The Grey is Apparently NOT About Aliens
When I caught a few seconds of the new Liam Neeson movie trailer, The Grey, I was excited. I thought it was about a bunch of bros out in Alaska who had to fight aliens to the death. Aliens in Alaska, or how to give Sarah Palin a conniption!
I was wrong. Everyone told me I was wrong, that no, this was not about aliens. I persisted, swearing to God I knew it was and they were just being foolish. Who would watch 80 minutes of men almost fighting wolves and being scared that wolves were out there? It had to be aliens. Again, I was wrong.
I thought this was going to be an epic film about aliens in the deep white dark, but no. It’s about a pack of grey wolves who are hunting some oil worker bros after a plane crash. I’m not terribly sure just why these man against nature movies are so popular; then again when you spend your life dwelling in urban terrain, maybe the appeal is a bit stronger.
“Deadly Wolves Are Gonna Attack, Imma Tape Broken Bottles to My Fists and Recite Poetry”
Barring the fact that wolves typically avoid humans, if you were about to square off in a battle to the death with a pack of wolves and you had a KNIFE, you would not spend time taping busted bottle fragments to your knuckles. Sure it makes a sweet 80s type montage, but it’s pretty much bullshit.
The ending was tightly wrapped up; after arming themselves, a poem is recited and you see the gleaming eyes of the enemy… some wolves. They could have done some CGI scenes of them fighting wolves, but most of the movie is about the suspense that leads up to the meh-climactic ending.
But Liam Neeson against a bunch of grey aliens? You won’t need to have an 80′s montage of him taping a knife and broken bottle shards to his hands! There’ll be more run and gunning than an after dinner session of Modern Warfare 3.
AFI 100 Top Movie Of The Last 100 Years
So come to find out I have only seen 32 out of AFI’s 100 top movies of the past 100 years. I am thinking about watching the other 68 movies on the list at some point. Maybe like 1 a week or some shit like that.
Let me know how many of these movies you have seen in the comments.
1. Citizen Kane (1941)
2. The Godfather (1972) Seen It
3. Casablanca (1942) Seen It
4. Raging Bull (1980)
5. Singin’ in the Rain (1952) Seen It
6. Gone with the Wind (1939) Seen It
7. Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
8. Schindler’s List (1993) Seen It
9. Vertigo (1958)
10. The Wizard of Oz (1939) Seen It
11. City Lights (1931)
12. The Searchers (1956)
13. Star Wars (1977) Seen It
14. Psycho (1960) Seen It
15. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) Seen It
16. Sunset Blvd. (1950)
17. The Graduate (1967)
18. The General (1927)
19. On the Waterfront (1954)
20. It’s a Wonderful Life (1946) Seen It
21. Chinatown (1974)
22. Some Like It Hot (1959)
23. The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
24. E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial (1982) Seen It
25. To Kill A Mockingbird (1962)
26. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
27. High Noon (1952)
28. All About Eve (1950)
29. Double Indemnity (1944)
30. Apocalypse Now (1979)
31. The Maltese Falcon (1941)
32. The Godfather Part II (1974)
33. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975)
34. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) Seen It
35. Annie Hall (1977)
36. The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
37. The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
38. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
39. Dr. Strangelove (1964) Seen It
40. The Sound of Music (1965) Seen It
41. King Kong (1933)
42. Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
43. Midnight Cowboy (1969)
44. The Philadelphia Story (1940)
45. Shane (1953)
46. It Happened One Night (1934)
47. A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
48. Rear Window (1954)Seen It
49. Intolerance (1916)
50. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) Seen It
51. West Side Story (1961) Seen It
52. Taxi Driver (1976)
53. The Deer Hunter (1978)
54. M*a*s*h (1970) Seen It
55. North By Northwest (1959)
56. Jaws (1977) Seen It
57. Rocky (1976) Seen It
58. The Gold Rush (1925)
59. Nashville (1975)
60. Duck Soup (1933)
61. Sullivan’s Travels (1958)
62. American Graffiti (1973)
63. Cabaret (1972)
64. Network (1976)
65. The African Queen (1951)
66. Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) Seen It
67. Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)
68. Unforgiven (1992)
69. Tootsie (1982) Seen It
70. A Clockwork Orange (1971)
71. Saving Private Ryan (1998)
72. The Shawshank Redemption (1994) Seen It
73. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
74. The Silence of the Lambs (1991) Seen It
75. In the Heat of the Night (1967) Seen It
76. Forrest Gump (1994) Seen It
77. All the President’s Men (1976)
78. Modern Times (1936)
79. The Wild Bunch (1969)
80. The Apartment (1960)
81. Spartacus (1960)
82. Sunrise (1927)
83. Titanic (1997) Seen It
84. Easy Rider (1969)
85. A Night at the Opera (1935)
86. Platoon (1986)
87. 12 Angry Men (1957)
88. Bringing Up Baby (1938)
89. The Sixth Sense (1999) Seen It
90. Swing Time (1936)
91. Sophie’s Choice (1982)
92. Goodfellas (1990) Seen It
93. The French Connection (1971)
94. Pulp Fiction (1994) Seen It
95. The Last Picture Show (1971)
96. Do the Right Thing (1989)
97. Blade Runner (1982) Seen It
98. Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)
99. Toy Story (1995) Seen It
100. Ben-Hur (1959)
Review: Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes
Rise Of Planet Of The Apes is the prequel to the 1960′s Planet Of The Apes in where a research scientist named Will Rodman (played by James Franco) is working on creating a cure for for his father’s (played by John Lithgow) Alzheimer’s. Dr. Rodman is using apes as the test subjects for the experimental drug but through a series of unforeseen events, the drug helps them ascend to the top of the food chain and sends the Human race crashing to the bottom.
