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Arrow (2013) – Oliver Queen (Stephen Amell) John Diggle (David Ramsey) “I’m not your sidekick.” That’s what John Diggle told Green Arrow when he agreed to help the crimefighter. Some have tried to call Diggle a sidekick, but they’re wrong. For those unfamiliar with the show, it’s based on the DC comic book character known as “Green Arrow.” Arrow tells the story of Oliver Queen (Stephen Amell), who was stranded on a desert island for five years. He returns to fight a vigilante war on crime in Starling City to honor his late father’s memory. John Diggle, played by David…
Do you love those cheesy movies from the 80s? Then get ready to behold the hilarious madness of Kung Fury by Laser Unicorn. Here’s how they describe the film: “KUNG FURY is an over-the-top action comedy written and directed by David Sandberg. The movie features: arcade-robots, dinosaurs, Nazis, vikings, Norse gods, mutants and a super kung fu-cop called Kung Fury, all wrapped up in an 80s style action packed adventure.” They have a Kickstarter campaign to raise $1,000,000 to make a feature film. Id say its madness except they’re last fund-raising campaign got them $400,000 which is twice what they…
Godzilla is a gentleman (via Blastr) Who spent $30,000 to build her own personal Enterprise? What would a robot dentist look like? What would Chebaca look like as a housecat? When will we see the next episode of Arrow? How does Amy Adams feel about a love triangle with Wonder Woman? Find out all of the Internet’s greatest moments in this week’s “Geek Bits.” By the Way This is insanely late, but I spent most of the night awake because of my new baby boy. Next week things get a little more normal, so thanks for visiting! Links 10. “Norman Rockwell Style Sci-Fi…
Gravity (2013) – Sandra Bullock, George Clooney How many Golden Globe awards will Gravity win? It’s time for the results of last times poll and the new question. The 71st Annual Golden Globe Awards is this weekend and on January 12, 2014 Gravity is nominated for four Golden Globe awards. The movie is nominated for “Best Motion Picture Drama,” Sandra Bullock is nominated for “Best Actress in a Motion Picture Drama,” Alfonso Cuaron is nominated for “Best Director in a Motion Picture” and Stephen Price is nominated for “Best Original Soundtrack in a Motion Picture.” So here’s the question:…
Padawan Rapunzel by Ralph Sevelius What would happen if the Disney princesses were in Star Wars? Since Disney bought the Star Wars franchise there have been a bunch of great mash-ups, but these are my new favorites. Ralph Sevelius created a bunch of great crossovers of the Disney Princesses, like Ariel and Aurora, with Jedi Knights and Sith Lords. Check out his Deviant Art site pushfighter.deviantart.com and his blog http://ralphsevelius.blogspot.com/ Via /Film Which is your favorite and why? Do you have a favorite Disney princess? Please use the buttons below to tell your friends about this post. Click on the…
Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi (1983), Rancor Monster Would the Rancor monster have been as scary as a man in a suit? These days, with CGI we take special effects for granted. Back when they made movies in the 80s it was a lot harder to get the effects they were looking for. Last week StarWars.com uploaded an interview with Dennis Muren of George Lucas’ special effects company “Industrial Light & Magic” (ILM) talking about creating the hideous rancor creature from Return of the Jedi. Muren did an interview with the Star Wars Blog getting into more…
One great thing about Futurama are the memorable side characters. Even guys that only show up once make us laugh. Deviantart user “Unrellius” spent 14 months creating a massive poster that contains “just about every character that appears in Futurama.” If you don’t have hours to stare at the poster, here are the 10 greatest characters from the poster. 1. (Where’s) Waldo from “Lrrreconcilable Ndndifferences” 2. “Life is Hell” Bongo Bunny from “Xmas Story” 3. Flying Spaghetti Monster from “A Clockwork Origin” 4. Hypnotoad from… ALL HAIL THE HYPNOTOAD! 5. Seymour from “Jurassic Bark” 6. Human Monster from “Fear of…
Batman Armory with Bruce Wayne and Alfred Sixth Scale Figure Set by Hot Toys Find out all of the Internet’s greatest moments in this week’s “Geek Bits.” By the Way My second son was born this past weekend. Mom and baby are fine and Daddy is exhausted but happy. Links 10. ‘Spidey Suit’ Heads From Broadway To The National Museum of American History (via Huffington Post) The “Spider-Man Turn off the Dark” musical shut it’s doors this week. The suit from the biggest, and most expensive, flop on Broadway is headed for the museum. Should this show be part of…
Do you think you’re funny? Why not add a title or caption to this picture? This week’s caption is about Batman slapping Robin. Here’s mine: “I haven’t seen you since last year!” “Heard it!” Have a better caption for this picture? Head down to the comments section below to throw it out there. The owner of the funniest and most original caption will be given praise and adulation, here and on our Twitter and Facebook page. The contest concludes next Wednesday at midnight, so please have your ideas in before then. The captions two weeks ago for “Darth Vader the…
Ororo Monroe (Storm) Who are the greatest black superheroes ever created? Last week we held a poll of the greatest Black superheroes. There were some great suggestions and we’ll give the results of the poll next week, but for now here’s my list of the greatest black superheroes to grace the comic books. Who’s your favorite black superhero and why? Please use the buttons below to tell your friends about this post. Click on the links to follow us for free by Email, RSS and follow us on Twitter @thegeektwins and like us on Facebook Follow @Thegeektwins
JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA’S VIBE #10 Source The new Flash TV show could have a major Hispanic character in the show and an interracial relationship. The mid-season finale of Arrow introduced Barry Allen (Grant Gustin) and showed the accident that will turn him into the superfast comic hero known as the Flash. The network has already said they’re planning to make a spinoff show of the character. Movie Hole says the pilot could have the Puerto Rican Vibe (Francisco “Cisco” Ramon) joining Flash in his fight fight against Professor Zoom. Vibe’s main ability is to create shock waves strong enough to…
Scarlett Johansson Check out the 25 hottest women of sci-fi in 2013. Of all the things we’ll miss in 2013, we’ll miss the women of the genre the most. Women made a strong showing this year with the biggest sci-fi movie of the year starring Jennifer Lawrence. That’s why she’s the number one sci-fi babe of 2013. The blockbuster film Gravity starred Sandra Bullock and several other hit movies had strong female characters. So, who else made the cut of the hottest sci-fi babes of this year? #25. Sandra Bullock Sandra Bullock Gravity (2013) Sandra Bullock #24. Tatiana Maslany Tatiana…
Who is finally confirmed to play in Guardians of the Galaxy? What awesome sci-fi show is finally getting action figures? Which actresses have the sexiest voices? How does Gal Gadot respond to complaints about small breasts? Above Image: “Fernando Arreola, pastry chef at the Fairmont San Jose, sculpted 150 pounds of white chocolate fondant into a replica of R2-D2! The work was inspired by the Star Wars Exposition at The Tech Museum of Innovation. See another picture of this work of art at Geeks Are Sexy.” – Neatorama Find out all of the Internet’s greatest moments in this week’s “Geek…
X-Men Ororo Monroe aka Storm (Halle Berry) Who’s your favorite black superhero? It’s time for the results of last times poll and the new question. The world of superheroes has a small, but powerful, set of minority superheroes. Next week I’ll be doing a post on the top 10 greatest Black superheroes, but here’s your chance to help make up the list. For the purposes of this list, I’m using the definition from Wikipedia: “Black is a term usually referring to a racial group of humans with dark skin color, used to categorize a number of diverse populations into one…
Black Batman starts cursing and threatening a guy…in front of kids. So, there’s a video making the rounds that shows a guy dressed as Batman going off on a guy and getting talked down by the cops and a couple of guys dressed as Spider-Man. My first reaction was to laugh, but then I saw the guy playing Batman is Black and it sadly made perfect sense: It’s another example of “keeping it real” going horribly wrong. We don’t know what happened but the video starts with a guy telling Batman to stop cursing in front of his kid. Then…
Peter’s Web (2011) Spider-Man (Roger King) How much do you love Spider-Man? Do you love him enough to make a fan film? Do you love him enough to do a full one hour webseries by yourself? Probably not, but one fan did. Roger King created a one hour webseries called “Peter’s Web” back in 2011. It ran for six episodes and is an amazing achievement. Not only is the running time amazing – the first and last episodes are longer than an hour with the others clocking in at 30 minutes – but he also starred in the series as…
Iron Man 3 (2013) Iron Legion What were the greatest fight scenes in all of 2013? Action movies did pretty well this year and in large part it’s because they had some amazing fight scenes. From giant robots punching monsters to knife fights on speeding trains, here are the greatest fight scenes in all of 2013. Warning! Contains Spoilers #10 – IRON MAN 3 Plane Fight An epic fight aboard Air Force One between Eric Savin (James Badge Dale) and Iron Man (Robert Downey Jr.) leads to the most terrifying midair rescue scene ever filmed. #9 – THOR: THE DARK…
Firefly video store warning label via Blastr Who is going to play Ant-Man? Who might play Lex Luthor in Man of Steel 2? What were Han Solo and Leis singing about when Luke was freezing on Hoth? Is Batman a Time Lord? How can you propose to your Batman-loving girlfriend? Find out all of the Internet’s greatest moments in this week’s “Geek Bits.” Links 10. Latest ‘Amazing Spider-Man 2′ Teaser Poster Simplifies Things (via /Film) If you’re a member of Sony’s Amazing Spider-Man fan group then you get access to all kinds of exclusive goodies including this new teaser poster for…
Do you think you’re funny? Why not add a title or caption to this picture? This week’s caption picture comes from Daily Dump. Here’s mine: More terrifying than Darth Vader…Snoop Vader. Have a better caption for this picture? Head down to the comments section below to throw it out there. The owner of the funniest and most original caption will be given praise and adulation, here and on our Twitter feed and Facebook page. The contest concludes next Wednesday at midnight, so please have your ideas in before then. The captions two weeks ago for “Batman, Superman and Wonder Woman…
It’s Wednesday, which is “hump day.” So, to get you through the rest of the week, here are a bunch of funny Star Wars gifs. This should keep you on the “Light Side” of the day. Update: Added images 1. 2. 3. : Added 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. 32. 33. 34. 35. 36. 37. 38. 39. Which is your favorite? Please use the buttons below to tell your friends about this post. Click on the…
Justice League (New 52) #1 (2013) – Superheroes raising flag of Michigan Did you know that many black superheroes are from Detroit, Michigan? If you’re like me, then you’re always on the look out for minority superheroes, which is why a strange connection caught my attention. Motovo’s real estate blog posted an article called, “30 Things You Need to Know About Detroit Before You Move There” and writer Ian Douglass highlights an interesting connection between black comic book heroes and the “Motor City.” “With 82 percent of its population self reporting as black or African American during the last census,…
Dick Tracy (1990) Big Boy Caprice (Al Pacino) Pacino’s greatest and most insane performance was as “Big Boy” in the live-action comic book film Dick Tracy. Al Pacino is a great actor, but his greatest skill is the ability to become completely insane. The one role that he lost himself in was as “Big Boy” Caprice in Dick Tracy. Dick Tracy (originally called “Plainclothes Tracy) is based on the newspaper crime comic strip by Chester Gould starting on October 4, 1931. A bunch of live-action serials started in 1937, but it wasn’t until 1990 that Warren Beatty produced, directed and…
The Doctors as Powerpuff Girls via Lumos5001 What would a real-life Batman: The Animated Series Batmobile look like? How many people are committing adultery with Netflix? Who’s the next big DC comic villain to appear on Arrow? What genre shows and movies are nominated for a Golden Globe award? By the Way…Am I Not “Snarky” Enough? This week I wrote a post about my genuine disappointment in the Godzilla 2014 trailer called Six Reasons the New GODZILLA 2014 Teaser Trailer Sucks. I’m sure you’ve seen the reactions to my honest opinion in the comments section. Disqus was working overtime to…
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013) Peeta Mellark (Josh Hutcherson), Effie Trinket (Elizabeth Banks) and Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence) Source Which is your favorite science fiction movie based on a book? It’s time for the results of last times poll and the new question. The movie is never as good as the book, but this year we saw several movies based on books. Some soared, like The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, while others flopped, like The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones and Ender’s Game. It made me wonder which is your favorite movie based on a book or short story?…
Godzilla (2014) teaser trailer monster shot Feast your eyes on the most boring trailer for Godzilla you’ve ever seen. I know I’m supposed to love the Godzilla 2014 teaser trailer, but it’s just boring. Nothing happens. The new Godzilla film is directed by Gareth Edwards and stars Aaron-Taylor Johnson,Bryan Cranston and Elizabeth Olsen. Back in 1954 the Japanese monster movie Godzilla took the world by storm and Edwards, who made the critically acclaimed Monsters, hopes to reboot the franchise. This might be a step in the wrong direction. Here are the biggest problems with the Godzilla 2014 trailer. 1. No…
Battlestar Galactica (1978) Movies can create fantastical worlds with monstrous objects that defy imagination. In reality, they’re usually quite small. Here are 20 behind-the-scenes pictures of things in science fiction movies that are surprisingly small. What do you think of the images? Did any of them surprise you? Which is your favorite? Please use the buttons below to tell your friends about this post. Click on the links to follow us for free by Email, RSS and follow us on Twitter @thegeektwins and like us on Facebook Follow @Thegeektwins
Gal Gadot is the new Wonder Woman Find out everything you need to know about the new Wonder Woman actress: Gal Gadot. Last week, after months of rumors, they finally cast the role of Wonder Woman in the untitled Man of Steel sequel. This article breaks down everything you need to know about Gal Gadot. I wrote before how challenging it is to cast an actress to play the Amazonian superhero Wonder Woman, but it looks like they got pretty close. Snyder said in a press release, “Wonder Woman is arguably one of the most powerful female characters of all…
Batman breaking up wedding Source Watch the nerdiest wedding you’ll see today with medieval knights, Iron Man, ninjas and Batman crashing a wedding party. This wedding starts out nerdy, with medieval armor, and moves on to Batman and Iron Man. How geeky is that? WEDDING NOTES – The Wedding took place at the Don Cesar in St. Petersburg, Florida – The guests had no idea – Neither did the hotel staff… (we figured if we told them they would not let us do it.) – Yes, the swords were metal – The groomsmen wore Knight armor over their suits inspired…
“The Worst of Both World’s” via /Film What would a lightsaber look like if it were made of steam? When did Mandela appear in Star Trek? Who would win in a fight between a red shirt and a stormtrooper? Find out the Internet’s greatest moments in this week’s “Geek Bits.” By the Way…6 Geekiest Things Inspired by Nelson Mandela Yesterday it was announced that Nelson Mandela, the famous South African anti-apartheid revolutionary, had died. His life touched millions, but here are the geekiest inspirations from Mandela. 1. The “Mandela Particle” In 1974, “Mandela Particle” was a nuclear particle “40 to…
Wonder Woman, Batman, Superman waiting in an elevator This picture is funny, but do you think you can make it funnier? Why not add a title or caption to this picture? This week’s caption picture comes from Pinterest. Here’s mine: “I still don’t understand why I couldn’t have met you guys at the top.” Have a better caption for this picture? Head down to the comments section below and share it! The owner of the funniest and most original caption will be given praise and adulation, here and on our Twitter and Facebook page. The contest concludes next Wednesday at…