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I Give Up. Star Wars is Dead to Me

Celebs and Media, You Stupid Dick 7 Replies

I hate you George Lucas.

I hate you with all my heart. You need to put your hands back on the wheel and DRIVE THE STAR WARS CAR INTO A BRICK WALL. End our misery.

Throughout my nerd life I’ve seen you rape, pillage, whore out, fuck up, befuddle and screw the Star Wars empire into a massive ball of fuck. But this? The upcoming Kinect Star Wars game? It had so much promise: Force choke holds! Light sabre fights!

This video proves you are a fuck. A fucking fuck who thinks they’re being clever and smart. You need to either man up and actually pay attention during your marketing meetings and STAND UP and say “No! This is not my vision for Star Wars!” or sign the rights over to someone who will preserve the dignity

DIGNITY

…of Star Wars.

Watch to the end. The sad… sad… end.

Via Topless Robot

Newzy Grab Bag

Celebs and Media, Disney, Distractions 2 Replies

Darth Vader tries to shoo an Angry Bird with his lightsabre, gets sued when he hits a bystander. Oh and said bystander is suing the Orange County AIDS Walk too. Just because. Dick.

Robert Sherman died last night. Sadly, the co-creator of such childhood tunes like Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious and the theme from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (which in turn spawned countless childish poo songs – at least at the school where I grew up) passed away last night in London.

I could talk about how our Mayor took another body blow in his loss of control over the TTC board yesterday but I think I’ll just mention he gained another pound (2 weeks running!) in his “Cut the Waist!” campaign. I think it’s reflective as to how he’s running this city, really.

What do you think tomorrow’s Apple/iPad 3 event will bring? A landscape aspect iPad, you say??

Here are some unearthed (ha!) behind-the-scenes pictures from the set of Star Trek. I detect 94% Awesome, 3% WTF and trace elements of clicking.

Disecting Prometheus

Celebs and Media, You Magnificent Bastard 1 Reply

The trailer for Prometheus dropped when I left for Xmas and I think I’ve played it…oh 1000 times so far. I just want to mention a couple things because I am sure you can go to any nerd site and read the vast comments about this 2 min piece of geek-gasm.

Okay so here’s my take…

Trailer:

It’s pretty much unspoken but utterly “duh!” that this movie is either a prequel to, or lives within the Alien movie universe, despite what Ridley Scott refuses to say or admit in interviews.

Here are my nerd boner moments:

Trailer starts with slow reveal of title! Alien!!
Big Giger-like face – from the original Alien designs
Misty room full of jars? Eggs? HOMMAGE!
Acid melting helmet. Hommage!
Space Jockey head??
Big helmets but they’re more 50s pulp Sci Fi than Moebius’ Samurai design – Cool!
Space Jockey in da HOUSE!
Ship design very similar to the Derelict Ship in Alien…
Not a real boner moment but it makes me laugh: “Run to the left! Not straight away!”

 

So I gotta ask:

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The Poster Looked Good

Celebs and Media 2 Replies

SharkBoy and I had an “OMG I DID TOO!” moment the other day.

An old truck drove by us and I commented that it looked like the truck from “Sorcerer”. At the time I said The Sorcerer, but the movie’s name is actually without the The.  Anyway, SharkBoy’s eyes light up and he says “I remember that movie!”

Well actually we both don’t remember a single thing about the movie itself but we do remember the movie poster. What kid wouldn’t want to see a movie called Sorcerer with a guy facing off against a truck on a rope bridge? Seriously!

I remember I wanted to see the movie The Hindenburg because as a kid, I was drawn to disaster films and I knew how this particular movie would end, but I wanted to see a spectacular blimp model being torched.

I also wanted to see Chinatown, even though I was too young to get in, but the font they used and the fact that Nicholson’s cigarette smoke curled into Dunaway’s hair was pretty cool. I didn’t care about what the movie was about at all (thankfully I watched it for the first time recently and have a much better appreciation of it, instead of being potentially confused by it as a kid). As an aside, No movie poster would ever be made like Chinatown ever again. Look at that vast expanse of nothing in the bottom left corner. For a designer to show this kind of layout to a movie Exec today would probably give the Exec a heart attack and the designer a pink slip. MUST FILL ALL THING!!

I’m not going to generalize and say that movie posters have lost their charm, there are a lot out there that are interesting and cool but these are usually indie/low budget films that aren’t created with a board room of people standing around judging everything that goes out the door.