If you want to infuriate a member of the Jedi religion, tell them Admiral Adama here is your favorite Star Trek character.
This Friday (May 4) is the official day for Star Wars fans to celebrate the franchise in all of its glory. The reasoning, much like everything associated with Star Wars in the past 15 years, is fairly contrived. It’s likely because of a translation error of a George Lucas interview on a German TV station (“May the Force be with you” was translated into “May 4 be with you”). Regardless, it gives nerds a chance to geek-out and walk around the office saying “May the Fourth be with you!” all day.
Star Wars Day has a different meaning to me, though, because I saw the dark side of fandom and obsession during a brief period in the last decade in which I was accidentally voted to the International Council of the Church of the Jedi. Or maybe it was the Jedi Church High Council. Either way, I was given a leadership position in a movement that was striving for international legitimacy.more
Avengers Resemble!
With the big budget Avengers movie about to dominate theaters with its unique blend of explosions, and people acting stuff, we thought we should take a moment a remind these new stars that before they were the big fish, they were really, really, embarrassingly bad. Like, real bad. Here’s ten of the most ridiculous versions of Earth’s Mightiest Heroes (and one halfsy):
Do they have colors in Norway?
What would you do to keep your home, your woman, and your playboy lifestyle? Would you cheat? Steal? Kill? Immerse yourself in the turd pit of an outhouse? In the film version of Jo Nesbo’s Headhunters, directed by Morten Tyldum, the answers to these pseudo-philosophical dilemmas come to light in an action thriller that will keep you fixated on the screen, and not just because you have to read subtitles from Norway.
In Headhunters, Roger Brown (played by Aksel Hennie) has it all: a beautiful house to live in; a stunning wife, Diana (played by Synnøve Macody Lund) who has no problem with surprise sex in the shower; nice clothes, a nice car, and an equally nice mistress that he visits once in a while.
The problem is, he can’t cover this playboy lifestyle on his salary as a corporate headhunter, so he must moonlight as a cat burglar, stealing expensive works of art in order to keep this lifestyle and, because of a rather large Napoleon complex, the finances he believes he needs to keep his wife happy and, therefore, keep his wife.
Heineken / MGM-Columbia
Bond. James Gold Bond Medicated Powder.
When 1997’s Tomorrow Never Dies had Bond leave his Aston Martin behind for a BMW (a four-door, because Bond sometimes takes the family out for ice cream, I guess), 00-nerds everywhere figured that was as far as product placement could go. The venerable spy had been bought off, but at least his drink was still his drink. Until…
This week it was announced that the upcoming Daniel Craig-starrer Skyfall (never trust a Bond movie that sounds like a rejected Atari 2600 game) would feature Bond killing some brain cells with Heineken, yes, Heineken, the beer really best known for its availability.more
Blind Spot Pictures
Iron Sky is a black comedy action movie from Finland. Udo Kier stars as a Nazi general who set up a base on the moon shortly before the end of WWII. Slowly building up an army, the Nazis finally amass a force capable of restarting the war…in 2012. Of course, America has some surprises of its own for the invaders, least of which is the president…more
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