The Dark Knight - HOLY SHIT!
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Each December we swear off of Fantasy Football for good, only to find by July we’re in full gridiron withdrawals. Nothing sounds better than endless humiliation in yet another losing season. New Year’s Eve is exactly the same. It comes around and we try to make last minute plans for the ultimate celebration. Only to be disappointed. Again and again.
So it goes with the summer movie season. Each year there’s renewed hope for a film worthy of knocking us flat on our asses. It is, after all, what the hype tells us to think. Sadly, it’s one of the primary reasons this blog exists; as each year we’re subjected to formulaic crap marketed as films. It is increasingly rare for movie fans to be genuinely rewarded for years of patience. But every now and then… Read the rest of this entry »
Predator - Get to the Chopper!
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“Shit, you trying to tell me Blaine and Hawkins were killed by a fucking lizard? Don’t listen to her. It’s a psych-job! Two, maybe three of them, that’s all. We keep our cool, out-think them ’til we’re across the border…” (http://www.scifiscripts.com/scripts/predator.txt)
-“Dillon” as portrayed by the thespian talents of Carl Weathers in the 1987 John McTiernan Cinematic Opera, Predator
Predator forever changed the way we processed an ‘action flick.’ It introduced a new dynamic that had not been seen previous: A special forces team, gritty jungle warfare, invisible lizard, shoulder mounted laser, dismemberment, mud cameo, a mythical chopper, hand to hand combat, bows and arrows, booby traps… and all of it boiling down to a glorified game of duck hunt.
What’s not to love?
Origins…
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As the inaugural post for “The Riddle of Steal-The Blog” we thought it might be worthwhile to give the reader a brief look into the creation of this blog and its subsequent creative process.
