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One More Time: Movie Remakes I Would Like to See
I know what you are thinking. I shouldn’t be encouraging Hollywood to make any more remakes. With the remake trend reaching an all out crescendo this year – was there any week that didn’t have a remake or reboot released into theaters – I know I probably shouldn’t talk of even more remakes. I don’t think remakes are the problem per se because, after all, if a story is good, it should be retold again and again (how many times has Shakespeare been rebooted and retold again?), but there should be a compelling reason to remake something and before you say it, making more money is NOT the compelling reason I am talking about.
Movie Studios… Logan’s Run, come on and get on that!
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50 Favorite Film Music Cues - Serendipity
Nick Drake - Northern Sky
Featured on Nick Drake’s 1970 album Bryter Layter, Northern Sky was released to fairly tepid commercial success, but over the years, the song has garnered a reputation, with NME calling it the “greatest English love song of modern times” in 2004. Most audiences got their first taste of this song’s greatness when it was featured in the 2001 romantic comedy Serendipity. At the film’s climax, the film’s star-crossed, meant-to-be protagonists finally meet again as the song plays.
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“Unless an earthquake strikes New York first, bridges spared yearly applications of road salt would last a few hundred years before their stays and bolts gave way (last to fall would be Hell Gate Arch, built for railroads and easily good for another thousand years).”
-Discover Magazine: Earth Without People
[photo via Wikimedia]
…. and this is why it is my favorite bridge in all NYC.](http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lvfv8r3euH1r6va09o1_500.jpg)
“Unless an earthquake strikes New York first, bridges spared yearly applications of road salt would last a few hundred years before their stays and bolts gave way (last to fall would be Hell Gate Arch, built for railroads and easily good for another thousand years).”
-Discover Magazine: Earth Without People
[photo via Wikimedia]
…. and this is why it is my favorite bridge in all NYC.
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nxus:
Best Served Cold: Favorite Revenge Films
“Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves.” – Confucius
I once heard someone say that vengeance and opposable thumbs are what separate us from the animals. Revenge is an emotion everyone can relate to and understand because we’ve all felt it. The need to correct a perceived wrong against our person is, after all, the basis of our justice system. It is those tales that are set outside the legal system that have intrigued us the most. Perhaps we don’t like to admit it, but when our heroes seek and carry out their revenge, we love to cheer them on. Revenge films offer us a safe place to live out one of our basic human desires – to get even, the cost be damned. Here are some of notable revenge films that should satisfy your “eye for an eye” appetite.
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50 Favorite OTPs: Jerry Wariner/Lucy Wariner - The Awful Truth
Lucy: I’m still in love with that crazy idiot and there is nothing I can do about it.
Jerry and Lucy aren’t particularly nice people. They scheme, sabotage and completely dismantle each other in public and in private, but that is beside the point. If love is a game, these people are each other’s greatest opponents and they should never play with anyone else. No one will ever get Jerry quite like Lucy does and no one will get Lucy the way Jerry does and because of this…THEY DRIVE EACH OTHER INSANE. Over the years, the more I watch this movie and I watch it least three times a year, I realize that these two people can’t stay away from each other because they are not really alive unless they are with each other. The way they spark off each other and the way they let each other be completely insane is why they work and why they can’t really be with anyone else. If love is a form of insanity, these two have the exact same mental illness. And, yes, this is completely romantic. I think.
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Retired Philadelphia police captain being arrested on November 17th, 2011 at the Occupy Wall Street demonstration.
A very powerful image!
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50 Favorite OTPs: John Luther/Alice Morgan - Luther
Alice: Yes, you do. “The mind is it’s own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.” The universe isn’t evil, John. It’s just indifferent. That hasn’t changed. It can’t. But what I did for you proved something to me. Something I hadn’t… believed until that moment.
It probably says a lot about me that this relationship intrigues me so much, but I can’t help it. DCI John Luther meets Alice Morgan during the murder investigation of her parents. It become apparent that Alice Morgan committed the crime, but John Luther just can’t prove it. All great love stories should have a “meet cute” like this. In Alice Morgan, John Luther finds his equal and his opposite, the Catwoman to his Batman. He understands Alice in a way that she has never been understood before which, of course, peaks Alice’s interest in John. Because John knows exactly who she is and what she has done, she drops all pretense and just is herself around him, a luxury that Alice has probably never been afforded. John Luther isn’t scared of what he sees in the deep abyss that is Alice. Alice sees that same abyss in John. Luther is so consumed by doing right by the victims of violent crimes that he allows himself to do the wrong things. Alice and John are both so focused, so driven that it blinds them to consequences even though they are driven by completely different traits - Alice by an absence of morals, Luther by a strict code of them. This is why they are drawn to each other. I adore that their relationship is developed throughout series one through conversations. In Alice, Luther finds someone he can just talk to, unguarded, about the things that haunt him. He finds himself trusting Alice more and more. By the end of the series, trusting a killer that has never lied to you because vitally important when up against a best mate who has lied to you about everything. Their relationship boils down to trust and honesty and because that is so strong, it defies all the logic that says they shouldn’t be. One of the other aspects of this relationship I love is that it plays with some very basic notions of love and turns them on their head. Alice and John see each other for exactly who they are. Exactly. Yet, because they are on opposite sides of the law and of the spectrum, it becomes an impediment to their relationships. Also, I also love that Alice would do anything for John and with a figure like Alice Morgan … a “I’d do anything for you” statement of love is just about the scariest thing she could ever say because we all know - and John is painfully aware - that she means it. When he calls upon her help at the end of series two, we know the threat John makes that Alice might visit his nemesis is very real. Alice Morgan would come and kill you in the middle of the night to make sure you don’t hurt John. It’s frightening and … dare I say it … romantic. The show has used a lot of space/physics metaphors - matter/anti-matter, blackholes and such - and I feel like this describes John and Alice. Their relationship has its own gravity, they are two cosmic bodies in constant orbit, forever together yet forever apart and if they do ever collide, the universe would shake with a release of energy so great, it would destroy everything, but what an awesome destruction it would be. With the series officially renewed for another series, I have no idea what will happen between these two. Will their cosmic, gravitational dance go on forever or will they collide? Your guess is as good as mine.
John: What?
Alice: It’s you who’s right. There is love in the world.
