Daisy Ridley Builds A Millennium Falcon

The fine folks at Elle Magazine, which I guess is still a thing, had the clever idea of interviewing Star Wars: The Last Jedi star Daisy Ridley while she builds a Lego Millennium Falcon. I'm not sure how they'll put that in the magazine but as far as youtube content goes it's pretty cute.

Smart of them to go with the off the shelf Millennium Falcon and not the new UCS Falcon, that would have been less an interview and more of a Hoop Dreams documentary where the film crew has to live with her for the next 4 years.

You see the UCS Millennium Falcon is like 8,000 pieces and takes hours and hours to build. "It's smart. It's a smart line, and a smart crowd will appreciate it. And I'm not going to dumb it down for some bonehead mass audience!"

Super Happy Terrific Star Wars Trailer Hour

Hey look, a shiny new international Star Wars trailer, with extra footage and Japanese subtitles! BB-8 Talks! Kylo Ren uses his lightsaber! Poe flies his X-Wing! Chewbacca Blows Shit Up!

Pizza Rat, Pizza Rat, does whatever a Pizza Rat Does

Look at that rat, he's so cute. He thinks he's people. Wait, he's stealing my Pizza! Someone stop that rat, I got that at Famous Original Ray's!

Inside the Black Box 5: Nintendo Zapper

Have you ever wondered "Why does my Nintendo Zapper gun not work on my fancy new plasma TV!"? Do you have almost a half hour to kill watching someone dismantle a Nintendo Zapper gun? Well then my friend are you in luck.

I know this video is hella long but I thought it was really interesting. Do what I did put it on while you eat your cereal and check your quotes in the morning. Gotta get the quotes, love a good quote.

Japan has a Pokemon World Cup Jersey

That's right Japan has a world cup Jersey with Pikachu on it because of course they do. I love it. I know I haven't talked about it much on here but I'm super super pumped for the World Cup this year. I know the USMNT has as much of a chance getting through their group as I have getting through the opening scene in Star Trek without crying but who cares? It's the World Cup baby! International soccer at it's highest level!

I plan on enjoying at least three quarters of the tournament at home sitting on my couch in my underwear eating a big block of cheese. It's the summer of Kevin!

Gymkhana 6 is real and it's spectacular

Want to watch Ken Block do things with a car you should only be able to do in a video game? Me too.

The Wolverine: The Trailer

Here the trailer for The Wolverine. That's all you're getting. I'm on vacation for the next two days. If you need me I'll be sitting in my underwear watching TV eating a big block of cheese.

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Good riddance: Halo 4 creators threaten permabans for sexist comments. I love this idea in theory, but I'm worried that people will get banned when they don't really deserve it. How are you supposed to keep your friends from yelling something in the mic? Or what happens when some 12 year old reports you for offensive behavior just because you whooped him like a rented mule on Nuketown? ..and then said you were going to sex up his mother. Doesn't seem fair.

Never Ask The Internet For Photoshop Help. If only George Costanza had asked 4 chan to airbrush him out of the picture of Mr Kruger, he might still have his job. Wait, he never did get fired did he? Good for you body suit man.

Every Single Microsoft Device. Ever. Lesson Learned, Microsoft has made an ass load of mice and keyboards.

Today in @#$% People Are Making Up About Episode VII. Yeah this is pretty much going to happen nonstop for the next 3 years. This go round has Harrison Ford open to returning to Star Wars episode VII (even though he begged to get killed off in Empire) and Matthew Vaughn (X-Men: First Class) directing. However, I heard Disney's looking at hiring McG to direct and Peter Facinelli and Tiffani Amber Thiessen (pictured above) to star. The working Title? Star Wars Episode VII: Return to Fastlane.

Looper does whatever a Looper can

I'm back baby, I'm back!

It was tough but I survived 10 days of beach, family and sunshine in Carmel CA. I didn't see any reality TV stars but I did see a guy in a Ferrari 250GT and a dog in a funny sweater.

Here's a trailer for new Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Bruce Willis movie Looper. In in JGL plays a hit man hired to kill himself. I'm a sucker for a good time travel movie and I might have a bit of a man crush on Levitt, so I'm really looking forward to this one.

Not that there's anything wrong with that.

Big big news hit the interwebs yesterday. DC Comics has decided that keeping up with the times means keeping up with Marvel circa 1992 and they’re going to introduce a new gay character. More specifically they’re going to take an existing “major character” and retcon them out of the closet. Ordinarily this kind of revisionist history is the sort of thing that would grind my gears, but DC just rebooted their universe so technically none of these characters has a history that would conflict with an outing like this. The two ironic exceptions being Batman, who has a son and somehow managed to keep his history where he hooked up with most of his female cast of villains and Aquaman, who is actually married in the new 52.

I’m sure this will cause much gnashing of teeth with the conservative crowd. Comics are for kids, moral corruption, gay-Obama-marriage, Spider-Man can’t be Hispanic, etc. etc. The interesting thing here to me is that by making a big deal about this it shows how little DC actually cares about its current gay characters. I’m sure somewhere Batwoman is punching through the top of Ross Perot’s hat.

The Avengers Video Game is real and it's Spectacular

It's hard to take a company to task for not putting out a movie based video game. Anyone who's ever played a video game knows that those games are always sucky cash grabs meant to trick grandparents everywhere into buying little Timmy a game he doesn't really want. Still, this clip is high-larious. I literally LOLed at the "on disc DLC" line.

Prometheus Trailer, Death Blow edition.

I have no idea why studios insist on premiering trailers for highly anticipated movies in theaters a couple days before they put them up on the web? Seriously it's like they want us to pirate their trailers or something.

Anyhoo, here's the trailer for Ridley Scott's Alien prequel/not prequel Prometheus. Remember in Alien when they spelunked down into the cave with all the eggs and there was this giant looking dead alien thing in a chair? This movie is supposed to be about them, not about the actual Aliens. Or course that hasn't stopped rumors that people have been seen on the set in the traditional Alien costume. Either way the movie looks cool.

...and that took roughly 2 hours to get pulled down. here's a better non-death blow version.