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Top 15 Horror Movie Trailers

benq — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 01:33:37 +0000

This isn’t my top list, it’s the person’s who actually put the video together and put it on youtube. But it’s an awesome collection of old school horror movie trailers! And me being a 29 year old youngin’, this was the first time I’d seen many of the older trailers here, even if I’d seen the actual before.

15. The Mist
14. The Omen
13. Nightmare on Elm Street
12. Jaws
11. Aliens
10. Blair Witch Project
9. Psycho
8. Eraserhead
7. Shining
6. The Thing
5. The Exorcist
4. 1408
3. Silence of the Lambs
2. Halloween
1.

Eraserhead by David Lynch (1977)

benq — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 01:01:31 +0000

Brilliant and horrifying film…

This caught my eye. From wikipedia:

In 2004, the film was deemed “culturally significant” by the United States Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the National Film Registry. Lynch has described his film as a “dream of dark and troubling things.”

Hellraiser (1987) – Movie Trailer

benq — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 00:49:59 +0000

Excited to watch this movie tonight for the first time.

David Lynch’s Mulholland Drive – Betty’s Audition

benq — Fri, 15 May 2009 06:34:14 +0000

This is one of my favorite scenes of Lynch’s masterpiece, Mulholland Drive. In the larger context of this movie, this scene to me represents the dream-like nature of the film.

In this scene, the characters experience is raw and dramatic and disturbingly strange, yet no one seems to notice, including the characters who are “dreaming” it. Everything seems to take on extreme importance but the understanding of why it was so important simply slips away as soon as its done, (i.e. once you get to the next scene) much like waiting up from an intense dream with a charged up feeling that it was entirely deep and real, but you can’t put your finger on any of the specifics.

New 3D technology in Upcoming Avatar Film

benq — Sat, 09 May 2009 02:59:53 +0000

Avatar - Fan Poster Art

The internet is a buzz about a new film coming out in December 2009 by James Cameron. Evidently, the hype surrounds the fact that this film is in 3D, but not the 3D we’re used to – it’s a new technique and peoples description of the experience is riveting.

For instance, Cameron stated that watching the movie is like…

“dreaming with your eyes wide open.”

A reporter wrote after viewing (or experiencing?) one short scene, that…

“It was like doing some kind of drug.”

The story is about an Avatar, described as a person living in a robotic body, who finds himself on an alien planet.

People are so crazy excited about it already that they’re setting up fan websites, such as Avatar Movie Zone. Fans are even producing striking fan poster art, such as the image on the left by Ludo38 @ Deviant Art.

Transcendent Man – Ray Kurzweil’s upcoming film

benq — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 19:05:13 +0000

I can’t wait to see this film on Ray Kurzweil and his ideas about the upcoming technological/social/cultural/everything upheaval, premiering today in select cities, but unfortunately not my city.

I hope it’s as good as it should be. The 4 or 5 books I’ve read by Kurzweil completely floored me a few years ago and have never left the back of my mind.

2 Things That Suck

benq — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 20:15:58 +0000

1) The Iron Man movie.

Sorry guys, but yea… this was boring. I walked out with 20 minutes left b/c I realized I’d honestly rather be doing something else.

2) Free internet at home is now gone!

For the last 3 months I’d be using an anonymous neighbors wireless connection at home. It was a win-win situation: I saved $50 a month, and I got free internet! But alas, whoever this person known as “Grace” (or at least named their wifi network by this name), has caught me off suddenly, like a drug dealer leaving his clients pathetic and burning for more.

F%^@!