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Really, what ISN’T made better by Tom Selleck’s mustache? Someday, I will grow one just like him…

via Movies Improved By Tom Selleck’s Moustache

An infographic covering all of the ways my childhood memories were smeared in crap and CGI.

via Infographic: A Timeline Of All The Changes In ‘Star Wars’

Brain…is melting…I must have this…

via

In honor of the Fourth Of July (sorry, I’m a day late…I was too drunk and full of ribs to post yesterday), Manimals presents:

The Top 5 Cinematic American Presidents

5) Peter Sellers – President Merkin Muffley - Dr. Strangelove

I’ll bring a little class and culture to Manimals by choosing choosing Sellers’ performance in the Cold War era satire “Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb”.  Not only did Sellers star as the President, but he also scored laughs as Capt. Lionel Mandrake and as Dr. Strangelove himself.  Check out his awkward conversation with the Russian Prime Minister as the world appears headed for a nuclear holocaust (start it at 0:56).  Fun!

4) Morgan Freeman – President Tom Beck – Deep Impact

A black President?  Ridiculous.  Oh, wait.  I guess 1998′s disaster pic foresaw the future of American politics.  I bet no one bothered Morgan Freeman for his birth certificate.  He’s fucking Morgan Freeman!  Not only has he played the Prez, but he’s also been cast as God himself!  In the battle of “Best Presidents in Asterioid Disaster Movies that Came Out In 1998″ Freeman clearly outclasses whoever was in Armageddon.  Screw that movie.

3) Lloyd Bridges – President Thomas “Tug” Benson –  Hot Shots! Part Deux

Lovable Lloyd Bridges was cast along side Chuck Sheen (winning!) in 93′s comedy  Hot Shots! Part Deux and the duo helped make one of the best parody films of all time.  Back before “Date Movie”,  ”Disaster Movie” and “Another Shitty Movie” there were real parodies, and Bridges was one of the best in that role. (don’t worry, he survives this clip, I just can’t find the extended cut)

2) Bill Pullman – President Thomas J. Whitmore - Independence Day

If you didn’t watch Independence Day yesterday, then you are a terrorist. Bill Pullman provides us with quite possibly the greatest speech in fictional Presidential history, inspiring a group rag-tag humans to rise up and defeat a highly advanced alien race using little more than Will Smith, a MacBook Pro, and an alcoholic pilot. God Bless America.

1) Harrison Ford – President James Marshall - Air Force One

When I think of the perfect President, I think of someone with attitude, passion, and the balls to literally punch a terrorist out of a plane. Harrison Ford brings this and more. As his movies have shown us, when you fuck with his family, he’ll fuck you up. If there is one man in Hollywood that I would trust with running this country, it would undoubtedly be Han Solo, Indiana Jones, and President James Marshall – a.k.a – Harrison Ford.

Welcome to Manimals. This is a blog where we try to gather and pontificate on the junk we, as men (and people) of right now are interested in. Being a man today means being multidimensional, keeping up with politics, news, sports, technology, business, cars, style, and tons of other stuff. Our mission at Manimals is to help you sort through the junk and figure out what matters to you. We’ll do the hard part of finding this stuff, and process it into nice, manageable chunks. We’re all different, all are interested in different things, but we all have one thing in common:

We’re all Manimals.

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