entertainment culture
“Discover the Fascinating Boats and Planes in Godzilla Minus One | Giga Gears”
Godzilla Minus One is a triumph. You owe it to yourself to go watch the movie over holiday break and then go for a rewatch in black and white when that version is released. If you love monster movies, or war movies, or really just about anything with cool planes and boats in it, you’ll love Godzilla Minus One.
“The Most Boring Car Chase Ever Filmed: Mystery Science Theater 3000 | Giga Gears”
New Year’s Eve is my least favorite holiday; it’s a rookie drinking night where average people spend way too much money in over-crowded bars in order to let loose for the first time in their lives, but only end up annoyingly drunk and making it everyone else’s problem. So instead of muscling up to the bar and…
“Discover the Story Behind the ‘Mad Max-Inspired’ Mercedes-Benz 300E | Giga Gears”
There’s nothing car builders love more than a “Mad Max” theme. Everyone loves to take a car, jack it up on some big tires, paint it black, and weaponize it. But when they do, are they really thinking about “Mad Max”?
Car Stories That Should Be Made Into a Movie | Giga Gears
The world of the automobile is packed with interesting and compelling stories. So many larger-than-life impresarios, back-woods innovators, and cop-dodging scofflaws of yesterday would make incredible Hollywood heroes (or anti-heroes) and villains today. I know I’d love to see a film about the American south…
The Troubled Production of Days of Thunder: A Cinematic Era’s Demise
The 1980s were good to the producing partnership of Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer. While Simpson was known as something of a shit heel in Hollywood, he got results, and with Bruckheimer helping him out, those results were worth billions. Beginning in 1983, when their first film together Flashdance, garnered $201.5…