• Badass Digest has several posts up about the just-launched viral campaign for Guillermo del Toro's upcoming monster fest, Pacific Rim. Despite the Cloverfield-esque feel of the video above, the site is quick to point out that this teaser is not reflective of how the finished film will look. So you haters of footage that is carefully crafted to look as shitty as possible can breathe a sigh of relief. • Another day, another new S.H.I.E.L.D. agent for the ABC's upcoming Marvel-based TV series is announced. (Via Zap 2 It) • From Comics Alliance comes this report about how Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere is being adapted as a BBC radio series that will feature the likes of Benedict Cumberbatch and James McAvoy. The best part? This thing is being masterminded by Dirk Maggs, the bearded wunderkind who brought a variety of Douglas Adams' works to the airwaves over the past decade. He's also helmed radio series' based on Batman and Spider-Man, so this project will be another nerdy feather in his cap. • Speaking of Adams, The Verge has an in-depth video interview from 1997 with the late Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy author sharing his views on artificial lifeforms.
• This Wonder Woman pint glass (which comes complete with its own cape) exists to make your Christmas Shopping easier. Drink like a hero for $12.95 over at Neatorama.
• MTV Geek has the debut trailer for Fist of the North Star: Ken's Rage 2. • Remember Jocasta Nu, the fascinating Jedi Temple librarian from Attack of the Clones? Me neither, but here's an eight-minute video all about her new action figure from Hasbro. • As much as we all want him to, Bigfoot continues to not exist. (Via io9) • The New York Times has an interesting article about how a King Kong musical couldpossibly end Spider-Man's Broadway run. Now we all know what a clusterfuck the Spidey show was, but a King King song-and-dance extravaganza sounds like an equally atrocious idea. Don't let that stop you from listing potential songs from the musical in the comments though! • One of the original Batmobiles from the 1960s Batman TV series is going on sale in January. This is going to make someone who has the magical combination of riches and deep nostalgia very happy. (Via CNN) • Apologies to any Archer or Adventure Time fans out there, but I think the best animated series on TV right now is Bob's Burgers. Those of you who share my love for this less-popular of the two H. Jon Benjamin cartoons currently airing may be interested in the original pilot series featured above. It's like getting a glimpse into a parallel universe in which Tina never lusted after Jimmy Pesto, Jr. (From The Huffington Post)
I’m not sure what to think about the new monster movie, butthe rest of the news is good for me. Joss Whedon’s Marvel-based TV seriesshould be good, and that’s a perfect pint glass for any fan of comic books. Ijust had a friend that works with me at DISH tell me about the Bob’s Burgersdemo, and it seems so weird to see a different child. It’s Dan Mintz for bothcharacters though, right? I’ve had plenty of laughs with Bob’s Burgers over theyears. I’m even saving this entire season to my DISH Hopper. With 2TB worth ofmemory, I have more than enough room to save my massive TV lineup and an entireseason of a great show when I want to have plenty of laughs. Now that my TVlife is organized, I just need to see how much that original Batmobile goesfor. Cheers.
I might have to start watching Bob's Burgers. The Child Molester, plus the explanation of why it comes with candy; and the line "Argh, you're the worst kind of autistic" had me laughing.
Ugh. I hate Del Toro. For me his movies are actually very mediocre. Blade 2, both Hellboys... They are just fan films without substance. Pan´s Laberynth is the best of them but for me it´s no big masterpiece, it just had good FX an adolescent twist at the end and a different setting. Now Pacific Rim looks any giant monster/mecha movie with big budget.
@Bearr@Gallen_Dugall@chrchaves But he doesn't even have a vision. He admitted that Pan's Labyrinth was just a bunch of stuff lifted from various fairy tales, and forty-something fat nerd trying to make girls feel better about "becoming a woman" is just creepy as hell. And his special effects look all plasticky, like giant action figures that move. Vision smision. Del Toro is a hack, and I'm so glad he didn't do the Hobbit.
I've been sort of take it or leave it about Bob's Burgers since it started, but I'm starting to get into it more. I like it more than Archer, but part of that is because it's easier to find, sandwiched in between The Simpsons and Family Guy. I haven't gotten to the point where I'll be sad if it gets cancelled, but I'd like it to stick around
given that spider man turn off the dark wound up even after all its twists and turns wound up on broadway can just see king kong fitting right in though wonder if the producers of the thing will have kong sing . and that wonder woman glass hope the cape can be removed when some one decides to use the thing
Just me filling the awkward silence and trying way too damn hard
When people ask you who your favorite artist is what do you say? I used to say Bill Squeegee (a homeless guy in Fort Myers who was an artist with a spray bottle and squeegee... kinda) but that was before I discovered Jeff de Boer who makes crazy beautiful stuff
I'm kind of excited about that Neverwhere thing, but have to admit that Cumberbatch as the angel is a little obvious. I immediately imagined him as Croup. But it turns out Anthony Head is doing that. And talk about burying the lede, Christopher Lee's in it too.
I dug the audio from the News Report one quite a bit, but for some reason, it was the "Kaiju Emergency Alert System" test that got me more pumped. Maybe because I'm holding out hope that TV stations will actually let them use it as a spot. They'd probably have to add a title card onto it to not get some kind of lawsuit, but it'd still be awesome.
Also, I am loving the way the Jaegers are looking. Each one has a unique look to it, but they all have a unified aesthetic that says "these are made by the same people for the same purpose."
The more info comes out about Pac Rim, the more unhealthily excited I become.
@NakedAmericanMan um - they're supposed to look like they come from different nations at different times - hence the different languages on them, different states of decay on the paper, and different trademarks and different unit logos
You can get a pretty good sense of the plot by reading them - I mean "reactor not approved for final version" (if I'm reading that right) screams PLOT POINT! Given that we know the protagonists will be piloting something "obsolete" which points to it being this dangerous reactor prototype that was never fielded... plus that is the biggest and most detailed of all the blueprints so far.
@Gallen_Dugall Okay, not "the same people" as in the exact same dev teams, but like the basic sort of skeletal structure comes from a single school of thought.
I guess more that they look different without looking like they come from different universes.
Oh, also, China's Jaeger, Crimson Typhoon, just got revealed:
@Gallen_Dugall@NakedAmericanMan Yes, always hook your humans in parallel. When you hook them in series one gets all the power and the third is really dim.
(Yes, I realize I'm passing on the Human Centipede joke, and you should too.)
On a serious note, the problem with all great ideas is that the people who think of them usually don't have to use them.
Note on Human beings - if you can hook enough of them together in parallel they become useful.
lots of similar "overwhelm the enemy through manpower" jokes were made about the F4 Phantom way back in the day - at that point fighters shifted from one pilot to a pilot and "navigator" combo so one person could be dedicated to monitoring all the electronics (particularly radar) because the primitive information systems tended to overwhelm single operator craft pilots. Seriously, there was so much information for the pilot to process they often missed critical things - like missile lock warnings. Better information presentation and computer support systems eventually reduced the need for "navigators" in aircraft so that today many modern fighters again are single seat.
As far as the "technical movie reason" goes it's so they can have a romantic interest in the film, physically with the main protagonist.
I'm more curious as to how the three pilots thing is supposed to work. Does the one guy just work the extra arm? Does he get made fun of for that? Is there even an innuendo to be had in that?
and yeah - I get what you're saying and I probably got it before you clarified and I was just being anal - sorry - apparently you are right and there is one "super design genius" that consulted on all of these is you read through the "classified documents" which makes sense because probably the same art team did all of these, but then all "planes" and "tanks" pretty much look alike so that follows anyway.
And we thought Peter Jackson blundered with his first Hobbit teaser footage. This is easily the worst trailer EVER made. You can't see a thing, it makes you dizzy, and, it's annoying. Yikes.
It's a good thing this isn't the official teaser then, huh?
It's just a viral video, there's nothing in the actual video that connects it to Pacific Rim either, just outside information. Most of this was probably created for the viral campaign. I'll be surprised if we see any of this footage outside of a news report on a TV within the film.
I can accept that Bob's Burgers is the best animated show on TV right now. However, come this February that title will belong to Venture Brothers and Venture Brothers alone.
If you're like me and can't afford Rifftrax you may just want to pop by their site and read the film descriptions which are usually fairly entertaining all by themselves. Like this one: Let’s Pretend: Magic Sneakers
There’s no two ways about it, Let’s Pretend: Magic Sneakers is a gleeful, brightly-colored, downright whimsical piece of insane evil. A young boy, grime-encrusted as a train hobo, has seemingly been left to fend for himself in a glum warehouse district. He plays with the garbage he can find, all the while smiling and laughing, probably because his brain is collapsing into a vegetative state from going days without food. Among the filth, he discovers the Magic Sneakers, which can dance and move all on their own! Overjoyed at finding intact footwear, the boy follows the sneakers on what’s sure to be an uplifting adventure (or at least, a trip to a place where he can get some soup)...but no, the sneakers cruelly lead him through a drainage ditch to the kind of remote wilderness location where people tend to “disappear.” Things get even more sinister when a cloaked figure (who looks more like a violent meth addict from Breaking Bad than a playful spirit) appears, his sneaker trap successful!Is there hope for the boy? Have we maybe imposed a little more darkness on this story than is necessarily there? Join Mike, Kevin and Bill in the twisted world of Let’s Pretend: Magic Sneakers to find out!
@Gallen_Dugall You can also see their sneak peek videos on youtube, which include some of the funniest lines. If you're going to spend any money on Rifftrax commentaries themselves, though, I HIGHLY recommend both "Birdemic" and "Twilight." Birdemic is available on Netflix (or you can buy it on Blu-Ray. . . *shudder*), and it is about as terrible as it is humanly possible to make a movie. And the Twilight rifftrax makes me actually want to watch the rest of the movies for the sheer joy of ripping them to pieces with the MST3K gang.
@10glfan59 The text is too small and the image is pixel shifted to prevent enhancement - has anyone seen a full size version? I'd like to string them all together to make a giant wallpaper, but they need to be the same size. Plus the mole men down in the Mad Science R&D department want to try to reverse engineer them by sampling data from each.
Another quick question - what's up with the site countdown showing 13 days (in five minutes it will show 12) the film isn't out until summer. Trailer release? We've certainly been getting stuff daily.
@Gallen_Dugall @10glfan59 I haven't figured out the countdown but I'm pretty sure it's to more info.
I haven't seen the same sized blueprint yet, you are probably going to have to shrink them to the smaller size, but at least they all have a human figure on them for size reference.
As for your R&D Department, they will never beat me to finishing. I have Four old Chevys, a dirt bike, and a ABBA record duct taped together with fishing line all controlled by a Tiger hand held game from the 80's. As soon as I figure out how to set the clock on the old VCR display I'll be off on my test run.
@Gallen_Dugall@Someguy Yea, I usually give everyone that option but not too many take me up on it. Unfortunately it does not give me that option so I guess I'm not allowed to play with myself on here.
@Someguy you're not profilable - I can't select you to follow
other than that I'm going to wait and see if the others get better releases on the official site when they are posted there - then I'll give it another go
My first effort is now available under my MVN profile - pictures. I think we can all agree that there was too much data loss on the rescale. The thing about those old VCR clocks is that they have as many as six separate clocks (often with dates) so you can set things to record, stop record and so on, but frankly I have no idea what the molemen actually finish since it all goes down the bottomless pit to the molemen kingdom for molemen wars or whatever they do down there.
