Month: December 2007

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We mock because we love

lolinternets.jpgI know the internet is circular, but this is ridiculous: TheForce.Net discovers 2005. Err, The Complex and Terrifying Reality of Star Wars Fandom, aka Star Wars Fans Hate Star Wars, perhaps the most popular tongue-in-cheek fandom commentary of the last few years.

Full disclosure: we didn’t blog it until 2006, when it really started to blow up big in the halls of fandom. Still, the fact that there are people out in fandom who still haven’t seen it yet kinda scares me… And that there are people who take it seriously even more so. It’s always clearly felt like a parody to me, but what could I possibly know about pointing and laughing at fandom?

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Pullman keen on the doctor

Phillip Pullman, author of the His Dark Materials trilogy, says that writing an episode of Dr Who “sounds like enormous fun.”

Speaking of Pullman, the LA Times has an interesting article on the appeal of fantasy films, including The Golden Compass, The Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter.

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Strike continues

Talks have collapsed between the Writer’s Guild of America and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers. Each blamed the other for the break down in negotiations.

Meanwhile, hundreds of production workers and others who have been laid off or lost business due to the strike took to the streets in hopes of encouraging the two sides back to the table.

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Gross prejudice against buns

Behold! The Jedi mullet!Leia and Padme (twice!) make Yahoo’s list of the Worst Hairstyles in Movies, along with a certain poncy elf, Johnny Depp’s Willy Wonka, Halle Berry’s Storm, and a lot of ironically-coiffed folks from Frat Pack movies.

But what’s missing? The Padawan Mullet! While Padme had some weird hair, it’s not every day you run into a style that can fug up Ewan McGregor. Or how about Luke’s toddler do from Return of the Jedi? Man, I need to stop thinking about this, or I’ll be editing this post all day.

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Indiana Jones teaser delayed, Indy gaming to your phone.

While we were hoping to see the first teaser trailer for Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull before the end of the year, word is that we probably won’t – Paramount isn’t quite ready yet. But to help stoke demand, they will put out a new teaser poster.

Also teasing Indy fans is the “revelation” of the roles for Cate Blanchett, Ray Winstone, and Jim Broadbent. Do they play friends? enemies? competitors? child sidekicks? armored polar bears? Find out at MTV.com.

THQ Wireless will be making a Kingdom of the Crystal Skull game next year to go along with the movie release. But that’s not all that THQ Wireless is going to be bringing to your phone – look for the Empire Strikes Back game (released last month), and a mobile version of The Force Unleashed. Then later on.. a second Indiana Jones title, to be tied with the Indy console game. Who needs an XBOX 360 when you really should get an N-Gage mobile gaming device. Why call people on your phone when you can use it to get Indy to the treasure or take down an AT-AT?

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Young Indy Volume 2 tour: Red Baron and Reds..

StarWars.com has put up two more articles in their tour of The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Volume Two: The War Years, coming to DVD on December 18.

  • Disc Five: Attack of the Hawkmen sees Indy getting a closer look at aerial combat when he is assigned to be a photographer for the Lafayette Escadrille, and promptly gets shot down by the Red Baron. After beating the odds and surviving a two week stint with the air unit of Americans fighting for the French, he gets a new assignment behind enemy lines – trying to convince aeronautic engineer Anthony Fokker to possibly change his loyalties for the right price. Unfortunately, the Red Baron is still gunning for him – on land! Historical documentaries cover the aerial warfare of WWI, Baron Manfred von Richthofen, Anthony Fokker, and the Lafayette Escadrille.
  • Disc Six: Adventures in the Secret Service. Indy’s intelligence role puts him into diplomacy as he escorts two princes to their empress-sister in Austria in an attempt to get Austria to surrender – and an escape into a sewer leads to “What a wonderful smell you’ve discovered!” After this mission, Indy is then sent to Petrograd as Russia is falling apart to revolution, and Indy befriends some Bolsheviks, and meets up with Lenin. Historical documentaries cover Karl, the last Habsburg emperor, the Russian revolution, and Vladimir Lenin.

    Want to win a copy of Volume 2, signed by Sean Patrick Flanery? Go to the contest page on seanflanery.com