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Weekly Rumble #19

Jason Vorhees vs. Michael Myers

I've held off the Rumble for this week because I knew this day was on the horizon. We were blessed to see what would happen if Jason and that one guy with the knives for fingers were to go head to head, well according to the folks who put that movie together anyway. What we've never seen is what would happen between the two stone walls. That has been left up to our imaginations. Two huge beasts who don't find it necessary to say much...they just arrive, quietly (maybe grunt) maim and gut, and move on. So who do you think would win in this showdown until we find out at the end of the film whoever lost isn't really dead...and well you know the drill.

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Weekly Rumble #18

Deep Impact vs. Armageddon

Actual astronauts vs. oil drillers! Michael Bay vs. Mimi Leder! Trevor Rabin vs. James Horner! Robert Duvall vs. Bruce Willis! Jerry Bruckheimer vs. Steven Spielberg! 1998 vs. 1998! Two extinction level events, ONE survivor!

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Voyage of Life The Movie

So WalkAway came up with the unique idea to take our favorite painting and turn it into a concept for a movie. I chose a series of four paintings called The Voyage of Life by Thomas Cole. Pretty damn self explanatory but the paintings are amazing and perfectly capture the phases of each of our lives. When I think of movies that have captured what Cole was getting at with these masterpieces I think of Curious Case of Benjamin Button which everyone knows is the Voyage of Life in reverse. What came to my mind is a character anthology set in modern times. I'd focus on four characters that represent each stage of life as Thomas Cole saw it. I'm thinking I'd have it set in my state of Arizona. Love the desert.

Childhood (Don't know which child actor I'd use, who do you suggest?:
A young boy who see's no other way of coping with his parents constant bickering than to escape into his imagination. Obsessed with the story of Peter Pan, he rounds up other kids in his neighborhood and make the streets and the desert there own personal Neverland. One night when one of their adventures goes terribly wrong, it may lead them to grow up sooner than they all wanted too.

Youth:
A young ambitious Junior in High School who has his desired future of becoming an actor in the theater all figured out. But that doesn't mean he is not suffering from a secret that he feels noone not even the person on this earth he loves the most (his father) would understand. I don't know who I would get to play this role either, a few years ago I would have casted Anton Yelchin, maybe he still looks young enough to fill a role like this. He did great in Beaver.

Manhood:
A man who started his life early by fathering a child at 18, marrying his high school sweetheart, and fulfilling his dream of becoming a fire fighter, now sees everything he has gained falling apart before his eyes. His drinking habits to cope with his job affects his judgment and his ability to maintain a healthy relationship with his family threatens to bring his world crashing down. I'd cast Ben Affleck in this role, have always been a fan of the guy and think he could pull off the weight the role brings.

Old Age:
A man who has lived a full life, loses his wife whose time it was to go. All he can think of to do is maintain the routines he and his wife lived their later years by. This includes faithfully attending church, which leads to confronting his mistakes including rekindling a friendship with a woman he betrayed his wife at a younger age in a moment of weakness, and suffering the early stages of Dementia. For this role I'd either go with Clint Eastwood or Frank Langella.

A bit melodromatic maybe. But the journey through life can often be.

Highspeed posted a BLOG item almost 2 years ago

Return of the Weekly Rumble!

Zombieland vs. Shaun of the Dead

These two films have quite a bit in commom. They both offered a fresh comedic take on our beloved Zombie genre. They also have another redeeming quality in common, they didn't suck. They both were loved by fans and critics alike. Now I ask you schmoes...which did ya like more?

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The Project That's Kickin My Ass

So for our Pre-Production class we have a big assignment worth every bit of our grade due tommorrow. Most of it I've done last minute due to the procrastination of our instructors. In this "Production Notebook" we have to provide the following for the short film we're shooting next semester.

-Finished Script
-Shot by shot Storyboards/Overheads
-Chronoligical Shot List
-Shooting Order Shot List
-Call Sheet for our one shooting day
-Location agreement should we have to sign a contract for one
-Talent release forms for the whole cast
-A detailed map to every location we're using

Working on the shooting order shot list as we speak. I need a beer.

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To the hunter it concerns.

Bold men make bold statements hunter zolomon. You've been the king of the death match for a good while, it's this admirable fact alone I took you're little sermon in stride but here is food for thought. There is a little saying that death smiles at us all, but come schmoemania when you've suffered the full affect of underestimating me death will not come with a grin, no smile will trace his lips...it'll only be sympathy.

You will fight with honor, I will fight with honor, you as the king will lose his throne, EVERY king of the pride loses his place at the head of his pack. Fuck all this I am intoxicated and am naturally a man of few words so hunter zolomon let me leave you with this at schmoemania the hunter...becomes the hunted.

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Weekly Rumble #16

Weekly Rumble #16 Match: The Breakfast Club vs. Ferris Bueller's Day Off

I was trying to come up with something witty and interesting to explain why I chose these two movies? But it wouldn't even come close to the wit provided by the characters in both these classics. The actors for both these films left us with something to remember for the rest of our loves? Can you choose which one left a bigger impact on you?

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Weekly Rumble #15

Rumble #15 Match: The Shawshank Redemption vs. The Green Mile

Ok, so two things inspired this match up...last night I finally got around to watching the Walking Dead season finale (fucking amazing btw), and I am currently writing a script for a short film in which the central location is the booty house like these two awesome films. To me this is the hardest one I've made you guys or me choose between yet...but we can do it.

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Weekly Rumble #14

Weekly Rumble #14 Match: Bram Stoker's Dracula (92) vs. Interview with the Vampire

Where did the idea for this weeks match up come from? Well last night when I paid a visit to my mom I walk in to find the Twilight: Eclipse DVD sitting on the kitchen counter. After I finished sobbing in my old room for about an hour I took the time to reflect on these two movies that defined portraying vampires in the right way. Both are classics. Both have awesome leading men. And both would tear Edward Cullen to shreds for shaming their existence. So vote on who would do it better.

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Weekly Rumble #13

Match 13: Se7en vs. Fight Club

Sorry for the delay, had to deal with school and the issues school bring most of the day but I promised darthpaul I would keep this bad boy alive and keep it alive I shall. So while watching Ocean's Eleven the other day I had the idea to make this weeks rumble all about Mr. Pitt. I've chosen arguably (not very) two of the best performances of his career. So...do what needs to be done schmoes.

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Weekly Rumble #12 Winner: Billy Madison!

Well, our man darthpaul64 has given over the reigns to the beloved Weekly Rumble to yours truly and I told him I would close up his last contribution in Billy Madison vs. Happy Gilmore, in which Billy Madison has taken the cake 18-10. I will return with my first installment on Monday.

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Bridges of Madison County!

Before The Notebook. We had the Bridges of Madison County. I've always been a sucker for a good love story and I went through a break up after a year and a half relationship the other day so I was in the mood so bare with me haha. I had never seen this movie before, I've heard good things about it and of course love Clint Eastwood...this movie tugged on the heart strings and it made think of the grey areas the subject of love can often bring.

This is a story about an affair, which I have always been against especially when marriage is involved. But this movie did a great job making me want her to live happier ever after with a man she was cheating on her husband with? How could that be? I despise cheating in relationships, but I've always heard the saying you can't help who you fall in love with...maybe I've never appreciated how much weight that phrase holds. I've been in a relationship at the same time have struck up friendships with other women and with some of them have felt a connection. But I never acted on any of it, because that connection that led me to be in a relationship was still there with my girlfriend. What if I had acted on feelings I may have had for other women? Would it have led to love? Would I be to blame for betraying my girlfriend in a way?

The movie didn't dive in much to how Meryl Streep's character relationship with her husband was. Was it more neglectfull than I thought it was? He seemed like an ok guy to me. But so did Clint Eastwood's Robert Kincaid. Does that make Meryl Streep in this movie a bad woman? She didn't run away with the man for the sake of her kids not being fully grown, that's pretty admirable if you ask me. There is actually a line of dialogue in the film adressing whether cheating in a relationship makes you less of a good person. Some people just aren't meant to be married. True.

This movie made me think. Alot. What about you? And what are your thoughts on the storys subject matter?

Highspeed posted a BLOG item almost 3 years ago

Give us more 2D animation Disney!

While the kids today grow up with the greatness of Pixar, our classics were the likes of Aladdin, The Lion King, Beauty and the Beast, Pocahontas, and many more. These movies had it all great animation great music and it made me feel every emotion a kid my age could feel at the time I laughed, I cryed, I felt like walking up and kicking chumps like Gaston and Judge Frollo in the chin and running away as fast as I could. Fast forward 12 or so years and I still appreciate these films as much as I did then, and some of them even bring out the emotions I felt back then, the hilariousness of that damn sebastion, thinking behind tears that all that beast wanted to do was be loved, the theme of Judge Frollo having sexual desires for a gypsie (something that of course went way over my head at 8 years old, but I appreciate the evil nature of that character so much more now) these are things you just don’t get these days.

I was able to experience some of the later classics like Mulan and Hercules in theatres, I can remember being wowed. Then the great Toy Story came along and changed animation and the nature of animated movies forever, like a lot of changes in cinema in didn’t change things for the worse it changed it for the better in a lot of ways. I still get wowed seeing these family movies at the theatre, most recently Toy Story 3 to cap off a trilogy that came along when I was still relatively young. The last 2D animated movie for awhile was Home on the Range, which didn’t really grab my attention and Disney merged with Pixar to give all the new classics we love so much today.

Then along comes 2009’s Princess and the Frog. When I found out the movie was going to be in 2D I was ecstatic. They were going a different route with the Princess in making her african american and making her more relatable than any of the characters have ever been, bringing back the adaptions of classic fairytales, I couldn’t wait. I actually asked my mother and brother to go to the movies with me to see it, they declined (no appreciation). So I found out my girlfriend shared my enthusiasm for the old school feel and she accompanied me. Throughout the whole movie I had this giddy feeling inside I haven’t had for a lot of the pixar movies, it gave me an hour and a half to stroll down memory lane thinking of all the classics from my childhood. The story was great, the villain was great, the songs were top notch, I was all smiles walking out of the theatre.

Critically the film was a success, while I don’t think it made the money it could have I know that if they give us more traditionally animated films we will definitely have more classics on our hands that I can introduce to my kids along with my favorites. Make it happen Disney.