Crossroads - Not the Britney Spear One!

So an old guy, a young guy and a teenage girl go down South....
Sounds like the beginning of a really bad joke or a movie I can't talk about.

Crossroads is a movie about a kid named Eugene (Ralph Macchio) who's insanely talented as a classic guitarist, but really wants to be a Blues guitarist.   He tracks down the famous Blues man 'Willie Brown' to help him learn a legendary lost song but Willie won't teach it until he's back in the Mississippi Delta. Throw into the plot a beautiful woman, a break-out, the devil and Ry Cooder all mixed up with with travel hobo-style and you get a fantastic movie.  As a director, Walter Hill is fantastic with this movie showing his chops, along with Macchio's.

Blues lovers agree that 10 out of 10 hobos would love this movie.

Slave Leia - Star Wars

Adolescent fantasy of many. Fun sketch I worked out and will have to finish at some point...

"H" stands for Hamato Yoshi

Tronified!

Tron - Legacy rocks.

With that out of the way, I can probably say that there are definitely some plot holes and small losses of logistical thinking along the way.  Truly, I don't really care about those problems.  Viewers are given a Wizard of Oz-esque view into the Grid of this magical cyberland through the use of 2D at the beginning of the movie in the 'real world' and the use of 3D while in cyberspace.  The computer world is more magical than technical, with an all powerful master of the world, an ousted wizard like figure, the chosen hero and a princess with a destiny involved.  There's also plenty of glowing weapons and symbiotic mounts that can fly and explode quite prettily.  I would definitely classify this as a fantasy movie rather than sci fi.

This movie gets a 9 out of 10.

It loses points for a rather strange middle area and why there's a bar in a cyberland.

Lunar Eclipse on Winter Solstice

An event that only occurs every four hundred years could be witnessed last night if you drank enough espresso -  http://vimeo.com/18046748.
Happy Winter Solstice!

Skateboard?

Check.

Ragged sweatpants? 

Check.

Skateboard and typical accent to go with it?

Double check.

Don't get me wrong.  I love Mondo Gecko.  

It's just... he's the Keanu Reeves of TMNT characters.

Dude.

P.S. I took way too long making this for the end result. 

Princess Leia

"Aren't you a little short to be a Storm Trooper?"
Its been 20 years since I first watched Star Wars: A New Hope, and its affect upon my general existence cannot be taken too lightly.  One of the first truly successful science fiction movies, it was a space opera of massive proportions. The twist on the role of the Princess exemplified the role that women could be in power, take command and be beautiful while they do it.
George Lucas may have made some terrible choices at later dates regarding characters in the Star Wars universe, but he did all right with Her Highness.