Miscellaneous TV and Movie Thoughts
Saw the trailer for The Island while at the theater today . First thought: Ewan McGregor in Logan’s Run? Second thought: Poor Sean Bean, can’t he ever play a good guy? (Yeah, I know he playedBoromir, a good guy — though a seriously flawed one who didn’t survive the first film — so it doesn’t count.)
Tonight Mythbusters looked at airplane crash positions and driving while intoxicated vs. driving while using a cell phone. The results were pretty much what I expected. What happened to Scottie? The new guy seemed competent, but what happened to out multi-tattooed welder? The drinking/driving scenes reminded me of that episode of WKRP where Johnny Fever gets better reflexes the more he drinks (that was one of the funniest episodes of the show. Not only did it have the intoxication scene, but it had the fight between the WPIG pig and the WKRP carp.)
June 22nd, 2005 at 11:18 pm
I am a little disappointed that a favorite TV quote, also from WKRP, didnt make the AFI 100 Top Movie Quotes. Yeah, I know it’s about movies and not TV, but I’m still mad never-and-nonetheless.
“As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly.”
June 23rd, 2005 at 6:03 am
“Poor Sean Bean, can’t he ever play a good guy?” -> http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114917/
June 23rd, 2005 at 3:55 pm
Regarding Sean Bean and “good guy” roles:
One word: Sharpe.
(Perhaps I should say “One word, fifteen movies.” Here’s the first: http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0108108/combined )
June 23rd, 2005 at 4:07 pm
Official Comment
The Sharpe series is where I first saw Sean Bean. I probably should have been more specific: I’d like to see him as a good guy in a theatrically-released movie, instead of a villain (The Island, Goldeneye, National Treasure, etc. etc.)
The Sharpe series was kick @$$ and I strongly recommend both the movies and books.
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