Movie Presidents - MINI THREAD
Whether from The White House, Oval Office, Capital Hill, Air Hangars, or Futuristic Prisons, movie Presidents have always loved giving a good speech. So, here are 10 movie Presidents laying it down. Read on... 1/
Independence Day (1996)
Bill Pullman - President Thomas J. Whitmore
"We will not go quietly into the night! We will not vanish without a fight! We're going to live on! We're going to survive! Today we celebrate, our independence day." 2/
Mars Attacks! (1996)
Jack Nicholson - President James Dale
"I want the people to know that they still have two out of three branches of the government working for them, and that ain't bad." 3/
Air Force One (1997)
Harrison Ford - President James Marshall
"Real peace is not just the absence of conflict, it's the presence of justice... Never again will I allow our political self-interest to deter us from doing what we know to be morally right." 4/
Escape From New York (1981)
Donald Pleasence - President John Harker
"I present this, in the hope that our great nations may learn to live in peace." 5/
Idiocracy (2006)
Terry Crews - President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Kamacho
"Now I understand everyone's shit's emotional right now. But I've got a 3 point plan that's going to fix EVERYTHING." 6/
Armageddon (1998)
Stanley Anderson - The Unnamed President
"We are faced with the very gravest of challenges. The Bible calls this day "Armageddon" - the end of all things." 7/
Deep Impact (1998)
Morgan Freeman - President Tom Beck
"Within a week, the skies will be dark with dust from the impact and they'll stay dark for two years. All plant life will dead within... four weeks. Animal life within... a few months. So, that's it. Good luck to us all." 8/
Dave (1993)
Kevin Kline - President Bill Mitchell/Dave Kovic
"I'd like to apologise to the American people... I forgot that I had two hundred and fifty million people who were paying me to make their lives a little bit better, and I didn't live up to my part of the bargain.' 9/
Hot Shots! Part Deux (1993)
Lloyd Bridges - President Thomas "Tug" Benson
"My fellow Americans and our millions of illegal aliens. It seems like only yesterday I was strafing so many of your homes. Here I am today, begging you not to make such good cars." 10/
The American President (1995)
Michael Douglas - President Andrew Shepherd
"I can tell you without hesitation, being President of this country is entirely about character...' 11/
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BLAZING SADDLES — A THREAD
Mel Brooks’ quintessential Western parody turns 52 today. So let’s do that voodoo that you do, so well, and celebrate one of the greatest comedies ever made with some facts, jokes and a few farts around the campfire.
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MALCOLM X INSPIRED BLAZING SADDLES
The idea originated with Andrew Bergman, who named his character after Malcolm X. “I wrote a first draft called Tex-X,” he said. “Alan Arkin was set to direct, and James Earl Jones to play the sheriff. Then it all fell apart.”
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"Work, work, work"
Mel Brooks jumped onboard. “We called in Norman Steinberg and Alan Uger, a Jewish comedy team, and Richard Pryor, a black person of outré imagination. Then we turned on the tape recorder and started bullshitting. Pryor wrote the Jewish jokes, the Jews wrote the black jokes. Nine months later, we had a finished script.”
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First Blood is 43 years old today - MINI THREAD
Couldn’t pick just one clip, so here are 5!
‘Jail Break’: Sylvester Stallone was so sure this movie would ruin him, he tried to buy and destroy the negatives after seeing a rough cut. Thankfully, he didn't. 1/
'The Jump': Unlike later Rambo films, First Blood has only one death (Galt, played by Jack Starrett, aka Blazing Saddles’ frontier gibberish guy)! Stallone broke a rib on one of these branches, that reaction is real. 2/
"I made him." Stallone barely says 100 words in First Blood, thankfully he's surrounded by some of the best character actors in the business. Brian Dennehy and Richard Crenna are both fantastic. So many great lines in just this short scene. 3/
Fawlty Towers is 50 years old today.
10 BASIL FAWLTY MOMENTS - A THREAD
John Cleese's tour-de-force performance as the perpetually neurotic hotelier Basil Fawlty is a comedy masterclass. Not a moment is wasted in 12 perfectly crafted episodes.
"Don't mention the war." 1/
Fawlty Towers is 50 years old today.
Communication Problems - 19 February, 1979
"I expect to be able to see the sea."
"You can see the sea. It's over there between the land and the sky." 2/
Fawlty Towers is 50 years old today.
The Germans - 24 October, 1975
The fire drill is a microcosm of the entire series. How one simple mistake can build to absolute pandemonium.
"I don't know why we bother, we should let you all burn." 3/
25 James Bond Movies Ranked From Worst to Best
I've crunched the numbers from 10 Bond Ranking Lists to create this order (EON Only). Don't shoot the messenger.
25. Die Another Day (2002)
Poor Pierce is in last place. Madonna, invisible cars, Tsunami surfing... oh dear. 1/
24. Spectre (2015)
Daniel Craig's Bond was hit and miss. Mainly his villains lacked punch, and the biggest of them all... Blofeld, was the worst of the lot. Wants world domination because daddy preferred skiing with 007? Please. And Dave Bautista was literally thrown away. 2/
23. The Man with the Golden Gun (1974)
I have a soft spot for Roger Moore's Bond and it pains me to see one of his so low. Even though it features one of Bond's best villains, three nipped Christopher Lee, it also has a barrel roll car jump with a goddamn Swanee whistle. 3/
Monty Python's Life of Brian is 46 years old today.
13 Life of Brian Classic Moments - A THREAD
Brian could well be the funniest movie ever made, and one clip alone won't do it justice. So dive into this thread and find out why Brian was a very naughty boy. You splitter! 1/
"Blessed are the cheesemakers."
The only time Jesus is depicted in the film is the hilarious Sermon on the Mount scene. Although the humour comes from the crowd's misunderstandings, Jesus himself is treated with respect. The meek line from Gwen Taylor is a killer. 2/
"Are there any women here?"
The absurdity of blind adherence to religious rules by showing a group of people eagerly wanting to stone a man to death for saying a piece of halibut was "good enough for Jehovah" is brilliantly played. 3/
The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
BEHIND THE SCENES PHOTO THREAD
Let's face it, Empire's the best Star Wars movie and from these amazing photos it looks like Carrie Fisher, Harrison Ford, Mark Hamill and the gang had a great time making it. The Force is strong with this thread. 1/
“I am not a committee!”
After the huge success of Star Wars, George Lucas wasted no time drafting a sequel. In early 1978 a draft was sent to Lawrence Kasdan. By 1979, the gang of Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher and Mark Hamill were back together again. 2/
“There isn't enough life on this ice cube to fill a space cruiser.”
Principal photography started on March 5, 1979, in Finse, Norway, doubling for icy Hoth. Harrison Ford, initially not scheduled for Finse, was brought in early, traveling a considerable distance by snowplow. 3/