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A laugh and a half

Jon Lim — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 17:42:18 +0000

Quite possibly the funniest thing I’ve seen in a long time.

Enjoy!

Futurama: Bender’s Game

Jon Lim — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 01:34:49 +0000

If you know me personally, you know I am a huge fan of many cartoons. One of my favourite cartoons though is definitely the Futurama series. When Futurama went off the air, I mourned at the loss of a fantastic series, and acquired the DVDs for the show when they were released.

Recently, Futurama has been producing feature length movies. The most recent one, and the one I saw last night, was Futurama: Bender’s Game. Here’s select parts of the synopsis from IMDB:

Due to an apparent shortage of dark matter, which is used to power starships, fuel prices have begun to rise, prompting Professor Farnsworth to prohibit flying the ship unless absolutely necessary, as it would otherwise waste fuel. Meanwhile, Bender feels left out when he sees Cubert and Dwight playing Dungeons & Dragons and can’t play because robots are not installed with imaginations. Trying as hard as he can, Bender manages to imagine himself as a medieval knight and joins the game, naming himself “Titanius Anglesmith.”

Fanboy-ism aside, I personally felt that it was the best of three feature length movies released so far. I found myself laughing through the entire movie, and I definitely recommend it to everyone! Futurama is one of those rare, well-written cartoons that marry a wonderful plot and hilarious jokes. I can’t wait for the fourth movie.

Ping Pong Playa

Jon Lim — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 21:42:00 +0000

I have to share one of the best movies I’ve seen in a long time, one that I’m actually considering purchasing on DVD! It’s called Ping Pong Playa starring a bunch of people I had never heard of, but it was a fantastic movie!

Ping Pong Playa – Official Site

If you want to check it out, click here for the YouTube playlist, and click here to order the DVD from Amazon! Click here for the Blu-Ray version!

If you just want to check out what the movie is like, here is the link to the first part (Out of ten!) of the movie.

9

Jon Lim — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 18:22:54 +0000

An oddly vague title, but through Digg, I’ve recently found a movie being made by Tim Burton called ’9′. Here is the link to the trailer.

And here is the short film the movie is based on, hosted on DailyMotion:

9 Nine Shane Acker Short Animation
Uploaded by FrFKmeron

Very cool stuff. Enjoy!

Massify – Collaborative Film Making

Jon Lim — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 18:34:14 +0000

Well, I guess I can file this one under “Ideas I’ve Had” that was successfully executed. Meet Massify – a collaborative website that brings together writers, actors, producers, and directors into one central site for the creation of movies.

As stated in the ReadWriteWeb article, they are set to release their first feature length film – Perkins 14. It actually looks like a decent horror film (Which is hard to say nowadays) and it was fully created by this fantastic online community. Hopefully, this kick-starts a trend of films created with great content, and not just adaptations of popular literature and pop-culture icons with massive special effects budgets.

I am a little jealous that I didn’t create the idea first, but that is how the world works. So to the Massify team – kudos and good luck, I fully support your venture! To everyone else – check out Massify, you might see me on there in the future!