Matthew Vaughn Signed To Direct ‘First Class’ Sequel. I Am Excite!
I didn’t really expect a sequel to last year’s X-Men: First Class. I don’t recall it making much money, and there’s only been murmurings since. Goes to show you what I know! Which, as you probably surmised a long time ago, is nothing! Jack shit. There is indeedly going to be a sequel poppin’, and Matty Vaughn shall be helming the ship once more.
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Apple Makes New Employees Work On Fake Products Until They Trust Them. Orwell Grin.
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Motherfuckers at Apple don’t fool around. How serious are they!, Caff?! Well, they are so serious they’ll put new employees on fake projects just to gauge if they’re trustworthy. That serious!
Men Could Soon Blast Their Gonads With Soundwaves to Prevent Pregnancy. Oh Future! ++
There doesn’t appear to be a male birth control pill on the horizon yet, but there may be a way for us to take contraception into our own hands. Or testicles. Or something. Soundwaves. That’s right. Gentlemen, prepare to have your orbs walloped with some high-frequency chatter.
Video: Honda and Matthew Broderick Remake ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’
It was like last week when Matthew Broderick teased some sort of Ferris remake-sequel-time-thing, and now what we know what he was dribbling in front of us: a Honda-powered remake of the classic movie for a Super Bowl ad. ‘Cause it’s not like Broderick has anything to do outside of filing the calluouses on SJP’s knuckles.
Hit the jump to check it out.
Behold! Winston Churchill’s Dieselpunk Life Pod He Used In Airplanes. Amazing.
A little bit of the old Retro-Future to start your week off. Winston Churchill was a beefy old bastard who wasn’t supposed to fly above 5,000 feet. Given that the motherfucker had to, you know, fly a lot, how’d they get around this little mortality bit? Boom! Life pod in action.
Trailer: ‘Game of Thrones’ Season 2 Gets New Hotness. OH GOD BODY = READY.
So before some friggin’ Horse Racing Derby Wank show premiere tonight, HBO released a new Game of Thrones trailer. Kudos to OL regular Johnny Hall for bringing it to my attention, and tracking it down like an electronic hawk to a source. Here it is for you.
Hit the jump to check it out. Fap with me.
Face of a Franchise: City-Rockin’ Monster!
[face of a franchise presents two individuals that’ve fulfilled the same role. your task — choose the better of the two and defend your choice in the rancor pit that is the comments section]
Monsters kick ass.
Since the dawn of narrative itself, we have been absolutely obsessed with monsters. These grotesque aberrations of death and doom have served as metaphors, representations of the tests of will that the human spirit must endure. The talking snake in the garden paradise is actually the ever-present temptation to do wrong. The giant fire-breathing dragon is a warning against the dangers of hubris. The reanimated corpse-man is the reminder that, for better or worse, we will be remembered by our work.
Once again, monsters kick ass.
So when cinema came around, blessing us with the awe-inspiring combination of moving-pictures and sounds, it was only natural that monsters followed suit. This new medium enabled the monster-metaphors to be pushed even further, inducing more fear and provoking more thought than previously possible. The horrors were no longer confined to the breathy whispers of epic poems or the staid declarations of prose, but could now run as free as the imagination itself.
Unfettered, movies figured out the exact type of behemoth that horrifies, thrills, inspires, excites, and shocks more than any other. Ghosts and wolfmen and vampires and trolls might be scary, but they pale in comparison to the champion. `Cause at the end of the day, ain’t nothin’ better at conjuring up cold sweats and death-screams than this juggernaut:
The city-rockin’ monster.
In the nearly hundred years of cinema history we’ve accumulated, there’s been no scarcity of city-razin’ beasts. Truthfully, most of ’em turned out to be more sizzle than steak, and a select few terrified us beyond the capacity for rational thought. But two of these metropolitan menaces have stood the test of time, and as such now must battle for the title of most formidable city-rockin’ monster!
The combatants are, of course, Godzilla and King Kong.
WSJ: Facebook Could File For IPO As Early As Wednesday.
The WSJ is claiming that Facebook could finally go head and gets its IPO on soon. Dang soon. Wednesday soon.
Five New Pics From ‘The Avengers’ Featuring Scars and Veiny Biceps.
New versions of a couple of Empire scans from earlier in the week, plus a gnarly look at Nick Fury’s dumb scalp and the scarring from however he lost his eye in the movie universe’s iteration of the character.
Video: Mega Man and Pac-Man In Street Fighter X Tekken? G’damn Amazing.
I’m not going to play Street Fighter X Tekken, but if I would I’d be totally rocking out as horrible US Box Art version of Mega Man. There’s Pac-Man too, and good lord if that isn’t chock full of win.
Hit the jump for details and the intro video.
