top five meme part one (or, the not-so-visual one)
So I looked at the top fives and decided that three out of eight required visual evidence and two youtube evidence, so I'm doing two posts. This round is one of the youtube ones and the visual evidence-less ones, the next will be the other youtube spam one and the ones with picspams.
For now you get: top five shows you plan on watching but haven't yet, top five Deadwood quotes, top ten Italian movies (because I couldn't choose five) and top five vampire diaries porn moments.
Top five shows you plan on watching but haven't yet asked by ozmissage:
5. Community: I watched only the finale because Josh Holloway was in it, and I decided it was my kind of fun even if sitcoms aren't usually my thing. I have it downloaded and I should get through it quickly once I manage to start it - at least it's short episodes.
4. White Collar: I DON'T KNOW WHY I'M NOT CAUGHT UP YET. Everyone on my FL gushes about it and geez MATT BOMER IS IN IT but I haven't gotten around to it yet. It's on my list though. Oh yes.
3. Justified: Same as #4. Considering that there's Timothy Olyphant in a cowboy hat and half of the Deadwood cast was in it at some point, I really should have seen this last year. Oh but I'll get around to it.
2. Treme, plus bonus The Wire: meaning, I should finish The Wire before watching Treme, except that in order to watch The Wire properly I need subtitles and full attention, and watching it on the computer makes me get crossed eyes after three episodes. I really need to buy the dvds so I can sit down and go through it comfortably. That said Treme sounds like the kind of show I enjoy, it's written by people from The Wire and features Steve Earle music, so I'm pretty sure I'd dig it.
1. The Sopranos: Or, I'm pretty sure that if I watched this I'd die of happy. The acting looks stellar, it's set in NEW JERSEY, it stars STEVE VAN ZANDT, it's about complicated mafia dealings, it sounds like it's made for me to like it. BUT IT'S TOO LONG AND TOO MANY SEASONS and watching it all on the computer makes me want to slit my wrists. But I will get around to it, I will.
Top Five Deadwood quotes asked by ozmissage: premise: sadly on the internet I can't find half of the ones I want (like most of the Jane/Joanie dialogue or moar Trixie), so these are my favorite five out of the ones you can find for copy/paste without needing to get dvds out. I guess it shows that I'm very, very fond of Al.
5. Al: Did you fuck me when I was out?
Dan: Hell, no.
Al: Then quit looking at me like that.
^ this one killed me back then. Also because Dan was totes in love with him, but.
4. Al Swearengen: Was that a mick regiment?
Pinkerton: Yeah. What were you doing?
Al Swearengen: Cutting throats.
Pinkerton: I was asking whose flag you were under.
Al Swearengen: The famous cocksuckers brigade.
3. Calamity Jane: Any fucking domicile but the graveyard suits me fine. Don't you worry about me. I got things taken care of over here.
Joanie Stubbs: I don't know either. But I do know you're welcome wherever I go.
2. Calamity Jane: Question I wake to in the morning and pass out with at night: "What's my popularity with my fellow white people?"
1. Tie: a) Al Swearengen: Be in my joint in two hours, we're forming a fuckin' government.
b) Al Swearengen: You can't cut the throat of every cocksucker whose character it would improve.
I find 1b to be pretty much true in a lot of occasions. Also yes, half of this are Al quotes, but goddammit he had the best ones.
Top five ten Italian movies asked by space_dementia6
See, for how much I bitch about current Italian cinema (though lately we've started doing great again), I do love Italian cinema. To pieces. Which is why I couldn't pick just one, so you get ten. Sorry in advance for the rambling included.
10. Caro diario (title translated would be Dear Diary, but in the US it was only seen in festivals I think): I'm not putting videos from YT on it because everything I find is in Italian without subs, but anyway. This movie has the director (Nanni Moretti) directing himself in episodes (the most famous is him on a Vespa going around Rome and commenting on what he sees). It's not exactly for all tastes - I don't know how appealing it'd be for someone not familiar with Italian things, and if you don't like Moretti's movies in general you probably wouldn't care for this since it's basically his life philosophy, but I happen to like his movies and I love that while it might seem disconnected in the end it really isn't. And it has some pretty wicked cinematography (especially the aforementioned part where he goes around the city on the Vespa).
9. La maschera del demonio (Black Sunday, but literally it'd be the mask of the devil):
Okay, that trailer is crap and in Italian the whole thing sounds a lot better, but that, my friends, is a damn fine horror movie and I love it to pieces. Mario Bava has to be the most underrated horror director ever or something, especially since he was influential even if not so well known, and that movie is so GOOD. It's genuinely scary, it has some wicked acting, Barbara Steele was perfect in it. Also witches! Dopplegangers! Tension! Black and white with awesome photography! Really, that trailer doesn't do justice to it.
8. I cento passi (The Hundred Steps): or, the last recent movie you can expect, the rest is all pre-80s. xD Okay, this stated. This movie (true story) is about this young man (Peppino Impastato) who lived in Sicily, and he was killed during the seventies because he denounced mafia crimes actively and repeatedly on his radio program (and especially the ones of this boss who lived in a house one hundred steps from his - and his father worked for that boss, and he was supposed to as well). That in a time where you didn't talk about the mafia. It has some amazing performances by all the actors (please don't see it dubbed), it's really well shot (differently from 90% of recent Italian movies which I don't know why but are shot like a TV fiction) and it has some real passion behind it. You can just feel it by watching it. And it made me cry. And it was a huge deal when it came out because the case had just been re-opened. (No video as well since it's all Italian - I doubt this was ever properly released outside Europe.)
7. Sacco e Vanzetti (Sacco and Vanzetti): the trailer is in Italian as I haven't found anything else, but it has Spanish subs and the Joan Baez/Morricone song at the ending, so I figured I'd put it.
This is probably the most known internationally of all the ones I mentioned until now since other than Morricone, the soundtrack was from Joan Baez. Anyway, this movie gets the prize for causing my first, huge movie-related sobfest. I was eight and I don't know why my mother decided I should have seen it THEN, but point is, regardless of the politics implications which just flew over my head back then, when I realized they were going to get sentenced to death for real I cried for twenty minutes. Then I actually re-watched it later and while technically it probably isn't a masterpiece, it really isn't the point. The point is that it gets you to think about a number of issues that go from political to ethical, and it's obvious when you watch it that everyone involved believed in making a movie about that story. Also, it was the first case in my life of movie-that-make-you-feel-genuine-rage. It was probably the first movie with such a serious matter that I've ever seen period - I have attachment to it, dammit.
6. Il grande silenzio (The Great Silence): or, first spaghetti western coming! And jesus THIS MOVIE I LOVE IT. Also, this trailer is what it is because the English dub is awful, but still.
It's not your usual spaghetti. The hero is mute, the heroine is a black woman, the bad guy is a total psycho in a way that I haven't ever seen in a spaghetti, it has a winter setting with snow everywhere which feels totally claustrophobic, it has the most gutting ending I've ever seen in a western period, and there's violence and cynicism up the wazoo. And it's GORGEOUS. The acting is stellar (it'd be worth it just for Jean Louis Trintignant managing to sell his part without having a single line since he's mute, but Klaus Kinski being totally insane is delicious as well - also I have a crush on the leading lady), it has one of the best osts Morricone ever put out and just, I want to marry it. Even if by the end it had left me a mess and really, if you can't stomach punch-to-the-gut endings then you probably should be warned.
5. Per qualche dollaro in più (For a Few Dollars More): or, we get into the top five and finally get proper English trailers. Even though hearing the English dubs will never not be freaking weird.
Or, my favorite spaghetti western/Leone that will ever exist. I'm aware that it's probably the least noticed out of the Man With No Name movies, but I'll always like it better. The cinematography is out of this world good, I love that it's LONG (since they had money and Leone did stuff like he wanted), it has the first example of Leone style duel, the plot is pretty darn good, I love everything it chooses to be (violence up the wazoo included), it has the best spaghetti western ending that will ever be (along with The Good, The Bad and the Ugly, but I like this one slightly better), the humor bits are insanely good and the things I'd do to Clint Eastwood in this - okay, I'll shut up now. (I'd do them in the other two too, don't worry.) Also the soundtrack is gorgeous. (Also I doubted whether I should have put A Fistful of Dollars since it's more important, having started the genre and all, but that one was based on another movie - this is oriiiginal.)
4. I soliti ignoti (Big Deal On Madonna Street - WTF IS THE US TITLE, translated it'd be The Usual Unknowns *headdesk*): or, this trailer is pure crap, but it was the only English one I could find.
So, basically, it boils down to: Mario Monicelli was a genius and once upon a time we made some pretty freaking awesome comedies, and we did it with very little money. And this movie is a riotfest, stars some of the best actors we ever produced, doesn't miss a beat and the ending is just priceless. Also please disregard that remake with George Clooney they did some five/six years ago - it doesn't get better than this one. If you want pure Italian comedy before the age of color kicked in for good, this is it.
3. Umberto D.: no video since there's not even the Italian trailer and the rest are all the ending scene. So. This movie is a masterpiece and if you haven't seen it, you're losing something. Saying it's about a retired professor who can't live with what he gets from the State, only has his dog and gets kicked out of his house from his stupid landlady doesn't really cover it. I've rarely seen any movie deal with loneliness in such a poignant way, actually the entire thing is the definition of poignant, and the fact that most of the actors (protagonist included) weren't professionals just makes it even better. It's going to gut you and make your cry/rage/want to punch the screen, and the problem is that I think that if you take a look around here it wouldn't be hard to find similar situation half a century later. I-love-this-movie, end of story.
2. Roma città aperta (Rome Open City): or, yes, I like Neorealism. Also there isn't a trailer, so I'm just linking you the most famous scene.
So. I can't even count the ways in which I love this movie. Apart from being a pretty remarkable objective result for having been shot with second-hand materials during WWII with American soldiers bringing the generators on set, EVERYTHING. The storytelling - it's a masterpiece on how you make a movie where two/three different storylines meet and come together in the end. THE ACTING. Anna Magnani was out-of-this-world-good, everyone (professional or not) was out-of-this-world good, it utterly captures the atmosphere of post-freed Rome since it was shot just after that happened, and I don't know - I feel like blathering about it wouldn't make it justice in any case since it's too good for words.
Aaaand DRUM ROLL!
1. Ultimo tango a Parigi (Last Tango in Paris): not the proper trailer, it's fan-made, but it works.
Or: this is not just Italian films top ten, this is in my overall top five and forever will be. And no, it's not just because it features naked Marlon Brando. When I saw it first I had figured it'd be just a series of sex scenes (and to be honest right now you see much worse in R-rated movies that don't get banned). I was very much wrong, because okay, it's sex scenes, but it actually says a whole damn lot of things through sex scenes and outside of sex scenes. It might seem like the plot isn't that much, but what there is - the way their anonymous sex affects their real lives, his struggle with his wife killing herself and the fact that he's the one wanting to make a supposedly fake relationship real, it all pans out and it makes this about a lot more than just sex. Also I'm still of the opinion that this is the best acting Marlon Brando ever did, and that's saying a lot. (Not like poor Maria Schneider wasn't good as well.) The cinematography is stunning, the directing is flawless, the music works perfectly too and just, there isn't a single second in this movie that is out of place. I'll take the whole package. Also, it's set in PARIS and I'll never complain about that.
Top five vampire porn diaries moments, asked by mollivanders: or, don't expect me to be original, okay.
5. Stefan and Elena's conversation in The Last Day: it's not really a mystery that I ship that. (Yeah, I don't even know. I'm still like WTF.) I think that they're adorable and that they have one of the few sort-of-mature canon relationships that I've seen even if she's seventeen. Still, in vampire related things you tend to have things romanticized to the umpteenth degree in the 'omg we can be together forever' kinda way - and that's why I loved that scene. They're all being cute and adorable and pretending that this isn't possibly Elena's last day as a human and then she tells him that she loves him but she's darn seventeen and she can't think about being with him for an eternity and forgetting all the rest like having a family and a LIFE. And he gets it. And I was like 'FINALLY', because romance is all good, but it's not always all so great when you see the disadvantages.
4. Caroline and Tyler being adorable in Sun Also Rises tied with Caroline wiping her mom's memories in No Exit: I couldn't choose so I figured I'd go for this. I used to dislike Caroline - now I couldn't have the show without her. She's awesomecakes. And I love her to pieces. And I wanted to choose one but then I figured I'd tie these up. The first because while it was angst-ridden I just loved how adorable they managed to be and how they're so at ease with each other and how they're the most lovely interspecies romance ever. The second - it was the first time I cried while watching this show. Seriously. I might have a thing for self-sacrificing people. And Caroline wiping her mom's memories even when she had been accepted - UGH MY HEART.
The next three will be all very much not varied.
3. Damon and Alaric's conversation in the cellar in As I Lay Dying: there's nothing not awesome about that scene. Apart from Alaric instantly sobering up when he hears that Damon needs someone there - THOSE TWO. Everything about that scene is nailed. Alaric -going- there, Damon asking him to kill him and Alaric being like SCREW YOU NONE OF US IS DRUNK ENOUGH, Alaric giving him blood-spiked whiskey and being intent on helping him all along - those two. Those two.
2. Damon and Alaric's little drinking session at the end of Let The Right One In: or, the moment when I realized I gave a damn about this show and that it wasn't all just about Ian being in it for me. I loved the whole reluctant alliance they had going on, but really - it was pretty much the first time Damon reached out to someone who wasn't Stefan or Elena in earnest ('you can't deny it, we were badass' = <333), and he might have gotten a punch to the face out of it, but considering that he's the reason Alaric is what he is, it was a light consequence. And from then on Alaric hasn't managed to shake him off once and they've drank a lot of alcohol together and they've been awesome and in that moment I just knew that this stupid vampire flick had me for good.
1. Alaric kills Elijah for Damon in The Dinner Party, and pretty much everything that happened right before and after: or, there's a reason why The Dinner Party is my favorite episode, but basically: Alaric kills someone so that Damon doesn't have to and because it'd kill -him- (and the whole exchange on paper before was priceless), and as far as I see it, it's something not many people have done for Damon before. If at all. And he does it out of friendship as he states later (I'm your friend, you don't have any others, let's stop with the bullshit anyone?), and when he states that, Damon doesn't even think about snarking his way out of it. Considering how we started with those two (remember Damon killing Alaric..?), it made me go all heart-shaped eyes because people. THEY'RE FRIENDS. They're not even trying to hide it. THEY'RE BADASS. And Alaric genuinely gives a shit about Damon when he'd have all the reasons not to and when he doesn't have any obligation of any kind to him. And Damon obviously gives a shit as well, which considering that it's HIM we're talking about, isn't really granted. And I just - THESE TWO. THEY MAKE ME HAPPY.
There you go. Lol at the top three being all Damon/Alaric but hey I mean, who do you think I started caring about this show for? ;)
See you next round with the remaining top fives!
For now you get: top five shows you plan on watching but haven't yet, top five Deadwood quotes, top ten Italian movies (because I couldn't choose five) and top five vampire diaries porn moments.
Top five shows you plan on watching but haven't yet asked by ozmissage:
5. Community: I watched only the finale because Josh Holloway was in it, and I decided it was my kind of fun even if sitcoms aren't usually my thing. I have it downloaded and I should get through it quickly once I manage to start it - at least it's short episodes.
4. White Collar: I DON'T KNOW WHY I'M NOT CAUGHT UP YET. Everyone on my FL gushes about it and geez MATT BOMER IS IN IT but I haven't gotten around to it yet. It's on my list though. Oh yes.
3. Justified: Same as #4. Considering that there's Timothy Olyphant in a cowboy hat and half of the Deadwood cast was in it at some point, I really should have seen this last year. Oh but I'll get around to it.
2. Treme, plus bonus The Wire: meaning, I should finish The Wire before watching Treme, except that in order to watch The Wire properly I need subtitles and full attention, and watching it on the computer makes me get crossed eyes after three episodes. I really need to buy the dvds so I can sit down and go through it comfortably. That said Treme sounds like the kind of show I enjoy, it's written by people from The Wire and features Steve Earle music, so I'm pretty sure I'd dig it.
1. The Sopranos: Or, I'm pretty sure that if I watched this I'd die of happy. The acting looks stellar, it's set in NEW JERSEY, it stars STEVE VAN ZANDT, it's about complicated mafia dealings, it sounds like it's made for me to like it. BUT IT'S TOO LONG AND TOO MANY SEASONS and watching it all on the computer makes me want to slit my wrists. But I will get around to it, I will.
Top Five Deadwood quotes asked by ozmissage: premise: sadly on the internet I can't find half of the ones I want (like most of the Jane/Joanie dialogue or moar Trixie), so these are my favorite five out of the ones you can find for copy/paste without needing to get dvds out. I guess it shows that I'm very, very fond of Al.
5. Al: Did you fuck me when I was out?
Dan: Hell, no.
Al: Then quit looking at me like that.
^ this one killed me back then. Also because Dan was totes in love with him, but.
4. Al Swearengen: Was that a mick regiment?
Pinkerton: Yeah. What were you doing?
Al Swearengen: Cutting throats.
Pinkerton: I was asking whose flag you were under.
Al Swearengen: The famous cocksuckers brigade.
3. Calamity Jane: Any fucking domicile but the graveyard suits me fine. Don't you worry about me. I got things taken care of over here.
Joanie Stubbs: I don't know either. But I do know you're welcome wherever I go.
2. Calamity Jane: Question I wake to in the morning and pass out with at night: "What's my popularity with my fellow white people?"
1. Tie: a) Al Swearengen: Be in my joint in two hours, we're forming a fuckin' government.
b) Al Swearengen: You can't cut the throat of every cocksucker whose character it would improve.
I find 1b to be pretty much true in a lot of occasions. Also yes, half of this are Al quotes, but goddammit he had the best ones.
Top five ten Italian movies asked by space_dementia6
See, for how much I bitch about current Italian cinema (though lately we've started doing great again), I do love Italian cinema. To pieces. Which is why I couldn't pick just one, so you get ten. Sorry in advance for the rambling included.
10. Caro diario (title translated would be Dear Diary, but in the US it was only seen in festivals I think): I'm not putting videos from YT on it because everything I find is in Italian without subs, but anyway. This movie has the director (Nanni Moretti) directing himself in episodes (the most famous is him on a Vespa going around Rome and commenting on what he sees). It's not exactly for all tastes - I don't know how appealing it'd be for someone not familiar with Italian things, and if you don't like Moretti's movies in general you probably wouldn't care for this since it's basically his life philosophy, but I happen to like his movies and I love that while it might seem disconnected in the end it really isn't. And it has some pretty wicked cinematography (especially the aforementioned part where he goes around the city on the Vespa).
9. La maschera del demonio (Black Sunday, but literally it'd be the mask of the devil):
Click to viewOkay, that trailer is crap and in Italian the whole thing sounds a lot better, but that, my friends, is a damn fine horror movie and I love it to pieces. Mario Bava has to be the most underrated horror director ever or something, especially since he was influential even if not so well known, and that movie is so GOOD. It's genuinely scary, it has some wicked acting, Barbara Steele was perfect in it. Also witches! Dopplegangers! Tension! Black and white with awesome photography! Really, that trailer doesn't do justice to it.
8. I cento passi (The Hundred Steps): or, the last recent movie you can expect, the rest is all pre-80s. xD Okay, this stated. This movie (true story) is about this young man (Peppino Impastato) who lived in Sicily, and he was killed during the seventies because he denounced mafia crimes actively and repeatedly on his radio program (and especially the ones of this boss who lived in a house one hundred steps from his - and his father worked for that boss, and he was supposed to as well). That in a time where you didn't talk about the mafia. It has some amazing performances by all the actors (please don't see it dubbed), it's really well shot (differently from 90% of recent Italian movies which I don't know why but are shot like a TV fiction) and it has some real passion behind it. You can just feel it by watching it. And it made me cry. And it was a huge deal when it came out because the case had just been re-opened. (No video as well since it's all Italian - I doubt this was ever properly released outside Europe.)
7. Sacco e Vanzetti (Sacco and Vanzetti): the trailer is in Italian as I haven't found anything else, but it has Spanish subs and the Joan Baez/Morricone song at the ending, so I figured I'd put it.
This is probably the most known internationally of all the ones I mentioned until now since other than Morricone, the soundtrack was from Joan Baez. Anyway, this movie gets the prize for causing my first, huge movie-related sobfest. I was eight and I don't know why my mother decided I should have seen it THEN, but point is, regardless of the politics implications which just flew over my head back then, when I realized they were going to get sentenced to death for real I cried for twenty minutes. Then I actually re-watched it later and while technically it probably isn't a masterpiece, it really isn't the point. The point is that it gets you to think about a number of issues that go from political to ethical, and it's obvious when you watch it that everyone involved believed in making a movie about that story. Also, it was the first case in my life of movie-that-make-you-feel-genuine-rage. It was probably the first movie with such a serious matter that I've ever seen period - I have attachment to it, dammit.
6. Il grande silenzio (The Great Silence): or, first spaghetti western coming! And jesus THIS MOVIE I LOVE IT. Also, this trailer is what it is because the English dub is awful, but still.
It's not your usual spaghetti. The hero is mute, the heroine is a black woman, the bad guy is a total psycho in a way that I haven't ever seen in a spaghetti, it has a winter setting with snow everywhere which feels totally claustrophobic, it has the most gutting ending I've ever seen in a western period, and there's violence and cynicism up the wazoo. And it's GORGEOUS. The acting is stellar (it'd be worth it just for Jean Louis Trintignant managing to sell his part without having a single line since he's mute, but Klaus Kinski being totally insane is delicious as well - also I have a crush on the leading lady), it has one of the best osts Morricone ever put out and just, I want to marry it. Even if by the end it had left me a mess and really, if you can't stomach punch-to-the-gut endings then you probably should be warned.
5. Per qualche dollaro in più (For a Few Dollars More): or, we get into the top five and finally get proper English trailers. Even though hearing the English dubs will never not be freaking weird.
Or, my favorite spaghetti western/Leone that will ever exist. I'm aware that it's probably the least noticed out of the Man With No Name movies, but I'll always like it better. The cinematography is out of this world good, I love that it's LONG (since they had money and Leone did stuff like he wanted), it has the first example of Leone style duel, the plot is pretty darn good, I love everything it chooses to be (violence up the wazoo included), it has the best spaghetti western ending that will ever be (along with The Good, The Bad and the Ugly, but I like this one slightly better), the humor bits are insanely good and the things I'd do to Clint Eastwood in this - okay, I'll shut up now. (I'd do them in the other two too, don't worry.) Also the soundtrack is gorgeous. (Also I doubted whether I should have put A Fistful of Dollars since it's more important, having started the genre and all, but that one was based on another movie - this is oriiiginal.)
4. I soliti ignoti (Big Deal On Madonna Street - WTF IS THE US TITLE, translated it'd be The Usual Unknowns *headdesk*): or, this trailer is pure crap, but it was the only English one I could find.
So, basically, it boils down to: Mario Monicelli was a genius and once upon a time we made some pretty freaking awesome comedies, and we did it with very little money. And this movie is a riotfest, stars some of the best actors we ever produced, doesn't miss a beat and the ending is just priceless. Also please disregard that remake with George Clooney they did some five/six years ago - it doesn't get better than this one. If you want pure Italian comedy before the age of color kicked in for good, this is it.
3. Umberto D.: no video since there's not even the Italian trailer and the rest are all the ending scene. So. This movie is a masterpiece and if you haven't seen it, you're losing something. Saying it's about a retired professor who can't live with what he gets from the State, only has his dog and gets kicked out of his house from his stupid landlady doesn't really cover it. I've rarely seen any movie deal with loneliness in such a poignant way, actually the entire thing is the definition of poignant, and the fact that most of the actors (protagonist included) weren't professionals just makes it even better. It's going to gut you and make your cry/rage/want to punch the screen, and the problem is that I think that if you take a look around here it wouldn't be hard to find similar situation half a century later. I-love-this-movie, end of story.
2. Roma città aperta (Rome Open City): or, yes, I like Neorealism. Also there isn't a trailer, so I'm just linking you the most famous scene.
So. I can't even count the ways in which I love this movie. Apart from being a pretty remarkable objective result for having been shot with second-hand materials during WWII with American soldiers bringing the generators on set, EVERYTHING. The storytelling - it's a masterpiece on how you make a movie where two/three different storylines meet and come together in the end. THE ACTING. Anna Magnani was out-of-this-world-good, everyone (professional or not) was out-of-this-world good, it utterly captures the atmosphere of post-freed Rome since it was shot just after that happened, and I don't know - I feel like blathering about it wouldn't make it justice in any case since it's too good for words.
Aaaand DRUM ROLL!
1. Ultimo tango a Parigi (Last Tango in Paris): not the proper trailer, it's fan-made, but it works.
Or: this is not just Italian films top ten, this is in my overall top five and forever will be. And no, it's not just because it features naked Marlon Brando. When I saw it first I had figured it'd be just a series of sex scenes (and to be honest right now you see much worse in R-rated movies that don't get banned). I was very much wrong, because okay, it's sex scenes, but it actually says a whole damn lot of things through sex scenes and outside of sex scenes. It might seem like the plot isn't that much, but what there is - the way their anonymous sex affects their real lives, his struggle with his wife killing herself and the fact that he's the one wanting to make a supposedly fake relationship real, it all pans out and it makes this about a lot more than just sex. Also I'm still of the opinion that this is the best acting Marlon Brando ever did, and that's saying a lot. (Not like poor Maria Schneider wasn't good as well.) The cinematography is stunning, the directing is flawless, the music works perfectly too and just, there isn't a single second in this movie that is out of place. I'll take the whole package. Also, it's set in PARIS and I'll never complain about that.
Top five vampire porn diaries moments, asked by mollivanders: or, don't expect me to be original, okay.
5. Stefan and Elena's conversation in The Last Day: it's not really a mystery that I ship that. (Yeah, I don't even know. I'm still like WTF.) I think that they're adorable and that they have one of the few sort-of-mature canon relationships that I've seen even if she's seventeen. Still, in vampire related things you tend to have things romanticized to the umpteenth degree in the 'omg we can be together forever' kinda way - and that's why I loved that scene. They're all being cute and adorable and pretending that this isn't possibly Elena's last day as a human and then she tells him that she loves him but she's darn seventeen and she can't think about being with him for an eternity and forgetting all the rest like having a family and a LIFE. And he gets it. And I was like 'FINALLY', because romance is all good, but it's not always all so great when you see the disadvantages.
4. Caroline and Tyler being adorable in Sun Also Rises tied with Caroline wiping her mom's memories in No Exit: I couldn't choose so I figured I'd go for this. I used to dislike Caroline - now I couldn't have the show without her. She's awesomecakes. And I love her to pieces. And I wanted to choose one but then I figured I'd tie these up. The first because while it was angst-ridden I just loved how adorable they managed to be and how they're so at ease with each other and how they're the most lovely interspecies romance ever. The second - it was the first time I cried while watching this show. Seriously. I might have a thing for self-sacrificing people. And Caroline wiping her mom's memories even when she had been accepted - UGH MY HEART.
The next three will be all very much not varied.
3. Damon and Alaric's conversation in the cellar in As I Lay Dying: there's nothing not awesome about that scene. Apart from Alaric instantly sobering up when he hears that Damon needs someone there - THOSE TWO. Everything about that scene is nailed. Alaric -going- there, Damon asking him to kill him and Alaric being like SCREW YOU NONE OF US IS DRUNK ENOUGH, Alaric giving him blood-spiked whiskey and being intent on helping him all along - those two. Those two.
2. Damon and Alaric's little drinking session at the end of Let The Right One In: or, the moment when I realized I gave a damn about this show and that it wasn't all just about Ian being in it for me. I loved the whole reluctant alliance they had going on, but really - it was pretty much the first time Damon reached out to someone who wasn't Stefan or Elena in earnest ('you can't deny it, we were badass' = <333), and he might have gotten a punch to the face out of it, but considering that he's the reason Alaric is what he is, it was a light consequence. And from then on Alaric hasn't managed to shake him off once and they've drank a lot of alcohol together and they've been awesome and in that moment I just knew that this stupid vampire flick had me for good.
1. Alaric kills Elijah for Damon in The Dinner Party, and pretty much everything that happened right before and after: or, there's a reason why The Dinner Party is my favorite episode, but basically: Alaric kills someone so that Damon doesn't have to and because it'd kill -him- (and the whole exchange on paper before was priceless), and as far as I see it, it's something not many people have done for Damon before. If at all. And he does it out of friendship as he states later (I'm your friend, you don't have any others, let's stop with the bullshit anyone?), and when he states that, Damon doesn't even think about snarking his way out of it. Considering how we started with those two (remember Damon killing Alaric..?), it made me go all heart-shaped eyes because people. THEY'RE FRIENDS. They're not even trying to hide it. THEY'RE BADASS. And Alaric genuinely gives a shit about Damon when he'd have all the reasons not to and when he doesn't have any obligation of any kind to him. And Damon obviously gives a shit as well, which considering that it's HIM we're talking about, isn't really granted. And I just - THESE TWO. THEY MAKE ME HAPPY.
There you go. Lol at the top three being all Damon/Alaric but hey I mean, who do you think I started caring about this show for? ;)
See you next round with the remaining top fives!