A robot that zoomed along through the hallways of a modern shopping mall used to just be the stuff of FANTASY and LEGEND. "It will never happen," the politicians and naysayers used to say (and naysay?). Well guess what, politicians... CONTINUE READING HEY HOLLYWOOD, NOW THAT KILLBOTS ARE REAL, HOW ABOUT RELEASING CHOPPING MALL ON DVD?»
Posted on July 23, 2009 in
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Tags: Chopping Mall | Robot Uprising | Robots | Shopping
So, they are developing a Voltron movie. If it makes even half as much sense as Transformers 2: Revhuh of the Fawhatnow? this thing is going to be huge. From Hollywood Reporter: The producers behind "Get Smart" and "The International"... CONTINUE READING HOLLYWOOD IS DEVELOPING A VOLTRON MOVIE, WHICH WILL APPEAL TO BLACKS»
Posted on July 20, 2009 in ,
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Tags: Jay-Z | Robots | Voltron
Awww, Italy has invented a real life Wall-E. Cute as ball bearings.... CONTINUE READING IO, ROBOT»
Posted on July 10, 2009 in
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Tags: Garbage | Italy | Robots | Wall-E
WHAT was THAT? Going into Transformers 2 this weekend, I had every expectation that it was going to be loud, stupid, and very very long. But for the first 30 minutes or so, I was on board. Sure, it was... CONTINUE READING THE VIDEOGUM MOVIE CLUB: TRANSFORMERS: REVENGE OF THE FALLEN»
Posted on June 29, 2009 in
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Tags: John Turturro | Megan Fox | Michael Bay | Robots | Shia LaBeouf | Transformers 2
It almost seems weird to even have a Videogum Movie Club this week, but we have to do something! What are we going to do, sit around and cry forever? Maybe. But you can cry in movie theaters. They won't... CONTINUE READING VIDEOGUM MOVIE CLUB REMINDER: TRANSFORMERS 2»
Posted on June 26, 2009
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Tags: Megan Fox | Michael Bay | Robots | Shia LaBeouf | Transformers 2
There's a reason he's called Roger Ebest. Read the whole thing. Here.... CONTINUE READING ROGER EBERT TEARS TRANSFORMERS 2 A NEW ROBO-BUTTHOLE»
Posted on June 23, 2009 in
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Tags: Megan Fox | Michael Bay | Robots | Roger Ebert | Shia LaBeouf | Transformers 2
Early reviews of Transformers 2 have been coming out all week, and it seems almost unanimous that this is probably if not the best movie ever made, then at least the most thoughtful and intelligent. Variety gave it four Tweed... CONTINUE READING NICE TRY, MICHAEL BAY»
Posted on June 17, 2009 in ,
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Tags: Megan Fox | Michael Bay | Penises | Robots | Shia LaBeouf | Transformers 2
I think this interpretive robot mime act is supposed to teach us that even a mercenary robot war machine can understand that war is bad if he discovers that human babies exist, but instead I learned that disembodied baby voices... CONTINUE READING WHAT CAN WE LEARN FROM THE SAD ROBOT?»
Posted on April 28, 2009 in
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Tags: Babies | Girl Talk | Japan | Robots
Yesterday, USA Today published a list of the robots that will be appearing in this summer's Transformers 2: The Edge of Reason (via /Film, FilmDrunk). I'm not going to republish the entire list here because if you really care (which... CONTINUE READING A FEW ROBOTS THAT WILL NOT BE APPEARING IN TRANSFORMERS 2»
Posted on April 2, 2009 in
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Tags: Ben Folds | Robots | Transformers | Transformers 2
Finally, someone I pay attention to speaks out against the Fox Sports robot, who is apparently named "Cletus," because an annoying green-screen graphic that's the visual equivalent of fingernails on a chalkboard needs a name. Tuesday night, Conan O'Brien spoke... CONTINUE READING CONAN KILLS THE FOX SPORTS ROBOT»
Posted on January 15, 2009 in
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Tags: Conan O'Brien | Robots | Sports
I've been saying that we need to burn the internet to the ground for years. Did you see this story last week about a husband who hacked his wife to death with a meat cleaver after she changed her Facebook... CONTINUE READING LET'S BURN SCIENCE TO THE GROUND»
Posted on October 30, 2008 in , ,
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Tags: Burn The Internet To The Ground | Robots
Ugh, gross, there's a robot in Japan that's based on a five-year-old girl. Hopefully the real five-year-old-girl is not as creepy and drugged-up as this robot: (Via Best Week Ever.) Why would they unveil the robot in that condition? Couldn't... CONTINUE READING THAT'S YOUR FUTURE GIRLFRIEND: THE LITTLE GIRL ROBOT»
Posted on October 6, 2008 in ,
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Tags: Coachella | Robots
