The new USS Enterprise is teh awesome!!!

Oh, yeah! Even better than I thought it would be! Some Romulan guy time travels back to Star Trek 90210 and messes up history and changes the way everything looks! Check out J.J. Abrams new ship design, the Pontiac Aztek of outer space!

"The trick is how do you use a ship like that, uniforms like that, characters who look like that and the name "Star Trek" and make it feel relevant and legitimate… You can't look backward and try to make sure that every decision you're making is true to the past. That's not to say that we weren't true to the past, but that wasn't our guiding principle."
 - J.J. Abrams

Sweet. That's all I can say is sweet. Sweetie schweet to the sweetness!

J.J., as we all know, totally rox the roxxor. He is like the coolest guy ever. Remember in Cloverfield how he went the entire mvie without showing the monster and then it turned out to be like the COOLEST MONSTER EVER IN A MOVIE EVER???? Well he totally did it again.

If you been a fan of Star Track for as long as I have you know that the Enterprise is like the baddest assed ship in the whole universe. It was made by a guy named Matt Jeffries back in the 1950s to look like something realistic. There was thoughts behind every part of the design, like having as few pointy stuff sticking out as possible so that you wouldn't have to be constantly going outside in space and fixen broken things. All of the instruments and sciencey stuff was inside, which is why the ship was all smooth looking on hte outside. That made a lot of sense back then, and it became like a totally famous looking ship and the bridge layout was even studied by the U.S. Navy and the Department Of Defense because of its effecient design. True story!

But nowadays theres CGI and new technolologies and people can go out in space a lot easier then they could in the future of the 60's, so time for an update! With out all those restrictions we can do a lot more with less, and its time to move on, and you can't remain stuck in the past and some people just don't know how to let go. Get over it.

Look up top. Its the new Apple iBridge! Ha! Get it, cuz its all white and swoopy shaped with unnecessary but totally cool blue lights on everything, just like stuff Apple makes. LOL WTF OMGRFLMAO! I totally just made that up and its 100% original, so if you use it on your site give me credit and a link. Don't be a douche, dickweed.

Because people walk and move in totally different ways then they did in the free love, drug crazed hippy 60s, the bridge doesn't need to be laid out all efficient like any more. Now it can be cool and look like whatever JJ wants. As you can see, almost every important station on the bridge has been pushed back to the rear of the bridge so that everyone can be really near each other. There's probably a really good reason for this and a really good explanation for why they don't get in each other's way all the time. I don't know what it is, but there's got to be a good reason for it. Cuz JJ deserves our faith not our questions or criticisms. Lost rules!

Dudez, check out that sweet ass corridor! Even the hallways in this ship are teh shiz-nite! The old halways were grey and full of right angles and space saving shapes like a real working naval design from real life ships that hold thousands of people for really realz. Here's what I say to that- YAWN! These are all white and rounded like the hallways in the Millenium Falcon. Which = awesumez! And look it how shiny they are. That roxx! This ship is way more like something the X-Men or Neo would use than the old Enterprise was. Badass.

Anyway, the guys at JJ's production team – which is called Bad Robot, by the way, and how awesometacular is that – they totally had a totally awesome idea about how to make the Enterprise even cooler then ever. They devided the ship guys into three teams. One team would make the saucer, one team would make the engines, and another would make the engineering section, which is that tube thing on the bottom which holds the engines and the saucer together. They would keep the designs totally secret from each other. And then when they were all done they'd put all the pieces together and BAM! Hot new ship! And doodz it totally worked!

First's a big relief to all of the old school Trekkies who can't get over it. The saucer section, which is called that cuz its around like a flying saucer or a saucer for teacups, is like totally the same. Its a pretty cool design. Back in 79 when they redesigned the Enterprise for the movies they put a bunch of panels on it and changed the way tha engines looked and even though it looks nothing like the ship from the original series its totally cool. Well, the new ship looks a lot like that, and I dont want to hear about the fact that it doesn't make any sense because the new movie takes place before the series and the changes for the movies. Listen, what don't you understand? There's a time traveling Romulan who changes everything. TIME TRAVEL!! Duh! It all like totally makes cents.

Anyway, Team Saucer totally made the saucer a tribute to the old schoolers and it turned out pretty good. But not as good as the engines.

How fricken sweet is that?? Huh?? AWESOME!!! The old engines (they called them 'nacelles', which is sci-fi talk for 'nerd tubes' – LOL WTF OMGRFLMAOBBQM16!) were like those cardboard paper towel thingies – boring! These have cool shapes and swooping lines and glowing blue Ban Roll-On™ caps on the front which are totally unlike anything the Enterprise has ever looked like. Why? Time traveling Romulans, baby! TIME FREAKIN' TRAVEL!! It makes it okay to change anything! Everything makes equal sense when no explanations are required and all the rules are thrown out. Its brilliant!

I love how these things are all big and chunky looking like the engines from those sweet pod racers from Star Wars. Star Wars totally rules and now Star Trak can be more like it! Yay! It's no accident that these things look all Star Warsy, cause JJ -who is THE MAN- is like totally a Star Wars fan and is well aware of the absolute and total awesomess of the Star Wars prequels, which, as every single person who has ever seen them agrees, set the gold bar standard for science fiction excellence. Just listen to the man!

"Well, I'm just a fan of "Star Wars." As a kid, "Star Wars" was much more my thing than "Star Trek" was. If you look at the last three "Star Wars" films and what technology allowed them to do, they covered so much terrain in terms of design, locations, characters, aliens, ships — so much of the spectacle has been done and it seems like every aspect has been covered, whether it's geography or design of culture or weather system or character or ship type. Everything has been tapped in those movies. The challenge of doing "Star Trek" — despite the fact that it existed before "Star Wars" — is that we are clearly in the shadow of what George Lucas has done.

The key to me is to not ever try to outdo them because it's a no-win situation. Those movies are so extraordinarily rendered that it felt to me that the key to "Star Trek" was to go from the inside-out: be as true to the characters as possible, be as real and as emotional and as exciting as possible and not be distracted by the specter of all that the "Star Wars" films accomplished."

So suck it, trekkies! Everything good that has been done in sci-fi was done first by Star Wars, so Star Track can't compete. But with JJ in charge now it will at least be cool for once. Without the buzz created by JJ stepping in and saving its ass, its no doubt Star Trak would be dead by now. Its a nothing short of a miracle from Jesus that it managed to last for 45 years without him.

But if you think that's something, I've saved the best of the best for last!

Check out that engineering section! Team Secondary Hull really blew me away with this one! Its like they took the hull from the movie Enterprise and squished it and streched it around and flattened it out until it was cool. FINALLY. If there was one improvement the Enterprise has always needed it was to push that radar dish like way forward and light it up. And thank God in Heaven they have slimmed down the rear of that ship. Look how graceful and thin it looks. Making it thinnest in the place where the engines attach to it just serves to illustrate how futuristic and science fictional this ship really is. That's gotta be really strong construction to prevent the incredible mechanical stresses generated during acceleration to supralight speeds from just snapping the whole hull right right in half. And they totally conveyed that. Or implied it. Conveyed it through implication, really. JJ, u r the awesomest of the awesomest. Like, totally.

I really like how theyve moved the big connector to the saucer section into the middle of the ship. On the old version it used to be right up front, and it looked like the ship, despite its militaristic solid construction, was sort of fast and graceful, like a cheatah leaning into a run. Thats just because they had nothing but total crap effects back in the in the 60's and couldn't SHOW it being fast. Now with CGI we can afford to squash things together a bit, and its all good in the hood.

The old Enterprise was elegant, purposefully simplistic, and almost regal looking in its design. It looked real. Maybe a little too real for the Star Wars audiences JJ is going to bring in. Where were the Star Wars lights and bumps and fins and things? Spaceships these days needs those things. So they Star Warsed the Enterprise. And the reult? Totally awesome! This new Enterprise ship is totally more laid back looking, like its saying I could give a crap cuz I like KNOW I can go faster than you and I don't need to prove myself and you can't judge me. This new Enterprise has ballz. Dese nutz!

I know all these stuff I bin showing you is really cool so far, but trust me, you aint seen nothing yet. Because I been holding out. Now I'm gonna blow your mind. I'm gonna make your frikkin mind go crazy.

OMFG, I know! I totally, totally, TOTALLY love way all these pieces came together!!! When I forst saw it I was all like, holy s—, its totally freakin sweet! When you see them individually the pieces look just okay, but when you see them all together and see how they changed around the positioning and scales of each piece relative to th others, then you really get a good sense of the talent these guys have. You completely see just how this movie might be with J.J. Abrams directing. Time traveling Romulans with TIME TRAVEL POWER ftw!!!

Just look it how big those new engines are. They're like totally huge! I know JJ is right when he said that Star Wars is way better then Star Trak any day of the week, so don't take this as a challenge to what he sez, but with engines this huge I bet the Enterprise might totally be able to beat Anakin in a pod race, Jedi powers and all. Thats just my opinion tho, IMHO.

My favorite thing about this is how the engineering section is SO much smaller than it used to be. And the engines are so much bigger. They r kinda the same size as the secondary hull. It makes it look like it has three engines, which is totally faster then two. Its almost like, why have a engineering section at all. I'll tell you. Cause the Enterprise is a classic, and you gotta respect the classics, man. If you don't believe me, listen to what JJ says. He is THE MAN. Totally awesome!!

“If you’re going to do Star Trek there are many things you cannot change. The Enterprise is a visual touchstone for so many people. So if you’re going to do the Enterprise, it better look like the Enterprise, because otherwise, what are you doing?”
  - J.J. Abrams

87 Responses to “The new USS Enterprise is teh awesome!!!”

  1. Chris Says:


    Happy St. Patrick’s Day to ya!

  2. DanM Says:

    OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!! THAT WHIP’S BITCHN’!!!!!!!
    FU H8ERS!!!! ABRAMS RULEZ!!!!!!

  3. DanM Says:

    MORE AWESUMESS FROM J.J.!!!!

    http://scifiwire.com/2009/03/another-new-image-from-jj.php

  4. Frog Boy Says:

    Who likes Star Wars? Who likes bobble heads?

    There is an auction site that I look at all of the time that has the perfect combination:

    http://www.woot.com/

    Peace,
    Frog Boy

  5. Frog Boy Says:

    I must apologize that I used the word “perfect” when describing this bobblehead collection – there is no Yoda, so perfect it is not.

    I apologize but it is still a pretty cool gift.

    Peace,
    Frog Boy

  6. DanM Says:

    NO YODA?!

    They are dead to me.

  7. DanM Says:

    Aliens vs. Predator:

    http://www.aintitcool.com/node/40475

  8. Chris Says:

    Those AvP ads are great. I think the one where they’re playing pool is my favorite.

  9. Mark Says:

    Did everyone know they are coming out with a new cologne called “Tiberius”? Here is the ad…

    Explorer. Soldier. Time-Traveler. Diplomat. Legend.

    Captain James Tiberius Kirk: The most famous and highly decorated starship captain in Starfleet history.

    TIBERIUS Cologne for men is a casual yet commanding cologne spiked with freshness and sensuality. Citron, black pepper, and cedar create refreshingly clear top notes, layered over warm vanilla, white musk and sandalwood base notes. TIBERIUS Cologne for men is difficult to define and impossible to refuse. In any universe.

    Inspored by legend—take TIBERIUS on your next mission and be transported to new worlds of sensual discovery.

    Boldy go.

  10. DanM Says:

    I want some!

  11. DanM Says:

    And the Awesomeness keeps on coming:

    http://scifiwire.com/2009/03/review-star-trek-replica.php

  12. Mark Says:

    Here is another cologne for the Trekkies…”Red Shirt”!

    Red Shirt
    Genki’s “Red Shirt” cologne (whose tag line “Because Tomorrow May Never Come” is priceless) celebrates the sacrifices of those often nameless crew of the USS Enterprise. Described appropriately as a cologne for those with a “devotion to living each day as it could be your last” the cologne has top notes of green mandarin, bergamot, and lavender, with base notes of leather and grey musk.

    Webmaster…how about some pics here!!!

  13. Mark Says:

    And for the lady Trekker in your life…”Pon Farr”

    Pon Farr
    The most risqué titled of the new Star Trek fragrances is “Ponn Farr” which is a perfume designed to “drive him wild.” It should only be used once every seven years (okay, that isn’t true). Named for the Vulcan mating ritual first introduced in the episode “Amok Time,” this perfume is one of the newly designed products meant to appeal to female fans. More details and an image on Ponn Farr will be available soon.

  14. Friday Night Videos Says:

    fnv_logo_1.jpg

    HIDDEN!
    Title: “Rocket Man”
    Artist: William Shatner
    Program: 1978 Science Fiction Film Awards
    HIDDEN!

  15. Chris Says:

    The more I watch that, the more I become convinced that, in many ways, this is the single greatest music video ever made. Rock it, man.

  16. DanM Says:

    I’m kind of partial to this version:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Q4WRIjz4nk&feature=related

  17. DanM Says:

    For the Ghostbuster freaks:

    http://scifiwire.com/2009/03/alyssa-milano-enlists-in.php

  18. DanM Says:

    I’m mildy intrigued:

    http://scifiwire.com/2009/03/watch-an-exclusive-clip-f.php

  19. Balthazar Says:

    Since someone mentioned Ghostbusters, here’s some news on the upcoming game, the Blu-Ray, some new merchandise and even ECTO-1.

    Atari today unveiled Alyssa Milano as the new love interest in the forthcoming blockbuster title Ghostbusters: The Video Game. Alyssa Milano is best known for her roles in long running successful television series “Who’s the Boss”, “Melrose Place”, “Charmed” and most recently “My Name Is Earl” to name a few. Milano joins members of the original cast From The beloved Ghostbusters movies to recreate the unique blend of humour and fright that established Ghostbusters as a pop culture sensation.

    Ghostbusters: The Video Game prides itself in staying true to the Ghostbusters universe, so it just wouldn’t feel right if Bill Murray’s character, Dr. Peter Venkman, wasn’t turning on the charm. In Ghostbusters: The Video Game, he’s chasing one in particular: Dr. Ilyssa Selwyn is a smart and sassy archaeologist who doesn’t take too kindly to Dr. Venkman’s advances.

    In the game, Milano’s character, Ilyssa Selwyn, is an expert in Sumerian and pre-Sumerian cultures and is visiting New York City as guest curator for the highly anticipated ‘World of Gozer’ exhibition opening in 1991 at the Natural History Museum. In the story line, Gozerian mythology has attracted a wide popular following since the still-unexplained events and attacks that occurred in the city in 1984. Ilyssa is working late at the museum the night before the opening when a cataclysmic force is unleashed and summons an ancient enemy back to New York City. Strange events continue to erupt around her: what secret does she know? It’s up to the Ghostbusters to help Ilyssa find the key and stop the forces of evil that threaten the balance of the universe. That’s if they can keep Peter Venkman from hitting on her every three minutes.

    Ghostbusters: The Video Game, based on the smash hit motion picture franchise, is penned by original Ghostbusters writers and stars Harold Ramis and Dan Aykroyd. The other original Ghostbusters, Bill Murray and Ernie Hudson, lend their voices and in-game likenesses to the original story set two years after Ghostbusters II, with Manhattan once again overrun by ghosts and supernatural forces. The player joins up as a new recruit with the original team, testing a variety of unique equipment and gadgets, to track, wrangle and trap this wide range of awe-inspiring phantasms in an all new funny and frightening battle to save New York City from its latest paranormal plague.

    Ghostbusters: The Video Game will be available on the Xbox 360® video Game and entertainment system from Microsoft, Games for Windows®, PLAYSTATION®3 computer entertainment system, PlayStation®2 computer entertainment system, Wii™ and Nintendo DS™ in North America on 16 June 2009 followed by worldwide release on 19 June 2009 to coincide with the 25th anniversary celebration of the film’s original theatrical release. For more information on Ghostbusters, please visit http://www.ghostbustersgame.com, and for Atari’s entire line up, visit http://www.atari.com.

    Ghostbusters and Ghostbusters II combined to gross over $500 million world-wide at the box office. The film spawned some of the most memorable comedic catch-phrases and scenes in motion picture history. To further celebrate the film’s 25th anniversary milestone this year, Sony Pictures Consumer Products has licensed the property for several new commemorative products including: toys, t-shirts, comic books, prop replicas, and a theme park attraction. In addition, the original Ghostbusters car (Ecto-1) has been fully restored with plans for special promotional appearances throughout the US and additional replicas touring across Europe. The Blu-ray Disc release of Ghostbusters will see unsurpassed picture and audio quality and advanced new bonus features including Slimer Mode, a picture-in-picture graphical viewing experience, a featurette on the refurbishing of Ecto-1, and more.

  20. Balthazar Says:

    How about a new Star Trek trailer?

    ST_tvspot3_experience_1080p.mov

  21. Balthazar Says:

    Anyone up for a Wall-E / Watchmen mashup?

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-Ka8DnUVEQ

  22. Balthazar Says:

    Unusual enough for a movie-based video game, Star Trek: D.A.C. won’t be tying into the story of the upcoming Star Trek reboot flick. In fact, it doesn’t even have a story.

    At GDC it was revealed that Star Trek: D.A.C. will be all top-down, multiplayer space battles. Sorta like a multiplayer Geometry Wars. The only things it will take from the movie are starship designs, music, and sound effects.

    The game will break players up into squads of six. You can choose to be either Federation or Romulan. You can also pick from a variety of classes, namely you can choose to pilot a nimble fighter, super-fast bomber, or flagship.

    Unlike Super Stardust, nothing will be locked in the beginning. You’ll be able to choose any of the game’s modes right from the start. Each of the modes will allow you to play certain maps.

    The game will be released this May on Xbox Live in time for the movie’s release.

  23. Chris Says:

    Star Trek needs a really good video game. The ONLY good Trek game I’ve ever played was Klingon Honor Guard, which was fantastic, but had almost nothing whatsoever to do with the overall story of the Star Trek franchise.

  24. Balthazar Says:

    The very first Star Trek game by Interplay, way back when, was a phenomenal game. And they crammed it on only a couple floppy disks. :-)

  25. Chris Says:

    Damn, I missed that one.

  26. James Says:

    Everyone keeps saying, “Well, at least thet kept the saucer the same.” But even that part they screwed up. The original and subsequent versions had this fluting (semi-circular groove) on the underside which rounded out to the bottom dome (whatever that was for). But the underside of the saucer of the new Enterprise looks almost flat, with a kind of squashed cone attached, and a kind of STTMP add on attached to that. It’s like someone thought, “How can I take this beautiful, simple design and remove every element of grace from it.” I ask you, what is up with that?

  27. DanM Says:

    http://scifiwire.com/2009/03/fictionalized-adventures.php

    Universal has bought the film rights to The Strange Adventures of H.P. Lovecraft, Image Comics’ graphic novel, created by Mac Carter and Jeff Blitz, Variety reported.

    The project is envisioned as a potential directing vehicle for Ron Howard. The book drops on April 8.

    The graphic novel borrows elements from Lovecraft’s life, such as his family’s struggle with mental illness and his own bouts with writer’s block, and transforms the young writer’s darkest nightmares into reality when he comes across a book that puts a curse on him and lets the evils he conjures up loose on the world.

    Lovecraft, who died in 1937, is considered one of the most influential horror writers of the 20th century.

    Carter, a commercial director, will pen the script and serve as executive producer alongside Blitz. Imagine Entertainment’s Brian Grazer and Howard are producers.

  28. DanM Says:

    Frikkin’ Sweet!

    http://scifiwire.com/2009/03/how-the-trek-next-generat.php

  29. Chris Says:

    James, I’m with you 100%. Its kind of like they actually tried to make it unproportional. And if the rumors I hear about the “variable geometry” movable nacelles is true I may vomit.

  30. DanM Says:

    This movie is already f__ked up in my book because they had to rely on time travel as a means to bend established cannon to their will.

  31. DanM Says:

    I apologize, my rage over the use of time travel has mucked up my sense of grammar. That should have been “canon”

  32. Balthazar Says:

    Is it the beginning of SkyNet?

    http://nkyfba.homeip.net/uploads/video/scifi/PC.WMV

  33. James Says:

    DanM,
    I think you’re right. Time travel is the pornography of science fiction.

  34. Balthazar Says:

    http://www.hulu.com/watch/64446/family-guy-family-guy-next-generation

  35. DanM Says:

    someone contact Mulder and Scully:


    The final theatrical onesheet Star Trek poster.

    http://scifiwire.com/2009/03/final-star-trek-theatrica.php

  36. Balthazar Says:

    During Sony’s presentation this afternoon at ShoWest, Sony president of worldwide distribution, Rory Bruer, mentioned that not only is Spider-Man 4 in the works for 2011, but so are a new Men in Black and a new Ghostbusters.

    Bruer mentioned both of these projects somewhat in passing, right after talking about their exciting upcoming summer slate and mentioning that they had some other great movies in the works. He didn’t even mention anything but the names, Men in Black and Ghostbusters, but that’s enough to confirm that these are official. While we knew that Ghostbusters would be happening, given they already hired writers, the Men in Black rumor was essentially only a rumor until now.

  37. Balthazar Says:

    Two New Star Trek D.A.C. screenshots…

    http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3173540

  38. DanM Says:

    I didn’t know warp nacelles spewed flames.

  39. Balthazar Says:

    New Terminator: Salvation screenshots…

    http://xbox360.qj.net/Terminator-Salvation-10-new-screens/pg/49/aid/129990

  40. Chris Says:

    Sweet blue-eyed honky Jesus I hope those are just maneuvering thrusters. Please, merciful Allah, tell me this is just something they added for the video game. I don’t want to see an Enterprise with fire coming out of it like a jet engine. Surely to fucking Christ they’re not going to do that in the movie. Dear lord Xenu, tell me they’re not going to do that in the movie. Please. Please, for the love of all that is sane and just, I don’t want to see that in the movie. The Enterprise is not a fucking rocket ship. Why is there fire coming out of the engines?? HOLY FUCKING SHIT THAT HAD BETTER NOT BE IN THE MOVIE. FOR THE LOVE OF FUCKING GOD AND THE SAKE OF ALL MOTHERFUCKING SONS OF BITCHES EVERYWHERE, THAT HAD BETTER NOT BE IN THE GOD DAMN MOVIE.

  41. Balthazar Says:

    Full list of Transformers in the upcoming move revealed! Plus a tasty pic of Megan Fox’s chest. I’m so glad JetFire is going to be in this movie. And you’ll be seeing Devastator, who should be gigantic.

    http://www.firstshowing.net/2009/04/02/full-list-of-giant-robots-revealed-for-transformers-revenge-of-the-fallen/

    For the few of you that I went to see FanBoys with, the Transformer I was trying to describe is The Fallen, I believe.

  42. Chris Says:

    I suspect you won’t be so glad once you see him, Balthazar. They’ve Michael Bayed him. He transforms into an SR-71 Blackbird, which kicks ass, but they’ve made him old and lame. Literally. He walks with a cane. I’m not at all joking. Look at the toy pic if you don’t believe me. Jetfire has a fucking cane.


    Here's the cane from the toy.


    And here's the cane from the trailer.

    Jetfire is billed to be a geriatric robot with nuts and bolts falling as he walks. So he’s going to be the old retarded grandpa bot of the movie. How fantastically awesome. Also, Wheelie is in this movie? As a Decepticon? What the hell is that about?

  43. DanM Says:

    I’ve got money on Chris’ head exploding if they pull that warp nacelle shit in the actual movie.

  44. DanM Says:

    A robot with a cane? HOW FUCKING DUMB IS THAT!?

  45. Chris Says:

    Dan, refresh your browser. I’ve added some pics to my previous post I think you’ll find interesting.

  46. DanM Says:

    ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME!!!!!!!??????????????

    Well, I know one movie I will NOT be seeing in the theater.

  47. Balthazar Says:

    Ah… DAMN IT! WTF? Is that an old-man-Autobot-beard he has too? SR-71 is kick ass but how can you take one of the coolest Autobots EVER and put him in Depends?

  48. DanM Says:

    Everyone knows I like legos, however, I’ve got nothing on these people:

    http://dvice.com/archives/2009/04/insane_65000-br.php

  49. Chris Says:

    That LEGO shuttle is ASTOUNDING. I thought it was a launch pad comparison pic until I looked closer. That must have cost a fortune.

  50. Balthazar Says:

    Earlier this week it was confirmed that Sony really is moving forward with their plans to make another Ghostbusters movie, and we already know that Lee Eisenberg and Gene Stupnitsky have been working on a script. But what we don’t really know yet is what the heck it will be about, especially since we keep hearing early buzz that it might be a complete reboot and feature a younger cast mentored by the older ‘busters that we all know and love. Thanks to an update on Entertainment Weekly earlier today, it looks like that is indeed the case. Harold Ramis finally confirmed some early details regarding this newest Ghostbusters.

    I’m not sure how or where the EW guys caught up with Ramis (I’m assuming it was for Year One), but here’s what he had to say. “They’ll be looking at younger actors [for the lead roles], I’m sure. But we’ll be in it as mentors or advisers. I think the first one captured something that hadn’t been seen for a long time: the combination of scary movies and smart broad comedy.” And that “we” he mentions are the original four Ghostbusters: Dan Aykroyd, Ernie Hudson, Bill Murray, and Ramis himself. “Everybody said they’d do it,” he confirms, but of course, “everyone’s gonna have to love the [Ghostbusters III] script to move it forward.”

    While he wouldn’t say much more about the premise, he did drop in this little tidbit at the end: “Now there’s a new concept… And it’s interesting, beyond the kind of mythology of it, there’s a personal story that’s pretty grounded.” I might argue that the reason the original two were so damn good is because they had that central story about Bill Murray and Sigourney Weaver. So obviously they better have some sort of personal story or the fan backlash will be pretty bad if they screw this one up. But don’t expect to see this too soon. “Even if there was a great script by the end of the summer, it would be a year before [it would get made.]“

  51. Friday Night Videos Says:

    fnv_logo_1.jpg

    HIDDEN!
    Title: “G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero”
    Composers: Ford Kinder and Spencer Michlin
    Program: G.I. Joe: The Movie, 1987
    HIDDEN!

  52. Chris Says:

    Just took a second look at those Lego shuttle pics. I didn’t realize this when I first looked at them, but they also built the mobile launch platform and the crawler-transporter. Very impressive.

  53. DanM Says:

    Damn, that video takes me back. SNAKE EYES IS THE MAN!!!

  54. Chris Says:

    Best opening sequence of any animated film, ever. Yo Joe!

  55. DanM Says:

    Anyone know where I can get a thought controlled jet pack like Duke’s?

    On a side note. I have a bad feeling about the new G.I.Joe movie. From what I’ve read, not only did the actors admit to over-acting, they were actually encouraged to do so.

  56. Chris Says:

    More bad news for you. Have you seen Cobra Commander?


    Click the pic for full sized heartbreak.

    JESUS FUCKING CHRIST. Seriously, what the fuck? He had a bifurcated, mirrored metal faceplate and a helmet, and wore a blue military dress uniform. How hard is that? That would have looked great. But this is fucking stupid. This looks like some shit they wouldn’t have even bothered animating during the show’s heyday. This is one of those throwaway figures we used to blow apart with firecrackers or burn at the stake. Is this really supposed to be the feared terrorist leader, the bio-tech genuis and chosen son of Cobra-La, the man who built an organization so powerful that the US military had to create the G.I. Joe special mission force just to combat it? Please. This is like one of those stupid looking early ’90s figures that eventually caused the series to be cancelled due to poor sales. If Krang and Jason X fucked and had a kid with Down’s Syndrome, it would be this guy.

    As some of you know, I have a fairly complete collection of nearly all the Cobra Commander figures ever released. I’ve even got the extra shitty, goofy looking neon colored nonsense Hasbro produced when the line was starting to die. But I may pass on this one just on the principle of the thing. I don’t like the idea of my dollars supporting this kind of bullshit.

    Thanks again, Hollywood, for taking something interesting and ass raping all the cool out of it. I’ve just placed this movie on my “must miss” list. I don’t know what the fuck that is, but that is NOT Cobra Commander.

  57. DanM Says:

    un-fucking-believable. I don’t even know what to say.

  58. Frog Boy Says:

    I have to say that I am actually saddened by this portrayal of Cobra Commander. I can’t believe they would take such a powerful presence and scale it down to this cheap “Phantom of the Opera”…ish appearance.

    In my humble opinion, the power behind Cobra Commander was the mystique that came with this mask – hiding the monster behind it but providing you with a distorted perception of yourself. Possibly indicating the way that the Cobra Commander viewed the world and what shaped him into the evil, menacing entity that he was.

    I just can’t believe they would take that power away!

    Bro – I would have to say that if I were you I would probably buy one to just complete my collection but I would never talk about it to anyone. If you don’t discuss it, it never happened.

    Making it through this sad day,
    Frog Boy

  59. Quentin Says:

    Holy shit. Set sail for “awesome”.
    (Stolen from http://www.darkhorizons.com/news/13755):

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    Faith No More frontman Mike Patton’s will voice one of the seven vehicles that form Devastator in “Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen” says Movieweb.

    Movieweb confirms that Patton will likely play Mixmaster, one of the seven Decepticons that form to create Devastator. He is a concrete mixing truck that serves as the left leg of the giant robot.

    Patton is said to have landed the gig after producers heard his voice work on the video game “The Darkness”. Patton did the score for upcoming action sequel “Crank: High Voltage”.

  60. Mrs. X Says:

    RE: Cobra Commander. Once again Hollywood has seen fit to take something I loved as a kid a “rework” it for today’s audience of mindless children. God knows you can’t use your imagination to figure out what CC might look like under his hood nooooooo becuase you don’t have an imagination anymore so we’ll just tell you what you should think he should look like. I have no use for this movie.

    On an unrealted GI Joe note, but totally related to Hollywood ass raping original ideas…..anyone see who is gonna be in the Three Stooges Movie? Yeah that’s right Jim Carey, Benisio (sp?) Del Toro and Sean Penn…that’s right Sean freakin Penn. I don’t even know where to start with this, it’s wrong on so many levels.

  61. DanM Says:

    How about we start by lynching the morons who came up with the idea.

  62. Balthazar Says:

    First they screw up the Enterprise. Then they give Jetfire a cane and diapers. Now they ruin Cobra Commander?

    Bah…

  63. Chris Says:

    Oh god, I forgot that I read about the Three Stooges movie. I can’t imagine anything less funny than those three doing slapstick comedy. Sean Penn as a Stooge. Yipee. I could watch Nazi stormtroopers stomping on babies and kittens and get more chuckles than that.

    Seriously, what the hell is going on in Hollywood? Movies nowadays are sucking more and more. I know there have always been crap movies, but they were at least kept low budget and billed as B-movies. Studios knew when they had a bad film on their hands and marketed it as such. Now a piece of shit production will cost $200 million and tank, and the director is back doing it again in a year with the same budget. Movie studios have made a big deal about piracy and claimed that is the reason the profits are down. BULLSHIT. Ticket sales are down based on a lack of consumer interest. People aren’t going to movies anymore because the majority of movies these days straight up fucking blow. And the studios know it. That’s why when they’ve got something good like Watchmen on their hands they ship the reels in bulk, allowing cinemas to close down showings of other movies and stick it in 10 theatres simultaneously. Because its the only thing that’s going to sell.

  64. Quentin Says:

    Fuck you Hollywood. You could not create KUNG FU CYBORG
    http://io9.com/5201110/terminators-%252B-transformers-%252B-crazy-wigs–kung-fu-cyborg

    (Eagerly anticipating)

  65. DanM Says:

    That looks both awful and fascinating at the same time. Kind of like a train wreck.

  66. DanM Says:

    http://scifiwire.com/2009/04/kirk-hits-on-uhura-in-new.php

  67. Chris Says:

    Well, that was pretty much a given…

  68. DanM Says:

    and yet another clip:

    http://scifiwire.com/2009/04/spock-confronts-kirk-and.php#more

  69. DanM Says:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVV9q4rESPg&feature=player_embedded

  70. DanM Says:

    Dungeons & Dragons co-creator Dave Arneson dead at 61

    Dave Arneson, born in 1947, an American game designer, teacher and entrepreneur and the co-creator of the seminal Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game, passed away on Tuesday, April 7, after a long battle with cancer. He is survived by his wife and daughter.

    Arneson was introduced to table-top wargaming in the early ’60s by his parents, who bought him a copy of Avalon Hill’s Gettysburg game. In college at the University of Minnesota, he met other wargamers and began both modifying existing games and designing his own. He attended the second official Gencon and there met a similarly youthful Gary Gygax. Gygax had published a set of 1:1 scale miniatures rules called Chainmail, which became the bare bones of an ongoing campaign that Arneson ran for friends called Blackmoor.

    In 1974, Arneson and Gygax wrote up the rules they had evolved for their fantasy role-playing campaigns, creating the game Dungeons & Dragons. After failing to get any mainstream publishers interested, they created a company, TSR, and published the book themselves using investment money provided by one of Gygax’s friends. The book became a hit, first in the wargaming community and then in the mainstream. Dungeons & Dragons not only created a new type of gaming, role-playing, but laid the foundation for the entire hobby gaming industry.

    Arneson left TSR in 1979 and filed a lawsuit against the company. As a part of the ultimate settlement of that suit, neither Arneson nor Gygax ever spoke about what drove them apart, although Arneson would later return to TSR when Gygax was briefly president of the company again in the mid-’80s. They were on good terms at the time of Gygax’s death last year.

    In his post-D&D/TSR life, Arneson founded a computer game company 4D Interactive Systems, which is still in business. He did computer consulting. In the late ’90s, he became a teacher at Full Sail, a private university that teaches media and computer careers. He suffered a stroke in 2002, but kept teaching until 2008. Throughout these years he continued to work on his original Blackmoor role-playing campaign, publishing it in various paper forms and also creating an online role-playing community.

    He is a member of Academy of Adventure Gaming Arts and Design Hall of Fame.

    Grognardia editor James Maliszewski received the following note from Dave Arneson’s family:

    The Arneson family would like to thank everyone for their support over the last few days, and for the support the entire community has shown Dave over the years. We are in the process of making final arrangements and will provide additional details as we work them out. We will continue to receive cards and letters in Dave’s honor. We are planning to hold a public visitation so that anyone wishing to say their goodbye in person has the opportunity to do so.

    Cards and letters can continue to be sent:
    Dave Arneson
    1043 Grand Avenue
    Box #257
    St. Paul, MN
    55105

    Visitation will be on April 20th
    Time: yet to be determined
    Address:
    Bradshaw Funeral Home
    687 Snelling Avenue South
    St. Paul, MN 55105

    http://scifiwire.com/2009/04/dungeons-dragons-dave-arn.php

  71. Balthazar Says:

    http://terminateyourself.com/

  72. DanM Says:

    umm…what’s up with Devastator’s head?

    And you’ll be happy to know Chris there’s another skating transformer.

    http://scifiwire.com/2009/04/more-transformers-robots.php

  73. DanM Says:

    pretty cool slideshow of Terminator posters

    http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/terminator_salvation/pictures/11.php#highlighted_picture

  74. Frog Boy Says:

    I know that I am stuck on this topic but my bro made some killer Easter eggs yesterday and one was decorated as the Cobra Commander.

    Christopher – any chance you took some pics of those eggs for the site?

    Peace,
    Frog Boy

  75. Chris Says:

    Sure thing. New article full of sci-fi Easter eggs should be up in a couple of hours.

  76. Mrs.X Says:

    Don’t know if anyone else caught this, but I thought it was cool as hell that JJ Abrams and the cast of the new Star Trek movie had a special premier for troops over in Kuwait.

  77. Balthazar Says:

    Proving once and for all that pricey collector’s editions don’t have to cater exclusively to cat helmet enthusiasts and fans of replica weaponry, publisher Atari has revealed the contents of their Amazon-exclusive Slimer Edition of the Ghostbusters videogame.
    Along with the game itself, the $129.99 bundle ($109.99 for the Wii version) will include a treasure trove of exclusive swag. Listed on Amazon’s product description page are an appropriately gross-looking bust of Slimer designed by the movie’s original sculptor (including a signed certificate of authenticity), a light-up Ecto-1 keychain, a pack of Ghostbusters Minimates, and a set of Ghostbusters-themed console skins.

  78. Balthazar Says:

    Test

  79. DanM Says:

    sorry guys. doesn’t look good for fans of the Sarah Conner Chronicles:

    Report: Fox terminates Sarah Connor Chronicles

    Is Sarah Connor terminated? That’s the rumor being passed on by EW.com’s Ausiello Files: Citing multiple anonymous sources, the columnist reports that Fox has canceled the low-rated Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles.

    “It’s done,” a source close to the show told Michael Ausiello. “Everyone has pretty much known for a couple of weeks.” Adds a network insider: “Consider it canceled.”

    Officially, the network told Ausiello: “No decision has been made yet. We will be announcing our fall schedule on May 18.”

    http://scifiwire.com/2009/04/report-fox-terminates-sar.php

  80. DanM Says:

    some more movie pics for Star Trek

    http://scifiwire.com/2009/04/more-star-trek-images-bea.php

  81. Chris Says:

    Dan, I copied your posts onto the new article. I have the feeling we’re gonna need the space to talk about the probable cancelation and the new Trek stuff.

    Mrs. X, I plan to talk about Star Trek and the early military screenings there as well. You got any more info on that?

  82. Nanook Says:

    Good review in the NY Times on Star Trek. Kudos to both of the leading actors and teh director.

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