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Movie review: Godzilla

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Warning: This review WILL have spoilers. I came into this movie without knowing hardly anything about it (except, ya know, it’s GODZILLA), and I would’ve hated to have certain knowledge ahead of time. For those not wanting spoilers, I’ll just say that I really enjoyed it, it’s far, far better than the last time Americans made a Godzilla movie, and if you think it’s at all up your alley, I recommend you see it. Now go off and read some other non-spoilery stuff on this blog, like things about my upcoming book Zeus Is Dead!

For the rest of you, I’ll see you below the image…

This did not actually happen in the movie. Yet.

“When someone asks you if you’re a Godzilla, you say, ‘YES’!!”
Note: This did not actually happen in the movie.
Yet.

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Top Ten Things We Learned from The Simpsons

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This has been roaming around my head lately, so I thought I’d take a few minutes to have some fun and post it, in no particular order: The Top Ten Things We Learned from The Simpsons…

  1. Never, EVER stop in the middle of a hoedown.
  2. The hole’s only natural enemy is the pile.
  3. You don’t win friends with salad.
  4. When the sign says “Do not feed the bears,” man, you’d better not feed the bears!
  5. Life is one crushing defeat after another until you just wish Flanders was dead.
  6. Weaseling out of things is what separates man from the animals.
    ‘Cept the weasel.
  7. Vampires are make-believe, just like elves, gremlins, and Eskimos.
  8. A zebu is like an ox except it has a hump and a dewlap.
  9. You’ll have a bad impression of New York if you only focus on the pimps and the C.H.U.D.s.
  10. When a woman says nothing’s wrong, that means everything’s wrong. And when a woman says everything’s wrong, that means everything’s wrong. And when a woman says something isn’t funny, you’d better not laugh your ass off.

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Top 5 List: Potentially Awesome Crossovers

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Ooh, isn't that all fancy? Well? Isn't it?

Ooh, isn’t that all fancy?
Well? Isn’t it?

And the Earth has once again completed the number of rotations (divided by the amount of coffee I’ve had, multiplied by the Coefficient of Arbitrary Timing) required to bring you another geek-related Top 5 List! This time, there’s even an official-ish fancy logo over there on the right. Go ahead. Gaze upon it! …Okay, now come back over here.

Another difference this week: this one’s a little more visual than the others. Why? Basically I got an idea that made me grin, I pulled up Photoshop, and I couldn’t quite stop myself. (I’m far from a Photoshop expert, but I know enough to have fun. Click to embiggen most of them!) That’s right, today I present to you:

Top Five Potentially Awesome Crossovers

Obviously, these are only hypothetical. If any of these ever occurred in any official fashion, pigs are flying through a frozen-over hell. So without further ado, and in no particular order, we begin with… [Read more…]

Julian Glover: Super-Actor!

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So I just realized that…

…General Veers from The Empire Strikes Back…

…Walter Donovan from Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade…

…and…

…Maester Pycelle from Game of Thrones…

…are all played by the same guy:

Actor Julian Glover

Oh, and Jek Porkins was played by one of the government guys from the beginning of Raiders of the Last Ark, and Admiral Ozzel was played by Adolf Hitler.

But you probably already knew that.

Top 5 List: Villains

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And we’re back with another geek-related Top 5 list! (Who is this “we”? I’ve no idea! I suspect I’ve somehow split into two or three people in order to deal with all the things I have to do lately. On the other hand, maybe I’ve just turned pompous and I’m using the royal “we”? Or I’ve been assimilated by the Borg.) This time I’m going with the top five villains in fiction, as judged by me. In totally subjective fashion. In relation to my mood at tastes right at this moment on April 26th, 2014, because I am flighty and I apparently lack conviction. Oh! I nearly forgot to toss up the title in fancy title-fashion. So here it is:

Top Five Fictional Villains

Good. Got that out of the way. As always, this list is in no particular order due to my usual inability to rank favorites. (Well, okay, so the first one in the list is likely the one that occurred to me first, but…) [Read more…]

Farscape Movie???

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Big news for my fellow Farscape fans out there (and no, it’s not that I’m resuming my Farscape rewatch blogging–though I do plan to do that soon, and thank you for considering that “big news,” oh hypothetical reader…)! Farscape creator Rockne O’Bannon let it slip at Wondercon that Justin Monjo, writer of 14 episodes of the series, is currently penning the script for a Farscape movie.

It was only a brief mention at the end of an interview, and who knows if it’s going to be a Serenity-style theatrical movie or another mini-series like The Peacekeeper Wars, but here’s hoping it makes it through pre-production and gets onto a screen of some size!

Word is already spreading, though I myself heard it via a tweet by Gigi Edgley (Chiana):

Click the link in the tweet for more info. The mention of @SyFyTV would imply that it’s not headed to the big screen, but either way, I’ll take it.

Here’s the video linked in the article. Fast forward to 2:20…

Who’s excited???