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*Cue John Williams Music* EPIC MEMES.
Comment on this post. I will choose seven interests from your profile and you will explain what they mean and why you are interested in them. Post this along with your answers in your own journal so others can play along.




I did not know Grindhouse cinema existed until I saw "Grindhouse." I knew that film could be raunchy, sometimes crazy, but I didn't know that anything so incredibly depraved, violent, and generally nuts could exist at the movies. Grindhoues films describe a type of filmmaking, a specific genre, and a style that I appreciate and embrace.

I mean, why make movies in a traditional market or within a studio mainframe when you can just make film for film's sake? In a way, Grindhouse is like art, in that it's a pure expression of the artist's feeling and entertainment. The melding of both genres. (The grindhouse's bastard cousin, the blockbuster, is the same sort of deal)

People always ask, "What's the difference between art and entertainment? the grindhouse movies erase that difference."

That and I like saying it in a dark spooky voice like Robert Rodriguez does in the movie. And I liked the movie too, there's just actual solid feeling behind the "Only at the grindhouse" in my interests. You'd never see a grindhouse movie in a mainstream theater.




This is an actual livejournal interest. I'm not the only one.

The man has a perfect ass. Literally. wars are stopped because of it. Poets weep at the sight of it. I've never understood mankind's fascination with asses (I mean honestly, shit comes outta them more then mouths!) but all the same it's fantastic. I suppose, it's an issue of symmetry. His front's perfect, so his back can be perfect too?





I like dystopia. I like the whole thing about it. I'd probably be the only person who'd be happy to live in a blade runner/Orwell/Huxley-esque universe. Why? Because I spent a good portion of my life living in a world ruled by an oppressive dictiator (well actually two of them) No, I'm kidding...

Dystopian films always get the best art directors and they get the best look. How do people cope with being denied certain freedoms? They illustrate how adaptable we are as a species. Can't think for yourself? That's okay, we'll invent this computer to think for you! Lacking color as a design option? We'll make everything smooth and metallic grey! Forced to have sex at every opportune moment? We'll employ these fold-out-beds everywhere possible so if you feel like a shag you can have a fucking shag!

I mean, the idea of the suicide booth is a perfect example. You take things that people do in real life that don't often work and make them work easier. It's fantastic.

So to answer, the look, color, feel, and fun of the entire situation. :)




When I was six years old I wanted to be a palentologist. I wanted nothing more then to spend hours digging in the hot sun looking for dinosaur bones. Then, joy of joys, I discovered that a movie about dinosaurs was coming out! It was in a jungle! It had a T-Rex! It had attractive men and women drenched with tropical rain running from raptors!

I had to see it.
But it wasn't playing that day! It opened on Friday! Enraged I wrote a very angry orange-crayon letter to the theater demanding that they release the film a day early. My mother, gently, put her hand on my shoulder ,"we'll go tonight."

So I, all of six, sat in line with a bunch of stupid giggly teenagers and hunkered down in my seat staring up at the screen with wide googly eyes. The movie started.

And dinosaurs came to life.

Not literally of course, but for the two hours I sat there they were alive again. And people believed in them. Rational adults believed in the dinosaurs cavorting on the screen and eating people. I was awed. I knew they were fake. I knew they were fictional.

In front of me two teenage girls screamed in fake terror and I leaned forward and said with all the seriousness a six-year-old could muster, "They're only robots."

But it didn't matter. For those two hours, Steven Spielberg took rational people and made them believe in the impossible. Forget the real world. These people held a mystical sort of power over the human race. I wanted a piece of it.

When I left the theater I announced to my mother that it was my goal in life to become a filmmaker. It was an epiphany. I had to have that power. I had to make people believe in the fantastic and the impossible, even if it was only for two hours at a time.




This comes from Kurt wimmer's second movie (which I loved just as much as Equilbrium) I like the idea of one half of the world being destroyed by a plague while the other half went to a dystopia. If he ever makes a third film I want to see the precipitating events that led up to Asia becoming infected by the hemophagia virus and father taking power in the United States.

No, the movie novelization does not exist. Nothing will mar my perfect vision of this. Hemophagia is the disease that produces vampire like characteristics in human beings. A neat idea, if anything because I like to imagine a 70 year old grandma vampire complete with wrinkles.




This is possibly the most simplistic. California is "The Scene." I am not at the top of the scene but the bottom. It's much more fun to slum it, visit a few parties and move on, then actually attend a bash and try to be social.

I'm not so good with the being social for long periods of time.




This was just me being anti-social once again. If you live where I live and hung out with the crowds I hung out with during high school you sort of picked something that made you unique. Oftentimes it would be whatever the opposing group didn't like. One day I will write a sociological discourse on this, but for now it's best to know that this was just me being different versus the rest of the crowd in high school.


[01] -- Look up TEN of your favorite movies on IMDB.
[02] -- Click the "trivia" link in the sidebar.
[03] -- Post a fun and random bit of trivia from each film.
[04] -- Tag five people!

1. Jurassic Park
The roar of the T-Rex is actually the sound from the aircraft simulator at NASA Langley Research Center.

2. Grindhouse
Due to superstition, The distributer's decided to release the film before Friday the 13th, on Easter weekend instead. The film did below projected grosses anyway.

3. Star Wars V: The Empire Strikes Back
Lighting for SFX was so strong that several models melted.

4. Equilibrium
The name of the emotion suppressing drug, Prozium is a sly combination of Prozac, and Valium, which both have calming effects.

5. They Live!
The communicators that the guards use are the P.K.E. meters from Ghost Busters (1984).


6. Night of the Living Dead
One of the working titles for this film was "Night of Anubis". Anubis is the god of embalming/mummifying in the ancient Egyptian (Kemetan) religion.

7. Superbad
Writers Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg started this script when they were just 13 years old citing the reason as being "we just wanted to see if we could write a movie."

8. The Descent
Among the bones that Sarah falls into is a wolf's head which came from one of the werewolves from Neil Marshall's previous film Dog Soldiers

9. Blade Runner
Philip K. Dick claimed that footage of the film was exactly what he had envisioned when he wrote the book. However, Ridley Scott, who was notorious for having gotten exactly the visual look he wanted, claimed to have never read Dick's source novel "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?"

10. Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark
During the scene where Harrison Ford shoots the shiek before wandering away Steven Spielberg had initally planned this complex fight scene involving a whip and sword battle. Ford had the flu the day they were scheduled to begin shooting, so Speilberg is quoted as saying, "Ah just shoot him." And that's how the story played out.

The rules are easy, just post 10 things that recently made you happy! Then tag 5 people and force them to post this meme on their LJs. Because it is good.

10. Getting bank this week for my paycheck
9. Finding the 30 days of night movie novelization and reading it, over and over again.
8. Having gas in my car.
7. Being able to drive on base without getting pulled over by the MPs.
6. Superbad.
5. Jack in the Box Food, particularly monster tacoes with tomatoes.
4. Linkin Park's "Bleed it out" On the radio.
3. Family Guy Season 5.
2. Roleplayin' at Milliways/various places.
1. My flist and the life I'm currently living! :D