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Movies as NES Games

franky — Tue, 19 Apr 2011 06:27:03 +0000

The Shining, NES Splash

Since many years already the NES obsession has continued and with the 8Bit hype in the last 2-3 years it’s no surprise that we are starting to see even more awesome 8Bit art, reminiscent of the much loved gaming console in our young days.

VGJunk is one of those nostalgic NES lovers and a great 8Bit artist. His collection of Licensed NES Games That Don’t Exist revolves around popular, and great, movies.

Léon - NES Edition

Night of The Living Dead - NES Edition

Blade Runner for NES

Clockwork Orange for NES

Hellraiser - NES Edition

American Psycho on NES

Visit VGJunk for more 8Bit nostalgia.

You Too Can Now Have Your Own David Lynch

franky — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 13:37:14 +0000

If you’re anything like us and also happen to like movies, of course David Lynch is one of your idols and favourite movie makers. Right?

Right.

We’ll even forgive you if you’re a softie and only can cope with ‘Lynch beginner level’ suspense like in Blue Velvet and Mulholland Drive.

So what if you could have your own, super-sized David Lynch?
It now is possible. Well kinda, that might have been a lie actually but Jamie Salmon went ahead and created his own Lynch. Imagine sitting at the table, with your Lynch replica and enjoying your food in real Eraserhead style. Sign me up for one, please.

More pictures at Jamie Salmon’s The Director page.

I’m Here The Movie

franky — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 13:02:15 +0000

The new Spike Jonze’s ‘I’m here, the movie’ now available online

Pocahontas Is Avatar [SPOILER]

franky — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 03:59:09 +0000

Ever since James Cameron’s Avatar hit the commercial world, it was a simple grab: Avatar is Pocahontas (on LSD). Here’s more proof in the pudding. Spoiler alert! Or something like that (if your watching this on the frankylicious home page, hit twice [J] to move to the next entry!).

Disclosure: I am no fan of Cameron in general or Avatar.

Star Wars The Phantom Menace Review

franky — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 11:34:31 +0000

This is 70 minutes long but contrarily to me you probably have nothing to do on this Saturday, so you might as well do something useful and watch this awesome review in 7 parts.

Enjoy it.

Caprica Full Episode on SyFy [sic]

franky — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 13:52:34 +0000

If you are not a victim of geotardation, ie. if you live in the US of A, you can watch the complete Caprica pilot on SyFy (who’s the moron who came up with that spelling?

Holy frackin’ Tarantino Mixtape!

franky — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 13:32:24 +0000

The problem with looking for cool stuff is that whenever you discover some really cool things and want to go and devote your time at the important things in life, like play Shivering Isles… you discover something else. So right on the heels of the new Alice in Wonderland trailer, we present you this totally awesome Tarantino mixtape.

Yes, we are fans of Quentin here at frankylicious. And of his soundtracks. Now the guys at Eclectic Method went further and created an awesome mixtape of his soundtracks. With just as awesome video.

The most embarassing? The video is 7 months old and we only discovered it now!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEIPCOwY4DE

Tim Burton does war. Alice in Wonderland style.

franky — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 12:37:50 +0000

Alice in Wonderland does war Tim Burton style? That’s right folks, the second trailer for AiW has been released and with every new bit of information we receive this movie is more and more becoming the epic movie highlight of 2010. And we even haven’t seen the movie yet. How’s that?

That’s it. I’m outta here. Playing Oblivion, Shivering Isles.

Best Movies of the Noughties

franky — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 16:55:02 +0000

Awesome list of the 50 best movies of the ’00s by The A.V. Club. There are some weird choices like The Two Towers as the preferred Lord of The Ring movies, or no Up but Wall•e and The Incredibles. Expect more about movies here soon as I am upgrading the complete library to HD.

Actors Saying Movie Titles In Movies

franky — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 21:58:25 +0000

Or ‘Actors speaking the movie title in the movie’. Lots of great movies are mashed up in this video.

Fight Club Actually Is Calvin & Hobbes

franky — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 20:17:23 +0000

This one is old but I had never read it before.

In both cases, the entity that began as the ideal companion soon took on a more realistic, three-dimensional quality. In other words, they became real. This is evident in that both Hobbes and Tyler also began to function as scapegoats for their creators. For instance, consider that Calvin often blames broken lamps and other assorted household mischief on Hobbes, and that Jack is inclined to believe that Fight Club and other various anti-society mischief is brought about by Tyler, not himself. Calvin claims Hobbes pounces on him every day after school; Jack believes Tyler beats him up next to 40 kilotons of nitroglycerin in a parking garage—the list goes on and on. The relationships between the two sets of friends are the exact same. Is this mere coincidence?

Read the complete argument at Metaphilm.

Monty Python – Almost The Truth (The Lawyer’s Cut)

franky — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 14:08:54 +0000

I’m late on this. Once more. How could I have forgotten to post the trailer for Monty Python – Almost The Truth (The Lawyer’s Cut)?.

Anyway, enough talk.

Perfect Sopt-Motion: Flintstones: On The Rock

franky — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 13:42:12 +0000

This is a great example of well done stop-motion. From the feature film Flintstones: On The Rock (2001).

Finally A Use for Google Wave. No, Seriously!

franky — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 12:12:47 +0000

It might have a while but someone has finally found a use for Google Wave and it was an unexpected one to say the least. Is this going to be another Twitter story where the community decides what to do with things and not really the creators?

Google Wave seems the perfect tool to reenact movies, the internet way as can be seen in ‘Pulp Wave Fiction’.

Another great example of the perfect use for Google Wave is ‘Good Wave Hunting’.

Roman Polanski Arrested. And You Thought The Swiss Were Neutral

franky — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 18:58:44 +0000

Academy Award winner and directing legend Roman Polanski has been arrested on Saturday by Swiss police. The Polish-French director planned to attend a film festival featuring a retrospective of his work but instead was arrested upon arrival in Zurich said the Swiss police.

The Paris inhabitant had fled the US after he was convicted in 1978 of unlawful sex with a 13-year-old girl whom he had lured to the home of Jack Nicholson and drugged. An international warrant had been outstanding ever since.

Polanski is most known for his movies ‘Chinatown’ and ‘Rosemary’s Baby’.

Source and photo credit: NYT.

Spoil all the fun with your t-shirt

franky — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 18:36:27 +0000

If you’re one of those who like spoiling everything this T-Shirt might be one for you. The shirt contains a wide range of movie spoilers and honestly, if there still are people who haven’t seen, or understood, these movies they do not deserve better.

Get it from Threadless.

The evolution of typography in film titles

franky — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 13:39:51 +0000

Screencaps of the evolution of typography in film titles.

Twitter-able movie plot lines

franky — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 21:08:39 +0000

Compacted and rewritten, slightly uncomfortablized, movie plot lines. Movie plot lines in Twitter format.

ALIENS: An unplanned pregnancy leads to complications
BATMAN: Wealthy man assaults the mentally ill
BLADE: Obsessed loner stalks minority group
CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY: Deranged pedophile big-business industrialist tortures and mutilates young children
CRANK: Drug addict spends last day in orgy of rape and violence
KILL BILL: Irresponsible mother wants custody of her child
LORD OF THE RINGS: Midget destroys stolen property
SCARFACE: Immigrant finds running his own business stressful, dangerous
SE7EN: Homicide detectives unable to prevent even a single murder by admitted serial killer, killer gives cop head
THE EXORCIST: Jesus trumps science
THE X-MEN: Minority group seeks overthrow of social order
TRANSPORTER: Repressed homosexual kills employer
WALL-E: Obsolete robot disrupts big business, disrupts lives of millions of innocent civilians
WAR OF THE WORLDS: Immigrants face difficulty acclimating

More plot lines at (postmodernbarney).

Avatar

franky — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 19:19:42 +0000

The trailer for Avatar looks ace. Not too sure about the director and the prominent referrer to Titanic on the site though.

Inglorious plummers: Tarantino + Nintendo mashup

franky — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 23:20:40 +0000

We here at frankylicious have been known to be big fans of Tarantino and are looking forward to the premiere of Inglorious Basterds starring Brad Pitt. This trailer Nintendo + Inglorious Basterds mashup keep us happy and makes the wait for the next four days easier.

Alice in Wonderland trailer available

franky — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 21:12:01 +0000

Tim Burton fan here, but you might already have gathered that.
The first Alice in Wonderland trailer is finally available. This one definitely is for the ‘To be seen’ list!

Tron Legacy Trailer [HD]

franky — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 09:47:41 +0000

I never really was a fan of Tron and this is a trailer, which doesn’t mean anything usually about the movie. But it is a great trailer. Not yet able to convince me to put the upcoming Tron sequel on my ‘Must see’ list, but the trailer is good.

Three Frames

franky — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 17:25:18 +0000

Three Frames is a rather new blog trying to represent movies in/with only 3 frames. The representation of Jaws is totally fitting.

Daybreakers trailer. Vampires!

franky — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 10:09:29 +0000

Trailer for Daybreakers, starring Ethan Hawke, Willem Dafoe, Isabel Lucas, Michael Dorman, Vince Colosimo and directed by Michael and Peter Spierig.
Please ignore the Kate Bush in the trailer.

Edward Dalton is a researcher in the year 2019, in which an unknown plague has transformed the world’s population into vampires. As the human population nears extinction, vampires must capture and farm every remaining human, or find a blood substitute before time runs out. However, a covert group of vampires makes a remarkable discovery, one which has the power to save the human race

Star Trek, The Matrix, Harry Potter and Star Wars are all the same movie

franky — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 21:32:45 +0000

It’s all the same movie. Trust me, no matter whether it’s Star Wars, Star Trek, The Matrix or Harry Potter, it’s all the same movie.

Once upon a time, Luke | Kirk | Neo | Harry was living a miserable life. Feeling disconnected from his friends and family, he dreams about how his life could be different. One day, he is greeted by Obi Wan | Captain Pike | Trinity | Hagrid and told that his life is not what it seems, and that due to some circumstances surrounding his birth | birth | birth | infancy he was meant for something greater.

Deciding to leave with him | him | her | him, Luke | Kirk | Neo | Harry is taken to Mos Eisley | Starfleet Academy | the real world | Hogwarts where he meets lots of new, fascinating people. For the first time in a very long time, life is exciting, and Luke | Kirk | Neo | Harry explores the new life that has opened up for him. With his new friends, he starts to work hard to become the sort of man that Obi Wan | Captain Pike | Trinity | Hagrid said he could be. Although Han | Spock | the Oracle | Draco challenges his abilities, things go relatively well until suddenly, Alderaan is destroyed | Vulcan is attacked | Morpheus is captured | Voldemort returns.

Leaping into action, Luke | Kirk | Neo | Harry prepares to fight against the insistence of his teacher. Despite not having finished his training, the lessons have made him cocky and through a combination of skill and luck Luke | Kirk | Neo | Harry is able to beat Vader | Nero | Agent Smith | Quirrell and destroy the Death Star | Nero’s ship | the Sentinels | Voldemort’s body.

Greeted as heroes, Luke | Kirk | Neo | Harry realizes that he has become powerful with the force | a great leader | the One | a great wizard just as Obi Wan | Captain Pike | Trinity | Hagrid said he would be.

Via Spiteful Critic.