Monthly Archives: June 2011

Blood Bros – First Blood

Do you like synth-heavy power-rock songs all about fighting for love/survival/glory? Then you’ll love Blood Bros’ 45-minute mix of all the best songs from 80s action movies. I went running with this just now and loved it. But at the same time, the training montage music from Rocky 4 has been on my workout playlist for years now. That’s just the kind of guy I am.

Blood Bros: First Blood by maddecent

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If You’re Gonna Be Dumb, You Gotta Be Tough: An Ode to Jackass | Splitsider

While it’s certainly not what scholars might consider classic cinema, I’d be willing to bet that Jackass will be shown as classic comedy for years to come. I think it showed a group of guys having the time of their lives and offering much needed release during a time in American history when it needed it the most.

Agree, 100%.

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My Movie Watching, January – June 2011

Since the beginning of the year, I’ve been keeping a mostly complete, mostly chronologically correct spreadsheet of all the films I’ve watched along with a score between 1 (awful) and 5 (great). We’re almost halfway through the year, so here’s how I’m doing so far:

Total films watched: 68
Number of 5s: 4
Number of 4s: 15
Number of 3s: 25
Number of 2s: 19
Number of 1s: 4
Average score: 2.94029850746269

For giggles, here’s the full list:

  • Buried – 2
  • Easy A – 2
  • Never Let me Go – 3
  • Black Swan – 2
  • Tron Legacy – 1
  • Mama Mia – 3
  • The King’s Speech – 4
  • Red – 4
  • Yankee Doodle Dandy – 4
  • How to Train Your Dragon – 3
  • Death Proof – 3
  • White Lightning – 2
  • Last of the Mohicans – 3
  • National Treasure 2 – 2
  • Where Eagles Dare – 3
  • The Kids are Alright – 3
  • The Freebie – 3
  • Peeping Tom – 3
  • Blue Valentine – 4
  • Warhammer 40k – 1
  • The Losers – 3
  • Hellboy 2 – 3
  • Winter’s Bone – 4
  • Happy-go-lucky – 4
  • Maguyver: Treasure of Atlantis – 2
  • Richard Pryor live – 3
  • Idiocracy – 3
  • Shogun Assassin – 4
  • Wendy and Lucy – 4
  • Silent Running – 3
  • Super Troopers – 2
  • The Arbor – 5
  • Il Rito (The Rite, in Italian) – 2
  • V for Vendetta – 3
  • Battle: Los Angeles – 2
  • Sherlock Holmes – 3
  • Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows pt 1 – 3
  • Dungeon Masters – 2
  • Source Code – 4
  • The Suspicions of Mr Whicher (TV) – 2
  • Red Dawn – 2
  • Tron Legacy – 2
  • MacGruber – 2
  • Dog Day Afternoon – 4
  • The Princess Diaries – 3
  • Serpico – 5
  • Star Trek: First Contact – 3
  • LA Confidential – 5
  • Miller’s Crossing – 3
  • Arthur – 2
  • The Tree of Life – 4
  • Kiss Kiss Bang Bang – 4
  • The Tunnel – 4
  • The Black Dahlia – 1
  • Black Death – 2
  • The Siege – 3
  • True Grit – 4
  • Cruise of the Gods (TV) – 2
  • Minority Report – 3
  • Teen Wolf – 3
  • Valley Girl – 2
  • The Bourne Supremecy – 4
  • My Neighbour Totoro – 5
  • Forgetting Sarah Marshall – 3
  • Cyrus – 3
  • Wet Hot American Summer – 2
  • The Fast and the Furious – 1 

Note: The first time I saw Tron: Legacy was in a cinema where the house lights stayed on for the first fifteen minutes and I had to go out and ask someone to shut them off. So it gets a 1. The second time was on a blu-ray in my house. It was only slightly better, so it got a 2.

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Apologies to RSS Readers

I’m moving my blog to Tumblr, which has caused my RSS feed to go completely bananas and start posting things from months ago. Sorry guys!

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