2012: A Discussion in Both Cinematic and Real-World Varieties

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 [...]

The Apocalyptic Pieces Begin to Fall Into Place (or, Barack Obama is the AntiChrist)

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 [...]

Spider

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 also haz [...]

I Watched the Watchmen

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 [...]

One of Those Posts…

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 [...]

Do Not Want!!!

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.

Rethinking Michael Bay’s Transformers

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 [...]

The Dark Knight: A Haiku

Heath Ledger was goodAaron Eckhart was betterBatman talks funny

Official Geek Soap Box Movie Review in Thirteen Words: Wanted

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

Strange Game. The Only Way To Win Is Not To Play.

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 [...]

TSL and the Top 10 List of Awesomeness

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 the [...]

It’s Not a Shock That Hollywood Is Bankrupt of Ideas…

…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 and the [...]