There is definitely some editing to sync these two up, but it does seem the trailer of the most recent movie borrow heavily (to put it nicely) from the original Michael Keaton film from our youth:

Batman vs The Dark Knight Trailer

This is great – another way to get movies to the TV quicker. We tried doing the unofficial plugin route. We got that working, and while I give them credit for making a free plugin to stream from a Media Center PC to the Xbox 360, it was close to unusable in our network setup.. very laggy to the point that movement on the joystick translated to multiple seconds until there was an-onscreen response at best.

Regardless, this new official support will be great and will keep all of us Netflix/Xbox 360 users from having to shell out another $99 for the Roku Netflix Player.

Can’t wait for this *free* update to show up in the fall.

Netflix & Microsoft Partner to Bring Watch Instantly to The Xbox 360

So this week has been hectic and not a lot of downtime. Work has been one thing after another and very tiring. With a flat on the bike, I decided to get myself to the early morning spinning class at the gym – great way to start the day but haven’t been up that early in awhile. Tonight, fixed my flat tire so I’m ready for a ride tomorrow and beyond.

Went out to eat with my friend Bret in Cary, grabbed Grand Theft Auto IV at Best Buy (10% off!). So you’ll be seeing me in Liberty City a lot in the coming weeks. (Sorry baby!) Then went and saw Iron Man with the fellas out in Cary tonight. Great movie! I enjoyed it a lot and thought it was paced well. It didn’t feel like a two hour flick at all. Anyway, off to bed, but so ready for the weekend, even though we’ve got two more days in the work week. Bleh!

So probably a year or so ago, Bret and I found James Rolfe, the Angry Nintendo Nerd on YouTube. He’s now known as the angry Video Game Nerd. Funny stuff, if you haven’t watched any of them, especially those of us who grew up with the Atari and NES. Anyway, like he says in the video below, he just did the gaming videos as a goof, but from childhood, he’s been doing his own films. I can identify with some of the early works he did, and the techniques utilized. I used to do stop-motion videos, etc. way back in the day when I lived in Maryland.

Anyway, the video embedded below is a retrospective on how’s he’s developed his style, his techniques, etc. It’s all very interesting and insightful for me personally and think a lot of others around the same age as me might enjoy it a lot, plus anyone who has done any tinkering with film.

View James’ official filmmaking site.

Rumors have been flying throughout the last part of this week that now that the HD-DVD format has died, and Blu-Ray has become the clear winner, that the Xbox 360 will have a Blu-Ray player. Anyone else think this is a dumb idea? Not only was the HD-DVD player add-on ranked as one of the worst quality HD DVD players (and standard definition players), but you’re also tethering your high definition playback to a game console renowned for its less-that-stellar reliability. I’d love to have a Blu-Ra y player in the house, but not until the hardware comes down in price, the Blu-Ray spec is finalized, and the pricing of the media drops some.

Regardless, when the Keefer household does get its first Blu-Ray player, you won’t see it hooked to our Xbox 360.

Interesting, albeit long and slightly humorous in-depth look at how the unnamed alter ego (or would it just be ego) of Tyler Durden in “Fight Club” is actually an all grown up Calvin of the comic strip Calvin & Hobbes.

Fight Club – The Return of Hobbes

This is amazing, and an amazing amount of work to film and composite this all. Basically, three guys wanted to recreate a landing scene, but it was literally the three of them. So they filmed themselves, the props, effects, etc. all by themselves and then did a bunch of compositing to come up with a pretty cool scene. “Saving Private Ryan” eat your heart out.

Same footage from “Downfall” that was used for the Xbox Live hilarious clip is utilized here for the HD-DVD Downfall. Pretty funny.