Movie #1

Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back

Fleeing the evil Galactic Empire, the rebels abandon their new base on Hoth. Princess Leia, Han Solo and the droids R2-D2 and C-3P0 escape in the damaged Millenium Falcon, but are later captured by Lord Darth Vader on Bespin. Skywalker, meanwhile, follows Ben Kenobi's posthumous command and receives Jedi training by Yoda on Dagobah. Will Skywalker manage to rescue his friends from the dark lord?

First, I would like to point out that this year is the 30th anniversary of this film. Now when it comes to Star Wars it's always difficult to pick out which one would come out as my favorite. Most of my movie statues are from Star Wars, I have Star Wars tattoo's, I live and breathe it, yes I know I'm a geek. I went with the Empire Strikes back for multipule reasons as being my favorite Star Wars film. First, it showed how evil can overcome good and still have good prevail at the end even after taking a beating. Second, this film introduced my favorite Star Wars character of all time, Boba Fett. I know that some of you may have thought Yoda, and you would have been close, but instead I picked a character that has a whole five lines of dialogue throughout every movie, yet the most interesting story of all the characters. I'm sure most of you have seen this movie, and I hope you enjoyed it as much as I did. I recommend that you put it back in to bring back good memories and perhaps learn some new things about the film, such as the story of Boba Fett. The Star Wars universe is vast and adventurous, and will be remembered for years and years to come.


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Movie #2

Indiana Jones: The Last Crusade

Three years after he recovered The Ark of the Covenant. Jones recovered an artifact that he found as a kid, the Cross of Francisco De Coronado from treasure hunters. Now, Jones discovers the history of another biblical artifact called "The Holy Grail". He was also informed that his father, Henry Jones is missing. Jones has to find his father who is looking for the Grail. However, Jones will become involved in the search of the Holy Grail along with his father, as well as fighting the Nazis to reach it.

I still refuse to acknowledge the garbage that was The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull as being an actual Indiana Jones film, so out of the three Jones films this is definetely my favorite. Now I know most of you are probably thinking that the first is the best, being that it started this amazing storyline, however teaming up Harrison Ford with Sean Connery made this an instant classic. The comedy between father and son, on top of the epic journey for the holy grail make this a film that will not be forgotten.

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Already to movie #3 this week.

Movie #3

Boondock Saints

Boondock Saints comes in #3 this week. Two Irish brothers accidentally killed mafia thugs. They turned themselves in and were released as heroes. They then see it as a calling by God and started knocking off mafia gang members one by one. Willem Dafoe plays the detective trying to figure out the killings, but the closer he was to catching the Irish brothers, the more he thinks the brothers are doing the right thing.

This movie was actually the basis for two of the tattoos that I have. Now even though the plot that surrounds this movie may seem very serious this is actually a pretty funny action/drama. The troubling situations the brothers get themselves into at times can be downright hilarious. Add a top notch acting job from Willem Dafoe and you have a recipe for an amazing movie. This movie did spawn a sequel 10 years later, which is almost as good, but the original still remains the best in my opinion. So sit back, relax and have fun with this entertaining movie.

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Coming in with movie #4 this week.

Movie #4

Snatch

Snatch is a 2000 comedy crime film written and directed by British filmmaker Guy Ritchie, and featuring an ensemble cast. Set in the London criminal underworld, the film contains two intertwined plots — one dealing with the search for a stolen diamond, the other with a small-time boxing promoter named Turkish (Jason Statham) who finds himself under the thumb of a sadistic gangster known as Brick Top (Alan Ford). Snatch is characterized by an assortment of colourful characters, including the "pikey" Irish Traveller Mickey O'Neil (Brad Pitt), Russian-Uzbek ex-KGB agent and arms-dealer Boris "the Blade" Yurinov (Rade Sherbedgia), professional thief and gambling addict Frankie "Four-Fingers" (Benicio del Toro) and bounty hunter Bullet-Tooth Tony (Vinnie Jones). It is also distinguished by a kinetic direction and editing style, a circular plot featuring numerous ironic twists of chance and causality, and a fast pace. The film shares similar themes, ideas and motifs as Ritchie's first film, Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels. It is also filmed in the same visual style and features many of the same actors, including Vinnie Jones, Jason Statham and Jason Flemyng, who appears in a minor role as one of the "pikeys".

Snatch is one of the most memorable films of all time for me because of the way Guy Ritchie was able to add comedy to what was once a serious film. To better it, add in different story lines that come together in a humorous way, and you get a film unlike any other that you can recall in recent memory. To go from a film that the director thought was going to be a failure and have it end up being a huge success world wide is not a feat that's easy to do, but Guy was able to pull it off. So sit back, laugh, cringe, and enjoy this wonderful movie. I promise you will walk away quoting lines from the movie and laughing about it for the next few days.

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