This is a really cool list. From Cracked, we have this article about several pieces of art [movie, drawing, etc.] that were created by fans that are significantly better than the original. For example, someone has taken the Star Wars trilogy and and essentially revamped it to match true fan expectations. They aligned blaster pistols, cauterized proper wounds, removed useless background things added by George Lucas and even seen above, they added a medal for Chewie!! Check out all the changes and the other 5 interesting entries in the jump below.
Peter Dinklage is very much one of my favorite actors. He’s fearless. Game of Thrones, Death at a Funeral, Penelope, Elf to name a few of my favorite roles. What I’ve posted above is very much one of my favorite .gifs out there. It’s a scene from the movie Penelope. Dinklage plays a P.I. who tries to uncover a strange anomaly on a young girl with a veil. The best P.I.’s are definitely the ones with attitudes. I could watch Dinklage do this all day.
Avatar the Last Airbender was definitely one of the best animated series out there. The Legend of Korra took a leap of faith by taking a time skip of about 60+ years to see the repercussions of Avatar Aang and his friends’ actions. Though the Legend of Korra was definitely a great series, I couldn’t help but miss the old Team Avatar. Aang’s playful nature, Toph’s bad-girl antics, and Sokka’s comic relief were all things to be missed. Even their faces. We were lucky to get some flashbacks through Korra’s eyes to see how they were and even their voices. But we never got a look at Zuko or Katara at that age. So at Comic Con Nickelodeon released this awesome image of Team Avatar in full color all grown up. The image brings a large wave of nostalgia and I totally wish they could create an entire series revolving around them.
Another one of Cracked.com’s photoplasties. This one was when they took popular movie scenes and added a couple of feet to the left, right, above, or below. With very hilarious results too. We have meta, ironic, satirical, witiful, and very entertaining contributions. Check it all out via the link below.
Not a lot of Meth related drama on this week’s episode of Breaking Bad. Instead we focused a lot of the family drama between Walter and Skylar. This show definitely has its bad ass moments and heart thrilling scenes, but the acting is top notch. For this year’s Emmys, 4 cast members are nodded with a best actor nomination, and based on last night’s episode, they’re reeling up for another one. Read on for this week’s episode of Fifty-One. Major spoilers as always.
What do we have cooked up for you all this week? Since finishing A Song of Ice and Fire, I’ve now set my sight on the Hunger Games Trilogy. Other than that, we have other things to talk about. I’m still reeling from Dance with Dragons, and theres still a ton of pop culture to behold here. Check below to get a sneak preview!
The Hunger Games Trilogy Review
Not just one, but all three books! These are a looking to be a short read, so I’ll have my review on the stories and Suzanne Collins’s writing style.
A Song of Ice and Fire Theories
There are a lot of open ended topics and cliff hangers after Dance with Dragons, and I’ve been able to grab ahold of a few of the popular theories on the web and will gladly discuss them here with you all!
Team Avatar All Grown Up
I’m not stranger to telling people how awesome Avatar the Last Airbender and The Legend of Korra have been. There’s a neat image I want to share with you guys this week!
Nathan Fillion is Awesome
Two Nathan Fillion related posts this week. One is about how Nathan Fillion being awesome on the set of Firefly and the other is about some awesome Firefly art. Damn I miss Firefly.
The Dark Knight Prestige
We will continue to talk about how awesome The Dark Knight Rises as it’s still very relavent in today’s pop culture. We have an awesome mashup of Christopher Nolan’s Dark Knight and The Prestige ready.
Our great friend at Two Dollar Cinema has so graciously honored us with a blogging award. In accepting blog awards, there are a number of cute and quirky conditions. The requirements for this reward include the following.
Tell 11 facts about yourself
Answer the 11 questions of the blog that has nominated you
Pass the award to 11 others
Ask 11 questions to those blogs
Tell those 11 people of their nomination
Keep other recipients out of another nomination
So here I am, following these rules. Read on below. This will take the place of the usual Weekend Reblog.
If there’s anything Weekend Funnies have taught me, is that not everyone has the same sense of humor. But the internet is a generally a collection of everyone and the sheer compilation of the wit and humor that each individual contributes essentially represents the most broadest and generalist appeals to mankind. So when I choose the 24 images for each Weekend Funny, I know the reason I think it’s funny will be at least funny to some percentage of the world. And even if the it’s the smallest 1%, 1% of 7 billion is still 700 million. So I apologize if you’re offended, disgusted, or upset. Truth be told, if you can’t handle these 24 images, you likely shouldn’t be on the internet anyways. So stop worrying about racism, sexism, and other means of being upset. Just keep scrolling, and remember: no one’s looking, it’s okay to smile at something someone would frown upon.
This is a cool image from Cracked that essentially shows how NBC’s Scrubs and Community are essentially the same show. The image itself is neat due to the fact that the calling cards for the community college kids and Sacred Heart Hospital are fairly well done. But the real wit is drawing up the similarities between the shows main characters. Some descriptions are broader than others, but a few truly hit the nail on the head. As soon as they start making Abed say, ‘Eagle!!!!’ once I’m out.
This was an adorable and interesting animation stumbled upon earlier this week. Following the adventures of a blind girl, it allows you to essentially walk a mile in her shoes…or her head. I don’t really have much else to add besides how impressed I am at how well this is done. It reminds me of a short painting animation I recall seeing online a while back. I’ll also be sure to share that one if I ever find it again. Enjoy!
Seven save us all, I’ve finished A Dance with Dragons. In the most recent installment of George R.R. Martin’s series, A Song of Ice and Fire, A Dance with Dragons intimidates us all with it’s 900+ pages and tiny text. But if you’ve made it as far as the fifth book, you know as well as I do, a larger book means more things happening. My first impression was that this book was just as large as my favorite book of the series, A Storm of Swords, so that means that this edition could possibly live up to the exciting and jaw dropping nature of it’s predecessor. Following up the relatively short [in terms of ASoIaF] Feast of Crows, A Dance with Dragons brings us back to some more central characters [and more exciting in my humble opinion] as a follow up from the third book.
Even Martin said himself in a forward to the book that A Dance with Dragons first takes us back to the aftermath of A Storm of Swords to follow up some characters left out of Feast for Crows. And at about ¾ of the way in, we would come back to characters that were left in a cliffhanger from Feast for Crows and the story would be in a unison real time. So below is my review of the book as a whole. It was difficult to organize in my head given the complexity of the nature, so hang on for a bumping ride. Enough of the spoiler-free talk. Dare to click ‘more’ for a full blown, spoiler filled, gush fest review of the most recent Song of Ice and Fire book.
Overview
In George R.R. Martin’s words, “This one was a bitch”. Writing a review for this complex book is not easy. So many things to consider and so many things to talk about. I’ve essentially broken up this section into parts describing the main characters based on their point of views. Some titles I took directly from Martin himself while others, I witfully fashioned myself. In each section, you’ll find a brief summary of what happened to each character as well as my thoughts on what happened. Feel more than free to discuss with me on some or all points! I look forward to our geek-out.
I apologize for this article is likely full of spelling errors and the like. 4500 words is easy to lose track.
So Katie Holmes is single again. She might be a mother, but she’s still as adorable as she was before she wed Tom Cruise. Over the past years, she’s modeled a couple of times and flaunted her adorable self. The years have treated her well and she’s come a long way since Dawson’s Creek. Heavy.com has compiled a large gallery of Katie Holmes’s sexiest pictures. Click the link below and check out the gallery yourself. Just be sure to wipe the drool off your face when you’re done.
The second Star Wars music video of the week. But instead of unique lyrics to create a parody, we have a mash up of words to the addicting song ‘Call Me Maybe’ from Star Wars Franchise. For one, it surprisingly works and am shocked that some words actually show up in the trilogy that I never heard on my own. For two, how in the hell does someone do this? I can only think of one way that wouldn’t make me pull out my hair. I would get some voice detecting software like the one they have installed in Suri for iPhone and run it throughout the entire movie, scripting the words digitally. Then I would make a program to highlight certain words and time stamp for editors to go back to. In truth, it’s still a hair ripping out process that only a true dedicated fan would do. Anywho, check out the video above, and if any of you are more educated than I am in knowing how they did this, please feel free to let me know in the comments.
And the bouncing aliens that go with the tune is the icing on the cake.
Well this is a hella awesome photo. If I got by their street names, Annie, Ron, and Tammy 2 all seemingly love one thing a little too much. And while Tammy and Annie are clearly having a blast, Ron doesn’t seem to be phased. Shit’s probably too weak for a man like him. Anywho, this was a really cool photo that I stumbled upon and I thought it necessary to share it with you. And while Parks and Recreation is something to look forward to, can the same be said about Community. Sure, I’ll definitely tune in to see how different the show will be, but only because of that reason. The show won’t have the same quirkiness and wit as usual with Dan Harmon out of the picture.
While many of you may be skeptical of this at first glance, I figured I’d share it and let you decide for yourselves. What you see above is a video detailing a very fantasy-like bit of technology that may be brought into the real world soon. I’m speaking of course about Virtual Reality headsets. Whether in movies or video games, the ability to project yourself into the game and move about as you would in every day life is astounding. While I’m fairly certain this project won’t really bring us any closer to virtual reality, I believe it is a step in the right direction. “One small step for man” and all that other inspirational stuff. Hopefully you’ll enjoy a little bit of insight as I take a break from reviewing my thinning game collection. Continue Reading »
Some movies are just plain creepy in what they predict. And leave it to Cracked.com writers to find out every little thing. For instance in the photo above. We have Keanu Reeves passport from the first Matrix. It seems his passport expires on a very infamous day, September 11, 2001. Now there can’t be any real meaning to that, but it’s still eerie that they arbitrarily chose a day and it turned out to actually mean something. Check out this instance any many more in the link below.
A catchy, lovable parody of Maroon 5’s Pay Phone. The singer however does play the role of Adam Levine seeing as he mentions both The Voice and Maroon 5. The idea is he’s essentially addicted to Game of Thrones and sings about it in the tune of Pay Phone. He mentions plot points and explains some of the reasons why the series is so good. Like everyone else, he’s also confused who he should root for as well as he feels pity for some of the show’s victims. It’s an overall cute and quirky video that you should definitely check out for a neat foot tapper.
Apparently the long awaited sequel to the Gearbox best-selling game of the year Borderlands will be worth the wait, according to devs. Not only will it come preloaded with new classes and a slew of infinitely more guns than its predecessor, but Borderlands 2 will also feature a ramped up A.I that will bring an air of more difficulty to those of us veterans. While everything here is merely hearsay until we see a good comparison video between the games, I think it’s safe to assume that Gearbox will deliver as they always have. I’m looking forward to having enemies swarm me as I mow them down with the latest and greatest gun I just picked up, or use the newest abilities to completely demolish them. Either way, hopefully I’ll manage to find a couple of you fans out there on the borderlands.
I’m ironing out some things with Universidaze as well as I’ve been asked by a friend to work on a project. I’ve been heavily investing my time into that so I don’t have a Universidaze out for you guys…sorry! We’ll hopefully be back next week!
Banana Scoop 