Return Of The Great Pop Culture Showdowns

It's been awhile since I've posted one of Scott Campbell's showdowns, but he has a new show on at Gallery 1988 with over 200 new ones, so I couldn't resist. Above are eight of my favourites — check the show for the rest. Also, I love that he did one of Delicatessen!

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I See Dead Croquet Players
Planet Party Of The Apes
Great Movie Showdowns

This Is My Power. There Are Many Others Like It, But This One Is Mine

Yay, more Full Metal Jacket helmets! I love that this is a thing - I never knew how many people loved that movie too. (By Steven Anderson via Herochan)

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Born To Full Metal Jacket

What Is Your Major Malfunction, Numbnuts?

I Love The Smell Of Midi-chlorians In the Morning

Born To Full Metal Jacket

Colonel: You write "Born to Kill" on your helmet and you wear a peace button. What's that supposed to be, some kind of sick joke?

Private Joker: No, sir.

Augmented to Kill by Adam Howlett

Full Metal Koopa and Full Die-Cast Jacket by Dann Mathews

Full Metal Commander by ninjaink

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Stanley Kubrick's Iron Man

Stanley Kubrick Bloopers

I Love The Smell Of Midi-chlorians In the Morning

What Is Your Major Malfunction, Numbnuts?

God I love this movie. As soon as I saw Phil Noto's take on Full Metal Jacket I wanted to watch it, but I don't own it. I am... in a world... of shit. (Link via Comics Alliance)

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Full Metal Rudolph

Stanley Kubrick's Iron Man

I Love The Smell Of Midi-chlorians In the Morning

Stanley Kubrick's Iron Man

"You must design a poster for a movie called IRON MAN directed by Stanley Kubrick. This is all you know."

That was all the instructions the members of Warren Ellis' Whitechapel forums received in their latest challenge.

Above: Paul Sizer's take on A Clockwork Orange. Below: Michael Furious' take on Full Metal Jacket. Me: In film mashup heaven. (Link via Geek-Art | io9)


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If Stark Industries Had Created Astroboy...
Reservoir Droogs
I Love The Smell Of Midi-chlorians In the Morning

The Vietnam War Movie Memorial

"I got to thinking about how much of our understanding of war in this country is filtered through the for-profit lens of Hollywood. And frankly, I think it’s gross. Multi-million dollar star vehicles showing us all how awful war is, but still with a slight sense of humor and a moral at the end, and the star never comes home with a permanent brain injury or a lost limb.

It’s these celluloid fantasies that help shape and sell the narrative of how we in America “understand” what’s going on in all those other countries we can’t spell properly. Many of us here don’t even personally know the name of a soldier serving now, much less one that has died in a past conflict."

— Artist Tim Doyle on his VHS tribute, The Vietnam War Movie Memorial. (Link via The Stuff)

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Apocalypse Pooh

The Bambie Hunter

I Love The Smell Of Midi-chlorians In the Morning

Lights, Camera, Animals!

I loved Full Metal Snail! "I'm already in a world of slime." (Lights, camera, animals! by Jebs at lafraise. Link via Shirtoid)

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Apocalypse Pooh
Reservoir Droogs
Back To The Ancient Future

I Love The Smell Of Midi-chlorians In the Morning

This is my blaster, this is my gun. This is for fighting, this is for fun. (Cloned To Kill by D4N13L)

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Stanley Kubrick Bloopers
Stormtrooper Army
It's Not a Doll, It's An Action Figure!

Stanley Kubrick Bloopers

Watching the droogs shoot milk out of their noses at the milk bar is alone worth watching. From the twisted mind of Dan Meth.

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A Clockwork Green
Full Metal Rudolph
Here's Cookie Monster!

Full Metal Rudolph, The Reinfather & A Pack of Gifts Now

The stop animation of the Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer Christmas special always creeped me out Maybe it was the way they moved or the large, dead eyes. But what doesn't put me in the Christmas spirit does lend itself to parody.

Full Metal Rudolph is a wonderful mashup of one of my favourite films, Stanly Kuberick's Full Metal Jacket, with Rudolph. The scene has Senior Drill Instructor Gunnery Sergeant Hartman tearing a new one for the elves.



Awhile back MAD TV aired a few Rudolph parodies, done by animator Corky Quakenbush. The Reinfather captures some of the best of The Godfather, with Rudolph as Brando, Hermey the Misfit Elf as his lieutenant. "This one time, Clarice, I'll let you ask about my business..."



A Pack of Gifts Now summarizes Apocalypse Now in a tidy four and a half minutes, with Rudolph as Captain Willard and Santa as Colonel Kurtz. Santa has gone mad and is giving toys away for free.

"Saskatchewan. Shoot. I'm still in Saskatchewan... the ho ho horror!"