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Things We Saw Today

Things We Saw Today: Angelina Jolie, As Maleficent, Flying Through the Air

by Jamie Frevele | 4:57 pm, June 27th, 2012


Well, there goes the “intimidation” factor. Angelina Jolie, flying about the set of Maleficent. “RAWR! I am a pitchfork!” (via Geek Tyrant)

  • The Hollywood Reporter is reporting that Joss Whedon, writer Tim Minear, and some of the cast of Firefly — including Nathan Fillion, Alan Tudyk, Adam Baldwin, Sean Maher, and Michael Fairman — will reunite at San Diego Comic Con for a 10-year anniversary panel. Get ready, browncoats. (via Whedonesque)

    • Let’s wish a very happy birthday to Atari, celebrating 40 years of retrofabulous gaming that probably didn’t plan on becoming known as “retro-anything”! (via CNN)

    Your attention please: Gail Simone is a Gamerati. (via YouTube)

    Jennifer Saunders (Absolutely Fabulous) has done the world the ultimate favor by writing a Spice Girls musical. Based on the music by the beloved British girl group, it will be called Viva Forever! and follow the story of a girl who becomes an overnight sensation. If you have a problem with this, I’m going to introduce you to my girl power. (via Styleite)

    What is wide, white, and perfect for a wedding cake? The Millennium Falcon, what were you thinking of? (via That’s Nerdalicious)

  • Rhett Allain has some thoughts about parts of The Avengers that he is trying to resolve in his head, and they look like homework assignments. Such as, “estimate how fast The Hulk was swinging Loki and estimate the acceleration of Loki as he slams into the floor. Hint: estimate the depth into the floor that Loki crashes.” Want to help him with his homework, like a good parent-friend? (via Wired)

    • So, NASA is wondering why they’re seeing this arc of light behind a huge cluster of stars that has been estimated to be 13.7 billion years old. What that means is that the cluster is so old that there really shouldn’t be anything behind it. And yet, there is. Need a moment to clean up the mess from your blown mind? (via io9)

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    • Anonymous

      Just thinking about being strapped into a weird pitchfork contraption and having to be completely stoic and acting like you are, in fact, flying just makes me have even more respect for the things actors do to look awesome for us.

    • http://twitter.com/embiguous Emily O.

      OMG so much great news in this post! I just heard about the Firefly reunion too and am super stoked!! hope the SDCC people are smart and put it in Hall H so we don’t have another Walking Dead/Game of Thrones disaster like last year!

      http://www.thestylishgeek.com

    • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=3429243 Alana Beltzer

      So, uh, does anyone else think that arc of light looks suspiciously like the crack in the wall of Amy Pond’s bedroom? 

    • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100003556555177 Lily Milos

      Am I the only one bothered by the Millenium Falcon? The lights should be blue!

    • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=161500752 Rachael Roberts

       This was the first thing I thought of.

    • Jim MacDougall

      Wow, when did Sporty Spice turn into Kate Beckensale’s sister?

    • Anonymous

      Terrifying to think about, but if it means that The Doctor is real, I’ll definitely support that theory!

    • http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0977888401 Sabreman

      Ready for mind to be blown-der?

      There ought to be a direction we can look in space where there simply isn’t anything at all because the universe not only hasn’t but hadn’t expanded there yet.

      But there isn’t.

      (This is aside from the fact that we’re looking at where stars already were 13.7+ billion years ago, which means they had already gotten that far at significantly less than sublight speed even then.)

      (Which is itself aside from the fact that all current inflationary theories require expansion after the Bang to have proceeded at speeds unimaginably faster than light–but that shouldn’t be possible due to mass increasing with speed. Which inflation couldn’t explain what we’re looking at there anyway, because it’s at more-or-less normal universal temperatures, not inflationary or post-inflationary-decreasing temperatures.)

      So, in conclusion: um….. magic? I mean, strings. I mean, um… magic strings! {g}

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