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A 12 minute short depicting the origin of “The Bat-Man” and introducing his amazing skills and abilities… Bob Kane and Bill Finger drew on a lot of silent films to create Batman, and I’ve always wanted to give the story a try using silent film techniques. What with that whole copyright/waste of time thing, you’ll have to settle for this collage. Here are the original influences re-arranged to tell Bruce Wayne’s story and his crusade against crime. A bit of fun not intended for sale or commercial exploitation… what with the huge commercial value of silent films and everything.
Sources used:
THE BAT (1926)
THE MAN WHO LAUGHS (1928)
THE CABINET OF DOCTOR CALIGARI (1920)
Edison’s FRANKENSTEIN (1910)
THE WONDERFUL WIZARD OF OZ (1910)
Via Neatorama
I’ve known about the Wilhelm scream for ages, but it’s surprising how many people are unaware of its existence, despite having likely heard it dozens, if not hundreds, of times. This is especially odd considering what a very, very, silly scream it is. Now I go to see movies and often guffaw in the middle of action scenes when I notice a Wilhelm. Depending on the film, this inside joke may be the only thing that makes the movie theater experience worth experiencing.
Here are some scenes of the Wilhelm in action, via videosift:
Now you too can get some snarky pleasure out of films like Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.
Via Videosift, an animation of some Marvel heroes doing the sort of stuff that comic book heroes do.
I, for one, think this is way better than the last Spider-Man and Hulk movies.
Gambit is my favorite X-man. (Totally diggin’ the cajun ;) )
So you can imagine how psyched I am that he finally gets to be in a movie!
Taylor Kitsch (Friday Night Lights) has signed a three-picture deal to star as Gambit (aka Remy Lebeau) in the Gavin Hood-directed film, due out May 1, 2009.
Via Rue Morgue, here’s a fan-made trailer for an imaginary movie, that were it real, would surely be one of the best things to ever happen to geekdom.
Watch, and long for an alternate reality better than our own, where a thing can exist simply because it SHOULD exist, regardless of the politics and egos of rights holders and producers.
I was watching the 1931 (Bela Lugosi) Dracula last night when I noticed something I had apparently forgotten from previous viewings… a vampire bee, climbing out of a tiny coffin!
Surprisingly, a google search for ‘dracula “vampire bee”‘ returns very few relevant results. The closest thing to information about this I can find is a small quote within a larger review:
Surprisingly, there are touches of humour in the movie. Like when, in one of the first scenes in the castle, the miniature coffin of a vampire bee opens up just after sunset, together with Dracula and his wives’ coffins.
The unfame of the bee is unforgivable. I insist that someone starts a bee-cult, post-haste!
Warning: this post is tagged ‘nsfw‘ on account of gratuitous topless female humans featured in the videos within. It’s not sensual, just senseless, which is really all the fun.
As I’ve mentioned before, Forbidden Zone is probably my favorite movie ever.
Probably, you have absolutely no idea what I’m talking about. That’s a shame, because this movie is, in my opinion, much more worthy of being the definitive cult classic than say, The Rocky Horror Picture Show. While RHPS has lots of laffs and sex, fun costumes, inane audience participation, and a devoted fandom; I contend that Forbidden Zone is just Better.
Some people I’ve shown Forbidden Zone to just don’t get its inanity, not understanding that that is the whole appeal. It’s like a cartoon from the 30s made a thing of the flesh! Or at least, a thing of the live action. Not since german silent movies have I seen expressionism used to such effect. It’s full of great music that is mostly borrowed from the past (Cab Calloway, anyone?), and lots of gratuitous nudity that serves more to amuse through its randomness than its sexiness.
For an example of what I mean, check out this scene, from near the beginning of the movie:
And here’s another, one of my favorite scenes in the film, the song “Pico and Sepulveda“:
Forbidden Zone was the brainchild of Richard Elfman, and its cast mostly consists of members of his theatrical troupe, The Mystic Knights of the Oingo Boingo, which later morphed into the 80s new wave group Oingo Boingo, helmed by his brother, Danny.
Speaking of Danny, here’s one final scene from Forbidden Zone, of him playing Satan and singing a cover of Cab Calloway’s Minnie the Moocher. This YouTube video is what first introduced me to Forbidden Zone- after seeing this I added the movie to my Netflix queue and watched it at least three times in the first weekend, buying it shortly thereafter.
So I guess that’s it. I really just wanted an excuse to post those videos (you can find more by searching for “Forbidden Zone” in YouTube), but hopefully I’ve introduced you to a movie you’ll like as much as I do. Otherwise, if you are one of the depressingly rare few who’ve heard of Forbidden Zone before, hopefully I’ve brightened your day by sharing these videos with you.
I remember spending one hot summer afternoon in my formulative middle school years lazing about on the couch reading Stephen King’s Skeleton Crew. Of all the short tales featured, most enjoyable to me was the not-so-short The Mist. To this day it’s remained one of my favorite tales of fiction of all time.
Thus, it should really be no surprise that I’m waiting with baited breath for the theatrical adaptation, due out this November. Even better, the adaptation is written and directed by Frank Darabont, meaning The Mist will likely be handled as well as his other King adaptations, The Green Mile and The Shawshank Redemption.
The trailer certainly supports this possibility:
Of course, the subject matter is vastly different than his other King adaptations, but I think that things look promising :)
Wow, this trailer makes Highlander: the Source look like it will be a terrible movie. Of course, that probably means I will like it all the more because I really quite enjoyed Highlander in my day, and I have always been a big fan of terrible B movies.
Anyway, check it out for a laff, if you are into that sort of thing. There are crummy monster effects with bad guys who speak in deep voices and say faux profound or mocking things, like a bad imitation of Hellraiser. Also, bullet-time!
I’ve seen all the Highlander movies, save for Endgame (I really enjoyed the anime movie with it’s Bloodlust-like animation), and the entire TV series, save for the last season. Maybe I should catch up on the material I’ve missed in order to prep myself for this terrible, terrible movie. I recognize several of the characters in the trailer from the TV series (I think)- it would probably be best to go into this monstrosity better knowing who they are beforehand, because somehow I doubt this will be big on useful exposition.
Via Skullring
This seems like it will be the funnest event ever, if you are me, which you aren’t, so you’d probably hate it.
Combining one of my favorite movies, Forbidden Zone, with one of my favorite bands, Creature Feature? Who is the insane genius that came up with this plan? I want to simultaneously shake his hand for being so cool, and punch him in the gut for doing it somewhere so far away.