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CENTURION (2010)
For a film about lost members of a decimated legion getting all tore up by Brit barbarians this has a kind of low key energy to it. Maybe it’s the blue/grey saturated palate and maybe it’s just good old dreary Britishness. Solid Michael Fassbender-lead cast directed by good old Neil Marshall.
- Women sense my power and they seek the life essence.
TOP GUN (1986)
Bless you Tony Scott, wherever you are now. Bless you very much.
- Women sense my power and they seek the life essence.
Classic. I’ve always loved that shot, and I’ve always thought that the F-14 is one of the meanest looking planes the U.S. has ever had.
Movie seems kinda gay now, though.
I don’t think anything matches Jaws and Star Wars as the defining blockbusters but Top Gun is right there in that second tier of “important” moments in blockbustery history with your The Dark Knights and your The Matrixi. Arguably the orange and teal palette favoured by 93% of modern blockbusters can be traced all the way back to Top Gun. Plus Top Gun invented Tom Cruise. And it’s not just now that it seems kinda gay, Tony Scott did all that men’s underpants commercial vibe stuff utterly purposefully. Not only is it not subtext, it’s supertext.
And fuck yeah F-14s are a stupendous piece of machine art.
- Women sense my power and they seek the life essence.
I just like that there is a plural specific to the movie series; the Matrix. I’m going to find a way to use that in a sentence.
Goofy pretendy pluralising is what I get from listening to too much Adam Carolla.
- Women sense my power and they seek the life essence.
LOST IN TRANSLATION (2003)
Because, sure, I like the film ok, but really just because I love Bill and often just looking at his near-expressionless expressions cracks me up.
- Women sense my power and they seek the life essence.
APOCALYPTO (2006)
Number one on my Movies Set In Pre-Columbian Guatemala list. Also number one on on my Movies Made By Australian Lunatics of Dubious Moral Standing list.
- Women sense my power and they seek the life essence.
It’s not a bad movie. Don’t really remember a lot of it, except I remember it being extremely violent.
NORTH BY NORTHWEST (1959)
Another classic I was lucky enough to see in a proper movie theatre fairly recently. More than 60 years since it was made the thriller elements don’t hold up as well as they once did but, maybe surprisingly, the humour is still a lot of fun. And as with a lot of those older films the cinematography is aces.
- Women sense my power and they seek the life essence.
THE PRINCESS BRIDE (1987)
I don’t think of niftily composed frames when I think of this movie, but this one is pretty spectacular.
I miss Andre The Giant.
- Women sense my power and they seek the life essence.
IN BRUGES (2008)
One of the best and blackest comedies. Bruges is a pretty old town with a ton of character and there are plenty of shots I could have posted showing that, and maybe one day I will, but even pretty old Bruges doesn’t have the character of Colin Farrell’s magical eyebrows.
- Women sense my power and they seek the life essence.
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