TOP 10 MOVIE/TV QUOTES WORTH LIVING BY
10.) "It's all in the reflexes" - Jack Burton, Big Trouble in Little China Aldous Huxley once wrote, "experience isn't what happens to a man, it's what a man does with what happens to him." Jack Burton said the same thing, but with less words, and after he threw a knife through the head of a 7 foot tall Chinese sorcerer that was about to take over the world. The universe doesn't give a shit what trouble or prosperity comes your way. It's square on your shoulders to react to your circumstances. You could be born an Asian girl in that ...
THIS MEANS WAR
Well, that was disappointing. This Means War is tone deaf and pointless, the comedy is dumb, the action standard punch-shoot-punch that you have seen a thousand times, and McG has no sense of humor. More to the point, I was hoping for something incompetent enough to be entertainingly shitty, but no such luck there either. So I have little to discuss here about the movie. So let's talk for a minute about gay sex. The two men are gay, no question. This is not a bros bonding sort of thing - the men love each other with an intensity unquieted by ...
SAFE HOUSE
The Bourne films worked as well as they did due to an efficiency that bordered on fetishistic. Not a word or a shot wasted with all details used to forward the momentum, unless characterization was involved, which also provided a push. Damon embodied an assassin to perfection by following that ethic, every move calculated, every gesture speaking on his behalf. Any attempt to ape the Bourne films will stumble unless that efficiency is also copied. Along those lines, Safe House stumbles a portion of the time with too many lulls between occasionally engaging action scenes. Still, it is entertaining on ...
NOTHING SACRED
That the press will do anything for a story is hardly news, even to the moviegoing public in 1937. To paraphrase a great line from a great movie, anything is grist for their mill. Then and now, there is nothing sacred for a story, no means too ridiculous to get that story, and there are no limits in skewing that 'news' in serving the needs of the owners, investors, and advertisers in your media network. The inherent falsehood in news is not limited to the press - everyone is complicit, from the businesses that profit off goods related to the ...
CHRONICLE
Once a character becomes a protagonist, they tend to cease being a human. Flaws are sacrificed to maximize appeal for an audience, rendering the behavior of a character unrecognizable to someone from planet Earth. That this is dull beyond belief goes without saying. Having flawed, stupid, offensive, or otherwise shitheaded characters make stories far more involving since we can recognize a bit of ourselves in them. This is borne in mind in Chronicle, which posits a creation story for three kids who acquire telekinesis from an unidentified source. Most superheroes in pop culture got their powers at random, yet the ...
ELVIS ON FILM: CHANGE OF HABIT
King of Kings
TOP 10 MOVIE/TV QUOTES WORTH LIVING BY
Take a seat. Wait your turn. Tell the nice lady thank you. Don’t drink and drive. Wear pants. We’ve built ourselves into a prison of written and unwritten rules.
THIS MEANS WAR
Exuberant gay sex.
MOMMIE DEAREST
She’s not mad at you, she’s mad at the dirt.
THE GREY
The bleakest adventure this side of Antonioni.
SAFE HOUSE
This just in: our government is corrupt.
NOTHING SACRED
We agree to the lie because it’s more fun that way.
CHRONICLE
Dude, with great, like power, brah, comes, you know, stuff.
THE INDEFENSIBLE – THE HOLLYWOOD KNIGHTS
The greatest generation deserved that flaming bag of dogshit.
SPAWN OF THE SLITHIS
Revenge of the Eisenhower Era filtered through remedial film school.