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Ever wondered how often lightsabers were used in the Star Wars movies? This video compiles each time the Jedi weapon is ignited in the movies, as well as each time one is turned off. The first think you will notice is that the weapon is used a lot less often in the original trilogy than the new films. Either it's because there are a heck of a lot more Jedi in the latest movies or CGI makes it that much easier to use the effect than the old days when it took more work to make something glow on the screen.

A Star Trek comedy spinoff starring the Rikers? I'd watch that.

Here's an interesting collection of Soviet animations from the 1980s that were based on stories written by American science fiction authors. You can enjoy the ones with subtitles, like the one below, or just admire the animation in the Russian-language ones lacking the translation. I wish someone would do this the other way round, create some neat animations in English based on Russian sci-fi stories.

Here is the plot of the movie aliens as told in a rap song. One wonders how many other scifi movies could be described in the same manner.

Do you have the stomach to watch the entire broadcast of the Superman Musical? If you do, then you'll understand why no one has worked on adapting any other superhero stories as musicals:

I can't say I've watched too many Star Wars fan films. The quality of each varies, but they are usually too amateurish to engage me for more than a few minutes. Reign of the Fallen is different. Here's the backstory behind the making of the film and here's the film:

In other Star Wars news, the one actor who has been in every incarnation of the movies, and then some, is Anthony Daniels, the man who played C-3PO. He almost quit on the first day, thinking the movie was a piece of garbage.

You know that any movie called Sex Galaxy has got to be pretty good. Just look at the trailer!

Wired has the whole story of how the creator of the film stitched it together with found footage online. Genius.

So that's where George Lucas got his ideas for the Star Wars movies.

The new Star Trek movie has an awful lot in common with another science fiction movie we all know:

How do you get a kid motivated to learn the harp? Teach him how to play the cantina theme from Star Wars: