This is not only funny but damn impressive from batgremlin of Youtube. I remember my disappointment when I saw the VHS copy of Gremlins 2 for the first and did not happen to see Hulk Hogan yelling threats to some Gremlins. The Indiana Jones sequence is particularly well done.

Now for Gremlins 3. See the making of this ‘Film Break’ after the break.

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Mongol (2007) Director Sergei Bodrov Writer Arif Aliyev & Sergei Bodrov Actors Tadanobu Asano - Temudgin Khulan Chuluun - Borte Amadu Mamadakov - Targutai Honglei Sun - Jamukha Aliya - Oelun

Mongol (2007)

I am not at all familiar with Sergei Bodrov’s previous films but if Mongol is any indicator, I should go see his body of work immediately. Mongol is the story of the rise of  Genghis Khan covering his childhood up to the point where he heads to Russia with his massive army.

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This looks like a serious Oscar contender from Gus Van Sant. Of course I am making that judgement purely off the trailer and taking into account the cast. So long as Sean Penn doesn’t play it ‘full-on’(Tropic Thunder is really sticking with me)  this movie will do great.

This is just gold right here. I’ve seen this guy do some funny work on the Onion(though I don’t know his name). To think someone must have had the honor to place Deniro’s and Pacino’s heads floating in space next to one another. It’s enough to make someone tear up.

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2008, acronym(a poor one) for a piece of procrastination. An article, be that a game, a video, or website, that distracts the user from participating in more critical acts of being such as having a life.

Yeah I know this has been on the web for a good week now and has been posted everywhere, but that doesn’t make it any less cool to look at. Too bad the parallel processing analogy is a bit faulty. Still you have to credit the Mythbusters for putting on such a spectacular demonstration by painting a Mona Lisa in 80 milliseconds using only paint balls. The slow motion video is just incredible.

I felt this appropriate considering most schools are now back in session. I had a professor like this who reacted similarly if you ever mentioned your were agnostic or atheist…

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2008, acronym(a poor one) for a piece of procrastination. An article, be that a game, a video, or website, that distracts the user from participating in more critical acts of being such as having a life.

It really stinks that we just got great news that Mark Steven Johnson was no longer adapting Ennis’s Vertigo series of Preacher for HBO. Preacher was perfectly suited for HBO even if Johnson was no suitable for Preacher (or anything good for that matter).

Then we get word that the screenwriters behind cinematic pieces of fecal matter like Aeon Flux and the Tuxedo, are working on Ennis’s The Boys. Seriously? Phil Hay and Matt Manfredi? You thought the guys who wrote Crazy/Beautiful were a perfect match for Ennis’s material? Seriously?

Seriously? I’d do it for free… Just putting my name out there.

These puzzles are so simple you will feel stupid afterwards.

I picked up Braid the day it was released on Xbox Live Arcade, with only a tiny bit of knowledge about it. I had heard some conversations via 1UP Yours and via the Indie Games Panels from a Game Developers Conference. I figured it was the usual pretentious indie design where you have beautiful artwork mixed with only somewhat interesting gameplay.

The art assets in Braid are phenomenal and to my surprise I can say the same about the story and gameplay. I’m sure you could play through this game without much thought given to its story but I think you’ll be missing out on one of Braid’s best qualities.

You’re a young man named Tim who has had his heart broken. Each of the worlds(modeled very similarly to Super Mario Bros) has it’s own quirk. As Tim you have the ability to rewind time. Unlike other platformers where you have limited lives, with Braid you simply rewind to when you were not dead. On just that level it eliminates a lot of frustration that comes with other games.

For you messageboard jerks, this is called an 'homage' to Donkey Kong.

As I was saying though each world has its own time-related quirk. One of which time only moves forward as you walk from left to right. It causes you to rewire your brain if you have any hope of beating these levels, and it’s not really about just finishing the levels. You’re primary motivation is to collect pieces of a puzzle that when reassembled resemble a happier time in Tim’s life. The artwork is just beautiful here as well. In another world you may have a ring that when dropped (using the Y button) will slow down time all around it like in some sort of time bubble. And somehow all of these mechanics lend well to the story.

I’m now on my third play-through and I am working up the nerve to get those coveted eight stars which will apparently change the ending of the game.  Some of which require a two hour wait to attain just one star.

Just go buy the game off Xbox Live and support artists like Jonathan Blow already.

Here’s one of those ironic posts since I have been ‘busy’ hanging out with my friend Scott who is spending his vacation up here in Toronto (gotta love the FanExpo).

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2008, acronym(a poor one) for a piece of procrastination. An article, be that a game, a video, or website, that distracts the user from participating in more critical acts of being such as having a life.