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Woman Spends Small Fortune To Look Like Jessica Rabbit
Filed under: Animation, Fandom, Fan Made
I can understand people who love a movie so hard that they'd like to imagine themselves as their favorite character. But in our age of rampant plastic surgery and self-image issues, is it going too far to literally try to transform yourself into someone else? (What if that someone else is a cartoon character?) One British woman did just that, spending thousands of dollars to "become" Jessica Rabbit, admittedly the hottest woman ever drawn in animated film. And you thought the Cat Lady was weird. (Well, she is.)
How did the 56-year-old Annette Edwards (who, incidentally, breeds giant three-foot long bunnies who "behave like dogs") turn herself into the sultry femme fatale of Who Framed Roger Rabbit? Botox, cheek implants, a brow lift, a chin implant, breast uplifts, and "pure diet." She claims she's only "Jessica" for special occasions, like photo shoots and, apparently, going on British morning talk shows like the one in this clip, where the male and female co-hosts are only partially masking their "WTF?" reaction. Unbelievable moment of the clip: The male host asks "Jessica" if he can touch her chin implant (2:06).
Celebrate the Golden Globes By Dressing Morgan Freeman!
Filed under: Awards, Fandom, Fan Made
Have you ever watched red carpet ceremonies, and longed to dress the stars? Me neither. But many do, and while many probably wish to dress goddesses like Angelina Jolie or Cate Blanchett, Jay is Games decided Morgan Freeman would be far more fun. So they have deigned their own Super Dress Up Morgan Freeman game, where you can dress the Oscar winner in flashy and fashionable ensembles. You may also suffer nightmares from the illustration of Freeman standing there in his underwear, ready and waiting for your magic. But those are a small price to pay for all the fun you'll have deciding between a scarf and a golden chain. If only they had a Clint Eastwood Companion edition so I could dress them to match in a homage to Rain Man.
The above is my ensemble, which I'm fairly certain you'll see him sporting at the Golden Globes on Sunday. If he wins for his performance in Invictus, it'll be because the Hollywood Foreign Press was swayed at the last minute by his daring white shoes. It's a little known fact they can switch things up that quickly. Go forth and make your own creations. Post links to them in the comments if you dare, and see if we can sway his fashion choices this awards season.
[via IMDB]
'The Big Lebowski' As Penned By William Shakespeare
Filed under: Comedy, Fandom, Fan Made
Have you ever wondered what The Big Lebowski would have sounded like if it had been performed at The Rose or The Globe? If not, you should have. Then you'd be as popular as Adam Bertocci is. He took the entire movie and reworked it into Two Gentlemen of Lebowski, and it's the greatest thing since Geoffery Chaucer penned Mont Dort-Quasse. I suspect the spring semester will begin in English Departments all over the world with links to Lebowski, and it'll be something freshmen think they alone know about for three or four more.Unconvinced enough to click on the link? Read just the opening stanzas as intoned by the 16th century's Sam Elliott:
In wayfarer's worlds out west was once a man,
A man I come not to bury, but to praise.
His name was Geoffrey Lebowski called, yet
Not called, excepting by his kin.
That which we call a knave by any other name
Might bowl just as sweet. Lebowski, then,
Did call himself 'the Knave', a name that I,
Your humble chorus, would not self-apply
In homelands mine; but, then, this Knave was one
It gets better and better in the parlance of another time. Read it, and then come to class prepared to discuss. Yes, it will be on the midterm. I won't tolerate any Donnys in my class asking "What happened in Act 2, Professor?"
[Thanks to everyone who sent this to me]
Fan Made: 'Iron Man 2' War Machine Costume
I'm constantly amazed by how much thought, time and effort some folks put into their fan-made costumes. Me? I'll buy a mask for twenty bucks and then see what I have in my closet that best matches the character's outfit. But then you get dudes like Anthony Le who spend hours upon hours hand-crafting the perfect War Machine costume in anticipation of Iron Man 2 hitting theaters in May. This thing looks so good, even director Jon Favreau has commented on how much he digs the effort.
The coolest part about this costume is that it was created before the Iron Man 2 trailer and images hit -- way back over the summer, with only leaked Comic Con footage to go by. Granted, the costume is a bit of a hybrid between Phil Saunders War Machine concept art and the War Machine from Iron Man 2, but you gotta hand it to the guy for piecing together a costume that looks a lot like the one from the movie. Here are some of the stats on the costume from Le himself (via the Superhero Hype forums):
-Built material High Impact urethane
-over 600+ rivets and rivet washer used so far
-Wrist rockets w/ laser v1.0completed
-Mini Gun simulated fire and drop lock system w/laser v1.0 completed
-Movie accurate Arch reactor v3.0
-Mid-section w/ movable plates v3.0
-"underwear armor" v2.0 Completed
-Leg's/Pants armor v3.0 Completed
-Armor shoes v1.0 Completed
-Neck cover piece armor v2.0
Things still need completed
-Replusor gauntlets
-Upgraded helmet v7.0 w/ upgraded flip open/close hinge system
-lighted eyes "in progress"
-remote firing system "to shoot bottle rockets hehehe"
-replusor gauntlet top cover.
-Paint job with brush metal finish.
Check out more images below ...
[va The Awesomer]
Watch This: Fan-Created 'Goonies' Musical
Filed under: Music & Musicals, Fandom, Remakes and Sequels, Trailers and Clips, Fan Made
2008 was chock-full of Goonies rumors. Animation, sequels, cheapo DVD releases -- you name it. And before that, back in 2007, Adam F. Goldberg was pitching a Goonies Musical to Richard Donner. It's one of many morsels that fed into the possibility of The Goonies hitting Broadway -- rumors that never came to fruition.
But while Donner seems to be no closer to bringing the cast back for anything more than reunion interviews, Slashfilm has shared some songs from a fan-created musical for the classic '80s film. Unfortunately, The Truffle Shuffle didn't get any musical love, but there is "Sloth's Song," "Taking it Back," "Piano Lessons," and my favorite -- "Tubes," which you can check out after the jump. It seems that Rob Dean and Keith Doughty have been writing songs for a Goonies musical for a while now, and they've now recorded them and teamed them with clips from the film.
Fan creations are nothing new, but chew on this -- Evil Dead: The Musical came out of some fan love in Toronto, and made its way to New York in an off-Broadway production, and continues to tour across the U.S. Do you think The Goonies could find similar success through a fan-led stage production?
Brandon Bird's Nic Cage Colorforms
If there's one thing I wish carried over from my childhood, it's Colorforms. Those things were so awesome, the sticky vinyl allowing you to recreate scenes with your favorite characters, or throw them up in the window for damage-free art. Collections included Batman, Robin, and the rest of the Super Friends, the Smurfs, He-Man, you name it.
And -- alas -- while they're not experiencing a resurgence, Brandon Bird has tapped into my Colorform-loving heart with a new creation -- the Nicolas Cage Adventure Set. It includes two backgrounds -- a tropical island and haunted castle, 3 different outfits on Cage, and added perks like a space helmet, skateboard, and parrot. Looking at this, I can only hope that more are to come -- Christopher Walken dancing, being creepy, and playing Russian Roulette, Meryl Streep's Julia Child cooking and eating, and my god -- should someone ever make me a Heathers colorform set, I'll ... I can't even think of something that would match my gratitude.
Please, Mr. Bird. You've already wowed us with your paintings (check out the gallery below), so why not make some fangirls and fanboys happy with more adventure sets?
[via CHUD]
What to Buy the Twilight Mom for Christmas
Any self-respecting vamp fetishist would slap on a little fake blood in two precise dots on their neck, ignoring the comments of the masses in their quest for immortality and vampiric allegiance. But not in the age of The Twilight Saga. With Stephenie Meyers' teen vamp romance, the toothed beings sparkle more than they draw blood, and their bite is as nice as cashmere. Literally.Meekssandygirl over at Etsy has crocheted the lovely vamp bite necklace you can see over to the right. It's made of cashmere and silk, and takes all the horror out of a pair of fangs. As far as fan art goes, it's a pretty spot-on way to mimic the sentimentality of the books and films, and it will make a hell of a gift for the Twilight mom. I can't bring myself to say Twi-hards in general, because even in fiction, the thought of seeing a young girl with fake blood stains on her neck is creepy at best. Then again, the thought of a mom showing her fetish on her neck in the guise of Twilight fandom isn't the most pleasant thought either.
But why am I surprised? This is the same series that inspired this.
[via neatorama]
Watch This: High School Recreates '500 Days' Musical Number
Filed under: Fan Made
The kids today! With their video games and their texting and their Twilight and their Adderall! Am I right, folks? But every now and then the kids do something fantastic like this and make elderly people such as myself jealous that we never did anything this fun when we were in high school.
If you've seen 500 Days of Summer (out on DVD next week!), you will recall the celebratory musical number in the middle of the film. (You can watch it here.) In response to a challenge from their rival school, the students at Shorewood High School, in Shoreline, Wash., recreated the 500 Days number with a bit of a twist: They did it in one unbroken take. Oh, and they did it backwards. That is to say, the main performers had to listen to the song played in reverse and learn how to lip-sync it that way, so that it would look right when the video was played backwards. Why the extra effort? I don't know! Except that it's awesome! ("Weird Al" Yankovic did the same thing in part of his "Amish Paradise" video.)
The video was made by Mr. Ballew's video production class, though most of the student body appears to have been involved in it. And what a treat it is! If you watch this and fail to be pepped up by the jaunty tune and the high-spirited fun the kids are having, then you are dead inside. Dead inside! Mr. Ballew is already a better filmmaker than the entire Wayans family.
Watch the video after the jump.
Watch This: The Obligatory 2009 Movie Trailer Mashup
Filed under: Action, Comedy, Horror, Music & Musicals, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Fandom, Comic/Superhero/Geek, Trailers and Clips, Fan Made
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If there's one thing I love about this crazy mashup/remix culture of ours, it's that it has allowed the creativity of my fellow movie geeks to shine (and what lovely creations they make). Now we've had plenty of those kinds of trailers that are all about a little subversion around these parts, but not this time. After all, it's just about the end of the year, which makes it the perfect time for some reflection on the year that was. Luckily we have people like Justin Niemeyer (who's been featured here before for his uncanny way with a trailer mashup), who have the time and the skill to not just combine two movies, but condense an entire year's worth of releases into one handy little mashup.
Niemeyer's tribute to 2009 has over 150 cuts and runs the gamut of the year in movies by including clips from everything from blockbuster battling robots to smaller flicks, and he even works in a couple of films that haven't even been released yet. Niemeyer transformed clips from some of the biggest and best of 2009 into 1:39 seconds of pure trailer magic, and it even has its own soundtrack. Unfortunately, it all goes by so quickly, you might want to watch it more than once just to make sure you caught it all -- lord knows I had to.
So take a look and tell me if you can name all the movies, and leave your 'score' in the comments below...
After the jump: the best of 2009 in under two minutes flat...
Watch: Famous 'Matrix' Scene Re-Created with LEGOs
Filed under: Action, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Fandom, Trailers and Clips, Fan Made
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It's the day before a major holiday, and all you want to do is surf around looking for things to occupy your time before the boss finally lets you leave a drop early. Am I right? Well here's a little treat that will take up all of about a minute and a half of your time. Pieced together to celebrate the 10th anniversary of The Matrix, a group of freaks with 440 extra hours on their hands decided to recreate the famous "Trinity Help" sequence using LEGOs. This is the scene where Neo manages to dodge some agent bullets in super slow-mo before Trinity finally shows up to help her man squeeze out of a tough spot.
And yes, I wasn't joking -- it really did take a whopping 440 hours to put this together. The folks behind it even created a website dedicated solely to this project. In it, they describe the making-of process and include a side-by-side video comparison featuring both the real scene and the LEGO version (we included both after the jump). From their description:
Just in time for its 10th year anniversary, "Trinity Help" is a frame-accurate stop-frame animation of the famous bullet-dodge scene from the 1999 movie The Matrix, all done in Lego. By "frame accurate" we mean that we took all of the video frames from that part of the movie (that's nearly 900 frames for just 44 seconds of footage) and reproduced them all in Lego.
Early in the piece we decided we wanted to do everything "in camera". No wire-removal, no special effects, no crazy Photoshop tricks. We pretty much regret this now, but I guess it gives us bragging rights of some sort. We did do some colour correction and image stabilising, and at one point we edited a very small number of frames in one scene so that some minor background shake was taken out, but that's it.
Watch the video(s) after the jump.
Tom Cruise and J.J. Abrams Reunite for 'Mission Impossible 4'
'Big Top Pee-Wee': The Original Benicio Del Toro Wolfman
Spin-ematical: New on DVD and Blu-ray for 2/9
Watch This: Brilliant Oscar-Nominated Short 'Logorama'
Chris Nolan to Lead 'Superman' Reboot!?
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