Geek Bits: Men In Black, Avengers, Star Trek, G.I. Joe: Retaliation and More [Links]

What rating would you give Men in Black from the trailer? Where can you buy Avengers bobble-heads? Why are they moving G.I. Joe 2 to 2013? Did anyone think Battleship was a good idea for a movie?

Trivia

In the television show The Big Bang Theory the neighbor, Penny, was originally supposed to be a tough street-wise girl named Katie. Why was the character changed?

(Answer at the end of the post)

Last Week’s Bonus Trivia Answer: Tricia Helfer was Ford’s Supermodel of The Year in 1992

Motivational Geek Quote

“There’s always a bigger fish” Qui-Gonn Jinn Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace

Links

Men In Black

• CaptainSciFi says  Men In Black 3 is a 9 out of 10 

To me it does look cool. May be I am catching  the “Men In Black
fever”.( Not to be confused with ” Bieber Fever” which I never will
catch.)

Avengers

• Comic Book Listings! Marvel Comics Avengers Movie Bobble Heads For Sale! Thor, Hulk, Iron Man, Captain America
• Cultural Compulsive Disorder: ‘Too Many Avengers’ – A Short Animated Film by Dan Meth

Star Trek

• Star Trek – Sci Fi Blog asks a trivia question: What was Dr McCoy referring to when he said ‘HE’S DEAD JIM’ for the very first time in Star Trek’s ‘The Enemy Within?’
• Soul of Star Trek: Captain’s Log: Scotty’s Final Frontier

G.I. Joe: Retaliation

• The Galaxy Junkyard gives reason G.I. Joe: Retaliation is DELAYED till 2013
  1.
  They fear Marvel’s Avengers will wipe the floor with their film;
  therefore suffering the same fates as Battleship and Dark Shadows.
  2. G.I. Joe: Retaliation isn’t that good of a film. Paramount needs
  to take extra time to reshoot scenes and do a better job of promoting
  their movie.

Battleship

• Yahoo! Movies – ‘Battleship’ Fallout: Lessons From a Box Office Sinking

“Nobody here thought Battleship was worth the investment,” says a leading agent. “No stars, an [intellectual property] play that made no sense, and nobody thought the script was good.”

• If you liked the game-turned-movie Battleship, wait till you see Tetris!
  

Horror

• Artist Pete Von Sholly created an awesome poster of horror villains

  

• Let’s Get Out Of Here!: has a Dr. Terror’s “Gallery of Horror” / The Wizard of Mars poster

Battlestar Galactica

• Sci-Fi Songs: The 5 Step “Battlestar Galactica” Guide To Twitter plus a free song

Misc

• In something of an ouroboros, I’m sharing a link to Jeremy’s link of my blog! Retro-Zombie: Monday Is A Blur… and something about “Film Sketch’r” Next, he’ll post a link about this post and it will start all over again. Wacky blogging fun!
• Sigild V: Quagmire: “A Fragment from Darkness Falls on a Dark Land” sample
  

  The moment the Ardor left Trevigall orbit Myrmidon dispatched his most
  loyal minion to track the Alliance of Five down and eliminate them.
   That’s what’s generally believed.  The Vanadi dissenters, as Lord Phan
  suspected, weren’t going to back down very easily, and the scary part
  was that Myrmidon himself was only a vice-monitor.  The Ardor was headed
  for the world Mollwan, the second largest in the Vanadi sector, to
  conference with the faction’s leaders themselves, and Myrmidon’s task
  was to ensure they didn’t make it.  He couldn’t achieve this goal with
  something so crass as an explosion placed aboard the Ardor for two
  reasons: one, the Alliance of Five was resourceful enough to discover
  the devise and disable it, and two, he was still a gentleman, despite
  indications to the contrary.  He saw the Alliance for what it was, a
  noble effort to unite the void in harmony that would eventually corrupt
  and thusly cause more harm than good.  All that talk about elemental
  chaos was simply a front.

• A Classic Sci-Fi Movies has a review of the cheesy 70s movie Bigfoot
• The Madlab Post Blog asks: What are the most memorable bathtub scenes that YOU ever saw in a movie?

Trivia Answer

The test audiences felt sorry for the guys. The idea was that she was tough on the outside and kind on the inside. The honesty of Sheldon and Lenny were supposed to bring that out.

“What we didn’t anticipate, though, is how protective the audience would feel about our guys.” co-creator Bill Prady said. “Early screenings of that version of the pilot led audiences to beg that the ‘mean lady’ would stay away from the ‘sweet guys.'”

Source: Variety

Bonus Question: Can you name three members of The Big Bang Theory cast?

What do you think of this week’s links?