Friday, May 28, 2010

KILLER PIZZA


Pizza you’ll die for! Toby McGill dreams of becoming a world-famous chef, but up until now, his only experience has been watching the Food Network. When Toby lands a summer job at Killer Pizza, where pies like The Monstrosity and The Frankensausage are on the menu, things seem perfect. His coworkers, Annabel and Strobe, are cool, and Toby loves being part of a team. But none of them are prepared for what’s really going on at Killer Pizza: It’s a front for a monster-hunting organization! Learning to cook pizzas is one thing, but killing hideously terrifying monsters? That’s a whole other story. Still, if Toby quits Killer Pizza, will monsters take over his town?

Tuesday, May 25, 2010

Monday, May 17, 2010

First draft of 'The Empire Strikes Back' surfaces

By Rick Panna

Leigh Brackett's first-draft script of The Empire Strikes Back, which recently appeared online—apparently without Lucasfilm's approval--provides glimpses at different turns the Star Wars saga might have taken. For example, Luke's twin sister might have been named Nellith rather than Leia, and Darth Vader might not have fathered them . It is also fascinating to read about so many concepts dropped from “Empire” but which will eventually surface in the ensuing four films. Also, even though Brackett's script is understandably rough, there seem to be the beginnings of good ideas (in this author's opinion, anyway) that were never explored.

This draft, titled simply “Star Wars Sequel,” was completed on February 23, 1978. Brackett died of cancer on March 18, 1978 before she could do a rewrite. George Lucas was left to do various drafts before Lawrence Kasdan got involved.

Among the concepts omitted after Brackett's script but which appear in the ensuing films is the Imperial city planet. Known in this script as Ton Muund, in early drafts of Return of the Jedi it is Had Abbadon, and ultimately it's featured in the prequels as Coruscant.

Also, in this early draft, the native inhabitants of what we know of as Bespin, the Cloud People, seem to resemble the Kaminoans in Attack of the Clones. They're tall, “white-skinned and white-haired” and ride on flying manta-rays. (This may be coincidental, but they also use darts as weapons, and the Kaminoans were linked to the toxic dart in AOTC.) The notion of flying steeds is absent in ensuing “Empire” scripts (along with the Cloud People) but will be entertained for the next two films before finally getting implemented in “Clones.”

At another point in Brackett's script, Lando admits to being a clone, and that his family were refugees of the Clone Wars. He further explains that his great-grandfather was cloned because he wanted sons. Again, perhaps this is only a coincidence, but it seems reminiscent of Jango Fett agreeing to be cloned so that he could have a son.

When Luke leaves “the bog world” (no name has yet been given to this planet), he is told by his elders that facing Vader and the dark side of the Force is a test he must undertake to master the Force. This, obviously, is much different than what transpired in “Empire,” but seems reminiscent of “Jedi.” (“You must confront Vader,” says Yoda in Episode VI. “Then, only then a Jedi will you be.”)

When Vader tries to entice Luke to the dark side of the Force, he mentions that the dark side can protect loved ones from harm. Similarly, in Revenge of the Sith, Chancellor Palpatine piques Anakin's interest with his story of Darth Plagueis, who “had such knowledge of the dark side that he could even keep the ones he cared about from dying.”

As undeveloped and rough as the script is, it touches on some interesting ideas. As many fans know, a sub-plot involving the Wampa snow creatures invading the Rebel base was (largely) filmed but left out of the released movie. This story element is more prominent in Brackett's draft than in those by Kasdan. There are various elaborate fight scenes, including one where Chewbacca fights a beast (“Chewie is huge himself, but he looks child-sized by comparison with his adversary,” Brackett writes), and the creatures decimate the base's life support generator. It is revealed that the snow creatures are making a deliberate attempt to rid their world of the outsiders. This realization gives the creatures added dimension that's absent in ensuing rewrites.

There's other interesting information here that doesn't come out in the films (at least not overtly). When Minch (later to be renamed Yoda) talks about Vader turning against the Jedi and going to the dark side, he says, “I think the Knights had forgotten and grown careless.”

While Brackett's dialog is very rough (presumably it would have been greatly refined in her ensuing drafts), there are occasional lines that might have become memorable had they survived. During a confrontation between the Rebels and indigenous snow creatures, Han tells Luke, “The Force isn't with you today, kid.” Later, when Threepio thinks he's going to die in the asteroid field, he wonders if Artoo will miss him.

This script also provides a glimpse at a route the saga might have taken regarding Luke's twin sister. This sister is mentioned—in Luke's presence--but she's someone other than Leia. She is identified as Nellith (although this name is crossed out in the script, apparently because the writer realized that her name cannot be revealed to Luke--Vader can read Luke's mind) and was hidden by Skywalker, Sr. in a different part of the galaxy than Luke.

Laurent Bouzereau reveals more about this lost sister in his book Star Wars: The Annotated Screenplays. Bouzereau mentions that Luke's twin was discussed in story meetings between Lucas and Brackett (which occurred from November 28 to December 2, 1977): “It was suggested that Luke's twin sister would be going through training at the same time that he was and become a Jedi Master as well. Eventually, in another episode, the story could deal with both Luke and his sister as Jedi Knights.” (Bouzereau, page 182)

Hopefully J.W. Rinzler's upcoming book The Making of the Empire Strikes Back (due out next fall) will have even more revelations about Brackett's involvement and the above-mentioned story meetings between she and Lucas. The two of them must have had some interesting discussions about the character of Minch/Yoda, the Force, and many other subjects (including possibly clones?). It should be interesting to find out what Brackett had to say about these subjects and if her input affected the saga.

Monday, May 10, 2010

Marvel vs. Capcom 3: Four more announced


There's a Marvel vs Capcom 3 feature in the latest issue of Game Informer Magazine, and along with some new screens of the game, a number of previously unconfirmed - though strongly hinted-at - characters have been revealed.

The "new" characters are ones we already guessed at from the game's first promo art, but hard confirmation is a damn sight more final then "guesswork".

Revealed in the piece are Devil May Cry's Dante, Captain America, Deadpool and Darkstalker's Felicia, giving fans of Marvel, gay fashion icons and furry women the world over cause for celebration.

There are of course plenty more character reveals to come, so we'd like to take this time to issue a plea that they're all - or most of them - shown off at E3. The world can't stand another Super Smash Bros. Brawl marketing campaign.

vis Kotaku

2 girls 1 cup

2 Girls 1 Cup

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Hungry Bitches
Directed by Marco Villanova
Produced by Marco Fiorito
Starring Karla and Latifa
Music by Hervé Roy
Distributed by MFX Media
Release date(s) 2007
Running time 62 minutes (film)
60 seconds (trailer)
Country Brazil
Language Portuguese
Preceded by Fresh Bodies
Followed by Kinky Anal Breakfast

2 Girls 1 Cup is the unofficial nickname of the trailer for Hungry Bitches, a scat-fetish pornographic film produced by MFX Media.[1] The trailer features two women conducting themselves in fetishistic intimate relations, including defecating into a cup, taking turns ostensibly consuming the excrement, and regurgitating it into each other's mouths. "Lovers Theme" by Hervé Roy, from the movie La folie des grandeurs, plays throughout.[2][3]

This one-minute trailer is a viral video that became a well-known Internet meme among bloggers and message boards for the reactions its graphic content elicited from viewers who have not seen such films before.[4][5] Around mid-October 2007, video sites such as YouTube were flooded with videos depicting others' reactions to watching the video for the first time.[6]

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Origin

The video originated from a Brazilian distributor and filmographer, Marco Fiorito, who describes himself as a "compulsive fetishist".[7] Fiorito originally produced foot fetish videos but soon moved on to coprophagia. The film was produced by MFX Video, one of several companies owned by Fiorito.[7] Fiorito contends his films are legal in Brazil[citation needed], but authorities in the United States have branded some of his films as obscene and filed charges against Danilo Croce, a Brazilian lawyer living in Florida, listed as an officer of a company distributing Fiorito's films in the United States.[7] Croce accepted a plea bargain and was sentenced to three years of unsupervised probation and forfeiture of $98,000.[7] Fiorito said he did not know his films were illegal in the United States and that his films often contained chocolate instead of feces to appease some of his actors who were willing to appear in scat films but not actually eat fecal matter.[7]

The first few seconds of the 2 Girls 1 Cup video contain the text "MFX 1209" (the product code for Hungry Bitches) and the URL mfxvideos.com, the website of Fiorito's MFX Video, leading some in the media to incorrectly believe the video is one of the many Croce had to surrender to the Department of Justice but was somehow leaked in the process.[8][9]

Reception

Reaction videos

Part of what has facilitated 2 Girls 1 Cup's spread are the reactions it causes.[10] Thousands of videos exist on YouTube of users showing the original video (off-camera) to their friends and taping their reactions, although some videos seem to be staged.[4][5][10] Even Joe Rogan, past host of Fear Factor, a show notorious for the disgusting things its contestants are forced to eat, had to turn away in a reaction video posted to his blog.[11] A reaction video starring a Kermit the Frog puppet proved very popular on the community-based popularity website Digg.[12] In January 2008, Slate documented the reaction video phenomenon with a slideshow featuring various reactions.[13] Violet Blue, an author, described this website as becoming "the new 'tubgirl' and goatse all in one disgusting moment of choco-poo-love" in a San Francisco Chronicle article.[14] In the "2guys1podcast" episode of Put It In Your Ears, co-host Gavin St. Ours watches the video after claiming he never will, and his entire reaction is caught on tape.[15] "Genuine Nerd" Toby Radloff was so disgusted by the clip that he had to immediately watch it again.[16] Veteran porn star Ron Jeremy walked off while watching the video on The Playhouse.[17] Singer Wyclef Jean sat through the whole thing without looking away on The Playhouse — while he was eating.[18] Ace Frehley, formerly of KISS, was shown the video on The Opie and Anthony Show in July 2009, and was unfazed, declaring, "Crazier things than that have happened on the road."[19]

Parodies

A short film by singer John Mayer to his blog entitled "2 Guys 1 Cup" where Mayer and Best Week Ever correspondent Sherrod Small enjoy Pinkberry frozen yogurt in the same manner that the women in the original consumed the feces.[20][21] Blogger Perez Hilton also made a parody titled "1 Guy 1 Jar", which he posted to YouTube, and began to eat peanut butter out of the jar, in the same style as the original video.[7] Filmmakers Justin Roiland and Christian Le Guilloux made a five-minute series called "2 Girls, 1 Cup: The Show" for the short film competition site, Channel 101. It debuted in first place on January 27, 2008.[22] Canadian comedian Jon Lajoie also made a song named "2 Girls 1 Cup song", which described the activities in the video as if the two women were expressing their love for each other. The music video was instantly popular, gaining over 7 million views on YouTube.[23]

Media recognition

In the media the video has been used as an example of the poor content quality of YouTube and similar video-sharing websites, and their tendency towards deliberately shocking content.[4][5][24] The video was featured on VH1's Best Week Ever, where the video's existence and propagation was declared to cause "Moral Bankruptcy" to have the "Best Week Ever!"[25] Esquire magazine showed the video to actor George Clooney during an interview, prompting him to compare it to a rodeo, saying the point of the video was to see "how long you can last".[26]

The video is mentioned during a cutaway gag in the Family Guy episode "Back to the Woods", where Brian shows the video to Stewie and films his reaction.[27]

The main characters of The Inbetweeners watch it at the beginning of episode 4, series 2.

In an episode of Tosh.0, the entire audience is filmed reacting to this video.[28]

In the Law and Order: Special Victims Unit episode "Babes" (originally airing in 2008), Detective John Munch (Richard Belzer) references the video as a sign of society's declining morals. He is comparing it to fictional videos showing homeless people being beaten up that pertains to a case that the Special Victims Unit is working on.

Sunday, May 2, 2010

the new nightmare on elm street

all i have to say about it is in this

Four men [are] sitting at a table playing poker. The scene is rather boring. Suddenly, after 15 minutes, we hear a big bang - it turns out there was a bomb under the table. This is called surprise as it isn’t what we expected would happen. If we watch the same scene again with the important difference that we have seen the bomb being placed under the table and the timer set to 11 AM, and we can see a watch in the background, the same scene becomes very intense and almost unbearable - we are sitting there hoping the timer will fail, the game is interrupted or the hero leaves the table in time, before the blast. This is called suspense.