Seriously Look At His Facial Expression

2 Posts in a day? Couldn’t be helped!

It’s absolutely amazing how a single inserted flashback scene can make this entire memorable Star Wars scene both 20x more disturbing and humorous. I mean just look at his facial expression right before AND after the flashback. Hilarious.

[Via: io9.]

Science Fiction Geek Chart (now with sexual role playing)

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A comparison between the different kinds of science fiction geeks that are out there. Going down the list it goes from Moniker, How they like their Science Fiction, Proudest moment, Lamet moment, When they go too far, What to expect if you marry one, How to piss one off, and clearly the most interesting and entertaining of them – sex role playing, I was so entertained by that last line I’d like to throw out a few sex role playing lines for other franchises:

• Battlestar Galactica: There was a lot of news about a sex robot being released earlier this year…
• Dune: I don’t want to think what kind of cosplay is going to be thought up with ‘sand worms’
• Fringe: Well if we go by Walter’s preferences of life there will be a heavy slant towards drug use
• Stargate: Portals where you can go part way through and the rest of you is on the other side? Glory Holes have existed for awhile.

Hey Wednesday is “hump day”.. making fun of the twisted sexual preferences of my fellow geeks is perfectly acceptable! (Wait… that’s “getting over the hump” and not sex? …. meh. My site! I need no excuse to talk about sex!)

Periodic Table of Science Fiction

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Like everything else, science fiction can be broken down into its constituent elements. When Avatar was discovered in 1803, H. Samuel Cameron knew it would decompose into Exo Squad, Matrix Revolutions, E.T. and Lost in Space atoms. Now you can understand these stoichiometric processes… and become a total sex magnet!!

Now if I thought owning this print would turn me into a total sex magnet for even a second I believe I’d go from being in a relationship to being single in about 30 seconds flat. Don’t worry hon I don’t believe that. I do believe though that for any science fiction loving geek out there this is a quick and fun read over just for the visual joy that anyone took the time to do this (and makes me wonder why I didn’t take the time to do this.)

You can buy a print over at Topatoco!

Minimalist Star Wars Travel Posters

I have to admit that while I enjoy the Minimalist style it’s not the first thing that I would imagine when going for Star Wars posters. These though absolutely work. I’m actually curious as to Justin’s take on a few of the planets from the Dune universe.

Now that would be extremely entertaining to see. (Also it would cheer me up since there is now a rumor that the new Dune film will be in 3D. Why. WHY?!)

[By: Justin Van Genderen]

Battlestar Galactica Composer Bear McCreary plays with Katee Sackhoff “All Along The Watchtower”

OK this is just epic for anyone who followed the series you know the scene this is starting with and already love the music Bear has put together. So here the composer gets to play with Katee Sackhoff (Starbuck) and really would have been awesome to see. I’ll do a quick post of what was said on the youtube’s info for the video.

This is exclusive footage that I shot at the Grand Performances Series in Downtown Los Angeles.

Note from Bear McCreary: “Kara Thrace herself, Katee Sackhoff, joined me on stage at the grand piano to play Kara Remembers I played the left hand part, and she plucked out the Final Four Theme, just as she did in the climax of Someone to Watch Over Me. Once we had the Final Four Theme going on the piano, the band snuck in, building to Heeding the Call and finally All Along the Watchtower.

Dune.. Home of the.. Liam Neeson Punching You In The Face.. wait I mean Spice. Home of the Spice.

This news came about 3 days ago but I was preoccupied with life and when Matt linked me the Dune Cat above I realized it deserved a write up (if for no other reason but to use the above image again as I hadn’t seen it in a year or two.)

If that title above doesn’t make sense well here’s what it means: Peter Berg was originally lined up to direct the new Dune film but ended up dropping out and set to replace him is Pierre Morel. Who is Pierre Morel you ask? While not as much of a known name as Berg to some he was the director of “Taken.” For those of you who haven’t seen Taken yet it basically starred Liam Neeson as an ex-spy who goes around beating the hell out of people.

While that may not inspire many as Dune is an over the top 20 plot line mess if you think of it in a movie that isn’t under at least 6 hours long or perhaps a 1-2 season mini-series (just for the first novel) I’m still willing to give him a shot as what he has done did look spectacular. Let’s face it if you can’t fit in all of the plot (which will be impossible in the probable hour and a half to 2 hour movie that this will become) it has to at least look visually amazing.

So Pierre, just so you know (and I’m sure you care about the opinion of a blogger you’ve never heard of and probably will never meet) this is my favorite piece of science fiction. Ever. In fact this is one of, if not, my favorite science fiction stories of all time. Please don’t fuck it up.

Score! Children Of The Corn Is Mine!

Thanks to a little contest run by the fine folks at childrenofthecornmovie.com I am now the proud owner of the new Children of the Corn remake that SyFy has recently done. I was a huge fan of the original Children of the Corn and have been itching to be able to watch the new one. Well it’s on the way and soon I’ll be able to get a viewing in. While I’ve skimmed some reviews and see that they’ve been mostly mixed, I’m hoping that it lives up to the high quality of the original!

When a young couple find themselves stranded in the isolated community of Gatlin, Nebraska, they discover that all of the town’s adults have been slaughtered by a religious cult of twisted children who worship a mysterious cornfield deity. Can these adults escape the fanatical wrath of these adolescent zealots, or will they become the next blood sacrifices to ‘He Who Walks Behind The Rows’?

Why Can’t Space Horror Be Good?

So Splice here is the latest movie to be offered up as Scifi Horror. I don’t know about you but this clip really doesn’t look all of that ‘horrifying’ to me. It’s a world where genetic engineering is mainstream and 2 scientists are creating new animals from spliced genes. Eventually they want a new breakthrough and start adding human DNA into the mix. So the creatures they make will become intelligent, warlike, and hate us. That’s my guess. I’m hoping this is just a bad clip because I REALLY want a good science fiction horror flick to come out and Hollywood has just been disappointing me as of late.

Ever since I first saw Alien at a ripe young age the cross between Science Fiction and Horror has been strong in my mind and put it into it’s own little underused genre of both that can produce fantastic results.

“In Space No One Can Hear You Scream.” Alien, Aliens, Event Horizon. Simply fantastic movies. Aliens 3 and Resurrection? Not nearly as good but still entertaining. As of late there haven’t been many attempts at the genre with the only one that stands out being Pandorum which was more of a psychological thriller in certain parts. That would be fine with me though if the movie didn’t have so many weak aspects to it (see: me calling the first of the two twists within 2 seconds of how it was introduced. I really think I would have been happier with the movie if that didn’t happen.)

So Where Did Space Horror REALLY Go Wrong?

I’m not even going to mention my feelings on Friday the 13th, Hellraiser, and Leprechaun… in space. I don’t think I have to. Watch for a laugh? Sure. The concept itself? *sighs* Actually Hellraiser’s concept wasn’t ‘that‘ bad, I just don’t recall it being executed properly. Maybe the rumored Dead Space movie will end up actually being decent? I know I’ve also ranted on this topic before but it can’t be that hard.

Here’s the thing. I’m going to let you in on a little secret that Alien and Event Horizon did to work- use a HUGE amount of build up and suspense and deliver a big payoff. I know it’s hard to believe but really that’s it. That’s what worked. We don’t need the cheap scares every few minutes and without the buildup it just doesn’t deliver the payoff. Long, dark, quiet pathways. Echos from walking or from everything being metal. Think about it your on a space ship or space station, understaffed, and thousands to millions away from help. Suddenly SOMETHING happens. Make the character’s alone. Make them not have help on the horizon. Please, someone, make me a space horror movie that will make audiences happy.

Battlestar Galactica REBOOT To Happen. Frak.

You may or may not know this but I find Battlestar Galactica to be some of, if not the best science fiction to come out in years. Both standing by itself, as a TV show, or compared to movies. I’ve been following the show since Season 1 and have watched the characters evolve through an epic tale of… well there are so many issues touched upon. Religion, Spirituality, The Human Soul, Racism, Torture, Growing Up, Family, Love, Lust, Hatred,LIFE.

At any rate. You would think that hearing about more BSG would be good? Of course it would. IF IT WASN’T BEING RESTARTED. Bryan Singer was a god with X-Men 1+2. As far as reboots go? Superman was very disappointing to a LOT of people. Even that not being the case? It’s the cast and story we were JUST told that made BSG such a wonderful universe. Edward James Olmos, Mary McDonnell, Jamie Bamber, James Callis, Tricia Helfer(yum,) Grace Park, Katee Sackhoff, Michael Hogan, Aaron Douglas, Tahmoh Penikett, Donnelly Rhodes, Michael Trucco, Richard Hatch, Kate Vernon- without these actors and the rest of the cast there is NO movie to be made.

Whoever thought this was a good idea should honestly be shot. I’m not exaggerating. I take my entertainment seriously and whoever decided restarting what has become such an amazing show as a movie isn’t worth breathing the same air as me. Frak you! So say we all!

[via: SciFi Squad.]

Take David Duchovny as an ex-federal agent with a sidekick who is a redhead that chase after little green men and the first thing you think of? X-Files of course. This is NOT an X-Files movie! Julianne Moore makes a great redhead sidekick but is definitely not Skully and Duchovny is NOT Mulder in the slightest. While an outcast from his government days it was due to playing mad scientist and he is now currently a college professor. This is though a comedy so to top off the cast we can add in Orlando Jones and Stifler, I mean, Seann William Scott. As annoying as his character can be he really just portray the role of the bumbling idiot who thinks he’s the man perfectly. Dan Aykroyd(always plays politicians in spoofs nowadays) and Sarah Silverman(yum!) also help as supporting characters.

Stifler, ahem I mean Wayne, is out practicing to be a firefighter as his testing is the next day when out of the sky a meteor crashes into the earth. Duchnovy’s character, Ira, is sent with Orlando Jones. Harry, to go and investigate it. When aliens start to ‘evolve’ off of the microscopic organisms on the meteor at a rapid rate the government gets involved and of course at that point everything goes downhill. When’s the last time you saw any form of a sci-fi MOVIE (not show) where the government actually helps? I kind of miss the thought of that even being realistic now. Julianne Moore plays Allison, a government scientist who is trying to research if this is a health risk or not before the military shuts everyone down and the real alien threat begins. Ira and Harry with the help of Wayne spend all of their time trying to chase after the aliens and stop this from getting out of hand while at the same time avoiding the military who is trying to keep the incident contained. (Oh yes and of course throw in a sub-romance plot between Ira and Allison.) While not a full satire or spoof on alien movies at the time or X-Files there was still a lot of poking fun at the genre in a good way. I’m sure without Duchnovy and his work as Mulder this would not have been nearly as entertaining. At least the man doesn’t mind poking fun at his one big roll! (Don’t get me wrong. I loved his acting in Kalifornia and Playing God and can’t wait to see him on the new Showtime series that he’s in. Just let’s admit it. Mulder was his role for years and a huge success on top of that!)

If you were a fan of the X-Files and looking for a spoof of the show or just in general enjoy humorous sci-fi movies. This one’s a must get. I really couldn’t stop laughing throughout the majority of the film.

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