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more about #war more comments → bmoreDLJ: The worst reviews for "Basterds" came from critics with the B-more Sun and the Philly Inquirer...I read them both and disagreed wholeheartedly with th... more » ManchuCandidate: I've already seen this movie. I think it was called The Dirty Dozen. more » CoffinDodger (If the typos crap. Blame my keyboard): Whatever anyones opinion about tinkering with history. No one can argue that Bon Jovi finding the Enigma Machine in U571 was one of film/historys bigg... more » Bill-Lee: I would love to see Taratino's take on the space opera. Could you imagine drug using aliens, space ship crews in black suits and thin ties, and pop cu... more » MIster_C: I love how people are getting mad over this saying "that never happen" "this never happen" QT never said it was an Accurate movie or based on a true s... more » OW-Holmes:Bringer of Fear: My showing had a slow laughter filling the audience after the big climax. I was shocked. It was so crazy that you couldn't laugh. In fact the entir... more » damndirtyape: >>He had the audacity to rewrite history. Oh please.. as if tons of writers haven't been doing that for decades. All bow to the ballsy genius of Tar... more » Allen_Richards: Well some of your questions have already been answered as Tarantino has stated that some of the characters in BASTERDS are decendents of characters th... more » GreyHammer: its not really alt reality if the ww2 part is just a setting. its a work of fiction that uses the war as a device, it has nothing to do with history. ... more » WestMantooth: Isn't any non-biographical war movies alternate histories? Tarnantino just had changed one major event instead of placing characters in events that th... more » twophrasebark: It's funny because I was watching The Final Countdown the other day and thought: Man if they remade this, in the new version you're damn right they'd ... more » KhaiJB: erm. but was it anygood? more » CodenameV: What if aliens invade Earth during World War II? more » Doug Nelson: Looks soulless more » lukeoneil47: How is it possible that you people all still have to go through the derivative check list with every single movie that is ever mentioned on here befor... more » -
#inglouriousbasterds
Quentin Tarantino's Spin Through Alternate History
This week sees the release of Inglourious Basterds, Quentin Tarantino's gory World War II revenge flick. But audiences won't just see Nazi-scalping action; they'll also watch Tarantino dip his toes into the waters of alternate history. Spoilers below... More » -
#legion
Legion's Red Band Angel War Trailer Descends Upon Humanity
The unholy battle between humans and angels has started, with the redband Legion trailer. In which gun-carrying angel Paul Bettany chops off his wings, to protect an unborn savior. Looks like a boil-popping good time. More » -
#hoppythemechanoidsoldier
Robots To Hop Into US Military In 2010
The command "Jump to it, soldier" will have an extra meaning to it next year, when the US army takes delivery of an all-new, all-hopping robot to assist in "intelligence gathering," and maybe more. More » -
#gearsofwar
Gears Of War Trilogy A Bloodier Lord of the Rings?
Turns out the Gears of War movie is actually a trilogy that's "basically a harder-edged Lord of the Rings," says director Len Wiseman. Now I'm envisioning Hobbits with chainsaw bayonettes — and it's beautiful. More » -
#triviagasm
How the South Won the American Civil War
Alternate historians from Harry Turtledove to Winston Churchill love to play with the Civil War, positing changes that could forever alter the timeline. Check out our list of the war's alternate endings. -
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#conceptart
Welcome to Your New City, Where You Will Live in Stacked Boxes
This image of a future city, created by Icelandic concept designer B. Börkur Eiríksson, feels to me like some anachronistic mashup of impressionist art and science fiction. The people in their hats and bonnets look almost nineteenth century, as do some of the buildings. But the heavy, industrial walkways and roads in the sky turn this into some kind of future-industrial nightmare town. Eiríksson is the lead artist/illustrator at CCP White Wolf, and he's got a few more dark portraits of future cities for you, below. More » -
#conceptart
Massive Half-Life 2 Drydock Needs Defense and Some Paint
This is a drydock in HullBreach, a complete conversion for the Half-Life 2 video game. The team has an ambitious goal of creating 100% new content for the game, and they've been hard at work on it for several years. The game is set 2,000 years in our future, and involves a bloody world war that threatens to engulf the planet. So the upshot is, even 2,000 years from now, we won't be getting along. More » -
#lego
Famous Vietnam War Photographs, with Stormtrooper Legos
During the Vietnam War, world-famous photographers like Marc Riboud and Eddie Adams captured iconic (and traumatic) moments on film. In 2008, most war photographs are created by embedded journalists whose images are tightly controlled. So British photographer Mike Stimpson decided to make his contribution to the repository of war photography by staging mock Vietnam-era moments using Lego. This one, based on a 1967 protest in Washington, DC, stars Stormtrooper Legos as the US Army. See, it looks just like the original image. More » -
#dystopia
Career of Tomorrow: Car Bomb Forensics Expert
Yes, it's another dystopian morning filled with the smell of burning chemicals and scorched ideology. And nothing says dark future more than working as a car bomb forensics expert, the detective who gets called in when a car bomb like this one (set off in Thailand over the weekend) goes off. It turns out you can learn an awful lot about who set this bomb off from reading the debris it left behind. More » -
#futurewar
Japanese Military Continues Its Quest to Make Gundam Real
Since late last year, the Japanese military has been working on projects aimed at "realizing" Gundam, the mobile armor suit that is both combat exoskeleton and A.I. in several popular anime and manga series. Just yesterday, the Defense Ministry of Techinical Research and Development Institute in Japan rolled out these new tanks, whose high-tech specs don't make it sentient armor exactly but certainly fit the bill of "smart tank." Want to see a strangely incongruous image of one of these tanks crunching its way out of a festive-looking tent in the suburbs? More »
