Flick Fantasies

Cover of Heat

Hello, been a while hasn’t it?

I just got round to watching Bridesmaids and Super-8 yesterday. All I can say is…they were not distasteful. In fact, that’s all I’ll say.

Moving on. They actually got me thinking about my favourite movies and what I’d like to watch on the silver screen.So here’s a list of my flick fantasies.

We all saw and loved Heat. It was the ultimate for Al Pacino and/or Robert Deniro fans. They were cool in the old-world style that we all came to love about them. in the same way, I’d love to see Matt Damon and Leonardo DiCaprio in a Bourne Ultimatum/Inception – esque style flick. All the cool and tough without Marion Cotillard. (no offence dear, I actually loved you in La Vie en Rose)

Still on the Inception cast, I’d love to see Ellen Page in an emotional role. She’s so cute and she might actually pull it off. Something along the lines of Phantom of the Opera. (sorry for drawing you back)

I’d like to see Matthew McConaughey act in a role where he is not a fool/loser at the beginning…oh, wait, I’m overstepping aren’t I?

Ok, over to you, What would you most love to see?

On End – of – the – World movies.

Cover of The Happening

I just saw ‘The day the earth stood still’. It’s a 2008 movie with Keanu Reeves and Natalie Portman – not sure about her. It has a nice storyline I guess…that is if you’re into aliens but I guess that’s talk for another day.

This post is about what I have observed to be the rash of end of the world movies that have been produced in the past years.  Talk about The Happening, 2012, Terminator 3 and the list goes on. The ways the world end are as varied as the movies themselves – from plants, aliens, machines – you name it, they act it. It would seem that, being box office hits, people are more interested now in how the world ends and it should, in a natural progression of things follow that people would be more sober, more introspective.

The true face of things is that more and more people are throwing themselves into life with no regard or thought for how far reaching their actions are and certainly no consideration for an afterlife. I wonder is it because we seem to follow an epicurean philosophy ‘Let us eat and drink for tomorrow we die’? Or is it because in the movies man always manages to be saved from total annihilation just in time? Why do we suddenly have a whole generation of secular humanists? Answers anyone?