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Things We Saw Today

Things We Saw Today: Han and Leia As Pixar Characters

by Jamie Frevele | 5:04 pm, February 24th

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Except now we’re all going to think about the first few minutes of Up, and then we’re all going to cry. By James Hance, who makes tons of these amazingly sweet geeky prints. (via Blastr)

You guys, I could not be more excited about this. We Love Fine, maker of fine geek t-shirts, is running a contest to find the best t-shirt design with this theme: Jem and the Holograms. The prize is $2,500 and will be judged by none other than the voice of Jem/Jerrica herself, Samantha Newark! Be still my beating ’80s heart!

  • Yesterday, we told you about how the MPAA rating system gave the documentary Bully too strong a rating for the people who need to see it the most. And then, today, they still stood by the rating, claiming the language was too harsh to change from an R to PG-13. Think Progress has some ideas on how to fix the MPAA so this doesn’t happen again.

    • The Glass Hammer has an excellent tribute to reporter Marie Colvin, who has been reporting from the warzone for most of her career and was killed in action on Wednesday.

    Chainsawsuit by Kris Straub has this to say about how women are sometimes treated by media types, specifically those who appear in science magazines:

    These are Batman nesting dolls. Because someone (named Katya Malakhova) thought they’d like to see Batman nesting dolls and then went ahead and made them. The internet loves us! (via Neatorama)

    Here is what Arya Stark would look like, all grown up and tattooed. (via Fashionably Geek)

  • Indiana Congressman Bob Morris is apologizing for calling the Girl Scouts “a radicalized organization” that “promoted homosexuality,” because … we don’t know how he came to that conclusion, actually. But he’s not exactly taking it back. Fine. He doesn’t deserve cookies anyway. (via The Jane Dough)

    • Australia has its own “teens in a dystopian future” series of books which has also been turned into a movie. But io9 doesn’t seem to consider it a threat to The Hunger Games at all. Read their review of Tomorrow, When the War Began, then get it on VOD. If you still feel the need.

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    • Anonymous

      Tomorrow, When the War Began = Red Dawn more than The Hunger Games.

    • John Wao

      Man I’m literally drooling at the mouth in anticipation of GoT season 2.

    • Allison Cole

      The first twenty minutes of Up make me cry, but then so do Han and Leia, so I love this. OTP for the win!!

    • Anonymous

      In defence of Tomorrow When the War Began, the books are leagues better than that movie, and all of the characters are way better realised. It was a very poor adaptation in all respects apart from the casting of Ellie and Lee.

      I’m a Kiwi, and the tomorrow series is huge over here (NZ features in at least three chapters! Woo! We actually help in a war!). Almost everyone I know between the ages of 15 and 30 has read and loved them, men and ladies alike. It’s not as interesting a premise as the Hunger Games, but plot wise I don’t think they can accurately be compared. For one thing Tomorrow isn’t set at all in the future, and revolves around a very small Australian rural town. But as an action centred series featuring really kick-ass female leads, it cant be faulted. And there is romance, but it doesn’t get in the way.

      I read The Hunger Games recently and didn’t really like it, the plot and characters were amazing, but I found the writing a bit stilted and weird. But each to their own, I know a lot of people love it and I’m looking forward to the film, which does look awesome.

      Read Tomorrow When the War Began. Do not watch the film. Read it, you will love it.

    • Anonymous

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    • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100001175690204 Mandy Threlfo

      That and to say its anything like the hunger games series is ridiculous. To say it’s “Aussie’s answer to THG” Is one of the most stupidest things they could have said. The books have been around for a bloody long time and this person who reviewed this movie needs to go read the book before they say another word. I didn’t even like TWTWB but I do know that it’s a great book series and nothing like THG. 

      Sorry if I incoherent but the io9 reviewer is an idiot. 

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    • Frodo Baggins

      The same way The Hunger Games has been characterized as “The Next Twilight?”

    • Frodo Baggins

      Surely they’d be called Bat-nesting dolls, no?

      “Here is what Arya Stark would look like, all grown up and tattooed”
      And made up… and wearing a fancy dress… with crow feathers …and long hair.

    • http://www.facebook.com/people/Kate-Akers/100000886220836 Kate Akers

      Or perhaps Batryoshka?

    • Anonymous

      When these books were writtne, YA fiction was not as popular as it is now.  Harry Potter made YA fiction huge and Twilight and now THG has kept it going.  If this was release now as new YA fiction and was pushed on American audiences, I think this series would be pretty big.

    • Anonymous

      I wonder how much a budget this movie had compared to something like THG.  I’m sure that factored into some of the decision made for the movie adaptation.   If this film had an 80 million budget, I’m sure it would have been better.  

      I also agree with your comments on THG.  Except for the characters being amazing.  I thought the characters – except for Gale – were just so unlikable.