Archive for November, 2009
Video Spotlight: 50 worst videogame voice-overs
I’ve found my new calling in life. If this is the standard of vocal talent required to get work in the video game industry, this time next year I’ll be the most successful voice actor in history.
I’m talking to you, Miyamoto! You too, Kojima!
Movie Trailer: Bad Lieutenant – Port of Call New Orleans
For those of you that haven’t already seen the early promos for Werner Herzog’s forthcoming Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans, it’s well worth having a dig around. The film, a remake of an 1992 Abel Ferrara film, stars Nicolas Cage and looks insane.
I have no idea if this film is going to be any good. On the one hand, it’s Nic Cage. However, I am a firm believer that no actor who carries on getting work as long as Cage has, is capable of producing nothing but the stinkers this man has squeezed out in the past few years. He could well be back on form with this one.
Plus, I mean just watch the trailer, will you? The guy looks as though he might at any second ACTUALLY murder someone’s grandmother, and not just in the film! You’d be an accessory to NOT go and see it!
Source: ComingSoon.
How do you like them appelles?
Insufferable UK dishrag The Sun manages to do the one thing its critics could not, and in one fell swoop puts a lid on the gutter-politicking over Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s accidental mis-spelling of a soldier’s name on a letter of condolence.
Hopefully now we’ll see an end to the matter, yeah? And the paper? Okay, okay fine, one step at a time…
Movie Trailer: Grown Ups
Following on from the rather good Funny People, 2010 will see the release of Grown Ups, the next Adam Sandler-penned comedy.
With a solid cast of former Saturday Night Live cast members including Chris Rock, David Spade, Rob Schneider, Kevin James and Sandler himself, the film is about five childhood friends who reunite after 30 years apart, following the death of their school basketball coach.
The humour in the trailer looks very much as you’d expect from this cast: a mixture of gross-out, slapstick and deadpan. The only thing missing was a Chris Rock racism skit, but maybe that’ll be in the next trailer.
Source: GeekTyrant.
Spotify Playlist: 12 November 2009
Posted by matt in spotify playlists on November 12, 2009
1. The Chemical Brothers – The Salmon Dance
2. Three Trapped Tigers – 6
3. Kerbdog – Sally
4. Madvillain – Strange Ways
5. Memphis Slim – Born With The Blues
6. Modwheelmood – Bellevue Ave
7. Soundgarden – The Day I Tried To Live
8. Company Flow – 8 Steps To Perfection
9. Screaming Trees – No One Knows
10. Metric – Monster Hospital
11. Count Bass D – Antemeridian
12. Jane’s Addiction – True Nature
13. Cannibal Ox – Raspberry fields
14. Halfway to Gone – Turnpike
15. Mew – Introducing Palace Players
16. Stone Gods – Burn The Witch
17. Apocalyptica – Nothing Else Matters (Instrumental Version)
18. Tenacious D – The Metal
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Movie Trailer: Kick-Ass
Here’s a teaser trailer for the film adaptation of Mark Millar’s Kick-Ass comic.
I have to admit, I’ve never been a fan of Millar’s output, which I always considered tried that little bit too hard to be edgy, while other (IMHO, better) writers managed it with a bit of subtlety and grace. I hated the Wanted comic and I’ve heard the film version, while vastly different to the source material, wasn’t worth the time of day either.
I have to admit though, this film (directed by Matthew Vaughn, of Layer Cake/Stardust fame) looks kinda cool.
The story centres around a young, bored teenage boy named Dave Lizewski (played by relative newcomer Aaron Johnson), who decides one day that he’ll fight back against the injustices of the world by donning a costume and assuming the mantle of the crime-fighting, though super power-free ‘Kick-Ass’. As you’d expect from Millar, not all goes according to plan.
The film also stars Nicolas Cage as fellow vigilante, ‘Big Daddy’, as well as Superbad‘s Christopher Mintz-Plasse.
Kick-Ass is due for release in the second quarter of 2010.
Source: Empire.
Movie Trailer: Clash Of The Titans
Here’s a brand new trailer for the Clash Of The Titans remake, directed by Louis Leterrier (The Transporter 1 & 2, The Incredible Hulk) and featuring Liam Neeson, Ralph Fiennes and fast-rising star Sam Worthington.
I don’t know about you, but having watched the trailer I am very, very excited about seeing this film.
Hey, I loved the original too, but I think this might just be a fitting tribute to an all-time classic, something that is very rare in today’s film industry.
Source: Cinematical.
Video Spotlight: Ticklish Slow loris
This may actually be the cutest thing I’ve ever seen:
“Yes, yes… your tickling pleases slow loris. You may continue.”
Video Spotlight: Drunk Boston woman narrowly avoids Darwin Award
Here we have a perfect example of why the irresponsible idiots of this world need to collectively sit up and thank whoever it is they give thanks to, that the technology exists to keep their dumb asses alive, despite their own apparent determination for the opposite to occur.
Fellow commuters ended up putting their own lives at risk to wave down the oncoming subway train, causing the driver to slam the emergency brake and stop just in time, leaving the woman unharmed, albeit underneath the front carriage of the train.
The video appears to show the woman flailing around and nearly touching the live rail. I have to wonder who’d have copped the blame if this reckless moron had succeeded in doing herself in.
Video Spotlight: Office Freakout
Ever had one of those days? You know the ones. There you are, working away at your desk, when all of a sudden your co-worker goes ballistic and throws his monitor at your head.
Yeah, we’ve all been there.
(Bonus wtf @ the guy who’s just stood there diligently filming the whole thing on his mobile phone)