Category Archives: Miscellaneous
John Carpenter’s ‘The Thing’ with Penguins
I’ve never heard of the children’s television show Pengu. Nor have I heard of Lee Hardcastle Animations, the ones who posted this video to youtube. But I do know that it’s weird and funny and suitably fun enough to post. As if the Internet wasn’t already filled with insane machinations of fevered minds. Somebody somewhere decided to use a claymation penguin family to retell ‘The Thing’ in only about 2 minutes. That’s…that’s the sort of brilliance only the Internet can provide!
This Girl Has It All Figured Out
Leave it to an adorable little girl to get to the bottom of commercialism. Named Riley, her frank and impressive rant about the difference between boys’ toys and girls’ toys is pretty freakin’ smart. I hope my eventual offspring are this intelligent. And that any daughters I have want superheroes!
Getting Into the Christmas Spirit
If this video doesn’t get you into the Christmas Spirit, then nothing will! It’s ‘Walking in a Winter Wonderland’ set to a wonderful menagerie of Calvin & Hobbes snowmen. Kudos to Jim Frommey and Teague Chrystie, who I believe made this and posted it to Youtube.
If you don’t get the reference, Calvin was always making hilariously twisted snowmen. You can find a gallery of the comics here. And check out this one, one of my favorites:
George Takei is Our New Nerd King
Some of you may be following the sci-fi spat between William Shatner and Carrie Fisher, or respectively, Capt. Kirk from Star Trek and Princess Leia from Star Wars. I haven’t been, because I don’t like to indulge in celebrity BS. A new chapter of the spat has unfolded, however, one that I have to share. But to set the scene, Shatner started the whole mess in an interview by saying Star Wars was derivative of Star Trek. Then Carrie Fisher did her own interview refuting him. Then Shatner made a personal video message to Fisher. Good-natured snarky fun was hard by all.
Well Star Trek’s George Takei has stepped forward to try and broker peace in a video that must be viewed by all science fiction fans.
The Henchman-4-Hire hereby pledges himself to George Takei’s cause! We must unite, my brothers and sisters in nerd!
There is Only One Good ‘Battleship’ Pun and I’ve Already Used It
There’s a new trailer out for the Battleship movie, and it’s…alright, I guess. The first trailer was released all the way back in July, but a quick look at the original post I made reveals that the trailer has been taken down. Thankfully, the new one seems more official, so let’s take a look, shall we?
Honestly, it just looks like a generic sort of military vs. aliens movie. I’m of two minds about this kind of project. On the one hand, I think it’s silly that Hollywood is making movies based on old board games from the 1980s. On the other hand, there’s nothing to the game Battleship to base a movie on. This is its own movie, but they’re just tacking the name ‘Battleship’ onto it for brand recognition. I’m hoping that whoever wrote this movie, wrote the best damn military vs. aliens movie they could. So I don’t think it’s a sign of lack of creativity in Hollywood. I think it’s a sign that marketing executives have no souls.
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