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more about #commercials more comments → Smeagol92055: Those are all better than that new National Guard ad with the fake Latin chanting for FIVE STRAIGHT FUCKING MINUTES more » salthegeek: Is it true that Space Command uses the term Jeffries Tube? more » Bill-Lee: My dad was in the US Air Force in the 60s and 70s. He had poor eyesight and wasn't allowed to do anything cool. He was a supply clerk and checked equi... more » atrus123: I think I saw a little Goa'uld in one of the scenes. It was very small... easy to miss. more » LittleDragon: Actually my favorite USAF aid is one I cut out of a magazine that says. "There's no telling what you will be working on. Seriously, we can't tell you.... more » Chip Overclock: Hurm. I've been inside Cheyenne Mountain, maybe fifteen years ago. Mostly it looked like a flashback to the 60s era of interior design. At that time, ... more » GreyHammer: lol none of this will happen with a democrat in office. holographic interfaces arn't cheap. more » Anekanta - Go Play!: It's "not science fiction" but the interfaces in those clearly fictional nightvision goggles look like video game screens... But the Batman soundtrac... more » ManchuCandidate: Nice try, USAF. Next thing you'll be saying is that you can win wars by airpower alone... [www.slate.com] Oops. more » Dr Emilio Lizardo: Where are the videos of the special forces trying to clean up Black Mesa? more » SJ_Edwards: The first time I consciously started noticing, what I now know as the concept of the Uncanny Valley [en.wikipedia.org] , was after reading an article ... more » it must be bunnies: The thing that bothered me the most about that Matrix Reloaded fight scene was how boring it was. I kept thinking how it should be exciting, only it ... more » firstanointed: That's one of the interesting things about Avatar's CGI vs the scary CGI depicted here. The Na'Vi don't look terribly creepy or unreal. They don't giv... more » goldfarb: the Orville Redenbacher spots were done to test the tech for Benjamin Button... Zemeckis should have abandoned the method he (and others) uses becaus... more » korybing: The Beatles Rockband graphics are horrifying. They look like dead-eyed puppets and it freaks me the hell out. I wish the entire game was in the same ... more » -
#scifiairforce
Commercials Show the US Air Force's Science Fiction Side
If Stargate SG-1 is to be believed, the US Air Force's Space Command hides fantastical technologies and runs space-bound missions. A new ad campaign paints the US Air Force as straight out of science fiction — without the aliens. More » -
#uncannyvalley
Ranking The Creep Factor Of Human CGI: The Uncanny Valley Effect
The more realistic a CG human is, the creepier they become. There's nothing spookier than a half-computer half-child CG face on the big screen. We've ranked all the worst CG humans, in order of creepiness. More » -
#weareold
The 6 Million Dollar Man Peddles His Bionic Hearing Aid
Good God, we are getting old. Lee Majors is doing Bionic Hearing Aid commercials. Nothing is more depressing than listening to our favorite cyborg talk about "frustrating tiny batteries." [via David Indy] More » -
#transformers
Choke Down The Horror Of A Bay-Faced M&M
M&Ms have been rampaging through our greatest entertainment worlds for years now, with hideous Star Wars and Oz ads. But seeing Michael Bay's face on an M&M and Optimus Prime shilling peanut-butter-and-jelly M&Ms has actually scarred us for life. More » -
#futurebeer
Beer Commercials From The Future, Today
This ad for Australian beer Carlton Natural Blonde asks you to "taste the future." If the Australian future includes golden unitards, Geordi glasses, robot handshakes and pogo feet, then I'm drinking this beer. -
#alienversuspredator
Alien Versus Predator Game Night
Hilarious ads have gone up in New Zealand, for Sky TV's Alien Versus Predator movie night. See the implacable extraterrestrial foes square off, at swing ball, chess and pool. More » -
#avonumbrellacorp
Avon Is Peddling Umbrella Corps T-Virus Skin Salve
What kind of self-respecting human would ever sell something so similar to the deadly zombie creating T-Virus? Doesn't Avon have a undead consultant on retainer? Or are they secretly working for Umbrella Corporation? More » -
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#deadsnowforeignreview
Dead Snow Review, Plus Zombie Nazi Endorsements
The US premiere of Dead Snow (Død Snø) is right around the corner at Sundance, but it's already premiered in Norway, and our io9 correspondent Bjørn was there. More » -
#cultmovieworship
Commercials Worth Their Culty Cred And Stanislaw Lem's 1 Gets A Trailer
Sometimes, we have to stop and applaud the truly innovative directors whose work only shows up for a few brief seconds crammed on the TV. Vesa Manninen's collection is worth stopping to see the commercials. More »
