Top 10 of 2010

We originally weren’t going to do one of these posts. It just seems so overdone but we’ve had quite a few requests from our readers so we figured we’d run the numbers and see what we came up with. We compiled the list using the raw traffic data so we can determine not what we thought was the best, but what you the viewers thought. Technically StrangeBeaver has only been in existence since May of this year, but in the last 8 months we’ve managed to rack up some good traffic and a following of some really great people.

So here it is, the top 10 of 2010:

10 – Passed out at Wal-Mart

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20 Classic Children’s Books Explained For Adults

Where the Wild Things Are
Classic Children's Books Explained For Adults

This is a story about a boy who’s been given a time out for being a dick, and then when he’s alone in his room he dreams up this awesome world that has, of course, Wild Things. And each of the Things represents a part of his personality, but he doesn’t know that because he’s just a little kid who’s a dick, and basically the whole book is great and everyone should read it.
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Amazing Cartoon Reimaginings Of Famous Movies & TV Shows

While some movies and TV shows will never get an animated version, it’s really cool imagining what they’d look like as a cartoon anyway.

California-based illustrator Justin White, aka ‘Jublin’, has taken his favorite movies and televisions shows, and reimagined them as cartoons in an ongoing series called ‘Rated G’.

Besides turning them into cartoons, White also gave each illustration a humorous ‘child-friendly’ synopsis.

cartoon versions of famous movies
Django Unchained: A dentist and his new apprentice travel to Candyland looking for an old friend while meeting new ones along the way.
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The Most Disappointing Movies of The Decade

Everyone had that experience as a child when you heard Mom or Dad were getting ice cream at the store and they came home with Rum Raisin or Wintergreen Ice Milk. The disappointment we felt then was not unlike the disappointment we felt over the last ten years after watching anything M. Night Shyamalan did post-Signs. We thought we were getting a big honking scoop of Chocolate Chip and instead we got Rum Raisin. The movies weren’t always bad, they just didn’t live up to the expectations we attached to them. We mourn them as missed opportunities, or curse them for taking our money and giving us less than we wanted or deserved in return. Remember the bad times. These were the most disappointing movies of the past decade.
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