Movie Wish List
► I can't really think of anything new to say today, other than my comments on the links below. So here's a list of movies I want to get on DVD but have so far been unable to find let alone get. This isn't meant as an exhaustive on exclusive list, but merely a list of movies I can remember right now that I'd really want.► Gentlemen Broncs
► Being There
► The Rocketeer
► The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across The 8th Dimension
► My Favorite Year
► The City of Lost Children
► Brazil
► Salem's Lot (1979 mini series)
► Nashville
► The Thing
► North by Northwest
► Fascination
► Session 9
► Rio Bravo
► From chat:KimF: Sweet Jesus, drug commercials are scary..."Side effect may include but are not limited: Boiling Blood, shitting venomous snakes and spontaneous zombification."
Derek: hahaha
Derek: yeah
Derek: "the cure is worse than the disease!"
► Scary/sexy corset features "Mr Lovecraft's haunting visage" and "tentacular sucker scars" - A Lovecraft corset? I'd be afraid that to gaze upon it would drive one mad.
► The Rebel Legion At Best Buy For Star Wars - Star Wars geeks, Jesus Christ, do they know they don't have to get dressed up for everything?
► 30 Greatest Twist Endings - Some twist endings work, some really don't. The ones that work do so because they either add a new layer of revelatory depth to the proceeding film, whether revealing something that had been hidden from the viewer or having been hinted at all along in clues.
Twist endings don't work when they're seemingly tacked on as an afterthought, or as a cheap attempt at one final shock or to make up for a lack of original ideas. Movies like The Descent and Fallen suffer for this. And sometimes the ending will invalidate the entire film, turning the film into a two hour shaggy dog story. Occasionally even that kind of ending can work (in the case of The Usual Suspects), but often you just end up with the cinematic equivalent of the direct mooning the audience.
► 'Lorax' poster: Orange you glad it's not another 'Garfield' movie? - I thought the Lorax was going to be another live-action Dr. Seuss adaption. Glad to see it's an animated movie. The live action versions of the Grinch and The Cat in the Hat always remind me of the worst big budget garish Hollywood travesties. Something more akin to the movie-within-a-movie version of A Christmas Carol in Scrooged ("and Mary Lou Retton as Tiny Tim!"), mistaking spectacle for heart.
► ThunderLOLcats - The internet is a very weird place. Also, I've been pronouncing "memes" as "mimes" all this time and never before thought it was wrong.
Quote of the Moment
[Harry is under the influence of a truth serum]
Samir: Is there anything you'd like to tell me before we start?
Harry: Yeah. I'm going to kill you pretty soon.
Samir: I see. How, exactly?
Harry: First I'm going to use you as a human shield. Then I'm going to kill this guard over here with the Patterson trocar on the table. And then I was thinking about breaking your neck.
Samir: And what makes you think you can do all that?
Harry: You know my handcuffs?
Samir: Mmm-hmm.
Harry: [holds up his hands] I picked them.
- True Lies (1994)
Drinking: A&W root beer
Eating: onion rings
► Being There
► The Rocketeer
► The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across The 8th Dimension
► My Favorite Year
► The City of Lost Children
► Brazil
► Salem's Lot (1979 mini series)
► Nashville
► The Thing
► North by Northwest
► Fascination
► Session 9
► Rio Bravo
► From chat:KimF: Sweet Jesus, drug commercials are scary..."Side effect may include but are not limited: Boiling Blood, shitting venomous snakes and spontaneous zombification."
Derek: hahaha
Derek: yeah
Derek: "the cure is worse than the disease!"
► Scary/sexy corset features "Mr Lovecraft's haunting visage" and "tentacular sucker scars" - A Lovecraft corset? I'd be afraid that to gaze upon it would drive one mad.
► The Rebel Legion At Best Buy For Star Wars - Star Wars geeks, Jesus Christ, do they know they don't have to get dressed up for everything?
► 30 Greatest Twist Endings - Some twist endings work, some really don't. The ones that work do so because they either add a new layer of revelatory depth to the proceeding film, whether revealing something that had been hidden from the viewer or having been hinted at all along in clues.
Twist endings don't work when they're seemingly tacked on as an afterthought, or as a cheap attempt at one final shock or to make up for a lack of original ideas. Movies like The Descent and Fallen suffer for this. And sometimes the ending will invalidate the entire film, turning the film into a two hour shaggy dog story. Occasionally even that kind of ending can work (in the case of The Usual Suspects), but often you just end up with the cinematic equivalent of the direct mooning the audience.
► 'Lorax' poster: Orange you glad it's not another 'Garfield' movie? - I thought the Lorax was going to be another live-action Dr. Seuss adaption. Glad to see it's an animated movie. The live action versions of the Grinch and The Cat in the Hat always remind me of the worst big budget garish Hollywood travesties. Something more akin to the movie-within-a-movie version of A Christmas Carol in Scrooged ("and Mary Lou Retton as Tiny Tim!"), mistaking spectacle for heart.
► ThunderLOLcats - The internet is a very weird place. Also, I've been pronouncing "memes" as "mimes" all this time and never before thought it was wrong.
Click to viewQuote of the Moment
[Harry is under the influence of a truth serum]
Samir: Is there anything you'd like to tell me before we start?
Harry: Yeah. I'm going to kill you pretty soon.
Samir: I see. How, exactly?
Harry: First I'm going to use you as a human shield. Then I'm going to kill this guard over here with the Patterson trocar on the table. And then I was thinking about breaking your neck.
Samir: And what makes you think you can do all that?
Harry: You know my handcuffs?
Samir: Mmm-hmm.
Harry: [holds up his hands] I picked them.
- True Lies (1994)
Drinking: A&W root beer
Eating: onion rings