If you visualized the contents of the Internet in the form of a pie chart, the two largest portions would be cat videos and discussions about Star Wars. This video intersects both subjects with cute and hilarious results.
Director Dan Trachtenberg did something I never thought would have been necessary or possible: he made me want a Portal movie. Video game movies suck, and as much as I love Portal, I never considered it Hollywood material. Then I saw Portal: No Escape.
Suddenly I realized that being held hostage by a psycho organization led by GLaDOS that just wants to use you as a guinea pig is kind of creepy, and using their own weapon against them to escape is kind of exciting.
Dan, I kind of really want you to make this into a feature.
Via SlashFilm
Score one for the geeks. I think I speak for everyone when I say this commercial is full of win. Somehow, imagining Tron Guy making a stop-motion Tron movie in his garage doesn’t require very much suspension of disbelief. At least not as much as imagining him having a wife, that is. I kid, Tron Guy, I kid. You’re my hero.
Luckily for us animation nerds, the past weekend wasn’t just about football. The 38th Annual Annie Awards were given out and among the honorees was everyone’s favorite animation director and all-around bad-ass, Brad Bird. Brad received a Windsor McCay award along with Eric Goldberg and Matt Groening. Here’s how the Annie Awards describes the honor:
Named in honor of animator Winsor McCay, best known as a prolific artist and pioneer in the art of comic strips and animation, the Winsor McCay Award stands as one of the highest honors given to an individual in the animation industry in recognition for career contributions to the art of animation.
Brad Bird couldn’t be there to accept the award due to his duties directing the next installment of the Mission Impossible series, and sent in his ‘thank you’ speech in the form of this awesome video. Feel free to skip the clip show and get to the good part around 4:30.
Brad Bird could direct traffic and I’d pay $10 to watch.
What’s the opposite of True Grit, the quality that Mattie Ross was looking for and found in US Marshall Rooster Cogburn? I didn’t know before today, but now I do; it’s Blingatude. In case you’re lost, that’s True Grit star Hailee Steinfeld in her pre-Jeff Bridges days, hawking goods for K-Mart.
I’m pretty sure this commercial wasn’t directed by the Coen Brothers, but we won’t hold that against you, Hailee.
