movie memes

It's hard to believe, but twenty years ago today, Shrek was released in theaters. If you were born before 1995, you're probably feeling pretty damn old right now. It's okay, you're not alone—us millennials gotta stick together in times like these. Shrek on the other hand, is totally timeless. Both a relic of millennial irony and fodder for dank zoomer memes—Shrek is eternal. Shrek is love. Shrek is life. Well, the years start coming and they don't stop coming, but at least we've got these dank Shrek memes. 

These funny movie synopses feel totally wrong, but are sort of on point. They read like someone who just started watching movies for the first time badly trying to explain a plot. It's fun to try and think of other movies you can sum up in just a few sentences with crude reductionism. Beauty and the Beast? A young woman makes friends with some furniture and falls in love with her kidnapper. Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory? Creepy rich guy lures families into a building and kills kids in front of their parents. Inception? A group of colleagues take some epic naps together.

Take a look at some of these hilariously bad (but not wrong) plot summaries, and if you want more funny movie-related content, try this!

Sunday was a big day for monster movie lovers. Warner Brothers finally dropped the trailer for their highly anticipated re-imagining of 1962's King Kong Vs. Godzilla. The teaser for Godzilla Vs. Kong garnered lots of hype on Twitter, and a ton of debates as to which character will win the epic duel. Memes followed shortly after the discourse. While they don't provide much insight regarding the future monster champion, they're a fun taste of how damn opinionated fans are when it comes to kaiju characters. March 26th had better hurry up.

We share a ton of dank and dumb Lord of the Rings memes with y'all, but we've never shared anything like this. The r/lotrmemes and r/CaptainSparrowmemes subreddits have joined forces to create some arguably dumb (but also funny) crossover memes. Many of them are low effort, but there's something nice about consuming these Pirates of the Caribbean mashups that we've never seen before. We've put some of their latest efforts in to this gallery of questionable quality, but we there's tons more where they came from. 

Happy Birthday to our favorite meme! Oops, I mean...actor. Our favorite meme'd actor. Throughout his career, Leonardo DiCaprio has been providing memelords with content gold for meme templates and we couldn't be more grateful. Maybe some people thought the memes would stop once Leo finally received an Oscar for The Revenant in 2016, but oh boy, that was only the beginning. As you all know, the 'Laughing Leo' meme is only the latest hot template still in circulation, but there are so many more good ones that shouldn't be forgotten. We've got lots of Leo memes from over the years for all the fans out there and we hope there are many more to come. We'll never let go, Jack. We'll never let go.

Happy Tuesday, y'all. We're back with another hearty helping of fresh and funny Lord of the Rings memes for nerds like ourselves. This batch boasts some seasonally appropriate LOTR memes with a spooky twist - as well as a few of those movie line misquotes memes that are so popular lately. Best of all? They're pretty freakin' dumb, so it won't take a memory of steel to pick up these references. Happy scrollin'. 

Anyone else feel like their meme standards have taken a nose dive of late? Political fatigue and a general contempt for the world seem to have skewed our taste towards the very dumb. This past weekend we were graced by meme that easily meets this very low criteria. According to Know Your Meme, the trend began on 4chan, after a user shared a still of Paul Allen (Jared Leto) in American Psycho. The intentionally miscaptioned still reads  "Patrick, it's you!! You're the American Psycho?!!," to which another 4chan user replies "He didn't say that." After other users chimed in, the thread grew to over 100 replies. And now it looks like it made an impact in the memeosphere.

Following the 4chan thread, the format started to pop up on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Users seemed to be scrambling to create (and share) the incredibly stupid and easy-to-make memes. Even gamers got in on the joke, creating their own versions for releases such as Death Stranding and Final Fantasy. While it's hard to present these memes as the "best" of anything, they're pretty damn entertaining. Here's hoping we see more dumb and easy content in the coming months. This year needs all the help it can get.

It seems like a decade ago that we were lamenting the Sonic movie's terrible animation. Even the movie's February 14 release seems like it happened in another lifetime. But the film (which actually got solid reviews) has more to offer than 100 minutes of boredom-busting. It's inspired more than a few excellent dank memes, and the latest format features Jim Carrey as Sonic's nemesis, Robotnik. The meme remixes the classic Daily Struggle format by adding a panel of Robotnik eagerly selecting the negative red button. It's being used to mock everyone from gullible fake-news spreading aunts to gamers, and it's quickly becoming one of the more popular formats on Reddit. We've put together a healthy handful of our favorite examples, but you can read more about the evil goodness on Know Your Meme. Happy scrolling!

2020 was supposed to be our year. While following through with New Year's resolutions, it really seemed like things were going to be different. By March, things looked bleak. And now, while we're just trying to do the right thing, it's hard not to mourn the year that could have been. The friends we'd spend time with, the traveling we'd do. On Twitter, this grief is being hilariously summed up with television and movie references in the form of the My Plans/2020 meme. We've put together our favorite examples, but we guarantee you'll find heaps more on Twitter. We have a feeling this one won't be going away anytime soon, especially since it looks like 2020 has been indefinitely cancelled. 

Some of our favorite content on the internet has to do with Lord of the Rings. And that's not terribly surprising. It seems that it's possible to relate pretty much any meme format to J.R.R. Tolkien's well-loved series of books and the movies they inspired. Better yet, there are myriad communities dedicated to the memes on Reddit and Facebook. And that's where we find quality "shireposts" like the ones below.