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[Boredom Bytes] Zombies Invade NYC, American Smartphone Psycho, ‘300’ Recreated In ‘Skyrim’
It’s the beginning of the week, most of us have work and/or school to look forward to, but for now, let’s forget about all that. I want you to relax, let down your hair, maybe rest your aching feet on a pillow or a small dog. It’s therapy time, and what better way to soothe your frayed nerves than by watching some funny, awkward, and awkwardly funny videos scrounged up from around the deepest corners of the interwebs. Here they are, enjoy.
Imagine you’re walking home, maybe listening to a little Sia, when all of a sudden a zombie shambles into view, ready to take a bite out of your face. Scary, right? That’s exactly the situation many of the unsuspecting citizens of New York City found themselves in when some zombified people came to terrorize the city.
American Psycho is one of the best movies ever, and if you disagree I demand you watch it again and again until you agree. One of the best scenes has Bateman and friends–which, incidentally, could be the title of an incredible Saturday morning cartoon–swap their business cards. It’s weird and amazing, and translates perfectly into the modern world (because who still has business cards, amirite?) with a little smartphone swapping.
You know what was great about the film 300? The steamy scantily clothed man-on-man action, you say? All right, you pervy minx–you know what the second best thing about 300 was? The gory battles, that’s what. It just so happens someone recreated the epic battle in Skyrim, and what’s even more impressive than that is how great it looks in video game form.
Seen something better? Feel free to email me fun stuff you find on the Internet, or if that’s too much work, tweet it to me.
Sam Neill, the New Zealand actor best known for his role in 1993’s Jurassic Park, has passed away this week at 78 years old. In a statement shared on Neill’s Instagram page this morning, the actor’s family said that his passing was “sudden and unexpected.”
Neill had been diagnosed with a rare blood cancer in 2022, but stated the following year that he was in remission. The family notes that he “remained cancer free” at the time of his passing.
The family statement reads, “It is with immense sadness that the whānau of Sam Neill share the news of his passing on Monday 13th July, in Sydney Australia. Sam was surrounded by family and passed with the dignity that has characterised his whole life. The loss was sudden and unexpected but blessed by the fact that Sam remained cancer free.
“They would like to express their deepest gratitude to the staff at St Vincent’s Private Hospital for their incredible care. More details will be shared later, but for now, on behalf of the family, we ask that you respect their privacy as they navigate this immeasurable loss.”
In addition to his iconic role as Dr. Alan Grant in the original Jurassic Park and the sequels Jurassic Park III and Jurassic World: Dominion, Sam Neill left an indelible mark on the horror genre with memorable roles in Andrzej Żuławski’s Possession, The Omen: The Final Conflict, John Carpenter’s In the Mouth of Madness, and sci-fi horror favorite Event Horizon.
Sam Neill’s vast resume in film and television began in the early 1970s and also includes the films Sleeping Dogs, Enigma, The Good Wife, A Cry in the Dark, Dead Calm, The Hunt for Red October, Memoirs of an Invisible Man, Hostage, The Jungle Book, Snow White: A Tale of Terror, The Horse Whisperer, Bicentennial Man, Daybreakers, Escape Plan, and Thor: Ragnarok.
Sam Neill is survived by his four children and eight grandchildren.
Steven Spielberg said in a statement to Variety, “I owe a debt of gratitude to Roger Donaldson, Gilliam Armstrong, Graham Baker and Phillip Noyce for casting Sam Neill in the roles in which he was so brilliant that brought him to my attention and led to his playing Dr. Alan Grant in Jurassic Park. Sam was exceptionally collaborative. It was a stretch for him to play a character who acted as though children were messy and smelly because this was the opposite of the loving father he was to his children. I adored making all the Jurassic movies with him.”
Spielberg adds, “Along with Laura Dern and Jeff Goldblum, we will always have our Jurassic family and Sam will never be forgotten by us or his many millions of fans around the world.”
Sam Neill in ‘Event Horizon’
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