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more about #indianajones Invisible-Echidna: Optimus developed an eating disorder. :( Hollywood strikes again.. more » Enigmas: Totoro is my new desktop picture at work. So great! Though I really wish it would snow here now so I could build a snow-Tardis. more » Jeriba: Even though I would never have figured it out without the title, "Temple of Doom" is absolute genius. more » Ruthless, If you let me: Batman in number 5 looks like he is wearing Vader's suit; or Vader is wearing Batman's cowl. more » iCurmudgeon: @SeverinoLimpet: I thought Oakley had a lock on unobtainium. I still have a pair of their hideously expensive sunglasses with an "unobtainium frame" ... more » TheGreenRanger: We aim to entertain. Well, we also respect women, and someday, homosexuals as well. Signs that as a nation, we are advancing. I need to remind myself ... more » Jeb_Hoge: It's interesting how much this list coincides with the most disappointing movies of the past decade. more » Shadowdagger: You know, you don't have to invest over millions of dollars to make a great movie. A true artist makes art even out of dogpoop. But yeah, today direc... more » Pope John Peeps II: Haha. 317 million to make a movie which, when appearing on my television for free on a Sunday evening, I changed the channel away from to watch a natu... more » disatess: umm I think some serious flaws in these budgets numbers .... 230 million for quatum of Solace , I think not . more » Trai_Dep: Do keep in mind that when discussing US Box Office, the exhibitor keeps (roughly) half. So the studio's cut is correspondingly smaller and the break-e... more » ceptri: That's a real shame that Master and Commander didn't turn a profit. I would have loved to see that franchise continue. more » snarklenyc: Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End, literally brought me to my wit's end. I cannot believe that much money was spent on that ridiculous ridicul... more » amygdala: Remember when Cutthroat Island was the biggest money-loser of all time? In 1995 dollars: Total cost: $115 million. Total US box office earnings: $10 m... more » AshThePirate: Just a general observation. Mega Budgets seem to equal crappy movies more » Anekanta - Go Play!: I'm curious to know how much the original Matrix movie cost to make, compared to how much it made back. more » CoffinDodger (If the typos crap. Blame my keyboard): Wow..thats a lot of cash. Can I have some. I have an idea for a film involving robotic lesbians, 2 headed monkeys and a jar of Marmite. If you front m... more » Nasdaf: Can we extend the timeline to include Waterworld? more » Alexander Card: this is money laundering, plain and simple. they dont spend 220 million to make it they write 220 million in checks but it's like the old 400 dollar h... more » stereobot: This is just like how the pop music industry works. Tons of money pumped into promotion of sub-par quality music. People will still buy it just beca... more » -
#scifisnowmen
Fun and Fantastical Snowmen to Make Your Winter Bright
If you live in one of the snowy parts of the world, you could make a boring snowman out of three round balls. Or, you could take your cue from these folks and make snowy robots, aliens, superheroes, and monsters. More » -
#movies
The Most Expensive Movies Of The Past Decade
The 2009 summer movie season ended, with a record-breaking box office. But 2009 will also go down as the year with the most movies that cost $200 million or more. We've compiled the most expensive movies of the past decade. More » -
#indianajones
Spielberg Puts Indiana's Hat Back In Shia's Hands
Are you ready to hear the Indiana Jones theme song one more time? Indy's co-star from the Crystal Skulls says Spielberg is gearing up for another Indy — which explains why they changed Crystal Skull's original ending. We explain below. More » -
#triviagasm
Digging Deep: 24 Science Fiction Archaeologists
What's the best part about living in the distant future? There's so much more past for you to explore! We take a look at some of science fiction's most illustrious antiquarians.
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#io92008yearinreview
Best And Worst Science Fiction Movies Of 2008
This wasn't just the year that science fiction dominated the movies — it also featured an amazing diversity of SF stories. Here's our list of the greatest — and most horrendous — films of 2008. -
#clonewarsrecap
Clone Wars Saves Itself By Channeling... George Lucas?!?
This week's episode of Star Wars: The Clone Wars offered thrills and spills, derring-do rescues and damsels in distress, and a breathy bad-guy ditching the flawed giant evil death machine and flying off into deep space at the end of the episode. It all seemed very familiar indeed, like this old movie about Darth something and a Death Star, who could've guessed? But Star Wars wasn't the only George Lucas joint that this week's episode cribbed from... and we'd like to see more, thanks. More » -
#summermovieroundup
So Much For The Summer
If it's Labor Day, then it's the end of summer - A summer that saw Hollywood bank on the geek vote in a way that it hadn't done before, with a record number of SF and fantasy movies crowding the blockbuster schedule (five of the top ten movies of the season were based on comic books, for example). But did gambling on the nerd dollar work out for the studios? It depends where in the world you are when you ask, apparently. More » -
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#conceptart
If Only Indiana Jones 4 Had Been As Thrilling As Its Concept Art
If only Indiana Jones and the Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull had been as dynamic as the movie's concept art. A gorgeous new book from Lucas Books and Ballantine, The Complete Making Of Indiana Jones, is chock full of art and production photos for Skull that make me feel a bit wistful for the finished product. Catacombs lit by glowing alien devices, shimmering skeletons and the obligatory exploding heads, all burst with so much promise that was never quite realized. Click through for a shiny gallery. More » -
#indianajonesandthekingdomofthecrystalskullreview
Indiana Jones Delivers the Best X-Files Movie of Summer
It's not necessarily a good sign when you can only describe the latest entry in one summer franchise, Indiana Jones, by reference to another franchise, X-Files. that is also pumping out a summer movie. And yet the whole time I was watching Steven Spielberg's serviceable little action flick, full of Harrison Ford's trademark lopsided smile (still cute) and jungle chases (still pulptastic), all I could think about was how this was the movie X-Files: I Want to Believe should be. It had exotic locales, new agey aliens, marvelously bad pseudo-science, and a plucky male-female team at its heart. I mean, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull is X-Files with monkey jokes instead of paraphilias. But is that a good thing? Weirdly, yes. More »
