What's not to Like About Self-Driving Cars?

Here's the answer from Conan O'Brien:



A computer controlled vehicle with no brakes or steering wheel?

What could possibly go wrong?


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A Look at Past Fashion Predictions

Brought to you by British Pathe, a look at what people in 1960 though fashion would look like in the year 2000.




The concept here is "The Past in Prolog".  It makes a certain amount of sense with fashion, but they missed the time period drawn from by at least century in this clip.

One of those outfits looks like it should have been worn at the battle of Waterloo.

The X-Kitties!

Source: The Pet Collective via Geekosystem

Warning!  Cute Overload.

More Movie Sins: The Wolverine

I admit it.  I'm hooked on these.

Movie Sins, the Mutant Version

Hat Tip: Geek Tyrant

Movie Sins has posted two new videos pointing out the sins of two of the X-Men related movies; X-Men: First Class and Origins: Wolverine.

They're particularly harsh on the latter.

RiffTrax Godzilla Kickstarter Project Funded in 12 Hours

This goes to show the popularity of RiffTrax, and the disdain for the 1998 Matthew Broderick version of Godzilla.

The Riftrax Kickstarter drive to fund a live riff of the movie received $100,000 in funding the first day it was posted.  (Actually, it was less than 12 hours.)


The funding is still open, so you can get some of the goodies given out to backers.  Some of the best ones are already gone, though.  (You can no longer get the script used by one of the RiffTrax guys or the ability to right a riff for the live performance).

5th Grade Boy's "Synchonized Swimming" Team

The 5th Grade Talent Show at W.A. Porter Elementary School in Hurst, Texas featured a group of "Synchronized Swimmers".

Just watch the video, no words needed.

The Hobbit Sequel Title Generator

Great minds think alike.  (Or is that depraved?)

The people over at us vs. th3m have come up with a  web page that generates titles for sequels to the Hobbit movie.

I have taken the luxury of including one of the title I recently suggested in a blog post.


Have fun coming up with alternatives.

Someone Gives Bruce Springsteen Virtual Sex Change

Hat Tip: AV Club

Turns out, if you play a Bruce Springsteen 33 of "I'm on Fire" at 45 speed he sounds remarkably like Dolly Parton.  The best part is the last 30 seconds or so.

Mystery Science Theater Reboot in Works?

Geekosystem has a post speculating on a MST3K reboot.

 This would be coming from Joel Hodgson, not from the RiffTrax guys.  (Not that I have anything against Mike Nelson, Bill Corbett, and Kevin Murphy.)  This would apparently be an online program similar to the original series with a new host and probably new robots.

The biggest hurdle will probably lining up fodder.


I've been complaining lately about all the reboots coming out of Hollywood lately.  I could actually get behind this one.


As an added bonus, Wired posted an online article on MST3K  today:

Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Definitive Oral History of a TV Masterpiece



(The article has a brief note on Joel attempting a reboot, but little detail.)

I Knew There Was a Reason Not to Look Forward to the Next Hobbit Film

Hat Tip: Geekosystem

After watching the first film installation of the Hobbit, I really was not looking forward to the second movie.  The only reason for two movies was the inclusion of a great deal of extraneous material.

The Hobbit runs about 300 pages in book form.

The books in the Lord of the Rings trilogy each run 450-500 pages.

Given the difference, creating two movies out of the Hobbit requires adding the equivalent of 700 additional pages.  Additional material in the movie industry is referred to as "padding", and the producers of the Hobbit films have literally created an entire movie's worth of it.

All that padding results in problems, and there's nothing more enjoyable than poking fun of those problems.  Someone did that in video form and posted it to YouTube.

The video lasts almost 15 minutes.

Cartoon Voice Actor Does Darth Vader. Somehow, It's Just Not the Same.

I know this was posted to YouTube some time ago, but I just came across it recently.  Someone has posted a video of Jim Cummings reading part of the Star Wars script as Winnie-the-Pooh.

The idea alone is enough to make you giggle.  The actual video is better.



Of course, this raises the question:  Is it Winie-the-Vader or Darth Pooh?

Shaun the Sheep Short: Synchronised Swiming

This reminds me a little of the old Laff-A-Lympics cartoon.  (Am I dating myself with that?)

RiffTrax Bait: "Yeti: Giant of the 20th Century"

Stumbled across this at Monster Island News and just had to repost.

Really?

A Blaxpoitation knock-off of King Kong with an unbelievable disco theme song?  What's not to like?


And it's set for release on DVD.


I can't wait for the guys over at RiffTrax to get hold of this thing.

Absolutely Brilliant Starwars Mashup

Oh, I wish I was this creative.




Master Yoda from Eclectic Method on Vimeo.

My favorite part?

Yoda plays R2 like a steel drum.

I also like the violin section.   You Only Live Twice?