UHF was a movie by Weird Al Yankovic. From what i remember of it, it was a pretty crappy movie overall. But it did have some choice moments in it, such as the ones below. The best part is generally towards the end of each clip.
Ah yes, I think this song, along with the Mortal Kombat theme song, is what most turned me on to techno music back when I was just a wee' lad. The soundtrack to the mortal kombat movie was the first cd I ever bought, excluding Shaq Fu, Shaquille O'Neal's rap album that came with every copy of his karate fighting game of the same name(needless to say, it was Shaqtacular). But anyway, this video is a classic, for its randomness and abstractness.
And this is the best clip from the fresh prince of bel-air. I don't know why I'm posting it here.
and heres a fan-made video for Lost. I've never watched that show and never will as 24 is the only tv show worth watching, but this video is somewhat mesmirizing and I like the song. The shots of the hobbit guy dancing by himself are hilarious to me for some reason. I must try this ballroom dancing to techno music, it looks rather satisfying in its inherent idiosyncrasy.
So while I was stumbling around the internet(using StumbleUpon, the greatest procrastination tool of all time, if you use Firefox get the extension StumbleUpon), when i stumbled upon some sort of blog that had the top 10 sexiest videos. There were a bunch of techno songs with the predictable Satisfaction and Call on Me and some other techno videos...one involving skydiving babies whose target was a mountain size, lingerie-wearing supermodel. So one of the videos was this song My My My by Armand Van Helden. It is a techno/dance song and the girls are pretty attractive but its also the bit of humor he uses that really sells the video for me. The song is also addicting with a pretty awesome beat.
My new goal in life, that I intend to see through to its completion, is to get into the NBA so I may participate in a totally random, and therefore awesome, danceoff. Such a danceoff can be seen below. The dance moves aren't incredible, but thats beside the point, its the fact there was a danceoff at all is what makes it so incredibly awesome. And because Shaq and Dwight Howard are huge.
On a side note, the all star shootout back on saturday night was awesome, I personally thought michael jordan and Dr. J were inconsistent with their ratings for the slam dunk contest.
Video first seen on WithLeater.com
-potter(i remembered this time)
So last night me and a friend decided to do some midnight sledding...on our backs or in plastic bins. Conventional sleds were used as well, and were the most thrilling, as they'd launch those brave enough to use 'em across the street at the bottom of my hill(seriously wouldn't hit the street at all) and into the next yard, into a stupid pole thats randomly in the middle of the yard...or an even stupider golfball-shaped mailbox.
We'd race sometimes, and like all races I've been in, I won 'em.
So Sunday is again upon us and I should be doing homework right now....but instead I'm going to post. Last night I was playing with these magnets my girlfriend has and I found out my magnetic powers are on the same scale as Magneto's. Look below and be amazed:
Now I know what you are asking yourself, "Is that all your powers can do?" And of course the answer is no. Behold greatness:
~Aldana
These scenes are probably boring when they're isolated from the movie they're from, but I think they're extremely effective in immersing the audience when apart of the movie as a whole.
One of the all time greatest single take scenes ever in cinematic history, so inspiring to me.
"Accept me as I am. Only then can we discover each other."
Another great old foreign movie, this one is widely regarded as one of the greatest movies ever made, and I agree. After watching this, the similarities between this and Adaptation are insane. 8 1/2 was basically an autobiography of Federico Fellini, the director, and Adaptation was basically an autobiography of Charlie Kaufman, the screenwriter. Each movie mixed together the past, present, and fantasy seamlessly and dealt with their shortcomings as human beings and their regrets, of course both ending with a revelatory message as how to come to terms with themselves and live a fulfilling life.
This is one of the few movies that stands the test of time, I think it will forever be applicable to whoever watches it. But, it is a poetic movie, and as Tarkovsky said, "the film for the large audience cannot be poetical", so only if your artsy fartsy in the least bit should you try watching this movie(or Solaris).
In closing, heres a creepy clip of a midget laughing maniacally for 3 minutes, and a great scene from the movie "Oldboy" demonstrating the sculpting in time theory.
"We don't want to conquer space at all. We want to expand Earth endlessly. We don't want other worlds; we want a mirror. We seek contact and will never achieve it. We are in the foolish position of a man striving for a goal he fears and doesn't want. Man needs man!"
A while ago I made a list of my top ten sci-fi movies, one of them was the american version of Solaris. I said I never watched the original version because it looked like a boring 60s experimental movie. But then I learned of Andrei Tarkovsky's genius, and decided to see what his movies are like. This movie is a near masterpiece, and among the greatest movies made, making the american remake look superfluous and shallow.
What this movie does so well and so poetically, is present such themes as the inadequacies of human kind to comprehend the universe or the heart...human fraility, through its fundamental weaknesses of sentimentality and guilt...dependency. The alien in this movie is a planet comprised entirely of water, with which the humans try to communicate with. The planet, which is basically a perfect entity, tries to communicate with the humans by materializing people or things from the humans' memories or fantasies, in an attempt to understand them better. For the main character, it was his deceased wife. There is so much that could be said about this movie, perhaps another time I will exercise my philosophical thoughts in another post, but not this one, maybe never...as its better to destroy whats unnecessary than to create it, does it really matter what any of us has to say? Man generally writes to affirm his existence, to feel of some worth.
I would like to point out a cinematic theory that I love, that Tarkovsky created. He created the theory known as "sculpting in time", using long takes and few cuts to give the viewers a sense of time passing, time lost, and the relationship of one moment in time to another. I think, a movie like Children of Men is probably a good contemporary example of this idea(from my understanding of it), where there were several great long sequences with minimal or no cuts - the first car chase where Julianne Moore gets shot, Clive Owen escaping the safe house with the pregnant girl, just about the entire final 20 minutes in the refugee city. A long uncut sequence in a movie is more memorable than any other technique, in my opinion...leaves a more lasting impression as it is transcribes time in real time. It is this unique trait of the cinematic medium that should be better utilized. "The speedy jump-cutting style that is prevalent in music videos and many Hollywood movies, by contrast, overrides any sense of time by imposing the editor's viewpoint." Some music videos that I love that follow this theory are below, 2 for radiohead songs, the other for the old 90s band Wax, directed by the great spike jonez(Being John Malkovich, Adaptation, Eternal Sunshine on the spotless mind).
