Fair enough. But I Lots Of Love the fact that he is actually calling it 2013. Smart. The Mayans up in Mayan Heaven are like, uh, what?... CONTINUE READING ROLAND EMMERICH IS ALREADY WORKING ON A 2012 SEQUEL»
Posted on November 5, 2009 in Sequels
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Tags: 2012 | 2013 | Apocalypse | Roland Emmerich
HAHAHAHAH, WHAT IS THAT MUSIC? Yay! We did it! We walked around a dun-colored nightmarish hellscape of inhumanly horrifying post-Apocalyptic tragedy! And then the United States came from behind to beat Russia in Olympic hockey! THANK YOU, PRESIDENT BARTLET!... CONTINUE READING THIS WEEK, ON A VERY SPECIAL EPISODE OF THE ROAD»
Posted on November 2, 2009 in Trailer
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Tags: Apocalypse | Charlize Theron | Cormac McCarthy | The Decemberists | The Road | Viggo Mortensen
Adam Lambert, whoever that is, has a music video out now for a song from the 2012 soundtrack called "Time for Miracles." Fair enough! Just because you have a song on the 2012 soundtrack doesn't mean you'll actually survive... CONTINUE READING DUH AFICIONADO MAGAZINE: ADAM LAMBERT DOES NOT SURVIVE 2012»
Posted on October 30, 2009 in Music Related Content
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Tags: 2012 | Adam Lambert | Apocalypse | Roland Emmerich
Jon Gosselin and the Octo-Mom are going to go on a reality TV "date"? DON'T BOTHER RINGING THAT BELL, TIBETAN MONK, WE ARE DONE HERE.... CONTINUE READING WHERE IS 2012 WHEN YOU NEED IT?»
Posted on October 28, 2009 in Reality TV
(25 comments)
Tags: Apocalypse | Jon And Kate Plus 8 | Jon Gosselin | Octomom | Yuck
In just two short years, the world will end. We know that. California will fall into the ocean. Tidal waves will spill over the mountains of Tibet. Humanity will disappear into an Apocalyptic chasm and time as we know it... CONTINUE READING WE ARE ALL JUST WAITING FOR 2012»
Posted on October 21, 2009 in YouTube Fetishes
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Tags: Anvils | Apocalypse | Huh? | The Flaming Lips
This is funny. 2012 trailer with the CGI edited out. LOOK OUT FOR THAT FLYING MUD!... CONTINUE READING JOHN CUSAK IS A GREAT DRIVER»
Posted on October 5, 2009 in WebJunk
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Tags: 2012 | Acting! | Apocalypse | John Cusack | Roland Emmerich
A five-minute clip from the upcoming disaster movie (double-entendre!) 2012 has been posted on-line, and it is hilarious. It is also as many minutes of 2012 as anyone really needs to see. We're done here! It encapsulates everything. John Cusack... CONTINUE READING GOOD NEWS! WE DON'T HAVE TO SEE 2012!»
Posted on October 2, 2009
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Tags: 2012 | Apocalypse | John Cusack | Roland Emmerich
When the Legion trailer came out last week, I made a joke about how God needed to brush up on Her* Photoshop skills because the graphics in that movie look kind of terrible (by today's standards. If we are judging... CONTINUE READING THE LEGION POSTER IS THE DEAN OF PHOTOSHOP SCHOOL»
Posted on August 18, 2009 in Movie Posters
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Tags: Apocalypse | Legion | Paul Bettany | Photoshop
Legion red band trailer, you guys: See, you think Rosebud is going to turn out to be a demon sled, but then it turns out that it's an angel sled, and you're like WHOA! But I really don't think that... CONTINUE READING THE APOCALYPSE LOOKS A LOT LIKE THE "BLACK HOLE SUN" VIDEO»
Posted on August 12, 2009 in Trailer
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Tags: Apocalypse | Charles S. Dutton | Legion | Paul Bettany
io9 did a good job over the weekend of re-editing the 2012 trailer into '70s kitsch disaster porn. The pizza boy is here with your Apocalypse but he doesn't have any change!... CONTINUE READING I WANT DISASTER INSIDE ME»
Posted on July 8, 2009 in WebJunk
(6 comments)
Tags: 2012 | Apocalypse | Mash-Ups | Roland Emmerich
New 2012 trailer, you guys: I do not trust you, Roland Emmerich! Admittedly, you didn't even direct Deep Impact, and yet when I watch this trailer I can't help but think of Deep Impact. Namely, the part in Deep Impact... CONTINUE READING THE INDEPENDENCE DAY AFTER 2012 B.C.»
Posted on June 19, 2009 in Trailer
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Tags: 2012 | Apocalypse | John Cusack | Roland Emmerich
There was a bomb threat in Syracuse, New York, yesterday! Never forget the potentially tragic events of 6/2! EVERYONE, BE CAREFUL! Syracuse, NY -- Clinton Square was cleared of people this afternoon as Syracuse police examined a suspicious box left... CONTINUE READING THE PERFECT CRIME»
Posted on June 3, 2009 in True Crime
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Tags: Apocalypse | Terrorism
Back in the mid-90s, when I was just entering my late 40s (right after my first divorce), my dad picked me up from a movie theater in Chicago where I had just seen a Saturday matinee with a friend. On... CONTINUE READING THE VIDEOGUM MOVIE CLUB: TERMINATOR: SALVATION»
Posted on May 26, 2009 in The Videogum Movie Club
(60 comments)
Tags: Apocalypse | Christian Bale | McG | Robot Uprising | Sam Worthington | Terminator: Salvation
Sure, the animated feature 9, produced by Timur Bekmambetov (Night Watch) and Tim Burton (Big Fish), has been talked about on FILM BLOGS but you know who those are for (nerds). What about the rest of us?! Why isn't... CONTINUE READING WHOA, WHY ISN'T EVERYONE TALKING ABOUT 9?»
Posted on May 22, 2009 in Trailer
(41 comments)
Tags: 9 | Apocalypse | Julian Casablancas | Shane Acker | The Strokes | Tim Burton | Timur Bekmambetov
Cormac McCarthy's book, The Road is a miserable (in the "good" way) experience; an unrelenting vivid nightmare. One could easily wonder whether they should have ever made a movie in the first place. The human reality of the Apocalypse is... CONTINUE READING THE ROAD TRAILER TRIES TO CARRY THE FIRE»
Posted on May 15, 2009 in Trailer
(51 comments)
Tags: Apocalypse | Charlize Theron | Cormac McCarthy | The Road | Viggo Mortensen
Today the world dies a little. Ashton Kutcher has defeated CNN in the race to one million Twitter followers*. Yuck. But let's think about what it actually means: not much. Twitter is a social networking site, and not particularly effective... CONTINUE READING THE REVOLUTION WILL NOT BE TWITTERED BY ASHTON KUTCHER»
Posted on April 17, 2009 in WebJunk
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Tags: Apocalypse | Ashton Kutcher | CNN | Twitter
It's being reported today that director McG has lost his ultimately-right-but-seriously-misguided-in-his-execution ratings battle with the studio for an R rating for Terminator: Salvation. The story itself broke on AICN (via Vulture), which discovered an official MPAA rating for the movie... CONTINUE READING 4 REASONS THE TERMINATOR APOCALYPSE IS NOT APPROPRIATE FOR 13-YEAR-OLDS»
Posted on April 7, 2009 in Bad Idea Jeans
(19 comments)
Tags: Apocalypse | Children | McG | Terminator: Salvation
New trailer for Terminator: Salvation, you guys: This movie already looked great, and now it looks more great. I hope that it makes so much money that McG can finally buy himself an adult's name with an adult amount of... CONTINUE READING THE APOCALYPSE SOUNDS LIKE AN ASSHOLE»
Posted on March 3, 2009 in Trailer
(17 comments)
Tags: Apocalypse | Terminator: Salvation
March 19, 2437 We've made a startling discovery about the Old World. It would seem that our dating of "the event" has been inaccurate. While it is true that the nuclear explosion that forced the survivors underground to rebuild... CONTINUE READING SHREK: THE MUSICAL AND THE END OF DAYS»
Posted on December 15, 2008 in Bad Idea Jeans
(8 comments)
Tags: Apocalypse | Bonnaroo | Broadway | David Byrne | Shrek
2012 teaser trailer, you guys: Haha. They wouldn't. The End. That was such a short movie! "How would the governments of our planet prepare 6 billion people for the end of the world?" HOPEFULLY NOT WITH ONE BELL HIDDEN IN... CONTINUE READING THE DAY AFTER THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW»
Posted on November 13, 2008 in Trailer
(10 comments)
Tags: 2012 | Apocalypse | Roland Emmerich | Vampire Weekend
I just want to put some things in perspective really quickly, because the world seems extremely volatile and unpredictable lately, which can make for a lot of fear. Now I'm not an economist (surprise!), and I don't have any foreign... CONTINUE READING JUST PUTTING SOME THINGS IN PERSPECTIVE»
Posted on October 7, 2008 in WebJunk
(8 comments)
Tags: Apocalypse | Ben Bernanke | Coachella | Fred
There's a good article in the New York Times today about the movie adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's The Road. It turns out that it's very difficult to make it look realistic that the world is covered in the constantly falling... CONTINUE READING CORMAC MCCARTHY'S THE ROAD: OMAR'S COMING, OMAR'S COMING!»
Posted on May 27, 2008 in Behind The Scenes
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Tags: Apocalypse | Cormac McCarthy | Jamie Hector | Kodi Smit-McPhee | Michael K. Williams | Omar | The Road | Viggo Mortensen
The first image from the Viggo Moretnson adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's The Road hit the internet today (Row Three via i09). It looks about right. I see layers of clothing, and Apocalyptic ash. Oh, and child eyes filled with sad... CONTINUE READING ARAGORN SHUFFLED THROUGH THE ASH, PUSHING THE CART TOWARDS THE COAST OF ISILDUR»
Posted on May 20, 2008 in Wait For It...
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Tags: Apocalypse | Cormac McCarthy | The Road | Viggo Mortensen
How did I miss this? You guys, come on: tips@videogum.com. HELP ME OUT I'M NEW HERE. I've only got a 14.4k modem, so it's hard to keep on top of everything. If you follow that link, and please don't follow... CONTINUE READING ESCAPE FROM AL ROKER'S NEW YORK»
Posted on April 10, 2008 in Feuds
(2 comments)
Tags: Al Roker | Andrew W.K. | Apocalypse | New York
The Terminator trudged along the wooded path towards the lake, his gun dangling by his side, the taunts still ringing in his hypersensitive bionic ears. He stared at the ground as he walked, and didn't even bother scanning anything with...
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Do you ever eat foods that you know you don't like, just to remind yourself why you don't like them? I think that's a good thing to do sometimes! The worst case scenario is that you might momentarily have a...
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Last weekend, something strange happened. Some of the Videogum Monsters created their own secret, password-protected chat room. In 2009! Incredible! I suppose every monster has his cave, or whatever. As it turned out, though, we already had a Videogum Chat...
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The Challenge: I had to go on a 3.5 hour bus tour of totally random TV and film locations in New York City. Alone, and wearing a specific ridiculous tshirt. And I had to find someone to take my picture...
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I went to see Where the Wild Things Are on Saturday, but it was sold out. Ay-ay-ay. That was a surprise! I mean, anticipation for this movie seemed pretty high, but anticipation for lots of movies seems high, especially when...
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