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Giveaway: Fringe: The Complete First Season on Blu-ray!
By Great White Snark | September 14, 2009
As you can see by the Blu-ray cover art, below, Fringe is a show about faces locked in a deep freeze of suspended animation. But there’s some make-believe “science” and sweet-ass monsters thrown in for good measure.
Because frozen faces can’t carry the show, alone. Especially not bearded ones that still reek of Dawson Leery’s special brand of insipidness.
Check out the Blu-ray’s full list of features. (Preview: There is no featurette entitled, “Pacey Witter: From Mole-Eyed Boy to Bland-Faced Man.” Disappointment.)
To sign up to win a copy of Fringe: The Complete First Season on Blu-ray:
- If you haven’t already, get an e-mail subscription to Great White Snark. It won’t cost you nuthin’.
- Leave a comment on this post. In the “Mail (will not be published)” field, enter the same e-mail address of your subscription, so I know who you are.
- In the comment, name the best (i.e., most insulting) use of (make-believe) “science” in a movie. (My top-of-mind favorite: deadly laser weapons enabled by giant diamonds in 1995’s Congo. Take that, you damn, dirty apes!)
I’ll select my favorite and announce that winner in an update to this post next Tuesday, September 22.
UPDATE: Damn you good people for making this such a difficult decision. And good on Jo for being the first one to recognize that Michael Bay movies are surpassed only by Devlin/Emmerich movies in their ability to insult audiences with pretend science. “Independence Day, the Mac infecting the alien computers.” Runners up: Michael Bay movie mentions, Nuking the Fridge, and silly 80s movies (Real Genius, Weird Science).
Remember that next week I’ll start announcing contest winners in brand-new posts. Your responses truly deserve the attention. Well. Most of them do.
One entry per person. And remember, cheaters never prosper, because I’ve got your IP address, people: duplicate entries are dopey entries. Winners outside the forty-eight contiguous U.S. states pay shipping. Because this ain’t a money tree, it’s just a plain ol’ blog.
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Topics: Contests, TV | 19 Comments »
September 15th, 2009 at 8:17 am
After polling my coworkers for their most irksome sci-fi memories, I have a winner for worst science fallacy in a movie:
“That you can survive an atomic bomb test by hiding in a frikkin’ refrigerator! That was in Indiana Jones and the Crystal Piece of Crap.”
Apparently I’ve brought the whole room down by asking.
September 15th, 2009 at 9:12 am
I’d have to say in Star Wars Episode 1: The Phantom Menace, at the end of the movie there is a big ceremony with Naboo and the gungans. Princess Amidala gives the king of the gungans a crystal ball that gives off silvery light and everyone is very happy. Well what the hell is that ball and what does it do? It serves no purpose. That is my most insulting tech.
September 15th, 2009 at 10:01 am
Independence Day, the Mac infecting the alien computers.
September 15th, 2009 at 10:21 am
The best (as in coolest) is that a functional chainsaw is an acceptable substitute for a hand in Army of Darkness.
The most insulting was the behavior of the T-Rex in Jurassic Park I and II. In the first, the kids are told to stay very, very still, as the T-Rex can only see movement. Between that movie and the second, scientists began to think that wasn’t true, so in JPII, staying still doesn’t do a damn thing. You’d think they would’ve figured that out when the T-Rex munched on the human still life.
September 15th, 2009 at 10:41 am
Five words…Jeff Goldblum is The Fly. How could you not love an experiment gone so wrong as to produce a giant man-bug.
September 15th, 2009 at 11:25 am
The one that always bugs me, I have nightmares about it, is in Armageddon. Well it’s full of bad science but the worst offender is when the spin the MIR space station to provide “gravity”. I’ll leave aside that the station in the movie bears no resemblance to the real MIR space station and the shuttle is docked on the outside of the spin and would probably rip off. The orientation of down has no association with the direction of spin. Somehow spinning anything gives magic, convenient gravity. Who knew?
September 15th, 2009 at 1:07 pm
Real Genius – using the laser on a SDI Platform to pop a giant container of JiffyPop popcorn to fill a house w/ popcorn.
September 15th, 2009 at 3:15 pm
midichlorians from Episode Whatever
September 15th, 2009 at 6:48 pm
I was going to say the Independence Day thing as the worst, but Jo beat me to it. I don’t want to repeat so I’ll grab something from the insultingly awful Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen: The college slut Decepticon. It’s technology that is far too advanced even by Transformers standards. If they can perfectly mimic humans then place these “TransCylons” in important world leader positions, not a random college.
September 15th, 2009 at 9:04 pm
using a ghetto 1980s desktop, two teenage boys produce a super hip, hot woman in Weird Science as their weapon into the cool crowd…and name her LISA of all things. really?
September 16th, 2009 at 7:43 pm
I gotta go with the radiation resistant fridge in Indy 4.
September 17th, 2009 at 6:01 am
Well some of the best (worst) ones are already picked out. My all time favorite is Independence Day with uploading a virus to an alien ship using the wireless from a friggin’ mac.
However, since that one was already said, and I don’t want to be a copy cat…..
I’ll go with Face/Off, the fact that you can cut off someone’s face, and then glue it onto someone else. Plus it heals in like what 72 hours?
Though, my favorite is still ID4.
Congo is an excellent choice too, and they kill Bruce Campbell off in the first 5 minutes!! Who does that?
September 17th, 2009 at 1:40 pm
Stargate Atlantis fake laser shooting when they get in a fight.
September 17th, 2009 at 4:23 pm
I have to go with The Core. I mean come on! These people drill all the way to the center of the Earth, set off a series of nuclear explosions to restart the Earth’s rotation, and still manage to make it back to the surface alive? Like that could ever happen!
September 17th, 2009 at 6:25 pm
I have to go with technology advanced enough for a time machine, but accidentally lands you in 1976 instead of 1776. Really? (Spirit of ‘76 in case any of you missed it)
September 18th, 2009 at 7:28 am
My wife’s first response? The popcorn laser from Real Genius. I see that it’s already taken though, so let’s see.
I would have to go with one of two things:
1. The volcanoes in Volcano. Given that the San Andreas Fault is only capable of producing earthquakes, the whole thing is a sham. I remember loving the ridiculously loud sound effects in the theater though.
2. The Saint’s use of Elizabeth Shue as a scientist who has figured out cold fusion. Then she hides the formula in her bra.
September 18th, 2009 at 9:19 pm
hollow man, invisible?! get real, terrible movie
September 23rd, 2009 at 8:57 pm
so who won? hahah I feel like I ask that way too much. thanks for the fun cake entries!
September 23rd, 2009 at 11:24 pm
Winner = Jo.