The follow up to the hit comedy, Road Trip, Road Trip: Beer Pong, is hitting DVD on Tuesday, August 11! If you want to get a free copy of the unrated version of Road Trip: Beer Pong then you are in luck!

Arse-bot’s alter-ego is giving away three copies of this sequel over at Examiner and it’s easy to enter to win! All you have to do is shoot him a reply on Twitter @tysonhuber and tell him, briefly, the craziest experience to ever happen to you on a Road Trip/Vacation! Three winners will be selected and will receive a copy of Road Trip: Beer Pong: Unrated! Winners will be announced on Monday, August 10 and will have their winning submissions posted on the SLC DVD Examiner page at Examiner.com. You must be 17 or older to enter.

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You’ve read about my interview with head of fan relations at Lucasfilm Steve Sansweet about Star Wars, and there’s a story in the interview that has been overlooked a little bit and that was about Indiana Jones 5 and the Blu-ray of the existing 4 Indiana Jones movies.

Here’s a transcript of the pertinent bits:

Q: As head of [fan relations] at Lucasfilm, you talk about Indiana Jones, although it seems a lot more overshadowed under the fandom of Star Wars, and I’ve got two questions about that, one, the same thing about the high definition of that, and then there’s been talk, obviously, well there’s been talk of the Internet of there being talk of a fifth movie and… And even just a no comment on that.

A: All I know is what I’ve seen on the Internet. I personally would be surprised to see a fifth Indy movie because of all the well known stories about how long it took to get a fourth Indy movie done and everybody in agreement. Who knows.

As far as future DVD releases, Indy is a little different. Star Wars is completely controlled by one man. George. Indy is controlled by George and Steven and to a certain extent Harrison and Paramount. So you have a lot more parties that have to be in agreement when it comes to anything when it comes to Indy. So, that’s something we hear about after some decisions have been made. At least at my level.

Q: So a Blu-ray, maybe, after everybody all sits down and talks about it?

A: I would think that at some point, yeah. But I know absolutely nothing about any Indy plans.

We weren’t really involved very much in the marketing of Indy as far as I’m concerned because there really isn’t a fan community like there is for Star Wars. Indy was never a very toy-etic movie and I really think that got a lot of kids into Star Wars or revived their interest years later and so that whole, the books and the comics, there’s so much more with Star Wars, it’s such a huge galaxy. Whereas Indy is not supernatural, although he goes after the supernatural stuff. He’s a man. And he ages and you know. There’s still more to fill in his story, but it’s not the same depth of fandom interest as it is in Star Wars.

That’s a pretty bleak outlook for the Indiana Jones franchise, both as far as a new movie is concerned and as far as the Blu-ray.

Anything is possible, but it sounds like it will take a lot longer than the Blu-ray of Star Wars to see Indy in hi-definition.

The Geek Show Podcast was kind enough to host the full interview on their iTunes feed, for the full 15 minute interview, click this link.

Miracle man Paul W.S. Anderson had the nerve to show up to this years comic-con, and got literally no applause while walking onto the stage. He was there promoting the upcoming film he’s producing, “Pandorum” which he instantly compared to “Ridley Scotts Alien movie”

After a few hype words from Paul (Kick ass chicks!, Bad ass!, Totally off the chain man!) they showed the trailer, which didn’t look as bad as…let’s say, Death Race…but that’s not really hard to do. His sum up of why he was interested in this film was “As you know I like seeing hot chicks kicking ass” or something equally chauvinistic. In his defense though, he doesn’t seem as pretentious as he seems ignorant. (I believe you can extrapolate a compliment from that sentence.)

Ben Foster, Cung Le, and Antje Traue also showed up. To be honest I didn’t really listen to the panel after Paul W.S. Anderson showed up on stage, I was just there so I could watch the Kick-Ass panel. (Which looks amazing!)

Keeping in mind that Paul W.S. Anderson has his name on this film, I think we can all safely not be excited for this project.

Variety has reported that Ridley Scott is returning to the Alien franchise he helped kick off by signing on to direct the prequel to the first film. The project is still in development and what the hell it’s going to be about is beyond anyone at this point; one thing is almost for sure it will explain how the derelict space craft crashed on LV-426. One can hope that they don’t treat the most recent entries into the series (Alien Versus Predator and AVP: Requiem, which act as prequels as well) as cannon. That’s the plus to having Scott signed on, fans can expect him to carry on the series like those terrible movies don’t exist.

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Immediately after the Zombieland panel, Roland Emmerich jumped up on stage presenting his new movie 2012. (I’m not certain he was supposed to be there.) And strangely, even though Woody Harrelson was in both movies, he left the stage. 2012 stars John Cusack, Danny Glover, Woody Harrelson, and Thandie Newton.

It looks God Awful.

The scene they showed was of John Cusack, a limo Driver, calling his family and essentially yelling “You’ve got to get out of the house! The worlds falling apart” (And I just started to like John Cusack.) He then drives his limo to his house and screeches to a stop. (He’s there because they couldn’t leave without him, presumably?)

So he rallies his family out the door and into the limo, the world is actually falling apart around them, but they are outrunning it. He drives past an exploding gas station, and weaves around rows of cars that just can’t seem to get their acts together, and then it starts to get ridiculous.

A skyscraper is falling down right in front of the limo, the world is falling around on both sides. What can John Cusack (the best limo driver in town) do? Drive right through the window of the falling building with a makeshift ramp! Of course as the expression goes, out of the frying pan and into the fire.

He manages to get his family onto one of the last airplanes seemingly on the planet. It seems safe for a moment, but then the world is still falling down around them, and they are barely able to take off. But thank god they are able to by the skin of their teeth. Then a skyscraper is falling down, and they have to dodge the falling building in the airplane! End of clip.

The plot line for this movie is, “An epic adventure about a global cataclysm that brings an end to the world and tells of the heroic struggle of the survivors.” I’m going to go out on a limb here and say if your movie has the courage to “End the World” it should have the decency to refrain from “Heroic Survivors”.

This just might end up the worst movie of the decade. But to my surprise, while I was laughing through the clip, others were wowed. People went to the Q&A mic and made comments like, “You’re the ultimate master of disaster films!”, “How do you make them so good?” drooling, with their mouths wide open looking like degenerates.

A film critic from Entertainment Weekly hosted the panel and he said (completely dead pan), “Wow, how do you keep making these movies better and better, first Independence Day, then the Day After Tomorrow, and now this? Which makes your other films look like Woody Allen films.” He actually got booed for insulting Woody Allen, but the point is, some people actually like these movies.

I was just surprised what an idiot the director was.  H e said that before they started work on this movie, they were working on a “Flood” movie, (That’s right all of his movies can be summed up in a single word.) but this 2012 thing just dropped in their laps. Which is such a gimmicky, stupid idea. The director is actually not an ass-hole, he just lacks I.Q.

Roland Emmerich at Comic-Con

This movie is going to be bad. This is going to be the same movie Emmerich has tried to push on us over and over again. The difference is the effects keep getting better. If I’m being completely honest the effects in the scene they showed were amazing. But that was the only thing amazing about it. Now here I am on my robot knees begging all of you, don’t go see this movie!

Maybe he won’t make another one.

While waiting for the Iron-Man 2 panel I was able to sit in on a few other panels before it started. Some of them intrigued me (Zombieland and Extract) and some made me laugh out loud. (Legion)

The Legion crew

First I’ll talk about Legion which looks like a disaster movie with angels. It stars Dennis Quaid (who wasn’t there), Paul Bettany, Tyrese Gibson, and Doug Jones. The director of the film, Scott Stewart, came out on stage and showed a first look at the trailer. It kind of looks like a blend between Terminator and Twister, which I can’t say is really good or bad. The movie looks really cheesy. Cheesy, and bad, but maybe so bad that it might be good. Although I’m leaning towards bad because the director seemed like a simpleton and Tyrese Gibson is in it.

When the director was asked what he was going to do next he said, “Vampires.” And apparently the director already has another movie coming out in 2010 called “Priest” based on the comic book released by Tokyopop. The one sentence plot from IMDB is “A priest disobeys church law to track down the vampires who kidnapped his niece.” So that might be good?

Next up is Extract, which is the new Mike Judge film. (Office Space, Idiocracy) It stars, Jason Bateman, Mila Kunis, J.K. Simmons, and Ben Affleck. The trailer looks pretty okay. Mike Judge said it was made in the same vein as Office Space, and I can tell he’s not lying. It feels like it has the same air about it, but it just doesn’t look as funny. They showed a few scenes from it, I’m not that big of a Jason Bateman fan since Hancock, but it does look funny. I’m certain I’ll make it to the theatre to watch this if it gets a wider release than Idiocracy.

Jason Bateman announced that he and the rest of the cast of Arrested Development would love to do an Arrested Development movie, it’s just a matter of getting a script out. Mike Judge made a similar comment about the possibility of a second Beavis and Butthead movie. Which literally got tens of fans out of their seats clapping.

Ruben Fleischer showed up to show the trailer and a few clips of his new film Zombieland. I went into this panel completely ignorant of the creation of this project whatsoever. Not having heard another thing, the footage actually got me interested to watch it. It stars Woody Harrelson, Jesse Eisenberg, and Emma Stone.

It’s based in a world taken over by zombies and the main characters seem to be just about the last humans on the planet and it looks really funny. But it only looks funny because of excessive gore, the scenes they showed weren’t as funny as the violence in them, although the scenes themselves didn’t seem completely without merit. Jesse Eisenberg’s voice over narration was really annoying. Other than that it kind of reminds me of an old Sam Raimi film.

The director seemed pretty fair about the movie, declaring, “Shawn of the Dead set the bar for this type of film really high, I just hope you like this movie too.” I can’t make up my mind one way or the other, this movie might really suck, or it might be pretty okay. I won’t know until I watch it when it comes out October 9th.

During Marvel’s Animation Panel on Friday at the San Diego Comic Con the trailer for Plant Hulk debuted. Based on a few of Greg Pak’s issues of “Incredible Hulk.” The story follows the intergalactic exile of Hulk by Iron Man and the rest of the Illuminati as he crash lands on the war planet, Sakaar, and is forced to participate in gladiator-esque combat. You can check out the trailer below!

I came across some Disney Animated short DVD’s recently and I thought I would share my thoughts about them.

The first one I watched was volume 5 of the collection, the headliner was “Wind and the Willows”

As a kid, I always had a particular fondness of The Wind in the Willows, but watching it as an adult I had a completely different opinion about it. It was as funny as I remember it being, but the story is so loosely assembled it was a little distracting. I really like the Horse and Mister Toad, they are certainly hilarious. Overall I still really like it, but there is something about watching it as a kid that was slightly more magical about it.

The other shorts on this DVD were various Silly Symphony’s, all telling moral stories. I remember them all from my childhood, and I enjoyed them even more watching them again. The other shorts on the disc were “The Ugly Duckling” “The Grasshopper and the Ants” “The Robber Kitten” “The Wise Little Hen”, and “The Golden Touch” They are all about 7 minutes long, which I think is great. I watched this DVD with a 3 year old, and it really fit his attention span wonderfully. I think my favorite short on this disc other than The Wind and The Willows was, “The Golden Touch”, telling the story of King Midas, mostly because it was hilarious to me how many times they killed a cat by turning it to gold.

I watched the 4th volume next, with the headliner on this one being, The Tortoise and the Hare.

The Tortoise and the Hare was really short in itself, but I liked this DVD plenty. It contains two Tortoise and the Hare shorts, one with the traditional story of the foot race, and the other with a boxing match. Both are really funny, and worth watching with your kids. It pains me to see how you can’t find cartoons like this anymore.

The other shorts on the DVD were, “Babes in the Woods”, “The Saga of Windwagon Smith”, “The Goddess of Spring” and “Paul Bunyan” My favorite of which was Paul Bunyan, telling the story of the triumph of machine over man. Being a Robot this always seems to hit the soft spot in my main compartment. This disc also contains my least favorite/ultimate favorite, which is “The Goddess of Spring” In which the bass singing Hades kidnaps Spring, and takes her to hell. It makes me laugh every time to see how cheesy it is.

The last collection I watched was volume 3, with the headliner being The Prince and the Pauper.

I remember liking The Prince and the Pauper a lot as a kid, but watching it again I didn’t enjoy it at all. It seems to me it was made just for kids, to be honest I haven’t really liked Mickey Mouse since he started talking an excessive amount.

The other shorts on the DVD were “The Pied Piper”, “Old King Cole”, “A Knight for a Day”, “Ye Olden Days” Other than “Old King Cole”, and The Prince and the Pauper, the shorts on this DVD were solid. “The Pied Piper” is really cool but I think it is tied for second place on this DVD with “A Knight for a Day”, which is a Goofy short. I am a big fan of the Goofy shorts, and this was a good one, where a squire takes over for a passed out knight in a jousting tournament with a corny announcer, competing for the affections of a Goofy princess.

My favorite on the DVD was “Ye Olden Days” though, which was a black and white short where Mickey saves Minnie from being betrothed to Dippy dog. Those old shorts where most of the gags are visual just hit the spot.

Overall, all of these DVD’s are worth watching with your kids but my favorite was The Wind and the Willows disk. Watching them makes me miss my robot adolescence when they would play shorts like these, Looney Tunes, and Tom and Jerry all the time. Something is missing from today’s cartoons that these all captured that I think are really worth sharing with your kids.