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Favorite Cult Classics (Part The First)

by storiesbywilliams on October 6, 2012 in Movies, Sci-Fi and tagged AI's, Akira, anime, army of darkness, arnie, Arnold Schwarzenegger, ash, Blade Runner, boomstick, bruce campbell, captain malcolm reynolds, cimmerian, commando, conan, conan the barbarian, conan the cimmerian, cult classics, cyberpunk, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, evil dead, firefly, Harrison Ford, hyboria, indiana jones, james earl jones, Katsuhiro Otomo, manga, miranda, neo-tokyo, netflix, nuclear war, Philip k dick, post-apocalyptic, Predator, reavers, replicants, Ridley Scott, river tam, robert e howard, sam raimi, serenity, spiderman, Star Wars, the alliance, the operative, Thulsa Doom, wwIII, xena warrior princess

It might be that I’m feeling nostalgic, or it might be that since my wife and I sprung for Netflix, I’ve been finding my way back to several of my favorite old movies. Hard to say exactly. All I know for sure is, I want to talk about the cult classic movies that I like […]

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The Future is Here: Real Mechas!

by storiesbywilliams on July 30, 2012 in Future, Series and tagged anime, full metal panic, giant robot, kuratos, macross, mechanized warrior, mechas, robocop, suidobashi heavy industry, vaudeville, wonder festival 2012

It’s official. Now you can buy a real mechanized suit of armor… provided you have 1.3 million dollars just lying around. Unveiling their latest invention this past weekend during this years Wonder Festival in Tokyo, Suidobashi Heavy Industry has created the world’s first fully operational mecha! It seems that all that anime was right after […]

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Top 15 Things You’ll Never Hear a Geek Say

by storiesbywilliams on July 9, 2012 in Cool Stuff, Sci-Fi and tagged anime, Avatar, blue chick from avatar, captain kirk, captain picard, dune prequels, dune sequels, Frank Herbert, geeks, geore lucas raped my childhood, George RR Martin, mcdune books, Star Trek, Star Wars, Star Wars prequels, the big bang theory, ursula k le guin, weird al jankovic, white and nerdy

This really doesn’t happen, but it seems I gave myself an idea with that last post. And to think it all came of an inappropriate joke! Essentially, I began to joke about the kinds of things geeks never say and even listed a few. And it got me thinking, one thing this blog has been […]

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Awesome Video: Akira meets Metallica!

by storiesbywilliams on June 8, 2012 in Movies, Video and tagged Akira, amateur music video, anime, heavy metal, metallica, no leaf clover, youtube

Awhile back I caught this amateur music video that a certain anime/heavy metal fan managed to make. Not only was it an awesome visual experience, but I found that it masterfully mixed two of the most awesome things ever! You had scenes from the landmark anime Akira with “No Leaf Clover” by Metallica. What’s not […]

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A Tribute to Badasses!

by storiesbywilliams on April 16, 2012 in Movies, Sci-Fi, Series and tagged abraham van hellsing, Aleut, Alien, alien queen, aliens, alucard, anime, badasses, batman, blade, boba fett, bounty hunter, bram stokers dracula, burke, cargo loader, comic books, commissioner gordon, corporal hicks, d, daywalker, dhampir, dracula, ellen ripley, eric brooks, gotham, half man half vampire, heath ledger, hellsing, hiro protagonist, jabba the hutt, johnny mnemonic, lando calrissian, Lt Ripley, mandalorian, manga, mercenary, molly millions, movie badasses, Neuromancer, nostromo, private hudson, private vazquez, pulse cannon, raven, sally shears, sarlacc pit, series, sith wars, snow crash, sprawl trilogy, Star Wars, the dark knight, the joker, the sprawl, vampire hunter d, vampires, van hellsing, William Gibson

You know those characters, people who come to us from our favorite movies, TV shows, or pop culture in general. The kinds of people who excel at kicking ass and taking names? The kinds of people that just never seem to die, they just keep getting bigger and badder the more time passes? Yeah, we […]

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Updated Review List

by storiesbywilliams on August 26, 2011 in Movies, Reviews and tagged 2001: A Space Odyssey, 28 days later, A Clockwork Orange, A Scanner Darkly, Akira, Alien, aliens, Aliens franchise, anime, Avatar, Blade Runner, children of men, classics, District 9, Dune, Dune 1984, Dune 2000, Dune miniseries, equilibrium, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, ghost in the shell, i robot, Impostor, Inception, Independence Day, iron man, Lord of the Rings, metropolis, movie reviews, movies, ninja scroll, Paycheck, Philip k dick, PKD, Predator, Predator 2, Predators, princess mononoke, Reviews, Sci-Fi, sci-fi movie reviews, sci-fi movies, science, science fiction, Screamers, Soderberg, Solaris, starship troopers, Strange Days, sunshine, T2, Terminator franchise, Terminator Salvation, The Adjustment Bureau, The Matrix Trilogy, The Star Wars prequels, The Terminator, Tron, twelve monkeys, V for Vendetta, vampire hunter d, wall-e, watchmen, Willow

Hello, and welcome to my updated review list. After many, many reviews and plenty of change-ups in the lineup, I decided it was time to revise my master playlist. I do this mainly for the sake of being succinct, seeing as how I put up three in the last two months. The first was dedicated […]

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Of Anime

by storiesbywilliams on August 3, 2011 in Movies, Reviews and tagged Akira, animated, animated movies, anime, fantasy, fist of the north star, geek, ghost in the shell, legend of the overfiend, metropolis, nerdgasm, ninja scroll, princess mononoke, Sci-Fi, sci-fi/fantasy, science fiction, vampire hunter d

It’s funny, just yesterday I was putting the finishing touches on my review of Akira when I realized something. When addressing the topic of Anime, I could only come up with three titles that I’d ever seen: Akira (naturally!), Ninja Scroll, and Vampire Hunter D. I therefore concluded that I was a bad geek for […]

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AKIRA!

by storiesbywilliams on August 2, 2011 in Movies, Reviews and tagged 2019, Akira, anime, apocalypse, biker, biker gangs, bikers, bosozoku, cult, cult classic, cyberpunk, dystopian, earthquakes, espers, evolution, hiroshima, japan, japanese, kaneda, Katsuhiro Otomo, kei, laser, laser gun, Mami Koyama, manga, Mitsuo Iwata, neo-tokyo, Nozomu Sasaki, nuclear holocaust, post-apocalyptic, psionic, psychic, realism, satellite, Sci-Fi, science fiction, Taro Ishida, telekinetic, telepathic, tetsuo

I’ll admit it, I don’t watch a lot of Anime. I know, that probably makes me a bad geek. But what can I say? You gotta be into that kind of thing and apparently, I’m not. But over the years, I’ve managed to find a few titles that I did like. Ninja Scroll, Vampire Hunter […]

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