Before making it big every celebrity has to get their starting break for them to be noticed and for some of them this means doing some very cheesy commercials. Guyism have come up with a list of 10 commercials that are the most embarrassing “before they were famous” moments. I’m sure the celebrities don’t really care now since they are raking in millions. But it’s fun to watch them back then.
10. Keanu Reeves for Corn Flakes
What kind of event requires a seating placement for hundreds of people and nothing to eat but dozens of boxes of Corn Flakes? Who cares!? The point is, it’s young Keanu Reeves’ job to put all these boxes out while dancing around like a buffoon.
09. Brad Pitt for Pringles
Yep, before he got all famous and into adopting babies and stuff, Brad Pitt was pushing Pringles as a beefed up beach boy. As you can tell by the video, it’s clear that Brad wasn’t likely hired for his acting talent, but rather his ability to keep the prime Pringles target market (ostensibly, girls aged 12 to 25) glued to the TV screen with his ripple-y muscles.
08. Tina Fey for Mutual Savings Bank
This 1995 bank commercial pretty much sums up the poor fashion choices that were the 1990s. While she may be one of the hottest ladies in comedy these days, that short mom haircut and stylish floral vest just don’t do her beautiful personality justice.
07. Leonardo DiCaprio for Bubble Yum
The truth is out, Leo’s actual totem in Inception was a single package of Bubble Yum Bubble Gum. Check the video to see a Growing-Pains-era DiCaprio using his adorable teen looks to blow your mind with the bursting flavor of this outrageous gum.
06. Bruce Willis for Seagram’s Wine Coolers
Hey, check it out — we’re just a bunch of fun-loving guy who like to sing and get tipsy off of totally manly wine coolers! While the advertising idea isn’t all that solid, what is solid is Bruce Willis’ corny dance moves and overly enthusiastic smile.
05. Morgan Freeman for Listerine
Yikes! Poor Morgan Freeman is forced to take on a somewhat racist dialect in this old-school commercial for Listerine. Clearly, Listerine was after that exciting and still fairly new idea of targeting the “ethnic” market.
04. Seth Green for Snapp’s Hamburgers
Ooh… those expensive burger joints make me SO ANGRY!! Thankfully, a young Seth Green (circa 1991) and his enthusiasm for overcharging has shown me just how terribly those “other” hamburger restaurants are treating their customers. From now on, I’m getting my burger fix at Snapp’s (FYI – Snapp’s is now Rally’s)!
03. Jack Black for Atari’s Pitfall
Little Jack Black looks about 200-lbs. lighter in this commercial for the early video game classic, Pitfall. While he may have put on a few pounds over the past couple decades, that unique enthusiasm he brings to the screen still holds true.
02. Demi Moore for Diet Coke
How far would you go to get your Diet Coke fix? Well, if you’re a young Demi Moore, you’d climb out onto a high-rise ledge to get yourself some of the sweet, sweet soda. Thankfully, despite the ridiculous shoulder pads and apparent plummet to her death, lucky Demi seems to find love in the end.
01. Lindsay Lohan for Jell-O
Here’s a sad reminder of innocence lost. Lindsay Lohan and her awesome hat team up with Bill Cosby to push Jell-O in this 1996 commercial. Though her appearance is nothing more than a cameo, I think it’s fair to say those little freckles of hers stole the show.
Have you ever noticed that no matter how many years pass, some celebrities just seem to never change? It’s like they are drinking from the fountain of youth or something. Well here is a list of 9 celebrities that look the exact same than they did when they were younger.
09. Kyra Sedgwick
On the left she is aged 17, on the right she is aged 41. (Age difference: 24 years)
08. Jared Leto
On the left he is aged 23, on the right he is aged 38. (Age difference: 15 years)
07. Halle Berry
On the left she is aged 32, on the right she is aged 43. (Age difference: 11 years)
06. Keanu Reeves
On the left he is aged 29, on the right he is aged 43. (Age difference: 14 years)
05. Shemar Moore
On the left he is aged 24, on the right he is aged 40. (Age difference: 16 years)
04. Paul Rudd
On the left he is aged 26, on the right he is aged 41. (Age difference: 15 years)
03. Phylicia Rashad
On the left she is aged 36, on the right she is aged 62. (Age difference: 26 years)
02. Sean Connery
On the left he is aged 58, on the right he is aged 78. (Age difference: 20 years)
01. Stacey Dash
On the left she is aged 23, on the right she is aged 44. (Age difference: 21 years)
You may have heard of Karen Sala as the nutcase from Canada who claimed that Keanu Reeves fathered her children. She was suing him for $3 million in child support for her four adult children.
Even after Reeves submitted to paternity testing, which was obviously negative, Sala persists. She said, “I do know for a fact that he is the biological father.”
To prove it, she’s laid out some errr…facts, for your consideration:
Claim #1: Keanu Reeves knows hypnosis
Sala believes that Reeves used hypnosis to tamper with the DNA results of the paternity tests. She is so convinced that she requested he undergo another series of testing, to which his lawyer has already refused.
Claim #2: Keanu Reeves is a master of disguise
Sala believes that Reeves has used his shapeshifting ability to alter his looks and pass himself off as her own ex-husband. Why do that? So they could shack up and make babies, of course.
Claim #3: Keanu Reeves is not Keanu Reeves
Sala says that Reeves used to live right down the street from her and used the name Marty Spencer. She said, “I didn’t know he was Keanu Reeves. To me he was Marty Spencer.” It was then that they hooked up during her marriage and she claims to have popped out four of his kids.
Someone needs to lock this loon up already and stop letting her waste taxpayer money to try such ludicrous claims in court. What a psycho.
source: Keanu Counters Crazy Claims: Hypnosis, Disguises and Pseudonyms, Oh My – [e-online]
Keanu Reeves is on top of the world, as his new movie The Day The Earth Stood Still takes the number one spot for the weekend box office.
I’ve already seen the movie and can say that it was well done, but unfortunately doesn’t follow too much from it’s predecessor.
The movie was pretty well hyped up, yet I can say that it’s surely not Oscar material for Keanu. It’s a good movie and I would recommend waiting for it to come out on DVD. It’s got enough eye candy for everyone, but all of the good parts are in the trailer, which you can view below.
The movie centers around the alien Clatu (Reeves’ character) being born on Earth as an alien, then trying to save the Earth from the human race. He has these arks all over the planet that are setup to collect certain species. His robot Gort is his protector, who is only activated in the presence of violence.
Clatu is set to rid the Earth of humans, until he is intercepted by two new human friends, Dr. Helen Benson and her son, Jacob. He befriends the two and learns what compassion is all about.
Thus, he decides not to destroy the human race and hops in an ark back to wherever he came from.
I was disappointed that the new movie didn’t follow too much in the same vein as the previous movie of the same name. I thought the police/FBI/whoever were going to kill Clatu and someone was dispatched to Gort to say the infamous phrase: “Clatu Verata Nictu” so he wouldn’t kill us all. Disappointment happens.
If movies were completely scientifically accurate, they’d probably be as interesting as a Physics 101 lecture.
In real life, there are no explosions in space, gas usually doesn’t explode from a lit cigarette.
Some movies, though, put science front and center in the story and more often than not the science proves to be head-slappingly bad. Here are the top 10 offenders:
Armageddon
We could put together a long list of all the things wrong with Michael Bay’s feel-good ode to global destruction, but NASA has already and they counted at least 168 mistakes. But perhaps the biggest problem is that the plot itself — splitting a Texas-sized rock in two with a single nuke — has a Texas-sized hole in it. We don’t have a nuclear bomb anywhere near powerful enough to do the job. As strange as it might seem, this is a case of a Michael Bay movie not having a big enough explosion.
Independence Day
That mammoth mothership hovering over the earth in geostationary orbit would be doing more than just freaking out the world’s population. Because of its close proximity and mass — 1/4th that of the moon, according to the film — the flying saucer’s gravitational pull would cause massive tidal waves, volcanic eruptions and earthquakes. The aliens wouldn’t even have to roll out their anti-matter ray to blow up the White House — it would already be underwater.
Starship Troopers
Could a band of cave-dwelling, preverbal giant insects really have the sophisticated mathematics and technology to hurl a rock millions of miles through space to crash into Earth? Plus, 70% of the planet’s surface is covered in water, so they only had a 3 out of 10 chance at even hitting solid ground, let alone a major city like Buenos Aires.
The Day After Tomorrow
Roland Emmerich brought his trademark academic rigor to the realm of climatology and the result proved to be so silly that NASA refused to help with the filming of the movie. For one thing, it would require most of Antarctica to melt in order to submerge New York City to the level it is in the movie. If all the rays of the sun were directed at the South Pole, its ice would melt in about two and half years. This ridiculousness drove Duke University paleoclimatologist William Hyde to publicly state, “This movie is to climate science as Frankenstein is to heart transplant surgery.”
The Core
In the movie, the Earth’s inner core — a nickel-iron mass about 1500 miles in diameter — stops rotating, causing the planet’s magnetic field to collapse and microwave radiation from space to blast through the atmosphere. But microwaves aren’t affected by magnetism, and the radiation that comes from space is too weak to damage anything here. What’s more, if the core did stop rotating for whatever reason, we’d have more to worry about than that. The energy stored in the core would have to go somewhere, and the effect on the planet would be equivalent to five trillion nuclear bombs going off at once.
The Matrix
Much in the way of physics in the Matrix — like dodging bullets and running up walls — gets a pass because it’s all within a massive virtual world. But in reality, our supposed robot overlords are a bit dim. Humans are a remarkably inefficient energy source. Instead of turning the human race into Duracells, the machines would probably get more energy just setting those goopy people pods on fire.
Jurassic Park
Having a wildlife park full of dinosaurs would be a really cool idea if it weren’t for a few problems. No, not imperfect security or the possibility of spontaneous lizard sex changes. The problem is that it would be almost impossible to clone the dinosaurs based on DNA pulled from the guts of a 25 million-year-old mosquito. The dinosaur DNA’s double helix most certainly would have been broken down into individual chunks, mixing together with whatever else the mosquitoes might have eaten along with some of the insect’s own genetic material. Any creature constructed from that mess might be the stuff of nightmares, but probably wouldn’t look like a T. Rex.
Total Recall
The red planet’s gravitational pull is roughly 1/3rd that of the Earth’s. So if, for example, an Austrian bodybuilder were to visit Mars, he would be bounding across the room like Michael Jordan. Another problem: when exposed to the thin atmosphere of Mars, like bad guy Cohaagen at the end of the movie, you would likely suffer from a raging case of the bends and you would asphyxiate — both of which are plenty lethal — but your head wouldn’t bulge out and explode like an overused stress toy.
Outbreak
A monkey threatens a small town with a virus that kills everybody in less time than your average DMV visit, and only Dustin Hoffman can stop it. The trouble with a disease that virulent is it kills the host too fast to spread. Otherwise, we would be dead from the Ebola virus. Also, it generally takes longer to make a cure from monkey serum than it does to make a latte. Dustin Hoffman does look great in a hazmat suit, though.
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
Indiana Jones has survived a lot of improbable adventures, be it fleeing ancient spherical boulders or fighting off cult members while dangling off a rope bridge. But few scrapes have tested the bounds of believability more than Indy’s escape from a nuclear bomb blast thanks to a lead-lined fridge. The problem is that, even if he didn’t get flattened, horribly burned or suffocated (kids, don’t hide in refrigerators), Indy almost certainly would have gotten a lethal dose of radiation from the fallout. And that’s a lot scarier than snakes.
Paula Abdul was a dance squad queen before she became the drunk we all know and love today. Rock on with your Sharpie sniffing margarita filled rump.
Madonna was the top of the pyramid before utilizing lesbionic tactics to score press.
Cheerleaders Walking the Red Carpets
Cameron Diaz wore the oversized sweater and pleated skirt to show her school spirit.
Sandra Bullock was riding in the cheer-mobile before she set foot on a doomed bus and rescued by Keanu Reeves.
Lindsay Lohan first used her cheerleading uniform to root for the home team before using it to lure greasy socialites to her bed. I am sure it will be great for her future street corner tricks.
Cheerleaders Who Would Later Fall in Love With Botox and Paxil
Katie Couric practiced her scissor kicks before joining the D-list celeb news anchors. Oh how the mighty fall.
Cheerleaders Who Are Outwitted by Woodland Creatures and Small Children
