Not only does our glow-in-the-dark Night Fighter Robocop directly reference the look and feel of the original toy line, but the packaging on this TRU exclusive couldn’t be more ’80s if it was wearing Madonna’s coned bra.
AND THAT IS WHY IT WILL BE MINE
There — Black Widow’s butt isn’t her prevailing attribute in this pic. (I guess now it’s her boobs, but that wasn’t intentional…) Now we can complain about the lack of objectification the male characters receive, because none of their backsides were shown the same attention given to Natalia’s booty (and chest).
DCUC ankle pivot experimentation — trying to implement something like what the new MU/ML/Joe figures are rocking. (“Rocking,” get it? Oh, me and my funny action figure articulation puns.)
Watched The Specials the other night with a few pals — pretty entertaining film. I wasn’t initially all that into it, but then it got to the Specials toy commercial and suddenly I was watching a whole new movie. (I was really looking for that on YouTube, but the trailer includes some of it.) It’s probably one of the very few flicks I’d actually rate higher — like, on a pseudo-objective scale, not simply because I enjoyed it more (though I did) — for the addition of a single scene. But seriously, that toy commercial effectively illustrates pretty much everything that can go wrong with a licensed toyline, and I’m sure if you wanted to think way too much about it you could connect everything else in the movie to something about it. Like how Mrs. Incredible is having an affair and her figure has humongous boobs, suggesting an inflated sexual drive that cannot be constrained by traditional marriage. Or something.
Also, I now feel a minor compulsion to cosplay as Minute Man. While I appreciate the really ornate affairs and less intensive but still fairly obvious cosplays, I think my favorite kinds are the ones that can pass unnoticed unless one recognizes the character/property. Like, if I did Minute Man and you haven’t seen the film (or the trailer), I’d just be carrying a toy fishing pole and wearing an orange shirt with a patch on the bicep. But if you were in on the joke, then I’d be a Special just for you! ;)
This is still one of my favorite photos EVER. I need to tack it to the wall and look at it whenever I’m feeling sad.
Finally, NEW CONTENT! Click through for the Scary-Crayon review of Marvel’s The Avengers. The new live-action movie, not the Ultimate Avengers cartoon. I just like this screencap. :P
Blood and Chocolate certainly isn’t without flaws, but I thought it was a surprisingly enjoyable flick. I was expecting much, much worse, given the poor critical reception and the fact that I got the DVD for $1 at Dollar Tree.
At any rate, it was much more watchable than er… nowhere near as amazing as the Twilight films. ;)
Reply/Ask/Note with one or more fandoms/shows/comics/games/etc you’re really into and what about them is appealing to you. Be as detailed as possible. This is for SCIENCE! :D
Tumblr doesn’t allow for particularly lengthy comments, hence the reblog!
Doctor Who, because the show’s brilliant premise (it’s about a dude who travels in a craft that can go anywhere in space and time) gives it basically unlimited potential and versatility. It’s also fascinating how the show’s various eras tend to reflect the times in which they were made, though sadly it’s currently in the “derivative scifi action show” phase that I’m not especially enjoying. Still, I keep watching because I’m very invested in the universe, and because the premise means that standout episodes or a complete 180 in terms of the show’s quality is entirely possible.
Also (for the purposes of this post; I could keep going with others), Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles. Terminator I and T2 are films I enjoy very much (I didn’t see I as a kid, but loved T2 — and my old Kenner Arnold fig was one of my favorite childhood playthings), but T3 and Salvation (which admittedly came out while TSCC was already running, but still) were comparatively weak and didn’t do much for me. So I love that TSCC essentially acknowledged where the story went wrong — and that Sarah Connor was one of the most, if not THE most, compelling characters in the franchise — and revisited the story before it started sucking. (I also love how they did it: they had the characters literally time-jump over the events of the third film.) It’s a very good show, too, and ponders many of the tangential questions one might have asked and ideas one might have had while viewing the films or thinking about the premise in general. Among other things, terminators are shown to have (slightly) different personalities and missions beyond simple assassinations; the show suggests that characters can travel back from different future timelines; and even, owing to the terminators’ role as thinking machines with the ability to solve problems and make decisions, the suggestion that some terminators might voluntarily choose to side with humanity, or at least to oppose Skynet. Even terminators who remain committed to Skynet are shown to oppose it at times, if doing so will increase their chances of completing their mission. It’s very interesting.
And it doesn’t hurt that Lena Headey is gorgeous.
