Oldies Sunday-The Green Mile
I know it’s late, but I forgot about it. Anyway, here’s the review of one of my favorite movies of all time, The Green Mile.
(10.00/10.00) “When God Himself asks me why I destroyed one of his greatest gifts, what am I supposed to say? That is was my job?” This only one of the great quotes from the fantastic movie, The Green Mile. The story is based on a classic Stephen King set of stories, taking place in 1930s Louisiana. Several guards work on death row, and thanks to the oddly colored floors, they call it the green mile. One day a new inmate (Micheal Clarke Duncan) comes in, and noone really pays that much attention to him. That is until they discover he has the ability to heal other things, just by touching them. A miracle, if you will. I must say the acting by Micheal Clarke Duncan is phenomenal, he perfectly pulls off the hospitable, kind southern man who is genuinely kind to others. The performance by Tom Hanks and the rest is also fantastic. I cryed at this movie, and if you don’t during the final execution, there is something wrong with you. The movie is rated R, and I can see why, but it is still good nonetheless. I loved this movie, and you should too.
Heroes Genesis Final Act StoryBoard
This is a really cool storyboard I found on the HeroesWiki of the final scene in Genesis where Peter steps off the building trying to fly and Nathan flys up, revealing his power while trying to save Peter. This is one of my favorite moments in Heroes and is really cool to see in storyboard.
Terd Furgeson Video
One of the funniest SNL skits ever has to be the Celebrity Jeopardy skits. And thanks to Norm McDonald as Burt Reynolds a.k.a. Terd Furgeson, the skit became oh so better. Here is a video with some of the highlights of his appearances on SNL. Click here to see it.
Mr. Monk and the Three Julies
Another superb and hillarious Monk episode this week, Monk is unstoppable! The second half of season 6 is shaping up very well and will defnitely be one of my favorites. This episode starts off with Monk and the gang at a call, with Captain Stottlemeyer showing off his new car. While Monk and Natalie are left outside, a call comes in on a homicide of a Julie Teeger, the same name of Natalie’s daughter. She bolts, and takes off with Captain’s car, and I’d like to mention I really liked how they displayed the emotional depth of Natalie in this episode. Anyway, the Captain shows up to find his rear view mirror knocked off of his new car, the others show up to realize it was another Julie Teeger, a woman who was stabbed and killed in her home. At that crime scene, another Julie Teeger homicide is called in, and Natalie bolts again. She takes the Captain’s car again, and drives off to the next scene, where it is another Julie Teeger. This time, the Captain shows up to find his hood all dented in and his fender smashed, where after Natalie says she took the creek, he hillariously repeated, ”there’s no bridge across the creek”. The new victim was ran over by the same guy, a serial killer taking out Julie Teegers. Anyway, Monk, the Captain, and Randy go to another Julie Teeger’s house to warn her. They find her dead, and the report reveals she had been dead for 3 months, but her unstable son had stuffed her and held on to her. Monk has a hillarious time discovering the body, and immediately had to have a session with Dr. Kroger, where they discuss his wife’s tourette’s syndrome. Randy then poses as the dead mom when the son comes back, which lead to a hillarious panicky Randy begging for them to come and get him off. They take him into custody, where Monk realizes that the son had a knife with him, but the first victim was killed with a steak knife. He investigated the home of the second victim where he found a ripped off piece of tape that matched a box at the first victim’s home. He had solved the case. Here’s what happened: The first victim’s husband was having an affair, and the woman who he was cheating with had sent a package with his things to his wife, however, it had accidentally been sent to the other Julie Teeger, the second victim. It happened all the time, so she sent it to the first victim. He killed his wife, and then went and killed the other. This was a great episode and I look forward to next week’s Mr. Monk Paints his Masterpiece.
Star Wars Battlefront 2
(8.75/10.00) The second installment in the Battlefront franchise, this is easily one of my favorite Star Wars games. It’s hard to say the time frame for it, because it takes place whenever you want. My favorite mode, Galactic Conquest, has you battling for complete…conquest of your given galaxy while fighting the enemy’s attempts at control of the galaxy. One thing that’s unique is the variation, with 5 different timeframes to play GC in. You can play as the rebels against the empire, the republic against the droid army, the empire against the rebels (which means shooting Ewoks) and more. There are several upgrades and other units to buy, and the classic purchase of a hero to help you out. I kicked butt as Luke Skywalker at Mygeeto. The game was over in 1 minute. There are also several other possibilities, including different challenges, and the quick play which allows you to pick several battles to play in succession. Sometimes in Conquest I just didn’t feel like battling the same people over though, which sometimes happened. I really liked this game for the PSP, and it provided and filled all of my Star-Wars-on-the-go battling needs.
Earl Salutes-The Janitor
No, I’m not saluting the custodians of the every day work force, I’m saluting the character off of Scrubs, who never fails to deliver classic lines like the ones below and still torment J.D.. The Janitor is a hillarious character, and is still yet to have a name. He has several inventions like the hovering vacuum, and knife-wrench. He is a hillarious yet mysterious character, and one I enjoy watching on Scrubs. So to the Janitor, I salute you!
- J.D.: [to the Janitor] You’re an actor!
- Janitor: You’re a fireman! What are we doing?
- J.D.: Game over, “Klaus”; I saw you in The Fugitive.
- Janitor: Ohhh, yeah, yeah. I was in a Harrison Ford movie, but, y’know what, I chose this life instead ‘cuz it’s a little more glamorous.
- Dr. Kelso: [to Janitor, walking past] Hey champ, there’s some vomit on the back steps with your name on it.
- Janitor: [nods] Well, that’s my cue. Action! [feigns riding mop down hallway and mimes shooting into rooms, music begins playing]
- J.D.: Cut! [music stops]
Thanks for the Rebellion
Thanks again James for that reality check. I have now changed my password so none of you will be able to get in. Thanks for giving it back and you better hope I never get your password, or so help me, I’ll delete every last post on your blog!!!!! By the way, I’ll have that article on pancakes up soon.
Great Movie Scripts
Thanks to James, I have limited priveleges and no longer fully own my site. Wait, what I meant to say was thanks to him, I have found some of the greatest movie scripts. Below are the links to some of my favorite movie’s scripts.
Airplane, O Brother Where Art Thou?, and Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery
A True Masterpiece
A new feature of Super Smash Bros. Brawl, Masterpieces will be a feature that allows you to play demos of the classic games from whence the characters came on the virtual console, all without the need of a WFC connection, which is good news for me. The demos range from the all-time classic Super Mario Bros. to Kid Icarus. This looks to be a very cool feature that all veteran Nintendo fans will enjoy.
And Stop Calling Me Shirley!
You may have seen the previews for the new Scary-movie-ish Meet the Spartans, a spoof of 300, Transformers, etc. I would just like to send a message to the makers of these movies-STOP! The original of these movies were Airplane! and The Naked Gun Series, which as you can tell from a previous post, are some of my favorite movies. It has what these newer ones don’t-originality. Airplane! didn’t have hardly any movie spoofs, and if it did, they weren’t the selling point of the movie. The giggles in Airplane weren’t giggles, but guffaws, and belly laughs. These newer ones will never meet the same quality of the masterpiece Airplane unless they cut out the lame dry jokes, and use what made the originals better-creativity! I’m leave you with some of the funniest quotes from The Naked Gun.
- Goon: Hey, Drebin! I’ve got a messege for you from Vincent Ludwig: He talks rapidly while repeatedly firing is gun
- Frank Drebin: I can’t hear you, dont fire the gun while you talk!
