Postavant has an iPhone 4 of its own, and our Apple Hipster Douchebag correspondent Conner Owen tested it out. Here it is, no use to beat around the bush about the results. Next, we’ll see if it really only takes a drop from 3.5 feet to break the damn piece of shit.
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I rewatched the first two films the last few days. Twilight is as bad as ever; a completely inept film in every way that only shows promise in the way of the Cullen family, who are made intriguing by the brief performances present. New Moon makes a mockery of the material and plays as a self-aware joke, and for that, it is entertaining, but too bad to be good. Eclipse doesn’t fit with either film or the books that spawned them. Yep.
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There’s nothing I can really add here since I haven’t read the novel, though I sure as hell plan to. This just sounds too bad for words, but the people at Media Matters For America are always rather clever. Their exclusive look at Glenn Beck’s fiction novel, which may very well live on in infamy or as some sort of warped classic a la Atlas Shrugged, is after the jump.
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New Wainy Days (!!!), a video that I got…gratification, ahem, in exchange for putting up, and yeah. All after that jump and junk.
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I say this only because Keith Olbermann’s interview with Senate nominee Alvin Greene is a classic of epic proportion. I present: Wax On, Fuck Off, a story about Ralph Macchio’s attempt to become a Hollywood hardass in the wake of The (not actually) Karate Kid remake. And also, one of the better takes on a Lady Gaga video I’ve seen. Then again, I have a bias on the latter. UPDATE: Also, the trailer for Studio Ghibli’s The Borrower Arrietty, a 13 year old saying “cunt” on the Today Show, and the Toy Story 3 Google commercial. All after the jump. Gosh, this was a perfect day for videos.
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Paramount Famous, the production company behind classic flicks like Van Wilder: Freshmen Year and Wrong Turn At Tahoe, is doing open casting calls in Atlanta for Mean Girls 2, directed by TV veteran Melanie Mayron. Synopsis and casting details if any readers from Atlanta want to be involved in this abortion.
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The seven minute short you can see in the article below is explained by Kevin Tancharoen (director of Fame [2009]) in his interview with Collider, as well as a tweet from Jeri Ryan, who played Sonya in the short. In summary, it’s a pitch to WB by Tancharoen, made for $7500 largely on volunteer work and favors, and he really wants to make a MK reboot. His head seems to be in the right place, which is all I really ask for out of this film. I don’t care if video game movies are bad, as the problem that I and most others have had with the genre is that they’ve been made by people who don’t care about the material. That is why the movies ultimately suffer; not because the material is weak, even if it is. Tancharoen’s words and more after the jump.
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To hell with canon! What may be a test preview like the first Tron: Legacy trailer, a seven minute “trailer”, or what could even be the first seven minutes of the film, ended up online today. CHUD is confirming that this is not just marketing for a new game, but for a new Mortal Kombat film, which seems to throw all continuity and canon out the window. Said to be directed by Kevin Tancharoen (director of last year’s Fame…ugh) and choreographed by Larnell Stovall, the seven minutes kill off my favorite character, remove all of the supernatural elements, turn Shang Tsung into some dude in a bad suit, and has Michael Jai White (!!!) playing Jax. This’ll probably be awful, but god damn, I can’t help but to be jazzed. Seven minutes in heaven after the jump.
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Characters don’t have names and this is semi-autobiographical. NSFW. Re-transcribed for easy reading; I removed all directions and actions and left it all to badly transcribed dialogue. I don’t have character names; Jewsy is just a description. I’m a bad person. And a bad writer. Mostly the former.
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This title is for shock value, because you need to be shocked. 74 House Democrats signed a letter in support of the disgusting undermining of the FCC’s stance on net neutrality, funded by AT&T, Verizon, and Comcast, throwing infinite amounts of lobbying money to effectively mutate the internet at the expense of you. I never thought I would be on the side of the FCC, but here I am. The internet needs to remain a place where every website is given the same ability to be accessed by you, and not micromanaged by your internet service provider, who is seeking the right to restrict sites and functions of the internet entirely for profit motives. An internet restricted and regulated by companies with a history and clear motive to censor and deform the web using politicians and judges who are ignorant of 21st century technology (see: “What is the difference between the internet and a pager?”) is baffling. An internet sans neutrality is nearly identical to the system in place in China, where I wish you good luck in finding any info on the events in Tienanmen Square, unless if you’re savvy with a proxy. As CREDO pointed out in their petition to these 74 Democrats, it’s much like allowing BP to regulate their oil wells, something that must sting greatly to Charlie Melancon, the congressman who cried over what this has done to his district and the land he calls home. The biggest problem in all of this is that the mainstream media, which is supposed to be so very liberal, has ignored this story. We’ve got a fight on our hands, and I don’t think Google and a little thing called antitrust laws are going to be enough to beat what may be the free speech issue of my lifetime. I had to have Adam McKay point this out to me on Twitter!
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Mind if I offend everyone? There are two things that don’t sit right with the condemnation of White House scribe of Helen Thomas, the 89 year old staple of the White House press room who had basically in my mind become synonymous with it. After a call by Ari Fleischer for her to be fired and disapproval by the White House over her controversial comments regarding the Israeli/Palestinian conflict (if you have not read them, they are after the jump), she announced her retirement today; effective immediately. Get your hard hats on people; I expect an angry comment or two, and at least one of them better contain the word naïveté.
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Hi, I’m MorsePacific, the previously unknown and entirely useless video game correspondent. Here’s where I start doing things and Zachy puts them up ‘cause he loves me. In a glimpse of THQ’s batshit lunacy, they’ve released the trailer for the next game in the Red Faction series, Red Faction: Armageddon. The big change…is Red Faction’s sudden development of what I call “Indigo Prophecy Syndrome”. Yup, there’s a cult. Trailer after the jump.
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Remember that shitty website? It’s still in the blogroll and I’m not deleting it. But yeah, we ate it. We ate it good. Cause it’s all about the Roosevelts, babeh.
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