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Things that I like about Johnny Depp

12/7/2012

 
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  • He is a great actor, with a very high ratio of hits to misses.
  • He was friends with Hunter S Thompson* and Marlon Brando. He is also acquainted with Bob Dylan.
  • He takes salary cuts for excellent (but under-funded) directors**.
  • He chooses excellent roles.

  • He is an excellent painter***.
  • He is a guitarist****.
  • He not only shrugged off Ricky Gervais' attempts to embarrass him at the Golden Globes, he totally buried him with the single line: "Oh boy, he's fun."
  • He has been in some of my favourite ever films, including Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and Edward Scissorhands.
  • His production company, Infinitum Nihil, not only funds cool films that would otherwise struggle to get distributed, but it also has a imprint which does the same thing with books - including Woody Guthrie's "lost" novel, House of Earth.
  • His "Inside the Actor's Studio" interview was amazing.
* Who was also friends with Jack Nicholson.
** Like Terry Gilliam.
*** See the Alice in Wonderland bluray, for example.
**** And I heard he actually made Keith Richard's guitar for his pirates cameo.

Films set in the future that we have caught up with*

5/7/2012

 
  • 12 Monkeys (1996/2035)
  • Escape from New York (1997)
  • Predator 2 (1997)
  • Terminator II: Judgment Day (1997)**
  • 2001: A Space Odyssey
  • Transformers: The Movie (2005)***
  • Death Race (2012)

Also, some films we've not quite caught up with yet:
Escape from L.A. (takes place in 2013)
Back to the Future Part II (in which they go forward to 2015)
Blade Runner (November, 2019)
2046 (2046)
Minority Report (2054)

And one episode of Ren & Stimpy that we're unlikely to catch up with:
'Space Madness' - takes place in "the amazing year 400 billion!"

* Or "...with which we have caught up", not actually preferable as it still ends with a preposition, and every good writer knows that's not something you should end a sentence with.
** Judgment Day was, according to Sarah Connor's opening voiceover, going to happen on 29 August, 1997; at least, that was going to be Judgment Day before we're told that it didn't actually happen then in Terminator 3 (which we've also caught up with, as it takes place in 2004). Also, a lot seem to happen in 1997 for some reason.
*** "It is the year 2005, and the Decepticons are now in control of Cybertron..." How far in the future that seemed in 1986!

My top 20 science fiction films

8/11/2011

 
In alphabetical order and not including Sci Fi Horrors (except for two):

* 2001: A Space Odyssey
* Alien
* Back to the Future (series)
* Blade Runner
* Brazil
* Cube
* District 9
* Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
* Gattaca
* Inception
* Planet of the Apes (1968-73 film series)
* The Matrix
* Minority Report
* Primer
* Robocop
* A Scanner Darkly
* Starship Troopers
* Total Recall
* Twelve Monkeys
* Wall-E

And some other good ones that didn't quite make the cut.

A.I.
Alien 3
Alien Raiders
Being John Malkovich
Cypher
Dark City
Equilibrium
Escape from New York
The Incredible Shrinking Man
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
Jurassic Park
Moon
The Road
Robinson Crusoe in Space
Source Code
Splice
Stargate
Sunshine
The Terminator
The Truman Show

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