Category: Movies
Tarantino’s Choices for the 11 Greatest Movies of All Time
The PlayList recently posted Quentin Tarantino’s Choices for the 11 Greatest Movies of All Time.
Tarantino has created an interesting list. I’ve never developed a top anything past two: Rocky and The Wizard of Oz. I think if I tried the rest would be interchangeable based on my mood.
The Best Movie Creatures of All Time
/Film posted their choices for The Best Movie Creatures of All Time. Using just their list, my top three (in alpha order) are:
- Alien
- Creature from the Black Lagoon
- The Thing (John Carpenter version)
Now if I went off-list, then I would have considered…
- The Werewolf of London: That is what a werewolf should look like
- The Thing (original version)
- Predator
“Kong: Skull Island” Limited Edition Prints by Francesco Francavilla
Francesco Francavilla has created a very cool limited edition print for Kong Skull Island. There are actually two versions that you can see at Mondotees.com.
“Baby Driver” Official Trailer, International Trailer and Poster are Here!
Wow! Baby Driver looks like a great ride. Check out the official trailer below and the international trailer even farther down.
Rocky and Mickey Limited Edition Maquettes
Have you seen these Rocky and Mickey limited edition statues coming from NECA?
These limited edition maquettes (statues) are based on a famous stopmotion commercial from the late 1990s that starred Rocky and his trainer Mickey in puppet form. Even in stylized form, those two had selling power!
Working from the actual puppets used to make the commercial, we’ve reproduced Rocky and Mickey as extra-detailed maquettes. Rocky stands approximately 12″ tall and has fabric boxing shorts. Mickey stands approximately 10″ tall and features fabric hat and clothing.
Both statues are in accurate scale to each other and have movable eyes that can be positioned in various directions.
Comes with two display bases. Limited to 1500 pieces worldwide
Any of my deep-pocket buddies wondering about an early birthday or Christmas present for me… now ya know. ; )
21 Movies I’m Embarrassed to Admit I Love
Germain Lussier and io9 present 21 Movies I’m Embarrassed to Admit I Love. Using just Lussier’s list, here are my top 3 movies…
- Armageddon – is an action/adventure by way of a disaster movie wrapped around a love story. Yeah, it’s over the top but what do you expect when you send deep water oil drillers into space to save the world?
- Independence Day – is another over the top combo disaster film by way of alien invasion… and that’s before we even get to Randy Quaid cropdusting an alien spaceship to death.
- Twister – is a disaster movie that gets crazy even before we see the flying cow. But like Armageddon and Independence Day are fun rides.
Although they didn’t make the list, two movies that would have are The 13th Warrior and Babylon A.D. — love ’em both even if no one else does!
“28 Days Later”: The Intimacy of Horror
28 Days Later: The Intimacy of Horror is a well made examination of how Danny Boyle amped up the horror through the use of intimacy.
18 Things We Learned from John Carpenter’s “Rio Bravo” Commentary
Rob Hunter and Film School Rejects present 18 Things We Learned from John Carpenter’s Rio Bravo Commentary. Here are my three favorites…
2. Hawks is Carpenter’s favorite director, and this is one of his favorite films ever made. He’s long credited it with being the inspiration for his own Assault on Precinct 13.
8. Robert Mitchum’s brother, John, plays the bartender in the scene where Chance and Dude enter the bar in search of the wounded bad guy.
9. The belt buckle Wayne wears during the film was a gift from Hawks upon the completion of their first film together, Red River. It features the brand from the ranch his character owned in the film.
The Official Trailer for “The Fate of the Furious”!
Here’s the Official Trailer for The Fate of the Furious!
I’m a fan of the series but have a hard time with the idea that Dom has turned his back on his family. Everyone knows he hasn’t. Still with the great cast and way over the top action it should be a fun couple of hours.
The Real Reason ‘Hudson Hawk’ is So Bonkers
Even Hudson Hawk‘s most devoted fans would admit that the movie goes waaaay over the top.
Guess what? It wasn’t always meant to be like that!
During filming of Hudson Hawk, testing on Bruce Willis’ previous movie, The Bonfire of the Vanities, showed that audiences loved Willis. They were even going to re-edit Bonfire prior to its release to make Willis’ role bigger.
Suddenly Bruce Willis had much more say on Hudson Hawk so it kept getting wilder and wilder. I’m not complaining since I’ve always enjoyed Hudson Hawk but it is interesting to consider what it would have been like as a more conventional heist film.
Check out The Real Reason ‘Hudson Hawk’ is So Bonkers by Fred Topel at /Film for the complete lowdown.
The Top 5 Movie Mistakes for “John Wick”
Here are The Top 5 Movie Mistakes for John Wick.
The 25 Best Action Movies to Get Your Adrenaline Pumping
Gem Seddon and GamesRadar.com present The 25 Best Action Movies to Get Your Adrenaline Pumping. It’s a good list which includes Terminator 2, First Blood, Hard Boiled, Raiders of the Lost Arc, The Matrix and more. Very, very tough to narrow it down to just the top three but I did. Here they are in alpha order…
- Aliens
- Die Hard
- John Wick
I chose these three because they really redefined the genre.
Aliens took a haunted house movie and turned it into a war picture.
Die Hard confined the action to a building. Movies after that were summed up as Die Hard on Air Force One; Die Hard on a Boat; etc.
John Wick just took the action to an all-new level.
Please be aware your mileage may vary and these choices are subject to change… but for now, these are my picks for top three.
TCM’s Noir Alley!
Film Noir fans are going to love TCM’s Noir Alley. Each week at 10am Eddie Muller will introduce a classic film noir that will then run on TCM. Fans will live tweet as enter “a shadowy cinematic world populated by tough guys, femmes fatales and assorted thugs and slugs.”
First up is the Maltese Falcon staring Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Peter Lorre and Sydney Greenstreet in the classic adapted (from Dashiell Hammet’s novel) and directed by John Huston.
15 Fun Facts About “Crocodile Dundee”
Roger Cormier and Mental_Floss present 15 Fun Facts About Crocodile Dundee. Here are three of my favorites…
4. ONE OF THE WRITERS DIDN’T THINK THE “KNIFE” LINE WAS VERY FUNNY.
“It wasn’t funny on paper,” Shadie admitted about the line “That’s not a knife.” The quote was a collaboration between the three writers, and it became one of the movie’s most memorable scenes.
11. 20TH CENTURY FOX (RUDELY) SAID “NO” TO ACQUIRING THE AMERICAN RIGHTS.
John Cornell showed the movie to a 20th Century Fox executive while he was in Hollywood trying to sell it. ”There was some idiot who sat with his feet on the desk and watched it for about 20 minutes, looked at this watch about eight times and told me that it wouldn’t work,” Cornell remembered. ”He was extremely rude. I sometimes get pleasure from thinking about what the look is like on his face at a time like this.” Paramount ended up acquiring the rights.
15. HOGAN AND KOZLOWSKI GOT MARRIED IN REAL LIFE.
They wed in 1990 and had a son, Chance. Kozlowski filed for divorce in 2013.
