Puny Norton,
Please do not make Hulk’s new movie suck. Hulk want new movie to smash box office records, not smash nothing.
Hulk stuff always sucked. Starting with Hulk cartoon, when lady flapper sings “Aint he unglamorous!” in old-time voice. What the Hulk is that?
Then Hulk TV show. Too much puny Bixby, not enough Hulk. Yes, …
I could have split these up and given them their own posts, but that would have required extra effort, and that’s not how we roll at the NW.
Thing 1: You’ve probably already seen this cardboard animation of the light cycle sequence in Tron, but you haven’t seen it here! Now you have. A testament to the power of unshaven French …
I have been to the opera on two occasions this spring. Once to Prokofiev’s War and Peace and once to Wagner’s Die Walkure. This brings to two the total number of times, lifetime, that I have ever been to the opera. Though I have occasionally dabbled in classical music, the opera house is not my natural habitat. But it is possible for a …
I wouldn’t necessarily recommend that you watch all 11 minutes of this. But I don’t see how any true green-blooded nerd wouldn’t want to watch some of it. Dead Fantasy II (there’s also a Dead Fantasy I) is a ridiculous fan film in which the women of Final Fantasy and the women of Dead or Alive kick the crap out of each other in about …
Two datapoints for your consideration:
Digg Recovers a Stolen Xbox. A guy in Philadelphia gets back from SXSW to find that his house has been burgled and his Xbox stolen. He gets a new Xbox and receives a message via Xbox Live asking for a ransom to get his old console back. The message comes from an actual valid gamertag. The guy …
THE STAR WARS EMPEROR’S CLUB V.I.P. — VERY IMPERIAL PALPATINE
Princess Leia — Gold Slave Bikini — 7 Death Stars — 5000 Galactic Credits / hour
Princess Leia — Hoth Snowsuit — 3 Death Stars — 1000 Galactic Credits / hour
Aunt Beru — Tatooine Rags — 0 Death Stars — 5 Galactic Pennies / year
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SUPERHERO LAIR …
So you’re making Dune. Good stuff, good stuff. Epic story, sandworms, the whole environment angle. Could be a serious thing.
But listen man: you’re a long way from Friday Night Lights here. I know you did Hancock, so you’ve goofed around with some CGI, got some technical chops. But Dune is a toughie. Lot of serious fans, lot of …
The science fiction writer and futurist Arthur C. Clarke has died, in Sri Lanka, at the age of 90.
As a person and as a writer he remained an enigma to the end. Part of the challenge of grappling with Clarke is the sheer size of his oeuvre: towering masterpieces like Childhood’s End, 2001: A Space Odyssey and Rendezvous with Rama …
Popular Mechanics is reporting that BattleBots will be returning to ESPN, or at least to ESPN2 and ESPNU, which I don’t even know what that is — presumably it covers sports events taking place in the Underverse.
The piece has a good summary of what made the original show a beguiling but also a frustrating watch — basically the …
The Summer Movie Season is now in spitting distance, and this year’s slew of lumbering mega-movies is plodding clumsily into view. But before everyone picks apart the (presumable) goofiness of big-budget behemoths like Speed Racer and The Incredible Hulk, let’s think back to four years ago, when a tiny-yet-sublime scrap of summer movie …
I was going to link to yet another story about the semantic Web, except the phrase “semantic Web” has now been shown to induce narcolepsy in otherwise normal humans. Then I was going to post about this Heavy Metal-type cartoon that David Fincher is supposedly making, but for some reason I am unable to grasp what the hell it’s about. …
If they stop making new trailers I’ll stop blogging about them. But this is the best one yet — gives you much more of the flavor of the movie:
Christina Ricci looks good — though almost unrecognizable — in that wig, but yowr, those are some crackling Oedipal sparks between Emile Hirsch and Susan Sarandon! And also yowr, those are …
