The Cumulative Summer Movie Trailer

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Screen Rant put together this neatly-edited montage of 24 different upcoming summer movie releases. I want to see this movie. Except for the Pixar stuff.

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Parody Posters for (Thankfully) Non-Existent Sci-Fi and Superhero Movies

io9 has a gallery full of them. I kinda worried that it might give Hollywood some ideas.

Every Action Hero Says "We've Got Company"

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Huh. I guess that this is an overused line in action movies. And given the context, maybe I should stop saying it when family visits.

The video is by a previously unknown-to-me radio show host called Guy Bauer.

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10 Greatest Movie Chase Scenes

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Jay G of Marooned has a list of -- with YouTube footage -- of what he considers to be the greatest chase scenes in movie history. Among them is the Steven Spielberg's first feature film Duel, which consists almost entirely of a protracted chase scene. My favorite chase scene is from the Quentin Tarantino film Death Proof (language warning).

What other chase scenes belong on the list?

The Gamers: Dorkness Rising

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Somehow this rather promising feature-length film about gamers had escaped my attention. It is apparently a comedy about a role-playing game session, with the action splitting between the players and their characters.

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Writer of Battlefield Earth Apologizes for Movie

The movie Battlefield Earth, based on the novel by science fiction writer/cult leader L. Ron Hubbard, received the Razzie for "Worst Movie of the Decade". J.D. Shapiro, author of the screenplay, has published a formal apology in The New York Post:

Let me start by apologizing to anyone who went to see "Battlefield Earth."

It wasn't as I intended -- promise. No one sets out to make a train wreck. Actually, comparing it to a train wreck isn't really fair to train wrecks, because people actually want to watch those.

I've never seen the movie, but I did read about half of the book about ten years ago. I had heard that it was a bad movie -- but "worst movie of the decade"? Now I've got to see it. Anyone can make a bad movie. But it takes special genius to make a movie so terrible that it takes people's breath away.

What, in your opinion, is the one movie that is so bad that it's worth seeing?

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The 10 Greatest Movie Fight Scenes

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Caveman Circus has compiled videos of what it considers to be the ten greatest movie fight scenes of all time. Above is a clip of Beatrix's fight against the Crazy 88s gang in Kill Bill.

Which is your favorite?

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The 15 Worst Science Fiction Movies of All Time

Tim of Pop Crunch has a list of what he considers to be the fifteen worst science fiction films of all time. Coming in at #5 is the 1998 Bruce Willis movie Armageddon:

Seriously, the histrionic plot is bad enough, but the science of the film is so bad as to make any scientist within a 5 mile radius of a showing to spontaneously combust. They get every possible details wrong—how you would stop an asteroid; what would happen if you put explosives down a shaft in one; what would happen if you split it up; sound in space; gravity; hiring oildrillers for the thing in the first place. Throw in Ben Stiller pretending he can act and Bruce Willis
giving a textbook definition of “phoning it in”, you get an utterly crap movie, of course directed by Michael Bay.

I thought that it was okay, but Tim is correct to suggest that the movie requires simply enormous suspension of disbelief.

What movie would you add to the list? What movie would you remove from the list?

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The 10 Best Swordsmen in Cinema

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Zach Lawrence of Nerd Bastards created a list of who he considers to be the ten best swordsmen in film, including Beatrix from Kill Bill, Aragorn from The Lord of the Rings, and Darth Maul from The Phantom Menace. The video above features Westley from The Princess Bride, who takes the #7 slot. It's one of my favorite movies, and very much a date movie.

Who would you add to the list?

Space Invaders Will Be Made into a Movie?

According to The Los Angeles Times, Warner Bros. wants the movie rights to the classic arcade game Space Invaders. Given the non-existence of the plot in the game, I guess what they're really looking for is the title.

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The Simplified Movie Posters of Riccardo Bucchioni

Artist Riccardo Bucchioni made eight neat movie posters, including Kill Bill, A Clockwork Orange, and The Empire Strikes Back. He even folded them, giving them an authetnic, vintage look.

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Fake Foreign Sci Fi Film Posters

io9 has a gallery of fake science fiction movie posters by Travis Pitts that re-imagine them as sophisticated, foreign art house films.

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No Country for Wolfmen

From a photoshop contest at Worth1000, via Popped Culture.

No Country for Old Men is one of a handful of movies that I've recommended to my parents. They rarely watch modern movies because of swearing and nudity. It's irritating to watch a movie and think "Hey, my folks might like this," only to then see a breast or hear the f-word once. And in such a way that makes no contribution to the story. So No Country is acceptable, although its moral nihilism may be a bit unsettling.

Movie Trailer: Gone With The Wind With Vampires

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Watch the trailer of this soaring epic of the crumbling grandeur of Antebellum vampiric Southern society.

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Best Action Scene Ever?

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YouTube user masfher says that this clip from the 1985 Bollywood production Alluda Majaka is the best action scene ever. I won't make such a definitive statement, but it is quite exciting and wildly over-the-top unrealistic. Especially the horse-sliding scene at 2:07. You don't know what horse-sliding is? That's because this action hero invented it.

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The 10 Wost SciFi Snubs in Oscar History

At io9, Cyriaque Lamar has a list of what she (he?) considers to be ten times in the history of the Academy Awards when an Oscar definitely should have gone to a science fiction film. I fully agree that the 1985 Oscar for Best Screenplay should have gone to Back to the Future, which was a pretty innovative concept at the time.

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The Best of Post-Apocalyptic Cinema

James Rummel has a post listing and describing what he considers to be the best movies in the post-apocalyptic genre. We've previously discussed the literature (as has James), so let's consider the cinema. These are his picks:

1. Mad Max 2:The Road Warrior (1981)
2. A Boy and His Dog (1975)
3. Wizards (1977)
4. Planet of the Apes (1968)
5. The Omega Man (1971)
6. Logan’s Run (1976)

You can read the post for James' arguments for each of these movies. Although I enjoyed Planet of the Apes and Logan's Run, none of these movies really grabbed me. I guess I prefer to read the genre, rather than watch it, because of the greater development available in long fiction.

What post-apocalyptic movies do you like?

The Pros and Cons of Being Killed by Various Sci-Fi Aliens

John Scalzi has a post mulling how humans are killed by different alien species in science fiction movies and how, besides the obvious reason, the methods of death could suck. But he also looks at the bright side. A sample:

8. The Bugs (Starship Troopers, 1997)
Approved methods of killing: Biting, slicing, dicing; rather improbably launching flaming projectiles at spaceships in orbit out of the tail end of their digestive systems.
Pros: These babies can kill 100,000 humans an hour, so you'll likely die with friends.
Cons: As you die you'll wonder if this isn't some sort of karmic retribution for that time as a kid with an anthill and a magnifying lens (answer: Oh, you betcha).

I really liked Starship Troopers -- both the book and the movie. But especially the movie. Oh, sure, it wasn't for Heinlein purists, but it was an exciting story, well told. Have you seen it?

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Priceless Facial Expression

A pity that it's 'shopped. Via TYWKIWDBI

Kermit the Frog vs. Christian Bale: Who Is the Better Batman?

The link is to a screenshot of a 4chan image thread, pitting Kermit up against Christian Bale.

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