Below, the trailer for “Texting of The Bread” – a new mobile game that marks ScrewAttack.com’s first foray into game development:
The basic idea is it’s a 2D spin on “Typing of The Dead” (re: “House of The Dead” as a keyboard-training game, cult-classic) with mobile texting and evil Gingerbread Men instead of zombies. I saw it in action back at SGC, and it looked like a lot of fun.
You can pick it up for your iPhone, iPad etc HERE.
Folks who don’t live in Florida and/or don’t watch a solid amount of Cable News probably haven’t heard of Alan Grayson, the Freshman Democrat Congressman for Florida’s 8th District… but that’s probably going to change once THIS campaign “attack ad” against his Republican challenger Dan Webster hits the Monday news cycle – which was almost-certainly the point.
What makes the ad unique – at least among ads thus-far generally run by “liberals” against “conservatives” – is that it explicitly targets, vilifies and “calls out” the whole concept of “Religious Conservative” political ideology in the harshest possible terms. Summary of the piece: Webster is a hardline anti-abortion/anti women’s-rights Christian Fundamentalist, said views on women and abortion are similarly held by Islamic Fundamentalists, therefore supporting Webster is roughly equivalent to siding with… well, you get the idea – and in case you don’t, it closes out by re-christening Webster “Taliban Dan.”
Video after the jump…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvB-mHXcWzg
Now… there’s a part of me that looks at that and says “Ugh… y’know, regardless of what side it’s on this sort of hyperbole and villianization is exactly what’s wrong with the discourse as a whole.” The OTHER part of me, however – the part that lives in the real world and not Care-A-Lot – says “y’know what? Fuck yeah! Spot-on, about time SOMEONE said it out loud, more of this PLEASE!”
Okay, yeah… the generic “Arabic”-style script on “Taliban Dan” is probably a nudge too far.
But otherwise? Yeah, I’m not ashamed to admit that this particular smackdown makes me more than a little giddy. I’m no more a “liberal” than I am a “conservative” or a “Klingon,” but you don’t need to be a partisan to see what a cancer the “Religious Right” and “Social Conservatives” are on this country – and it’s been too long in coming for rational members of modernity to get up in said ideologies’ faces about how much their “values” have in common with the “values” we’re supposed to be at war with right now.
We all remember Stephen Colbert’s EPIC, career-making roast of George W. Bush at the White House Correspondents Dinner a few years back right? Well, here he is going one bigger – making a mockery of an actual Congressional Subcomittee hearing on immigration… in character as his “Colbert Report” persona.
Trailer for a “Pokemon” fan-film (not technically existant) that seems to be taking a not-too-subtle “shot” at the grim-n-gritty “reimagining” genre. Pretty spot-on.
I’ve linked, grudgingly, to “Big Hollywood” – the ‘nominally-conservative-has-been-filmmaker-pity-party’ arm of Andrew Breitbart’s despicable New Media empire – in the past mostly for cautionary purposes, but I’ll give them a modicum of credit for actually putting something up worth reading.
For context, this was supposed to be part of a series on “Hollywood Feminism,” which has mostly been what you’d expect: A succession of would-be Church Ladies whining about too much sex on TV. But to editor John Nolte’s credit, he’s also put up an “alternative” (to put it mildly) take by his friend Lexi Alexander – the German-born female kickboxing champ turned director of “Green Street Hooligans” and the monstrously-underrated “Punisher: WarZone.”
Give it a read HERE – it’s probably the most reasonable thing that particular site has EVER bothered to post.
http://cdn2.themis-media.com/media/global/movies/player/flowplayer.commercial-3.1.5.swf
It’s D&D Week at “The Escapist,” and so here we are.
“Intermission” is all about nerd movies. A stretch, I know.
Joblo.com scored some pieces of the concept art Atlas Entertainment is using to pitch a live-action “Voltron” movie to studios. It’s about what you’d expect – “Transformers”-style jaggy mecha design, magic-hour lighting, etc. You can’t really see if you don’t brighten it up, but the Lions are color-coded and look to be in the “proper” arrangement; so that’s something at least…
Honestly, they’re more interesting to look at in the context of HOW a “visual pitch” is intended to work: Notice how, while “explaining” the basic “big human-shape robot made of smaller lion-shaped robots” hook, it’s also working it’s ass off to remind potential investors of other profitable hits like “Transformers” (the mecha design and lighting) and “Iron Man” (look at “his” eyes and face.)
The Statue of Liberty is mainly there for scale (“Our robot can step on The Transformers!”) but I’m wondering if someone in the artist is making a funny about how The Internet somehow assumed that “Cloverfield” was actually teasing a Voltron movie. In any case, if this accurately reflects the story their pitching as well, that’s the element that’ll be the most controversial for Voltron/GoLion fans – the original story took place in a Star Wars/Trek-style future on another planet.
The date has already passed here, and possibly where you are to, but just in case I didn’t want to let this pass without notice here: “Super Mario Bros.” is 25 years old today.
The original SMB was released on the Nintendo Famicom in Japan on 9/13/85. The game, alongside the NES, would arrive in the United States in limited release one Month later before a full roll-out in February ’86.
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