Posts Tagged ‘Escape from New York’
My top five movie posters
… awesome and created a giant bat craze in 1989. Of course it was also designed to separate it from the campy feel of the 60s Batman as well and you are under no misconception, this is a new updated Batman!
2. Jaws
Screw that, I’m not going into the water.
A giant scary f$%@ing huge shark eating people in the ocean. Thank you, mission accomplished.
I like the whole concept of the poster, it captures the vulnerability of swimming in the ocean and not knowing what …
Tags: Batman Darkman Drew Struzan Escape from New York Ghostbusters ID4 Jaws John Alvin Movie posters
I thought to myself, even if this episode is a weak filler like every single episode since the second one I’m going to keep with it, I’m sure at some stage or the other the show will become interesting and live up to some of the promise made in the pilot.
But the I accidental saw some of the one line descriptions of upcoming episodes and a prominent keyword in each of those is ‘flashback’. So I really don’t know if I can do this any more, I mean I’m not even disappointed anymore, I expect the next episode to be crap and frankly they are fulfilling that expectation.
So the other week we highlighted the stupid and exploitative scene where the nerds used a keno to check out the officer with the large breasts (honestly it is so annoying that this is all I’ve got to describe this character – the writers REALLY suck). A guy I work with had a really good point about the scene, the way that Young as the commanding officer handled it, rather than create a non sexist working environment and making sure that the two idiots knew that the behaviour would not be accepted he took on a boys will be boys kind of attitude and let it slide.
It doesn’t surprise me then, when we get to the episode ‘Earth’ so named because the writers are trying to be cool with their episode titles that the characters including Young act in such a morally reprehensible and inappropriate fashion with the borrowed bodies on Earth.
I’m sorry I know it is just a story device but to take someone else’s body and then go and have sex with someone!?!?!? You don’t know anything about that person, what if they have a disease, what if the person you are having sex with has a disease!?! I can’t even articulate the level of inappropriateness of this!
I thought it was bad enough using their bodies to go out drinking, what if they were alcoholics? Or have a condition? What if they just get drunk and fall down?? It’s so stupid.
It’s bad writing.
What did we learn this week?
- Jack O’Neal looks bloody terrible!
- Jack O’Neal sounds bloody terrible!
- Jack O’Neal looks and sounds like he doesn’t want to be there, I know how he feels.
- Oh cool the guy from 24 is there… OMG is this a crossover!?!?! Could Jack Bauer be on soon!!!
- No it is not a 24 crossover.
- You know what this show needs more of? Talking.
- Not.
- You know what else this show needs more of? Communication stones.
- NOT.
- Apparently they DO need some HR directives for people to follow… or BETTER WRITERS!!!
- When someone you work with visits your mother apparently it’s not weird at all and they’ll make cookies!?!?!?
- There is WAY too much back story in these characters maybe we could have some current story??
- Young has become THAT GUY, you know, the awful ex.
- Lou Diamond Phillips’ character is just an unpleasant to watch jerk, I thought the Wraith were lame but sheesh.
- Oh look, they went to a club in Stargate… how much did that cost, maybe next time we don’t go to the expense of building a club set and filling it and we hire better writers.
- I think Eli was driving a Porche? I could be wrong, it doesn’t make any sense… oh that’s right worst writing ever.
- I really enjoy the Eli and Young Big Brother show.
- NOT!!
Seriously does anyone think this show is really good? Better than SG1, hell better than Atlantis?? Because they cancelled Atlantis to produce this lame crap.
When someone asks what my favourite film is I often have a little bit of a brain melt as I try to compress thirty years of watching films down into a definitive film.
This is generally an unattractive sight and people will move along politely avoiding eye contact with me after maybe the first three minutes or so. I’m not really offended, it’s clearly the only course of action available to them at the time especially as they generally haven’t been warned.
So often I refuse to be drawn into the discussion, I mean I’ll heartily discuss films and generalise on the best films but never before have I locked down a top five.
Until this week.
I worked very hard on it, gave it some long consideration, then played Mini Ninjas on the Wii for a while but THEN I went back and thought some more on it. I was surprised with the end result actually, one movie in particular after I realised that it makes the list.
So what are my top five movies?
Well you’re going to have to keep reading to find out!
I’m going to release a movie each day for the next five days as I countdown to my number one film of all time.
In the meantime (all 24 hours of it) I thought it might be fun to see if you guys can pick what my top five films are. After three years (for some of you) you should have a generally good idea of my taste so leave a comment with the five films you think will be in my top five.
The person who picks the correct five (and only five) I’m sure I can send a couple of William Shatner paperbacks your way!!!!
