New Trailer, new pics, unrelated/gratuitous Megan Fox cameo!
Batman may be dead (sorta?) in the comic book, but that won’t stop him from appearing in one of the best looking licensed videogames since…
Well, since ever, by the looks of it. We’ve come a long way since the dark days of “Superman 64″, and “Batman: Arkham Asylum” is shaping up to be hotter than Megan Fox eating ice cream in a sauna.
Check out all the new pics and the all new trailer featuring The Joker below:
Sort of like Willy Wonka, only with PCP instead of candy.
The Boombox Ninjas stopped by “DaveTodd’s SuperFun Awesome Show” to talk about their band… Instead they found themselves talking about their favorite animals, their darkest secrets and whether or not they’ve ever seen a dead person…
We’ve all seen the Japanese import game shows in which people have to participate in potentially dangerous “Double Dare” type physical challenges…
…But did you know that there is an entire genre of game shows over there that are so sadistic that they were banned from Japanese television? Lucky for us, that ban doesn’t extend to the Internet. Today, those very same shows are available for you to watch in their entirety online! If you can imagine a show actually being banned from the air in a country that has coin-operated (used!) panty dispensers on their city streets, then you can probably also imagine that these shows live up to their reputation of being absolutely batshit insane.
Denpa Shonen: Like “Oldboy”, only without all the murder and stuff.
The first show I took a look at was “Denpa Shonen”, a program that’s more or less about kidnapping and exploiting people who are willing to do anything to be famous. Now I understand that the phrase “willing to do anything to be famous” is one that is bandied about quite frivolously these days. But believe me when I tell you, the word “anything” means more to the people of Japan than it does to the litigious crybabies that make up our population of reality television contestants here in the US.
The season of Denpa Shonen that I watched followed the life of a young man named Nasubi, who was locked in an apartment with no clothes and no means of escape for nearly a year. By himself. To make matters worse, Nasubi was forced to live on nothing but sweepstakes winnings, including food. It probably goes without saying that the dude goes completely bananas (but in a funny way!) Watching this show is worth it just to see how excited Nasubi gets when he wins a lousy bag of rice or an eggplant or whatever. Or how pissed he gets when he wins a catalogue or a poster or something for the 5th time in a row.
Closed captioned so you can read their cries of anguish as well as hearing them.
The second show I watched was called “Gaki”, and was about four guys, locked in a gymnasium together for 24 hours. Not particularly exciting, until you factor in that “Taggers” dressed in black from head to toe like The Gimp from “Pulp Fiction” can pop out at any minute to beat the shit out of them with sticks, put them into a figure-four leglock, burn them, stuff them into a tiny box or do pretty much whatever the hell they feel like. I shit you not, these dudes look like gladiators from “The Running Man” and suddenly fly out of the floor like super heroes with smoke and everything. It’s terrifying.
Check out Denpa Shonen and Gaki now and see for yourself what the totally awesome future of reality Television should have looked like. Once you’ve seen the kind of stuff that’s too extreme even for Japanese audiences, you’ll probably never want to see another vapid dating show or half-assed drama parade like “The Hills” ever again.
James Gunn’s “PG Porn” is a clever new web series that pays homage to all the best elements of vintage porno: The shitty video quality, the creepy acting, the copious double-entendres, the rad electro-funk soundtrack, the sex…
Just kidding about that last part! It’s called “PG Porn”, man, put it away and get ready to laugh instead of…whatever you were planning on doing.
“Roadside Ass-sistance” Sasha Grey’s car is jacked up and James Gunn is the only guy who can help her…
Also check out the first episode, “Nailing Your Wife”:
But in my reminiscence, I also discovered that there were a few things about the 90s that I actually really miss. Here are some of the the things about the 90s that I miss the most:
Girrrl Power
The awesome thing about “Girrrl Power” is that, nine times out of ten, it is interpreted as “wear trashy clothes and act like a slut”. Women actually find this empowering! These days, girls still dress like prostitutes and all that… Which is great, except you don’t get the added satisfaction of crushing their “Girrrl Power” spirit when you treat them like one the way you used to.
Pagers
Not only is a pager about 1,000 times less annoying than a cell phone (because it’s so much easier to duck a page than it is to duck a phone call), but also when you wear one, everyone thinks you’re a drug dealer. Or a doctor. Or both. Which is rad. Plus, a pager isn’t suspected to cause brain and dick cancer the way some scientists claim that cell phones might. Also rad. Read the rest of this entry →
