Incredible website dedicated to cataloging and evaluation the title sequences used in films. Absolutely astonishing in its precision and in bringing to light an element of the cinematic medium not often noticed by, or paid attention to, by viewers or critics.
With its story and its screenplay written by none-other-than James Cameron, Strange Days is director Kathryn Bigelow (K19: The Widowmaker) vision of a beautiful dystopian Los Angeles on the precipice of the turn of the millennium where violence is everywhere, the police are out in force like something in Bosnia or Northern Ireland with full-on riot gear and automatic weapons.
Here are some examples I could find, but I’m sure there must be more. Post ‘em in the comments and I’ll add them. Bonus points for supercuts with the most clips, the shortest clips, and in additional genres (sports? politics?).
Film
Glengarry Glen Ross - Obscenity Count
Requiem for a Dream, montage of every drug montage (meta!)
The Big Lebowski, every “fuck”
Casino, every “fuck”
The Big Lebowski, Every “dude”
True Romance, every kill from the finale
True Romance, every “fuck”
Rushmore, handjob references (thx, Matt)
I think most of these are hilarious, but the Requiem for a Dream one is actually impressive because I always thought those scene sequences were so beautifully created that seeing all of them is sublime.
Martin Scorsese’s fantastic follow-up to 1990’s Goodfellas, again teaming up with Nicholas Pileggi, who is also again both the author of the book and the writer of the screenplay. Many of the faces of Goodfellas return here to Casino to tell the true story of how the mafia took Las Vegas from a small-scale military stop-over and turned it into the money-making machine that it is today–and how they screwed it all up on the way.
10. Lady in White (1988)
Falling neatly into the nobody-saw-it category of remakes is Frank LaLoggia’s Lady in White, an unusual little ghost story that originally starred Lukas Haas and Len Cariou. The movie barely made a dent in the slasher-crazy world of ’80s horror movies, but it’s the kind of alternative to what the genre is currently doing that could really make an impact in the ’00s. Think about all the buzz that The Orphanage built at the end of last year (not enough if you ask us) and how tired people are of the same-old-slash-old when it comes to the torture porn genre. We could all use a good ghost story to wash the taste of The Hitcher and Hills Have Eyes 2 out of our collective mouths. And Lady in White is a solid, old-fashioned, hair-on-the-back-of-your-neck supernatural tale that starred Haas as a kid who gets locked in school closet during Halloween of 1962 and sees something unusual in the classroom that leads him to the murderer of a young girl. Lady in White was something that not a lot of ghost stories were or are to this day - scary. Lukas Haas would later appear in My Chemical Romance’s video for “Welcome to the Black Parade” because two members of the band were fans of the scary flick. If someone could recreate the same atmospheric chills as the original in a remake, it could inspire a whole new generation of Screamo fans.
I saw Lady in White when I was perhaps ten years old and it was one of the more effective horror movies in terms of actually scaring me. That wasn’t just because I was so young, but more because it is such a believable tale and because its horror relies more upon the psychological usage similar to that of The Shining rather than a gore fest similar to that of A Nightmare on Elm Street.
Chaos is such a waste of cast, script, film, and money. The writer and director Tony Giglio has little previous directorial experience and his IMDb resume provides associations with mostly B-movies in general for his career.
In this horrible movie we are presented with a bank robbery in Seattle led by Lorenz (Wesley Snipes) and a crew of loyal men organized as smartly as an accountant’s records, who hold the contents and people of a bank hostage and demand to negotiate only with recently-suspended Det. Quentin Conners (Jason Statham). Conners has been suspended and his partner fired for their involvement in a bad shooting in another hostage situation in the recent past, referred to as the Pearl Street shooting.
FauxNixon is now using the WPCandy theme, though it’s currently giving me some trouble: the logo won’t adjust properly into the header and the footer isn’t cooperating on the Index page at all, and only partially on the other pages.
I’m working on in it, but this is still the same site with the same content. Just working through some technical and aesthetic changes to improve it. Bear with me.
The best of the best, here are presented the ten best movies about crime which are based on true stories. They are listed in alphabetical order and each is generally a quite good movie, but what makes them especially interesting, and in some cases, very, very terrifying, is that this is not complete fiction; in fact, most of what is being portrayed really did happen…
Starring Johnny Depp, Penélope Cruz, Franka Potente, Paul Reubens, Jordi Mollà, and Ray Liotta, this Ted Demme directed picture tells us the story of George Jung (Depp) who goes from being the son of a lower-middle class plumber (Liotta) to drug dealer, to drug trafficker, to basically cocaine king of the United States, to inmate, to parolee trying to get back into his daughter’s life, and finally to permanent inmate. The movie is heart-wrenching and the kind of movie men will in which men watching will tear up at the end because George finally realizes that the advice his father gave him long ago, when his father’s business was in trouble, was the truth, and George has realized it too late to do anything about it. It is as tragic as it is brilliant with fantastic acting, a great cast and the never-changing excellence in direction of Demme.
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