The images you’ll see after the jump all come from The Tron-A-Sutra a series of graphic, sex instructional videos in which sex position are illustrated Tron-style. That’s right, Tron-style. Why Tron-style? I have no idea. Why not? The images all lead to tons of actual videos in which you can see the Tron-like characters actually re-enacting the positions while a computerized voice explains them using such terms as “USB port”.

I’m not sure I’d ever want to meet the guy who came up with this, spent the time and money to hire actors for it, make it, create the effects for it, and actually publish it on the internet. I mean, what kind of person actually has a burning need to publish an hour or so of sex footage using mostly sexless Tron characters? But, you’re unlikely to see anything else like it anywhere else on the internet this week.

Technically I suppose all of this is Not Safe For Work, but since the Tron-characters contain no actual sex organs and all they’re really talking about USB ports, I’m labeling this mostly harmless and generally weird. Click the images after the jump to see each correspondingly creepy, Tron-A-Sutra video. read this entry »

Gene manipulation to better our kids is still a few years off, but since we live in a society which still hasn’t really come to grips with the notion of birth control, designer babies is sure to be a hot topic then it happens. The upcoming sci-fi movie JIM will apparently tackle the topic, though exactly how they’ll go about it remains unclear.

The movie opens in limited release on October 15th and when it does it’ll include some sort of fake, gene manipulation company called Lorigen. We still don’t have a trailer for the film but we do have a promotional video from Lorigen, which explains their approach to maximizing your kids. Take a look: read this entry »

Bill Murray did it for the Star Wars theme song on SNL, isn’t it about time someone came up with lyrics for Star Trek’s theme song too? They have. I can’t promise they’ll be good.

Specifically the lyrics are for the Star Trek: The Next Generation theme and they’re sung by one of those completely self-unaware Trekkies who wears their Starfleet uniform too much and doesn’t realize they look completely ridiculous playing with models and singing about Worf on camera. Most Trekkies are still in the closet, and we like it that way. But this guy is out, proud, and here’s the lyrics he came up with for TNG: read this entry »

This past weekend we all got pretty excited over this. A never before seen deleted scene from Star Wars which George Lucas unveiled at Celebration and promises will be one of many pieces of polished up archival footage he’s including on his upcoming Star Wars Blu-ray box set.

The video was actually leaked online for awhile and though it’s gone now, if you caught it, you saw what appeared to be Mark Hamill as Luke Skywalker, constructing his first lightsaber. Hamill was actually on stage with Lucas when they announced the Blu-ray set and seemed to let everyone thing it was a real scene he filmed. He even related some amusing anecdote about his costume. Unfortunately, like everything George Lucas does, it’s probably all just a big lie.

The thing is, the whole scene probably isn’t real. It’s not a deleted scene, we know that, because back in 2009 Mark Hamill told everyone that the scene in question was never filmed. In fact, here’s the interview: read this entry »

But if it did happen, this is what it would look like:

Here’s something that will come as no surprise to anyone who’s watched the Star Wars prequels: George Lucas altered the plot of Return of the Jedi to sell more toys. Here’s something that probably will be a surprise though: Doing so might have made it a better movie.

Talking to the LA Times producer Gary Kurtz revealed that “The original idea was that they would recover Han Solo in the early part of the story and that he would then die in the middle part of the film in a raid on an Imperial base.” Presumably that’s the Imperial base on Endor where Han, Leia, Chewie, R2D2, and C3PO are saved by the Ewoks in a massive battle with Imperial stormtroopers.

After Han’s death the movie would have ended with Luke walking off into the distance, bitter and alone. A Clint Eastwood-style loner. Princess Leia would have gone off to struggle dealing with new responsibilities. The Luke ending sounds great but “struggling with her new responsibilities” smacks of all the political slog in the prequels which no one cared about and just didn’t work. read this entry »

Celebration V is happening today and George Lucas used the gathering of Star Wars fans to announce the impending release of Star Wars on Blu-ray. All six movies will be released in high-def, all at once, in fall of 2011.

But more importantly the new Blu-ray box set will contain never before seen, lost footage from the original Star Wars trilogy. During the event Lucas showed off one of the moments they’ll include, a scene in which Luke Skywalker constructs his own lightsaber before going off to save Han Solo at Jabba’s palace.

If you’re quick, you won’t have to wait for the DVD to see it. The entire scene has leaked online, and it’s every bit as cool as you’d expect. Here it is, watch it while it lasts:

UPDATE! It seems the entire thing may be a fraud. Details here.

The best science fiction on television isn’t on the networks and it’s definitely no longer on the SyFy channel. It’s all happening in the BBC where, in the void left by BSG and Lost, Doctor Who is now the best science fiction series on television. But the new Doctor just finished his first season, and it’s a long wait till he returns. Don’t worry, the BBC has Outcasts.

It’s their next big-budget science fiction TV series and from the description it sounds a lot like Earth 2, minus the greatness of Tim Curry. In an eight episode arc it tells the story of a group of people given the chance to start new lives on another planet. They lose contact with Earth and things get mysterious. Yep, definitely Earth 2… and that’s not a bad thing. The short-lived 90s TV series was big on ideas, short on execution. If Outcasts can take those same ideas and do something big with them, I’m in.

Den of Geek has an early glimpse at the show in the form of production stills. They look simply brilliant… and a lot like Earth 2. Sorry, I just can’t get past it. But I’m still in. Take a look: read this entry »