Seven 9s and 10s

This Is Spinal Tap - “Stonehenge”

This is one of the most famous scenes in the entire movie, but for all the wrong reasons.  The performance gets all the attention, what with the theatrics and the tiny Stonehenge and the dwarfs dancing around, but it’s the dressing-room fight that follows that is the real gem.  The actors are firing on all cylinders here and the wit is non-stop and sharp as a tack.

Harry Shearer speaks all of three lines during the 4 minutes of the fight, but he absolutely steals the scene with his delivery.  Three perfect little one-liner gems.  He plays the character perfectly - constantly thinking about how to improve the situation and stay focused on the music itself rather than get caught up in the drama that has just occurred.

Ian: “I really think you’re just making a much to big a thing out of it.”
Derek [off camera - with impeccable timing]: “Making a big thing out of it would have been a good idea.”

Derek: “Maybe we just fix the choreography - keep the dwarf clear…”
David: “What do you mean?”
Derek: “…so he won’t trod upon it.”

[IAN HAS STORMED OUT OF THE ROOM - LEAVING A LONG AND UNCOMFORTABLE SILENCE]
Derek: “Can I raise a practical question at this point? … Are we gonna do Stonehenge tomorrow?”

It’s only when you stop and consider just how much of the dialog in the movie was improvised that you can really begin to grasp just how comedically brilliant the entire cast was.

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Love Spit Love - Am I Wrong

Angus was a great movie with a fantastic soundtrack.

High-res thedayhascome: Russian Pilot Ejects For a Hollywood Movie at Mach 2 Movie producers paid two Sukhoi Su-35 pilots to fly without a canopy at Mach 2.0, and have one of them eject in what probably is one of the most dangerous stunts ever filmed. While on this speed I even managed to pull out my fingers in glove for an inch or two outside - it became heated very fast because of immense friction force plane undergoes with the air. — Russian Pilot (source) This is quite possibly the most awesome thing I’ve ever seen. I’m not sure that non-flight geeks understand how insanely dangerous this was for both the pilot and the ejector.  Mach 2 is roughly 1500mph. Have you ever driven down the highway with your window down, say 60mph, and thrown something out the window, or even just stuck your arm out there?  Yeah?  Multiply that force by 25, strap a rocket to your ass, and do it at 20,000 feet. I will see this movie in the theater, regardless of how much it sucks.  Seeing this scene will be worth at least $10.

thedayhascome:

Russian Pilot Ejects For a Hollywood Movie at Mach 2

Movie producers paid two Sukhoi Su-35 pilots to fly without a canopy at Mach 2.0, and have one of them eject in what probably is one of the most dangerous stunts ever filmed.

While on this speed I even managed to pull out my fingers in glove for an inch or two outside - it became heated very fast because of immense friction force plane undergoes with the air.
— Russian Pilot

(source)

This is quite possibly the most awesome thing I’ve ever seen.

I’m not sure that non-flight geeks understand how insanely dangerous this was for both the pilot and the ejector.  Mach 2 is roughly 1500mph.

Have you ever driven down the highway with your window down, say 60mph, and thrown something out the window, or even just stuck your arm out there?  Yeah?  Multiply that force by 25, strap a rocket to your ass, and do it at 20,000 feet.

I will see this movie in the theater, regardless of how much it sucks.  Seeing this scene will be worth at least $10.

High-res cleversimon: It looks too twee by half and hipster enough to give Zach Braff heartburn, but 500 Days of Summer also has Joseph Gordon-Levitt and—I don’t know, some chick—meeting cute and having a bittersweetly doomed romance. This and Moon are the two indie films I’m praying have a run in Edmonton this summer. Allow me to once again preach the wonders of this film.  It was absolutely fantastic and I encourage everyone to go see it when it’s released in July. I laughed straight through the first hour and then reality kicks in and well… just go see it. Also: see what I wrote about one specific scene.

cleversimon:

It looks too twee by half and hipster enough to give Zach Braff heartburn, but 500 Days of Summer also has Joseph Gordon-Levitt and—I don’t know, some chick—meeting cute and having a bittersweetly doomed romance.

This and Moon are the two indie films I’m praying have a run in Edmonton this summer.

Allow me to once again preach the wonders of this film.  It was absolutely fantastic and I encourage everyone to go see it when it’s released in July.

I laughed straight through the first hour and then reality kicks in and well… just go see it.

Also: see what I wrote about one specific scene.