Welcome to “Friday Favorites” which highlight some of my favorite movie-related things.
In light of my recent post about film critics, I decided today’s Friday Favorite could only be Anton Ego’s review from Ratatouille. It’s certainly something that I can relate to, both as a film buff and as something of a critic. And as I’ve said before, I love a good movies speech. Take a look:
Welcome to “Friday Favorites” which highlight some of my favorite movie-related things.
The Birdcage is, for my money, a perfect movie. I’ve seen it dozens of times and it has lost none of its wit, heart or humor. I watch it fairly often on DVD, and I can’t pass it over when I see it on TV (truly, the sign of a great movie). I could easily pick half a dozen scenes and lines as favorites (John Wayne, “It’s ASPIRIN with the A and the S scraped off,” the soup bowls, “Why you gotta be such a bitch to everybody?”), but for me there’s no scene better or more representative of The Birdcage than this one:
Welcome to “Friday Favorites” which highlight some of my favorite movie-related things.
Today’s Friday Favorite, from the final film of the trilogy, is one that I actually spent a long time discussing in part 1 of my Pirates of the Caribbean analysis. As the final battle approaches, Elizabeth, Barbossa and Jack head to parley with Beckett and Davy Jones (with Will alongside, having lead the East India Company fleet to Shipwreck Cove). Watch the scene below (in two parts, of varying quality, sorry) and then read on for my analysis: Continue reading
Welcome to “Friday Favorites” which highlight some of my favorite movie-related things.
In this week’s “Trailer Tuesday” for Star Trek Into Darkness I talked about how, as a Trekkie, I’m not a fan of 2009’s Star Trek. In particular I hated its depiction of Kirk’s Kobayashi Maru test, so today I thought I’d highlight my favorite scene from Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, where a middle-aged Kirk describes his solution to the test.
Wrath of Khan opens with Lt Saavik (Kirstie Alley) commanding the Enterprise when it receives a distress call from the Neutral Zone from the stranded freighter, Kobayashi Maru. Saavik violates the Neutral Zone to rescue the ship, but the Enterprise is attacked and defeated by Klingon Battle Cruisers and Admiral Kirk emerges to tell Saavik she is dead. He explains that the test is designed to be unwinnable in order to study how potential captains face death and a no-win scenario.
She repeatedly asks Kirk how he handled the test when he was in Starfleet, and each time he evades the question. Eventually Kirk, McCoy, Saavik, Chekhov, Kirk’s son and his former lover are all trapped in an experimental cave deep within a moon, the Enterprise having abandoned them on Kirk’s orders. Saavik asks Kirk again about his test, and here is his reply: Continue reading
The Love Pirate 