HAVE YOU SEEN THIS?
YouTube clips that I think are incredibly cool or incredibly funny and are a must-see for everyone.
If this is true, this is some next level stuff!!!
Friday, August 28, 2015
THE GREATEST FILM PERFORMANCE OF ALL TIME
A couple of years ago this month, I blogged about the movie, Gone With the Wind and that, in my opinion, it is the finest and greatest movie ever made.
(See my post here: http://mattstarr28.blogspot.com/2013/08/frankly-my-dear-youre-greatest-movie.html )
In addition to the reasons I outlined in my above post, there is another reason I regard GWTW so highly. It is because of the performance by Vivien Leigh as Scarlett O'Hara. In my opinion, Leigh delivers the greatest performance by an actor in any film ever made (including both male and female). It is this mesmerizing performance that holds the film together and elevates it from the soap-opera melodrama that could have enveloped the film.
And this got me thinking...
If Leigh gives us the greatest performance by any actor, and accordingly, the greatest female film performance of all time, who would give the greatest male film performance of all time?
I think I would have to say that, IMO, the greatest male film performance was given by Peter O'Toole in Lawrence of Arabia. No other film so depends upon its leading man to carry the film and no actor shows the incredible range in one film that O'Toole supplies in Lawrence.
In thinking about this subject, I ran across a blog that gives a list of the Top 100 Female and Male Film Performances of All Time and might provide some perspective to this topic.
Check it out here:
EMPIRE STRIKES AGAIN
About a year ago, Empire Magazine published its list of the Greatest 301 Movies of All Time. It was a wild, weird, and woolly list that I blogged about here: http://mattstarr28.blogspot.com/2014/08/empire-magazine-strikes-back-ok-here.html
Well, now they have come out with a new list of the 100 Greatest Movie Characters of All Time and I thought the list was interesting for a very particular reason.
On this list, Han Solo was ranked #3 (behind Indiana Jones at #1 and James Bond at #2) and Darth Vader was ranked at #9 but Luke Skywalker was ranked at #50. Wait. What?
Luke Skywalker at #50? I wouldn't have a problem with Luke at #50 if it wasn't for Han Solo being ranked at #3. To me, this reveals a deep misunderstanding of the Star Wars saga. If you are not a Luke Skywalker fan, then why are you watching Star Wars at all. Everyone else in the original trilogy is a side character (including Han and Leia) and their stories are secondary when compared with the epic journey of Luke Skywalker. I remember when I saw Return of the Jedi in 1983, I came out of the movie loving it but also thinking that the best part of the movie was the conclusion of the Luke story while the conclusion of Han and Leia's story felt a bit forced (I also thought the rescue of Han from Jabba's palace was a bit long and most of the time when I watch the movie today, I skip this entire beginning part and go right to Luke returning to Dagobah for the big reveal about Darth Vader from Yoda).
Coincidentally, I saw another magazine which ranked the top 50 sci-fi characters of all time and at #1 was - yep, you guessed it - Han Solo. Luke ranked at #24 on this list.
It's also interesting that in the trailer for the new Star Wars movie - The Force Awakens, Han Solo is in the trailer but Luke is nowhere to be found. For me, this set off some warning signals beyond my trepidation about the movie due to the involvement of JJ Abrams (I'll never stop saying it - Abrams destroyed Star Trek for me!!! If he destroys Star Wars... )
Luke Skywalker is what the original trilogy is all about (while the prequel trilogy is about Anakin) and in my opinion the sequel trilogy should, naturally, be about Luke's son but that is another discussion that I have blogged about here:
Monday, July 6, 2015
HAVE YOU SEEN THIS?
YouTube clips that I think are incredibly cool or incredibly funny and are a must-see for everyone.
Here is a clip of Tyrone Magnus reacting to a rising YouTube sensation from Mexico.
Tyrone is a YouTube guy that posts a bunch of reaction videos to different events and movie trailers with hilarious results.
In this clip he is watching a young weather-girl from Mexico named Yanet Garcia who is becoming quite the sensation on YouTube and you'll understand why when you see the clip.
You only need to watch about the first 3 minutes of this clip as he tends to ramble on after that point.
And now how about a few more highlights from Yanet's video library.
VIVA LA RAZA!!!
P.S.
I know it's difficult, but did anyone else notice the really cool music in the above clip. It's an electronic song called Fade by Alan Walker who posts alot of his electronic music on YouTube, so if you have the time, check it out. Very cool song.
P.S.
I know it's difficult, but did anyone else notice the really cool music in the above clip. It's an electronic song called Fade by Alan Walker who posts alot of his electronic music on YouTube, so if you have the time, check it out. Very cool song.
Wednesday, July 1, 2015
HAVE YOU SEEN THIS?
YouTube clips that I think are incredibly cool or incredibly funny and are a must-see for everyone.
In a couple of days it will be Doctor Who day at work, so in keeping with that, here is a mini-episode called Time Crash that I just discovered featuring the 10th Doctor (David Tennant) meeting the 5th Doctor (Peter Davison) at the conclusion of the third season of the new Doctor Who series.
What I didn't know until my Doctor Who day at work (which involved a trivia contest) was that Peter Davison is actually David Tennant's father-in-law. That explains alot about this video and how much Tennant's Doctor admires Davison's Doctor and its kind of cool how real life intrudes on this video.
TWITTER PIC OF THE DAY
If you got to know me a little, you would find out that I'm one of the few regular people that is on Twitter.
One thing that I like about Twitter is that you can get sent all kinds of interesting and funny and amazing pics, so I'm going to be posting those pics that I find interesting or funny or amazing.
AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL
JULY THE 4TH
WHEN MUSIC IS SILENCED
Last Monday, June 22, 2015, I came home from work and got on my computer only to discover from Google news headlines that one of my favorite film composers had apparently died.
James Horner was dead.
I read the reports in shock as my brain assimilated the information and my eyes filled with tears.
James Horner was dead.
With his death, music has lost one of its leading luminaries and the world has become just a bit darker and drearier.
James Horner is dead but his music will live on forever to me.
In honor of his memory and to express my own sadness over this event, there will be no YOU TUBE FILM MUSIC CUE OF THE DAY for this month.
In honor of his memory and to express my own sadness over this event, there will be no YOU TUBE FILM MUSIC CUE OF THE DAY for this month.
the rest is silence - Hamlet
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