Entries Tagged as 'sci-fi'

Monday, May 4th, 2015

The Empire Strikes Back Fanmade Movie is Hilarious

In celebration of Star Wars day, ‘May the 4th be with you’ we present a remake of what is still considered the best film of the Star Wars saga. A few years back Star Wars was remade, shot-for-shot, by fans who each took a different scene which were then stitched together into a hilarious but [...]

Friday, April 17th, 2015

From The Future With Love—Fantastic Sci-Fi Short Film

Taking the Paul Verhoeven sci-fi route and lacing it with plenty of satire, K-Michel Parandi’s short From the Future with Love shows us a future dystopia where the police force will only give you protection if you pay for it. Paired with great FX and great production design it’s certainly visually impressive.

Friday, April 17th, 2015

Robot Chicken – Star Trek: The Next Generation’s Night Crew

Captain Picard, as epic and seemingly superhuman as he is, still has to have some snooze time. Which means, who takes over the bridge when Picard and his crew head off to bed? Who’s on night shift for the Enterprise?

Sunday, March 22nd, 2015

Luke’s Change: an Inside Job

Conspiracies, conspiracies everywhere (even in a galaxy far, far away). If the destruction of the Death Star at the end of A New Hope has always sat a bit fishy in your mind, something about it not quite right, then let this video stir the pot and stoke the flames of conspiracy so that you [...]

Monday, March 16th, 2015

Eclectic Method Delivers an Epic Terminator Remix

For his new remix, sample doyenne Eclectic Method takes sound bites from the Terminator movies, and mashes them all together for an awesome track full of the sounds of weapons firing and robots from the future saying cool quotes.

Sunday, March 1st, 2015

JohnnyExpress: Animated Short That’s Worthy of Pixar

Kyungmin Woo’s hilarious short animation JohnnyExpress centers around a delivery man, the universe’s “greatest deliveryman”, who attempts to deliver something to a very small customer living on a tiny planet—the planet being so small means he can’t quite find the recipient, and as he searches in vain for them, plenty of cartoon chaos unfolds as [...]

Monday, February 23rd, 2015

Envoy—Sci-fi Short About a Young Boy and a Deadly Alien

David Weinstein’s 9 minute short film is a bit of a love-letter to the classic action-adventure and sci-fi movies that were released in the 1980s and 1990s, and if you were a fan of those movies then there’s plenty of references and influences to spot and keep and eye out for.

Monday, February 16th, 2015

Star Wars & Star Trek Go Head-to-Head in This Epic Fanmade Trailer

What happens when two huge sci-fi franchises collide? THIS happens! With Jedi-like editing skills YouTuber Alex Luthor mixes together a trailer for a movie that’s never going to get made, but is quite fun to imagine in Star Wars Vs. Star Trek.

Thursday, January 8th, 2015

How Accurate Are Sci-Fi Movies When It Comes To The Physics of Space Battles?

YouTube channel It’s Okay To Be Smart looks at the accuracy of your favorite sci-fi films and their depiction of space battles—chances are you didn’t really think Star Wars showed entirely realistic battle scenes, so this video looks at what it would actually be like to fight it out in the emptiness of space.

Thursday, January 8th, 2015

Amazing Real-time Face-Hacking Produces Futuristic Digital Makeup

Prepare to have your mind blown by Nobumichi Asai and his team of designers and makeup artists as they morph two guys’ faces into a range of different digital masks in real-time using face-tracking technology and 3D projection mapping. The results are totally convincing, completely changing the men’s appearance.

Saturday, December 27th, 2014

Star Wars: Battle of Hoth – Homemade Shot for Shot

Featuring an acapella John Williams score, this homemade Battle of Hoth is more fun than all of the prequel Star Wars movies put together—sure that was a cheap shot but why not? It replicates the epic battle between the Galactic Empire and the Rebel Alliance, with all the vehicles like the AT-AT and the snowspeeders [...]