Why, It's Renny Harlin!

The likeness is uncanny.

Excellent Branded Entertainment from Philips!

Good usage of cgi: check. Good usage of branded entertainment: check. Excellent plots: check!

Head to:
> http://www.cinema.philips.com/

or where the whole-lot are found (aka all the shorts):
> http://www.facebook.com/philipscinema

The Perfect example of everything wrong in a movie

Perfect (actually the rest are better than the first):

(What is wrong, parts: 1.Everything 2. The audience is expected to accept too many things that we are and are not told)

The rest:
Part 2/9
(3. The Plot 4. Love and marriage 5. Send in the clones)
Part 3/9
(6. Bright lights, dumb city)
Part 4/9
(7. Tell me you love me)
Part 5/9
Part 6/9
(8. Why is Samuel L. Jackson in Star Wars movie?)
Part 7/9
(9. George Lucas ruins the light saber and the force all in one scene)
Part 8/9
(10. The dissolution of tension: bigger is not always betterer 11. Big dumb ending)
Part 9/9
(12. Oh, George)

Cool site worth visiting

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It's all about traditional and digital effects. Be sure to check out!

> http://makingfx.net/

Why I rather don't watch Oscars

A Trailer for Every Academy Award Winning Movie Ever
(powered by Cracked.com)

However, I was pleased to notice the day after that Waltz & Jeff had been given the award.

Spartacus: Blood and Sand and Abs and..

It's so ridiculously silly. You've got blood. Slo-motion fights. Then Abs. Then Boobs. Then Sex and..




then some More! and..



then some MORE! and..



then some MORE! and..



then, EVEN MORE!! *whip* It never ends.


It works.
So silly, so ridiculously silly. Mushy brains. Very mushy.

To read an actual (but hilarious) review, go for >>
Spartacus: Blood and Sand - Adventures in Pay-Cable Skirt Fights

The Usefulness of Styrofoam Heads - cheap Special Effects

Cut the long story short I had an epiphany today about styrofoam heads. They are cheap!

What can you do with them?
1. Fake heads
2. Masks (see picture below)
3. And of course, this (from instructibles)

How to do..?
1. Fake Heads
- buy a styrofoam head from a shop and colour it
2. Masks
- make papermass/pulp/papier-mâché (very cheap, only adhesive will pay) to build contours


The Above Head
(Brian Penikas, the Creeps head in the making)
Of course, the above head is a bit advanced and not made from pulp, obviously. But pulp molds well and can be coloured easily so it's not a bad choice at all for zero budget productions!


Have fun!