If you’re into casual games, and let’s face it, who has the time to play 20-hour games these days; I suggest you head on over and try out my pal Brian’s latest release, Constellations. There’s a Mac version on its way as well, and I’ll let you know when you can get your grimy hands on that.
Monthly Archive for April, 2007
Momentum Pictures will release “Death Proof” in U.K. theaters on Sept. 21. A release date for “Planet Terror,” which will also go out via Momentum, has not yet been set. #
September. 21st. September… That’s, let me count here, one, two, a thousand years from now!
Now, I understand that Grindhouse failed miserably at the boxoffice, and I understand the need to do something about that. But September?! I’m guessing it has to do with getting mainland Europe primed for Death Proof or something like that, which is again, from a business standpoint, fair enough. But it sure does sucketh…
Me, I hope some renegade cinema in Copenhagen has luck in importing and showing Grindhouse in its entirety, start to finish. That, or the DVD gets released before the European premiere, and I import it.
If not, well… You have left me no other means Mr. Weinstein.
10 years. That’s how long Duke Nukem Forever has been in the works. I have no more humor to throw at Duke Nukem. 10 years!… That’s not Sparta, that’s madness!
I look forward to reading the book about this, the biggest fuck up since Daikatana, it should be quite entertaining.
What were you doing 10 years ago? I was in high school… Feels like… forever :)
PS: You can read reviews at Amazon.
Kataku posts nearly 45 entries a day! That is insane! Who the hell has the time to read that many entries?!
I need someone to filter through Kotaku and post the 2 – 3 news-worthy posts they have. And please, please stop posting about game-related paper craft. Nobody cares.
A shame really, as Kotaku, like Joystiq, which is also up there with 22 some posts a day! Newsflash: There can’t possible be 22 interesting things happening in the world of film every day!
Same goes for Whedonesque and the other top-posters, really.
I played the 1995 game, The Journeyman Project 2 (trailer) and quite enjoyed it; though as with all adventure games, I was stuck too often and for too long. However, there was one damn cool thing that came of that game, and that’s the chameleon jumpsuit. Oh mama! Too bad it looks like crap whenever it moves.
Just uploaded a batch of 16 more photos from Paris. I like this one in particular.
I mentioned The Making of Star Wars book by J.W. Rinzler, who also did The Making of Episode III, yesterday. Well I dug up both an Interview with J.W. Rinzler as well as the making of The Making of Star Wars, from which I took this quote:
[…] Rinzler opens The Making of Star Wars in 1971 with the disastrous screening of THX 1138 for Warner Bros executives. According to the book, Warner executives essentially took the film away from Lucas after viewing the film’s first cut. “It starts there because, even though it could’ve been the end of Lucas’s career, it led to his meeting a series of people who helped get Star Wars made,” says Rinzler. “And in a circuitous route, the THX debacle forced Lucas’s friend Francis Ford Coppola to make The Godfather, which later enabled Lucas to make American Graffiti. George was also trying to get Apocalypse Now made during this time, and his failure to do so had a huge impact on Star Wars.”
That whole era of film making is my well of inspiration, which makes me even more giddy to get my hands on this book. In fact, I just finished reading The Apocalypse Now Book and went through all the extras on the Apocalypse Now Complete Dossier DVD (which isn’t quite as complete as it sounds, since Hearts of Darkness isn’t included, and that surely is an essential component in the Apocalypse Now puzzle!).
Anyway, with that, the upcoming Star Wars anniversary, the Ralph McQuarrie book on the cusp of release and me going to watch Apocalypse Now Redux in the cinema with my brother on thursday, my head is securely immersed in the 70’s era of film.
Be aware though, if you’re interested in picking up this little treasure trove, that there is a 50 page difference between the paperback and the hardcover editions!
“Thankfully, Del Rey allowed us to up the page count from around 250 to 324 pages. And the deluxe hard cover has 372 pages, featuring all the early storyboards — and George Lucas’s first recorded thoughts on the Expanded Universe. I didn’t know if he’d want us to print those, as they differ from what came after, but he said it was okay!”
PS: J.W. Rinzler by the way, has his own blog at StarWars.com.
PPS: And of course, if you’re interested in the history of Lucas, Star Wars and the technology that followed both, you simply have to check out the amazing Droidmaker. One of the best books I read last year.
I was lucky enough to pass by the scene of a vandal, which made for a good photo:
Wired has a great celebratory image series called ‘The Making of Star Wars’, which are from an upcoming book called just that. It even has a few images I haven’t even seen before, which is quite something.
Though strictly (and geekily) speaking, despite what slide #4 Lucas didn’t necessarily decide to make Leia Luke’s twin in the third draft of Star Wars. In fact, there are no indications of the familiar relationships between Luke, Leia and Vader at all in the first Star Wars movie, nor, to my knowledge, in the script (or any of its drafts).
All this is of course in celebration of Star Wars’ 30th anniversary, coming up mid-may.
PS: If you want to buy me a copy of the book, perhaps for my birthday on the 30th or in appreciation of the rather massive Star Wars flickr set I’ve got going, it’s on my Amazon wishlist :) — Kidding of course… Unless you’re gonna do it :D
What the title says. I’m a massive Bourne fan, and their stinkin’ trailer site is teh blows (again!). Great; thanks Yahoo. Please; pass the baton to Apple, they know what they’re doing.
Either way, that’s one exclusive trailer. So exclusive in fact that I can’t watch it…
Update: Despite everyone writing in to tell me that it works, I can assure you that it still doesn’t work. And this is not the first time a trailer decides not to play for me on Yahoo’s site.
Update: At work now, on a Windows machine. Still doesn’t work. I’m wondering if they’re blocking countries on the IP. Usually things like that are listed on the page, but I see nothing…
Dear Audible, the woman who speaks the intro for your audiobooks should never be allowed to talk, ever again. Thank you.
Though hecticly so, the podcast has been recorded. I just need to post-process it and upload it. Unfortunately time is a meager resource these days, so I’ll get back to you on that ASAP.
The Ninja Tune label has their own podcast, and the second episode is a half an hour that takes you through Amon Tobin’s career, roughly from the beginning to his latest (awesome) album. Bear with the first couple of rather generic jungle tracks, and you’ll find yourself in dark unfamiliar territories.
I’m planning on recording podcast #10 on thursday; only a year late. I already have a topic, but if you otherwise have anything, let me know.
I love how, when you want to take your iPod with you, and it’s docked, and you check to see if the icon is on the desktop, and it’s not, but the iPod is still ‘Do not disconnect’, but you can’t eject it, so you take it anyway, and then there is no music on it… At all… Like the files are still there, but the index is gone, and so you just realized that you have to fill it up with 30GB of music again, which takes hours to do… But you’re off to work, and you only have time to write a short incoherent rant?
Thanks iPod. Thanks.
Update: Well, I reconnected my iPod, ejected it and ehm… Now it works again. So ahhh… I’ll be over here, shutting up.
it’s your box, do with it what you please, but be mindful of voiding that warranty. #
That’s what I like to hear. Now, somebody port XBox Media Center; please!
Oh dear; how could I forget? This is dreadfully embarrassing. I finally get around to writing up a comprehensive list of my my favorite podcasts, and I forget one of the very best!? Dang.
So take notice now; iFanboy is a comic-book website which features not only a regular podcast, but also a weekly video podcast. Personally I’m not enough of a comic-book geek to know what half the stuff they talk about on the normal podcast, but the video one is great, fun and informative in all the right ways.