The Great Geek Manual

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.

Get Local TV Satellite to watch Tron Legacy.

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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35mm from Pascal Monaco on Vimeo.

35mm is an animated short by Pascal Monaco that contains 35 minimalist movie representations. Can you spot them all?

This Your Highness trailer features butt-sex jokes, dragons, and a medieval thong! It’s almost enough to make me forgive Natalie Portman for Revenge of the Sith. Almost.

It’s kind of like a raunchy American version of The Black Adder.

Relativity Media and Universal have released the teaser trailer for Battle: Los Angeles, a big budget alien invasion movie due out in March. If it looks a lot like this weekend’s release, Skyline, it’s not a coincidence. Skyline directors Greg and Colin Strause are the heads of Hydraulx, the visual effects house that did the effects for Battle: Los Angeles. After the Straus siblings had a chance to look under the hood of the film, they quietly produced Skyline and slated it for release four months before Battlefield. The entire incident is the subject of a reportedly bitter falling out between the two films’ studios.

Personally, I don’t see what all the fuss is about. I could watch aliens destroy Earth all day. It just doesn’t get old. In fact, there ought to be a cable channel devoted to rampant mass destruction 24/7. I mean other than Fox News.
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