‘Space Stallions’ Pays Tribute to the Sci-Fi Cartoon Hits of the 80′s

Friday, 3rd February 2012
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Tags: 80's cartoons, Bravestarr, mask, Silverhawks, Space Stallions, Thundercats, Wheeled Warriors

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Like a lot of cult phenom, 80′s sci-fi cartoons are revered at heart by the old farts who can still remember them — and their impact is obvious enough in the intro for ‘Space Stallions’ that they deserve mentioning.

Made in the over-the-top, super-colorful way so many of those cartoons were, ‘Stallions’ was cleverly crafted by a bunch of Danish film students at The Animation Workshop.Here’s the video, as well as an acid-trip back through time to the cartoons that inspired them. Continue reading “‘Space Stallions’ Pays Tribute to the Sci-Fi Cartoon Hits of the 80′s” »

Christopher Nolan: Can’t Hear Bane? Get a F*cking Hearing Aid!

Tuesday, 20th December 2011
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Tags: Bane, Christopher Nolan, dark knight, dark knight rises, hear, James Cameron, mask, muffled, prologue, Tom Hardy, trailer, understand, voice

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Okay, that’s an exaggeration. Nolan is too much of a gentlemanly, tea-taking Brit to utter such expletives to loyal fans (we hope).

BUT after the online debut of pirated/studio-endorsed Dark Knight Rises trailers, general response has been pretty f*cking ecstatic, except for the fact that no one can understand what the f*ck that creepy looking masked guy in the prologue/trailer is saying.

That would be Tom Hardy playing Bane, and he kinda sounds like Dudley Moore if he were breathing through a resuscitator. But I understood Moore and I can for the most part understand Bane. About half of it. Sort of. The general consensus seems to be that surely Nolan will fix it with ADR or special post production vocal re-recording… Continue reading “Christopher Nolan: Can’t Hear Bane? Get a F*cking Hearing Aid!” »