Finally, SFW Porno
Well, it is. Unless you know what's behind the cartoon. Great piece of viral by The Viral Factory for Diesel's 30th anniversary. Get it? 30 - XXX on Roman Numerals.
The Man Has Legendary Tape Measure Skills
Why am I jealous of this guy's abilities? Because he's a Ninja with a tape measure, that's why.
Another Remake That Looks Awful. Just AWFUL.
Apart from the last 5 seconds. But that's not good enough.
I can's see "jacket on, jacket off" replacing "wipe on, wipe off."
Fear & Loathing
Finally, something other than Steadman that looks cool. Check the finished version here.
Seth Godin On Standing Out
What can I say, I'm all over the TED website right now. Anyway, if you know anything about Purple Cow, you'll recognize this.
A Lesson In Social Media And The Story Of Mr. Splashy Pants
For anyone interested in the power of social media, here you go.
In Case You Were Wondering, This Is The Great British Breakfast.
To be honest, it's missing a few things. Black pudding, chips, brown sauce. But it's a fine start. I'm hungry. Oh, and that's real bacon, not the fatty, streaky stuff that has been forced on the American public all these years.
I Finally Saw Terminator: Salvation. I Am Confused.
Very Confused.
I should point out right now that if you haven't seen the movie, this rant contains SPOILERS. So stop reading now if you want to see the movie "unspoiled."
Right, my BIGGEST gripe is the completely insane plot. I mean, it's nuts. So Skynet builds this new terminator (Marcus) who doesn't even know he's a terminator. And his reason for being is to infiltrate the resistance without them smelling a rat. Sound familiar? It should...it's the plot of Total Recall (f**king mutants could always sniff us out).
But that's not a bad thing, it's a fine plot when it works. In this case, it doesn't at all. And here's why. Everything that happens to Marcus happens completely by accident. There's no plan. He meets Kyle Reece by accident. Great, does he kill him? Does a program in his Terminator brain activate when he finds him, thus wiping him out and killing John Connor and the entire resistance in the process? No!
He befriends Kyle. And in doing so, manages to get into the resistance headquarters where he meets John Connor. Ah great, so he kills John Connor then? NO! I figured that as soon as he saw Connor, his terminator program would kick in and he'd execute him. But instead he gets involved in some bizarre plan to infiltrate Skynet HQ and free Kyle Reece from the machines.
This is when things get INSANE! At one point, Kyle Reece is spotted by the machines at Skynet, visually identified and pulled out from the crowd of human captives. Does the machine crush his skull? NOOOO!! At this point, the whole resistance would have been wiped out, but the machines decide to put him in a holding cell.
Why? So that between Marcus and Connor, they can form some elaborate plan to lure Connor into the HQ and get him to meet the original T-800 (played by a CG Schwarzenegger) and he can meet his doom. Which, of course, he doesn't.
The number of times Skynet had a chance to kill of Kyle Reece and John Connor are too numerous to mention. And yet, like a typical Bond villain, it decides to do everything in the most pointless, time-consuming way possible in order to facilitate a plot that could keep the movie going for two hours. Skynet could also have sent an army of T-800s to kill Connor. It decided one was enough. Smart move.
I was hoping, by some miracle, that the ending would save it. Here, I thought, is some chance to make it all right. When Connor's heart gets punctured by a T-800, he's done for. Maybe, I thought, he could use the body of the Marcus terminator and transfer his brain into it. That way, he'd be almost indestructible and worthy of the legend status he has as future leader of the resistance. Makes sense, right?
Instead, they get the Marcus terminator to give Connor his human heart. That's it!
McG, why did you ever think any of this would make sense? Didn't anyone point out these glaring holes? I'm willing to forgive some things because time-travel movies need a suspension of disbelief, but come on! And oh, if only living tissue can travel back in time, how did the T1000 and TX travel back in Terminator's 2 and 3? They weren't covered in human flesh. Not your fault, but I'd love an answer.
There were some great effects, and I loved the use of new Terminators, like the bikes and the more crude T-600. But overall, this was not thought through and treated the audience (me) like an idiot who wouldn't question anything.
Shame.
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