Note: To be fair I don’t like Twilight because I don’t understand it. I’m a guy, not a girl (and I say girl because it seems that certain women don’t understand it either), and, I’ve actually watched the first two movies so I can say for certain that they’re crap. No, I’m not putting this note in here because I’m scared of drawing the ire of Twilight fans. I’m sure I can handle a bunch of angry twelve year olds. I should write a post hating on Justin Bieber too.
I like the new Muse song, but it’s for the new Twilight movie, which kinda sucks. Well, it will suck, it hasn’t come out yet, so it hasn’t had an opportunity to fail, but believe you me, Twilight transitions from “potentially crap” to “actually crap” fairly seamlessly. You know that dual-screen sequence in (500) Days of Summer depicting “expectations” vs “reality”? Yeah, if I did something similar, I’d put the Eclipse trailer on the left, “expectations”, and a piece of turd on the right titled “reality.”
I need to start up a film production that takes back songs from the bands we love used in the movies we hate. This way we can enjoy the song and pretend it’s from another film. It’ll be like brainwashing ourselves!
Having just read this list, I am fairly disappointed at some of the movies that made it. I won’t argue with #1 because it was a pretty badass moment (but you’d have to watch the film to know that. To put it into context, Doc Holliday was pretty much on his death bed when he comes out for this gun fight and still fucks the other guy up), but, Bruce Lee and Wesley Snipes? While they are both badass people, their quotes aren’t that great. I’ll commend them though for going out of their way to put something different into their list, but the end result is that some of those quotes seem wedged in. They don’t fit at all.
So, here are some alternatives that I feel should have been included. These aren’t honourable mentions, more like, glaring omissions. I’m quite shocked that DeNiro didn’t make the list at all (“Are you looking at me? Are you looking at me?” is both iconic and badass, but I suppose that would have been a little too obvious and cliché to add).
Heat – Neil McCauley
“What am I doing? I’m talking to an empty telephone…”
I couldn’t embed this so you’re going to have to do the old fashioned thing and click on the link. In this scene Robert DeNiro gives a pretty chilling threat after someone botches a murder attempt on him during a money exchange. This is worthy of mention because it’s only something Robert DeNiro can get away with saying, everyone else will just look stupid because they can’t match his level of intensity.
Reservoir Dogs – Mr. White
“You shoot me in a dream, you better wake up and apologize.”
Hmm, perhaps this list didn’t include any of these two quotes because it was difficult finding a YouTube link that lets you embed it. I think if you mine Tarantino movies long enough you could populate several lists with his quotes because he is such a damn good writer, but for the truly badass quotes, go to Reservoir Dogs. I’m sure I can find something badass from each character:
Mr. Orange:
“Fuck you! Fuck you! I’m fucking dying in here! I’m fucking dying in here!”
Clint’s another easy one. He could easily fill this list as well. Badass is trying to make someone apologize to your horse then killing them when they don’t.
I love science fiction and I definitely love stories set in a dystopian future. With that being said, I’ve never been able to muster the courage to watch Alien or Aliens because it used to freak me out so much as a kid. Back when I lived at Alton Towers we had to take out our trash in a garbage chute, which required me to walk around the corner and into a room. One day, after watching bits of Alien I kept imagining the aliens crawling up the chute and ready to pounce on my face and come out from my belly. I never took out the trash again.
I also never watched any of the Alien series despite the first two being directed by Ridley Scott (!) and James Cameron (!!) respectively. So! Today I figured I’d go out and buy one of them and ended up with Aliens (the second one directed by James Cameron) because I need to overcome this fear. I just hope this finishes before the sun goes down.
Edit: This movie was friggin’ awesome! Ripley duct tapes a machine gun/grenade launcher to a flame thrower. Damn! And Bill Paxton is the greatest. Time to watch the first one!
I wrote about Avatara while back and that I’d go back a little later on to polish up the post or add more to it but never did. Well, I’m sorry. Not only have I been busy (lies), but it’s very difficult for me to give a shit these days (truth). I usually just sit in my chair wishing I was someone else. Then it hit me! The ability to actually be someone else is what makes Avatar so awesome.
Apparently there’s been cases of Pandora withdrawal with people feeling depressed or suicidal after watching the movie because they were upset that the place didn’t actually exist. They seemed to have neglected the quite minor detail that it is one of the most hostile places for humans…ever. In fact, the main character is there because his twin brother died on that planet. What’s the rush to get to Pandora? The most attractive idea in that film is not the environment, but the ability to actually start over and be someone new.
There are days where I don’t want to be me. I’ll go through some rough patches and the worst thing about having to endure those times in your life is sleeping. Sleep is great! You rest, you close your eyes, and when you wake up you’ll feel energized to take on the day. Except when depression hits. Sleeping doesn’t have the same rejuvenating effect when you’re depressed because when you wake up, your life still sucks and whatever’s bothering you will continue chipping away at you. For me, I don’t even get to dream when I’m feeling down. Dreams would be an escape, and that would interfere with my suffering (ha!). I don’t care much for Pandora itself, although it looks like a very beautiful place to be, I just want to be able to sleep and wake up as someone else like how it works in the movie. To be able to abandon my life completely, even if it is only for a moment, so I can just get rid of all my responsibilities and start over somewhere would be an awesome thing to have. Hell, I’ll settle for the ability to have lucid dreams. Unfortunately, in this world, you’re stuck with who you are and if you’re unhappy with it there’s no avatar for you to become. Unless you play World of Warcraft.
I’m a little tired tonight, since I had work this morning and went to Woodbridge to watch it after. I’ll probably finish/polish up this post after, but for now:
- It was ridiculous.
- The 3d was awesome. Don’t even bother watching it in 2d, it’s stupid if you do that. And watch it in IMAX if you can, it’s worth the trip.
- It’s not that I don’t like Michelle Rodriguez, just, I’ve always disliked the characters that she plays. Something about them always trying too hard to look tough. She was, however, good in this film.
- I thought Michael Bay sucked before, but, man, James Cameron just makes him look like such an amateur.
- The story was alright.
I really don’t have much else to add, because you’ve probably all heard it before. Yes, the visuals are stunning. When you get goosebumps watching the movie, it’s a good sign.