Cool Shit 3/28

I don't know what to think after watching this trailer for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. It all comes down to hitting on the perfect tone of humor and credible action. And we've put that into the hands of Michael Bay.



Speaking of hitting the right tone, here's an interesting review for Darren Aronofsky's Noah.

It's a shame that too much creativity can hurt you sometimes. Take Jodorowsky's Dune for example. Apparently, he assembled an incredible team to film this book, had a crazy vision, and it never got made. But then Hollywood cherry picked the team he put together to make other films.



"Your movie is going to make more money!"
"No, YOUR movie is going to make more money!"

Assholes.

Taco Bell has a breakfast menu. You can try to stop us terrorists, but we'll just keep coming back stronger and stronger.

Bill Simmons writes about the "Action Hero Championship Belt" through the years. While some if it works, he really stumbles in the later years, and his bizarre rules to immediately eliminate Sean Connery (and any Bond really) AND Harrison Ford for some weird reasons makes zero sense. Also, he gives really short shrift to Steve Seagal.

A list of What if movies that were started but never finished.

There must be thousands of great ideas out in Hollywood that have been started and not finished. This list goes into a little more detail about fifteen such projects, and doesn't even include Frank Darabont's Indiana Jones script, or William Gibson's Alien 3 script - 2 I wouldn't have minded seeing.

Links of Interest 7/24

A rant about the shuffle mode on the iPod.

What the internet was invented for. 80 rock and roll saxophone solos reviewed.

Romance novelists are necessarily who you think they are.

3 possible scenarios here: 1. Coincidence. 2. Creators of Wall-E listenend to The Wall a lot and tweaked some stuff to sync things up here and there. 3. Pink Floyd invented a time machine, traveled to 2008, watched Wall-E, stole a copy, took it back to 1979, wrote The Wall around it, hid their invention of the time machine and waited 29 years for everyone to catch up and hear their brilliance.

Thought it was a bad year for movies? You haven’t seen anything yet.

Lines you should probably stay away from during a job interview.

5 apocalyptic scenarios to cheer up your Friday.

As we broadcast television , it goes out into space. See how far and what our space overlords can currently watch.

For the alcoholics out there.

Ever wonder about how Dune influenced Star Wars? I dare you to read this.

Awesome 360 degree panoramic photo.