I love movies, and want to get a career in making them after college.
I have worked on a few small film projects in high school media,
and am now planning on scoring another filming related class next semester in college.
Horror movies are also a big thing with me. I love them, well the old ones at least.
Not many of the new ones are as great, just gory and bad. Though I haven't been
scared by a horror movie in over a decade, so age plays into the scare factor back then,
but nothing's scary anymore.
Oh, and the ORIGINAL HALLOWEEN RULES!
I also obsess over True Crime novels/subjects and their film adaptations,
like Helter Skelter/Zodiac/From Hell etc.
And I also consider myself a Ripperologist/Zodiacologist.
When reviewing movies by picking how many stars it's worth on facebook,
I couldn't help but review all fifty of them in a few short sentences,
whether I liked the film I was reviewing or not.
Meaning that I love shooting out my opinion on every movie I've seen.
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R.I.P.: STAN WINSTON :( {62yrs old [4/7/46-6/15/08]}
THE COOLEST & MOST LEGENDARY CREATURE FX/DESIGNER IN THE ENTIRE 113 YEAR
HISTORY OF THE MOVIE BUSINESS. YOU ARE ALREADY GREATLY MISSED. THERE WILL NEVER
BE ANOTHER LIKE YOU. AND YOU WILL ALWAYS BE REMEMBERED.
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HEATH LEDGER ON PLAYING THE JOKER:
"I wouldn't have thought of me, either. But it's obviously not going to be what Jack
Nicholson did. It's going to be more nuanced and dark and more along the lines of
'A Clockwork Orange' kind of feel. Which is, I think, what the comic book was after:
less about his laugh and more about his eyes."
"I definitely feared it. Although anything that makes me afraid I guess excites me at the
same time. I don't know if I was fearless, but I certainly had to put on a brave
face and believe that I have something up my sleeve. Something different..."
"It's a combination of reading all the comic books I could that were relevant to the script and then just closing my eyes and
meditating on it. I sat around in a hotel room in London for about a month, locked myself away, formed a little diary and experimented
with voices - it was important to try to find a somewhat iconic voice and laugh. I ended up landing more in the realm of a psychopath
- someone with very little to no conscience towards his acts. He's just an absolute sociopath, a cold-blooded, mass-murdering clown,
and Chris has given me free rein. Which is fun, because there are no real boundaries to what The Joker would say or do.
Nothing intimidates him, and everything is a big joke."
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Must see 2008 films:
1) Iron Man---CHECK
2) Kingdom of the Crystal Skull---CHECK
3) The Happening
4) WALL*E---CHECK
5) HellBoy II: The Golden Army
6) The Dark Knight---CHECK
7) Tomb Of The Dragon Emperor
8) Tropic Thunder
9) Burn After Reading
10) Quantum Of Solace
11) The Half Blood Prince
12) The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
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My Top 11 TV Shows (I don't watch them all regularly)
1) CSI:(Las Vegas)
2) 24
3) My Name Is Earl
4) The Office
5) Monk
6) Family Guy
7) Seinfeld---(discontinued)
8) The Simpsons
9) That 70s Show---(discontinued)
10) Mail Call---(discontinued)
11) House
12) Family Matters (discontinued)
13) Fresh Prince (discontinued)
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My Favorite Sport: NASCAR
NASCAR NEWS: Kyle Busch (#18) wins at Infineon Raceway (Sears Point) in Sonoma California on Sunday 6/22/08.
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My Top 4 Favorite Movies Of All:
1) American Graffiti
2) Kelly's Heroes
3) The Dark Knight
4) No Country For Old Men
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My Top 7 Superhero Flicks:
1) The Dark Knight
2) X2
3) Iron Man
4) Batman Begins
5) Spider-Man 2
6) Batman Returns
7) X-Men: The Last Stand
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Possible Villains For Batman 3?
1) Johnny Depp
2) Al Pacino
3) Jack Nicholson
4) Sean Connery
5) Tom Hanks
6) Robert DeNiro
7) Robert Downey Jr.
8) Morgan Freeman
9) Dustin Hoffman
10) Tommy Lee Jones
11) Harrison Ford
12) Michel Caine
13) Paul Giamatti
14) Anthony Hopkins
15) Ed Harris
16) Geoffrey Rush
17) Don Cheadle
18) Heath Ledger
19) Denzel Washington
20) Clint Eastwood
My Top 14 Favorite Actresses:
1) Julia Roberts
2) Helena Bonhem Carter
3) Bette Midler
4) Jamie Lee Curtis
5) Jodie Foster
6) Judi Dench
7) Diane Keaton
8) Julianne Moore
9) Gwenyth Paltrow
10) Cate Blanchett
11) Sissy Spacek
12) Charlize Theron
13) Catherine Zeta-Jones
14) Robin Wright-Penn
My Top 12 Favorite Directors:
1) Steven Spielberg
2) George Lucas
3) Tim Burton
4) Mark Night Shyamalan
5) Peter Jackson
6) Robert Zemekis
7) Martin Scoresese
8) Mel Brooks
9) Clint Eastwood
10) Quentin Tarantino
11) John Landis
12) Robert Rodriguez
My Favorite Special FX Guys:
1) Stan Winston
2) Dennis Muren
3) Rob Coleman
4) Rob Bottin
My Favorites of past years:
2007
1) Zodiac
2) No Country For Old Men
3) At World's End
4) Hot Fuzz
5) Ocean's Thirteen
6) The Bourne Ultimatum
7) The Simpsons Movie
8) Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street
9) Live Free Or Die Hard
10) American Gangster
11) The Assassination Of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford
12) Spider-Man 3
13) Halloween
2006
1) Letters From Iwo Jima
2) Dead Man's Chest
3) Casino Royale
4) The Departed
5) Inside Man
6) The DaVinci Code
7) Blood Diamond
8) Lady In The Water
9) X-Men: The Last Stand
10) Flags Of Our Fathers
11) Saw III
12) Cars
13) Scary Movie 4
2005
1) Crash
2) Revenge Of The Sith
3) Sin City
4) Batman Begins
5) War Of The Worlds
6) King Kong
7) Saw II
8) Be Cool
9) Brick
10) The Great Raid
11) Guess Who?
12) Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire
13) Tim Burton's Corpse Bride
14) Charlie And The Chocolate Factory
15) The Legend Of Zorro
2004
1) Secret Window
2) Saw
3) Ocean's Twelve
4) Meet The Fockers
5) Starsky And Hutch
6) Harold & Kumar Go To White Castle
7) The Bourne Supremacy
8) Sideways
9) Shaun Of The Dead
10) Spider-Man 2
11) The Village
12) i-Robot
13) 50 First Dates
14) The Alamo
15) The Spongebob Squarepants Movie
16) The Terminal
17) Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban
18) Envy
19) Alien Versus Predator
20) The Incredibles
21) Dawn Of The Dead
22) Walking Tall
2003
1) The Return Of The King
2) The Curse Of The Black Pearl
3) X2
4) Once Upon A Time In Mexico
5) The Matrix Reloaded
6) The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen
7) National Treasure
8) Signs
9) The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
10) The Matrix Revolutions
11) Finding Nemo
12) Scary Movie 3
2002
1) The Two Towers
2) Attack Of The Clones
3) Red Dragon
4) The Four Feathers
5) The Pianist
6) Die Another Day
7) Men In Black II
8) Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets
9) Austin Powers In Goldmember
10) The Bourne Identity
11) About Schmidt
12) Gangs Of New York
13) Spider-Man
2001
1) Big Fish
2) From Hell
3) The Fellowship Of The Ring
4) Ocean's Eleven
5) The Mexican
6) Shallow Hal
7) The Royal Tennenbaums
8) Black Hawk Down
9) Harry Potter And The Sorcerer's Stone
10) Tremors 3: Back To Perfection
11) Jurassic Park III
12) Monsters Inc.
13) Halloween Resurrection
1999
1) Fight Club
2) Sleepy Hollow
3) Scary Movie
4) The Spy Who Shagged Me
5) Man On The Moon
6) Blast From The Past
7) Final Destination
8) Gone In 60 Seconds
9) Bowfinger
10) The Phantom Menace
11) The Matrix
12) The World Is Not Enough
13) The Sixth Sense
1998
1) The Truman Show
2) O' Brother Where Art Thou
3) Saving Private Ryan
4) The Mask Of Zorro
5) Meet Joe Black
6) Halloween H20: Twenty Years Later
1997
1) The Lost World
2) Men In Black
3) Austin Powers: International Man Of Mystery
4) The Fifth Element
5) Shakespeare In Love
6) Tomorrow Never Dies
7) Titanic
8) Alien Resurrection
9) A Bug's Life
10) Event Horizon
1996
1) Mars Attacks!
2) Independence Day
3) The Birdcage
4) Mission: Impossible
5) Tremors 2: Aftershocks
6) Fargo
7) The Nutty Professor
8) Scream
1995
1) Goldeneye
2) Se7en
3) Heat
4) From Dusk Till Dawn
5) Toy Story
6) Sabrina
7) Desperado
8) Batman Forever