Boob Toob Supplemental: Toob Raider edition

We got a new cat and named her Indy. Because she likes to explore. We did it as a joke after talking to fellow Boob Toober/Blooger/cat owner Rebecca but the cat seemed to respond to it so we just went with it. But enough of my life story, here's some videos and junk!


Raiding the Lost Ark

Really cool 'filmumentary' by Jamie Benning. This actually came out 2 years ago but just got around to seeing it recently. It's Raiders of the Lost Ark but spliced with supplementary material (in the form of audio, video, transcripts, pictures and even comics) related to the making of the movie. Really fun to watch especially if you like Raiders and/or Indiana Jones in general.

Raiding The Lost Ark: A Filmumentary By Jamie Benning from Jamie Benning on Vimeo.

Staging Raiders

In case the above video wasn't enough for ya, here's Raiders in black and white and with a different score to help emphasise Steven Spielberg's staging techniques. The guy behind all this is director Steven Soderbergh and I guess he thinks very highly about Raiders from a visual staging standpoint.

No embeds but please go to this link for his write up as well as the video. Careful with that thang, Indy!

Korra Book 4 trailer

I can't believe this series is almost over. Just 4 books/52 episodes in total. I thought book (or season) 4 wasn't until next year but it'll be out this month. Maybe Nickelodeon wants it out of the way. Such a good series, one of my all-time fave animated shows. I'm gonna be sad when it's over and I hope they do another show set in the same universe.

Moonlight | Sony A7s ISO test

I'm into photography and I watch a lot of these kinds of tests but I normally don't post them here. This is pretty nice though. Shot using a Sony A7s and lit entirely by moonlight. Good job by Sony creating a sensor that performs really well at the higher ISOs and if I was more of a video guy, I wouldn't hesitate picking one up. (I have the A7 and it does really well with photos.)

Moonlight | Sony A7s ISO test from Carbon Studios on Vimeo.

Japanese GotG trailer

Yeah, I'm not done with the Guardians of the Galaxy love. Check out the Japan trailer. A lot more entertaining than the one we got.

I had a couple more GotG related stuff to post (one was the team's appearance in the Avengers Pokemon-like anime and the other was Chris Pratt's GotG/Marvel parody by SNL) but they seem to have been taken down from Youtube. Oh well. Watashi wa Groot!


Optical illusion

For those of you who like headaches...

I'll see you guys later! (Assuming you're still alive after watching that video.)

[Updated] The Bet To End All Bets! (probably not though)

By Dan Pua

Some months ago, I don't even remember when, Bobgar and I made a bet over which movie was going to make more money: the movie with the talking apes or the movie with the talking raccoon and tree? Or rather...

Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
vs
Guardians of the Galaxy

Bobgar went with Apes and the Marvel Zombie that I am, I went with GotG. Be sure to listen to our upcoming Boob Toob episode where we discuss these movies with our good friend and fellow Earth 2 Network bro Lawrence Rosales. Thanks by the way to Box Office Mojo since I'll be referring to them for all the figures.

As of Friday, 8 August 2014, 11am Australian Eastern Standard time (some time Thursday evening/night for US peeps) GotG has made $126,759,442 and there's still one day to go in its first week. Apes made $102,952,844 in its first week. GotG also made more monies during the first weekend by ooga chaka-ing itself to $94.3m vs the $72.6m that Apes in its opening weekend. So talking raccoon and tree wins the first weekend and the first week.

But there was another component to the bet. Bobgar predicted that GotG will open big and have a huge drop in its second week. Fair enough, GotG is a bit of an unknown quantity and who wants to watch a superhero sci-fi movie, right? Even I couldn't be sure that this wasn't going to happen.

Apes made $52.7m in its second week, a 48.8% drop from the first week. Not bad. Assuming GotG passes the $130m mark, it will have to drop by about 60% in its second week to match the $52.7m second week haul of Apes. Or 80% (i.e. make about $25m) if it is to match the week 1 and 2 total of Apes ($155.7m).

Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
Production budget - $170,000,000
Opening weekend - $72,611,427
Week 1 - $102,952,844
Week 2 - $52,735,785

Guardians of the Galaxy
Production budget - $170,000,000
Opening weekend - $94,320,883
Week 1 - Over $126,759,442 (one day left in the week)
Week 2 - ?

If I remember, I'll update this write up next week with 2nd week figures. In the meantime, check out Bobgar's Koba!

UPDATE: August 18, 2014

GotG has beaten Apes' total domestic haul. GotG has $222.3m while Apes is at $201.8m. GotG earned $63.2m in its second week, a 53% drop but still higher than Apes' $52.7m. So if we're only talking US numbers, looks like I won the bet.

Here's the thing though: Apes is doing really well in foreign markets, having earned $334.8m so far. At the moment, GotG is at $196.4m. So if we're taking those figures into account, Bobgar may have me beat (for now).

While I'm here, check out these failed Apes sequel names. Also Groot and his new shirt!

Fun stuff! Gotta do this again next year. Perhaps we'll bet on...

Boob Toob Supplemental: Hooked on a feeling edition!

Fron deviantART member BloodySamoan

Star Wars trailer... Guardians of the Galaxy Style!

Here's a fan edited trailer for the original Star Wars using the Guardians of the Galaxy trailer music. Pretty neat, don't'cha think? I'm soooooo excited for both movies. I hope GotG is great and I hope Luke kicks some ass. Screw that Han Solo and his stupid broken leg!

The Legend of Korra: Book 3 trailer

The best animated series in recent memory is about to return for a 3rd season. CAN. NOT. WAIT!

Incredibox v3

Something different! This one isn't a video (but it can be ‘viewed’ on a computer so it still counts as a Boob Toob), more of an interactive audio experience (and some video if you can unlock the bonus content). Pretty funky, try it out! There’s a v1 and v2 as well with different tunes.

www.incredibox.com/v3


Big Hero 6 trailer

Fun trailer on an upcoming animated movie by Disney which is based on an old Marvel book. Not super old but this was when they were doing the Marvel Manga stuff. The concept may be different, I remember the book featuring 6 heroes. Or at least it seemed that way based on the covers. Maybe this is the Disneyfied version. I love that white blob dude.

Real life version of Kirito's Elucidator from Sword Art Online

Nice work by the guys at Man At Arms for not only creating an awesome real life replica of Kirito's blade from the anime Sword Art Online, but also for this cool ass 'making of' video. Check out their other videos white you're at it, I think I saw Link's sword in there.

Hentai Kamen

Sent in by Billy (a.k.a. Aqualec) although I'm not sure why, it's not like I'm into this weird crap. Nope, not at all...

Ikaruga review

Here's an old one for ya. Greg Kasavin at Gamespot gives a good video review for what is possibly the best shooter ever. Ikaruga was originally released on the Sega Dreamcast and eventually on the Nintendo Gamecube (I owned that one). I just saw it for sale on Steam which prompted me to look up some videos for it. I might have to get it again!

I’ll let the video below explain the game mechanics but for me, the main draw was that it didn't require you to simply avoid enemy fire. If you turn your ship white, you can absorb the white enemy fire and use it to power you up. Same deal with black enemy fire, just turn yourself black. So it’s a totally different play style than, say, Gradius (which I also adore). There’s a ton of depth to this game, most of which you’ll probably only realise once you’ve played it a few times.

The easy mode is challenging but doable. This game can be absolutely brutal though when going up the difficulty levels. You might get to a point where you can finish the levels in the higher difficulties but what’s your score like? Can you chain combos together (hitting 3 enemies of the same colour) or do you just barely make it out alive?

And even if you’re that damn good, are you good enough to handle two ships at once like this bad ass below? He’s getting a crazy amount of combos too. What a legend!

If you like shooters, I can't recommend Ikaruga highly enough.