Posts Tagged → the future
Review: The Social Network
![The Social Network [Photo - Columbia Pictures]](http://www.woogmoog.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/socnet1.jpg "The Social Network [Photo - Columbia Pictures]")
A David Fincher film is an event.
Seven was my very first Fincher film way back in 1995. There are scenes and images from that movie that are burned into my memory. But, like many others, it wasn’t until 1999’s seminal Fight Club that I truly became enamored with him.
Like for many of the impressionable youth of my age at the time, Fight Club was and remains a milestone film. It came out at just the right time alongside flicks such as The Matrix and was a gateway drug into cinema for a generation raised on video game consoles, Napster and the Internet (née Interbutt). READ MORE!
Review: Splice
![Vincenzo Natali's Splice [Photo - Warner Bros.]](http://www.woogmoog.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/Splice_wall04_1024x768.jpg "Vincenzo Natali's Splice [Photo - Warner Bros.]")
What we pass on to the next generation is not only what we find encoded in our genes. We pass on our memories, legends and aspirations. But we cannot forget that we also pass on our failures, our fears, and the darker sides of humanity. At least, this is what I gathered from the ending of Metal Gear Solid 2, the only Metal Gear game I’ve played. I stopped paying close attention to the plot after I got in a swordfight with the President of the United States who is dressed in a biomechanical tentacle suit in front of a statue of George Washington.
Vincenzo Natali, the mind behind the brilliant and underappreciated Cube, plays with the same themes in Splice. It dabbles in ideas like nature versus nurture and the question of what we do as parents to our offspring and our families. Splice takes these ideas, tosses them into a centrifuge, and fucks the result on the cold barn floor.
Oh by the way, there will be spoilers in this review. Sexy spoilers. READ MORE!
Absolutely Gorgeous CG Deus Ex 3 Trailer
Here’s your daily reminder that E3 is coming up, along with all the requisite sexy trailers of games you won’t be playing for at least a year.
Is there a specific term for the synthy, future-y music used in Deus Ex, Mass Effect et al? Because I really can’t get enough of it.
PROS: protagonist’s fashion sense, stealth cloaky stuff, weapons and crap coming out of arms
CONS: silly newscaster’s future-victorian chic
Deus Ex: Human Revolution will be coming to PS3, 360 and PC sometime in 2011, which is incredibly depressing.
Back to the Future 2 Hoverboard Created Five Years Ahead of Schedule
One of the most oft-repeated stories regarding the Back to the Future franchise is that kids thought Mattel was actually working on real, working hoverboards for all the kids to demand from mommy and daddy come Christmas-time. They of course weren’t real, but now that we’re far into the future it’s not too unreasonable to expect some goddamn jet cars.
We’re coming up on 2015 pretty quick and we’re off pace here; we need to make at least 13 more Jaws movies over the next five years.
![Where we're going, we don't need roads. [Photo - Nils Guadagnini]](http://www.woogmoog.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/hoverboard2.jpg "Where we're going, we don't need roads. [Photo - Nils Guadagini]")
However, we can now at least check one thing off of our future-list: someone has made an actual hoverboard (an actual hover-hoverboard). Video after the jump! READ MORE!