The Great Geek Manual

With Marvel’s new Avenger’s movie out, audiences are going blockbuster movie crazy, what with the dazzling shots and expensive special fx. For most no-budget independent moviemakers it would be an expensive feat to duplicate, but for Patrick A. Prejusa all he needs is a camera, a computer, some orange juice bottles, and a roll of duct tape.

Patrick is making his own blockbuster movie called REDD, an ambitious sci-fi / action / adventure project featuring what looks like expensive special fx. REDD uses no-budget tricks like building monsters out of cardboard and duct tape, space ships from orange juice bottles and coffee cans, and various other tricks to produce cinematic quality fx.
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The sole purpose of the latest clip from Prometheus seems to be to show off the movie’s titular spaceship.  It looks great and all, but I have my fingers crossed in the hope that this movie isn’t just an hour and a half of special effects.

I’m loving this new storyline, but that costume is a major downgrade from the Tobey Maguire version. It looks cartoonish. That’s not going to stop me from buying a ticket, though.

With only days left before Deathly Hallows: Part 2 hits screens, fans around the globe have been preparing themselves for the end of a franchise, which, for many of them, has carried them through childhood. For those of you who don’t have it in them to spend some 18 hours accomplishing that task, Warner Bros. has been kind enough to release a compilation video that recaps the entire franchise in five minutes.

I want to like Sucker Punch so much, but every trailer makes me more nervous than the next. Pleeease be more like The Matrix than Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow.

To celebrate the 83rd Academy Awards last Sunday, YouTube user MoPapparani spliced together this video of Hollywood’s 150 most popular movie catch phrases end-to-end.
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Whether you come away from 2010 remembering Tron Legacy as a worthy sequel or a big let down, no one will ever forget the jaw-dropping visuals that director Joseph Kosinski and the Digital Domain team delivered. Visual News offers this exhilarating eight-minute making-of featurette. It covers everything from the lightcycles to the amazing digital environments that make the movie so amazing to watch in IMAX 3D.

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Just received this press release about the upcoming indie film Grave Encounters from Twin Engine Films. It looks like a film version of Syfy’s Ghost Hunters, with a Blair Witch Project twist. In fact, 1 min 45 secs in you can see that they quite explicitly pay homage to the conclusion of the Blair Witch Project.
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