The Daily Random
A random mix of the funny & interesting. Updated 10am, daily. 
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Hotel Transylvania
This is the second movie trailer we’ve posted this week - but needless to say, we’re excited.
The voice cast is full of great actors as well… and Adam Sandler.
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The Usual Suspects Trailer Recut
We posted The Shining Recut a few months ago, and have just been sent the hilarious video above - The Usual Suspects Recut (Cheers Ryan!).
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Movie Poster Cliches
Being the film buffs that we are, we found this collection of the ‘10 Movie Poster Cliches’ hysterical.
The above is a collection of ‘back to back’ posters, but check out all 10 cliches, including ‘through the legs’, and even ‘big heads in the sky over tiny people on a beach’ over at 22 Words.
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Monty Python Knight
It’s just a flesh wound! The black knight is the bravest knight in all the land, willing to fight til he is nothing more than a stump. This fourteen inch tall fully dismemberable black knight plush toy is a must have item for fans of the Monty Python movies.
Available from: Autograph-Sports | Source: This Is Why I’m Broke
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Life-size Stormtrooper Cake
A pair of Star Wars fanatics enlisted the help of ten others and spent two weeks baking a life-size Stormtrooper cake before dishing it out at a sci-fi convention in the US.
The edible soldier weighs 136kg, stands at almost 2m tall and was created by Tiler and Amanda Oakleaf from Winthrop, near Boston.
The married bakers and their entourage worked their way through 208 eggs, 64kgs of sugar and 25kgs of marshmallows before their masterpiece was finished.
The body was supported by an iron frame and filled with layers of sponge and the legs were packed with Rice Krispies.
The figure was then covered in icing before being fed to more than 600 sci-fi fans at the Arisia Sci-Fi Convention in Boston, Massachusetts.
Tiler said he had always dreamed of baking a ‘humanoid’ character.
‘It took two weeks to make the cake with the whole team involved, but we wanted to make sure that there were people to eat it in the end because we didn’t want to waste food,’ he said.
‘An important thing for us was that the cake tasted just like any other we would make, so the ingredients, the frosting, the buttermilk were just the same standard as one of our wedding cakes.’
Source: Metro
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File With One Continuous Shot
We love all things film here at The Daily Random, and with that in mind, we find this video absolutely incredible. It’s a film by Aleksander Sokorov, called Russian Arc, that was amazingly shot in just 1 take!
Check out the trailer above.
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Child Actors: Then And Now
Dismissed as a hopeless write-off by your early teens, obligatory substance abuse problems to follow and an ill-advised reality show comeback aged 20, who wouldn’t want to be a child prodigy in Hollywood?
The problem being of course, every kid with stars in their eyes and pushy parents behind them every step of the way, would no doubt murder their pet hamster for a shot at their two years of fame (come on, admit it, Warhol got that 15 minutes malarkey well wrong).
But even though most of us forget them once puberty hits, they still live, growing up, day after day until the point where they are fully-fledged adults and we can run special compare and contrast features such as this.
So, without further ado, child stars: then and, indeed, now.
Source: Shortlist. Click HERE to view the photo’s on their website.
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Man Makes Incredible Chewbacca Costume
Now, this may be hard to believe - but we’re not huge fans of Star Wars here at The Daily Random. That said, when we saw this Chewbacca costume that a guy had made from scratch, we were nothing short of blown away.
Take a look at how he made it HERE.
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Fake Batman Tries to Help Police
Unlike Superman, who’s always ripping off his tie and leaping into action, Batman has a slightly more laidback approach to the whole superhero thing.
Spending most of his time being rich and sleeping with models, he only really dons the costume when the Gotham police turn on the bat signal.
Over in Christchurch, New Zealand, the White Lights of Hope, which commemorate the earthquake anniversary, bear an uncanny resemblance to the signal and got poor fake Batman all confused last week. After seeing the lights, he marched to the local police station, ready to serve justice.
After asking to speak to the commissioner, the caped crusader demanded why he’d been called out. Sergeant Jones had just started his shift when Batman came and noted that he was too “scrawny” to be a believable superhero and that Robin would have to be “6 foot 4 and built like a tank to help him out”.
After his accomplice filmed the exchange, Batman left in a hurry. There’s brooding to be done after all.
Source: Shortlist
