Spaceballs - the hilarious Star Wars spoof by Mel Brooks, featuring John Candy and Rick Moranis (pictured).
Monday, August 22, 2011
Spaceballs!!
Spaceballs - the hilarious Star Wars spoof by Mel Brooks, featuring John Candy and Rick Moranis (pictured).
As Wet As A Warthog's Backside
The Hyenas from Disney's smash-hit The Lion King - Shenzi, Bonzai and Ed... I love these guys :)
Sunday, August 21, 2011
USS Enterprise NCC-1701
THIS is THE Enterprise, forget the rest (and especially JJ Abrams' hideous 2009 abomination)... the original is the best :)
Here Come The Littles
The Littles is one of the things from my childhood that made me gay, I'm sure of it ;)
MORGOTH!!
Many casual fans of Tolkien's great works think that Sauron is the Satan-figure of Middle-Earth, but they are mistaken.
MORGOTH BAUGLIR (originally Melkor) was Sauron's master in the First Age of Middle Earth, Melkor was the most powerful of the Ainur (gods), but turned to darkness and became Morgoth, from whom all evil in the world of Middle-earth ultimately stems(all the first Dragons, Balrogs, Werewolves, Trolls and Goblins were created by Morgoth, as well as the Witch King of Angmar, later the leader of the Nazgul); he is the ultimate antagonist of Arda. Sauron, one of the Maiar (angels) of Aulë (the Creator-God), betrayed his kind and became Morgoth's most powerful and loyal lieutenant.
Morgoth was the principal agent of evil in the epic saga known as The Silmarillion, and his influence lingered in the world even after he was cast from it into the outer void. Morgoth's example provided later ages a cautionary tale against pride, wrath, envy, lust for power, and greed — and of the destruction these visit upon oneself and others.
Most importantly, Morgoth was never destroyed. Sauron, his servant, is better thought of as the 'Anti-Christ' of Middle-Earth's Second and Third Age.
SMAUG - as imagined by Peter Konig
I've seen a lot of paintings of Smaug, the great and terrible King Under The Mountain, but Peter Konig's concept (which I can only assume was the official one while he and Guillermo del Toro were attached to the Peter Jackson Hobbit project) is by far the best. He looks crafty and evil, and it's a distinctive look so unlike the generic dragons that there are so many of everywhere - he'd be forever instantly recognizable if he looked like this. Not to mention, the design's in keeping with the aesthetic established by the three Lord of the Rings films already completed :)
As always, click on each image to enlarge... it's well worth it to see this fantastic art in detail!
Sauron the Deceiver
Sauron, the lord of darkness, seen here in both his guises as the blazing Eye of Mordor and as Annatar the Fair, the beautiful visage he used to deceive the Elves, tricking them into creating the Three Rings of the Elven-folk.
Iofur Raknison - King of the Panserbjorne
The vicious King Iofur Raknison, the Bear who wanted to be human, from Philip Pullman's fantastic first book in his His Dark Materials trilogy, Northern Lights (titled The Golden Compass for cinema audiences). Frightening, but Oh! So stylish! :)
(As always, click on the images to enlarge).
The NEW Voltron Lions - Voltron Force
The revised Lion designs for the new Voltron Force cartoon... I LOVE them! They've all been individualized a bit more than they used to be, they've been streamlined and the Black is the only one that's noticeably different size now (more on that later). They seem to be slightly bigger than the originals, but how much of that is down to the change in animation style is hard to say. And of course, each Lion's unique relationship to a different aspect of Planet Arus' geography/environment is made more obvious in their respective strengths and weaknesses, and each has been outfitted with a different weapon its tail module.
The Red and Blue Lions have sprouted wings, too, presumably as an indication of their pilots' higher ranking relative to the Green and Yellow pilots. The sleek Blue Lion (or Lioness?) is still my favourite, but the Black is MUCH improved, it looks far more powerful and lordly than the old design (though of course, in-story they're the same Lion). I'm still loving the Green, and the Yellow is now the most different-looking, with its enlarged, masculine lower jaw, cracked eye/window and heavyset frame. I'm not so keen on the sharp angles and low posture of the Red, but it's not so bad and it seems to suit new-Lance. And all together, they make one very sleek and sexy Voltron :)
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