Some were bombs. Some were hits.
Some are icons of pop culture.

But all of these movies should be done over.

We suggest how and why.

Over the years breakfast has gotten dull and good for you.

Cereals are the worst culprit.

Nowadays, too many brands are packed only with wholesome ingredients and essential minerals.

They are healthy and nutritious, and no fun at all.

Come on cereal, why so glum?

Opening title sequences have never received their proper credit. (Sorry for the pun) They're almost mini-films designed to grab the viewer in a stylistically and all-encompassing manner while pushing the overall themes of the movie without giving too much away. In other words: they aren't exactly easy to create ... just ask Saul Bass. We've gone through the last 10 years worth of movies and picked out the 10 best opening titles. See if you agree after the jump.

You'll need to use this sign just in case...

1. The 4 carat diamond slipped off her finger.

2. You need to refill the tub with champagne or bubbles.
Or both.

3. Someone slipped, clunked their head, is knocked out...and you can't stop laughing.

4. Of excess shrinkage.

5. She's having trouble breathing underwater.

6. It's the only way to sort out who's wearing your clothes.

7. The video camera battery died.

8. To switch the music from the Black Eye Peas to Barry White.

9. Too many dudes are in the jacuzzi.

10. The party has moved to the pool.

Some people consider long tracking shots directors showing off. Others feel they're some of the hardest things to plan and pull off in cinema. The beauty of these shots are that, when done right, you don't even notice that they're all one take. Some directors are notorious for the long shots and we've selected 10 of the best (in no particular order) after the jump.

Like Echo's previous post on the Top 10 Cars That'll Get You Laid, we've put together a similar post. This time, we're looking at gadgets and items to help you get her to tend the ol' Yule Log. Trim the tree. Lick the candy cane. Come down the chimney. Unwrap the box. Enjoy the Christmas ham. Find some room at the inn.

Good? Keep going? Ok.

Bring myrrh to the wise man. Shovel the driveway. Give the stocking a rocking. For the Jews among us: grab the Menorah candle. And here, without further ado, are the top ten items that will surely help you get laid this holiday season.

Pack your thermos.

Ask Mom to make a PB&J on Wonder.

And check out these lunchboxes from yesteryear.

(Okay, like the 70s & 80s.)

While we all assumed it'd go away faster than Vanilla Ice on a Compton street corner, it hasn't. The Twitter phenomena continues. Hell, it even grows. And if you're one of the millions who "tweet" daily, you might be searching for some more people to follow. And if you're really desperate, you could always follow us. Using the trained llama we keep in the backroom, we compiled a list of 10 celebrities you should follow. (Sorry Mr. and Mrs. Kutcher, you don't make the list.)

Vegetarians may have given up meat, but that doesn't mean the people who market products to vegetarians have.

This explains all the sites and products that help vegetarians make popular meat dishes sans meat And books like "The Vegetarian Meat and Potatoes Cookbook" and the "I Can't Believe it's Not Meat" Cookbook.

For beans-sake, vegetarians have given up meat. It's time the marketing department got with the program.

A little menu renaming is in order, I think.
Starting with these ten meat-but-not-meat substitutes.

Worried about babies having babies? Just show one of these 10 creeptastic doll commercials to your daughter, and she'll be asking Santa Claus for a tubal ligation this Christmas.

Baby Secret, Mattel, 1966

Secrets secrets are no fun, secrets secrets...KILL SOMEONE!

And yes, I'm pretty sure that is Eve Plumb, TV's Jan Brady, by the way.

Poor Glen Beck.

Lately the crazier he gets, the more advertisers leave his show.
Every day there's another 2 or 3 companies that don't want their brand associated with his brand of, um, comedy.

Pussies!
The advertisers I mean.

Like you, I want Glenn Beck to succeed.

So I've searched my limited database of knowledge (Bing.com) to find some more appropriate products that could fill the void left by Geico, Sargento Cheese, P&G, Progressive Insurance and a host of others who've pulled their ads from Beck's nightly broadcast.

If the makers of these 10 products are brave enough and crazy enough to step forward with their media dollars, Glen insightful program will survive.

Above: just a few of humankind's many, many celebrated balls

When you really think about it, balls are pretty awesome. Yeah, I said it.

A potent symbol of courage, leadership, and even life itself, they've been celebrated since the dawn of human history. They are the very core of most of our sporting events. We gather by the millions each December 31 to watch 'em drop. Even the very act of enjoying something is known as "having" one. And as far as I understand, dunking them on someone's forehead is now a powerful form of political protest.

Let's face it: none of us would even be here today if it weren't for balls. Heck, every single one of us even lives on an enormous blue one.

So it's little wonder then, that they're the subject of many a popular ditty as well.

It's not your personality, it's not how funny you are. Hell, I've seen guys who like like Eric Stoltz in Mask get laid. And what it comes down to is what you've got parked in your driveway. What you drive not only says a lot about you, but it also gives you some idea as to how much tail you're bringing home as well.

Case in point: I drove a 1995 Volkswagen Golf in the late 90's and scored with approximately 1 girl, who I'm quite sure only did so because I told her I could introduce her to the guys from Eve 6. (I couldn't and didn't). In fact, I had more sex when I didn't own a car than I did with the Golf. Taking this issue to heart, I researched a bunch of the offerings from today's car manufacturers and came up with the top 10 that are most likely to get you laid. Just to be clear on the rules, this is cars and SUVs only. No motorcycles. We all know dudes with bikes crush a lot of ass. Also, no conversion vans. Drugging and/or kidnapping a girl doesn't count. And seeing as the cheapest car on the list is around $27,000, you'll still need to have enough money in the bank to take her out for dinner and/or get the tattoo of your ex removed from your shoulder.

yahoo (yä'hōō) n.
an uncultivated or boorish person; lout; philistine; yokel.

Back in the Olden Days, when you had a nagging question, you consulted a doctor, counselor, librarian or other trained professional.

In the Not-Quite-As-Olden-Days, you called into a radio show or listened to the sage advice of a psychologist (or an actor who played one) on TV.

Nowadays, there's Yahoo! Answers, which resolves your queries using all the power of the Internet. And by "power" I mean "skull-thumping moronity."

The basic idea is as follows:

1. Some dipshit formulates a question that neither the voices in his/her head, Glenn Beck, nor Google can answer.
2. This dipshit types said question into Yahoo! Answers, often ending the question with a question mark (sometimes several, for those really nagging questions.)
3. Other dipshits from all over the world post their answers.
4. Still more dipshits vote on which of the other dipshits' answers is the least dipshitty.
5. If Question-Posting Dipshit accepts the "Best Answer" picked by the Voting Dipshits, then the question is deemed "resolved," and QPD goes back to sodomizing a sheep, sticking body parts in light sockets, and/or coming up with more dipshit questions for Yahoo! Answers.

Got it? Cool. Then let's explore 10 of the forehead-slapping-est nuggets of populist curiosity, shall we?

The caption competition I posted a couple weeks ago featured a photo of The Xylopholks, a band appearing in subway stations across the city, The band includes, among other creatures, a pink gorilla, Cookie Monster and a big, yellow chicken. This made me think of other costumed bands I've known, and that made me want to put together another fairly useless list...bands that like to play dress up.