CinePhillyist Reviews... The Twilight Saga: New Moon
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BalletX Fall Series Begins TONIGHT
Where Have All Our T-Shirts Gone?
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The shapeless dough of the internet, formed into tasty pellets and baked to perfection, just for you.
- This is an old article, but new to us: an organization called Jupiter Scientific does some calculations to estimate how many of the atoms in your average living human being originated within William Shakespeare. The answer: about 200 billion! Now that's some real science there. (Via)
- Check out this hot Japanese Galaga T-shirt. Too bad you have to pay so much to get it (via). And while we're talking T-shirts, we have something else to say: meh.
- Good news for gamers just keeps pouring in from scientists and researchers! Now we've got a study that says there's little evidence of a link between video games and violent behavior, and another that in fact indicates that being a gamer makes you a better surgeon! Awesome.
- Joystiq has pointed us toward some great material on old school video games on GameDaily: a gallery/list of the best retro games, as well as a collection of videos of the best retro game commercials. The one for The Legend of Zelda is the most embarrassing.
- In a recent interview ,Stallone candidly admitted that Rocky 5 is really quite bad. Unfortunately, he still seems to be under the delusion that all the other Rocky movies were really good...
- This is pretty crazy: rumor has it Wes Craven is developing a surreal family film about the last days of Edgar Allan Poe, and Johnny Depp might be interested in starring. It's all up in the air right now, but we sure would be curious to see this if it actually gets made.
More after the jump...
- Sorry, but we just can't resist a Star Wars gangsta rap video. This is a pretty hilarious one that covers all six movies. This should go without saying, but the audio is NSFW.
- The Aqua Teen Hunger Force movie has a poster, and to no one's surprise, it is not a neon sign of a Mooninite flipping the bird. Instead, they've reimagined the movie as some kind of crazy barbarian fantasy epic. Brilliant.
- New Line is still saying they're making The Hobbit without Peter Jackson (the rumor that Sam Raimi might take over is still hanging around), and it's coming out in 2009.
- Damn it! We really didn't want to be suckered in to seeing another one of these lame-ass new Mummy movies, but now the director is saying the next one will be set in China, Jet Li will play the head mummy of a group of mummies that were the Terracotta army, and Michelle Yeoh will also star. Wah?! How can we not go see it now!
- Ah ha ha! To celebrate President's Day yesterday, Chris's Invincible Super-Blog posted some scans from a comic wherein "Teddy Roosevelt and the ghost of Thomas Edison hijack a time machine and wage a battle against South American Nazis on Mars." The climax apparently consists of Abraham Lincoln beating the crap out of history's greatest dictators, including a robot Hitler. We weren't aware that much awesome could happen at once.
- You may or may not have heard about the "alternate-reality-collectible-card-buried-prize game" called Perplex City. The ultimate goal was to track down a grand prize cube. It was found recently, and here's the story of how it all went down, by the guy who did it. (Via)
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Oh, man...I'm loving that Galaga t-shirt. There's an old Galaga machine at our local movie theater, and I'm always careful to arrive a good fifteen minutes before show-time just to get in some quality space combat.
:) Yeah, Galaga is still definitely one of my favorite all-time shmups.
Stop the presses. Rocky I-IV were BAD?
I'm going to have to go ahead and disagree here. Mightily, I might add.
Lou: I didn't mean they were bad, I only meant that they were not all very good. The original Rocky is a fantastic movie that I love very much. Rocky 2, 3, and 4, less so. Although part of me really does kind of love 4. "I must break you."