10 Creepy Cinematic Surgeries
1. Awake (2007)
In this psychological thriller, a man named Clayton Beresford Jr, undergoing heart transplant surgery experiences an actual phenomenon called “anesthetic awareness” which leaves him paralyzed but completely awake and alert. Hearing his wife of one day and his surgeon “friend” plotting to kill him and take his money, he lies helplessly on the operating table. Ouch!
2. Face/Off (1997)
Sean Archer / Castor Troy. Travolta is the good guy and Cage is the bad guy. No wait. Travolta wearing Cage’s face is the good guy and Cage wearing Travolta’s face is the bad guy. “Nothing like having your face cut off to disturb your sleep. Read the newspaper lately?”
3. Minority Report (2002)
Lots of eyeballs, or lack thereof, in this one. Tom Cruise has to swap out his eyes so he can’t be tracked by the Pre-Crime force. His “neroin” dealer is eyeless, presumably for similar reasons. “In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.”
10 of the Craziest Casting Choices in Cinema History
1. Sean Connery as Lithuanian born, Soviet submarine captain Marko Aleksandrovich Ramius in THE HUNT FOR RED OCTOBER (1990). Did no one in the casting department notice his thick Scottish Brogue? It reminds me of the heady days of Sputnik and Yuri Gagarin when the world trembled at the sound of our rockets.
2. Angelina Jolie as Olympias, the mother of ALEXANDER (2004). It’s fine in the beginning of the film when Alexander is a boy, but when he grows up into Colin Farrell who is only one year younger than Jolie who hasn’t aged, it’s just silly. Why Olympias had a Russian (?) accent is a bit of a head scratcher as well.
3. Who could forget all-American actor John Wayne’s stunningly realistic portrayal as the emperor of the Mongol Empire, Genghis Khan in THE CONQUEROR (1956)?
4. Nick Nolte as Thomas Jefferson, the principal author of the Declaration of Independence and third U.S. president in JEFFERSON IN PARIS (1995). Yeah, I’ll bet ya didn’t know about this one. Few people saw it. Some people have a face and quality suited for period drama. Others don’t. Nolte works best post-1940.
25 of the Most Awesomely Epic Local TV Commercials
25. Cullman Liquidation
8080 AL Hwy 157 Cullman, Alabama 35057
www.cullmanliquidation.com
This is a commercial for Cullman Liquidation, a mobile home seller. This commercial has some pretty solid camera angles and the commercial has even been franchised with T-shirts on Cullman’s website too. Because it is not a naturally bad TV commercial, Cullman Liquidation gets #25.
24. TDM Auto Sales – Cuban Gynecologist and American Auto Salesman Commercial
1631 S. Main St., High Point, North Carolina
www.tdmautosales.com
I highly recommend that women stay away from this place.
23. The Red House Furniture Commercial
502 South Elm St.
High Point, North Carolina 27260
www.redhousefurniture.com
I’m white and I love the Red House! I’m black and I love the Red House! This ad is trying a little too hard to promote diversity in the south. I’m Asian so I’m pretty sure that I’m not welcome there. That would mix things up too much for this commercial.
10 Best Uses Of A Beverage In A Movie
10. Water promoted by the whole cast from Signs
Bo: There’s a monster outside my room, can I have a glass of water?
[giving the dog a bowl of water]
Bo: It tastes funny.
[Morgan takes a sip]
Morgan: It does not. It’s just tap water. Besides, he licks his butt every day, I don’t think he’ll mind.
Graham Hess: Come on, now, you’re too old to be doing this. You get a glass of water, and leave it lying around instead of finishing it. Now what’s wrong with this one?
Bo: It has dust in it.
Graham Hess: And this one?
Bo: A hair.
Graham Hess: And this one?
Bo: Morgan took a sip and it’s got his amoebas in it.
9. Mountain Dew promoted by “the Extreme guys” from Harold and Kumar Go To White Castle
Cole: “Let’s go get some fuckin’ Mountain Dew.”
Other skater guy: “EXTREME!”
8. Booty Sweat promoted by Alpa Chino from Tropic Thunder
Alpa Chino: “Drink Booty Sweat, baby! Drink Booty Sweat!”
Kirk Lazarus: [mockingly] “Yeah, get him chuggin’ on some of Alpa’s ass-water. That’ll bring him around, it’s a cure-all… ”
