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Bad Sci-Fi Theater: Australiens (2016)

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Australiens

Even the tagline tries to warn you!

Bad Sci-Fi Theater!

It’s time for another Bad Sci-Fi Theater recap, the Geek Notes feature where I try to make the best of watching terrible movies so you can crack maybe half a grin. This time, a movie I picked purely based on the title alone: AUSTRALIENS!

Okay, I think I’ve picked every BSFT movie by the title alone, so I suppose that’s not so noteworthy. What might be noteworthy is that I went into this movie not expecting it to be a comedy. (On the other hand, given how many times jokes just fell flat, one might watch the entire movie and not realize it’s a comedy…) I’ll say a little more about that at the end, but for now, here’s the trailer, followed by the tweet-a-thon…

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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…]

Aliens: The Broadway Musical

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“It’d be hard to get tickets, because they mostly sell out every night. Mostly.”

I recently got into a Twitter conversation with Jessica Mills ‏(@geekyjessica) about the concept of making a Broadway musical out of James Cameron’s Aliens.

Song titles were tossed about between us:

“Game Over”
“She Don’t Like The Cornbread Either”
“They Mostly Come Out At Night”
“Half-Bishop, Full-Knight”
“Love And A Grenade Launcher”
“Two Mouths Means Twice the Kissing”
“Face-Hugger Shuffle”
“Shut Up, Hicks”

West Side Story-inspired lyrics (courtesy of yours truly):
“We’ve landed on LV-four-two-six!
We brought along Hudson and Cor-‘pral Hicks!
Let’s all watch Bishop do his knife trick!
Carter Burke is a co-loss-al dick!”

Plans were made. A kickstarter campaign was proposed. It was thought that we could talk James Cameron into it by saying it would be done in 3D. And then Twitter user Starman Morrison ‏(@GeekyGeekyWays) had to go and nuke us from orbit: someone had already done it…

Ah, well. It would have been glorious.

“Hey, I just met you, and this is crazy, but I’ve been face-hugged, so kill me, maybe!”