X-mas Lists

Well, today is Black Friday (AKA No Buy Day). The day when people go out and try to get their Christmas shopping done while tearing each other up limb from limb just to get the best gift possible for cheap. To celebrate, I present my X-mas Lists. Yes, as in more than one.

Nice List

• PlayStation 2 with Katamari Damacy and a Memory Card
• A digital camera
• A portable external hard drive that is at least 50 GBs

Naughty List

• Lauderdale Strip (link)
• An American In Prague DVD (link)
• Weekend In Connecticut (link)
• It Happened By Chance (link)
• Raunchy Rookies 4 DVD (link)
• The entire Cobra Video Library on DVD if available (link)
• Private Punishment 1 thru 6

For the record, I don't expect to get any of this.

Movie Trivia # 004: How's That Again, Sam?

After more than forty-six years of being one of history's most-watched movies, no one seems to notice that the wardrobe department blew it when they dressed Ingrid Bergman for a flashback scene in Casablanca (1942). Bergaman's Ilsa remembers wearing a dress when she and Bogart's Rick parted months before in Paris. But when Ted Turner's perspicacious colorizers got a closer look at the film, they discovered that Ilsa was actually wearing a suit.

"I never noticed that, and I've seen that film many times," Turner Entertainment President Roger Mayer, who supervised the colorization process, told the Los Angeles Times. "I don't think many people would." But someone did.

Movie Trivia # 003: Disorder in the Court

When Glenn Close and Jeff Bridges enter the courtroom in Jagged Edge (1985), she is wearing a gray suit. Then she makes her opening arguments standing before the judge wearing a dark blue suit and a white blouse. A few minutes later (without having time to go home and change), she questions a witness while wearing a dark brown suit and a light brown blouse.

"The Ken Song" by jdproject

I cannot get this song out of my head since I heard it earlier this week. If you are a Street Fighter 2 fan, you must download this song! If you are a fan of cheesy rock songs, you must download this song! If you like catchy tunes you cannot get out of your head no matter how hard you try, you must download this song!

Hell, if you have any kind of appreciation for music in general, take a listen! I promise you'll enjoy it.

Movie Trivia # 002: Where's Your Point?

Brad Pitt wears his collar outside his sweater as he sits in a restaurant booth in A River Runs Through It (1992). Several times throughout the scene, the point of the collar is either inside or outside the sweater.

Movie Trivia # 001: Lois Lane's Dream Job

At London's Elstree Studios, prim Elaine Scheyreck faced quite a dilemma. As costumer, she spent plenty of time in the company of actors who were stripped down to their bare essentials--still, she was faced with something she preferred not to discuss. Just back from viewing the dailies of Superman, Ms. Scheyreck now had to tell the producers that the scene had to be re-shot because Christopher Reeve's "private parts" jumped from one side to the other in his tight-fitting costume.

Had the error not been caught and corrected, somewhere along the way audiences would have had a real laugh--probably at a most inappropriate time--when Reeve's goodies flew from one side to the other mid-scene.

From that day forward, one of Elaine Scheyreck's duties was to make sure that the handsome actor's pant bulge was in the right place every day--and since multiple costume changes were required because Reeve would get sweaty during complex flying scenes, it was finally decided to eliminate the problem completely by having a "swim cap" sewn into the Superman outfit.

No Right to Complain

Since today is Election Day, I thought I would explain myself as to why I haven't blogged anything last week. It's a very simple explanation.

I don't remember when exactly I was told this, but someone once said that "If you don't vote, you don't have the right to complain."

I'm not registered to vote. I could type up a million excuses why, but the bottom line is I just am not registered to vote.

In my last entry, there was some negative feedback towards my opinion and my entry that actually made me sit down and rethink what I had wrote. That is when I remembered the above.

So, in short, I'm not going to complain anymore. I never had the right to do so to begin with. Insane logic? Maybe.

So what of my blog? Will I delete it? No. I was given a small book that has a total of 333 movie mistakes that I figure I'd use on this blog. One mistake from a movie once a week, if I can commit to it. Hopefully, this will help make my blog a more interesting read.