Filed Under bond, doctor who, star trek
007 Gunbarrel Montage
Notice how Roger Moore is the only one who has to use both hands.
The Ultimate Inspirational Movie Speech
If you only watch one of these, watch this one.
Who vs. Kirk
Filed Under pirates, sinbad, star trek
Captain Kirk and the Flight of the Buccaneer
I don’t link to Siskoid’s Blog of Awesomeness – I mean, Geekery – enough, so let me take a step towards correcting that. After all, a post about Captain Kirk fighting a bunch of space pirates is pretty much tailor-made for me.
Siskoid recently finished up the daunting task of reviewing every single Star Trek TV episode and movie ever made and is following it with reviews of the comics and books, including that Voodoo one I posted about last Spring. It’s Must Read Internet.
New Sinbad movie
In other pirate news, looks like there’s a new Sinbad movie in the works. According to SCIFI Wire, “The story centers on Sinbad and his crew, who are marooned off the coast of China and embark on a quest to find the lamp of Aladdin.”
The image to the left there is Sinbad, but otherwise has nothing to do with the movie. It’s from Pierre Alary’s upcoming graphic novel that I’m very impatient about.
Filed Under batman, dr. horrible, indiana jones, next men, space girls, spider-man, star trek, star wars, voodoo
“And you’re a crazy, flying fool!”
I wish I was a member of the Aviator’s Club that Link Thorne belongs to. Their cigarette girls are Awesome.
Custom-made Indiana Jones DVD case
I wish there was a picture of it open, but even so… holy mackerel that’s cool.
Indy Voodoo doll
As long as I’m wishing, I wish this was a replica and not the actual prop from the movie. Then I might be able to afford it.
John Byrne’s Compleat Next Men
IDW is collecting the entire series of John Byrne’s Next Men, including the 2110 prequel one-shot and a bunch of extras. I hope it does well and attracts a lot of new readers because Byrne is not-quite-promising that he’ll continue the story if the collections do well.
Joanna asks if that kind of promise is a sort of blackmail and sums it up as, “Buy my old unfinished series — and if enough of you do, maybe I’ll finish it.” I don’t think it’s quite as nefarious as that. Next Men works beautifully well just like it is. It doesn’t need to be finished to get a complete story.
But, as someone who really loved the series – it’s the best thought-out time travel story I’ve ever read, and it features the first appearance of Hellboy (pre-dating even “Seed of Destruction”) – I’d love to see more of it. I interpret Byrne’s statement as wishing-out-loud, not blackmail. Buy it because it’s good; not because Byrne may or may not make a sequel if you do.
Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog
Haven’t seen The Dark Knight yet
Would’ve fought the midnight crowds if the movie was going to be more like this…
Actually, I’m getting more and more excited about it. Or maybe “curious” is a better adjective. Looking forward to Thursday when I’ll finally be able to see it.
Spectacular Spider-Man: Attack of the Lizard
Now this I’m looking forward to. My son is going to freak.
Cartoon Network Saturday nights
Cartoon Network announced its Saturday evening programming block that will include the Clone Wars cartoon, Ben 10, and “a new animated incarnation of Batman.” Presumably the Brave and the Bold series that’ll team him up with different superheroes each week.
Hallmark’s Nerdaments
Hallmark has unveiled its line-up of nerd-themed ornaments for the year. Topless Robot – as always – has the right perspective on it in their post title.
Filed Under bigfoot, hulk, six million dollar man, star trek, star wars, superheroes
Emo Hulk
Weird. There’s a scene in this trailer that I don’t remember being in the Incredible Hulk movie at all. It’s not the arctic scene either. Starts about 30 seconds in.
Spock wants to live like common people
Six Million Dollar Man vs. Bigfoot
The Bionic Woman remake wouldn’t have failed if it had been more like this. (I never realized that Bigfoot was played by Andre the Giant. Awesome.)
Dr. Horrible’s Sing Along Blog
Doogie Howser vs. Mal Reynolds
Teaser from Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog on Vimeo.
Mandalorian Flashdance
He can’t have it all; now Fett’s dancing for his life.
Filed Under alice in wonderland, allan quartermain, life on mars, star trek
Stop motion graffiti
This is the coolest thing I’ve ever seen in my life.
MUTO a wall-painted animation by BLU from blu on Vimeo.
Alice trance
Or maybe this is.
US Life on Mars trailer
I was a huge fan of the British version of this show. It was an excellent homage to ’70s cop shows and clearly defined for me why I can’t get into Law and Order or CSI. This trailer for the US remake version makes it look goofier and lighter-hearted than I think it probably is. I can see the cool elements of the show in there, it’s just that the announcer keeps orally winking at us like it’s sort of a gag. Regardless, Colm Meaney is genius casting for Gene.
Speaking of which, does anyone know if BBC America ever got around to finally showing the second season of the British version? I kept the Season Pass on my TiVo forever, but finally gave up waiting.
Naughty V’ger!
The Enterprise crew watches porn. There’s no nudity, but the sound makes it NSFW. It goes on a bit long (sort of like Star Trek: The Motion Picture), but it’s hilarious.
Star Trek: The Motion Picture (Pon Farr Edition) from Darth Mojo on Vimeo.
The entire 1937 version of King Solomon’s Mine
Filed Under apocalyptic, bond, comics, harry potter, iron man, peter pan, predator, star trek, talking animals, three musketeers, vin diesel
The Monday post date on this one is a lie. I actually started it late last week and didn’t wrap it up until Tuesday night. Unfortunately, the extra time I spent on it does not mean a corresponding increase in quality. It just means that I’m getting ready for Chicago and am falling behind.
They’re making an animated movie from Kathryn Lasky’s Guardians of Ga’hoole series of Young Adult books. I haven’t read the series, but I’m down with a Watership Down/Secret of Nimh-esque fantasy quest movie about talking owls.
No drunken Tony Stark?
This is pretty old, but just in case you missed it: Jon Favreau on why Iron Man 2 probably won’t feature the “Demon in a Bottle” storyline about Tony Stark’s struggle with alcoholism. Hint: it’s Will Smith’s fault.
Babylon A.D.
Three Musketeers prequel
A new movie featuring Athos, Aramis, and Porthos? I’m all for one. (Sorry.)
Stan Winston RIP
See how far behind I am? Stan Winston’s passing deserves its own post, but by now everyone’s already said everything that needs saying about how awesome and influential a designer he was. Robert Hood has my favorite tribute with a huge, excellent gallery of Winston’s work. I’m gonna miss him.
Why Star Trek sucked
Ronald D. Moore has done mostly wonderful things with Battlestar Galactica. It’s hard to believe he was one of the guys under whose watch the Star Trek franchise started sucking so hard. He explains why in this interview, mainly blaming in on an over-abundance of continuity and in the process predicting why he thinks JJ Abrams’ version will rule.
We’ll see. Voyager needn’t have been continuity-laden, but they chose to go that direction and more or less repeat Next Generation. Yes, continuity was undoubtedly a problem, but it was a problem they seemed to bring on themselves. I’m all for starting over; I’m just skeptical about anyone’s being as awesome as this guy.
The Wizarding World of Harry Potter
Construction of the Harry Potter theme park is progressing nicely, including a new, park-exclusive mini-movie written by JK Rowling and starring the film series’ cast.
The Saint Paul library rules
Sorry for the regional news, but if you live in the Twin Cities there are a couple of reasons to visit the Saint Paul Public Library this summer. One is their outdoor film festival featuring movies based on books (including comics) and movies about politics. The other is a continuing discussion of graphic novels by Jewish creators.
Tigerheart
A friend emailed to tell me about a couple of fantasy books I need to read. I’ll tell you about the other one later, but the first one is Tigerheart by Peter David. I like David’s comics work pretty well, but I’m not such a huge fan that I pay attention to absolutely everything he does. He’s way too prolific for that anyway. But he’s got a wicked sense of humor that I enjoy and the thought of him writing a Peter Pan sequel is irresistible. Read more about his take on it in this interview.
Devil May Care not so hot
Speaking of pastiches, Double O Section has the only review of the new Bond book that I need to read. It doesn’t make me completely uninterested, but it sure pushes the novel further down my reading list.
Filed Under batman, giant monsters, iron man, star trek, x-men
Iron Man vs. Batman
Sports fans are nerds
I’ve been saying this for years. Nice to get some affirmation.
Thanks, SF Signal!
Wolverine and the X-Men
It’s long and it doesn’t start looking good until about the 2:30 mark where you get the sense that they’re going for something epic. It ultimately catches my attention with a Hulk appearance and a partial shot of something that looks like it could be Wendigo. I’m not expecting Spectacular Spider-Man, but I’ll give it a try.
Wow. Could I be more blasé about this? I really used to like the X-Men too.
Thanks to Slashfilm for the link.
Kevin Pollack does Star Trek
Thanks to SF Signal for this one too.
Attack of the Giant Leeches
This one’s courtesy of the ever-lovin, blue-eyed Robert Hood.
Filed Under doctor strange, fantasy, giant robots, scifi, star trek, war of the worlds
Baffled!
What Leonard Nimoy should’ve made a nice career out of after Star Trek.
Via.
Other failed scifi pilots
Including a Dr. Strange TV show, that Archer fantasy TV movie I saw as a kid, and that Leonard Nimoy one again.
Via.
Tripods
This doesn’t look bad at all for an ’80s War of the Worlds rip-off.
Via.
Giant moon robot!
When the giant robots are done taking over the world, they’ll already be in place on the moon.
Via.
Build your own giant robot
Just in case that last one made you jealous, this guy’ll show you how to make a giant robot of your very own.
Via.
Filed Under return of jezebel james, rocketeer, star trek
I’ve been cross-posting items from the Awesome List to the Newsarama blog for a little while now and it’s getting hard to remember what I’ve posted where. So, to help me stay organized, starting tomorrow I’ll be moving this whole feature over to Newsarama. I’ve been wanting to get more involved over there anyway.
I’ll probably keep linking to it from here though.
Alternative Rocketeers
Not that Dave Stevens‘ character needed re-designing, but Project: Rooftop realizes that. These are simply fun, nice homages.
Jezebel James RIP
Back when I was actively searching out Jesse James-related links because of Jesse James vs. Machine Gun Kelly, I started following news about the Gilmore Girls creator’s new show, The Return of Jezebel James. I liked The Gilmore Girls a lot, so I figured I’d check it out, but I missed that it was coming on this month.
Oh, well. At least I didn’t get hooked on it first.
Women of Star Trek
In honor of Shatner’s birthday over the weekend, EE Knight put together a retrospective of the many women of the original Star Trek series. There’s kind of a creepy poll that goes along with it, but it’s still a cool pictorial.
