This is a gallery of excellent work from Christian Waggoner, which is a series of photorealistic painting depicting various characters in the Star Wars universe. The man is a professional painter (clearly) who turned from typical art to Star Wars in 2007. I’ve posted his takes on Greedo, Vader and a Stormtrooper after the jump, and be sure to look for the reflections.
“I love reflections,” he says. “I mean, if you crop one of my paintings, it can be abstract, it can be surreal, it’s a play of light, a play of values, how things get distorted. You can just play around with so much. I’m now trying to take the art to see more hidden things in the reflections that people will catch.” - Chris Waggoner
It seems like every year, there are at least three or four superhero movies that are released in theaters. It wasn’t always like this, and as a kid I often imagined what it would be like if there was, say, an X-Men movie. Theaters are flooded with superhero movies nowadays, but unfortunately most of them suck. The good ones, though, are really good, sometimes even great. I realized that as much as we talk about movies (and superhero movies) here at Unreality, we’ve never actually ranked the best superhero movies. Until now. After the jump, check out what I think are the top 10 superhero movies of all time, presented in reverse order.
I’m tempted to make this Badass Picture of the Century, and it marks the second time Carrie Fisher has made this (sometimes) weekly feature. What you’re looking at is Fisher and her stunt double taking nap under the Tatooine sun(s) in between shots on the set of “Jedi.” I’m pretty sure I’ve had this dream more than once.
Plenty of movies contain adolescents. Hell even High School Musical is a movie about kids in high school, relationships, and singing to your heart’s content. But just because a movie has teenagers in it doesn’t mean that it covers adolescence accurately.
While there are tons of movies out there that explore teen issues, it doesn’t necessarily mean that these are “real” issues that many adolescents face.
I felt that the eight films below all represent adolescence very well. And they each brought a unique perspective to a given time era.
Have you ever embarassed yourself with a lackluster Chewbacca growl when in a situation that called for one? I know I have, which is why this handy tutorial taught by a decent looking girl is exceptionally useful for all of your future Chewbacca endeavors.
It’s all in the throat and tongue, but I have a feeling if you’re not the type of person who can roll your French “Rs” (like me), you may have some trouble getting the hang of this. Yes, I have been making Chewbacca noises in my office by myself for the past three minutes or so.
Some rather clever movie/TV/video game/comics fan crafted together this character alignment chart that I mostly agree with, except I’m not sure how Indiana Jones isn’t in the “good” column. Everything else is spot on though. I’ve always wondered how exactly to classify Tyler Durden, and “Chaotic Neutral” is as good a descriptor as any.
We here at Unreality like the world of the “unreal.” So what better a way to be imaginative than to take two completely different ideas and mash them together to form a better, weirder, cooler idea?
Well that’s what mashups are all about. I almost feel like it’s a twisted game of mad libs in some respects. It’s also why I appreciate the minds of some of you people hanging out in mom’s basement all day. You can really come up with some cool stuff.
So in honor of all those people with nothing better to do, here are another 15 awesome movie mashup posters.
Look, I’ve watched this at least three times at this point, but for whatever reason, I just can’t get into the mindset that this movie is going to be good. Yes, it looks exactly like a $200M version of the video game, and there are some pretty damn cool effects in there, but I just am not buying Jake G. as the Prince, and despite how much it wants to be, I don’t see this being the next Pirates of the Caribbean simply because it’s PG-13 and a lot of money was spent making it.
It’s hard to explain what exactly is missing from this for me to make it a good idea, but there definitely is something not there. I will most definitely be seeing this regardless, because I have to, but I just don’t know if this has what it takes to be the world’s second ever successful game-movie franchise (after Resident Evil). Granted it will have a much better chance as despite all the swordplay, it will definitely be PG-13, but I can’t help but wish this was God of War that Bruckheimer adopted rather than the very similar Prince, but I don’t even want to talk about that film right now, as the though of Brett Ratner pissing all over it is almost too much to handle.
But I don’t know, it does look rather fun, and there aren’t a hell of a lot of decent family friendly-ish action flicks these days. It’s already better than Transformers.
