Star Wars Uncut

You remember this project right? Take Star Wars and divide it into 15 second chunks, then invite fans to recreate each piece. Well, they finally finished in April, had a couple screenings, now you can watch the entire movie online. It's awesome. Shades of Hard Ware Wars. Be sure to watch it now, before Lucas comes to his senses.

Key scenes:
• "You're a little short for a storm trooper."
• Millennium Falcon escaping the Death Star.
• "Red 5 standing by.."
• uh, the entire end battle!

LINK to Star Wars Uncut!!

We've got company! (montage)

Really, really, good compositing

I guess the demands of a weekly TV show, with scripts that require a worldwide shot list, necessitated that most of these shots be composites...and you can't tell.





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District 9

I've seen bits and pieces of a realistic sci-fi scenario involving alien refugees for years now. This clip is from 2006...


It seems there's finally a movie getting made.

Netflix local favorites

No, not the remake, the original. I mean It's a great movie and all, but at the number 1 spot? What does that say about our fair city? I'm not sure.

Roku box rocks

I bought one of those Netflix TV boxes ...it's friggin' sweet as Peter Griffin would say.

The compression on the movies is pretty good too. The only time I saw it really struggle was on very dark, shadowy or smoky subject matter. Otherwise, looks better than broadcast to me.

Yesterday I watched a little bit of "Silver Streak", which sucks so I had to turn it off....a movie called "SixtyNine" no, not a porno, but a thai film noir which was awesome...and started Spiderman 3, which kinda sucks so far as well.

Okay, so it looks like I'll have to choose more wisely, right? Wrong! It doesn't matter what I put in the queue..it's all FREE and UNLIMITED (with a netflix account)...so if it sucks, just move on to something else!

meta meta meta: EBERT VS. STEIN

I love this metafilter thread commenting on Roger Ebert's recent smackdown of Ben Stein in relation to some creationsist documentary. This is a great thread for no other reason but the sporadic "evolution" of the phrase:
"I say this on Bad Astronomy the other day, and enjoyed it a lot. Ebert's a pretty smart dude." (sic)

I sap this on Bad Astronomy the other day, and enjoyed it a lot. Ebert's a pretty smart dude.

I sag this on Bad Astronomy the other day, and enjoyed it a lot. Ebert's a pretty smart dude.

A pretty bad smart astronomy dude says the other day, 'Ebert on this. And I enjoyed it a lot.

I was this on Sad Astronomy the other way, and unfolded it a dot. Ebert's a pretty start frood.

I sat this on Sad Astrology the mother way, and unfolded it a dot. Peebert's a pretty stamp froot.


LINK to thread

MST3K boys reminisce...

God, I miss that show. I distinctly remember every Thanksgiving, when Comedy Central would run a MST3K marathon. Here's a link to an interview with Joel Hodgson, Trace Beaulieu, and Jim Mallon, who were the originators of MST3K.

It doesn't sound like they're going to start another series, but they have this project, Cinematic Titanic, where you can download and burn DVDs.

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Oh God, "The Stabilizer" rocks

Okay. So we had another "bad movie night" last night, and it's definitely up there with "Gymkata". "The Stabilizer" is an Indonesian action flick from 1984 which has some very tasteful nude scenes, is littered with expletives, and is so relentless in things blowing up, people getting shot, and cars jumping off ramps,...it's mind-numbing. I decided to share some scenes, and don't for a second think that this is an exhaustive sampling, because this film brings it, and brings it hard.




These are literally the first frames of the movie. I mean, c'mon. I was laughing non-stop from this point.




This scene is timed brilliantly. Love the stock 747 shot too.




Uhh...beergasm?



This is the takeaway catch-phrase of the movie. Wait for it.



"Just a little anti-American sentiment running around..."



The physics involved with this action sequence are so wrong they're right. Watch the dude on the right when they go back to get the gun..he just smacked his ass!




Oh, If only my conversations were so effortless.




Yeah, I got hit in the head with a bucket...what about it. How about I just jump up and bust yer ass through the floor?



Wait...what? What was that? That's not spit!




What just happened here? There's an explosion, then she carefully lays on the ground?!




Again, wait for it.




I was imagining all sorts of great death scenes for the bad guy, but this wasn't it.

Cosplayers in repose

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Reggie Bannister vs. Powers Booth

I recently watched "Phantasm" the other day, and was shocked and dismayed to learn that Powers Booth was not in it.  Ever since hight school,  I took it for granted that it was he who played "Reggie" in the first two movies...but in fact it was "Reggie Bannister".  C'mon, you see it right?

Arghhh!!

Thanks, Jeremiah.

Bad Movie Night

We had a "bad movie night" screening at my house last night. The standout was "Gymkata". Highly entertaining.

I'm such a big Lynch fan, that I'm just going to post whatever I find about him.

Le Planete Sauvage

Here's a remix of "Le Planete Sauvage", that trippy 70s animated French feature that I first saw in "The Cell".

Interview with David Lynch

Interview with David Lynch.

"Film is so big and heavy and slow, you just die. It's just ridiculous."

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Airplane and Zero Hour

Am I the last guy to find out that "Airplane" was a shot-for-shot rehash of "Zero Hour"?!

(via Andy's blog)

Belarusian Movie Posters.
(via Plep.)

B-movie reviews

Serious timewaster.