Here’s a great little video which has a Sales Guy vs. a web dude. I love how he’s playing Halo throughout it all anyway. Oh, and the way the icons are on the desktop is priceless.
Well, If you ever wanted to see the title screen any of over a thousand different movies, Steven Hill’s Movie Title Screen Page is for you.
There are literally over 1000 differnet movies, and more being added often. Many have different forms, like Laserdisc, and DVD, and Blu-Ray. I didn’t see and HD-DVD, but there were a few betas.
Here are a few screens I picked out from movies I like.
Sky Captain is in 1080p
There are many, many more over at his site, all organized by title. There are quite a few classics, and ones from before the 1950s. Also, if there’s one you love that’s not there, you can submit it yourself.
Well, I enjoyed Indiana Jones and The Kingdom of The Crystal Skull, some other people didn’t apparently. Mostly the writer of this abridged script. I’ll admit, its pretty funny, and this is my favorite part:
KAREN ALLEN
Cate wants to return the Crystal MacGuffin to the ancient City of Gold.
HARRISON FORD
City of Gold? Isn’t that what Nicolas Cage was looking for in National Treasure 2? Are we seriously getting the plot for our shitty sequel to Indiana Jones by ripping off the plot of a shitty sequel to a shitty knock-off of Indiana Jones? I feel like that should unravel the space-time continuum or something.
National Treasure 2 doesn’t hold a candle to National Treasure, which in turn doesnt hold a candle to Indiana Jones (1, or 3(2 is worse then 4)). But anyway, just thought you’d like that.
…you may start your landing.
Whoever this is officially has the greatest wireless network name ever. The only thing I ask of you is if you are out there, send us an email. Because we want a picture of it with no encryption for just a second so we can say “The shield is down!”
Oh, and this was also while waiting in line at the Apple Store in SoHo Wedensday night.
While waiting inline at the Apple Store in SoHo last night to see Steve Carell and Anne Hathaway promote their new movie Get Smart, this car passed by which clearly has the Zune logo on it’s spare wheel cover, and on the side window. Clearly that person is obsessed.
Here’s a bonus picture of me and John Hodges after the event.
We missed Steve, and Anne apparently, but John was walking around, and caught a picture with him. Stephen Colbert was also there, he did the interview, we missed him walking out too.
equals sooo much fun!
M. Night Shyamalan’s new movie The Happening came out yesterday. I saw it. I enjoyed it. Now I want to talk about it. Or, more specifically, Shyamalan himself.
It seems that no one (at least critics, and well, people in general I guess) respects him as a director. And I don’t know if they ever did. The 6th Sense is pretty much universally agreed to be 1. an amazing film and 2. his best work. However, every single movie he has made since is being held against that high horse, and to me that just doesn’t seem very fair.
I remember when Unbreakable came out. Most of my friends did not like it one bit. And critically, it was compared endlessly to The 6th Sense, and how it didn’t hold up to it. That is fair, and unfair at the same time. Even though it had the same writer/director and lead star, and it had a “Shyamalan twist” doesn’t mean it’s in the same category as The 6th Sense. Personally, I think Unbreakable is his best film. Far better then The 6th Sense in every aspect.
As a director, Shyamalan was much more mature in Unbreakable then Sense, and he ironed out some of the things that you see in all of his following movies. But, I’m not a film student, so I can’t begin to tell you how he does it compared to others, what I can tell you is that I enjoy it.
Signs is my second favorite film of his. It brought many things to the table that I enjoyed, and, most importantly, had a very good message: “Everything happens for a reason.” That stuck with me.
The Village, and Lady In the Water, I will admit, those two films were his worst. Lady was far too fanatsy, and there was no real…anything about it to make me want to see it other then Shyamalan’s name (and yes, there are a handful of people who no matter what their name is attached to, I will pay to see regardless). And The Village was predictable. I don’t care if it was apparently based on a book, it was predictable, and kinda boring. To me it felt that Shyamalan went to “gotcha!” moments in film showing those creatures, instead of the mystery and suspense of his first 3.
The Happening is a return to that mystery and suspense. Unlike Lady, where I could care less what happened to Paul Giamatti’s character, I actually cared for Mark Wahlberg, and Zoey Deschanel.
I don’t want to say much more about it because I don’t want to spoil it. But I will say that it is very current event driven, not politically, (although that could be questioned), but the whole point is subtle, but in your face at the same time.
I rate The Happening as 3.5 out of 4 stars. It’s good, but not a masterpiece. Hopefully it marks the return of the M. Night Shyamalan who gave us The 6th Sense, Unbreakable, and Signs. It certainly belongs among those 3 as one of his best, and possibly, one of the best films of recent years.
And this time it will be Chuck Norris walking down the street, as he shouts “The Nazis are Coming, The Nazis are coming!” and when we ask him how they are coming, he will stare at you, and say “By Space,” and them calmly keep on going, because he’s Chuck Norris, no one scares him, and you should be so lucky he didn’t kill you.
But in all seriousness though, this Independent internet film Iron Sky looks pretty interesting. It’s based on the totally believable premise that the Nazis went to the moon in 1945 to prepare an invasion army to secure the 4th Reich. That army is heading for earth in the year 2018. This movie is so up my ally in so many ways it’s ridiculous. I intend to follow it’s development, and then watch it when it comes out, cause it looks awesome.
So, the Nazis are coming, so let me ask you this, do you know where you’re children are? Because if you don’t then the Nazis may already have them…
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These are some amazingly great commercials for Ameriquest Mortage. I’ve seen 2 of them on television, as for the other 3, also great.
Ok, ok, this isn’t a movie blog, but if you haven’t noticed, I’m excited about The X-Files: I Want To Believe, and a real (not teaser) trailer just came out. And I think you should all see it. I know this movie is gonna have steep competition this summer, especially coming out a week after The Dark Knight, but I think it will be good, best movie of the year, probably not, but hopefully good enough to make a third X-Files movie.
