Oh, if I found this, I would be "SQUEEEEING" all over town! This is one of my favorite, if not my favorite, games of all time. Who can resist the little adorable Link walking around while that music tweets and twerps in the background! Kotaku-Box of Old Zelda Games Redefines Definition of "Case Fresh"
Oh God...I'm having problems here! Call the medics! I LOVE Link! Remember when you go to that one castle down in the bottom left of the map and have to read that little book and he sings "Do-doo-do-doo-do-doo"? No...?Just me...? How old are you? Are you under 25? Well, then get your Wii out, fire up that wi-fi and buy that shit!
A simple story about two men, friends, trying to reach the Pole (don't know which...I assume North) in record time (to get in the Guiness Book of World Records) or to save the Planet...The guy yelling at the person in the Land Rover about it being too big, is just hilarious. Hell, the whole thing looks hilarious!
I don't know when it comes out, but it looks great! I mean, Stephen Mangan's character is named Mark Bark Jones!
I avoided watching this trailer because the poster isn't that appealing:
Yet, why not watch the trailer? And it looks pretty good. Sure, it's another vampire movie in a sea of lite-on-the-sex/violence Twilight movies, but it's also kind of different looking.
In the near future almost everyone on Earth is a vampire and those who aren't vampires are hunted for their blood, which is apparently farmed...yuck! However, they are running out of humans and now what are they to do? And what happens to them once there is no more blood to feed on? Well it looks like they turn into some kind of horrible freaks without blood! Wonderful!
Ethan Hawke's character stumbles upon some humans who need his help rebuilding the human race. And they have crossbows and Willem Defoe. They seem to have a cure to change them back.
It's got a great looking washed-out blue style and they use a great cover of Kate Bush's Running Up That Hill in the trailer by Placebo. To me, it's looks like what I hoped I Am Legend would have been. Check out the trailer below:
Fox has this knack for buying and then killing shows. Shows people like. Shows that are good. I know they are in it for the money and the money comes from advertising...but the advertising is for us, the viewer. And no matter how small the audience of a show, there is still an audience. Killing and killing and...killing shows over and over does something: it alienates your audience. And when your audience is alienated, so is the advertisers audience.
You may be asking yourself: What is this woman talking about? Let me tell you.
Tonight FOX aired a "TV Movie", which wasn't really a movie but a back-door pilot for a show they clearly have no intention of ever making into a full show, seeing as they have essentially buried it in the summer, on a Friday, the week before the 4th of July. I can really only assume the reason they even aired it at all was that there were no stupid episodes of "reality" TV left and/or so many Ron Moore/BSG fans asked them to (or the advertisers to) and they relented and plopped it down. Now, they did move it from tomorrow night to tonight, but that isn't really saying much as it is still Friday night: The day shows go to die (Terminator, anyone?). I heard people say, "They've started promoting it and put it on Friday instead", well yes they did, however this is FOX we are talking about. They praised New Amsterdam up and down as a great show and promoted the crap out of it until...nothing. And then it was aired to little fanfare, was moved around, disappeared and then died. It was a pretty good show, though it had some plot problems, yet FOX, as they always did, cancelled it. Remember Firefly? That great space-western from Joss Whedon that everyone loved so much they made a feature length movie to give some kind of peace, of sorts? Same thing. Terminator? Ditto! In other words...FOX is the #1 network for shows to die a quick death on no matter their quality.
Now on to Virtuality. I don't know why it isn't on Sci Fi, lord knows they need a show now that Battlestar is gone and Caprica isn't on until who-knows-when, but it's on FOX. It was written by Ron Moore, directed by Peter Berg and stars some pretty unknown, but very good, actors. Yes, the story is very sci-fi but true to Moore-form, the show is less about science fiction and "boldly going" to new planets to meet the "alien of the week" and more about the characters and some type of social commentary; this time our dependence on technology.
Basically the story is about the crew of the Phaeton, on a mission to Epsilon Eridani to search for possible other lifeforms. It's a trip that will take roughly 10 years and so, installed aboard the ship are virtual reality modules to help the crew detach from life on board a spaceship. The crew are also part of a reality television show that is broadcast back to Earth called The Edge of Never, paid for by some type of secret (it seems) corporation.
POSSIBLE SPOILERS!
The "movie" covers the decision to go or no-go on the mission, which must be decided by the time they reach Neptune. They can continue on...or head back to Earth. However, Earth is having it's own issues and it appears it will be uninhabitable in about 100 years, so going forward would allow the search for a new home perhaps.
But that isn't all that is going on during the two hour show. Strange things begin to happen with the virtual-reality modules. Things like a strange man showing up...in everyone's program. A man not programmed by anyone, it seems. He shoots the captain, Frank, in two separate incidences, causing him to review the simulation again which leaves him strangely excited and upbeat...until his "death" at the hands of a malfunctioning airlock; but is he really dead? The strange man pushes the ill Dr.Meyer off a cliff in his simulation causing him to also become strangely euphoric and relaxed. However, he doesn't bring joy to EVERY crew member. He rapes the shows host, Billie, during her adventure fantasy...something she did not want and yet he clearly tells her she does. I'm not sure of the significance of his visit to Joy Bryant's character in the OB/GYN office, but it can't be good. Who is he? Is he really there? A program malfunction? A glitch? A, so called, Ghost In the Machine? Is he sent there by the corporation to "create" ratings by offing the crew? Can you imaging a better ratings pull than a ship out in space, full of people that are being killed, with no way to get help? If I was a TV Exec, I'd see giant dollar signs at that proposition.
Will we ever find out what Frank wants to show Rika when she follows him "down the rabbit hole", as he mentioned to her in his secret simulation he created (and somehow lives in, as himself, his DEAD self) for her? I don't know...but I want to know. I want to see where this is going. And I can see it going before or after Fringe! Nestled right in there with another, proven, sci-fi show. Come on FOX...do something right for a change! Make this glorious, tasty, beautiful Ron Moore-treat into a series you finish! You already have a built-in geek crowd with Moore attached!
Oh Hoyt Fortenberry...that is a tree you do NOT want to be barking up!
Here's a rundown of the next, glorious episode of True Blood:
Sookie frakked up and Bill yells at her. Well, she isn't going to deny Eric's request to go to Dallas NOW.
Hoyt starts sniffing (is that gross to say?) around Jessica. She's not a nice girl! She's dead and sucks blood! Or complains and whines mercilessly.
Tara asks Maryann why Sam hates her. Maryann says it's because he lost Tara and wants to blame someone. Yeah...that's it! Let me point this out...whenever Michelle Forbes is around, shit gonna go down. Badly.
Black-eyed beer drinkers are around with a VO of Sam telling Tara (?) to stay away from Maryann. Everyone is still getting nasty around the bar with her around.
Steve tells Jason that there is a war out there and they have to choose sides while frames of Sookie and Eric, Eric and Bill, still-screaming Ginger getting a gun pointed at her by Sookie who says "take me to him!", Jessica biting (eep!) Hoyt, Eric bearing his fangs (NOM NOM) and then grabbing Bill's arm (?), someone running through the night mist and some creepy-gross hand, Sookie getting knocked down...flash by.
Oh! I know this is the episode Jason bangs Sara...it can't be more than 3 episodes in. Yeah. He's talking to Sara on a porch, they're grasping hands.
Now Jason is praying in a dark room (?) and saying "I'm lost...so lost!" You aren't lost sweetie...you're just dumber than a bag of rocks! And so pretty!
Whew! That's a lot for a 0:37 second promo. Who wants to bet that creepy hand belongs to a werewolf...or something and that it is...Eggs? Or Daphne? Who else could it be?
If you've never seen this movie, I encourage you to go out and try to find it. Sadly, it's out of print...but find it!
It's weird and stylish and beautiful...and foreign. So beware you'll have to read subtitles, know French or be ready to sit through English dubbed over French (which I find weird. I like to hear their voices).
Here's the rundown: It begins during the French Revolution where the Marquis d'Apcher is hanging out in his castle as a mob screams from the street below. He has been writing his story.
The film then flashes back to the 1760's where some kind of beast is terrorizing the province of Gevaudan. They send for a man, Gregoire de Fronsac and his companion, an Iroquois named Mani, to find and kill the beast.
That's all I am going to say about the main storyline. Let's just say there are some amazing shots and it's an overall really good movie. It's also based, loosely, of course on the le bete du Gevaudan, an incident in which a group of some unknown beasts were going around the French countryside killing people by tearing out their throats. The attacks seem to have occurred in 4 year intervals up until the 1950's. Wikipedia has a great article, with citations available at the Beast of Gevaudan.
Here's the teaser trailer, which contains the song 'Sleep Now' by Hughes Hall from the soundtrack to Dark City:
Here are some clips from Ron Moore's hopefully back-door pilot, Virtuality. Sadly it will be on FOX and it looks miles above a lot of crap on that channel...so it will either never be made into a series...or, they will cancel it after 3 episodes.
Here's hoping that their lame attempt to show it on June 26th, a Friday, will be a success and they'll at least pick it up.
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