As far as Chris is concerned, the war he’s eventually asked to participate in is a simple one: there are a bunch of violent savages over there, and it’s America’s job to go over there and kill them before they kill us.

Based on what I’ve read, this seems like a fairly accurate portrait of Kyle’s mindset, but the problem is that the film itself seems to share the same mentality. It oversimplifies an incredibly complex war for the sake of permitting American Sniper to double as a propaganda film; the American equivalent of that fictional German sniper biopic featured at the end of Quentin…

Disney is making good money these days and it’s primarily from merchandising. Ahead of the release of upcoming Marvel, Star Wars, and Pixar films, they release memorabilia that can be found at nearly any and all retail outlets known to America. If you have shopped at a Disney store in the mall, then you know that they really need to expand their square footage just to make room for their newer properties.

2011, 2012, and 2013 were great sales years, and 2014 is nearly a done deal. It will be a good year for Disney products, as the sales have grown year over year. Snatching up Marvel…

This has absolutely nothing to do with movies or TV shows, but I absolutely love this and I thougth you guys would too. As you might recall from my previous posts about Nintendo, the Wii, the Wii U and the like, I’m a casual gamer and like to post stuff about it occasionally.

So enjoy. And feel free to click on through and some other work this guy has done. He’s pretty amazing.

While they obviously can’t use the name GLaDOS because of rights issues, and the computer equipment doesn’t look a thing like GLaDOS, by getting Ellen McLain to voice the A.I. and using the same voice processing that Valve used on McLain’s voice for GLaDOS, it’s obvious what’s going on here. And I mean, evil A.I. voiced by Ellen, what more evidence do you need? Also, the sarcasm and personality sure seems to be GLaDOS’s.

It’s also a video obviously for kids, but that doesn’t mean the video isn’t fun (and informative). I love GLaDOS!

Sometimes, something incredibly, hilariously geeky comes “across my desk” and I have no choice, I am compelled to post it. This is one such occasion.

As you may or may not know, the winter olympics are going on right now which involves a lot of high speed gliding across snow and snowing terrain. Thus, this is the perfect opportunity to insert some Imperial Walker action from The Empire Strikes Back. You might recall that they were in some snowy conditions there.

This is pretty hillarious.

Continuing my off the movie topic Nintendo theme:

...contrary to many analysts’ opinions, the biggest problem isn’t that Nintendo lacks a strategy for smartphones and tablets so much as the Wii U has simply lacked the must-have games such as Super Smash Bros. and Mario Kart that would make it a must-buy. However, Ars Technica reports that Nintendo is planning to make an important change that could ensure that its next major console doesn’t face a dearth of good games during its launch period.

Nintendo President Satoru Iwata said recently that his company is working on a unified…

Reuters headline is a bit link-baity (which is why I wrote my own headline), but there’s information here I want to talk about.

Nintendo Co Ltd dug in its heels on a game console strategy that has dragged it into operating losses for three years in a row, ignoring calls to go mobile and promising instead to wow customers with health-related innovations.

Investors were unimpressed, wiping $1.2 billion from the value of Nintendo’s Tokyo-traded shares in little more than 30 minutes on Thursday, as CEO Satoru Iwata made his pitch for a “non-wearable” project in 2015 to help users stay… Read The Rest

Following up on my peice yesterday of non-movie related news:

Earlier this month, Nintendo president Satoru Iwata indicated Nintendo was looking into a new business structure involving “smart devices” after the company experienced its third consecutive annual loss in light of increasing competition from mobile platforms. 

While that statement was interpreted by some as an indication of Nintendo’s plan to develop game titles for iOS and Android, it appears that the company instead intends to use smartphones to market its existing handheld and console hardware and game lineup.

According to…

I’ve gone through all the movie news over the weekend and there’s not a lot going on I care to talk about. And I am singularly uninterested in anything that happened at the GRAMMYs so, though it’s a stretch for me to figure out exactly how this is related to movies, I thought I would mention this thing that I’ve had in my saved items for a few days:

Nintendo president Satoru Iwata stated in a press conference that the company is now considering a “new business structure” that involves smart devices, reports Bloomberg.

The news comes as Nintendo reported a third consecutive annual loss,…