Geek Soap Box

Darth Vader, the mythical character featured prominently in six separate Star Wars flicks, has an awful lot of “street cred” in today’s popular culture.  The American Film Institute ranked the mysterious and dark figure as the third greatest villain in cinematic history.  Quotations and parodies of his bad-assery abound.  Heck, I even follow the Sith [...]

Seven Things I Learned While Watching 2012 1. It’s no Independence Day. I am a huge fan of one of Roland Emmerich’s previous works, Independence Day. ID4 was a nearly perfect reincarnation of the spectacular book and movie War of the Worlds, told for a modern-day audience. 2012 lacks every element that made ID4 so [...]

It only took a mere $10 billion in costs and nearly a year of unplanned delays before the newsmedia and certain elements of the scientific community began to question the value and process behind Europe’s Large Hadron Collider — the vast underground, super-cooled electromagnetic tunnels underneath France and Switzerland that will allegedly allow for high-speed [...]

I love to joke around and play games; I call myself the Sad Clown for a reason.  But sometimes I guess jokes can go too far. Very rare that a short flick like this can make me shout “Oh My Fucking God!” two times in rapid succession.  Brilliant work! Thanks to the gorgeous teejaycee, who [...]

Few works have as much cachet of geek-cred as Alan Moore’s 1985 classic miniseries for DC Comics, Watchmen.  The story is one of a distopian present filled with worries over nuclear war and sex and pornography and a handful of semi-retired, outlaw costumed vigilantes caught up in the middle.  It is truly not your father’s [...]

First off, here’s a recent excerpt from the Web comic XKCD. If that’s not devastatingly brilliant I don’t know what is. So yeah, I’m going to write one of those posts, dear readers. You have been forewarned. With respect to the above, it gave me a little pause. Talk about an encapsulation of woman in [...]

An oldie but a goodie…a poorly translated bootleg of Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith. I still howl with laughter at some of the…slightly off…subtitles. H/t to FAIL Blog.

I think it’s no secret that I am an unabashed Transformers Generation 1 fan. I grew up with the cartoon and comic books, and forced/extorted my parents into purchasing countless toys for me to obsessively convert from car or plane or futuristic space gun to robot and back day after day. Heck, the original animated [...]

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Campy bullet-time physics + Angelina Jolie’s naked ass = pure escapist fun.

What the world has been waiting for: a remake of the 1980s Matthew Broderick classic War Games. Note the “Coming Soon to DVD” tag. That’s a pretty bold statement about the quality of a theatrical feature when it cannot even squeeze into the big screens for a cameo appearance. Not to worry, though, because there’s [...]

It’s officially Indiana Jones Week, featuring the theatrical debut of the movie’s fourth film, Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, as well as numerous replays of the original trilogy throughout the cable television world. Of course, this means that Web sites all over are also doing their own top ten lists of the greatest moments in [...]

…because, when they aren’t recycling the same tired formulae and sequels to extract what little box office dollars remain in the American Public, they are resorting to one nonstop liberal anti-Bush, anti-war, anti-American slugfest after another. Cases in point: The New York Times says today that the HBO movie “Recount”, about the 2000 Presidential election [...]