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This absolutely cracked me up. I mean, I’ve seen shameless promotional efforts before, but I don’t think any this funny. In a way it’s kind of brilliant: take a huge cult movie, add girls in bikinis acting out lines from them. It’s that simple. And yes, that awesome. Big credit to RowThree.com for finding and posting these.

I don’t want to take something so direct and un-intellectual and go all bloated on you, but I think one of the major things that make these videos so great is the terrible acting in them. Really, think about it. Say what you will about crappy actors–Hayden Christensen, Keanu Reeves…–but the truth is we’re spoiled. Those guys I just mentioned, they’re bad in the scope of what we’re familiar with, sure–but that scope is stacked. Even the mediocre actors are good. Think of all the thousands of hours of movie and TV watching you have under your belt, then try to remember the amount of the times you’ve actually stopped to comment on a distracting performance. Hardly ever. So it’s rare we really get to see what Bad acting (capital B) looks like, and how it can completely butcher good dialogue. Without the right delivery, basically everything sounds amateur.

So, uh, that’s why I’m posting these videos: as a call to the public to appreciate their thespians, to show them what they’ve been taking for granted all their lives. It may not seem it right away, but this is all very highbrow.

The shameless promoters are 1690 Swimwear, begging for site hits with their “Bikini Cinema” series. And I can’t totally figure out whether the series is temporary or what, but I really do hope there’s more in the future because these things are serious gold.

Here’s a reading from Pulp Fiction: