Morning Links In Brief(s).

Posted on November 7, 2011 by Big Red in Afternoon Dubloons and tagged bbc scotland, borderlands 2, clap trap eulogy, gamin news, gaming, gearbox, new die hard movie, scottish news, slash film, strange aircraft plunges into scottish sea, stv news, the mirror.

Stuff which what we found interestin'.

Gaming company Gearbox honour the death of a gamer by having Borderlands robot Clap-Trap read out a special eulogy – (Destructoid)

Carlos The Jackal back in the dock for charges of murder, claiming he’s killed 2,000 people – (Anorak News)

Finally, an honest review of Ben Stiller and Eddie Murphy’s new movie Tower Heist – (Film Drunk)

Ten years of Internet domain name disputes, including Wayne Rooney – (BBC News)

Sportscaster has a ‘touching cloth’ moment live on air when he experiences an earthquake.

The search for a John McClane Jnr, for the new Die Hard movie, is now down to four – (Slash Film)

A mystery aircraft was seen plunging into the sea off Angus in Scotland – (STV News)

Jealous husband fed steroids to wife to keep her fat and housebound – (The Mirror)

Morning Links In Brief(s)

Posted on November 2, 2011 by Big Red in Afternoon Dubloons and tagged bbc scotland, buzz feed kim kardashian vigil, crime news, film drunk, health news, hot women bursts out shirt in supra, mangyongdale, north korean fun fair, obama warns Iran, seven benefits of coffee, shia lebeouf, slash film, the daily mash, the deep web, the gothamist, the hidden wiki, the huffington post, the telegraph.

Stuff which what we found interestin'.

Cigarette free Obama warns Iran not to fuck him around today – (The Daily Mash)

Want to know what the Hidden Wiki is all about? We did and now we wish we didn’t – (The Telegraph)

A wonderful piss-take vigil for the demise of Kim Kardashian’s marriage – (Buzz Feed)

Woman in coma after being two kids dropped a shopping cart on her from a four storey building – (The Gothamist)

Large chested female in a tight shirt in a Toyota Supra travelling at speed. an you guess what happens next?

Coffee could save your brain, ward off cancer and protect you from Parkinson’s Disease – (The Huffington Post)

A father and son duo, who laughed while torturing a man with a kettle, get 14 years – (BBC Scotland)

Pictures of Mangyongdae – The Last Funfair in North Korea – (Kurioistis)

Some heartless bastard shouted:’Where’s Bumblebee now?’ When Shia Lebeouf took a beating – (Film Drunk)

Jub Jub is without doubt the coolest dog on the planet.

I Am Legend Could Have Been So Much Better.

Posted on April 21, 2011 by Big Red in Geeky Booty, Movie Booty and tagged film footage, i am legend, i am legend test footage, richard matheson, slash film, will smith.

Well this is disappointing. Being fans of the original book by Richard Matheson the film adaption starring Will Smith, released in 2007 wasn’t, in our humble opinion at least, the worst film ever made. It was certainly engaging enough throughout it’s first hour and the scene with his dog…well…*clears throat and opens a window*.

But the film pretty much came apart when the UV allergic zombie hybrid vampires showed up in all there shitty CGI glory, which makes this test footage video of the aborted version of the originally intended look of the vampires, all the more tragic.

As you can see Hollywood continues to ignore the fact that real actors with first class make-up are a hell of a lot scarier and realistic than computer generated characters. (via Slash Film)

Disney’s Ballad Of Nessie Reeks Of Stereotypes.

Posted on April 8, 2011 by Big Red in Trailer Booty and tagged ballad of nessie, billy connolly, disney animation, disney cartoons, macfroogle, macscrooge the duck, slash film, walt disney, winnie the pooh.

Red hair? Check. Kilts? Check. Tartan scarves? Check. Bagpipes? Check. Tired use of every Scottish stereotype known to man? Check.

That’s right folks Disney’s new animated feature is set in Scotland and not since the advent of this prick:

has there been so many Scottish stereotypes tightly crammed into one cartoon feature.

Apparently The Ballad Of Nessie is a short film which will be shown before their updated version of Winnie The Pooh which is set to open in theatres in July. The official synopsis for the animated feature, which is to be narrated by ~~Harry Lauder~~ Billy Connolly is as follows:

Set in the ‘bonny blue highlands’ of Scotland, The Ballad of Nessie is a whimsical and colorful tall tale about the friendly Loch Ness monster, Nessie, and how she (and her best friend, the rubber duck MacQuack) came to live in the moor they now call home. Setting the adventure into motion is a greedy land developer named MacFroogle, who decides to build a mini-golf empire on top of Nessie’s home.

See what Disney did? Changed Scrooge for MacFroogle, oh those drawy types are clever aren’t they? We would have preferred it if the character’s name was something a little more subtle, like MacTightbastard.