Consumerism and marketing is a funny thing. Producers want you to buy more stuff than you actually. The essence of consumerism is buying NEW stuff before the old really needs to be replaced.

But to do this companies needed a new sales pitch, because throwing away perfectly good stuff makes no sense at all.

Edward Bernays - Sigmund Freuds nephew - told manufacturers to appeal to our lower and irrational instincts (based on his uncles discoveries). So the idea was to make you feel good about wasting stuff - to make you enjoy a certain brand or good, because it made you a better person.

So people would buy a car endorsed by Mr Spock - because they want to be like him - although it is highly illogical.

I consider Fritz Lang as one of the greatest directors ever. His movies were ground breaking in his days. His masterpiece ‘M - eine Stadt sucht einen Mörder’ still puts many modern productions to shame. But I also recommend watching his outdated movies like ‘Frau im Mond‘ from 1929. How times have changed … but this movie actually ‘invented’ the countdown, which is still in use today.

You can watch the whole movie here.

Oh, I love these cute SciFi chicks who are already dressed up as a sperm. Makes the evening go much smoother …

Life could be so simple! Everybody should have a green handler - so we can blame the slugs for our miserable life’s. I for one welcome our new jelly overlords!

It is amazing how many bad movies Disney has made since the early 80’s. One of them is the SciFi flick ‘The Black Hole’. It coincided with the first Star Wars movie - and was pretty lame compared to Like Skywalker and the most nerve wrecking space battle ever.

The movies production was actually started way before Star Wars, which explains the old school special effects using wires and models - instead of computer animation and computer controlled space ships.

I can only recommend the movie if you really really really don’t find anything else to watch - or you want to bore some kids.

More? Wikipedia entry and watch the whole movie online.

The last Star Trek show ‘Enterprise’ was pretty much a fiasco. It had bad scripts, bad actors, bad everything. Now a new movie is in the making and I already hate it. It’s about young Kirk, young Spock and young McCoy …

Instead of trying to come up with really good ideas, Hollywood just circles the drain and recycles the same idea over and over again.

Gene Roddenberry was a brave men and tried to break old taboos and limits with his wacky little show. He succeeded and that is why the show was so beloved. But today it’s only about the franchise and milking some more dollars out of plastic figures and re-released DVDs.

Why are they afraid to go where no one has gone before?

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loogee sent me this humorous video about our friend Darth.

Just click and enjoy!

Thanks for the video loogee!