Martin Scorsese is widely regarded as one of the best directors in the industry today. You don’t need to be a film buff to enjoy most of his work, but if you are, you can appreciate it all the more. He has a large resume of impressive movies ranging from Goodfellas to Gangs of New York. He’s directed some of the most mesmerizing performances from Robert DeNiro and Leonardo DiCaprio. The last Director Filmography Ranked I did was for Christopher Nolan, and like him, it’s incredibly difficult to place one movie in front of another. So I eventually had to base it more off of what I’d rewatch over and over again. Hit the jump for the [very flawed and biased] ranking of the 8 Martin Scorsese movies I’ve seen so far. Be sure to recommend to me any ones I missed. I’ve particularly heard Casino is very good.
Cracked.com continues to be one of the best satirical writers out there on the vast web today. Once again they’ve come up with a sensible list of obscure movie details that wows its readers with its thought-out and flawless logic. This time, they’ve taken 6 seemingly happy endings to 6 different movies and laid out how, in all-reality, bodes illness for the future. Hit the link for the extremely satisfying breakdown. Spoilers beware.
When people ask me what my favorite movie of all time is, I give them a look of stupidity and pretension and then go into an arrogant monologue saying that I’ve seen so many movies that you’d have to divide them up into genres to truly tell you what my favorite from each one. It’s usually at that point where they’re so taken back by my blind arrogance that they default to the only genre they can relate to: comedy.
Lol, jk, that actually doesn’t happen as much as I let on, but what I mean to aim at is when people ask me what my favorite comedy is and more than often I’ll always say Tropic Thunder. Tropic Thunder delivers itself as a comedy in two different ways, based on its audience. To the eyes of a culturally ignorant, Tropic Thunder is decent comedy with its most memorable moment is Jack Black saying he’ll suck Brandon T. Jackson’s dic* if he cuts him down from the tree. Hardee-f*cking-Har. To the eyes of those who have a decent understanding of the Hollywood industry, Tropic Thunder is a pinata full of scathing satire, irreplaceable performances, and deep, well-thoughtout jokes. After the jump lies a breakdown of how this movie literally splits my sides every time I watch it and how moments that might have seemed confusing and irrelevant are actually this movie’s brightest gems.
Hollywood looks like it’s having plans to make entire movies out of popular board games. We’ve already seen the trailer to 2012’s Battleship [trailer below] and there are already plans for a Ouija Board and Candy Land movies. So IMDB posted a poll having rather hilarious theoretical plot lines for other popular boardgames. Here’s what the choices and the spread was.
Question: Which of these movies based on boardgames have the best chance of being made?
Votes Stratego: Russell Crowe leads his red army against Hugh Jackman’s blue army in the war-torn, near-future United States. (32.5%)
In Mousetrap, Christian Bale is an eccentric inventor with a new contraption that could end the world. (17.6%)
Ailing matriarch, Ellen Burstyn tries to bring her kids — Kate Winslet, Julia Roberts, Zach Galifianakis, and Matt Damon — closer together in Connect Four. (11.4%)
A virus in the Congo pits Garrett Hedlund, Olivia Wilde and Oliver Platt against Hungry, Hungry Hippos. (10.6%)
In Twister, Jennifer Aniston and Ryan Reynolds negotiate the perils of a new relationship dot by colored dot. (6.0%)
Jake Gyllen’haal is a medical student with an undisclosed health disorder in the TV show, Operation. (4.9%)
Kristen Stewart plays a blind college student trying to find her swim coach boyfriend in Marco, Polo. (4.6%)
Forensics expert Drew Barrymore follows a series of mysterious tiles that spell “trouble” in Scrabble. (4.5%)
Mark Wahlberg, Chris Evans, Common and January Jones team up to beat the house odds in Yahtzee. (3.8%)
Solitaire: This standalone story, set in the universe of Cast Away, finds Tom Hanks playing out his fate hand by hand. (3.0%)
Hilary Swank crusades to spread worldwide awareness of the Chechen War in Sorry. (1.3%)
I finally got around to watching this latest installment of the Pirates of the Caribbean series. There’s a number of different things about this last one. 1) The dropping of the series main couple, Will and Elizabeth Turner, 2) The shift away from the Davy Jones plot for the fountain of youth story, and 3) A slew of new characters. For better or for worse? Does this movie recapture the magic from the first one? Unfortunately, as Captain Jack Sparrow’s legacy battling zombies, Spaniards, and Blackbeard grows, his mannerisms, sword fights, and dramatic escapes have stayed relatively the same. So just because some new faces were slapped on, Pirates round 4 doesn’t offer anything substantially new, it does however provide itself as a fairly decent action flick involving one of the most iconic characters in movie history.
Whether the poster is playing off of a pun or on a cultural and racial level, these movie mash ups are hilarious none the less. These were kind of neat, so I thought I’d share them with you. This is the first image of a gallery of about 12 movies or so. Hit the jump to view the rest.
A couple of weeks ago, I did a post relating vampire movies worth your while. I got a lot of support and feedback on that, so I turned to another monster genre that held it’s own for it’s success. Zombie movies are generally a lot different from the general vampire movie. While vampire movies are more based on the ideas of eternal love, the sexual aspect of blood sucking, and the drama of hiding from the light, zombie movies are more related to the strength of human kind in the face of Apocalypse and the bad-assery of killing as many zombies as possible. Hit the jump for the list of awesome zombie movies. I apologize for missing some, especially any really early zombie movies.
Some movies have moments where the violence is so disgusting or the scene so disturbing, that it would disturbing or disgusting for you as a human being if you didn’t feel any antipathy towards the seen, there’s likely something wrong with you. So I’ve compiled a list of several fairly mainstream movies that have fairly graphic scenes. I’m aware there are films that are relatively close to being snuff films that show extremely graphic moments, but I’m going to stay more towards Hollywood and stuff. Hit the jump for the following scenes. WARNING: extremely graphic scenes and videos below. I don’t recommend you watch any scenes of movies you if you haven’t seen them as they might give away spoilers.
If you haven’t already noticed, the bottom right of the side bar has featured a couple of my favorite articles. At the beginning of each month [welcome November!], I’ll change them up to keep them fresh. They’re there for any new visitors who haven’t seen all of my posts to get the cream of the crop in hopes that they’ll return. It just makes for easier facilitation without the visitor having to click through weeks and weeks of posts they’re not particularly interested in. Anyways, enjoy!
How do you rank the best of the best? With loads of bias and favortism, that’s how. I recently tried to finish up the past decade of best picture movies with finally watching Crash for the first time. Now that all of that is said and done, I can finally attempt to rank each of these movies. They’re all extremely good and it’s difficult to place on in front of the other for different reasons. This ranking was as difficult as ranking Pixar’s best. It’s just way too hard for someone to do without a score system of some sort. Some have really strong supporting characters, others fantastic storylines. How put one in front of the other? In the end, I decided on placing movies I’d watch again and again as top priority. Sure, my reasoning is full of holes and my descriptions don’t often justify the ranking, but I’m more doing this to hear what you guys have to say. Anyways here’s the breakdown and thus the start of my journey to seal up the 90’s Best picture. Here I come: Shakespeare in Love, The English Patient, and Unforgiven.
I recently just watched Peep World out of an interest in seeing Michael C. Hall outside of serial killer form. First I’d like to say Hall doesn’t have too much range, because I still got a crazy, serial killer vibe from him as a regular house husband. But seeing the rest of the cast, Rainn Wilson as a loser brother, Sarah Silverman as the bitchy sister, and what looks like John Ralfio from Parks and Recreation as the young ambitious brother that sold out his dysfunctional family’s dirty secrets for profit in the form of a book, it reminded me of other memorable dysfunctional families I’ve seen in movies and television. Peep World had an interesting idea, but the Meyerwitz family wasn’t dysfunctional or colorful enough as it could’ve been. Here’s 6 more dysfunctional families that makes me 10x more thankful for my own. Spoilers below.
It’s almost Halloween and it’s a season of horror movies and scaring each other. That means a whole mess of movie news are coming in and lists are being created out the wazoo to entertain the curious. So I’ve compiled some of the internet’s best on Movie news to entertain you guys so far. Meanwhile, in all the horror movie madness, I’m trying to jump on the American Horror Story FX bandwagon to see if that’s any good. You guys have any opinions?
Villains are essential in making any movie worth its while. We can either love them or hate them, usually for the same reasons: whether it be for their disillusioned sense of morality or ingenious methods of putting our heroes in a pinch. For this we have to thanks the great writers who came up with them and the actors who brought them to life. So here’s a list of my favorite villains in movies and the actors who did a great job portraying them. Spoilers below.
It’s just a week for movie reviews isn’t it? There was a lot of talk from Michael Bay about his follow-up to his multimillion dollar Transformers franchise. There was talk about how even he himself thought the second one was absolutely horrible – all ranging from the acting to the story. He claimed he would fix a lot of these mistakes in his third and final chapter of the Transformers series, including the incomprehensible story and the fact that too many people kept dying and coming back to life. Despite these atrocious elements that made watching the second one unbearable, it still provided itself as a means to fill the destruction and sci-fi chaos that my inner 10 year old occasionally required. I figured Dark of the Moon would be similar. So even though I knew itwas going to be a trip from hell, I watched it anyways.
I’m not exactly in the demographic this movie is aimed at. as I’m still 19 and kinda far from having a boss that I’d like to kill, but that doesn’t make this movie any less relatable. Horrible Bosses does a good job in finding likable protagonists and villains to entertain those who don’t have bosses they want to kill. The story itself isn’t too original or great and not all the jokes soar, but the cast is what really shines here. It’s very clear that the cast has fun filming most of the movie and it shows in their dialogue. Whether it be Colin Farrell’s suprisingly comedic chops, Jennifer Aniston’s delightful naughtiness, or Charlie Day screaming, Horrible Bosses is a character driven movie that’s likely worth your while.
Samurai Jack is one of the few Cartoon Network series that I see as entertainment for adults. Had it not been on Cartoon Network, Jack could have been incredibly badass and not only limited to slicing robots. I have compiled deviantarts take on Samurai Jack. Interestingly enough, this could’ve been a character profile for Jack’s Nemesis, Aku. Check out the gallery below.
I’ve never known Ryan Gosling to be an action star. I’ve affiliated him with movies like Crazy, Stupid, Love, The Notebook, Lars and the Real Girl, and Blue Valentine – a very talented actor who should stick with dramas. So when I saw him in this movie with a premise very similar to Transporter, I was confused if whether or not he was simply getting a paycheck or if he found something special in the script he read. After sitting through it, I found out which one of those were true. And it turns out Ryan Gosling doesn’t need and likely never will require a ‘paycheck’ because Drive turns out to be one the best films of the year, and you’ll be seeing Gosling again and again after his mesmerizing performance. SPOILERS.
There’s nothing like watching a movie when the cast seemingly spontaneously breaks out into song and dance. This is especially welcome when you’re not watching a musical and weren’t expected that to happen in the first place. Here, I have compiled a video list of awesome moments where the cast broke into song and beat when we likely were least expecting it. Hit the jump for the musical bits, and don’t forget to slap me on the hands for missing one you love.
One of the main reason we watch movies is to watch a likable and relatable hero/heroine overcome hardship and trial in the span of two hours. It’s the reason that they’re likable that allows us to sit for two hours of our lives in a chair/couch/what-have-you. On several occasions, I’ve seen movies when the opposite happens and I find myself in a situation: do I sit through 2 hours worth and watch an entire movie with an unlikable protagonist I care nothing about? Some heroes are so unlikable, that I’ve wanted to stop watching a movie because of how difficult to become attached and to care for this particular character. That doesn’t mean the movie isn’t good, it just makes it difficult to follow through, and usually the unlikable character gets some sort of redemption by the end. It’s only when the movie ends as a total drag that I feel pissed off for wasting two hours of my life. Unlikable leads areprevalent in indie films and I honestly probably haven’t seen enough to do this list justice, but I’m gonna damn well try. Anyways, hit the jump to see some characters from good movies that are more than unlikable.
Of all the film award ceremonies, it is well known that the Academy Awards [Oscars] are the most prestigious. It’s great seeing everyone dressing up, everyone acting all excited, and all that award show jazz. As wound up as everyone might seem on film’s most important night, every once in a while, a very cool and memorable moment happens, whether it be an opening monologue or an acceptance speech. A while back I did an MTV Movie Award compilation of awesome moments. Below, I’ve compiled a list of videos of awesome Oscar moments [at least awesome moments when I was alive, I’m sure there’s a lot of awesome moments that spanned from the 30s to now, but I’m just not that dedicated enough to dig deep at the award speech of 1952 that shook the entire industry]. Let me know if I missed any and hit the jump to see the rest.
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My Favorite Comedy and Why: Tropic Thunder
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When people ask me what my favorite movie of all time is, I give them a look of stupidity and pretension and then go into an arrogant monologue saying that I’ve seen so many movies that you’d have to divide them up into genres to truly tell you what my favorite from each one. It’s usually at that point where they’re so taken back by my blind arrogance that they default to the only genre they can relate to: comedy.
Lol, jk, that actually doesn’t happen as much as I let on, but what I mean to aim at is when people ask me what my favorite comedy is and more than often I’ll always say Tropic Thunder. Tropic Thunder delivers itself as a comedy in two different ways, based on its audience. To the eyes of a culturally ignorant, Tropic Thunder is decent comedy with its most memorable moment is Jack Black saying he’ll suck Brandon T. Jackson’s dic* if he cuts him down from the tree. Hardee-f*cking-Har. To the eyes of those who have a decent understanding of the Hollywood industry, Tropic Thunder is a pinata full of scathing satire, irreplaceable performances, and deep, well-thoughtout jokes. After the jump lies a breakdown of how this movie literally splits my sides every time I watch it and how moments that might have seemed confusing and irrelevant are actually this movie’s brightest gems.
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