I'm a big ole movie nerd as many of you know. But I've recently caught some more movies by one of my favorite tag teams, Powell and Pressburger. They made them a bunch of fancy ole pitchers during and after ole dubya dubya two, that were just fantastic.
here's a short list and the trailer fer each of em! (my wife/goat likes The Red Shoes, the best)
The Red Shoes
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
Black Narcissus
A Matter of Life and Death
there's plenty more of em too! enjoy and when yer done,
I was perusing my favorite Bigfoot sites last night and stumbled upon this new picture.
Hmmmm, look at it!!!! I'm of the opinion that the evidence in favor of the big feller bein real is sketchy at best, but this freakin pitcher is hilarious!!! Now what sorta critter has fur and looks this unkempt? Is Bigfoot's hair just random? Seriously? Notice how it conveniently ain't lookin at the camera/
I don't how many of you folks know this, but I'm a bit of a movie buff and I reckon this here's a nice list of movies y'all ain't never seen before. But you should, cuz they's awesome.
In no part'cler order:
Dead Man- (deerected by Jim Jarmusch, Starrin Johnny Depp)
It's one of them westerns shot in the purtiest black and white you ever saw. It's a very deep movie about life and death and such, kinda like that there existentialism.
Juggernaut (directed by Richard Lester, Starring Richard Harris)
It's one of them excitin thriller's from the 70's, takes place on a cruise ship and there's bombs involved. not a lot of action, but a shit ton of tension.
Suspiria (directed by Dario Argento starring Jessica Harper)
It's the king of 1970's Italian horror movies, it's all about the beauty of violence and is one of the last movies shot on that old timey 3 strip technocolor process. It don't make no sense, but man is it purty to look at and full of creepy atmosphere.
Manhunter (directed by Michael Mann , starring William Petersen)
First movie to feature Hannibal Lecter and I reckon it could give Silence of the Lambs a run for it's money. Great performances, kickass villain, a great performance of Lecter by Brian Cox too. Check it out.
Point Blank (directed by John Boorman, starring Lee (fuckin) Marvin)
Lee Marvin is pissed off and he wants his money....... that's enough to wanna see it ain't it?
Bronson (directed by Nicolas Winding Refn, starring Tom Hardy)
Hardy plays the longest servin prisoner in Britain (based on real feller) and he is a big time badass, one of those all time great actin performances that got lost at Oscar time. It's brutal but boy is it a good movie.
Life is Beautiful (directed by and starring Roberto Benigni)
Yeah , he won the Oscar for best actor for this movie, but I reckon not many folks have actually seent it. It'll make ye laugh, it'll make ya cry, it'll make you love the movies again. It's a wonderful wonderful film.
The Ballad of Cable Hogue (directed by Sam Peckinpah, starring Jason Robards)
It's kind of a western, but it's really just a fun movie that makes ya thank bout yer future and how to live yer life to it's fullest. (hell I made the best batch a corn liquor in 20 years after watchin this here flick) It's just a great , small little film that I happen to really like a lot.
Wild at Heart (Directed by David Lynch, starring Nicholas Cage)
Many of my older readers mighta seent this'n already, but if you haven't run right now out and by it (or watch it on that Netflicks) it's the Wizard of Oz....kinda....via David Lynch and Nick Cage. It's a freakin whirlwind of awesome wrapped up in a big ole ribbon of holy shit
and last but not least...........
Reanimator/From Beyond/Dagon (all 3 directed by Stuart Gordon)
Stuart Gordon is an underappreciated pitcher maker. All 3 of these here movies are damn good entertainment, he doesn't just make scary movies, he doesn't just make gory movies, or funny movies, he makes good movies that happened to be scary gory and funny!! Most of his movies are good, but these 3 in par'tickler are my favorites.
Watch any of em, and let me know how ya liked em!!! (and looky there, ya thought you's gettin 10 movies and I threw in 2 more for free!!!! enjoy!!!!
Well, I went out with my buddy Vinnie to see that there new movie The Dark Knight Rises. Bein I was a fan of the prior 2 movies I was excited to see what ole Nolan had in store for me.
I wasn't let down, no sir not a bit.
It's a very quiet movie really. It ain't like the 2nd one with all them splosions and crazy shit goin on, nosir, it's more of a thoughtful movie about moving on and letting go of grief and such.
Well a quick synopsis thang:
Batman's been out of the pitcher for like 8 years and Bruse Wayne is all holed up in his big ole mansion lettin his nails grow and peein in glass jars and..... no , mang jus kiddin!
He's still sad cuz ole girl died in the last one. But new events brang him out of retirement as this big bad guy Bane, (who wears this rasslin mask that keep him from bein in serious pain) is in town, on a mission to complete the destruction of Gotham set forth by Rahs Al Guhl in the first movie.
There's mayhem and chaos , but it ain't really an "action" movie. It's much more like a 1970's cop drama . Like a a Serpico batman movie or sumthin..hell...
Anyway, the old favorites are all here , Alfred,Commishner Gordon, Fox...etc Even got that feller from Full Metal Jacket as a Police Captain in it. (and that little feller from 3rd rock from the sun plays a good cop who knows batman's secret).
There's a new character played by the extra hot franch chick from Inception (she's the new CEO brought in to save Wayne's company) and there's some new energy machine involved as well.
All I can tell ya, is if you go into it thankin yer gonna get The Dar Knight part 2, yer gonna be pissed. But if you wanna see the perfect finish to a badass batman trilogy. I think yer gonna be very very happy indeed!!
The pitcher most Braves' fans covet this trade season is Zack Greinke and apparently the Brew Crew have not be able to sign him to an extension so he is on the trade market.
Zack Greinke, ace pitcher. "But Hillbilly" you say "His ERA is almost a 4 for his career" Yes, but his FIP (fielding independent pitching) shows that if he had played for good defensive teams, he would be just over a 3 ERA guy. Not to mention he's in the top 5 in WAR since 2008.
Will he cost a lot? in short, YES!! The Braves WILL have to give up Delgado, Spruill,Salcedo and another piece to get him. I have no doubt about that. Not to mention that to extend him will cost 5 or 6 years at $18-$20 mill per year.
But he is worth it.
You throw a 5 man rotation of :
Greinke
Huddy
Sheets
Hanson
Minor
at any team in the playoffs and you are going to be in nearly every single game. He makes the Braves into a division winning team, and a team that can win it all.
IMO, you pay whatever they want, even IF it turns out to be Teheran and Delgado
Back in the "good old days" GM's of teams didn't have to worry about trades leaking out. It's not that fans didn't care. But most of us were content with finding out whenever the game came on and the announcers told us about it. We weren't a clamoring horde of superfreaks gnashing our teeth to blog and comment on each and every deal.
Also, there weren't 470,000 media outlets covering every baseball move either. basically you had beat reporters who sent out feeds that spread to AP or Knight Ridder and that was pretty much it.
NOW, however, everybody is a sports reporter, every fan a blogging expert and in this mass of opinions,angles and the mad dash to be "first!!". The world of deal making has changed drastically.
Take the most recent Dempster unpleasantness. It appears to everyone on the outside that the Cubs got bamboozled by a pushy, selfish, petulent child of a player. it also appears the Braves got hung out to dry and some folks have even mentioned that " poor ole Wren has been got again".
The truth is, this stuff happens ALL THE TIME in baseball. Before though, we didn't hear about it. The GM's didn't discuss busted deals obviously, the writers who knew about them didn't want to lose their access to the players and mgmt so they kept their mouth's shut. Nowadays tho, people are talking, and blogging and yapping.
I think it's bad for the game personally. If I were a GM, I'd spend part of ONE offseason, leaking deals to specific people and waiting for a leak so I would know who to fire. IMO, the two places in life where leaks must not be tolerated are international espionage and baseball trades.
However, we have only ourselves as fans to blame for all of this.
WE demand to know "NOW!!!" WE demand to be "FIRST!!" WE, in other words, are a bunch of entitled spoiled brats.
If you here that the Braves got Greinke at 7pm tomorrow when you turn on the game from Joe Simpson instead of at 2:34pm when it was first announced on a rumor site, are you somehow worse off for it? I don't think so.
I think we as a culture should lighten up a little bit on this need to "know everything right now" at least when it comes to sports. I'm sure that the farmers back in the 1920's could have cared less WHEN they found out they got Hanley Ramirez for a couple of pitchers. They were just glad they got him!!!!
