Film Thing discusses Black Dynamite and other movie openings around Athens this week.
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Film Things hosts guests from the Eco Film Festival to talk about special events and movies from the festival.
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Here is a link to the Facebook page for ICE Vision. Mr. Will Stephenson, my dear cohost, is the curator for this marvelous series!
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Film Thing becomes the Paul Blart Mall Cop Hour! Just kidding, they also discuss the film In The Mood For Love.
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Film Thing discusses the new move I Love You Man, as well as films currently being shown around campus.
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Film Thing discusses Revolutionary Road and recommends movies to watch during Vision Video’s five for five deal.
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Here we go in decending order, with Honorable Mention first.
It ends around the 5 minute mark and contains more explode-y stuff with such style in that time than most action movies ever do. Note: the only reason this doesn’t count into the actual listing is because it’s from a TV show, not because it’s animation.
A classic throwback to old Westerns, done with such style. The entire movie’s excellent by the way and there’s actually a better shootout around the middle of the film, but I can’t find that on Youtube, so deal.
First, yes, that is a young Natalie Portman. Second, come on, it’s Jean Reno being a hitman ninja and what’s more awesome than that (besides the next three items on this list, at least in my opinion)?
Trivia: All the sounds are from the shoot, they’re not studio made. Also, you can’t help watching it today and laughing at the irony at seeing who Robert DeNiro’s driver is(lol, they’re not in good hands). And, come on, it’s Al Pacino versus Robert DeNiro.
This clip is 40 years old. Really makes today’s action movies seem lazy, don’t it?
Before I put up the clips (yes, plural. The scene was too big for one youtube vid), let me just say that this entire list could have been made by scenes from John Woo Hong Kong flicks, and half of them would have been from Hard Boiled, which is essentially an action scene, some exposition, a bigger action scene, more exposition, and ginormous action scene. This is the ginormous (including a 2 and a half long take of Chow Yun Fat and Tony Leung killing people at the beginning of the second clip)
Yeah, that scene totals about 26 minutes. Yeah. The entire 3rd act is a shootout. It also has the most badass baby ever put to film. Baby’s being held by Chow Yun when he gets shot, and the baby gets blood on its face, he’s all “whatev” Then laughs it off to Chow Yun saying “Yeah, you just killed a bunch of people in front of my infantile eyes. That was awesome.” A few minutes later the baby puts out the fire on Chow Yun’s legs by peeing on. Just to repeat, the baby PEED OUT A FIRE. His dad must be half Chuck Norris half Bruce Lee, and half Jackie Chan, with a dash of Chow Yun Fat for good measure (Yes, the baby is that badass he defies the rules of math)
