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Year: 1981
Director: John Carpenter
Plot: The year is 1997: Manhattan Island is now a heavily guarded maximum-security prison, where the scum of the earth have converged. When Air Force One crash-lands in Manhattan, the President (Donald Pleasence) is held hostage by its denizens. One-eyed mercenary Snake Plissken (Kurt Russell) is strong-armed into rescuing the Chief Executive. He is aided, not always willingly, by a tough gal (Adrienne Barbeau) and a manic cab driver (Ernest Borgnine). Too long for its own good (especially in its expanded video version), Escape from New York is an otherwise excellent chunk of non-think entertainment. It was followed by a sequel of sorts in 1996, Escape From LA, again starring Kurt Russell. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
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]]>Fri, 24 Jul 2009 17:06:27 GMTEscape from New York1981John CarpenterThe year is 1997: Manhattan Island is now a heavily guarded maximum-security prison, where the scum of the earth have converged. When Air Force One crash-lands in Manhattan, the President (<a href="/players/P____57070/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Donald Pleasence</a>) is held hostage by its denizens. One-eyed mercenary Snake Plissken (<a href="/players/P____62232/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Kurt Russell</a>) is strong-armed into rescuing the Chief Executive. He is aided, not always willingly, by a tough gal (<a href="/players/P_____3815/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Adrienne Barbeau</a>) and a manic cab driver (<a href="/players/P_____7448/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Ernest Borgnine</a>). Too long for its own good (especially in its expanded video version), Escape from New York is an otherwise excellent chunk of non-think entertainment. It was followed by a sequel of sorts in 1996, Escape From LA, again starring <a href="/players/P____62232/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Kurt Russell</a>. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide23Tag Target (>10)4110153http://www.spout.com/ProductImages/s10648.jpghttp://www.spout.com/films/Escape_from_New_York/10648/default.aspxFilm http://www.spout.com/groups/Movie_Polls/Re_Which_of_these_movies_with_a_US_State_name_in_i/657/43253/1/ShowPost.aspx Post By: Risselada
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Body: [quote user="mercurial"] [quote user="Risselada"] [quote user="leeroy711"] I voted for Texas Chainsaw Massacre because you didn't include Raising Arizona, Kalifornia, Escape from New York, Scotland, PA, or of course Hannah Montana: The Movie..... [/quote] I actually have reasons for not including all of those. Although you might not consider them valid. There really are no rules here, so I guess I just made the rules. In this case, Arizona and Montana are both references to surnames rather than states. Kalifornia is not an accurate spelling of the state California. New York is a reference to New York City rather than the state of New York. And (probably the weakest reason) PA is only the postal abbreviation of Pennsylvania. [/quote] Hahahaha, oh Ris, that's why I love ya. Always thinking. [/quote] I'm glad you enjoyed that Merc! Although sometimes it is nice to try to stop thinking and relax if my mind would let me.
]]>Fri, 24 Jul 2009 17:06:27 GMTRisseladaMovie Polls7/24/2009 1:06:27 PM[quote user="mercurial"] [quote user="Risselada"] [quote user="leeroy711"] I voted for Texas Chainsaw Massacre because you didn't include Raising Arizona, Kalifornia, Escape from New York, Scotland, PA, or of course Hannah Montana: The Movie..... [/quote] I actually have reasons for not including all of those. Although you might not consider them valid. There really are no rules here, so I guess I just made the rules. In this case, Arizona and Montana are both references to surnames rather than states. Kalifornia is not an accurate spelling of the state California. New York is a reference to New York City rather than the state of New York. And (probably the weakest reason) PA is only the postal abbreviation of Pennsylvania. [/quote] Hahahaha, oh Ris, that's why I love ya. Always thinking. [/quote] I'm glad you enjoyed that Merc! Although sometimes it is nice to try to stop thinking and relax if my mind would let me. http://www.spout.com/groups/Movie_Polls/Re_Which_of_these_movies_with_a_US_State_name_in_i/657/43249/1/ShowPost.aspx Post By: mercurial
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Body: [quote user="Risselada"] [quote user="leeroy711"] I voted for Texas Chainsaw Massacre because you didn't include Raising Arizona, Kalifornia, Escape from New York, Scotland, PA, or of course Hannah Montana: The Movie..... [/quote] I actually have reasons for not including all of those. Although you might not consider them valid. There really are no rules here, so I guess I just made the rules. In this case, Arizona and Montana are both references to surnames rather than states. Kalifornia is not an accurate spelling of the state California. New York is a reference to New York City rather than the state of New York. And (probably the weakest reason) PA is only the postal abbreviation of Pennsylvania. [/quote] Hahahaha, oh Ris, that's why I love ya. Always thinking.
]]>Fri, 24 Jul 2009 07:09:21 GMTmercurialMovie Polls7/24/2009 3:09:21 AM[quote user="Risselada"] [quote user="leeroy711"] I voted for Texas Chainsaw Massacre because you didn't include Raising Arizona, Kalifornia, Escape from New York, Scotland, PA, or of course Hannah Montana: The Movie..... [/quote] I actually have reasons for not including all of those. Although you might not consider them valid. There really are no rules here, so I guess I just made the rules. In this case, Arizona and Montana are both references to surnames rather than states. Kalifornia is not an accurate spelling of the state California. New York is a reference to New York City rather than the state of New York. And (probably the weakest reason) PA is only the postal abbreviation of Pennsylvania. [/quote] Hahahaha, oh Ris, that's why I love ya. Always thinking. http://www.spout.com/groups/Movie_Polls/Re_Which_of_these_movies_with_a_US_State_name_in_i/657/43246/1/ShowPost.aspx Post By: Risselada
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Post Date: 7/23/2009 4:47:07 PM
Body: [quote user="leeroy711"] I voted for Texas Chainsaw Massacre because you didn't include Raising Arizona, Kalifornia, Escape from New York, Scotland, PA, or of course Hannah Montana: The Movie..... [/quote] I actually have reasons for not including all of those. Although you might not consider them valid. There really are no rules here, so I guess I just made the rules. In this case, Arizona and Montana are both references to surnames rather than states. Kalifornia is not an accurate spelling of the state California. New York is a reference to New York City rather than the state of New York. And (probably the weakest reason) PA is only the postal abbreviation of Pennsylvania.
]]>Thu, 23 Jul 2009 20:47:07 GMTRisseladaMovie Polls7/23/2009 4:47:07 PM[quote user="leeroy711"] I voted for Texas Chainsaw Massacre because you didn't include Raising Arizona, Kalifornia, Escape from New York, Scotland, PA, or of course Hannah Montana: The Movie..... [/quote] I actually have reasons for not including all of those. Although you might not consider them valid. There really are no rules here, so I guess I just made the rules. In this case, Arizona and Montana are both references to surnames rather than states. Kalifornia is not an accurate spelling of the state California. New York is a reference to New York City rather than the state of New York. And (probably the weakest reason) PA is only the postal abbreviation of Pennsylvania. http://www.spout.com/groups/Movie_Polls/Re_Which_of_these_movies_with_a_US_State_name_in_i/657/43245/1/ShowPost.aspx Post By: leeroy711
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Body: I voted for Texas Chainsaw Massacre because you didn't include Raising Arizona, Kalifornia, Escape from New York, Scotland, PA, or of course Hannah Montana: The Movie.....
]]>Thu, 23 Jul 2009 19:45:39 GMTleeroy711Movie Polls7/23/2009 3:45:39 PMI voted for Texas Chainsaw Massacre because you didn't include Raising Arizona, Kalifornia, Escape from New York, Scotland, PA, or of course Hannah Montana: The Movie..... http://www.spout.com/blogs/the_mow/archive/2009/7/17/43151.aspx Post By: The_MOW
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Body: In 1988, the United States crime rate has risen to an unbelievable rate. To battle the resulting prison population, New York City (partially played by East St. Louis, Missouri) has been turned into a maximum security prison where the prisoners rule the streets. The prison guards, based out of Liberty Island in New York Harbor, are only there to keep the prison population, all of which are serving life sentences, in the city. Once in the city, you do not come out alive. Nine years later, Air Force One, en route to a summit, is hijacked and shot down. The "President of the United States" (the late Donald Pleasence) escapes in a life pod by the head of his personal security, and he lands within New York's city limits, where he is taken prisoner by the self-proclaimed leader of the city (music legend Isaac Hayes), who calls himself "The Duke of New York City". In response to the threat "The Duke" has issued against the "President's" life, prisoner and military hero "Robert 'Snake' Plissken" (Kurt Russell, in one of his most famous roles) is picked to go into the city, where he is already well known, and get the "President" out in 24-hours so he can attend the summit. If he is able to bring the "President" out alive, he regains his freedom. But, he has no choice in doing the mission as he is injected with a microscoptic explosive which will rupture his carotid artery when the time limit is up. First off, this movie is wrongly identified as science-fiction. The movie is in the near future, which makes it fall into the genre somewhat, and has computer graphics, which look cheap compared to today's standards. In fact, the computer graphics really don't hold up after all these years, and look like very cheap computer animation. It also falls in the action genre, but isn't heavy on the action. In fact, the action is pretty mild. Another problem with this movie is character development. We are given the characters and their reason for being in the story, but we are barely given a backstory on these characters. As for the prisoners "Plissken" meets in the "Big Apple Poky" (I just made up that nickname), all we really know is that they are lifers, and never given why they are in the prison. I felt that the action fails in this movie. There really is no suspense in these scenes I feel. The action is pretty good at best, but I have seen action handled better in other movies. Action should be fast-paced, and should put the audience on the edge of their seats. This movie, in my opinion, only has mild action. I also believe that there was no chemistry in the cast. Russell played "Plissken" with a bad attitude and seemed to talk with his teeth clinched at all times. "Plissken" had no real personality except a bad one. Don't get me wrong, the plot is pretty creative. I can't recall any other movie that either uses or mentions a well known city in such a way. This is a pretty original story here. There is some violence in this movie, but it's not too gory. You don't get bodies of people with huge gunshot wounds on their body at all. You just get "dead" bodies with stage blood obviously poured strategically over them. Strong language is also kept at a minimum I feel. In fact, I don't recall any really strong language in this movie. Visually, the scenery is pretty interesting. I don't recall, after "Plissken" enters the city, and of the scenes being shot during the day. They made New York, actually East St. Louis, Missouri, look like a slum-meets-war zone. You would expect, being in a maximum security prison, the prisoners would have been wearing orange prison jumpsuits. You don't get that here. What you do get are clothes that appear to be worn in for a long time as if they were sent into the prison wearing only what they had on. Inside the city, they are in a world of their own. And that is done with perfection here. You really get the feel that there is no rules in the city. People are there to do whatever is needed to survive. Out of the entire cast, Russell is the only one I liked. However, I have to give Ernest Borgnine an honorable mention for making "Cabbie" an annoyingly talkative character, making him pretty memorable. Lee Van Cleff as "Hauk" was good at creating friction between he and Russell in their scenes together, but we really don't get this expanded upon. I also felt that Donald Pleasance was completely wrong for this role, or his character was horribly written. I can't recommend this for a "Must See" list. I can only recommend that people see this movie because of its cult status that it has achieved over the years since it was released.
]]>Fri, 17 Jul 2009 20:06:03 GMTThe_MOWThe_MOW Blog7/17/2009 4:06:03 PMIn 1988, the United States crime rate has risen to an unbelievable rate. To battle the resulting prison population, New York City (partially played by East St. Louis, Missouri) has been turned into a maximum security prison where the prisoners rule the streets. The prison guards, based out of Liberty Island in New York Harbor, are only there to keep the prison population, all of which are serving life sentences, in the city. Once in the city, you do not come out alive. Nine years later, Air Force One, en route to a summit, is hijacked and shot down. The "President of the United States" (the late Donald Pleasence) escapes in a life pod by the head of his personal security, and he lands within New York's city limits, where he is taken prisoner by the self-proclaimed leader of the city (music legend Isaac Hayes), who calls himself "The Duke of New York City". In response to the threat "The Duke" has issued against the "President's" life, prisoner and military hero "Robert 'Snake' Plissken" (Kurt Russell, in one of his most famous roles) is picked to go into the city, where he is already well known, and get the "President" out in 24-hours so he can attend the summit. If he is able to bring the "President" out alive, he regains his freedom. But, he has no choice in doing the mission as he is injected with a microscoptic explosive which will rupture his carotid artery when the time limit is up. First off, this movie is wrongly identified as science-fiction. The movie is in the near future, which makes it fall into the genre somewhat, and has computer graphics, which look cheap compared to today's standards. In fact, the computer graphics really don't hold up after all these years, and look like very cheap computer animation. It also falls in the action genre, but isn't heavy on the action. In fact, the action is pretty mild. Another problem with this movie is character development. We are given the characters and their reason for being in the story, but we are barely given a backstory on these characters. As for the prisoners "Plissken" meets in the "Big Apple Poky" (I just made up that nickname), all we really know is that they are lifers, and never given why they are in the prison. I felt that the action fails in this movie. There really is no suspense in these scenes I feel. The action is pretty good at best, but I have seen action handled better in other movies. Action should be fast-paced, and should put the audience on the edge of their seats. This movie, in my opinion, only has mild action. I also believe that there was no chemistry in the cast. Russell played "Plissken" with a bad attitude and seemed to talk with his teeth clinched at all times. "Plissken" had no real personality except a bad one. Don't get me wrong, the plot is pretty creative. I can't recall any other movie that either uses or mentions a well known city in such a way. This is a pretty original story here. There is some violence in this movie, but it's not too gory. You don't get bodies of people with huge gunshot wounds on their body at all. You just get "dead" bodies with stage blood obviously poured strategically over them. Strong language is also kept at a minimum I feel. In fact, I don't recall any really strong language in this movie. Visually, the scenery is pretty interesting. I don't recall, after "Plissken" enters the city, and of the scenes being shot during the day. They made New York, actually East St. Louis, Missouri, look like a slum-meets-war zone. You would expect, being in a maximum security prison, the prisoners would have been wearing orange prison jumpsuits. You don't get that here. What you do get are clothes that appear to be worn in for a long time as if they were sent into the prison wearing only what they had on. Inside the city, they are in a world of their own. And that is done with perfection here. You really get the feel that there is no rules in the city. People are there to do whatever is needed to survive. Out of the entire cast, Russell is the only one I liked. However, I have to give Ernest Borgnine an honorable mention for making "Cabbie" an annoyingly talkative character, making him pretty memorable. Lee Van Cleff as "Hauk" was good at creating friction between he and Russell in their scenes together, but we really don't get this expanded upon. I also felt that Donald Pleasance was completely wrong for this role, or his character was horribly written. I can't recommend this for a "Must See" list. I can only recommend that people see this movie because of its cult status that it has achieved over the years since it was released. http://www.spout.com/blogs/spoutblog/archive/2009/1/28/40022.aspx Post By: SpoutBlog
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Body: We don’t ask much from science fiction movies: entertaining plot lines, competent acting, huge explosions, and accurate predictions of the future. Many films fail to deliver on that final request, prognosticating about the world to come and screwing it up again and again. Many of these movies rely on the believability of their premise, but when that premise involves a prediction about the state of the world at a specific future date, they’re setting themselves up for failure when that day comes to pass without incident. Here are five films that forecasted doom and gloom that did not happen. The Time Machine - 1966 Nuclear War H. G. Wells’ 1895 novel, The Time Machine, was made into a feature film in 1960, and again in 2002. While the story has changed somewhat in each incarnation, it’s always involves a Victorian scientist traveling to the distant future where he finds humanity has devolved into two distinct groups, one savage, the other hopelessly apathetic. In the 1960 version, George, the scientist, makes several stops before ending up in the distant future. He happens to stop during World War I, World War II, and a nuclear war in 1966. The prediction that London would be nuked in ‘66, causing lava to flow in the streets, was clearly wrong, but it wasn’t a very outlandish idea. Just two years after the film’s release, in October, 1962, the Cuban Missile Crisis nearly caused the United States and The Soviet Union to engage in an all-out nuclear war. If that happened, you would not want to be in Miami, and London wouldn’t be much safer. Death Race 2000 - Homicidal Road Race One of the finer Roger Corman-produced cult classics, this 1975 film stars David Carradine and Sylvester Stallone as race car drivers in the dystopian future of the year 2000. The Transcontinental Road Race is won not only by speed, but also by running over innocent civilians for points. The race is the only remaining sport, and one of the ways the oppressive American regime distracts the populace from government corruption. The film was remade last year by Paul W. S. Anderson, with the race taking place in a prison, where the racers are only trying to kill one another. Needless to say, this completely ruined the original concept of the film. While there weren’t any murderous car races in 2000 (that we know of), both films do cite a financial collapse as the cause of the dystopia that makes the race possible. In the case of last year’s remake, it was a little spooky when the stock market crashed about a month and a half after the film’s premiere. Escape From New York - 1997 New York Prison Colony John Carpenter’s 1981 film predicted that World War III, between the United States and the Soviet Union, would result in economic hardships and a skyrocketing crime rate. By 1997, the year in which the film is set, New York City is a prison colony. When Air Force One crashes in Manhattan, special ops soldier turned criminal Snake Plisskin has 24 hours to rescue the captured president and save himself and the world! Predicting in 1981 that crime would rise exponentially could’ve seemed like a safe bet. Violent crime was a growing problem throughout the 70s and 80s, in New York and elsewhere. But in the 90s New York started getting a lot safer, the violent crime rate fell 75% from 1993 to 2003. If the president were trapped in New York now, it would probably be in a long line to get discount Broadway tickets in Times Square, not held hostage by warring criminal gangs. Terminator - Self Aware Machines by 1997 In the world of the Terminator films, humanity struggles against killer robots created by Skynet, a self-aware automated defense system. In Terminator 2: Judgement Day, it is revealed that Skynet became aware in 1997 (a bad year, apparently), starting a massive nuclear war shortly after. In the 2003 sequel, Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, we learn that the nuclear holocaust was delayed until 2004. Then, in 2008, the premiere episode of The Sarah Conner Chronicles revealed that Judgement Day was actually delayed until 2011. As much as I love the Terminator franchise, that’s not a very good track record of future predictions. It also reveals a curious phenomenon shared by all the films on this list so far, I call it revisionist futurism. When a prediction doesn’t pan out, simply remake the movie (or make a sequel) that places the date further in the future, buying more time. This happened with Time Machine and Death Race, and they’re trying to get a remake of Escape From New York off the ground. If they do, you can bet that it won’t be set in 1997. Strange Days - Dystopian Los Angeles of 1999 In this 1995 cyberpunk sci-fi film, Ralph Fiennes play Lenny Nero, a dealer of erotic recordings of brain waves which makes the listener feel as if they are experiencing the recorded events. Set against the backdrop of a tense, dystopian Los Angeles of 1999, it failed to predict exactly how technology would mediate sexual pleasure, but it still serves as an interesting barometer of the mid-90s. The film’s vision of a Los Angles suffering under a brutal police state, and the murder of a prominent hip-hop artist and anti-police activist, is clearly reflective of the race riots of a few years prior. The brain wave recordings, while not yet a reality, do illustrate the way that the porn industry is a driving force in development of new technology. If smut ever does get that realistic, learn from the mistakes of Lenny Nero and stay away from snuff films. —- There are plenty of films whose futures have yet to play out. We won’t really know, for example, if the flying cars from Back to the Future Part II will exist in 2015 for another six years. We could just wait to see if this and other predictions come true, or we could try something else: sending a e-mail to the future with the hope of hearing back about the veracity of near-future predictions! Tune in next week, where (hopefully) the future me will respond with a list of five more movies whose predictions haven’t happened yet, but are still doomed to fail. Hopefully the future me will explain how and why they didn’t work out. See you in the future! Originally posted on:SpoutBlog
]]>Wed, 28 Jan 2009 16:01:23 GMTSpoutBlogSpoutBlog on spout.com1/28/2009 11:01:23 AMWe don’t ask much from science fiction movies: entertaining plot lines, competent acting, huge explosions, and accurate predictions of the future. Many films fail to deliver on that final request, prognosticating about the world to come and screwing it up again and again. Many of these movies rely on the believability of their premise, but when that premise involves a prediction about the state of the world at a specific future date, they’re setting themselves up for failure when that day comes to pass without incident. Here are five films that forecasted doom and gloom that did not happen. The Time Machine - 1966 Nuclear War H. G. Wells’ 1895 novel, The Time Machine, was made into a feature film in 1960, and again in 2002. While the story has changed somewhat in each incarnation, it’s always involves a Victorian scientist traveling to the distant future where he finds humanity has devolved into two distinct groups, one savage, the other hopelessly apathetic. In the 1960 version, George, the scientist, makes several stops before ending up in the distant future. He happens to stop during World War I, World War II, and a nuclear war in 1966. The prediction that London would be nuked in ‘66, causing lava to flow in the streets, was clearly wrong, but it wasn’t a very outlandish idea. Just two years after the film’s release, in October, 1962, the Cuban Missile Crisis nearly caused the United States and The Soviet Union to engage in an all-out nuclear war. If that happened, you would not want to be in Miami, and London wouldn’t be much safer. Death Race 2000 - Homicidal Road Race One of the finer Roger Corman-produced cult classics, this 1975 film stars David Carradine and Sylvester Stallone as race car drivers in the dystopian future of the year 2000. The Transcontinental Road Race is won not only by speed, but also by running over innocent civilians for points. The race is the only remaining sport, and one of the ways the oppressive American regime distracts the populace from government corruption. The film was remade last year by Paul W. S. Anderson, with the race taking place in a prison, where the racers are only trying to kill one another. Needless to say, this completely ruined the original concept of the film. While there weren’t any murderous car races in 2000 (that we know of), both films do cite a financial collapse as the cause of the dystopia that makes the race possible. In the case of last year’s remake, it was a little spooky when the stock market crashed about a month and a half after the film’s premiere. Escape From New York - 1997 New York Prison Colony John Carpenter’s 1981 film predicted that World War III, between the United States and the Soviet Union, would result in economic hardships and a skyrocketing crime rate. By 1997, the year in which the film is set, New York City is a prison colony. When Air Force One crashes in Manhattan, special ops soldier turned criminal Snake Plisskin has 24 hours to rescue the captured president and save himself and the world! Predicting in 1981 that crime would rise exponentially could’ve seemed like a safe bet. Violent crime was a growing problem throughout the 70s and 80s, in New York and elsewhere. But in the 90s New York started getting a lot safer, the violent crime rate fell 75% from 1993 to 2003. If the president were trapped in New York now, it would probably be in a long line to get discount Broadway tickets in Times Square, not held hostage by warring criminal gangs. Terminator - Self Aware Machines by 1997 In the world of the Terminator films, humanity struggles against killer robots created by Skynet, a self-aware automated defense system. In Terminator 2: Judgement Day, it is revealed that Skynet became aware in 1997 (a bad year, apparently), starting a massive nuclear war shortly after. In the 2003 sequel, Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, we learn that the nuclear holocaust was delayed until 2004. Then, in 2008, the premiere episode of The Sarah Conner Chronicles revealed that Judgement Day was actually delayed until 2011. As much as I love the Terminator franchise, that’s not a very good track record of future predictions. It also reveals a curious phenomenon shared by all the films on this list so far, I call it revisionist futurism. When a prediction doesn’t pan out, simply remake the movie (or make a sequel) that places the date further in the future, buying more time. This happened with Time Machine and Death Race, and they’re trying to get a remake of Escape From New York off the ground. If they do, you can bet that it won’t be set in 1997. Strange Days - Dystopian Los Angeles of 1999 In this 1995 cyberpunk sci-fi film, Ralph Fiennes play Lenny Nero, a dealer of erotic recordings of brain waves which makes the listener feel as if they are experiencing the recorded events. Set against the backdrop of a tense, dystopian Los Angeles of 1999, it failed to predict exactly how technology would mediate sexual pleasure, but it still serves as an interesting barometer of the mid-90s. The film’s vision of a Los Angles suffering under a brutal police state, and the murder of a prominent hip-hop artist and anti-police activist, is clearly reflective of the race riots of a few years prior. The brain wave recordings, while not yet a reality, do illustrate the way that the porn industry is a driving force in development of new technology. If smut ever does get that realistic, learn from the mistakes of Lenny Nero and stay away from snuff films. —- There are plenty of films whose futures have yet to play out. We won’t really know, for example, if the flying cars from Back to the Future Part II will exist in 2015 for another six years. We could just wait to see if this and other predictions come true, or we could try something else: sending a e-mail to the future with the hope of hearing back about the veracity of near-future predictions! Tune in next week, where (hopefully) the future me will respond with a list of five more movies whose predictions haven’t happened yet, but are still doomed to fail. Hopefully the future me will explain how and why they didn’t work out. See you in the future! Originally posted on:SpoutBlog http://www.spout.com/groups/Weekly_Theme/Weekly_Theme_for_December_1_The_Anti_Hero/625/37820/1/ShowPost.aspx Post By: leeroy711
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Body: From filmnoirstudies.com Anti-Hero - "The principal protagonist of a film who lacks the attributes or characteristics of a typical hero, but with whom the audience identifies" I just watched Branded to Kill by Seijun Suzuki the other night. It was a really good movie and I realized how much I like the way he writes his characters. This movie was about Hanada, a Japanese hit-man with a rice-sniffing habit. The anti-heroic element is obvious in this one but I also realized how much Story of a Prostitute and Gate of Flesh were anti-hero films as well. You know, the proverbial "hooker with a heart of gold" type of a story. You find this in noir quite a bit. It almost seems manditory that the private eye have some sort of extra-marital affair and/or drinking problem.... or he's just a jerk. Probably my favorite example is Jake Gittes in Chinatown. Oh and you can't forget the western genre. There may have never been a better anti-hero than "Blondie" in the "man with no name" trilogy. Kurt Russel makes a pretty good sci-fi anti-hero. Just think of Snake in Escape from New York or Jack Burton in Big Trouble in Little China. That's all I've got, who's your favorite anti-hero????????? TELL ME NOW!!
]]>Tue, 02 Dec 2008 00:30:28 GMTleeroy711Weekly Theme12/1/2008 7:30:28 PMFrom filmnoirstudies.com Anti-Hero - "The principal protagonist of a film who lacks the attributes or characteristics of a typical hero, but with whom the audience identifies" I just watched Branded to Kill by Seijun Suzuki the other night. It was a really good movie and I realized how much I like the way he writes his characters. This movie was about Hanada, a Japanese hit-man with a rice-sniffing habit. The anti-heroic element is obvious in this one but I also realized how much Story of a Prostitute and Gate of Flesh were anti-hero films as well. You know, the proverbial "hooker with a heart of gold" type of a story. You find this in noir quite a bit. It almost seems manditory that the private eye have some sort of extra-marital affair and/or drinking problem.... or he's just a jerk. Probably my favorite example is Jake Gittes in Chinatown. Oh and you can't forget the western genre. There may have never been a better anti-hero than "Blondie" in the "man with no name" trilogy. Kurt Russel makes a pretty good sci-fi anti-hero. Just think of Snake in Escape from New York or Jack Burton in Big Trouble in Little China. That's all I've got, who's your favorite anti-hero????????? TELL ME NOW!! http://www.spout.com/groups/Weekly_Theme/Re_Weekly_Theme_for_October_13_Just_One_Day/625/36297/1/ShowPost.aspx Post By: Risselada
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Post Date: 10/14/2008 2:55:59 PM
Body: The Taking of Pelham One Two Three - one of the best action/thriller/comedy movies ever made. A lot of it takes place in almost real time. 12 Angry Men - another one that's almost in real time, so certainly within a day. Magnolia - the EPIC of one day films. Clerks. - he was supposed to have that day off High Noon - also almost real time Kids - I think this was just one day. It feels like it. Rope - real time My Dinner with Andre - real time Most movies based on classical theater will take place within 24 hours since this was one of the ancient restriction of good theatre. Time, space, and subject were all supposed to be remain the same. More Linklater films - Before Sunrise / Before Sunset / Slacker These come up under one night I think Night of the Living Dead Goonies Die Hard Escape from New York Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle
]]>Tue, 14 Oct 2008 18:55:59 GMTRisseladaWeekly Theme10/14/2008 2:55:59 PMThe Taking of Pelham One Two Three - one of the best action/thriller/comedy movies ever made. A lot of it takes place in almost real time. 12 Angry Men - another one that's almost in real time, so certainly within a day. Magnolia - the EPIC of one day films. Clerks. - he was supposed to have that day off High Noon - also almost real time Kids - I think this was just one day. It feels like it. Rope - real time My Dinner with Andre - real time Most movies based on classical theater will take place within 24 hours since this was one of the ancient restriction of good theatre. Time, space, and subject were all supposed to be remain the same. More Linklater films - Before Sunrise / Before Sunset / Slacker These come up under one night I think Night of the Living Dead Goonies Die Hard Escape from New York Harold &amp; Kumar Go to White Castle http://www.spout.com/blogs/mikeeverleth/archive/2008/9/3/34683.aspx Post By: MikeEverleth
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Post Date: 9/3/2008 1:58:53 AM
Body: Having re-watched Escape From New York after not having seen it all the way through in years, I was really struck how similar in tone this is to Halloween, particularly in how from when Snake first lands to the end there's that great sense of Carpenterian dread that death is lurking just outside of the frame, due to the figures dashing around in the shadows and the quick zinger music cues. I was also struck by how much good-natured fun the movie is. It's a fairly dark film, but filled with some really corny jokes, e.g. the recurring "I heard you were dead" line that almost make it a light-hearted romp.
]]>Wed, 03 Sep 2008 05:58:53 GMTMikeEverlethMikeEverleth Blog9/3/2008 1:58:53 AMHaving re-watched Escape From New York after not having seen it all the way through in years, I was really struck how similar in tone this is to Halloween, particularly in how from when Snake first lands to the end there's that great sense of Carpenterian dread that death is lurking just outside of the frame, due to the figures dashing around in the shadows and the quick zinger music cues. I was also struck by how much good-natured fun the movie is. It's a fairly dark film, but filled with some really corny jokes, e.g. the recurring "I heard you were dead" line that almost make it a light-hearted romp. http://www.spout.com/blogs/leeroy711/archive/2008/8/28/34499.aspx Post By: leeroy711
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Post Date: 8/28/2008 1:41:20 PM
Body: Neil Marshall's buddies: "Hey Neil, 28 Days Later, Escape From New York, The Road Warrior and Beyond Thunderdome kicked ass." Neil: "Hell yeah, they did!! I should make a movie like that." Neil's buddies: "That would be @$#@$@ sweet!!" (or mint or what ever those brits say). ****** 20 minutes later ******** Niel: "Ok, screenpay's done." ****** pulls out steno pad in which he's scribbled down a makeshift storyboard/amature comic book. "Here it is" Neil's buddies: "Where the hell did the midievil knights come from?" Neil: "I really liked Gladiator too!" Neil's buddies: "Mint!! It seems to be missing something though. What could it bee?" Neil: "I've got it! This movie needs more decapitations and cannibalism." Buddies: "Awesome!!!!!!" Ok, so don't get the wrong impression. I really liked this movie. It was a hell of a lot of fun. I think the unoriginal aspects of this film were much more of an homage than a rip-off. So, If you liked those previously mentioned movies but want to see something with better explosions, faster cars and better looking women, check this one out.
]]>Thu, 28 Aug 2008 17:41:20 GMTleeroy711leeroy711 Blog8/28/2008 1:41:20 PMNeil Marshall's buddies: "Hey Neil, 28 Days Later, Escape From New York, The Road Warrior and Beyond Thunderdome kicked ass." Neil: "Hell yeah, they did!! I should make a movie like that." Neil's buddies: "That would be @$#@$@ sweet!!" (or mint or what ever those brits say). ****** 20 minutes later ******** Niel: "Ok, screenpay's done." ****** pulls out steno pad in which he's scribbled down a makeshift storyboard/amature comic book. "Here it is" Neil's buddies: "Where the hell did the midievil knights come from?" Neil: "I really liked Gladiator too!" Neil's buddies: "Mint!! It seems to be missing something though. What could it bee?" Neil: "I've got it! This movie needs more decapitations and cannibalism." Buddies: "Awesome!!!!!!" Ok, so don't get the wrong impression. I really liked this movie. It was a hell of a lot of fun. I think the unoriginal aspects of this film were much more of an homage than a rip-off. So, If you liked those previously mentioned movies but want to see something with better explosions, faster cars and better looking women, check this one out. http://www.spout.com/members/0/tags/future/MemberTagFilms.aspxfuture
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