19 posts tagged “youtube”
Been having an 80s flashback today with Glenn Frey's song "You Belong to the City" stuck in my head all day long. After watching this, I think I might just hop over to huhu.com and watch me some Miami Vice.
You Belong to the City - Glenn Frey
The sun goes down, the night rolls in
You can feel it starting all over again
The moon comes up and the music calls
You're gettin' tired of starin' at the same four walls
You're out of your room and down on the street
Movin' through the crowd and the midnight heat
The traffic crawls, the sirens scream
You look at the faces, it's just like a dream
Nobody knows where you're goin'
Nobody cares where you've been
'Cause you belong to the city
You belong to the night
Livin' in a river of darkness
Beneath the neon lights
You were born in the city
Concrete under your feet
It's in your moves, it's in your blood
You're a man of the streets
When you said goodbye, you were on the run
Tryin' to get away from the things you've done
Now you're back again, and you're feeling strange
So much has happened, but nothing has changed
You still don't know where you're goin'
You're still just a face in the crowd
You belong to the city
You belong to the night
Livin' in a river of darkness
Beneath the neon lights
You were born in the city
Concrete under your feet
It's in your blood, it's in your moves
You're a man of the street
You can feel it, you can taste it
You can see it, you can face it
You can hear it, hey, you're getting near it, hey
You wanna make it, cause you can take it
You belong to the city, you belong to the night
You belong to the city, you belong to the night
You belong, you belong
Enjoy!
While not my mainstream movie genre, I do have a soft spot for westerns. One of the better ones is High Noon (Gary Cooper at his best). Below is an interesting mash-up of scenes of the movie to one of the soundtracks of a classic Clint Eastwood western - Two Mules for Sister Sarah. If High Noon would of come out now, I think this would of been a cool trailer.
Who cannot think of John Wayne when you say the word westerns? El Dorado - My personal favorite of his is a classic Howard Hawks film, staring Wayne, Robert Mitchum, and a young James Caan. What really gets me is the friendship and loyalties portrayed in the film.
While on the subject of John Wayne, I also recommend one of his ealier films, Stagecoach. This one is directed by John Ford and also has one of my favorite "B" cowboys - Tim Holt (who actually makes a great supporting actor in the "A" films).
Another great actor (in my opinion) is Glen Ford. One of his best westerns is The Fastest Gun Alive. Here, Ford, an ex-gun man is trying to escape his past and his secrests having one of the quickest draws comes to haunt his new life, along with the town they are living in.
Another great modern western is the 80s movie, Silverado. This has a huge cast of well known actors - Kevin Kline, Scott Glenn, a young Kevin Costner, and Danny Glover, just to name a few. This story revolves around several sub plots that join together at the end with the main theme of righting a wrong. Again like El Dorado, its the comradely of the actors and the bonds that are form, that makes this stand out.
Moving into the 90s, Tombstone stands as one of Val Kilmers best performances as Doc Holiday. In my opinion, his role stole the movie. Of course this story revolves around the imfamous, Shootout at the O.K. Corral. It's Kilmer's deep friendship with Kurt Russell (as Wyat Erp) that makes this movie special to me. Again, some big names in this one - all star cast including Sam Elliot (who has the coolest voice ever!!), Bill Paxton, Michael Biehn, and the sexy Dana Delany. Another note worthy actor - Powers Boothe (who to me, always makes a great bad ass) does a great job in this film. Warning - tangent ahead If you like the film noir/private eye genre - you need to see the 1985 series Philip Marlowe, Private Eye, were Boothe portrayes an outstanding Phillip Marlowe. Ok...back to the westerns....if you haven't noticed, a lot of the movies I'm listing revolve around friendships, honor, and loyalty.
Of course there are others greats like the Clint Eastwood films, but that's another post.
The Stunt -
"skimming his Suzuki dirtbike at 70 miles per hour for 110 feet in five-foot-deep water, and then launching off of a floating FMX ramp."
Who thinks up this stuff???
By taking two of my favorite things, The Family Guy and The Matrix (the 1st one) and combined them into a mashed up trailer on youtube = AWESOME!!!
They Haz 'Em
Despite the nice weather the last few days, I've been fighting the blues. I'm not sure what the background on this is, but watching this helped me turn a frown upside down. Enjoy!
