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And I thought they smelled bad on the outside!
Apr 6th
Especially if you don’t wash it…
Its the Tauntaun Sleeping Bag!
Please note the “guts pattern” lining.
Almost makes me want to have kids.
Almost.
Real Life 8Bit Waterslide Ride
Apr 1st
Yes, you read that right.
An 8Bit waterslide ride in real life.
Of course, this fantastic video was yet again done by people with much more talent, creativity and attention for detail than me, but that won’t surprise any of you (mum, dad – thanks for stopping by).
The video is an entry in a competition from Barclaycard, a credit card company that probably won’t exist in 12 months. Unlike this video. It will stay with you forever – just like that weird rash that you caught on your holiday in Mexico.
The Lost Sheep Song
Mar 20th
We don’t call us ‘commandsheep’ for nothing.
Guess where that name comes from, I dare you.
While you’re guessing, have a song about a lost sheep.
Utterly, utterly sad.
WON’T SOMEONE PLEASE FIND THIS LITTLE SHEEP’S MUM? OH DEAR GOD!
Tesla Coil Imperial March – old hat already?
Mar 19th
To answer this rhetorical question in the most journalistic way possible: YES.
Proof: posted to the ugc video sharing site youtube on 19th February 2009.
In internet terms this is, in fact, a very old hat. Or old cheese. Runny, old cheese.
Well, so much for our journalistic integrity on reporting just the facts. Of course we have to post this. It’s (yet another) Star Wars related video. And this is what this site, the safe haven for embedded Star Wars nerdism, is all about.
So without further ado, please do applaud these true heroes of our time for their bravery in, er, science. Or something like that. There’s a Tesla coil, so it must be something to do with science. Possibly.
Power! Unlimited power!
via Nerdcore
So say we all: farewell ‘Galactica’
Mar 19th
Here’s an AP news video in which Edward James Olmos, Mary McDonnell and creator Ronald D. Moore discuss the final episode of the Emmy and Peabody-winning Sci Fi Channel series ‘Battlestar Galactica’ which airs this Friday.
Frack. Gonna have to wait for the DVD release torrent so I can catch up with the final series here on the other side of the planet.
We’re Cylons!
Fierce competition for Max Reebo and the Cantina Band
Mar 13th
With the credit crunch and the downfall of the economy affecting everyone in the known universe, even intergalactic crimelords like Jabba the Hutt have to look into saving a credit here and there.
If anyone remembers the musical movie Return of the Jedi Special Edition with the horrible muppet band playing in Jabba’s palace… well.
What can I say?
I feel your pain.
It was horrible and over the top.
But I am not here to rant incoherently about a movie that is partly to blame for me being a crazy bitter old man.
Oh noes! Oh noes indeed!
I am here to show you something that should have been in the movie instead of the muppets musical number. A little boy. A little boy playing the harp. And he is playing the Cantina song from Star Wars.
His rendition is so beautiful that it would have melted Han Solo from his carbonite block.
Aren’t you a little short for a harp player?
Little LEGO people building the Millennium Falcon. In LEGO and in stop motion.
Mar 13th
I have watched Watchmen twice now and I am over it – back to the essentials.
This is secret video footage of the rebels building the Millennium Falcon. Many bothans died to bring us this information.
Of course, that’s nothing new. Bothans dying that is. They are probably the worst spies in the known universe.
In any case, what you probably haven’t seen yet is lovely little LEGO people building the LEGO Millennium Falcon in stop motion animation. This is awesome and pisses on Lucas’ later work.
Nevermind that this video is not historically accurate. We all know that Han Solo won the Falcon from Lando Calrissian in a game of cards. Still good though.
Yeah. So there we are, back to Star Wars. It only took a couple of days.
Bring me the hydrospanners!
Building the LEGO Millennium Falcon from Gizmodo on Vimeo.
WATCHMEN Opening Credits – “The Times They Are A-Changin”
Mar 11th
Ok, I know. I have to stop posting Watchmen videos here. However, all of you should be applauding me. For quite a while now I haven’t posted anything Star Wars related. And that is an achievement in itself.
I have been obsessing over the Watchmen movie instead. And rightfully so. It is only half as bad as I expected it to be. It is rather good. You know, even with the replaced octopus monster and half of the comic graphic novel not being in it and all.
And I’m actually not so sure anymore that you have to stay so true to the original source comic graphic novel and have Dr. Manhattan’s blue schlong in almost every scene. It should have been safely stashed away in some pants instead. Much better than to have a giant blue penis dangling around on the screen. Especially on the IMAX version. That is, of course, unless they would have changed Dr. Manhattan into a blue, hot chick. Purely for plot reasons.
While I am still sitting here waiting for lazy Jon to write up a review for it, have a look at masked superheroes through the ages in the opening credits for the movie set to the sound of that old geezer Bob Dylan.
Ah, fake nostalgia. What a bastard you are.
Watchmen Video Bonanza
Mar 9th
Yes.
Yes.
YES!
I saw Watchmen the other day.
And it is not shit!
Hooray!
In fact, I think that it’s a pretty good adaptation of the comic graphic novel. They let a few things out (like a third of the book. Or half, to be honest, but it’s pretty, pretty good. This movie might even make it onto my DVD shelf. I haven’t bought a DVD in years. Seriously. That’s how good it was. I’ll let Jon do the extended review, he is much better with words and stuff than me.
Instead, I have picked some cool Watchmen videos that you will probably have seen already some place else, but now you can watch them here. On your favourite site (that would be commandsheep DOT COM). How very convenient.
Watchmen Cram Session
The story behind WATCHMEN’s journey to the big screen is just as complex as the WATCHMEN story itself. Marc Istook breaks down the movie’s long and winding road to the big screen in this Cram Session!
Beyond The Trailer: Watchmen
Is 300 director Zack Snyder truly a visionary, or just a one hit wonder? Beyond The Trailer host Grace Randolph finds out what moviegoers think of this silver screen adaptation of the greatest graphic novel ever written: Watchmen!
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Watch Out! It’s the Watchmen Saturday Morning Cartoon!
Mar 8th
Well I saw the movie yesterday (more on that later) but for anyone who developed a facial tick when they heard that the movie had been greenlit, this might be enough to give you a stroke!
