A lil something something Dylan (my brother) and I wrote during a screening of Full Metal Jacket.
(In Vietnam, two soldiers are taking cover from enemy fire)
Sold. 1 (Cromwell): [fires off round, throws grenade – forgets to pull pin, ducks under cover]
Sold. 2 (Jim): [waits for explosion, ducks under cover]
8 minutes later
Crom & Jim: [in same stance, waiting for explosion]
Jim: [to Cromwell] Did it go off?
Crom: [puzzled] I think it did…
Jim: Did you pull the pin?
Crom: [thinks] SHIT.
Jim: Shoot at it!
Crom: What the fuck is that going to do?
Jim: Maybe make it explode!
Crom: Lemme check… [pulls head up, evades gunfire] I think I saw it.
Jim: Then shoot at it!
Crom: Fuck that. [pulls another grenade, pulls pin, throws, hears two consecutive explosions]
Silence.
Jim: Are they dead?
Crom: [pulls head up, receives gunfire] FUCK YOU GUYS! [gives middle finger to enemy, shot off, screams in agony, shows missing finger, blood squirts]
Jim: [screams with]
Crom: [screams back at Jim]
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Tuesday, February 1, 2011
Busy, busy, busy,,,
Sorry I've disappeared for the past few months. Between working a lot, getting sick more than I'd like, and generally been distracted. It happens way more often than I'd like...
With that opening, I'll at least show you what I have done in the time in between posts. Little f.y.i., this is pretty much just a list of movies, so be prepared to see a lot of movie titles. The movies with this ->*<- next to it will be movies I had already seen before renting them off of netflix. This list is also in reverse order, so the last movie on the list is the first movie I rented after seeing The Godfather Trilogy, which was the last movie I remember mentioning on this blog:
Lupin the 3rd: The Castle of Cagliostro
Chasing Amy
Tombstone
The Rocky Horror Picture Show *
Mystic River
Blood Into Wine
Platoon
Apocalypse Now / Apocalypse Now Redux *
Eyes Wide Shut
Schindler's List *
Barry Lyndon
The Shining *
Full Metal Jacket
A Clockwork Orange
Lolita
Dr. Strangelove *
2001: A Space Odyssey
Paths of Glory
Spartacus
The Killing
Amadeus
The Seafarers
Killer's Kiss
Brokeback Mountain
Ben-Hur
The Cider House Rules *
Chinatown *
It Happened One Night
The Maltese Falcon
Hoffa *
The Deer Hunter *
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest *
Porco Rosso *
Citizen Kane
Legends of the Fall *
Raging Bull
Princess Mononoke *
Hamlet (2000)
The Untouchables
GoodFellas
Dog Day Afternoon
Casino
2046 *
Blade Runner: Theatrical & Director's Cut
Fight Club *
Oldboy
Memento
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly *
For a Few Dollars More
A Fistful of Dollars
I want to point out that while most of these movies I got to see for the first time, I also got a few more I had already seen to show them off to people who hadn't seen them, particularly my brother, Dylan; and one of my best friends, Nick. That being said, it's a pretty solid list of movies. Really good shit, if you ask me. I got all of Stanley Kubrick's films that are on DVD as of this moment and might I add that his movies blew me away.
There were a few bad ones, surprisingly. Barry Lyndon was a bore (yeah, I know, right after saying all that stuff about Kubrick in that last paragraph). Not that it wasn't well shot or anything, this is Kubrick we're dealing with here; but I think if a movie ever had TOO MUCH pacing, this movie fell victim to it. Eyes Wide Shut was just... weird. I can't describe it much more than these three things: Very poorly acted, amazing camera work (as par with Kubrick films), and a lot of nudity (particularly Nicole Kidman).
Citizen Kane and Blade Runner haven't really aged well. In defense of Citizen Kane, it is a really old movie. It changed cinema forever and for that, I respect the hell out of it. It's just not much of a movie to see now a days. Blade Runner... hurt. It really was the worst movie on the list. I mean, I watched it three times just to make sure. It's deathly slow and broken up into pieces because of the editing problems. I still haven't seen The Final Cut, so my vote isn't officially cast yet. But the three versions on the DVD I saw were just sad. They never should have messed with Ridley Scott's vision, period.
Other than movies, its been half ass writing and work for me. I got something else to post, but I'll do that separate from this. Hope you all had a fun holiday season.
With that opening, I'll at least show you what I have done in the time in between posts. Little f.y.i., this is pretty much just a list of movies, so be prepared to see a lot of movie titles. The movies with this ->*<- next to it will be movies I had already seen before renting them off of netflix. This list is also in reverse order, so the last movie on the list is the first movie I rented after seeing The Godfather Trilogy, which was the last movie I remember mentioning on this blog:
Lupin the 3rd: The Castle of Cagliostro
Chasing Amy
Tombstone
The Rocky Horror Picture Show *
Mystic River
Blood Into Wine
Platoon
Apocalypse Now / Apocalypse Now Redux *
Eyes Wide Shut
Schindler's List *
Barry Lyndon
The Shining *
Full Metal Jacket
A Clockwork Orange
Lolita
Dr. Strangelove *
2001: A Space Odyssey
Paths of Glory
Spartacus
The Killing
Amadeus
The Seafarers
Killer's Kiss
Brokeback Mountain
Ben-Hur
The Cider House Rules *
Chinatown *
It Happened One Night
The Maltese Falcon
Hoffa *
The Deer Hunter *
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest *
Porco Rosso *
Citizen Kane
Legends of the Fall *
Raging Bull
Princess Mononoke *
Hamlet (2000)
The Untouchables
GoodFellas
Dog Day Afternoon
Casino
2046 *
Blade Runner: Theatrical & Director's Cut
Fight Club *
Oldboy
Memento
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly *
For a Few Dollars More
A Fistful of Dollars
I want to point out that while most of these movies I got to see for the first time, I also got a few more I had already seen to show them off to people who hadn't seen them, particularly my brother, Dylan; and one of my best friends, Nick. That being said, it's a pretty solid list of movies. Really good shit, if you ask me. I got all of Stanley Kubrick's films that are on DVD as of this moment and might I add that his movies blew me away.
There were a few bad ones, surprisingly. Barry Lyndon was a bore (yeah, I know, right after saying all that stuff about Kubrick in that last paragraph). Not that it wasn't well shot or anything, this is Kubrick we're dealing with here; but I think if a movie ever had TOO MUCH pacing, this movie fell victim to it. Eyes Wide Shut was just... weird. I can't describe it much more than these three things: Very poorly acted, amazing camera work (as par with Kubrick films), and a lot of nudity (particularly Nicole Kidman).
Citizen Kane and Blade Runner haven't really aged well. In defense of Citizen Kane, it is a really old movie. It changed cinema forever and for that, I respect the hell out of it. It's just not much of a movie to see now a days. Blade Runner... hurt. It really was the worst movie on the list. I mean, I watched it three times just to make sure. It's deathly slow and broken up into pieces because of the editing problems. I still haven't seen The Final Cut, so my vote isn't officially cast yet. But the three versions on the DVD I saw were just sad. They never should have messed with Ridley Scott's vision, period.
Other than movies, its been half ass writing and work for me. I got something else to post, but I'll do that separate from this. Hope you all had a fun holiday season.
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