There’s a film that’s making a big splash called The People vs. George Lucas. It’s interesting to see the trailer, because you get to see all kinds of nerd rage unleashed:
I understand George Lucas hatred. It can be argued that he lost his touch years ago. And sure, Phantom Menace sucks, but I’m not as anti-Lucas as most. I think he’s still the man we all used to love, he would just better off with some sort of oversight when he went too wacky with the stupid ideas. If you didn’t like the prequels, get over it. Yes, it’s fun to discuss why they might be bad, but to say that George Lucas raped your childhood is just pathetic.
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For today’s Nerd Approved Babes I present to you some Thundercats cosplay/costuming action. I knew you’ve been wanting some, but you were just too afraid to ask. Of course, almost every Thundercat lady here is Cheetara, because no soul is either brave enough or a fan enough to dress up like Pumyra. Yes, I’m a geek.
The beauty of the “Cheetara twins” was enough to launch a thousand geeks to write even more horrible fan fiction.
Well, I guess the new Aliens Vs. Predator game has a survival mode that pits up to four players against a swarm of Aliens. Totally ballsome. But lest you think this is some crazy new idea lifted from Left 4 Dead, a survivor type mode was in the first PC version of the game. Back then it wasn’t very fun because it was just a mass of aliens with no real breaks between waves or hope of holding out very long. Hopefully this version of AvP did take some notes from L4D, namely in giving players at least a chance to survive if they are good. If it did, I’m all over this like stink on your mom.
As you can probably guess from the post title, I finally got to see Moon. I had heard it was good and I was really hoping it was and damn it if it didn’t beat my already high expectations. If you’re a sci-fi fan or even just want to see a good film, you must see Moon.
One of the worst part of being a nerd is the impression that you’re some kind of untouchable loser. This sort of thing never really helped the problem:
If you don’t know Star Trek, but you guessed that this helmet has nothing to do with it or Spock you’ve guessed correctly. It’s just a terrible marketing tie-in from way back in the day.
Those geniuses at Red Letter Media who were responsible for the epic Phantom Menace Review have done it again. This time they have an Avatar review that busts out the same level of awesome found in the Phantom review. It’s only two parts and I highly recommend checking it out. While he knocks the film, he doesn’t completely crush it like he did with Phantom. He also hits upon why Babette could have been so utterly destroyed while watching it, even though she didn’t really like the movie.
The above picture would be pretty sweet without any context, but in case you’re wondering it comes from a nearly uncompromisable manga about the difference between merely liking underage girls versus pedophilla. You know, because that’s something you should have to be taught.
Hey kids, you probably forgot that I actually read books sometimes like a real Bill Shakespeare. Well, I do though not for awhile. I’ve been reading a lot of cheap comic books, but I did read Republic Commando Triple Zero awhile back and I recently found my notes so I could compile my notes and come up with a brand new book report for y’all. Enjoy!
Star Wars: Triple Zero by Karen Traviss
Book Report by Vincent
Triple Zero is the sequel to the book Hard Contact by Karen Traviss. In Triple Zero the clones go to the Republic capital planet Coruscant because some real jackasses are blowing up clone army targets. A sargent that helped trained the clone commandos decides he’s going to form an elite unit to take down the “terrorists” who are attempting to cripple the Republic war effort. Basically, it’s the clones going to Iraq.
I like to think of myself as something of a power nerd. Therefore I find it nearly unthinkable that I didn’t know about the existence of a Back to the Future cartoon. Perhaps I wiped it from my memory? Or is this just some elaborate hoax designed to make me feel like less of a nerd. If so, I’m not really cool with that.
I finally got to see Avatar last night and man, was it an interesting experience. James Cameron’s long awaited (and heavily derided by overly angry nerds) film was actually pretty great. The biggest complaints I’ve heard revolve around the story and while I admit that it is a rather simple Fern Gully like tale, it worked for me. The thing is that I didn’t go in expecting some sort of cinematic masterpiece like Citizen Kane. I expected The Abyss or hell, even Aliens level story and got it. I understand I might anger some nerds out there, but the story of Aliens is pretty god damned paint by numbers storytelling. Hell, the unkillable head bad guy was straight out of almost all of Cameron’s other works and it made me watch to watch the crazed Michael Biehn in Abyss once again. Shit, now I’m hoping for an Abyss 3D re-release, though that will never happen.
The always awesome sci-fi website IO9 recently posted an image of what the new Predators will look like in the new Predator flick lamely titled, Predators. I’m very pleased to see that they haven’t changed a whole lot…
They do look a bit skinnier or something, but maybe it’s the slimming effect of a cell phone camera. I really dig the tusks on the one Pred’s mask, as it sets him apart and still looks pretty boss. Let’s hope that they’re just as ugly under the masks.
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