I’ve just gotten this overwhelming urge to watch Ronin.
80s Film Night!
Holy shit! Top Gun is on TV now!
I have to watch this to the end and I promised friends that I’d watch Gremlins tonight, after Ste and Kell bought it for me because I’ve never seen it.
In four hours’ time, I will have watched three of the best films from the 80s in less than 12 hours.
My favourite scene in Ghostbusters.
Dr Ray Stantz
I’m channel-surfing and see that Ghostbusters is on TV. Right now, Ray is showing Winston how the storage facility works. I’ll be back in an hour or so.
Channel 4 Kubrick Season Ad (via spuller).
A brilliant recreation of The Shining set for Channel 4’s upcomng Kubrick Season.
Jackie Brown Trailer (via WorleyClarence).
This is one of my favourite trailers ever. It’s short, it’s memorable, it makes you want to know more, it hardly gives away anything about the plot, it looks cool, and The Temptations song seems to fit it perfectly. It pretty much does everything a trailer should do.
My favourite part is when Bridget Fonda drops herself into the chair during the first “Ahh” part. The music and the visual just seem like they were made for each other.
I almost wish that they hadn’t included Samuel L Jackson’s “If you absoutely, positively have to kill every motherfucker in the room…” line, but then remember that, at the, time, it was fresh.
Getting old?
Are you ever surprised when you realise how old a film or an album you like actually is? It still seems recent and modern and relevant, but when you see it mentioned somewhere and see the year it was released in brackets after it, you think, “Wow!”.
- Fight Club is nine years old
- Swingers is 12 years old
- Radiohead’s The Bends is 13 years old
- Weezer’s Blue Album is 14 years old
- Reservoir Dogs is 16 years old
- Massive Attack’s Blue Lines is 17 years old
- Raiders of the Lost Ark is 27 years old
These are just the first examples I thought of, but there are a load more. I don’t know if this is just me having a poor sense of time, or if there is something about certain films and albums that means they transcend time for the people who like them.
Strangely, I never get this with novels.
Go Opening Sequence (via stevenbeelen)
It’s been nine years since I first saw Go and, ever since then, I haven’t been able to watch the Columbia Pictures intro sequence in any film without starting to hum Lionrock’s Fire Up the Shoesaw, or at least hear it playing in my head. This happens every time. EVERY TIME.
The way Doug Liman cut the song into the Columbia sequence is always going to be stick with me. It’s been happening for way too long for it to ever stop.
It kind of annoys me when it happens, but I always end up smiling about it.
It’s 11.30 pm, I’ve got work tomorrow for the first time after a two-week break, and Amistad, which is one of those films that you feel compelled to watch (and which is 2 1/2 hours long), has just started on TV.
Tomorrow is going to suck.
One of the coolest-looking things you can do on film is to light a cigarette and/or smoke while wearing handcuffs.
