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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!
Make Your Own Watchmen Rorschach Mask Effect
Mar 4th
This is a pretty cool DIY filmmaking video from Indy Mogul showing you how you too can make your own Watchmen Rorschach mask effect for just under $20.
Erik from Indy Mogul recreates the inkblot effect from Rorschach’s mask in ‘The Watchmen’ movie and for those who are too lazy for their own inkblot animation there’s a free animation for the effect that you can download from IndyMogul.com and use in your projects. That’s what I call quality service.
‘Watchmen’ darker than ‘The Dark Knight’
Mar 3rd
Here’s a pretty little snippet from some sort of Watchmen press thing.
You know, the stuff the studios end up cramming as extra features on the DVD for the collector’s edition.
Which is of course the stuff nobody but die-hard fans watch.
And we only watch it to distract from our disappointment because the comic graphic novel didn’t live up to our expectations.
I love the Watchmen comic graphic novel but am already utterly disappointed. No octopus monster. How dare they? Meh.
The cast of new movie ‘Watchmen’ say their comic-book based fantasy flick goes even darker than ‘The Dark Knight.’
Melt your brains! Melt them to mush!
Mar 2nd
Do you know what’s important in life?
It’s not how many friends you have, or if you achieve a state of mental bliss.
The most important thing in life is to watch crazy, stupid stuff on the internets. Obviously!
This short little video was done by Cyriak, animation genius with a demented sense of reality. Or maybe he has escaped from a mental institution. It really doesn’t matter.
After watching this video, all those years of therapy, self-reflection and analysis will be for nothing. Your brain will turn into a mushy mess. Lovely!
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
