Not sure this really needs much commentary. Just watch and enjoy:

Unique Scoop has a collection of rare behind the scenes photos from the Classic Trilogy that are decidedly worth looking at for even passing fans of Star Wars.

They offer a humorous glimpse into the making of the Star Wars saga.  Now that they’re on the Internet, though, and being written abut by guys like me, I can’t imagine they’ll stay rare for very long.

In fact, I imagine that picture of Chewbacca and Princess Leia will become ubiquitous on the Internet for quite some time to come.
Click over to Unique Scoop and look at the whole gallery. You’ll be glad you did.

Well folks, The last page of Bluedick’s Ghost is up, so it would be a really good time to start reading Pirate Club, if you aren’t already. You can also read a lot of back issues of Pirate Club, as well as some other free comics.

Derek Hunter (the creator of Pirate Club) is going to start putting up some short strips starting monday. Be there to check it out!

Summer is here, and if you’re like me you like looking at women’s boobs… even if you’re married or whipped like you should be. Well now, you have to look no further than you local dvd store to see a great variety as the first Friday the 13th hexology is now released on deluxe edition DVD’s by Paramount.

Actually, I’m not so sure if the first one is out, here’s what they sent me; Friday 13th Part 2 and Part “3-D” on Blu-Ray, and then Parts 4-6 on deluxe DVD editions (The Final Chapter, A New Beginning and Jason Lives). There was no X-Man-like part 7, Jason takes Manhattan, the hell one (a.k.a. the “final friday”) or that god awful space one; but receivers can’t be choosers. I was shocked, SHOCKED that no one wanted to play a five day in a row drinking game with me and these babies, but whatevs, their loss.

I gotta say, I haven’t see a 3-D movie in a while and that was probably my favorite one as it comes with stylish custom-made Jason hockey mask glasses. Not only that, but the biggest douche-bag in this movie, Shelly, was on a NBC contest show in 2007 making the actor über douche man. Hahaha, I keed, I keed. The 4th, or the “Final Chapter” probably has the best cast with the likes of silver-screen legends as Corey Feldman and Crispin Glover.

The picture on all of these, as you can probably guess, is great. They even left some scratches and b-movie trademark goodness even though they are all remastered in HD now, but that doesn’t really mean much because of the horrendous way it was shot, but that’s what is good about these flicks and why you watch ’em, am I right? Right?

Tell you the truth… I don’t even like these movies. In fact… I don’t even know why people like them besides the gore and breasts and…. eh, never mind, I remembered why I like these. Now, if you’re like me again, the only way to watch these and enjoy them is with buds (unless they’re being punk-bitches like mine) of all sexes (pending the women you’re hanging with are the ones you want to get sauced up for a make-out session during or afterwards, if not, what are good heterosexual-male friends for, if not that?). Coming out of my long weird parenthesis thing I did, you know the second thing you need is, of course, a plethora of alcoholic beverages.

Here’s some stand-by rules for any Friday the 13th drinking game that many go by (and some that only I, Pencilbot dare go by. Take the Pencilbot challenge): [DISCLAIMER: BIG SHINY ROBOT! AND Pencilbot CAN’T BE BLAMED FOR THINGS YOU DO.]

1 half-can chug per horny guy or chick that can’t get laid (to be fair, this moment usually only happens once per movie, but by all means, be creative!)

1 drink per “Crystal Lake” being shown or said. (sometimes you’ll just have to opt for “Lake” instead to get things going)

1 drink per beer drink or pot smoked (for an added bonus, do a sip for every cough or person who waves pot smoke away)

1 drink per scream heard (“Oh my God!” counts as 3 to 5 drinks depending on the loudness, discuss with friends before doing this one)

1 drink per pair of boobs seen (or each boob seen to get faced faster)

1 long drink per “chi chi chi chi, haw haw haw” heard (Jason’s war cry)

1 chug can or bottle per first death (this to me, gets everything off on the right foot, many people just do ‘a drink’… pfft! wussies!)

1 drink per death of non-main characters

1 long drink per death of main characters (they’ll usually be 20-somethings, just fyi)

1 chug every time Jason “dies”

1 drink per every time Jason isn’t really dead.

Now at this point, you should be able to be declared “legally dead”, but if you really want to go the extra mile, I throw in this one.

1 drink per person calling another person BY THEIR NAME. (this also works with ‘Jason’, this one will sometimes make you cry as you lift your drink impending, but it’s well worth the laughs. Especially when you assign names, but when you assign names, you have to chug a can when your person assigned gets macheted, it’s only fair.)

Enjoy and have a good time!

(Click the link to check out the Friday the 13th movies on Amazon.)

Today sees the release of the new episode of the Geek Show Podcast. They’re great friends of Big Shiny Robot! and they put on a great weekly news show. One of the regular panelists couldn’t make it and so I was asked to step in for 2 episodes starting with this one.

It’s a fun listen and you can hear Swank-mo-tron’s voice on it.

If you’re not a regular listen, hopefully this makes you a regular listen. I highly recommend it. You can find it on iTunes by searching for “Geek Show Podcast” or you can visit their website here.

We talked about TV and movie news on this episode and we all got sauced.  There was a girl on the show, too.  A cute, geek girl, to boot.

The creator of Family Guy, and American dad is back at it again! But really he is. With, “Seth MacFarlane’s Cavalcade of Cartoon Comedy” which was just barely released May 12th.

I’m going to get this out of the way right now, if you don’t like fart jokes this is not for you. I have never been so heavily marauded with fart jokes in all my years It isn’t necessarily a bad thing it just needs to be your type of thing.

Next, If you like family guy, I don’t see any reason why you wouldn’t like this. It is essentially the cut too’s from the show with a wider variety of characters, that are not inhibited by television broadcast standards of vulgarity. To be honest though, I think I am a fan of the censorship. I think it keeps them on their toes looking for ways to push the envelope, but when it isn’t there it turns into jokes that are geared even more to shock value. I was surprised to see how many jokes reverted to people shitting on the screen.

The biggest problem with shock value is it’s so much a matter of taste. Whereas I don’t think fart jokes are all that funny, I find religious lasciviousness to be the bee’s knees, and there was plenty of that going around as well. Which is one thing I will give this cavalcade of comedy credit for, which is that it crossed a lot of different lines, so you are likely to find something that will fit your sense of humor in it. Plus, I don’t think beer would hurt. You should be drinking before you start it though because it isn’t long enough to get drunk during.

It feels kind of like watching a comic strip. All of the jokes are self contained in 50 different segments, and some of them are pretty funny. I particularly liked a segment called, “Things You Never Hear”, and there was another segment that was called “Sex with” that had a few really funny moments in them as well. There were some segments that were recurring throughout the show that I thought were leading somewhere but didn’t have a payoff, but other then that it didn’t feel like a total waste of time. Conceptually I think this piece was sound, I like the idea of compiling 50 one liners into a movie, that doesn’t have any sort of narrative whatsoever.

On a scale of one to ten, it isn’t worth my time to rate it, it was fun and that’s all it needed to be. I personally watched the blu-ray of this movie, but the disc is bare-bones, and it’s just a cartoon so I wouldn’t really demand you spend extra money on the blu-ray, but since the blu-ray is selling for nearly the same price you might as well splurge. If you are a fan of Robot Chicken, Family Guy, and American Dad, I don’t think you will be disappointed with purchasing this. I have a feeling that I have some robot friends that are going to enjoy this ten times more then I did.

I just got back from an experience what can only be called the criterion of not only X-Pictures and superhero movies, but rivals timeless classics the likes of Seventh Seal by Ingmar Bergman, The Godfather, One Flew over the Cukoo’s Nest, Citizen Kane and of course, Casablanca. It’s perplexing to imagine where Gavin Hood can go from this, the pinnacle of his career. America agrees with me; $87 million over the weekend at the box offices downloading and naysaying bitches!!

I don’t understand what everyone has against this movie when it was leaked, it was far superior to X3 and Spider-Man 3, by proxy monumentally better than the other X movies. Don’t listen to the other robo-weenies on this site that didn’t like it either, they just don’t like 20th Century Fox and are trying to push their communist propaganda. The story, down at its core, is a love story; a love that spans time, a love that knows no boundaries, that knows no limits… except for one, SAB-ER-TOOTH!! I know what you’re thinking but seriously, the way it’s executed is flawless. I don’t want to spoil this piece of… work, but let’s just say it has to do with a little ‘sibling rivalry’. I’m going to go into spoilers in a moment, but you have to understand, any spoilers you read about it don’t mean anything because it’s the way in which it’s done that is amazing.

Ryan Reynolds was incredible as Deadpool, not only that but they added whole new dimensions to the character I would have never thought possible. Deadpool is a regular chatty-cathy in the comics that has brought out some of the best comedic lines during fighting ever produced in the literary form, but in this movie they TAKE AWAY HIS ABILITY TO TALK!! WOAH!! Bet you didn’t see that one coming!!!
Whoever wrote this script clearly has no fear in tackling such a character who is so dialogue rich and subverting his main line of appeal. The creators do this by adding a whole lot more; teleportation, Baraka swords coming out of his wrists and, my favorite, the ability to shoot laser beams from his eyes!!! WHAT!?!?! Yeah, dude, that’s how good it gets. Why he is fighting with Wolverine one would think there is no dramatic purpose… or so it may seem, however, if you pay attention, you can tell that the writer and director added layers of subtext where Deadpool and Wolverine were actually secret lovers. Yes, that’s right. Watch it again with that in mind and feel the revelation come over you. It’s true what people are saying, Dosdoyevsky this movie is not, I would liken it more to a Shakespearean drama.

See everybody thinks this is some mindless action movie, just to rape people out of money by using a highly profitable franchise and character without caring about story or characters therein; these people are wrong. They fail to see all these hidden layers; Victor and Logan being molested by their ‘father’ before running away and starting a new life together (when really it wasn’t their father after all), the sisterly love and “bond” between SilverFox and Emma Frost, the Blob can still get his feelings hurt no matter how many layers of fat between the outside world and his inner heart. My only guess is that people don’t like the non-Hollywood ending; because of the surprising twist, lazy viewers get upset when Logan and SilverFox don’t walk off into the sunset just when you think they are. The moment she says “I’m so cold.”, I tried to hold back those flood gates, but I could not.

Pencilbot can’t wait until they make the sequel where Logan is a low-priced geisha, I hear they’re starting to talk about it. It will be hard to top this one, but if the same creative team is on the prowl, they’re sure to do some berserker damage.

“I am so not breathing,” Whedon confirmed. “This is me, all asphyxiating.”

“Life aboard the Death Star appears to have consisted mostly of walking purposefully down endless corridors, and not getting laid. There was very little culture to be found anywhere. However, working on The Death Star meant trading citizenship on your gay-sounding home planet (Tatooine? Seriously?) to live on something called The Death Star.“

Here’s one that I saw awhile back, for those who haven’t seen it make sure you can hear the musical excellence: