With Captain America: Winter Soldier coming out this week, the internet’s occasional hobby of figuring out how much it would cost to be a superhero has come up again. This time, it’s about how much it costs to make Steve Rogers into Captain America. Unlike fellow Avenger, Iron Man (AKA Tony Stark), the Captain doesn’t have a lot of high-tech gadgets. In fact, apart from lab costs to make the serum and the materials cost for the shield, just about anyone could afford to be Captain America.
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Game of Thrones: Two Swords Review
Game of Thrones came back with an epic episode on Sunday night to kick off its fourth season and the second of two seasons based on George R. R. Martin’s A Storm of Swords. After the mind-blowing (for people who didn’t read the books) conclusion to last season, there were a lot of plot threads that needed resolving. That’ll take the whole season and has some new storylines added in for good measure.
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Get Hyped for Season Four with These Game of Thrones Trailers
This is it! Game of Thrones is back this weekend! While some suckers are going to be watching WrestleMania 30 with Vince McMahon trying to be Tywin Lannister, there’s no substitute for the real deal.
So for today’s Friday of Ice and Fire, it’s time to give the trailers for Season Four of Game of Thrones one final watch before it all begins again.
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Geeky Condom Wrappers
I think that we all need a good laugh to close out the week. It’s certainly felt like a long one up here in Canada and I’m not just saying that because a weird rain/snow mix winter storm is rolling through right now. So I thought I’d share this geek culture set of condom wrappers by Kode Logic.
Remember, kids, practice safe sex and the following images are ever so slightly NSFW.
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Can We Talk About the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Trailer?
Well, we’ve seen the trailer for the upcoming Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles reboot and… I’m willing to say that it’s not the TMNT that I grew up with. For all the talk about how it looks gritty like the 80s comics, all I see is another generic Michael Bay blockbuster movie. Buildings falling, explosions, excessive use of CGI, a lead actress there for her looks rather than acting. Those are all Bay trademarks and Bay movies tend to make a lot of money but also tend to be critical duds.
I’ve never really been a fan of the live action TMNT movies. They struck me as a mix of stoner movies and 90s teenage clichés. This, so far, looks to be less stoner and more generic blockbuster action. Maybe that’ll make it more tolerable. At least the turtles are mutants rather than aliens. Also, where are Splinter, Shredder and Krang?
So am I the only one that watches this trailer and goes “uh oh?”
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Catch Up (or Refresh) on Game of Thrones with These Recaps
We’re just nine days away from WrestleMania XXX the Season Four premiere of Game of Thrones. Since viewership keeps for GoT keeps going up, I would assume that a bunch of people are jumping in just to see what the hype is about. The problem with that is that Game of Thrones isn’t really the sort of show you can just jump into part way through and quickly grasp everything that has happened (and a lot has happened).
So to help out newcomers to Game of Thrones (and those needing a quick refresher course), for today’s Friday of Ice and Fire, we have some quick-ish recaps of the first three seasons of the show.
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Free to Play Review: A Long Way to the Top
It’s only fitting that a free-to-play game gets a free documentary to go with it. Valve’s popular free MOBA, Dota 2, now has a quasi-companion documentary called, appropriately, Free to Play. However, it’s not really a Dota documentary and you don’t even need to like video games to like the movie.
While the title Free to Play implies that it’s a documentary about Dota 2 and its development, popularity and the impact its had on gaming, Free to Play is actually about eSports. The documentary follows three competitive Dota players, each with a different background, as they pursue the $1 million grand prize for Dota 2’s The International championship.
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Game of Thrones Ad Placement Fail
It seems like the marketing blitz for the upcoming season of Game of Thrones is bigger than ever but that doesn’t mean that there shouldn’t be limits to where you advertise. For example, putting a billboard with the Valar Morghulis slogan above an old folks home probably isn’t the best idea you’ve ever had.
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A Look Ahead to Season Four of Game of Thrones
We’re just three weeks away from the start of Season Four of Game of Thrones. For this week’s Friday of Ice and Fire, we have HBO’s 15-minute preview video of the upcoming season that features cast interviews and clips from upcoming episodes. This video got me more excited for this season than any of the trailers did.
By the way, there are spoilers in this video. You probably guessed that, though.
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Did I Mention that Lando Calrissian is on Dancing with the Stars?
He might be 77-years-old, had two hip replacements and has an arthritic back but that isn’t stopping Billy Dee Williams, better known as Lando Calrissian, from giving it a go on Dancing with the Stars.
Billy Dee’s age and bad everything means he isn’t the best dancer on DWTS this season but Lando still has the crowd in the palm of his hand. He’s still a charmer 31 years on from Return of the Jedi. People still love him and hopefully the crowd reaction makes Abrams and company write Lando into Star Wars: Episode 7.
Anyway, here’s Billy Dee dancing a cha cha to Meco’s Star Wars disco. Regardless of what you think of the dance, it’s great to see Lando being Lando again.
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