CGI superheroes are more common than you think. The video above breaks down some surprising uses of digidoubles in superhero movies — and shows just how often they appear in modern movies.
CGI superheroes are more common than you think. The video above breaks down some surprising uses of digidoubles in superhero movies — and shows just how often they appear in modern movies.
Cannon Films were the kings of B-action movies in the mid-eighties, but they wanted to move into the big leagues. They set their sites on Sylvester Stallone, then at the peak of his popularity, to star in movies for them. Their first film together, Cobra, was not a typical Cannon movie. It had a huge budget – $25 million and was a co-production with a major studio, Warner Bros. It was meant to be a blockbuster and indeed was a financial success grossing $48 million at the domestic box office and about twice that domestically. Yet, it was considered a mild disappointment because Marion Cobretti did not become the next Rambo. Even still, Cannon had to be happy, and they doubled down on Sly, offering him the highest salary ever paid to a movie star at the time – $12 million – to star in 1987’s Over the Top.
Based on a script by actor Gary Conway and David Engelbach, the film was pitched as a low-key character-driven drama, with the lead earmarked for a guy like Don Johnson. The story of a man trying to win back his estranged son, once writer Stirling Silliphant, the writer of In The Heat of the Night, The Poseidon Adventure, and The Towering Inferno was brought in, it was pumped up to become an epic Rocky-esque tale, so who else could they get on board but Stallone?
The result was a major box office flop whose entire domestic gross didn’t cover Stallone’s salary, but in the decades since its cult status has grown to the point that it’s now one of Stallone’s most popular eighties movies.
A closer look at the Original Xbox Development Kit (XDK) – DVT-4 –
Review of the AMIGA A500 mini computer. It comes w/ 25 fully licensed games, tons of options and the ability to side load your own Amiga games off a USB stick. But was it worth the wait and $140!?
A500 mini: https://amzn.to/3IstqjE (Amazon Affiliate)
Good news! Many Nightdive Studios titles are ready to play on Steam Deck! Turok, Turok 2, System Shock: Enhanced Edition, System Shock 2, SiN: Gold, Shadow Man, Quake, Doom 64, Blood, PowerSlave: Exhumed and more will be added soon! Nightdive Studios
In this video we sit down with Ken & Roberta Williams in their house in Southern California for an exclusive chat about Sierra On-Line games including some of their biggest hits and some of their failures and disappointments. We discuss the making of the popular games like King’s Quest, Leisure Suit Larry & Phantasmagoria…but also some of the hidden gems and nuggets from Dynamix, Papyrus, Coktel Vision and more.
The Zeebo tried to fix Brazil’s notorious bootleg scene by putting mobile games where they really belong: the living room! Spoilers: it did not go well. But at least this Tectoy and Qualcomm collab gave us Resident Evil 4, Crash Nitro Kart, Tekken an exclusive Double Dragon and more… all on a digital-only anti-piracy home console. What could go wrong??
How many times have you seen this news package? An establishing shot of the gas station, A bunch of clips of someone getting gas, following by a bunch of scary stats about rising gas prices. More at 10!
My review of the Taito EGRET II mini home console. Comes with 40 built in games and a really cool rotating screen. Plus there are two accessories: a gamepad and a trackball / paddle controller with an additional 10 arcade games. However, there is ONE BIG GOTCHA!
More info: https://www.strictlylimitedgames.com/EGRET-2-mini/
Metal Jesus & Reggie take a road trip from Seattle to Portland Oregon for the Video Game Swap Meet! A two day event with nothing but vendors selling awesome video games. At the end of the video I show you some of my game pickups.