August 27th, 2007, 2 Comments »
Via Mark Evans, I encountered a new fun blog entitled Four (or Five!) Reasons Why. It’s structured randomness appeals–they cover everything from why dollar stores are evil to why James Bond will never die. A reason from the former list:
It’s generally derived from municipal water supplies. Let’s see – buy a cheap license from a local government, pilfer their water supplier, charge a fortune for it and make a mint. Great for the bottler. Bad, bad, bad for everyone else. By the way, Pepsi’s Aquafina bottled water is made from treated tap water. Ha!
The formula enables shooting from the hip writing and constant courting of controversy–great blog fodder.
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April 2nd, 2007, 5 Comments »
The Movie Blog points me to Filmwad, and their slighly gross article about the top ten torture scenes in modern cinema. I was a little disappointed in myself when I skimmed the list–I’ve only seen about half of these movies.
I was glad to see the legs-crossed-in-sympathy torture from Casino Royale making the list. The article isn’t for those who have lived a sheltered life:
Enraged foreigner Le Chiffre (Mads Mikkelsen) doesn’t need lasers or shark-filled pits to torture his captives. Nope, he just needs a broken chair, an exposed ball-sac, and a nice wet piece of rope. Too bad, Bond’s gonads are as bad-ass as he is, and this super-spy takes the groinal beating and keeps on asking for more.
The obvious oversight on this list is the ear-removal scene in Reservoir Dogs, but maybe that’s not sick and twisted enough?
And speaking of cinematic torture, I see they’re working on a remake of Adventures in Babysitting. Though, in truth, Elisabeth Shue was one of my first movie crushes.
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