Archive for November, 2009

Iron Man 2 teaser poster drops

Yep, there’s not much to say here except I hope you have some tissues around to clean yourself up, fanboys! The rumors is that we’ll be getting a trailer this month as well for the Jon Favreau film but I was trying to figure out what films they would show it n front of. Perhaps Avatar? Sherlock Holmes? Hmmm… who knows. In the mean time, I will dream of seeing War Machine dropping empty shells like sunflower seeds at a baseball game. Check out the full image over at Yahoo! here where the poster just debuted a while ago. I need this as my desktop right now!

Random Goodness: Mini-Van vs. Wrecking Ball

In honor of how my Monday will no doubt hit me with work tomorrow when I return to the office, here’s a little real-life representation of all that business. Hope your week goes well, people!

Zero Punctuation: Modern Warfare 2 review

Everything the fine gentleman from England, by way of Australia, is correct. But that hasn’t stopped me from playing the game incessantly for the past few week. I am a fucking robot and this robot likes his Modern Warfare 2, what can I say. I think I’ll join a frat next while I’m at it. Oh what would my ancestors think if they could see this…

Random Goodness: Lego Matrix

Legos are cool! Wow. I mean, if you look at all the detail they included in this project… just wow. My favorite is that they got Neo kick spinning the gun on the ground after the bullet time because ever since the first time I watch The Matrix, my eye always goes to that in that shot. The guys say they spent over 440 hours on this, which seems excessive and works out to some 5 hours per second but hey, it’s pretty damn cool. After the break, check out the side-by-side comparison of this and the original film to see all they captured and failed to capture. Hit up the official site for more background on the creation of the short. [via Slash Film] Read more…

Video game short film “Turbo” now online

TURBO from Jarrett Lee Conaway on Vimeo.

A while back we brought you the trailer for Turbo, the short film from USC film student Jarrett Conaway and this week the entire film has been put online for everyone to check out. The entire film runs about 23 minutes and it gives us what some people have described as The Karate Kid meets The Wizard. I don’t know about you but if the Power Glove makes an appearance, I’ll be a very happy man. Enjoy!

Flick Picks: because geeks need fantasy football, too.

So this year I jumped into my first fantasy football league and needless to say, I suck. HARD! But I’m still trying to work my way around using advice from friends who actually pay attention to that kind of stuff, sports & whutnot because if Bo Jackson, Jose Canseco or Shaq in an Orlando Magic uniform ain’t in it, I’m probably not watching it. But I feel alienated from those people who do for some reason. So when I read about Flick Picks, I was immediately interested. Basically, it’s a league when you are a theater owner and depending on the movies opening that weekend, you pick which films to screen and when the box office numbers are released at the end, you are rewarded with points. I’m sure it’s a lot more complicated than that but check out the video up there and rejoice that a nerd friendly alternative to sports leagues have arrived! Sign up here at the official site and I’ll see you on there!

Random Goodness: How Twilight should have ended

So some of you out there have already seen New Moon like 17 times (hence the massive box office this weekend) and I have yet to see any of the films. But this new edition of HISHE actually makes me wanna see the first film, if only to compare notes. But for those of you out there who are balls deep (I guess I should say “ovaries deep”) in Twilight mania, I hope you enjoy! And for those of you who are questioning my sanity for posting Twilight stuff, listen to the truth spoken by the great Kevin Smith regarding these fans. Yeah….