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Hey Look a List (underrated Christmas Specials)
Happy Holidays to all you NERDlings out there. Tis the season of giving and I want to give all of you some great specials to watch to put you all in the mood during the month of Christmas. So here are my top 5 underrated christmas specials.
5. Will Vinten’s Claymation Christmas Celebration
A fun little special with dinosaurs and the California Raisins enjoying the holidays. This video is one of the shorts in the special.
4.Twas the Night Before Christmas
In this great cartoon classic Santa gets a letter from someone in this town that says the people of the town don’t belive in him. So Santa being the nice guy that he is decides to pass over the town that year. So it’s up to a poor clock maker to build a clock tower that will play a song to win the love of Santa as he flies by on Christmas eve.
3. The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus
What happens when you mix a stop motion special about the story of Santa Claus with a Dungeons & Dragons campaign? You get this wonderful story of how Santa started off as a normal orphaned boy left in a forest to become a great man bestowed with immortality to continue his mission to make the children of the world happy.
2. The Town Santa Forgot
This special is about a young greedy boy who asks for a list of toys 3 miles long. Santa mistakes his name for the name of a poor town he always flew past by accident every year. The whole thing rhymes like a poem through the show but its hard to notice at times since it doesn’t beat you over the head with it.
1. A Muppet Family Christmas
How can anything muppet related be underrated you ask? When its impossible to find it on DVD or even see it on T.V. anymore. Even if you can see it 4 of the musical numbers have been cut out due to music rights changing hands over the years and them not having access to them any more.
Have a very NERDy Holidays
Chris
Try before you die (movie eddition)
Hey NERDlings. Is anyone awake after all that food? I wanted to suggest some movies for everyone to watch while your body does battle against the 15 pound invader in your stomach. So without further ado. On with the show!
First up is an indie movie that came out a few years ago called “Brick”. It’s a film Noir set in a high school. Joseph Gordon-Levitt from 3rd Rock from the Sun plays a lone wolf character investigating what happened to his ex-girlfriend. It has all the old Noir niches; weird lingo, a dame that you want to trust and not trust all at the same time, and many well done plot twists.
Next is one of my favorite westerns, “The Quick and the Dead”. This movie has an A-list cast with Sam Raimi (one of my must see directors) at the helm. Sharon Stone is seeking revenge against Gene Hackman and the only way she can is through a quick draw tournament. Russel Crow is also in this movie as a renounced killer now priest dragged back into the tournament by Hackman to see who is better.
Now on the cult classic side is “Six String Samurai”. After the nuclear fall out of WW3 we find Buddy, a lone swordsman, is off to Lost Vegas to become the new king after Elvis died. Along the way he has to fight against an assortment of crazy characters to reach the end. A great movie with a great soundtrack.
Lastly is a great movie I saw several years ago and have been trying to track down ever since. It is the 1972 classic “Sleuth”. Michael Cain plays the new man of Sir Laurence Olivier’s now estranged wife. He is there to pick up the last of her things and Olivier proposes that Cain steal the jewelry in order for the wife to be able to continue living a comfortable life. What continues after that is one of the best cat and mouse stories I have ever seen. The movie only has two people throughout the entire movie and there is never a dull moment. Now I know there was a remake with Cain playing Olivier’s part and Jude Law playing Cain’s but DO NOT SEE IT. I have heard nothing but bad things from it and what I saw was not good. Try and see if you can find it somewhere like hulu or youtube.
Well thats it for today everyone,
Live NERDy and prosper
Chris
This post is rated N for NERDy
So I am taking a break this week from video games to discuss some movies coming out soon that I am looking forward to.
First up is the movie “Kick Ass”, yes that is the title. It’s about a comic fanboy who wants to live out his fantasies of fighting crime and makes a mask and costume to take up vigilantism. The only downside is he doesn’t have any powers. I know it didn’t stop Batman from being awesome but I think he is more of an exception to the rule.
Next is the highly anticipated(to fans at least) Avatar movie. No not James Cameron’s Big Budget Blue Bomb, the awesome Nickelodeon show Avatar: The Last Air Bender. Its being directed by M. Night “what a twist” Shyamalan and looks to be really good so far.
Finally is the awesome looking Iron Man 2. This one concerns Tony Stark dealing with his increase in fame and pressures from the government that lead him down the dark path of alcoholism and run ins with the law. All the more why I found the casting of Robert Downey Jr. as Tony Stark is so fitting. Don Cheadle replaces the previous guy whose name escapes me as Stark’s Military friend who becomes War Machine.
Its a photoshop but still looks cool and gives off what you need to know.
Scarlett Johansson plays new love interest/evil gun for hire Black widow.
Here is the comi-con leak
This is the leak that was pulled from every where a few weeks ago. I think it looks like its going to be good and look forward to it coming to theaters next May.
Next week I plan on making an argument about censorship in the wake of the Modern Warfare 2 debacle.
My girlfriend tunred into the moon,
Chris
The Berlin Wall, Sesame Street, & NERD (Oh, my)!
What do the Berlin Wall and Sesame Street have in common? They are both celebrating anniversaries this month!
Twenty years ago today, the Berlin Wall came down. Twenty years from today, NERD will still be going strong, helping us pass tests, pull all-nighters, and defeat those elite and boss monsters in WoW.
Speaking of monsters, in case you missed it, Cookie Monster was on Google.com on Thursday (The Count is there today!). This month marks the 40th anniversary of Sesame Street.
You know what’s good for washing down cookies? NERD. I like to go with the 0 cal so that I feel better about eating the cookies!
-Jess
Trust the Fungus
The new Prince of Persia Trailer hit the net this week and looks really good.
I know it looks like The Mummy and Pirates of the Caribbean had a baby, but I have high hopes for this movie because it’s based on a video game of the same name. I know video game movies before have been bad, very bad.
OF COURSE!
But it all depends on the director and the budget. I Thought Silent hill was a good movie and Resident Evil wasn’t that bad. I just feel there are a lot of games out there that still need a movie, a game like Castlevania. Watch the trailer for the new game coming out next year and tell me that wouldn’t make a great movie.
I think this would be a great movie just based on the mythos alone. I know Vampire movies are this year’s disaster movie, but I feel like a Castlvania movie (if done right) would be like a Dark Knight version of Van Hellsing.
The one, The NERDy
Chris
A reboot of REBOOT.
Now if you understood what I said in that title you will already be excited. For everyone one else let me explain. A reboot is when they take a well-known series of either movies or T.V. shows and start it over from the beginning with a new cast and a reworking of the original story. A few good examples of this is the new Nightmare on Elm Street movie or the V miniseries coming to T.V. soon.
Reboot is a completely CG-I T.V. series from the late 90′s to early 2000′s. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReBoot
Rainmaker studios (formely Mainframe entertainment) will be making a movie trilogy set to take place after season four. The first movie is slated to come out sometime in 2010.
So for those eagerly awaiting fans, here it is.
Thats it, just a quick ten second clip of how the new movie will look. I’m excited and await any other news to come out. Don’t worry everyone, I plan on doing my usual weekly post. This time with a halloween theme.
To Mend and Defend…and drink NERD
Chris.
My top TV shows for Fall 2009.
Yea that’s right, I am stepping out of my shell here. Doing a little TV gossip if you will. You won’t find shows like Grey’s Anatomy or anything on Lifetime here, however, shows that I like to watch. Manly shows. Shows that will put a little hair on your chest (even though that doesn’t seem to be working for me). Well, all but one, but hey, I am an equal opportunist – an equality man some would say. I like both dogs and cats. I don’t hate.
Let’s get started (oh and look, I am providing you with the first full episode with each one, how nice of me.)
1. Glee
Well, this one is not going to put hair on chest but it is a pretty funny show, and some of the songs and plays they do are awesome. Don’t judge me. Wednesdays at 9:00pm on FOX.
2. Family Guy
By far one of the best cartoon comedies on TV and after this seasons first episode – I expect GREAT things from this season. Seth MacFarlane is the man. Sundays at 9:00pm on FOX.
3. Bored to Death
I was skeptical when I first saw a preview for this show, but then I watched it. The trailer I watched is the one posted above…this show is brilliant. Check it out on HBO at 9:30pm EST on Sundays.
4. CSI Miami
Yea we all know, Horatio on CSI Miami has the best one-liners. But this season of Miami, he’s flashing back 12 years to tell the story of how the Team met. Puts a whole new twist on this season. Check it out on CBS at 10pm EST, Monday nights.
5. Modern Family
This smart, wry ABC mockumentary about three “normal” families is going to be AWESOME. Here is a quote from the show by Ty Burrell’s wannabe hip dad: “I surf the web, I text … ‘LOL’ — laugh out loud, ‘OMG” — oh my god, ‘WTF’ — why the face. I know all the dances to ‘High School Musical.’” Going to be awesome. Wednesdays at 9:00pm EST on ABC.
Do enjoy. – Lil Weezy F Baby aka Wade, whatever the heck that means.
