Feanor's Journal (Filtered: Only Super Bowl)

by Hulk

Hulk still not understand why game called "Super Bowl" when not one superhero involved. Hulk would be happy to make name of game more accurate - just invite Hulk to play! Or at least do halftime show. Hulk know how to entertain large crowds; Hulk used to be robot clown.

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Tagged: Football, Sports, Super Bowl, The Hulk Thought of the Day, TV

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feanor@feanorsworkshop.com (Fëanor) — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 09:34:00 +0000

by Fëanor

Fëanor pours the entire internet into the Recyclotron, and only the best links come out the other end for you to enjoy.

Nicolas Cage as every member of the band Dethklok. (Via)

Supposedly Disney is so excited about Tron Legacy they're planning a TV show for 2011 and 2012, and another movie for 2013.

Director Joe Johnston says in his Captain America movie, Cap's outfit starts out as part of his cover story, that being that he's a song and dance man in a USO show. Ugh. I'm starting to get really worried about this movie.

Neil Gaiman appears to have written an episode of Doctor Who! Exciting!

They're rebooting the Daredevil movie franchise, which makes sense, but for some reason they've hired as their writer the guy who wrote the Day The Earth Stood Still remake. But... didn't everybody hate that?

The Planet of the Apes on Google Maps.

Sony threw in a last minute bid for the Terminator rights. Interesting...

The upcoming 2D Metroid game, Metroid: Other M, will supposedly focus on Samus Aran's human side. Hmm...

They're putting out a new Blaster Master game on WiiWare! It's called Blaster Master: Overdrive, and you can watch the trailer here. The original game had a great soundtrack and was pretty cool, although it was also impossibly difficult. This new game looks very similar.

LEGO roundup! The revolver and the Cloud Car are particularly cool.

The Super Bowl was a pretty excellent football game, and the team I was rooting for won, so I enjoyed it. The commercials, however, were pretty poor - most of them were unimaginative and unfunny, and some were downright offensive. But none of that is what this bullet point's link is about. What I want to show you here is a recreation of Miami's Sun Life Stadium made out of 50 different kinds of junk food.

I'm a sucker for assassin movies, especially assassin kid movies, so I'm interested in Hanna. It's about "a 14-year-old Eastern European girl who is groomed by her father to be a cold-blooded killing machine." Her father ultimately becomes her nemesis, and Eric Bana has just been cast in the part.

Ryan Reynolds and Brad Pitt are both interested in the main role in a Gunsmoke reboot.

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Tagged: Advertising, Art, Captain America, Cartoons, Celebrities, Craft, Daredevil, Doctor Who, Food, Football, LEGO, Links, Metroid, Movies, Neil Gaiman, News, Recyclotron, Sports, Star Wars, Super Bowl, Terminator, Toys, Tron, TV, Video games

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feanor@feanorsworkshop.com (Fëanor) — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 10:25:00 +0000

by Fëanor

Fëanor pours the entire internet into the Recyclotron, and only the best links come out the other end for you to enjoy.

Here are two mixed early reviews of M. Night Shyamalan's Last Airbender. More importantly, above you will find a trailer!!! The trailer will also air during the Super Bowl, but you can see it now through the magic of the interwebs. There's no dialog in the trailer, but man, the action and effects look awesome. Fingers crossed! (UPDATE: @cwgabriel points out that 10 seconds into the trailer, you can see Appa at the top left of the screen. Exciting!)

Some details about Terrence Malick's next film! It'll be a romance starring Christian Bale, Javier Bardem, Rachel McAdams, and Olga Kurylenko, and production begins this fall. I'm betting it will also be long and contemplative. But I kid Terrence Malick.

Ralph McQuarrie's concept art from a Star Trek film project that was scrapped and replaced by Star Trek: The Motion Picture.

I think I posted this or a similar link before, but it's still a ton of fun: a video compilation of a large number of Alfred Hitchcock's cheeky film cameos. (Via)

I already own every issue of All-Star Superman, but I might have to buy the Absolute edition when it comes out anyway, just because. Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely's All-Star Superman is probably the greatest Superman story ever told, and definitely one of the greatest comic series ever. (Via)

One of the most terrifying entries yet on Animals With Lightsabers.

A collection of some of the amazing photos of the planet Earth that astronauts have been tweeting from the International Space Station.

A wonderful gallery of fantastic Doctor Who props and costumes that the BBC is auctioning off. WANT.

LEGO wallets! LEGO Batman CubeDude!

A fascinating infographic about internet usage and demographics.

Super Punch is running another art contest. This one challenges entrants to replace the third panel of that hilarious Penny Arcade comic about the birds and the bees with something even funnier. This entry is pretty amusing.

A gallery of the disturbing art of H.R. Giger.

Physicists have been using quantum entanglement to teleport stuff. Now somebody used it to teleport energy. "There is a growing sense that the properties of the universe are best described not by the laws that govern matter but by the laws that govern information." Woah. (Via)

I've been seeing ads for a comedy called Cop Out on TV, and I just thought, "Wow, that looks like the same awful cop comedy they've been making for years now. Why did they bother making it again?" I only just realized this is the Kevin Smith movie that was originally called A Couple of Dicks, and that at one point I thought might actually be good. I guess not! You can watch the red-band trailer here, if you want. It has its moments, but... man.

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Tagged: Art, Avatar, Batman, Celebrities, Comedy, Comic books, Commercials, Doctor Who, Frank Quitely, Grant Morrison, Internet, LEGO, Links, Movies, News, Photography, Products, Recyclotron, Science, Space, Star Trek, Star Wars, Super Bowl, Superman, Toys, TV, Video

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feanor@feanorsworkshop.com (Fëanor) — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 09:32:00 +0000

by Fëanor

Fëanor pours the entire internet into the Recyclotron, and only the best links come out the other end for you to enjoy.

You just have to watch the video above. (Via)

A couple of particularly amazing recent entries on the wonderful photo blog, Black and WTF.

One of my favorite authors, Connie Willis, has a new book out called Blackout. It's set mostly in 1940s England, and it's about one of her favorite subjects: time-traveling scholars getting trapped in the past and interfering with history. It's the first part of a two-part series, and apparently it might be better to wait until the second one comes out, this fall, before reading the first.

DC might really be moving forward with sequels and spin-offs of Watchmen, most likely without the help or approval of the original creators. Everyone agrees this is a terrible idea.

The magma-hot writing team of Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci just signed a three-year deal with Fox. I assume this means they'll be launching a lot more shows for that network. They'll also be opening up their own TV production company. (Via)

The annual simulation in the latest iteration of the Madden video game predicts that the Saints will win the Super Bowl. I'm not sure who to root for myself, but I suspect it will be a great game.

An amusing Aliens/Space Invaders mashup image. (Via)

These posters for both the original and remake of The Wolf Man are amazing. (Via)

Yay, the Fat Wonder Woman Blog started posting again!

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Tagged: Aliens, Art, Books, Comedy, Comic books, Football, Links, Mashups, News, Obama, Photography, Politics, Recyclotron, Sports, Super Bowl, TV, Video, Video games

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feanor@feanorsworkshop.com (Fëanor) — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 10:25:00 +0000

by Fëanor

Fëanor pours the entire internet into the Recyclotron, and only the best links come out the other end for you to enjoy.

Cinematical posted the classic sequence above from A Night at the Opera as part of their "Scenes We Love" series, and I'm reposting it because I love it, too. (Via)

Watch the trailer for The Time Guardian, some kind of crazy Australian Terminator rip-off starring Dean Stockwell and Carrie Fisher. I kind of want to see it! (Via)

Woo hoo! Beards are back!

You need to watch this fantastic new red-band trailer for Kick-Ass.

A pic of Jeff Bridges from Tron Legacy, and a fun stop-motion animated recreation of the light-cycle sequence from the original movie.

Amusing Star Wars parody image.

The opening titles for the Black Panther cartoon, which is apparently only airing in Australia. (Via)

The readers of Empire have picked the 50 worst movies ever, with Batman and Robin taking the top (bottom?) spot. The problem is, these people just haven't seen enough really bad movies. Sure, Batman and Robin is terrible, but it's actually terrible in a vaguely entertaining fashion. And hey, at least the effects are pretty decent and the lighting is good. I've seen plenty of movies where the filmmakers couldn't do anything right, from set design to editing to writing to costuming to what have you. I mean, just watch any episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000 and you'll see a movie at least 10 times worse than Batman and Robin. [UPDATE: Another movie obviously much worse than Batman and Robin, and which somehow only got to number 16 on this list, is Plan 9 From Outer Space. That thing's a disaster from start to finish!] (Via)

This ad for the upcoming Universal theme park, The Wizarding World of Harry Potter, is pretty exciting! In fact, I am probably more excited about it than a grown man should be. It'll air during the Super Bowl.

Displax is a multi-touch technology made from a transparent polymer film that can be applied to flat or curved surfaces made of glass, plastic or wood, and which then creates an interactive surface. Crazy!

Alfred Hitchcock dioramas! (Via)

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Tagged: Advertising, Art, Batman, Comedy, Comic books, Harry Potter, Links, Lists, Movies, MST3K, Photography, Recyclotron, Star Wars, Super Bowl, Technology, Terminator, Tron, TV, Video

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feanor@feanorsworkshop.com (Fëanor) — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 10:08:00 +0000

by Fëanor

Fëanor pours the entire internet into the Recyclotron, and only the best links come out the other end for you to enjoy.

Above: Klingon heavy metal. Yeah! (Via)

Syfy's holding a contest: name their latest original movie, based on a synopsis and poster, and you could win on-air recognition and an amateur filmmaking kit which includes a camera, a computer, and movie-editing software. I went with Crusade of the Demon myself. (Via)

Sam Worthington will be playing the title role in Alex Proyas' Dracula origin story, Dracula: Year Zero.

For some reason, Warner Bros. is going to give Mortal Kombat another try. The company will be rebooting the franchise with a new movie.

Extremely life-like models of alien landscapes made out of spices and other random substances.

A quick sneak peek at the next episode of Caprica. Basically, Zoe's folks are continuing to realize they knew almost nothing about her.

Video games retitled with the phrases said most while playing them. (Via)

Yes, Clash of the Titans will be in 3D - and so will Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.

A Wild West version of Dr. Strange. (Via)

A new teaser for Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland will air during the Super Bowl.

Some interesting stats on Twitter. The short version is, only a very small percentage of Twitter account holders are actually using the service. It seems to me like a lot of people just don't "get" Twitter.

Sounds like Guy Ritchie is dropping out of Lobo so he can do Sherlock Holmes 2.

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Tagged: 3D, Aliens, Art, Caprica, Comedy, Comic books, Football, Harry Potter, Links, Mortal Kombat, Movies, Music, News, Recyclotron, Sherlock Holmes, Sports, Star Trek, Super Bowl, TV, Twitter, Vampires, Video, Video games, Wonderland

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feanor@feanorsworkshop.com (Fëanor) — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 10:00:00 +0000

by Fëanor

Fëanor pours the entire internet into the Recyclotron, and only the best links come out the other end for you to enjoy.

The Third & The Seventh from Alex Roman on Vimeo.

The video above really blew me away. It's almost entirely computer-generated. It's not real; it's super-real. (Via)

The guys who wrote Zombieland will be writing the Deadpool movie. Seems like good news.

Production on Cowboys and Aliens, which will reunite star Robert Downey Jr. and director Jon Favreau, will begin this summer.

As Sci Fi Squad points out, it's pretty funny that the lack of sightings of the Loch Ness Monster has led some to conclude that the monster must have died - but not that it never existed in the first place.

100 cupcakes, each representing a different classic game. (Via)

Sci Fi Wire takes us on a tour of an impressive Alice in Wonderland promo nesting book.

Check out this awesome trailer for a Japanese horror film called House. It takes some unexpected turns! I really want to see this movie now. Sadly, it does not appear to be on Netflix.

The first official photos from Scott Pilgrim vs. The World. (Via)

Fun Monsters vs. Aliens concept art. (Via)

That photo of the hilariously modified soda fountain gets a further, brilliant modification.

It looks like somebody actually put a photo of Ceiling Cat on his/her check card. Excellent.

I love stuff like this: a list of fictional restaurants and their sources. (Via)

Cinematical has a rundown of what movie ads we're likely to see during the Super Bowl.

Pretty cool art blog, featuring some fun animated GIFs. (Via)

Download a gigantic collection of lost pop music from the '00s here. Be aware, it takes a looooong time to download. By which I mean, I still haven't got to hear any of it yet. (UPDATE: I have since succeeded in pulling the whole thing down and listening to some of it, and it turns out there's some really fun stuff in there.) (Via)

An amusing video of a couple of dudes recycling their Christmas tree by turning it into a rocket and launching it. (Via)

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Tagged: Advertising, Aliens, Animals, Art, Board games, Books, Cats, Celebrities, Christmas, Food, Football, Gaming, Links, LOLCats, Monsters, Movies, Music, News, Photography, Recyclotron, Sports, Super Bowl, TV, Video, Video games, Wonderland