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No Big Deal, Just The Prince Of Persia Trailer Done In Lego

Andrew Ti — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 00:47:25 +0000

Our friends over at our big brother network MTV (home of The Atom Show!) took some time (ok, kind of a lot of time) to remake the Prince Of Persia trailer using Legos! Check it out!

(via the MTV Movie Blog)

OMG, Someone Killed The Unicorn

Mr. Matt Enlow — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 23:18:02 +0000

When the Unicorn Vs. Narwhal game came out, I’ll admit, I thought it was impossible to win way too hard. If you’ve had a second to play it, then you know the unicorn has a serious advantage. That laser is gnarly! I’ve played as the Narwhal a ton of times, and not once did I even get close to winning. It became sort of a thing around the office. Well today, I received an e-mail from Dave, one of our developers.

With this image attached proving that he had, in fact, killed the unicorn as a narwhal (that means a fairy dies or something, right?).

N-E-Wayz, Dave’s evidence is proof that Andrew and I both just suck at videogames. But I still contest that the game is super hard, and that anyone can even get to the second or third level playing as a narwhal should be commended. So please, leave a comment if you do succeed or if you have tips for our lame asses. If you beat the game… well then, that’s a horse of a different color. I would personally call the Czar of Casual Video Games and have him crown you king! (I know the guys at GameTrailers, so you know, I could totally pull the right strings).

New Star Wars Gangsta Rap: Chronicles Drops Next Week

Andrew Ti — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 02:30:55 +0000

You saw the preview at San Diego Comic-Con 2009 (that’s kind of a marketing phrasing, statistically I have to admit that you possibly did not see the preview at San Diego Comic-Con 2009), and now it’s finally (almost) here. The next edition of Star Wars Gangsta Rap is almost here. Next Tuesday, November 10th, the newest video from the amazing guys at Bent TV will be live right here at Atom.com. I just caught the whole thing, and I have to tell you, that shit is amazing. Look for amazing verses from pretty much all the luminaries from the Star Wars universe.

To whet your appetite, here’s the preview you saw (or maybe didn’t) at Comic-Con.

Star Wars Gangsta Rap Chronicles — PREVIEW!

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So don’t forget, next Tuesday, November 10th!

Also, catch up with the original Star Wars Gangsta Rap and Star Wars Gangsta Rap: Special Edition.

You People: Animated Dictator Freak-Out

Mr. Matt Enlow — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 23:02:56 +0000

Oh you people, with your intensely graphic, violent, animations about cartoon characters murdering dictators… Why is it that the weirdest clips we get are all animated?

As best as I can tell, this is what is “supposed” to be the narrative of this video: Osama, Adolf, and Leatherface are having a sleepover, and they’re up past their bed time playing video games and shit get’s crazy. And then Mario shoots everyone.

Violent Video Games

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Someone once told me that there’s something special about being effortlessly weird. While there’s definitely something self conscious about this clip, it somehow manages to overcome that aspect of itself to become something I’d call “truly out there”. Is this parody? Is there a message? Perhaps meangreen3 is the product of the same violent media he preaches against? And still, the circle continues.

5 Most Awesome Giant Robot Teams

Ian Cheesman — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 22:51:32 +0000

Sometimes you can protect the world with traditional methods (guns, fighter planes, sanctions) and sometimes you need to go with a giant robot piloted by teenagers. Meet Megabot, Atom’s brand new parody of teenage, robotic vigilantism (with Fran Kraz, from Dollhouse) that’s gone on just a little too long.

Inspired by Megabot, we put together a list of some of our favorite robotic advocates for interstellar justice.

#1: Voltron
The pilots who assembled to form Voltron labored under the delusion they were worth half a shit. They insisted on attacking their demonic foes with the lion vehicles, which inevitably got swatted away with a lethargic backhand. Sure, they’d form Voltron to cleave their opponent just nanoseconds later, but that was coasting on technology to do the heavy lifting.

Worse, I am beginning to think part of Voltron’s core mission was ethnic cleansing. Outfits aside, his pilots showed about as much diversity as a Klan rally.

“We must rid the universe of evil King Zarkon! And Blacks!”

#2: Mighty Morphin Power Rangers
When evil spacewitch Rita Repulsa was released from her space prison, the benevolent Zordon commanded his robot assistant to find “5 teens with attitude” to combat her. Not teens with a knowledge of military tactics or teens adept with weaponry, just teens with attitude. And as if that advice wasn’t useless enough, the tardbot still managed to find the only 5 teens in creation with absolutely no attitude whatsoever…unless the metric for attitude in 1993 was “Smile is too gleaming and vibrant” or “Only begrudgingly helps elderly across the street”.

These indiscriminate Voltron knock-offs only had one salvation in live-action Kimberly. Zordon may not have had much of an eye for talent, but he knew how to find fit jailbait.

I just summoned a Megazord in my pants.

#3: Tattooed Teenage Alien Fighters from Beverly Hills
Imagine the backstory for the Mighty Morphin teens. Now make the teens selected to defend earth largely incompatible, if not hostile toward one another. Then set it in Beverly Hills because they only remaining way to make them less likable is to have them be preppy douches. Not exactly a recipe for success.

Affirmative Action was sadly a hot-button topic among the Teens…

When called to action by tattoos in their arms, they transformed into specific signs of the zodiac to do battle (unless one of their moons was in Sagittarius, in which case they should focus their energies on new career opportunities right around the corner!) If they couldn’t individually defeat a foe, they formed a giant medieval knight powerful enough to overcome even the most internally inconsistent plot themes.

#4: VR Troopers
The creators of Power Rangers tried to strike gold again with their follow up, VR Troopers. Like their predecessors, the Troopers were a manufactured group of “diverse” teenagers charged with the fate of the planet, and whose battles felt anachronistic and out of place. Maybe because they were cannibalizing three separate decade old Japanese TV shows. Even if you’re too young to have the capacity to explain why a show sucks, you still know it does.

To complicate matters, inconsistencies in source footage made it impossible for this team of heroes to ever fight alongside one another. One hero’s alter ego was from one show, the other two were from another. The show was canceled after two years because they ran out of footage to scavenge. And that’s why you should never recycle.

Oh, and their dog Jeb talks.

Kids love dubbing!

#5: Menudo
Actually, you can skip this one. Our research team took one look at their costumes and just assumed they were some sort of Puerto Rican power rangers. Our bad.

They are adorable though. That should count for something.

So that’s the list. Pretty complete, huh? Let us know in comments if we missed anyone, or just drop us a line to tell us how smart we are.

Megabot, Ep. 1

You People: You Guys Are Going To Give Me Nightmares

Andrew Ti — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 00:15:52 +0000

We get all kinds of stuff submitted here at atom.com. I get it, and by now, I should start getting used to it. But sometimes, even when you guys are nice enough to label something as a “surreal animation,” my capacity to still be freaked the fuck out is still pushed to the limit.

Case in point, this submission from our friend animalmother16:

machines

Machines. Charming.

Ok, seriously, what the hell is this? And why is it freaking me out so much? (And listen, I’m no wuss, I went to Goth Night last night). Does this have some other kind of meaning, or did someone just get David Lynch an Etch-a-Sketch?

Someone explain this to me, I’m going to just be crying here at my keyboard.

Monsters vs. Aliens trailer

Atom — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 00:26:34 +0000

Watch co-stars Rainn Wilson (The Office) and Will Arnett (the dude who knocked up Amy Poehler) pitch their new animated flick Monsters vs. Aliens. Still not convinced? This clip is an online exclusive! OMG!!!

Will Arnett and Rainn Wilson