our first entry from last year’s Earmuff winner in this category. This was an early entry in 2009, back when people were still excited for the Wolverine movie.
Dueling Observe and Report Reviews – Drew Hunt and Rick Duran
I did a poor job of editorial management when both Drew and Rick submitted their reviews within hours of each other. Or did I?
Dark, unflinching, and sadistic, Observe and Report is no Kevin James farce. There are no pratfalls. No fart jokes. No segways. But there is violence. And graphic nudity. And illicit drug use. And it’s hilarious.
One that we hope never escapes. For these reasons, Observe and Report will never be a box office splash like we’d expect from Seth Rogen, for all the very reasons that makes it one of the best comedies of the decade. The film combines a setting similar to Office Space, with dark moments similar Fight Club, and will undoubtedly become a cult classics on DVD like those two films. Just like Ronnie, Observe and Report is a misfit whose greatness will take a long time to be proven to the masses.
Frat Trek (trailer mashup) – Mike Simmers
Simmers hopped onto a better train with this inspired Trek mashup.
Star Trek: Old School – Sputnik Animation
Clearly not amateur hour but still with enough D.I.Y. aethetic to count in this category. Easily the most subversive of the entries in this category and perhaps my personal favorite. The use of Rush’s “Tom Sawyer” fit in well considering the group was featured in several films in 2009, including I Love You, Man, Fanboys, and Adventureland.
G.I. Joe: the Rise of Apatow – Mike Simmers
Inserting Vince Vaughn and Ben Stiller into his trailer mashups got old, so Simmers turned to the Apatow crew for this inspired video.
Funny People premiere photos – Cary Bagell
Bagell shared a little bit of his up close and personal contact with Apatow and crew at the Funny People premiere. There are some great shots of Judd, Seth, Adam, and Leslie (and a few of Bagell’s family). But I think this one of Jonah Hill is a classic. View all the photos.
Jonah Hill Sweats from the Interrogation
The Frat Pack graphic design project – Greg Barone
This one went through several iterations and the feedback here on the blog was a big help to Barone who used the Frat Pack for a graphic design project. If only this was a poster for a real movie… View the full sized image.
Frat Pack Design Project
