Paint the Tiger, Carve the Swan

We all know Wall•E, who cleans up Earth.

This is the story of Burn•E, who does maintenance on the ship:

http://www.dailymotion.com/swf/k1uCDheC6Itc4PQ1V4&related=1&canvas=medium

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My RSS feed reader this morning was graced by a fantastic article over on a new addition to my feeds list: Terminally Incoherent.

They don’t need to split it into a trilogy like Lucas did. They can do it in one movie if they can and want to. The aim is to still keep it somewhat the spirit of the Classic continuity but the Vader parts ought to be darker and more serious for obvious reasons. Make sure that R2D2, C3PO, Chewbacka and Fett family do not appear in this movie at all.

That’s all of a teaser I will provide. Please, go and read it in it’s full glory.

Open Letter to the future George Lucas Estate

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Using python, it’s easy to get data from IMDb into your iTunes database.

You’ll need a few tools to get this working. appscript, py-IMDb and CocoaDialog. Install each of these, and for the latter, note where you store it. I’m not going to go through the code, as it is fairly well commented. If you can’t get it to work, leave a comment and I’ll see if I can help.

IMDB2iTunes.py

Note that you will need to save the file above, and rename it so it has a .py extension.

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Every now and then, a movie comes along which keeps you enthralled from the first minute right up until the end credits roll. Children Of Men does this, and keeps you thinking, well after you leave the cinema.

From the starting sequence, where we see the result of a society where no children have been born in just over 18 years. The death of the “youngest person alive,” juxtaposed with the terrorist attack which narrowly misses the hero, Theo, (“If you took cream and sugar, my friend, you might not be here now”), and the dystopian London that we see glimpses of demonstrate how bad a world without the voices of children would be.
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Someone told me today when I mentioned I had seen this film that this title is what they know James Bond as. Because, that’s what he does. Kiss, Kiss; Bang, Bang. Even with the colloquial meaning of Bang here in Australia, that’s still somewhat true.

This film nearly lost me in the opening sequences. Sure, the young magician act was magnificent, and well done, but the party was poor. It was almost like the pre-screening audiences had totally missed all of the salient points, and there was a percieved need to bring in a narrator to bring everyone up to scratch. And if it can’t be done subtly then they took the easy way out: stopping the film mid-frame, and having the narrator talk over the top. Cheap.
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…that’s Dreamz with a Z.

I went into this film with an idea in my head as to what it would be about. There has been a significant amount of advertising, and, to be honest, it looked good. With not being a real fan of the Pop Idol-type shows, but knowing more than enough about them to understand even the most in-jokes, I felt I was fully prepared for whatever the movie threw at me.

I was surprised. Whilst the film was poking fun at the popularity contests that are the current crop of New Talent shows, it went far deeper than this into it’s satire of American family and political life.
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“Dark Crystal” Sequel In The Works (May 14th-15th, 2005) - Dark Horizons

Jaq will be stoked. The Dark Crystal is possibly the best Henson thing ever created.

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Daisy Duke Dances For You.

Best. Thing. Ever.

(Thanks to Ash Green for the link!)

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Culture Snob | Movies | The Phantom Nuance

This totally sums up my opinion of the most recent Star Wars film, and much more eloquently than I ever did.

Culture Snob, you are going to be on my RSS feed.

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The Darth Side: A New Hope:

This has got to be the best idea for fan-fiction I’ve ever come across.

Do yourself a favour, read the Darth Side…

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