Following up on the epic 10 minute rap summary of Robocop, the same team has released Aliens:
Watching this reminds me what a great film Aliens turned out to be and how Avatar (by the same director) pales in comparison. It’s not that Avatar was terrible but nobody is going to be making 10 minute rap songs about it in 25 years.
quick update: Hey, they’ve done Terminator 2 as well!
I own all of the Star Wars DVDs except for one – The Phantom Menace. Even the weakest of the others have a certain charm, but TPM was stupid through and through. Even the title is stupid! I have yet to work out exactly what the titular menace actually was. Although the story includes several menaces, none of them seem particularly phantomastical. Unless the menace was supposed to be Palpatine’s amazingly convoluted plan, but that plot point doesn’t really bear fruit until the second film.
Anyway, I haven’t given The Phantom Menace much thought since it first came out but this guy certainly has:
Even if you ignore the affectations of the reviewer, he has some pretty insightful points about how TPM fails as a movie.
Remember kids – winners don’t do drugs.
This guy is incredible, how does he do that?
Also worth watching, from the same guy:
Wolverine in 30 Seconds
Unemployed Hitman
Terminator Salvation in 60 Seconds
StarTrek in 47 Seconds
So I was talking with the team at work and conversation drifted (as it so often does) to My Little Pony.
Just a bunch of guys talking about My Little Pony – nothing weird about that.
But then, mere hours later, a link to this collection of modified My Little Ponies shows up in my RSS reader.
Spooky.
My Little Chewbacca is the best.
It has irked me for a long time that although the President of the United States wields great power over the rest of the world, only US citizens get to vote. To be brutally honest it irked me a lot more when Bush II was in power, but I approve of the way our USAian cousins have voted this time. Obama seems exactly what the US and the rest of the world needs – someone thoughtful, honest and willing surround himself with actual experts instead of cronies. That fact that he can string two words together without stumbling is an added bonus.
And its not just me. The action figure industry thinks Obama is pretty cool. This Obama figure is way more bad-ass than the old George W Bush doll.
I am actually supposed to be doing some work at the moment, but as usual I need a diversion. You are probably in the same situation yourself – why else would you be reading this page?
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I like Robocop. I like it a lot. But not as much as this man, who sounds a bit like the guy from The Streets, but probably isn’t.
Super secret bonus: The Predator Rap
I was talking with a co-worker a few days ago about Rachmaninov’s Prelude in C-sharp minor – everybody’s favourite piece of overwrought classical piano. I am no piano player, but looking at the sheet music it seems almost impossible to play.
These guys have found a solution:
Typical! No sooner do I post an excellent Doctor Who retrospective video than my attention is alerted to an even better one. For your consideration:
Not feeling nerdy enough? The following video should fix that right up, it’s 45 years(!) of Doctor Who stories edited into 8 minutes.
What? Thats not enough Doctor Who? Perhaps you need one of the almost 300 remixes of the awesome theme music. That should hold you over until the new series starts next year.
Jaws was a pretty cool movie but I think we can all agree that the theme tune really needed lyrics. Luckily one man stepped up to the challenge:
The same guy has done a whole bunch more:
Batman
Superman
Back to the Future
Indiana Jones
James Bond
Halloween (particularly good)
The following 5 minute film contains 200% of your daily recommended dose of drift racing and dinosaurs:
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I am going to assume that we all liked Star Trek:The Next Generation when it was on. However only the most ardent fan would refuse to concede that there were some problems with the show. It was fairly cheesy (even for the late eighties) and its oh-so-earnest attitude made the future look like a fairly dull place to live. Also, I think it will take longer than 400 years for skin tight uniforms to be adopted by any organisation that wants the galaxy to take it seriously.
Over a decade later (has it been that long already?), ST:TNG is ready for a face lift. Have you ever wondered what the show would look like if revisited with the most powerful post-production technique known to man; the laugh track? Me neither, but someone has: