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I always liked Grimlock. I used to do his voice and speak patterns when I was little. “Me Grimlock kick butt.” “Me Grimlock not dumb, me king.” During the third season of Transformers, there was an episode where Grimlock became intelligent, he actually became one of the most intelligent Autobots on the team. He even creates a new team of Autobots called the Technobots. I liked this episode, despite the poor animation. I thought it was honorable thing to do when Smart Grimlock gives his intelligence to the Technobots, and Grimlock reverts back to his stupid self. (However, it would have been far more compelling if Grimlock stayed intelligent throughout the rest of the season. I think they dropped the ball on that one.) You throw in an appearance by Unicron, and you have a pretty good third season episode, minus all the bad animation flaws. ( Rodimus Prime transforms into Hot Rod’s car mode in this episode!) Note: When did Cybertron get giant organic fish in ...

Keeping on the Will Riker tip, here’s Will Riker accidentally blowing up the ship! Comment: This one had me going. I love the sound effect. Rule 1256, watch where you sit your ass down on the Enterprise.

Will Riker sells out…really http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVHm02FeCH8 Comment: I found this on a message board, and I never knew this existed. A normal nerd in an office is trying to deal with a crisis and William Riker appears on his computer screen from the future to give the Nerd a pep talk…while selling some software. I’m guessing this extended ad was filmed during the third or fourth seasons. This is pretty low, and I’m sure Frakes wishes he never did this crap. Note: Not nearly as bad as Worf doing an episode of Webster .

Famous people acting strange… http://www.tmz.com/2007/04/28/hottest-videos-week-of-04-15/ Comment: I generally hate Suge Knight, but I love what he had to say about K-Fed. He calls Ms. Spears a ‘homegirl’. Watching the Drunk driving incident with Eve wasn’t the highlight, but the guy that rode with her was. He appears to be a throwback to the break dancers of the 80s, while he gets angry with the guy taking the pictures.

Cut By The Studios http://www.answers.com/topic/list-of-films-recut-by-studio There have been numerous films that have left the director’s hands and then the studio has come in and made or demanded cuts themselves. I’ve decided to point some of them out from that list. Lawrence of Arabia : This movie has been cut so many times over the years, that an entire article needs to be written on the various cuts. The studio did some cuts, while the director himself did cuts too. Steven Spielberg has added some stuff back into this film for the DVD restoration. Close Encounters of the Third Kind : Yet, another film that could have it’s own page on how many cuts there are of this film. The story goes that Spielberg wanted to release the film again in the early 80’s and finish up some things that he wanted to complete or change. The studio agreed to his terms, but on one condition; Spielberg was told to add footage of the inside of the aliens’ ship, which wasn’t in the original ...

http://eeyorejeff.blogspot.com/2007/04/on-location.html Jeff has some photos of his work at FOX. Who does get a picture of? Hulk Hogan! I grew up watching this guy back in the day. Before Stone Cold and The Rock, or even The Ultimate Warrior, there was Hulk Hogan.

Nice Shirts, guys Super Mario Brothers meet Milli Vanilli Comment: You know a show has 'jumped the shark' when they include a special musical guest. But when your guest is Milli Vanilli, it goes beyond jumping the shark (jumping the King Koopa?). For some reason, the creators of this cartoon show thought it would be 'hip' to include everyone's favorite lip syncing group. What does Milli Vanilli have to do with Super Mario Brothers? Nothing, but that didn't stop them from devoting an entire episode to them. Here's another video from the same episode .

2015 I have to commend the producers and writers for making this form of the future appear fun and interesting. We have flying cars and hoverboards everywhere. There is a pretty exciting hoverboard chase that resembles the skateboard chase in the first film, made even funnier when old Biff states this fact. When we get to Mc Fly’s future house, its here the story foreshadows some plotlines that won’t be paid off until part III. I enjoyed seeing what the future home would look like, or at least before Microsoft takes over and nothing works. I thought it was a daring move to not pay off plot points until the third film. Another nice little touch was Mc Fly nearly noticing the Time Machine returning after Biff took it for a spin. So, we close out the 2015 visit with Marty and Doc Brown returning to the present, except it isn’t their present time period. 1985 A (Alt-timeline) I just loved this alt-1985. Empty houses and buildings with burning cars in the stre...

How to start a cult I saw this over at Passing Judgment and loved it. Watch this funny 'instructional' video and you'll want to start your own little cult. This video is really knocking Scientology. (remember there are Alien spirits inside you.) Did Katie Holmes have to go through some of these steps? Now, I'm thinking about starting my own Cult.

The universe has many unanswered questions. Why are Doritos chips so addicting? Why Bush got reelected? Why don't AppleJacks taste more like Apples? However, I never thought about this one... Why asian guys can't get white girls? Trust me, you will love this independent youtube movie. It’s funny without being offensive to any race. The jokes are about stereotypes and shows that racial jokes can be told in a manner completely different from Don Imus' bullshit. I loved this movie. It goes to show you that a group of college kids can come up with a funny little movie and not have 50+ budget and still be entertaining. Best parts… His white roommate The Indian guy with the Yoda-like gift of giving good advice…with a twist. The ending!

D&D fans Back in high school, I remember seeing these guys sitting around a table with a game board and dice, with zero ladies around. They were in a different class of Nerds than other Nerds. They were concerned with Magic points and HP than getting laid. I wasn't a nerd or a geek during those years, so I didn't get the whole catch behind D&D. I remembered getting into Phantasy Star on the Sega Master system, never realizing that Phantasy Star and Final Fantasy were strongly based on D&D games. However, the kids in school that played D&D weren’t able to conceal their total geek-dom like I was, a videogame RPG player. Back then; it wasn’t hip to announce that you were a level 73 Warrior, subbing a Monk class. (I am a recovering Final Fantasy XI online freak). WOW and FF changed that perception, since even the star football player has a RPG character online. There’s always been a stigma to being an RPG player or a D&D player, and the ladies aren’t gen...

Looks like the series ‘The Batman’ will finally have a team up with Superman. http://community.tvguide.com/blog-entry/TVGuide-Editors-Blog/Todays-News/Exclusive-Look-Superman/700017671 (( Season 5, a parade of superheroes will guest-star. "Martian Manhunter is starting the Justice League," executive producer Alan Burnett says, "and he would like nothing better than to have Batman on the team." Also on the guest list: the Flash, Green Lantern, Green Arrow, Hawkman and Superman. And though the Dark Knight Detective and the Man of Steel are the ultimate good guys, don't expect them to be instant friends. )) I’ve heard that this show has gotten better over the years, but I’m still a Bruce Timm Batman fan, and a fan of Timm’s DC universe. But, these are interesting developments. Could this pave the way for a completely different Justice League spin off?

I just wanted to drop in ask this question. http://www.tmz.com/2007/04/24/michelle-rodriguez-frighteningly-lost-in-beverly-hills/ What in the hell is wrong with Michelle Rodriguez? I mean, I think she’s cute and she a girl gamer and all, but walking around in that junk is almost as creepy as seeing Anna Nicole wearing clown makeup. Btw, here’s a link to a few pictures of her . One with her swimming topless. (trust me you don’t see much).

Michael J. Fox’s Pepsi ads As I was doing research into Back to the Future II, I remember that someone asked Robert Zemeckis about Fox leaving the shoot of Part III to do Pepsi ads. Zemeckis wasn’t happy that his lead star left shooting for three days to do ads. I was trying to figure out which ads were done during this time, when I came across these vintage MJF ads. I actually remember these too! Fox will do anything for a hot chick http://youtube.com/watch?v=uE7ipDb_Jvc Comment: A hot lady enters his apartment, asking for a diet Pepsi. He’s out, so he goes to great lengths to get her a can. This one was pretty funny, especially the ending. Bad 80’s music. Grade B The Power of Suggestion http://youtube.com/watch?v=BFEQ7aH7JDQ&mode=related&search = Comment: Mc Fly is in a library and finds himself thirsty. He has no change for the Pepsi machine so he creates a drink out of paper and drinks it. I’m not making this one up. I actually like ...

Kuato Lives? http://youtube.com/watch?v=83PZt8s9PjI Comment: I’m not sure if this SNL skit is funny or just strange. Scarlett Johansson plays a female version of Kuato from Total Recall. I sort of dug this, but it’s like most SNL today, good set up, but no payoff.

Mariah Carey going for the Mars Blackman look… You know, there are certain movies that will never get sequels. It’s either because the first movies sucked or no one has any interest in making another movie. I decided to come up with three concepts for sequels for movies that will never have sequels. Enjoy. Over the Top 2: The Ocean Blue : Lincoln Hawk (or Hawks, depending on scene in the first movie) has given up Arm Wrestling and has opened an Arm Wrestling themed Restaurant. His son won’t have anything to do with him. The current Arm Wrestling Champion challenges Hawks (Hawk) to a battle. He must get himself into shape to face this one last challenge. Wait a minute; this was the plot to the new Rocky film. On second thought, just forget it. Glitter 2, In the Gutter : Since the first dreadful film was loosely based on her early singing career, I feel a follow up movie based on her loopy experiences after becoming famous would be interesting. Mariah Car...

Back to the Future II (Part 1 of 3) The original BTTF movie is truly a classic. Something about the way the talent and creative people behind the scenes created this movie made people around the world fall in love with it even today. So what do you do when you are asked to make a sequel? You turn the whole concept of the first story on its head. BTTF2 is one of those sequels that would turn everything that the fans of the first one expected in a completely different direction. The second film takes the whole concept of Time Travel and Paradoxes and expands it. While the story doesn’t have the same charm and wit as the first movie, I enjoyed this movie almost as much for different reasons. This film has a quicker pace than part one and that might have turned off some people. This film unlike the first movie is dependant on part III to finish its storylines. Most of the familiar faces from part one come back for this movie, with the exception of Crispin Glover . ...

Hey, girl, Hollaback. Hollaback Girl done Backwards! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSHYOcnVuYQ Comment: Nothing can prepare you for the total coolness of hearing Gwen Stefani’s song backwards, but watching the video as it is normally runs. Here’s the kicker, the backwards speak is actually the words backwards but not the timing. Note: I loved hearing “My shit is bananas” backwards as well as “It’s my shit.” Of Course My Humps sound just creepy http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tj_KpP6vgVo Comment: I was too busy checking out her ‘Humps’ to listen to the video, so I had to watch it again, and again…

A bunch of really cool Superman Footage Superman II The Richard Lesnner Cut Part 1 : This very skillful woman decided to re-edit Superman II with Donner and Lester’s footage to make a completely different cut from the Lester, Donner and International cuts of this film. ~She uses the Alt opening with a pan across Krypton’s surface that was restored to Donner’s cut. I always loved this take because it is a close pan across the surface of the planet instead of a pan down like in the first film. Great use of John Williams’ Krypton theme here, considering he didn’t write music for part II. ~The film then blends this cut into Lester’s opening with Zod and his two buddies killing a guard and Zod breaking a red crystal. What was this crystal used for and why did he break it? Marlon Brando is restored to the trial of the three Super Villains. Brando is completely removed from Lester’s cut. ~The Krypton guard is wearing a modified version of the uniform that the securit...

Since I saw this cool survey over at Blayde’s Blog , I knew I had to take it too. It was pretty fun. I ended up with the same results as Blayde as my main Villain! Apocalypse. I sort of wished I was The Joker or Two-face, even Venom. Your results You are Apocalypse You believe in survival of the fittest and you believe that you are the fittest. Apocalypse 90% Magneto 74% Dr. Doom 70% Lex Luthor 69% Mr. Freeze 65% Juggernaut 65% The Joker 59% Venom 49% Dark Phoenix 49% Poison Ivy 46% Catwoman 42% Kingpin 41% Mystique 41% Two-Face 41% Green Goblin 37% Riddler 26% Click here to take the "Which Super Villain are you?" quiz...

Dirty (2005) Think of this movie as a cross between Training Day and Crash . As the title states, this movie is about an entire police Special Crime Unit that’s just as dirty as the criminals they put away. The movie has some dark images and scenes that might disturb people, but I think most people can handle it. The plot is a little rickety and runs out of gas toward the end of the movie, but the performances are pretty good from most of the cast. Cuba Gooding Jr. is the reason rent this movie. He plays a really dirty cop that goes around harassing and beating gang members without a care in the world. (Note: A white couple gets lost in the ghetto and he scares them shitless. He also feels up the guy’s wife, who happens to be Gates McFadden , which makes me see Dr. Crusher in a different light.) I’m sure Cuba needed to find a role this gritty, because of the stupid roles he’s taken over the years. Boat Trip anyone? You can tell Cuba is having some fun wit...

Random Thoughts ~ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5NhW2PzUJU Comment: The Angry Nintendo Nerd has his review of the New TMNT movie up. I completely agree with everything he says here. ~After the shootings at Virginia Tech, I've noticed that the security at U of L has increased a great deal. We had a bomb threat on Thursday, but nothing came of it. ~I had no idea there was a serial killer in GTA: SA , but there he is. ~Cops always think they're smart ... ~This guy does 500 impression in two minutes. This one is funny. ~Why are there balding people wearing Dreadlocks? When you start loosing your hair, it's time to stop wearing dreadlocks. ~Are these photos of Heath Ledger as the Joker real? Are they currently filming Batman: The Dark Knight?

Indiana Jones 4 was a waste of time for Darabont. Becca mentioned this in one of my comments, as well as MC reporting about it months ago. It was about Lucas and the rejected Frank Darabont IJ4 script. Little is known about the script other than many people seemed to be pleased with it, including Spielberg. I decided to look into it a little bit and added some links for reading for those that would like to know more about this. Darabont might just be a bitter guy, and he's just venting, or he's completely right. Lucas has time and time again proved that he's forgotten how to write and produce good fiction. Here's an interesting take on the whole situation

The Wicker Man http://youtube.com/watch?v=e6i2WRreARo I was reading the Agony booth's reviews on the Golden Raspberry awards for 2006. The writer mentioned that there was a clip of The Wicker Man on youtube that was really strange, but funny. It's a collection of random scenes in the movie, such as Nicolas Cage punching and kicking women throughout the film. Paul mentioned a while back that he saw the movie and that it was pretty bad. At the time, I was delighted that I missed it. Now, after watching this clip, I want to see it. It has to be really bad. Someone at the studio had to step in say, “Uh, this isn't turning out the way we intended.” Nicolas Cage: “Okay, next question.” Kid 1: “Will there ever be another Con Air movie?” Nicolas Cage: “No.” Kid 2: “Face Off 2, The Rock 2?” Nicolas Cage: “I’m leaving.”

Strange moments on YouTube Pee Wee doing a Japanese ad! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QO0w6pOjGY0 Comment: Hearing Pee Wee speak Japanese and promote a brokerage firm. What does Pee Wee have to do with a brokerage firm? I don’t know, but I like it. NBC 85-86 Sales Presentation Nothing can prepare you for a bunch of actors from various NBC shows during the 80’s singing NBC, Let’s all be there . Look out for a very happy David Hasselhoff. You add Hasselhoff with Mr. T and you have total badassness. I’m sure most of these actors were forced into doing these lame promos. Hmm, what ever happened to Louie the Lightning Bug? Electricity safety Comment: He could kick Smokey’s ass any day of the week. Louie was the man…I mean bug. Hopefully, most children know not to stick their fingers into plug sockets. Reese's Peanut Butter Cups Comment: I remember this ad. Why would someone bring a full jar of Peanut butter into a movie ...

Fantastic Four’s main villain is a cloud? http://www.aintitcool.com/node/32330 Comment: Please tell me this isn’t true… ((And now... well, now Fox has finally locked down the look of Galactus in the film that is, I’m now hearing from people on the picture, “a heartbreaker.” And not in the good way. More in the “hates superheroes and plays more like a parody than a real film” way. Are you ready for this? Wanted to let you know what Galactus is going to look like / be represented as in the FF2 sequel: A storm cloud. Yep. That's it. That's the solution from the creatives. (clears throat).....pretty lame. Think Superman/Silver Surfer flying through clouds with Galactus / Jorel VO. My source is in the eye of the storm. I've written reviews for your site as MegaSwarm (Fountain, Tenacious D, Scanner Darkly))) Galactus is a storm cloud? I’m hoping this story isn’t true. Galactus is one big mo’fo that eats planets, kind of like Unicron. But inst...

Ron Moore interview Interview: Battlestar Galactica's Ronald D. Moore I’ve always been a huge fan of Ron Moore since his early days on Star Trek: TNG. He seemed to really grow into his own with DS9, and took a misstep with Voyager, but he’s found his calling with BSG. He’s always been open with the fans. I still remember reading his DS9 posts on AOL back in the day. While I’ve only seen a handful of episodes, I like how he’s able to balance the show between political and social issues and character issues. One of the things that stood out in the interview was this… (( AVC: Were you surprised when some of the things you've done lately—say, when the heroes condoned suicide bombings—didn't provoke more backlash? RM: We saw a fair amount of heat for it. If the show was on a broadcast network and had a much bigger audience, we probably would have taken a much bigger hit. The fact that we're on cable and we have a smaller audience, I think, went a lo...

No Sallah in Indiana Jones 4? Okay, this got me a little upset when I read it. I always liked this character and he's one of Indiana's best friends and loyal allies in two of the movies. The reason behind him getting written out: According to the site, Rhys-Davies was asked about his appearance in the film at a recent Sci-Fi convention in New Zealand. He answered that, through a third party, he was told his character was written out of the script in favor of "a younger cast." As the writer of the link above stated, was he ever written into the script? However, it is a little troubling that Mr. John Rhys-Davies doesn't have a part in the new movie. At least a cameo, come on Lucas, you included Jar-Jar in Episode III, but he served no purpose in that plot. But, you can't include Rhys-Davies in this movie? Then again were talking about a guy that produced Howard the Duck... BTW, aiming for a younger crowd isn't the way to go, Indiana Jones has a ...

Nice hat... Lame ‘film critic’ gets pissed with Quentin Tarantino’s film Kill Bill http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYu6fpaNrBA Found this on dig.com and I thought it was interesting. Some lady by the name of Jan Wahl interviews Tarantino. It starts out friendly and then switches to them nearly yelling at each other. Tarantino flat out says, “I didn’t make the movie for you!” And, he’s right; middle-aged people like her wouldn’t understand Kill Bill. She then cuts him off and makes sure she has the last word “It’s soulless.” Soulless? It’s about a woman getting revenge on people leaving her dead. How much soul is supposed to be in a revenge movie? People like this Wahl piss me off. I also didn’t like that the News studio people cut Tarantino off without giving him a second chance to defend himself.

Here’s what my big final 7 page Research paper is about in my Lit class… Writing about Shakespeare’s use of the French Army in King Lear, and I have to use as many researching results as I can in the paper. You just don’t know how bored I am right now. I actually enjoyed King Lear over the other Shakespeare play I’ve read, As You Like . It probably has something to do with my dreary Personality …

When someone says, “We’ll paint the streets red with blood…”, I don’t think they meant this. http://www.autoblog.com/2007/04/10/the-streets-ran-red-near-lowell-mass/ This is truly nuts. ((Lowell Massachusetts is in the north central part of the state, miles removed from the bogs of the Cape. The orange hue that coated route 495's northbound lane did make for a colorful nighttime drive, however messy it ended up being. A tractor trailer carrying dye intended for mulch deposited some of its cargo on the highway after the load shifted.)) The only story I have close to this was on 71 to Ohio, an old dump truck partly had its rear wagon door open and spilled metal shavings all over the highway. The driver didn't know it and continued to drive as more metal fell out of his truck. The metal nearly popped everyone’s tires behind him; basically every car behind him was pulled to side and had more than one flat tire. I was heading to school and couldn’t believe what I was...

Here are the fake trailers from Grindhouse http://www.ifitsmovies.com/2007/04/11/watch-all-four-grindhouse-faux-trailers/ Comment: I love these trailers! It makes me want to go out and see Grindhouse now. I really like the first one with the Mexican hero. Good stuff, Danny Trejo plays the hero in this trailer. You’ve seen him in countless movies. (BTW, I just saw him in GTA Vice City Stories, the character model looks just like him too!) The Thanksgiving one is also funny, makes me not want to eat turkey again.

The infidelguy speaks his mind. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYX-R8WeuvQ Comment: I completely agree with EVERYTHING he has to say in this clip. I’m a black guy that speaks properly and rarely speaks slang (I do speak it sometimes). My mother would have chewed me out if I’d spoke in an ignorant manner. She taught me it was sign of disrespect. With other black people, I took a lot of flack for speaking properly. I’ve had to go through this even today. I’ve had people say, “You talk white, James.” I then say, “So, broken English is talking black?” What is being black? Here’s his reply to many comments he received, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtmX_GC6FPo&watch_response “Yo, who you be with Dogg.”

Total Recall Total Recall was one of those movies that people either hate or really love. I personally love the film. Arnold Schwarzenegger back in the 80s and 90s knew how to pick interesting sci-fi scripts; he was much better at it than Sly. Recall was one of those interesting scripts. Helmed by Paul Verhoeven , we get a violent and cynical future where people use VR machines to implant stories into their minds. Once we get Arnold into the Recall center, the movie moves along at a break-neck speed. We get countless sight gags and some thoughtful takes on what is real and what is fake. Verhoeven brings his insanely violent scenes to life with every scene, as well as bringing nudity and bad jokes to life. When going into a Verhoeven movie, you are fully aware what you’re going to get. Jerry Goldsmith’s score is top quality. The main theme is a very unconventional take on a hero theme. While Arnold was at the top of his game in the movie, other better actors br...