The AV Club's offshoot, The Gameological Society, brings us this:
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In a strange case of art imitating art that imitates life, the Call Of Duty: Black Ops multiplayer map “Nuketown” was inspired by Indiana Jones And The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull, which itself was based on a real historic event. Black Ops’ game designer/director David Vonderhaar is on the record saying the popular map is based on a throwaway scene from the 2008 sequel in which Indy wanders onto the grounds of a nuclear test site town and discovers that he must find a way to escape an impending blast. The sequence descends further into the realm of implausibility as the aging adventurer manages to hide in a refrigerator seconds before the explosion. He’s tossed hundreds of yards away to safety while everything around him evaporates.
I once assumed that the nuclear test town–the central conceit behind that scene and Nuketown—was a fake, an idea cooked up by some hacky screenwriter overreaching for a visual metaphor that represented America’s free-floating Cold War hysteria and the illusory nature of the conformist 1950s. But it’s true, the U.S. military really did create a faux village called Survival Town and nuked its quaint suburban houses and mannequin residents to holy hell.
WASHINGTON — Stephen Colbert mocked big banks in his Comedy Central show on Feb. 14, raising concerns about why institutions are still "too big to fail," and suggesting that viewing Wells Fargo's balance sheet could melt a person's face.
As he often does, Colbert pretended to like big banks, saying that liberals should let go of their anger stemming from the financial crisis.
"At this point, who can even remember who wired the global financial system to a roulette wheel jacked up on enough cocaine to bring down a bison?" Colbert asked.
He then suggested the government shouldn't prosecute financial institutions for their role in the crisis, saying that he believed "an investigation will just make things worse."
"I don't think the banks are in any financial position to reveal what kind of financial position they're in," Colbert said. "Take Wells Fargo. Their recent annual report said the bank's value is partly based on 'significant assumptions not observable in the market.'
"That means the value of the largest capitalized bank in the United States defies observation. The human mind cannot perceive it; we dare not look upon it. Remember what happened to the accountants who opened Lehman Brothers' books."
The latter comment was followed up with a video of the ending of "Raiders of the Lost Ark" in which a Nazi's face melts after opening the Ark of the Covenant.
This was awesome. Did you also hear the Raiders March when they came back from a commercial on the Oscars?
Let me tell you, E.T. was really moving...I wondered if it was "canned."
Jaws as the "time-up" music was pretty funny.
I caught Luke and Leia but started to use my DVR to jump between the three hour SNL retrospective to kill the commercials and (selected musical numbers) I ended up missing it completely.
I still haven't deleted it and caught it last night...so thanks for asking!
I was a bit disappointed though, is it so difficulty to hammer out The Raiders March?
Lawrence of Arabia sounded perfect...I don't remember any of the other musical numbers which were "interpreted".
Oh, the comercial leading into The Raiders March was a time check sponsored by TD Bank...FYI: it was at 10:38.
Here's one that many people may not remember: in season one of Captain N The Game Master (an 80's cartoon featuring a conglomeration of Nintendo properties), episode 3 or 4 has a vignette featuring Donkey Kong as "Donkey Kong Jones" (or something close to that) complete with the Indy font, and Donkey Kong basically re-enacting the entire opening of Raiders and the Boulder Chase scene while in safari-somewhat Indy gear.
‘Walking Dead’ Star Steven Yeun on Resisting Asian Stereotypes
By Daniel Lehman | Posted Oct. 13, 2012, 2:01 p.m.
Within months of moving from Chicago to L.A. to pursue his acting dreams, Steven Yeun was running from brain-eating zombies on the AMC series “The Walking Dead.” But the newbie was understandably nervous when he started preparing for his first major television role.
“When I moved to L.A. and I booked ‘Walking Dead,’ all I could think about was how not to screw it up,” he says. So during the initial wardrobe fitting prior to shooting the show’s first season, Yeun kept it to himself when his outfit reminded him of a certain Asian sidekick from another iconic action franchise.
“They put me in these clothes that made me look like Short Round [from ‘Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom’],” he says, “and I didn’t say anything because I was just like, ‘Oh, don’t make a fuss, even though this is absurd and you look like Short Round.’ Nobody noticed until it aired, and then they all said, ‘Wait a minute, you look like Short Round.’ And I was like, ‘I know!’ But I was too afraid to say anything because I didn’t want to mess it up.” (His costumes have been tweaked since then.)
But years earlier, Yeun had turned down a theater gig because he thought he would be contributing to similar negative stereotypes if he took the role.
“For my first audition ever, in Chicago, the producers of this little show asked me to do an ’80s monologue,” he recalls, “so I came in with Ferris Bueller’s opening monologue. They said, ‘That was good, but can you do an Asian accent?’ ” That’s when Yeun realized they just wanted to see his version of stereotypical “Sixteen Candles” scene stealer Long Duk Dong. “After that, they wanted to book me and I just refused,” Yeun says.
Not that he advises others to turn down jobs. Yeun says he understands why actors often end up in projects they’re not proud of.
“All the power to anybody that takes work, because getting work in this business is hard as hell,” he says. “So you get work and you take it. There’s nothing wrong with that. But for me, I just couldn’t do it. I knew I couldn’t do a good job because I just didn’t believe in it.”
Like his onscreen alter ego, Yeun was born in Korea and moved to Michigan with his family at an early age. Yeun says he feels especially fortunate today to be playing a well-rounded character like Glenn—thankful not just for a prominent role in a hit show but also for the opportunity to portray an Asian-American character who is not defined by his race, ancestry, or accent.
I've been going back and forth of which thread to drop this in, and finally opted for this one.
I've been re-watching Digging for the Truth with Josh Bernstein lately. Despite his assertion to the contrary, he was clearly outfitted to recall Indiana Jones. Sure, it isn't exactly a fedora he wears, but it's pretty darn close.
This image certainly doesn't help his case either.
Location: In a canyon, opening up an Ark of whoopa## on some goosestepping morons
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While Mutt eyes up a potential new girlfriend.
Ha! Too funny, Montana! But, Hope he keeps his filthy paws off the pretty Miss Perry.
Used to not mind Shia, and even stood up for him on several occasions. But recently read some British movie mag, talking about a movie directed by either Von Tiers, or Van Sant, that is very explicit in nature, and Shia reportedly taped both He, and his girlfriend having sex, and sent it to the director as an audition tape. And the audition didn't even call for it .
Even if his current girlfriend were cool with it, it still shows a complete lack of character, class, and is a rather desperate move. It also probably shows an attention starved 2nd rate actor's bum! Don't wanna know.
Too bad. Ah well, he's human. Maybe he'll get some class again.... someday.
Too bad. Ah well, he's human. Maybe he'll get some class again.... someday.
Sadly, young actors and actresses are HEAVILY pushed into doing this sort of bull****. If they're lucky, there's someone important in their life that's keeping them from pulling the 'Full Lindsey', but, sadly, more than likely everyone in their life is pushing the 'limits' in order to score quick cash. Shia is in a world where, basically, you're a whore (and this will quickly become nothing) or you're nothing in the first place.
Shia had potential, but he's already gone the garbage route. Hard to imagine him getting ahead of the game again unless he lucks into a huge role... but nobody's seeking him out anymore.
The Flintstones!
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It also probably shows an attention starved 2nd rate actor's bum!
