It’s been a long time since we last saw the characters from The Walking Dead. To refresh your memory as we get ready for for season five starting Sunday night, you can watch the marathon that’s on AMC all this week, or you can catch up on the entire series with the Fine Brothers, who tell us everything of importance that’s happened so far. Four years of mayhem, misery, fear, and death are condensed into a mere nine minutes, which makes it seem all so …awful. Well, the world is a pretty awful place after the zombie apocalypse. Fans may find this funny. -Thanks, Benny!
Ghostbusters 3 "will they or wont they" has been a big point of speculation for the internet over the last few years, with news changing daily. Yes they will make it. No, they wont. Murray wants nothing to do with it. Blah blah Slimer blah.
Finally, though, it is happening. We have an 100% confirmation on Ghostbusters 3, KIND OF. More of a Ghostbusters reboot with the story focusing around female ghostbusters. With some really interesting casting choices, (which I wont ruin it for you) it sounds kind of cool. Just watch the Machinima video and see for yourself.
Come on, as soon as I said female ghostbusters, we all thought of the entire Bridesmaids cast. It's cool. That sounds like it could be a riot. Now we just have to wait years and years to see if it comes to fruition.
As humans, we no longer just want to know something exists. We want to know why it exists, how it exists, and take it apart to figure out how it works. Thanks to the internet age and the vast array of knowledge available to us here, the most curious of us can finally find out how everything works. Sometimes it is simple physics, and other times, complex engineering, but either way, we love to get a look inside.
Over at GadgetsWow there is a great article that shows how complex mechanisms work, and they achieve this by using simple, gif animations. Things as normally complicated as a constant velocity joint suddenly makes sense to you in about a second's time. Funny to think how the eye processes differently than the brain. Were you reading a book on that subject, you would need hundreds of pages. But in looking at it, you need but seconds.
Our brains are pretty complex mechanisms themselves, huh?
This beautiful animation produced by Blackmeal is barely over a minute long and contains no dialogue, but it recaps the first four seasons of the HBO series Game of Thrones for those familiar with the story. For those who are not familiar with the story, don’t worry about spoilers: this is art! You’ll want to watch it in fullscreen mode to appreciate the subtle beauty of each scene. -via Geeks Are Sexy
Remember when Return of the Jedi was the last Star Wars movie in a tight trilogy, before we beheld the horror contained within those poorly written prequels?
Then you remember how amazing Return of the Jedi looked on the big screen, with eyes open and mind racing at the far out look of it all.
You remember how creatures like Jabba the Hutt, the Ewoks and the Max Rebo Band came to life thanks to high quality practical special effects makeup, stop motion animation and puppeteering.
Now you can take a peek behind the curtain and see all that went in to the making of Return of the Jedi in this a gallery of behind-the-scenes photos collected by Imgur user JoinYouInTheSun.
Take a gander and remember the glory days of the Star Wars franchise, before things went straight Jar-Jar.
Not sure if you have checked out the Gritty Reboots YouTube page, but it is exactly what the name implies. They take cute and cartoonish things and give them, um, well, gritty reboots. While I found all of them hilarious and enjoyable up to this point, their most recent gritty reboot of Adventure Time blew my mind and left me speechless.
Literally, I have nothing else to say. This speaks for itself.
Okay, ONE more thing to say: wow. Right in the feels.
Dorkly has a new "choose your own adventure" type comic that addresses a sticky question. You're on a date with a fan of whatever nerd interest you have, but they aren't nearly as well-versed on that universe as you are. Do you correct a mistaken detail? Do you let it go? How would you finesse this situation without ruining your budding relationship? You can answer the questions as you see fit, or you can skip through each possible page like I did at Dorkly.
Do you remember what your favorite movie from the 2000's was? Though it was not long ago, it can be hard to remember. There were so many good films (and so many bad ones) that came out in that time, sometimes you try and look back and it is just a blur of characters and stories.
Thankfully, there are lists like this one put together by Film School Rejects that remember for us. Movies like 28 Days Later and Oldboy that all worked towards changing the way we look at modern cinema. The trend you will notice from the list is that there WAS no trend, and that is what set the 00's apart. There are as many comedies and thriller films on the list as there are dramas. The 2000's was when indie film making became the norm again, and that reflects itself in some of their choices.
This list also makes me want to watch most of these again.
If you have not watched Rick and Morty on Adult Swim, you have no idea of the awesome you are missing out on. Consistently funny, twisted, and also slightly brilliant, it has been one of the bigger surprises in Adult Swim's line up in the last few years. Created by Dan Harmon (of Community fame) and Justin Roiland (who voices Lemongrab on Adventure Time), it is a show that really needs to be seen by all.
IGN actually had the titular characters on as puppets, and they showed the storyboard to a variation of a scene they deleted from season one. Check it out because, well, puppets.
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Oh, and if you haven't watched Rick and Morty, may a you from another dimension show up and kill you so they can take your place. You deserve that.
It should be widely known (and isn't) that DC Animated make the best comic book movies. I am not even saying best "animated" comic book movies. I am saying best comic book movies, period. From Batman: Year One to Superman: Doomsday, their cartoon movies are often what we wish actual movies based on comics would be like.
Well it looks like DC Animated is adding another one to its roster. Question is, can DC make Aquaman cool again? Who am I kidding, he was never really cool. But I'll be honest with you. This looks like it might change that.
Shazam, aka Captain Marvel, is one of the oldest superheroes in the history of comic books, and yet he has been left on the sidelines while his more famous fellow DC Comics stars take center stage.
DC Nation has stayed true to form by bringing this underappreciated hero back in style with three shorts based on Shazam’s three most important traits.
These shorts are amazingly fun to watch, as is the norm with the DC Nation shorts, and they do a great job of bringing this retro character into the 21st century while keeping his classic appeal in tact.
Disney’s rules and regulations extend to all aspects of their business, from their merchandise branding to the way they run their theme parks, and their rules seem less magic kingdom and more secret society.
These mysterious Disney employee rules aren't so mysterious anymore thanks to the internet, but once you learn how much Cast Members must conform to the Disney system you start to look at them in a whole new light.
Some are strict for a reason, like the fact that any Cast Member who dons a character costume must learn how to duplicate the character's classic signature exactly, so every guest has the same experience.
Others are a bit strange, like the fact that no Princess can be taller than 5'8", and if a Cast Member is asked a question they can't answer they must immediately call someone and get the answer.
Professor X of the X-Men is wimp. He really is. If you think about it, all he does is sit in that chair and read people's minds. Not too sure how cool that is. He doesn't even really fight. He just barks commands. A bad dictator, if you will.
Screen Junkies picked up on this and made this stellar supercut of all the times the X-Men leader was a bit of a pansy. Warning, this may change the way you look at Professor X.
You know that alligator skin dress shoes used to be all the rage. Snakeskin boots are always in style. But you may not know of the latest fashion craze: Ewok skin high heels.
Etsy seller Rigel Griffith of San Diego makes these luxurious shoes from freshly-skinned Ewoks imported directly from Endor. Buying them not only makes you look good, but also helps protect the environment by reducing the Ewok overpopulation problem.
Lately, I have been watching the original Star Trek series--something I have not regularly done since about 1988. I'm watching the show from start to finish. I noticed that on one early episode titled "Mudd's Women," Dr. Leonard McCoy wears on his left pinky finger a gold ring with a blue stone.
DeForest Kelly dearly loved his mother, Clora Kelley. Clora owned a ring that her brother had won in a card game while he was in France. When Clora died of cancer in 1957, her son was consumed with grief. But he was private about the depth of his feelings. He asked for only one item from her possessions: the ring. He wore it from then on in remembrance of her.
When Kelley was recruited for Star Trek, Gene Roddenberry was firm: the actors would not wear jewelry. But Kelley was firmer: if he wasn't allowed to wear his ring, he wouldn't be on the show. Roddenberry conceded. You can see Kelley's ring throughout the series, though the stone is often turned into the palm to make it less noticeable.
In the movie Star Trek V: The Final Frontier, Sybok forces McCoy to relive his euthanasia of his own father. DeForest Kelley's ring gleams in the faint light during the scene of mourning and loss. It is a fitting accent to a story of the loss of parents. Kelley would continue to wear it until his own death in 1999.
When Star Trek was rebooted in 2009, Karl Urban took up the role of Dr. McCoy. As you can see in this screenshot, he wears a ring on the pinkie finger of his left hand. According to an internet rumor, he did so to honor his predecessor, DeForest Kelley.
