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 …
People Do What the Net Tells Them To
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 …
Unfinished Topical Blog Posts
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 …
Some Notes for Peter Berg, Who Is Apparently Directing Yet Another Dune
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 …
Arthur C. Clarke, 1917-2008
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 …
Return of the BattleBots
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 Frankencoat Remembered
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 …
You Still Won’t Like Me…When I’m…Even Angrier…
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. …
Last Post About Speed Racer Until the Next One
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 …
Daily Traily: Wall*E and the Lost Boys sequel (?!?!?!?!?!?!?!)
Will somebody please tell me how the Sam Hill to spell Wall*E? Wall*e? Wall-E? Wall-e?
Whatever, the new trailer is up, and it drops all that coy stuff from the teasers and plunges us deep into the Wall*everse, which is a lot bigger and richer than I first thought. We meet Wall*E’s probe-android luvva, who appears to have been designed …
Hulu Goes Gamma!
Or whatever you call it when something comes out of beta and launches. Hulu is live. You know, that Web video thing that has content from Fox, NBC, Bravo, USA, and a bunch of channels you probably didn’t really know existed.
I was in the Hulu beta, so I’ve been watching shows on Hulu for months now. And I gotta say, it’s brutally good. …
REAL DEATH STAR TO KILL EVERYONE — FOR REAL — REALLY!!!
In the ever-raging battle for internet eyeballs, here’s a Yahoo News headline that probably grabbed more than a few:
REAL DEATH STAR COULD STRIKE EARTH
Wow, that is a big story. An actual man-made, planet-sized, battle-station could attack planet earth, just like in Star Wars. That certainly pushes the Hilary and Obama mudwrestling …