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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
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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La Tentacion de R2-D2
Mar 3rd
This is, by far, one of the bestest Star Wars picture mash-ups ever. EVER!!!!
Of course, as any art loving Star Wars geek will be able to tell you, this is a parody [or shall we say hommage (or dare we even say pastiche?)] of Salvador Dali’s The Temptation of St Anthony. Google it. Otherwise you might not get the full awesomeness of the hommage. Or maybe you do, WTF do I know.
If you’re click-lazy like me you’ll probably appreciate a link to it, including some sort of interpretation which you can find for example here.
Now. The following, absolutely mind-blowing, uber-awesome, re-imagining of the classic Dali artwork in Star Wars style, plus a cool bonus image, can be seen after the jump.
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Fear and loathing at the NYC Comicon
Feb 13th
As a self-confessed geek with a lifelong love of all things Start Trek, Star Wars, Conan the Barbarian etc. I figured it was past time that I visited one of the annual conventions for such people. I mean if I like stories about people in capes and masks beating and hacking each other with swords and shit it stands to reason that I should find things in common with other people who like those things?
Right?
WRONG!
Before I get into the meat of this – I should probably say that if you’re looking for insider info about upcoming movies and shit, you’re not going to find it here – and might want to stop reading about now. Nope – its not about that. Instead I’m going to have a bitch about my disillusionment of Geekathon and being cooped up in a crowded meeting hall with a bunch of spotty teenagers and the balding, beer-gutted bespandexed man-children that they inevitably turn into.
So I get to NYC hellishly early on saturday morning after a late night spent watching Mad Max 1 & 2 on and off in between a marathon session of EVE Online and numerous cups of increasingly rancid coffee (something in the coffee brings out the beast in me). I looked not unlike this:
Needless to say I wasn’t in a terribly great frame of mind and after struggling through a line so large that it would have done justice to a Charlton Heston bible epic – I was about ready to go home again. Well maybe not… I had paid $40 for the ticket after all… and at mimimum wage that’s a good 6 hours work to pay off. So I gritted my teeth and plunged into the crowds.
Comicon is basically one big tradeshow for people who want to buy merchandise at special discount prices that still manage to be higher than what you can find online. On the plus side – many of the authors and artists are there so you can get your shit signed (for an extra fee). The down side of this is that to see stuff – you’ve basically got to navigate crowds and make constant apologies for stepping on someone’s cape or making accidental contact with someone’s private parts.
Anyway so yes – I saw some cool shit, a few people from TV shows and movies:
If you look real hard - you might make out Lou Ferrigno in the back
A few people might recognise this guy - John Noble AKA the batshit scientist on "Fringe" and the batshit king from "Lord of the Rings.
Even so I couldn’t help but find the whole thing strangely underwhelming. This might have to do with my going by myself – but I just couldn’t work up the enthusiasm to identify with all the tubby balding guys dressed as Jedis or overweight Batmen. Its not that I don’t like the material – I still enjoy a lot of the stuff I did when I was a kid – Star Wars, Batman, Spiderman, Buffy, Transformers – its all good. I just don’t get why mature adults insist on dressing up in strange costumes to go to an indoor comic sale.
I mean… Ming the Merciless is a cool villain and all, but you don’t see him navigating the dairy aisle at the supermarket or vacuuming his carpet.
I can’t explain why but it made me feel a little dirty, as if everyone around me had some weird sexual fetish and spent their free time wearing oversize diapers and doing coke of a prostitutes buttocks.
I felt a burning desire to reassert my masculinity and to distance myself from the deviants. So without further ado – here is my personal highlight from the NYC Comicon. And what a highlight it is…
Its sleazy I know but can anyone blame me? Look at that.... Just look at it!
I don't know what she's selling and I don't care!
Engine Sentai Go-Onger: Possibly the best TV show in the world. Ever.
Feb 6th
This TV show comes from Japan.
Japan, mysterious and magical land of Nintendo, Godzilla, Mazinger, School Rumble, and fish-flavoured ice-cream – amongst other things that have improved all our lives beyond measure.
The show is called Engine Sentai Go-Onger which roughly translates to Engine Squadron Go-Onger. At least that’s what Wikipedia has to say about the show.
The motif of this series is animals, the motor industry, and (what else?) environmentalism. That’s good enough for me to rank it somewhere between Sesame Street and Carl Sagan. And instead of muppets, there’s talking, fighting robots. Footage of this show is going to be used for the new Power Rangers RPM series in the US. And it kinda looks a little like Power Rangers, which may be a little deceiving at first.
The awesome clip shows how a giant robot ist formed out of a dozen or so other talking vehicles. Sort of like Devastator from the Transformers TV show (and isn’t Devastator going to be in Revenge of the Fallen?), but much, much cooler. More awesomer.
This giant robot can take on any other robot there ever was: any Transformer, Mazinger, Mazinger Z, Mazinkaiser, that big one with the drill, Goldorak, any EVA, all of the GoBots, Robby … any other robot is doomed to fail. Fail and die. Or at least go home crying, like a little bitch.
The Death Star might have a chance. A small one.
This is not Thomas the Tank Engine:
via Botropolis
Wikipedia Entry on Engine Sentai Go-onger
Christian Bale vs. Bill O’Reilly
Feb 5th
Oh I see, the internet is still not done with Batman Christian Bale.
Here he is battling it out with Bill O’Reilly.
And that’s that.
I’m done.
I want you off the fucking set you prick!
Christian Bale is a lovely person
Feb 5th
You probably have already heard (again, we’re number one for old news!) that Batman actor Christian Bale went bonkers on the set of Terminator 4 and threw a tantrum.
Not because Batman he suddenly realised that the Terminator franchise has been squeezed to death by the previous movie and the horrible TV series (except that strangely hot Summer Glau Terminatrix chick), oh noes, something much more sinister happened: The director of photography walked on the set and was distracting Batman Christian Bale. Batman Poor guy couldn’t concentrate on the scene (probably something really important like pressing a button in front of a bluescreen) and had no other choice than to voice his anger. Also, I hear he had an upset tummy from eating too many bean burritos from the lunch van.
Now with stuff like that happening in the times we live in, sooner or later it goes viral on that internet thing the kids use. And then it gets mashed, remixed and put on youtube for the rest of us.
Final proof that threats, swearing and danceable beats mix so well together:
What the fuck is it with you?
You can get a free mp3 of the song here.
