Well you knew it had to happen, and so it has: someone has done a mash-up of “Terminator Salvation” and “Transformers” (“The Transforminators!”), and you know what? It looks better than the actual movie. Then again, what doesn’t look better than the actual movie? Anyways, I love how they incorporate the rest of the franchise into the second half of the clip. You think it’s going to be just the “Transformers 2″ and “Terminator Salvation” clips, but then BAM, they hit you with the rest. Awesome stuff.
Archive for May 22, 2009
Iron Sky Trailer
In 1945, the Nazis went to the moon. In 2018, they’re coming back. But you won’t have to wait that long to see them try to take over the world once again, as Nazis are wont to do. Timo Vuorensola’s “Iron Sky”, a sci-fi action/comedy is headed your way in 2010, but since it’s a Finnish/German production, you’re probably looking at an import DVD release here, folks. Check out the film’s very stylish first trailer. I love the music, and the visuals are pretty incredible, though you don’t get the sense this is a comedy. Then again, it’s about Nazis from the moon so what else could it be?
Moon Bloodgood On Her Missing Nudity In Terminator: Salvation “It’s a boob”
As you have likely heard, the scene in “Terminator: Salvation” where Moon Bloodgood gets naked in the rain has been edited out of the theatrical version. This is disappointing and kind of strange if the ultimate reason was to lower the rating to PG 13. McG claims this isn’t the case but with all the ultra violence in this movie a little nudity shouldn’t have hurt the rating much. Once again, in North American movies, violence is ok, sex is bad. Moon herself had some words to say about the edit at a recent press thing.
J.G. Ballard’s High Rise Depicts Utopian Sci-Fi Arcology
Arcologies are a favorite Sci-Fi genre interest of mine. An Arcology is a kind of a Utopian idea of a completely self contained city housed entirely within a single building. There are many great Sci-Fi novels about arcologies. My first read and probably favorite is Oath of Fealty by Jerry Pournelle and Larry Niven. Oath is about a society that trades privacy for security in a gigantic self contained building city. Definitely a novel who’s ideas have stayed very relevant.
Trailer Debut: Bruce Willis in Surrogates
Wanna get rid of those love handles without actually, you know, going to the gym? Don’t worry, because in the future you can use a surrogate that will go out to parties and even do your job while you lay down in the comfort of your apartment in your boxers. That’s the premise of Bruce Willis’ new sci-fi actioner, “Surrogates”, which has the film’s idyllic world shaken and stirred when people starts offing surrogates and the people using them. First trailer for the film below.
Terminator Salvation (2009) Movie Review
As summer event films go, “Terminator Salvation” blows’em up real good. Lots and lots of times. Heck, sometimes the blowing up goes on for so long and is so excessive that it borders on the absurd. Alas, the film is missing heart, which is ironic since the human heart plays a very pivotal role in this movie about man versus machine, and exactly what constitutes the difference between the two. (Aside from the fact that we bury our dead, I mean.) It gets doubly worst when you realize that this was the writers’ intention all along – this is exactly what they were heading towards from Day 1, even if the final minutes or so seems to have been altered when the film’s originally planned ending was leaked onto the Internet and caused a major fan revolt. To be perfectly honest with you, I think I might have preferred that other ending, if just to put a finer point on this observation: in the canon of the “Terminator” films, “Salvation” falls somewhere between the much-derided “Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines” and the Asylum’s copycat film, “Terminators”.
Science Fiction Isn’t Much Fun Without Science
Close to every nerds heart is the periodic table of elements. I have a copy tattooed to my inner thigh as we all do, it’s essential information at the ready in case I am in desperate need for the atomic weight of Roentgenium while doing something naked. However essential, the Table is a dry read. Sometimes you just need a cute cartoon character to fill you chock full of that synaptic pathway building education. Here for your consideration is the atom Oxygen. See how well he interacts with all the rest of his atomic kind. Thanks PostHumanBlues.
V’s Upfront Preview Trailer
This is the preview video ABC showed at their upfront (to the presses) for their new show V. It has more of the Visitors’ arrival and reveals a little bit more of Elizabeth Mitchell’s character, including her son, who ends up on the Visitors’ side almost completely. Of course, it probably helps that they’re tempting him with the gorgeous Laura Vandervoort of Smallvilel fame. Plus, we sort of get more information on Morris Chestnut’s character. Apparently someone in the Underground thinks he’s very important to helping their cause.
Meet TF2′s Sideways
Apparently this dangerous looking fella could be either a Decepticon or an Autobot, or possibly both. He’s described over at Wikipedia as “a gleeful troublemaker, for whom chaos is its own reward.” Okay, sounds a lot more Decepticon-ish than Autobot, I guess. Image via MichaelBay.com.
More Spielberg Aliens
It looks like Steven Spielberg is going to be giving us more aliens. On TV this time around though.
Will We See A James Cameron’s Avatar Trailer Attached To Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen?
According to a couple of “trusted” sources at Marketsaw, “Avatar” may be appearing for the first time at the front of Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen and maybe not in 3D. According to the sources, the trailer is a long one, coming in nice and heavy at 2 minutes and 41 seconds. This is a law breaking trailer. Trailers may only be 2 minutes and 30 seconds according to the all mighty MPAA. Studios get one exception to this rule every year. I’m already very excited to see Transformers. Being excited about Science Fiction is my business. Having Avatar previewed before Transformers is going to be hard to handle. Thanks Slashfilm.
They Will Come To Town : The More You Know
This is a public service announcement on steroids from Thilo Ewers, the guy doing matte painting work for Roland Emmerich’s 2012, and James McTeigue’s Ninja Assasin. It’s spooky and more short film quality than anything. Amazing and a much watch. Thanks QuietEarth.
Latest V Preview Teaser Reveals the Scales
They’re heeeeeeeeere. And apparently they’ve been here for quite some time, getting ready for their “sudden and shocking arrival”. Those pesky alien lizards, they’re so cunning. Here’s a very nice preview video showing more of what the show plans to do. Looks like Elizabeth Mitchell’s fed is going to be joining the resistance! I still have no idea how Morris Chestnut’s character figures into this, though, but it must be important, because he’s in every promo I’ve seen of the show so far…
Cool Sci-Fi Gear: Transformer’s Ravage USB Flash Drive
A 2GB flash drive for $42.99 when I could get a pretty good 2GB flash drive at Fry’s Electronics for $5.99? Oh hell no. But wait, it’ snot just any flash drive, it’s a Transformers flash drive! The Decepticon Ravage, to be precise. Check it out, check it outers.
New District 9 Images Promote Unity, Ghettos
Three new images from Neill Blomkamp’s South African sci-fi drama “District 9″, which is quite the intriguing movie. As to the execution, well, that remains to be seen. But from everything I’ve seen of it, it sure looks like it has the potential to be good, or at the very least, something very different in sci-fi fiction. Being that it’s been a while since we’ve gotten something different, I think we should definitely give the film a shot.
