Aussie Star Wars - Episode IV: A New Bloke

Saw this last night and couldn't stop laughing.  It was uploaded to youtube by Stuntbear.

Luke's Change: An Inside Job

A very clever video showing how the destruction of the Death Star at the end of Star Wars: A New Hope must have been an inside job.  Done as a spoof of the 9/11 conspiracy film Loose Change, I have to admit, the commentator makes some good points here...

The 'about' tab on youtube doesn't give any credits (nor does the video), but I got it from Graham Putnam's page.

Harry Potter and the 10 Years Later

And speaking of things being extended, looks like the fine people at Furious Molecules who make the Harry Potter and the 10 Years Later videos are splitting the final episode into two parts.

If you haven't seen these yet, they're quite good, if for an adult audience only.  I love Ron's character (and I didn't particularly like him in the books).  Here's the premise:

The webseries, colloquially known by the hashtag #HPplus10 online, takes a look at our hero ten years after taking down He-Whose-Name-Nobody-Quite-Remembers (but before that sappy epilogue full of kids). Things have changed significantly in Harry’s world. With no dark wizards or witches left, the Ministry of Magic’s Auror Department shuts down, leaving Harry unemployed. Ginny wants to start a family, Hermione is having doubts about her goody-goody lifestyle, and Ron... well, he’s Ron. Everything seems very average in a late-twenties-problem kind of way-- but as always, trouble finds Harry yet again.

The first five episodes are cued up here.  But here's the first one to get you started.

The Hobbit: Extended Trailer Parody

This video, written by Mark Douglas and Bryan Olsen and directed by Tom Small of Barely Political, sums up my feelings about the announcement that the Hobbit is going to be 3 films nicely.  Basically Gandalf finds new 'quests' for Bilbo.  NSFW.

Webseries: The Collectibles

Because superheros are VERY hot right now (note to self, update my superhero reading list), there's another parody webseries, The Collectibles.  This one has the super team run by a corporation, where management shake-ups are considered the way to revamp a team and your worth is as much due to your action figure sales as it is your superhero ability.

Best of all, the entire first season is done and available for viewing (NSFW).

And to get you started, here's the pilot: