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Watch This: Toy Movies
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This summer we're getting two giant films based on toys we grew up with in Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen and G.I. Joe: Rise of Cobra. But what about all those other toy movies in the works? What will they look like, and which directors will take on the tough task of adapting those properties that just don't lend themselves to big-budgeted feature films? Well, cartoonist Dan Meth, better known as the dude behind The Trilogy Meter and the Futuristic Timeline (which we just featured yesterday), has created another winner in this little animated short called Toy Movies from our good friends at Atom.com. Essentially, Meth imagines what some of the more famous old school toys would look like if they were adapted for the big screen by some of today's more interesting directors.
Featured in the video after the jump we have:
- Care Bears vs. My Little Pony: The Wreckoning
- John Lithgow in David Cronenberg's Cabbage Patch Kids
- Wes Anderson's Teddy Ruxpin
- Peter Jackson's The Smurfs
- David Lynch's Koosh Ball
- Ron Howard's Play-Doh Fun Factory
- John Carpenter's ALF
Fan Made: Futuristic Movie Timeline
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Cartoonist Dan Meth strikes again! You might remember that Meth created The Trilogy Meter, which charted a variety of movie trilogies and then rated them on a high-low scale. That turned out to be the first in his "Series of Pop Cultural Charts." After completing several charts on situational comedies ("Sit-Com Houses," "NYC Sitcom Map," "U.S.A. Sitcom Map") and venturing into pop music ("Early Beach Boys Hit Song Topics"), he's returned to the world of movies with his latest effort, Futuristic Movie Timeline.
Very simply, he explains: "No one really pays much attention to what year sci-fi movies take place. I thought it would be interesting to arrange some classic films about the future into chronological order and see what we'd find. I've also charted the years in which they were released as well as the current year."
Looking over the chart -- you can see the full-size version at Meth's site -- it's fun to think about wildly different movies set in the same period of time. (For example: I didn't realize Robocop and Back to the Future 2 are both set in 2015.) Meth didn't include the Terminator series, but this is the kind of chart that might have been very helpful to the filmmakers to help them deal with their own troubled timeline. Check it out and let us know: Could 12 Monkeys take place a year after Children of Men? Which 22nd Century future do you prefer: Alien, The Black Hole, Sleeper, or The Matrix?
Discuss: The Trilogy Meter
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Cartoonist Dan Meth has created what he calls The Trilogy Meter, which, as you can see above, is a chart that lists several different movie trilogies and then rates them on a high-low scale. The image above is smaller than the actual completed version (view that by clicking the image below), which goes on to include other trilogies like Die Hard, Godfather, Alien, Terminator, Rocky, Batman, Rambo, etc ... As Dan explains over on his blog: "I know other movie geeks are going to have disagreements and that's fine. And yes, I know some of these movies went more than 3 sequels, but none were ever meant to. These are rated purely on my enjoyment level on each film and nothing else. Frankly I'm surprised by how many sequels were better than the original. And I'm not surprised that the 3rd movie is never the best."
Honestly, I'm not surprised so many sequels (or the second film in a franchise) are better than the original since it's easier to just jump right into the action, what with the characters and backstory already introduced in the first film. This doesn't necessarily pertain to straight up action flicks like Die Hard or Rambo, but definitely movies that feature a grand universe (Star Wars) or a comic book character (Spider-Man, X-Men).
What do you think of this chart? Where did Dan go wrong? And will we ever find a third film that's better than the two that came before it?
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