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Watch: Famous 'Matrix' Scene Re-Created with LEGOs
Filed under: Action, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Fandom, Trailers and Clips, Fan Made
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It's the day before a major holiday, and all you want to do is surf around looking for things to occupy your time before the boss finally lets you leave a drop early. Am I right? Well here's a little treat that will take up all of about a minute and a half of your time. Pieced together to celebrate the 10th anniversary of The Matrix, a group of freaks with 440 extra hours on their hands decided to recreate the famous "Trinity Help" sequence using LEGOs. This is the scene where Neo manages to dodge some agent bullets in super slow-mo before Trinity finally shows up to help her man squeeze out of a tough spot.
And yes, I wasn't joking -- it really did take a whopping 440 hours to put this together. The folks behind it even created a website dedicated solely to this project. In it, they describe the making-of process and include a side-by-side video comparison featuring both the real scene and the LEGO version (we included both after the jump). From their description:
Just in time for its 10th year anniversary, "Trinity Help" is a frame-accurate stop-frame animation of the famous bullet-dodge scene from the 1999 movie The Matrix, all done in Lego. By "frame accurate" we mean that we took all of the video frames from that part of the movie (that's nearly 900 frames for just 44 seconds of footage) and reproduced them all in Lego.
Early in the piece we decided we wanted to do everything "in camera". No wire-removal, no special effects, no crazy Photoshop tricks. We pretty much regret this now, but I guess it gives us bragging rights of some sort. We did do some colour correction and image stabilising, and at one point we edited a very small number of frames in one scene so that some minor background shake was taken out, but that's it.
Watch the video(s) after the jump.
'Name That Movie' ... Based on These Drawings
Filed under: Fandom, Quentin Tarantino, Fan Made
Most of us know our favorite movies by heart, and we can quote dialog (although not always accurately), describe a scene down to its last detail, or even recount production history if we are particularly geek-minded about it. When movies are a big part of your life, the attention to detail can become downright obsessive, but as we all know, a movie is really just a sum of its parts. Paul Rogers, an illustrator who works at the California Art Center College has taken those separate parts and devised a clever little game of Name that Movie on his blog, Drawger. Rogers' game takes some of our favorite flicks and breaks them down into six drawings, and covers the gamut of Hollywood classics old and new. So if you are a fan of Pictionary and showing off your movie knowledge, this is definitely the game for you.Now I don't want to brag, but I did manage to guess most of Rogers' selections -- although I am honest enough to admit that I didn't get a perfect score. There were a few that, frankly, I wouldn't even know where to begin. But it did remind me how those iconic images can work their way into your brain, and when all you need to see is an ink drawing of Big Kahuna soda cup and you can almost hear Samuel L. Jackson exclaim "That is a tasty burger."
Fan Made: 'Avatar' Halloween Costume Looks Impressive
Filed under: Fandom, Trailers and Clips, Fan Made
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Usually the Internet has to wait for something to become popular before its denizens start dressing up like it. Alas, further proving that there is little typical about James Cameron's Avatar, it has broken that cycle by inspiring an enthusiastic YouTuber's Halloween costume nearly two months before the movie is set for release.
Attempting to pull off Sam Worthington's character of Jake Sulley, the fan in question explains that it took countless days of planning and roughly five hours of makeup on the final day, which sounds like a lot of a devotion, but if you ask me it was worth it. Baring the necessary facial reconstructive surgery to make it look like he was born with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome and taking some Skele-Grow to bump his height up another two feet to truly complete the look, I'd say this is a damned impressive bit of cosplay; particularly considering he would only have been able to use promo materials as his sources and not the end product.
His tail could use a bit of work, but the modded Nerf gun he has more than makes up for it. Plus the guy has a good sense of humor, as evidenced by a picture of him in front of a toy display at a store.
Watch the video and see the full costume over at SciFi Squad
Reminder: Cinematical's Fifth Annual Halloween Costume Contest is still accepting entries till this Friday, so keep sending them in.
How to Turn Your Jack O'Lantern into the Death Star
Filed under: Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Fandom, Fan Made
Personally, I always went for the grotesque or ironic celebrity pumpkins. One of my best Halloween creations was a glowing, sultry J. Lo pumpkin. (The best part was watching her wither and decay the next week. So evil!) I've always sworn by the patterns over at Zombie Pumpkins, where you can find just about every movie icon you can imagine. Download SUPER easy patterns like Freddy Krueger, the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man, the Joker, Jigsaw's puppet, Gremlins, and even assorted characters from the Harry Potterverse. (An Albus Dumbledore to protect your porch!) And yes, folks - they've even got new patterns from Twilight, Zombieland, and Michael Jackson, circa Thriller. Too soon?
Read on for more -- and the Death Star jack o' lantern -- over at SciFi Squad.
Fan Made: Raunchy, Vampiric 'Twilight' Underoos
Filed under: Romance, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Fandom, Fan Made
It's not exactly surprising that Stephenie Meyers' world of Twilight has gotten copycat merchandise like porn and sex toys. The entire series is about the -- at first -- pent up sexual urges of a human and her vampiric paramour. But this one makes me laugh to no end because it's more suggestive than blatant. The blog Twitarded has thrown up the following ditty -- Twilight underwear where Edward's face is not only on the outside, but on the inside. (Just check the pic over to the right.)The underwear were custom-made with Pattinson's face on the front, his lips on the inside, his signature along the seam, and the hand carrying the apple along the tuckus, which has too many, erm, unsanitary connotations to be a coincidence. The underwear was made with the idea that when it is time for fantasy, RPattz is there. But... Is it going too far to make links between vampires and menstruation? Sorry, but when we're talking about underwear for girls and bloodsuckers, it's really the first thing that comes to mind. I can't help it.
Here comes confession time. I once made something similar for a friend with Colin Farrell as a joke, but it didn't turn out nearly this professional looking. Have you ever made yer own fan-centric underoos? I used to think I was the only one with Christopher Walken underwear (with the face on the outside, I swear), and found out on Sunday that I'm not the only one with homemade Walken briefs. Truth!
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Fan Made: The "I Can Read Movies" Poster Series
Filed under: Fandom, Images, Posters, Fan Made
Does anybody remember movie novelizations? They've made a bit of a comeback in recent history, but whoo boy was I a fan of them back in the '80s. Of course, as an adult that love has turned into nostalgia, and to this day, my Lost Boys novelization holds a prominent location on my bookshelf. But I'm not the only one with a soft spot for those books, because over at Spacesick they have won my heart by creating the "I Read Movies" series. Granted, these books don't exist (and how I wish they did), but you have to love these retro covers they've created for everything from Shaun of The Dead to Ghost Dad.
We do plenty of poster launches around here, but sometimes it seems like we just don't see the same effort being put into our movie one-sheets like we used to. You know you're in trouble when fictional book covers are more impressive than your average studio marketing campaign. But before I start to sound too much like a crotchety grandpa, I'm going to focus on the positive and that's where the fans come in. Take a look around and you'll see some pretty awesome work being done, so we can only hope that some of that creativity rubs off on actual studio releases.
Check out some of our favorites in the gallery below.
Fan Made: Bill Paxton Pinball Machine
Filed under: Action, Fandom, Fan Made
Oh, man. There are usually two groups of items on Fan Made: geeky-embarrassing and geeky-awesome. And my friends, this one-of-a-kind Bill Paxton pinball machine falls squarely into the latter category.
Corona's Coming Attractions steered us towards this pet project of one Benjamin J. Heckendorn, a pinball machine mod that takes its cues from Paxton's whole filmography, with references ranging from True Lies and Titanic to Apollo 13 and Aliens (and I heartily agree with the Corona-made suggestion that Paxton's
On his own blog, Heckendorn explained that he's been cracking away at this since 2005 and hopes to have the machine done in time for the 2010 Midwest Gaming Classic in Milwaukee, WI. Check out his site for more photos and videos; we've included one of the latter after the jump.
(...man, he even made room for a Vertical Limit reference!)
Buy This: Woody Harrelson's 'Zombieland' Hat
Filed under: Comedy, Horror, New Releases, Fandom, Fan Made
Since Zombieland was number one at the box office this weekend, I'm going to assume a lot of Cinematical readers were sitting and soaking up its hilarious brand of gore. So, I thought I might take advantage of your enthusiasm and the month of October, and suggest that Tallahassee would make an awesome Halloween costume that no one else at your party is going to think of. Perhaps you left the theater planning that very costume, or maybe you just wondered what colorful gear you'd be sporting for the zombie apocalypse.
No matter what your holiday or year-round needs are, I can help you for one piece: Tallahassee's badass hat. It was made by Real Deal Brazil, who handmakes every zombie hunting hat out of recycled tarps. Each hat is one of a kind with its own stamping and patches, reasonably priced at $30, and you can further customize it by bending the brim any way you want. They're also indestructible and washable should you actually need to kill zombies in it. I've got one (and if I could photograph myself, I'd happily illustrate this post with it), and they're really very sexy and badass. I don't do hats well, so if it looks good on me, it'll look good on you.
But really, I think some guys out there should really make a Tallahassee costume. Remember, we always have a Halloween costume contest here on Cinematical, and I know we'd love to see a few good zombie killers among the contestants.
No matter what your holiday or year-round needs are, I can help you for one piece: Tallahassee's badass hat. It was made by Real Deal Brazil, who handmakes every zombie hunting hat out of recycled tarps. Each hat is one of a kind with its own stamping and patches, reasonably priced at $30, and you can further customize it by bending the brim any way you want. They're also indestructible and washable should you actually need to kill zombies in it. I've got one (and if I could photograph myself, I'd happily illustrate this post with it), and they're really very sexy and badass. I don't do hats well, so if it looks good on me, it'll look good on you.
But really, I think some guys out there should really make a Tallahassee costume. Remember, we always have a Halloween costume contest here on Cinematical, and I know we'd love to see a few good zombie killers among the contestants.
Fan Made: The Improbable Movie Trading Cards
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I wasn't much of a collector when I was a kid. I could never keep a toy in it's package perched high on a shelf. In fact, usually the packaging would last about as long as it could take me to wrench my new She-Ra, Jem, or Barbie from their cardboard cage. But the one thing I did collect were trading cards, E.T. trading cards to be exact. But that was a long time ago, and those cards have long been misplaced (and I won't even dwell on the fact I had the complete set), so you can imagine the overload of nostalgia I experienced when I saw The Improbably Movie Cards over at Automatic Lifestyle Dispenser. Because, what these fine folks have done is made movie collector cards in that classic 80's style, but the catch is that these cards are for films that no person in their right mind would want to collect, and the results are pretty funny -- if not a little bizarre.
So how bad it could it be? Well, if you thought a Silkwood card might be in 'dubious' taste, wait till you get a look at the Schindler's List "Nazi's on The Move" card. Dispenser also made collector cards for good old Alvy and Annie, Sara Goldfarb, and even Charlie Meadows. But no trading card pack would be complete without the stickers, and luckily they have thought of that too, and we get collectible stickers of Colonel "The Horror" Kurtz, and Anton "Friendo" Chigurh. Unfortunately, these cards only exist online, but I don't think I would be the only one out there who would kill for their very own set of Annie Hall trading cards.
The Marvel/Disney Hybrids We Knew Were Coming
Filed under: Animation, Disney, Fandom, Comic/Superhero/Geek, Fan Made
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Now that there's been some time to digest the news that Disney and Marvel have joined forces, we can begin to have some fun with what could (but ultimately will not) be the future of this new partnership (we hope). The clever folks over at Worth1000 have just finished piecing together a photoshop contest that asked readers to design a Marvel/Disney hybrid in honor of the recent announcement ... and the results were, um, pretty hilarious.
We're talking characters like The Incredible Snow White, Spider Chicken, Buzz Iron Man, Captain Incredible and more. While there's a pretty good chance we'll never ever see these beloved Disney characters Marvel-fied, that doesn't mean we can't play pretend. (Note to Disney: Just because we can laugh at Spider Mickey doesn't necessarily mean we'll ever forgive you if Spider Mickey arrived in movie theaters a few years down the line.)
Check out some of our favorites below and the entire collection over at Worth1000.
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