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Welcome to Screen Rant’s “Geek Picks,” where we collect the finest movie-related geekery from around the Web. Today you’ll find Adam Sandler & Drew Barrymore singing a touching love song about being in a romantic comedy together every 10 years; an Oscars recap of the nine Best Picture nominees with the Micro Machines Guy; Van Damme doing his epic splits in zero gravity; the top 10 TV families; and a real life Gambit. All that and more on this edition of Sr’s Geek Picks!

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Oscars Recap with the Micro Machines Guy

Jimmy Fallon welcomes John Moschitta Jr., the Micro Machines guy, to do a recap of the nine Best Picture nominees.

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With the resurgence of movies based on toys in recent years, it was high time to reach into the past and dust off the hidden gem that started it all. Many people who grew up watching the “Transformers” television show will remember that in 1986 Hasbro released a full length animated feature film called “The Transformers: The Movie.” This film contains a fairly predictable “Transformers” plot, meaning it’s convoluted and features loads of meaningless action and prolonged fighting. Awesome.

The movie begins with a cold open: the “camera” casually flies us through the quiet beauties of outer space. Planets, stars, galaxies and celestial debris float peacefully and gracefully through the great black expanse. We gradually close in on a small Death Star-like planet bustling with all sorts of alien robotic life forms. Suddenly, a giant spherical machine, known as Unicron, targets the planet and without warning begins to suck it in like a vacuum,...

Well, the much ballyhooed conjugal visit between Snooki and Vinny turned out to be more hype than hookup, but that didn’t mean that we didn’t enjoy this week’s episode of Jersey Shore all the same. Although, it must be said that we’re starting to get a bit concerned about the dark direction that Ron Ron’s life in South Beach has taken. After all, there’s a fine line between creeping and being a creep. Did he cross that line this week? All of your questions will be answered below as we count down this week’s Top Ten Catchphrases (now in both jpeg And video form)! 10) “Yo Snooks, the whole time she was going, ‘Na na na na, ma ma ma.’ F*ck that!” —Ron Ron After pounding enough Ron Ron Juice at the club to stun a fully grown elephant, Captain Smush angrily sent...