Lego is cool

I've been looking for a decent, affordable, Blade Runner Spinner model for years! either they're vewwwwy expensive, or impossible to find - or both. And that's on a GOOD day!

But this custom-made lego version (found here)got me drooling. Great likeness, very detailed, great colors... As close to perfect as you are going to get using legos!

Check this page for an entire gallery of stuff made by this person called Kaitimar.

Deckard is a replicant! Neener neener

One of the persistent controversies surrounding Blade Runner has always been the matter of Ridley Scott's hints that Deckard himself is the very thing he is hunting -a replicant. It is a religious discussiuon; people are very passionate about how they feel about it. Some will deny to the bitter, bloody, gory end that this is nonsense, even if the director himself has been telling us over and over that he is.

Don LaFontaine

In a world where movies need trailers to inform the public, one man can make a difference...

You know him as the Movie Trailer Guy, the Voice of God, The King of Voice-overs! This is a short documentary/interview with the man himself. Check it out.

The nature of Monkey was IRREPRESSIBLE!

This is one series I fondly remember seeing on the BBC in the early 80's. Based on an old Chinese story, and no doubt very familiar for all the Dragon Ball fans out there...

On farmland no one can hear you scream!

I've heard about alien technology, but this is ridiculous!

Ridley Scott introduction at the Jules Verne film festival

The recent Final Cut version of Blade Runner was shown at several film festivals all over the world, including the Jules Verne Adventures Film Festival. Unfortunately director Ridley Scott couldn't be present, but he recorded a little introduction speech for the audience. So check it out, and oh, make sure you watch it until the very end...

Blade Runner - The Revenge of The Final Reloaded Cut

Those who know me know that I'm a big Blade Runner fan.

This year, after what feels like a million years of waiting, the "Blade Runner: Final Cut" has been released.

Among other things, a bunch of technical shortcomings of both the 1982 "original" release and the 1992 Director's Cut version have been corrected while the movie's audio and video were enhanced & improved upon.

The result is well worth checking out, even if you have already seen the movie a 145 times (as I have).

The website Digital Bits has put online an extensive article on the Final Cut DVD set(s).

http://www.thedigitalbits.com/reviewshd/bladerunnerfinalallver01.html

Best steampunk rocket design EVER!

Not many people know this, but the space race was started by the French in the late 19th century!

At one point in his career, writer/inventor/pro kickboxer Jules Verne commissioned Alexandre Gustave Eiffel and his army of mutant spiders to build him a rocket that, if finished, would have put the French on the moon. Which would have made them impossible to live with. Wait - they're already impossible to live with! Well, never mind.

But anyway, the project was ultimately abandoned due to financial reasons, and the Eiffel tower ended up as the landing beacon for aliens, as we now know it to be.

No, really!

Not for the squeamish - Singapore officials rap

Soooo... who thought this would be a good idea?

Still, there's some morbid pleasure to be had watching it - a bit like watching a train wreck.

This reminds me of a funny thing that happened to me! (Aren't you glad?)

I once got invited by my local branch of the Flemish Public Employment Service to what eventually turned out to be a recruitment movie for the Belgian army.

Apart from footage showing off the raw mechanized death power that is the Belgian army, it featured some obnoxious kid rapping away, that all but caused spontaneous spastic seazures with half of the unsuspecting people who turned up.

Strangely, I didn't sign up.