30 days of december babble, dec 14
today's yesterday's december babble is my favorite movie scene from a bad movie, for no_detective, with whatever definition of "bad movie" works for me. for this exercise, "bad movie" seems to be "nicolas cage was in it", because that's two of my favorite movies - the rock and gone in sixty seconds - which may or may not count as "good". (i mean, just because i like them doesn't make them quality films.) probably my favorite scene from the rock is what i think of as goodspeed's little glass box speech, because i remember it wrong - "most of the time i work in a little glass jar and lead a very uneventful life. i drive a volvo. a beige one. but what i'm dealing with here is one of the most deadly substances the earth has ever known, so what say you cut me some FRIGGIN' SLACK?" because i like how nicolas cage freaks out. also any time they have a reason to show all the toxic green glass balls, because i think they're really pretty. ("the second you don't respect this, it kills you.")
for gone in sixty seconds, and i'm pretty sure i've mentioned this before, there's a scene towards the end where memphis raines (nicolas cage :D ) is leading the cops around a demolition site, and the wrecking ball catches a pickup truck in the side and pushes it straight through a wall. like, literally through the wall. so the cops stop and drycoff (timothy olyphant, looking YOUNG) gets out and goes over to the pickup to see if the driver is ok - "are you all right?" "i think so...." "are you sure? 'cause you just went through a wall." i don't know why i love that so much, but i do.
and a movie that is genuinely not a good movie and that i didn't actually like - the architect, which i rented for sebastian stan and his fucking face. towards the end his character - martin - is at the morgue identifying a guy he kind of knew (the guy jumped from the roof of the housing project where he lived, and martin's phone number was in his pocket), and his sister comes to pick him up with the explanation that when he called her, he sounded like he needed someone. he says "i've been trying to sound like that my entire life", and only sebstan can deliver that line in such a way as to hit you in the feels. i mean, i mentioned it wasn't a good movie, didn't i? he doesn't get a lot to work with.
i'm watching ascension on syfy, speaking of bad movies, and while the idea is interesting - fifty years ago the us secretly launched a spaceship full of people for a hundred-year mission to settle another planet - the folks on the ship don't seem to have culturally moved on much from the early 60s. no new movies, or books, or music, and no sense that they ever had anything remotely approaching a counterculture. the security detail doesn't seem to have any idea how to deal with actual crime. altho the society isn't racially segregated, which is nice, and the clothes and hair and shoes are vaguely modernish. but the cultural stagnation is weird. and the acting is, uh, well, not everyone is that good. but it has tricia helfer, and she's always worth watching.
stargate inspired wedding rings - gorgeous and geeky!
for gone in sixty seconds, and i'm pretty sure i've mentioned this before, there's a scene towards the end where memphis raines (nicolas cage :D ) is leading the cops around a demolition site, and the wrecking ball catches a pickup truck in the side and pushes it straight through a wall. like, literally through the wall. so the cops stop and drycoff (timothy olyphant, looking YOUNG) gets out and goes over to the pickup to see if the driver is ok - "are you all right?" "i think so...." "are you sure? 'cause you just went through a wall." i don't know why i love that so much, but i do.
and a movie that is genuinely not a good movie and that i didn't actually like - the architect, which i rented for sebastian stan and his fucking face. towards the end his character - martin - is at the morgue identifying a guy he kind of knew (the guy jumped from the roof of the housing project where he lived, and martin's phone number was in his pocket), and his sister comes to pick him up with the explanation that when he called her, he sounded like he needed someone. he says "i've been trying to sound like that my entire life", and only sebstan can deliver that line in such a way as to hit you in the feels. i mean, i mentioned it wasn't a good movie, didn't i? he doesn't get a lot to work with.
i'm watching ascension on syfy, speaking of bad movies, and while the idea is interesting - fifty years ago the us secretly launched a spaceship full of people for a hundred-year mission to settle another planet - the folks on the ship don't seem to have culturally moved on much from the early 60s. no new movies, or books, or music, and no sense that they ever had anything remotely approaching a counterculture. the security detail doesn't seem to have any idea how to deal with actual crime. altho the society isn't racially segregated, which is nice, and the clothes and hair and shoes are vaguely modernish. but the cultural stagnation is weird. and the acting is, uh, well, not everyone is that good. but it has tricia helfer, and she's always worth watching.
stargate inspired wedding rings - gorgeous and geeky!