Movies

Great movie for the fourth time out 🙂

It’s like John McClane arguably has the worst luck of any character to ever grace the action flick scene. They send him to pick up a computer-noid and I’m thinking back to a scene in Mindnight Run when the bond guy tells him to whack’em over the head with a hose, toss’em in a bag, and drive back.

of course in McClanes case he gets shot at and almost blown up!

Live Free or Die Hard really depicts a horrible scenario for cyber terrorism. It’s utterly horrifying when you consider how much American society has become reliant on technological networks, satellites, quick como between emergency services, geeze.

Still, it was some fine stuff at work hehe. The traffic jam in the tunnel, ramming a car into a helicopter because he’s pissed off and out of bullets! Smashing through a building in an SUV, into the terrorist chick, and down an elevator shaft after being chucked out a window. A joint Strike Fighter trying to swat his stolen terro-big rig on the highway haha.

The ending, I just couldn’t help be chuckle through it between how they finally took out Thomas Gabriel -> must’ve known plenty about computers but jack crap about geometry and physics when it involves bullets hehe. Not to mention the ending before they all end up on the way to a hospital >_>

****spoiler warning****

Thomas Gabriel: On your tombstone it should say “Always in the wrong place at the wrong time”.
John McClane: How about “Yippi-kay-ay, motherfu – “

[ later ]

Lucy McClane: Daddy, you’re out of your mind.
John McClane: What’re you talkin’ about?
Lucy McClane: You shot yourself!
John McClane: [groaning] It seemed like a good idea at the time.

*** end spoiler warning ***

Honestly, it’s like if John McClane ever took a vacation and let “someone else” handle it, he would probably end up sitting on a beach somewhere sipping a margarita and then terrorists pour in with machine guns -> it could only happen to him! lol

You could say, he really is always in the wrong place at the right time 😉

Happy trails.

Today has been a very productive day, probably because everyone else was either not home or sound asleep most of the day !^_^!

I’ve tested some major work on the site ACLs that’s just been begging for doing, all looks good in the sandbox. So all I should have to do is get it transitioned to the production system and volla… We’ll be ready to rock’it and roll. Then I can finish a few other modules that need work and get to work on the ‘special project’ hehe. Oh baby is this gonna be good when it gets deployed.

I’ve managed to get some rest at least, caught the end pf Aliens which is one of my favorite movies (y). A refreshing change, Robon Hood: Men in Tights started after it. That’s a funny movie but not one I’ve seen on often this past decade.

I’m rather glad the special edition of Aliens has mostly become the normal cut on cable. I remember the first time I saw it, I was extremely pissed off at the hack job they had us all watching for years! I can understand having to trim things down, yeah. But there is some point where the time saved ain’t quite as good as what your losing in the process :

Robin, haha I haven’t seen it from start to finish in ages. Like most movies related to Mel Brooks, it can’t keep a straight face for more then 2 minutes ^_^.

The castle repo man, the rabbi (Brooks) with the drunk mule, the moron of a sheriff of Rottingham, the cook “Latrine” whose family changed the name from “Shithouse” lol The huge little john who starts drowning in a tiny puddle after a ridicules fight with Robin over the bridges toll (“it’s the principal of it”), who would build a bridge over a puddle in the first place? Robin Hood losing the archery contest, “Whhat!? I’m not supposed to lose! … checks script … Wait, I get another shot !!!” rofl. And King Richard renaming all the toilets in the kingdom “Johns” after his brother, for defiling himself. And making him part of the tour after throwing Prince John in the tower of London 0.o

And not to forget the ending during the fight with Rottingham, the key that Robin inherited goes flying and lands right in Maid Marians chastity belt and he’s like, “I knew it was the key to the greatest treasure in all the land!” and ir just keepa rolling from there lol, Down to the end scene with the wedding night after the credits.

[Rottingham slices off Robin’s necklace, sending his key flying. The key falls into the lock of Marian’s chastity belt]

Robin Hood: It is the key to the greatest treasure in all the land!

Maid Marian: This means you’ve always been my one true love because it’s just the right size!

Sheriff of Rottingham: It’s not the size that counts… It’s how you use it!

[Robin and Marians wedding night]
Robin Hood: Umm… You’re not going to believe this
Maid Marian: What?
Robin Hood: It won’t open
Main Marian: WHAT !?
Robin Hood: Wait I have an idea, call a locksmith !!!
[voice echos outside] Call a locksmith

/* rolls on the floor laughing */

Ok, this one really had me worried for a few moments lol.

Tonight we watched Dune on cable, missed like the first 15 minutes or so. The onlu thing is it was strange, not the Dune I remember. And I know that movie like the back of my hand! Sheese I can recite dialogs for korns sake.

First of all the narrations during the film were done by a female voice, I’d presume the emperors daughter (Princess Irulan) or one of Pauls offspring in the post film covered part of Dune. I remember it being that distinctive male voice narrating throughout, same guy that did the prologue telling the how in the universe did we get here story.

Second when they introduced the Baron Vladimir Harkonnen there was a scene where he rips the heart plug out of some guy in white cloths and kills him — which I can not ever remember seeing before!

Third the scene when the Shadout Mapes brings the Fremen knife to the Lady Jessica was not there.

Forth the ‘torture’ scene when Feyd Rautha is cuttong off Duke Leto’s air supply he think-says “I wish it was Paul Atreides”.

Fith when they crash in the forbidden regions I don’t remember Paul _ever_ placing a thumper, I only remember one placed by the Fremen which was the second thumper in the scene. I also don’t remember Paul ever talking about the moving without a rhythm in order to keep from attracting the worms. Which was some thing that was very strongly noted in the book I might add.

Sixth the knife fight with the guy Paul is forced to duel after they fall in with the Fremen was gone.

Seventh the battle scenes when it shows them halting spice production on Arrakis was cut short.

Eighth the cable info said it was 140 minutes, running 2340-2400 local time but Dune is like a 3-hour movie (180min) without the commercials and roughly four hours with commercials.

I checked the VHS tape we have and proved that I’m not going crackers. The voice of the narrator was male throughout the entire VHS tape, the heart-plug part of the Barons intro was not in it. Feyd doesn’t think that when torturing the Duke but instead picks on Yueh. And the first thumper was never, ever shown plus the attack on the spice mining was much longer. And both knife scenes mentioned before were in the VHS we have taped. The one that was on TV was most deffo a different cut then the one we’ve been watching for, like as long as I can remember us watching Dune lol.

I glad my memories are correct because if not, it would mean my head would have been seriously f***ed up. There is nothing to ensure my memories of things are never corrupt but I generally know how well I remember things and how poorly too. My memory is NOT photographic but especially when it comes to movies it is damn good at things. I can remember almost everything about films I’ve seen many times and even then my minds context-sensitive memory often has trigger-events about parts of films I don’t know as well.

That’s just the way my head works, when something sticks it sticks for a long time — it’s like a sponge.

I remember when I completed my Recruit Tryout in [SAS] I told Cpl Wiz that if necessary I could give them an accounting of the mission. I still remember most of my first Troopers Tryout to boot. Even when I play these days and we occasionally have those “What did we miss moments?” at the end of a mission: I’m usually the one to speak up, “We forgot that room in such and such area by the whatever”.

When I go through the level of a game I generally form a mental image of it. When doing room clearing my mind links together every room and notes if it was cleared and how much. It’s a lot like a Binary Search Tree but operated upon at the mental level.

I’ve got a really good sense of direction at least among my family… My brains good at a few things lol.

I finally gotten a chance to watch Transformers and it was freaking awesome !

When I had first heard that they were making a life action movie of it, I thought the amount of CGI they would need would ruin it totally. But I was quite pleased to see the awesome job that showed through the trailers. And interestingly, Michael Bay was one of those involved. With the exception of Perl Harbor which bored the ever loving crap out of me, I’ve enjoyed most of the films that hes directed.

Transformers is arguably one of the best movies I’ve seen in a _long_ time. It’s gotta be like the best movie since T2. And people that know me well, would know that is indeed high praise from me!

Because for me, T2 is just that kind of definitive movie… The kind that, if I had to select one movie to describe my generation. I would probably reach for Terminator 2: Judgment Day.

Transformers really was done well, not purely authentic to the originals but close enough hehe. I remember talking with a friend, and were some what amazed that between me and her, that we could still remember most of the crud we watched when we were knee high lol.

My chuckle of the day

Malone: Why are you carrying the gun?

Ness: I’m a treasury officer.

Malone: Oh, okay. Just keep in mind what we talked about, huh?

[Malone walks away]
Ness: Hey, wait a minute! What the hell kind of police work do they teach in this city, huh? You just turned your back on an armed man.

Malone: You’re a treasury officer.

Ness: How do you know that? I just told you that.

Malone: Who would claim to be that who was not? Hmm?

He’s got a point ^_^

When they were first introducing Ness in the beginning, I was like “Treasury deparment!? Where tha”. So I find this scene even more appropriate then some people would xD

Been playing a lot of halo latly, on Heroic it’s actually not that much harder then I remember playing it on normal when I first got the game lol. The legendary mode is good stuff but I set it this way so I could relax rather then concentrate on the game.

Still no good at pushing the thought stuck in my head out the other side though…

Oddly, I’ve been catching the end of movies lately :

Cought the end of Broken Arrow which is a nice action flick. I can’t help but laugh towards the end, when John Travolta is arming the Nuke on the train and he’s like “F’em if they can’t take a joke”. I would consider a broken arrow and thieves a foot to steal nuclear weapons horrific but the movies well done — I at least enjoy it lol. Besides Face/off I think it’s the only movie I’ve seen directed by John Woo.

Also saw the end of Rebecca, a good classic. Funny how she almost had the last laugh, almost but not quite but she still played them all the fool. The husband killed her thinking she was having another mans child, lover boy thought she was, and in the end she was dying of cancer instead. But told him that, knowing he’d kill her after so much playing around. The witch planned for him to end up in jail for the murder, knowing she was dying any way so why not cheat him one last time?

Managed to drop into Code Name: The Cleaner only 30min into it. I remember catching it one night and felt my interest gaining with the laugher ^_^. It’s hiliarous towards the end when it all clicks into place and the guys like “I knew it, I’m a spy” but he’s really just a janitor having a twist of fate, “He’s right, we’re going to die!” but they still survive lol.

It’s rare that I watch a lot of TV these days, I mostly gave up on it because when ever there was some thing decent on. I usually spent more time doing every thing else around here but watching the movie…. So I count myself lucky when I do get to watch any thing. I love movies, almost as much as a good book but hey few things beat books hehe.Most films that are derived from books, I usually find fall short of the book. The Lord of The Rings being one of the few exceptions, but generally few stand up to the original :. One thing that I think movies really do best, is offer the ability to tell the story visually just as much as verbally, which can be a bit tougher through text.

S’just one of those days, where you just keep breathing in and out and nothing more.

I think I know a few who would probably get drunk, and _stay_ drunk at the rate things are going. Some times I wish I could join them 0.o

The files in my home directory continue to grow..

I think I’d rather like to fill my canteen (assuming I could still find it), nab the camera just in case, and take a nice hike through the woods and enjoy the scenery for awhile… Although with my luck even if I could get out of this rats nest. I’d probably get in worse trouble that way :, wouldn’t be suprised if I got shot at 8=).

Had I the heavens’ embroidered cloths,
Enwrought with golden and silver light,
The blue and the dim and the dark cloths
Of night and light and the half-light,
I would spread the cloths under your feet:
But I, being poor, have only my dreams;
I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.

— “He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven”, William Butler Yeats

The last parts of which was quoted by Grammaton Cleric First Class Errol Partridge (Sean Bean) in one of my favorite action flicks, Equillibrium.

Video clip

Hmm, that music sounds familiar.

Just watched Red Dawn on TV tonight, first time I’ve ever seen it actually.

Needless to say, you don’t fuck with the Americans: We’ll put a cap in your ass.

The movie lays out a real nightmare scenario, a political shift in Germany pushing NATO into collapse, Russia in a massive enconmic disaster and the USA a land ripe for the plucking so they thought… The “Wolverines” proved for then an annoyance to the occupation forces. Supposedly as World War III kicked off most of Europe sat our their duffs watching the Russians and the Americans slug it out. While the British remain the only loyal friend on the US side.. much to the comment “they won’t last long”, I’m sure some one thought that during world war II hehe. And that China ended up getting involved on the American side, based on the drop from a Billion to 600 million or so “screaming Chinamen” mentioned it’s probable that the the tactical nukes were’t limited to the invasion :

The beginning of the movie is down right unnearving. The kids sit in class listing to a lecture about Atilia the Hun as Soviet paratroopers land outside. Shooting the (unarmed) teacher as he approaches and firing RPG’s into the school.. War is one thhing but slaughter is another.

A small band high schoolers flee into the hills and resist. When townspeople are executed in retaliation for the Wolverines actions they launch a counter attack killing the a group of executioners and wreaking havoc on the enemies rear lines. Going so far as to dar to bomb an HQ under the noise of the guards.. The passing of coded messages over the radio, one heard in the Longest Day in point of fact does suggest they were not the only ones giving them a run for their invasion money.

An interesting tid bit from the IMDb’s trivia section:

“The film’s replica Russian T-72 tank was so precise that when it was transported to the studio, two CIA agents followed and wanted to know where it had come from.”

Hahahaha !!!