Top five movie deaths

A little morbid maybe but there is nothing like a cool movie death.  I’m not talking about gory horror movie deaths either, there are way too many of those imaginative ends for me to condense into a list of five.

Now I know this is going to stir up some debate, so bring it, throw some more movie deaths out there!  Grab yourself a tissue, pretend some dust got in your eye:

1. Boromir: Lord of the Rings - I mean dude! For the briefest moment the greatest evil ever corrupts you so how do you redeem yourself?  Taking some mean looking arrows in the chest whilst protecting two hobbits (who probably should have run off).  It’s a majestic death that completely redeems the character.
2. Spock: Wrath of Khan - The needs of the many outweighs the needs of the few… sniffle… I mean it’s really dusty in here man and I’ve got something in my eye.  You’re a cold bastard if you’re not moved by Spock sacrificing himself for the Enterprise, brilliantly executed (forgive the pun) sequence, possibly Shatner and Nimoy’s finest moments.
3. Harry Stamper: Armageddon - Ok if we don’t set off the nuclear explosion in the next twelve minutes then it’s going to destroy the Earth but someone has to stay here and sacrifice themselves.  Let’s draw straws and then to hell with that Bruce Willis is going to take a dive.  He does have enough time to say goodbye to his daughter and make Ben Affleck cry… did I mention that there is something in my eye.
4. Wash: Serenity - Nooooooo did you just see the Serenity crash and get all bashed up and stuff, OMG that poor ship, thank god everyone is OK and…  Arrrrrrrrrg  WHY!?!?  Curse you Whedon and your unexpected deaths!!
5. Ripley: Alien 3 - If I’ve said it once I’ll say it a thousand times I’m not debating the value of Alien 3, I like it, I don’t have a problem with it (well the recut version anyway) and I think it’s quite the scene when Ripley falls backwards to her death while clutching the newly emerged alien queen.

So go on let me know your favourites!

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Now I can be a big damn hero

I can’t believe that I haven’t bragged blogged about this already. I’m trying to break out of the “every second post is about what I’ve got” angle because frankly I got a lot of stuff and I’m frequently embarrassed about it when I think about the world and its problems.

However…

This is pretty cool.

Tracey got me Mal’s gun from Serenity. Obviously not the actual prop, but a perfect replica of it! It’s heavy, and huge and ever so shiny. Well not really shiny shiny; it’s a brown coat expression.

You can get a stand for it or if you are feeling particularly gorrum about the whole thing you can pre-order Mal’s holster for it.

“RUNtse de FWOtzoo, ching baoYO wuomun…”

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The falcon and the firefly

Much to my surprise it was a tie between Jack Bauer and Jason Bourne. I thought Jack would burn Bourne but then again I really love the Bourne films so I’m pretty happy with the results.

Now, there’s been a little controversy over the top ten spaceships list and the omission of the Star Wars ships. I don’t know what it is about the Star Wars ships, I recognize how cool they are but they don’t really move me.

So I’m opening it up to you guys, giving you a chance to face off my number one ship and what I suggest is the number one Star Wars ship:

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They’re both damn cool, both smuggling cargo ships and have awesome captains.  So it’s up to you guys - which is the cooler ship?

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Top ten fictional space ships

Well it’s finally here, my top ten fictional space ships list which you will never ever agree with because it is only ten ships and there’s no way I’ve included your favourite!!!

The rules were also that I could only choose one ship from a series:

1. Serenity (Firefly/Serenity)

   
   It was really hard to pick this over the Enterprise but in recent years Serenity and the series Firefly has cemented itself as one of my all time favourite science fiction shows and the ship itself is just awesome, it looks cool and moves great but it is probably the interior which has a wonderful lived in feeling. Probably has a lot to do with the way they built the sets which was to connect the rooms like they would have been in the show and the cast actually used sets like the galley to eat etc.

   Notable scene: Serenity repaired after crash landing at the end of the film, lifting off and soaring through the storm up past it and into space where something falls off.

2. Enterprise (Star Trek)

   
   The original and the best, the NCC-1701 no bloody A, B,C or D (and now E). It is really hard to sum up why but the Enterprise herself became a character in Star Trek as loved as the actors.

   Notable scene: Hard to go past the refit unveiling in Star Trek: The Motion Picture where Adm. Kirk and Scotty circle it several times to the amazing soundtrack. Enterprise’s destruction is quite memorable too.

3. Moya (Farscape)

   
   It was a toss up between Moya and the Farscape One module which I quite like also but I think a ship that you feel something for so much that it makes you wince when it has hooks shot into it is going to get the nod. Something that I realised whilst putting the list together is that the ships that I prefer are the ones that become characters in their own right and it would be hard for that not to be the case with Moya.

   Notable scene: Any time Moya goes to starburst.

4. Gunstar (The Last Starfighter)

   
   The Gunstar makes it simply because who wouldn’t want to pilot such a cool nod to our childhoods, before computer graphics became the video perfect resolution state that they are in today we had games like Asteroids where the ship was basically a triangle and you had to use your imagination, big time. The Gunstar whilst a little more advance than the Asteroids ship is still a polygon reminder of my childhood playing arcade games and pretending deep inside that they are more than they appear.

   Notable scene: The scene where the death blossom is unleashed and pretty much kills every mofo in the immediate galaxy.

5. Lexx (Lexx)

   
   I was a late comer to Lexx and have yet to watch the entire series although I’m told the last season is not really worth it. I love the Lexx’s business card: “the most powerful destructive force in the two universes”. It’s also one of the only science fiction shows Tracey will watch with me currently.

   Notable scene: Why are most of these notable scenes involving destruction? Because blowing up a planet is cool.

6. Liberator (Blake’s 7)

   
   This is from my childhood. When I was very young I was given a matchbox version of this ship and it has been a favourite of mine ever since, I haven’t even watched an episode of Blake’s 7 which I know I should (my Mum’s favourite sci fi show) but the DVDs are expensive so unfortunately no notable scene for this one.

7. Sulaco (Aliens)

   
   I just love the look of this ship, it’s like a shark slipping through water, and you know that it can kick ass. It didn’t really do anything other than look slick and slice through space so no notable scene again.

8. Viper (Battlestar Galactica)

   
   Again something from my childhood that was happily updated for the new show. The vipers always looked cool and had that great launch sequence on the show oh and King Tut helmets!!

   Notable Scene: I really loved the scene when the Battlestar Galactica jumped into the atmosphere of new Caprica (in the remake) and launched the Vipers through a wall of flame.

9. Starfury (Babylon Five)

   
   These are such cool little fighters that have muscle written all over them, they don’t even get launched they get dropped out B5 on racks, like guns!!! They have to be arguably the most manoeuvrable of the ships on the list.

   Notable scene: I like how they can change direction on a heartbeat.

10. Space Battleship Yamato (Star Blazers at least that’s what the series was called here)

    
    Another from my childhood and a show with a lot of memories as my Mum used to watch it with me when I was very young, so good memories. Once again how cool is it to have a traditionally water based design in space with cannons and jets and everything an air craft carrier would have… except for a freakingly huge gun barrel down the middle of the ship that absolutely stops dead whatever is in its path. Another series that I have to buy and watch again!

    Notable scene: You guessed it - big bloody cannon down the middle firing.

There are a bunch of ships that came really close to the list that I might mention anyway, Discovery from 2001 A Space Odyssey, Freedom and Independence from Armageddon, Roger Young from Starship Troopers, the Event Horizon from Event Horizon and finally but certainly not least the ships from Star Wars. A note about the Star Wars ships, I don’t love them, I like them but I can’t say that any of them including the Falcon rock my world. Controversial I know, go on tell me which ones I’ve left out.

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