In this episode:
- our movie review of Avatar (2009) in IMAX 3D,
- our movie review of It’s Complicated (2009) starring Alec Baldwin,
- the upcoming Mad Max movie Fury Road (2011) not starring Mel Gibson,
- the upcoming movie The Kung Fu Kid (2010) starring Jaden Smith and Jackie Chan,
- Barcade in Brooklyn,
- downloading and converting Flash videos with RealPlayer,
- creating an anaglyph (red and blue) 3D image in Photoshop,
- Steven Seagal’s TV show Lawman,
- the new TV show Conspiracy Theory with Jesse Ventura,
- the Montel Williams HealthMaster blender,
- our review of Shout! Factory’s The Transformers: 25th Anniversary Matrix of Leadership Edition DVD boxed set,
- 1980s Transformers G1 voice actors (Michael Bell, Frank Welker, Jack Angel, etc.),
- azrael723’s gigantic Transformers costumes,
- our review of Ghostbusters (1984) on Blu-ray,
- repurchasing music and movies,
- YouTube videos loading too slowly,
- the Lame Idiot of 2009,
- The Hangover (2009) starring Zach Galifianakis,
- an email from the fake George Harrison,
- and celebrity deaths (Brittany Murphy and George Michael).
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Here’s a shot of the Zuul Gate in Ghostbusters that I mentioned.
Here’s the Beatles Look-a-likes again.
I forgot another nominee for the Lame Idiot of 2009: Bernie Madoff.
That screen shot from Ghostbusters looks like something from a high school play that was made in crafts class, not a big budget feature film run by professionals!
I just thought of something. I don’t remember getting a headache from watching RealD 3D movies, so maybe my Avatar headache had something to do with the IMAX 3D technology and/or the glasses. Even though the 3D effect was similar, maybe IMAX 3D causes more eye strain…plus the fact that Avatar was twice as long as the RealD movies I’ve seen.
I would really like to see Avatar but lately all I can pull off is waiting for movies to come out on home video. I don’t know if Avatar is the type of movie that can be appreciated on a television, though. The 3D glasses technology sounds complicated and I don’t know if that’s going to make renting a 3D version from Netflix possible. I can’t imagine how much the studios would charge for a movie that is not only Blu-Ray but also 3D and on top of that, a special type of 3D. I’m not going to pay to own it based on what I’ve heard so far and on from what I’ve seen of the toys. The ships and robot suits don’t look as cool to me as the stuff from Aliens.
i’d love it there were places like barcade over here – seems such a cool place to go. i went to a modern arcade last week and was there less than five minutes – there was nothing there that had any appeal.