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- Gawker did the difficult but important work of digging through hours of video footage to bring you still frames of 50 TV reporters making "O faces." If you know what we mean. (Via Sarah, via Jezebel)
- Lore Sjöberg makes an entertaining, but also surprisingly convincing, argument against using the term "NSFW." (Via Jill)
- OK, the whole disaster film genre may have gone too far when we end up with a movie about "a woman who wakes in the midst of a hurricane to find a tiger roaming through her home. With her stepfather nowhere to be found, she is forced to drag her autistic young brother through the house in a desperate attempt at survival." We can't wait for the video game adaptation!
- Cinematical covers a conversation between film legends Werner Herzog and Jonathan Demme. Interesting note: Herzog considers himself Bavarian, not German; "I don't like the Germans," he says.
- We don't really see how Transporter 3 can be a good movie, but this foreign teaser trailer for it is pretty cool.
- Check out the Philadelphia Inquirer's take on M. Night Shyamalan's latest, The Happening. The short version: it's a disappointing, overwrought, poorly written B-movie. Ouch!
- Speaking of movie reviews, Cinematical has an encouragingly positive one of Incredible Hulk, as well as a link to a list of the 10 comic stories you should read before you see the movie (via). We're glad they included Planet Hulk and World War Hulk. That's good stuff.
- Cinematical has found a PDF document claiming to be Frank Darabont's Indy IV screenplay, entitled Indiana Jones and the City of the Gods. (Via)
- Drawn! lists 10 free web-based alternatives to Photoshop.
- DeskLickr (via), besides having a pretty hilarious name, sounds like a fun app . It puts Flickr photos on your desktop for you. And that's not the only interesting piece of software Download Squad turned us onto; check out Signal (via), which allows you to use an iPhone or iPod Touch as a remote control for your computer.
- Nintendo's European Marketing Director made a rather large public relations gaffe in a recent interview, when he said that only "geeks and otaku" want the company to introduce some kind of upgrade to the Wii's limited 512 MB of game storage. Game|Life points out that, first of all, that's not true, and second of all, even if it was, those people are, by definition, buying lots of games, and giving you lots of money, so maybe you shouldn't insult and marginalize them?
- A job posting suggests that more USB peripherals could be on the way for the Wii soon.
- Fun new Terminator stuff! The MTV Movies Blog snapped a photo of some promo artwork, and learned that the teaser trailer and initial one-sheet are "targeted for a July 18th release date tied with The Dark Knight. (Via)
- The bunnies' acceptance speech for their recent win at the 2008 Webby Awards. (Via)
- Looks like another of Warren Ellis' works is going to be turned into a movie. This time it's Red, which we haven't, well, read. So we'll have to get on that.
- In a post announcing his new LiveJournal site, Warren Ellis describes LJ thusly: "LiveJournal is a once-popular social-blogging service that was run into the ground by SixApart, and is now largely a repository for amateur writing about Harry Potter being jerked off by hobbits. In space."
- Daniel Craig injured his hand filming Quantum of Solace. Seriously, is that production cursed or what?
- Everybody who was ever on Mystery Science Theater 3000 during its 10 year run is apparently going to appear together at a panel at the San Deigo Comic-Con.
- The first Robocop teaser poster. Looks kind of amateur to us...
- Entertainment Weekly lists 12 pieces of technology from movies that they wish were for real. (Via)
- Now there is a blog for images of things that look like ducks. Good lord. (Via)
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You are forgetting a fundamental question about M. Night Shyamalan.
Will M. Night Shyamalan ever make a good movie?
No.
I see dead people? Come on.
The garbage he comes up with males Man Getting Hit in Groin with a Football look like Citizen Kane.
Now for the gadgets who needs a radio watch if you have a communicator? I would have stuck replicator on the list instead.