GENEVA, Sept 1 (Reuters) - At least 14 people were killed by cluster bombs during the Georgia-Russia war over South Ossetia in August according to experts in the conflict region, a leading human rights group said on Monday. Some of the victims were clearly killed in Russian air raids although Moscow has denied that it used the weapon which divides before impact into a large number of bomblets, New York-based Human Rights Watch (HRW) said. The group's arms division researcher, Bonnie Docherty, told a news briefing that Georgia had now admitted that it used the lethal weapon, which more than 100 countries have agreed to ban, once during the conflict. "Attacks with these weapons that do not discriminate between combatants and non-combatant civilians are a violation of international humanitarian law," she said. Docherty said Russian attacks on the village of Ruisi in Georgia on August 12, when Russian forces were driving Georgian troops from an area south of the South Ossetia border, killed at least 3 civilians and wounded 5. One the same day, at least 8 civilians died and dozens were wounded in another Russian air attack on the town of Gori, she added, quoting HRW researchers who were on the ground from the moment Russian troops crossed into Georgia proper on August 8. Docherty said HRW had received an e-mailed letter from the Georgian Defence Ministry admitting that it had used M85 cluster weapons in one attack near the Roki tunnel between Russia and South Ossetia at the start of the conflict. Hundreds of M85s -- mainly produced by Israel which has helped arm Georgia -- which Russia is not known to possess, also littered the town of Shindisi in Georgia, but HRW monitors were not sure who they belonged to, she added. Docherty appealed to both Georgians and Russians to cooperate fully with demining teams from Europe already in the area in clearing the many thousands of bomblets, which often do not explode immediately but kill and maim later. She said bomblets littered many fields where harvesting was due to start, posing a severe risk to life and limb of farmers. Many countries are due to meet in Oslo in December to sign up to a treaty banning cluster weapons negotiated outside the framework of the United Nations and endorsed by 107 nations in Dublin in May. Russia, the United States and China have declined to join it, but many other military powers, including Britain, France and Germany, have said they will come in at a meeting of signatories in Oslo in December.

Source: http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L1503016.htm

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I composed the bulk of this as a comment to my previous [Tribe blog entry], but it's a good recap that I want to have easy access to. None of these complaints has yet been convincingly argued against with valid logic. 

1. 0bama has never even lived in an executive mansion, let alone been the elected executive leader of a large, diverse body of people. He has a very sparse track record. Not only has he never been at any center of power, but he has never been near one. 

2. 0bama has waffled on the issue of gay rights, apparently playing both ends against the middle by saying he supports gay rights but not distancing himself from the anti-gay messages of gospel artists with whom he tours. I charge that he is an appeaser and will continue to be an appeaser and will not back me if I and my kind are ever backed up against a wall. I think he is willing to exploit the game of "my oppression is more important than your oppression" if it will help his numbers. Show me his convictions otherwise, if you can! 

3. 0bama's campaign has willfully distorted the meaning of his opponent's reasonable words in order to exploit public sentimentality about Martin Luther King, Jr. He is not a fair enough fighter for me to feel good about him as my president. 

4. There is no reason why 0bama can't wait until a future date, when he has had a chance to have a track record, to run for this office. If he serves at this young age, he will not be available to serve when he has had the benefit of experience--or the benefit of serving at a time that is not in the wake of the most disastrous administration in US history. With a change in party and a country split 50-50 down the middle in terms of the two dominant parties, everybody will be out for blood. He doesn't just have to be good—he has to be superior. He is a journeyman, undeniably, but the President should be a master. 

5. The Harvard Law Review, which is his most weighty credential to date, is not a big enough pool in which to have been the Big Fish. 

6. Hillary Clinton is a Lethal Weapon, in the sense in which it was used in the movie: what is there that the Pubs can hold over her? "Freedom's just another word for nothin' left to lose." 0bama has far more to lose than Hillary does. 

7. The Dems do in fact owe this to Hillary. The Dems left the Clintons hang out to dry because they were cowed by Newt Gingrich and Jesse Helms. She could not be credibly reproached in the Whitewater affair, and she survived Monicagate with her dignity intact, no thanks to her party. It's her turn, and there's no reason she shouldn't have it. 0bama is not more qualified for it, and any business executive would have to give preference to her resume over his. The public is vulnerable to pandering by a well-spoken, suave man and can be distracted from focusing on the resume, but those who know what a president's job description includes cannot deny that Clinton has a better resume for it. Everything else is style, and she deserves to be judged on something other than style for the depth of her loyalty and experience to the party. 

8. 50 million Elvis fans can be wrong. Popularity does not the best presidential material make. 

9. Hillary's spouse may be a cad (maybe even an unoriginal bore, as David Brinkley indiscreetly said on camera), but he, too, is an experienced resident of executive mansions with considerable political clout on the world stage, notwithstanding his domestic enemies. 0bama's spouse is an idiot. [My defense of that charge remains a friends-only entry in my Tribe blog.] Hillary has a better closest-advisor-and-confidant. 

In other words, one cannot compare 0bama's spouse's support of him to Hillary's spouse's support of her, because 0bama's spouse will never be an emeritus US president while her spouse is in office, and Hillary's spouse will always be. Bill Clinton holds a rare position of expertise in the world, being one of, at most, four living former US presidents. His opinions cannot be written off simply as just so much biased loyalty of an enthusiastic spouse. Bill Clinton is almost uniquely qualified to criticize 0bama's visions as "a fairy tale," and his judgments cannot be discounted out of hand just because you're offended by his language. 

10. "Change" is too vague a rallying cry. All the candidates advocate change. 

11. 0bama's following bears so much resemblance to a cult that they are not, by virtue of sheer numbers, to be trusted without deeper inquiry into their motivations for following him so devotedly based on little more than sophistry and eloquence. They walk like a duck, swim like a duck, and quack like a duck. I want to see for myself that they are not a duck before I can be persuaded to throw in my lot with them. 

If you can't answer all of these items, whatever you say in favor of 0bama will be irrelevant to me. I want documentation, not impassioned testimony.

Before they paid the the bills movies were the link between me and my folks. I was a moody impossible teenager who thought my parents sole purpose in life was my personal misery. However, some of my favorite teenage memories are of me and my pops renting R rated movies (like Lethal Weapon) and watching it while my mom was out of town (she didn't let me watch R until I was 17). Or the summer my pops and I watched/rented every single James Bond movie. Every Friday nightj, while I was in high school, we would rent a movie and order out- usually Chinese. In selecting films it was ALWAYS me and my pops against my mom. My mom only ever wanted to rent French foreign films or some Asian masterpiece that spanned decades, ran for hours, and had a total of 15 minutes of dialogue. I wanted no part of that. It was action flicks and Jean-Claude Van Damme or Wesley Snipes for me.

Imagine my surprise when about my senior year in college I caught myself saying that hollywood productions were superficial, lacked creativity, and always had cookie cutter endings. All the sudden tiny print at the bottom of the screen and monotone documentary narration were my standards of excellence. I reacted STRONGLY against the stereotype of chick flicks (which I can't stand to this day) and became insanely discriminating in my taste in film. If you got to the movies with me you've got a 90% chance of me not liking the film.

But that doesn't mean I don't love going! When a film moves me, when I like it - I really really like it. I cried long and hard watching Tsotsi, Darwin's Nightmare and Born into Brothels. I found Run Lola Run and Lars and the Real Girl immensely entertaining. I think that Persepolis, On the Waterfront, and After the Wedding are thought provoking. I love movies! (I can't think of where it would fit but Chinatown is a personal favorite as well)

This weekend I watched two movies that have stayed with me in a subtle, yet profound way. Critics are abuzz over Frozen River and I concur. Stephen Holden wrote a much better review than I ever could so I will just leave you to read his. I will say this - it isn't a hit you over the head feel good movie or some unforgettable commentary on the state of illegal immigration. Really, the impact of the film is in it's simple and authentic acting, it's stark scenery (neither glamorous nor horrendous), and what I perceive to be the message. People aren't good or bad, people are people - capable of moments all along the spectrum. And this film truly captures that.

I followed up that movie watching experience with FINALLY renting and watching The Diving Bell and the Butterfly. The movie represents, to a certain degree, the true story of Jean-Dominique Bauby. Okay, okay - so there is some poetic license with the women in his life....I get that. However, none of that takes away from the reality of the importance of his life. Even with only one eyelid his life mattered. He mattered. The idea that our value transcends our physical capabilitiesis beautiful. I believe that because of my faith but I think the movie portrays it in a way that is accessible to people from any or no belief.

Sigh. I love the power of the silver screen and wish movies didn't so often translate into celebrity, big budgets, and mind numbing extravaganzas. So I may complain, and am often disappointed by the formulaic scripts, the route acting, or the cheap humor, BUT.....I still love the movies.

La dupla detectivezca favorita de los 80's y 90's, Martin Riggs (Mel Gibson) y Roger Murtaugh (Danny Glover) podrían salir del retiro en 2009 o 2010, de acuerdo a lo comentado por Shane Black, guionista de las cuatro entregas, al sitio TrackingB se encontraría trabajando en el guión de la quinta parte que funcionaría como cierre definitivo de la saga. Si en Lethal Weapon 4 (1998) ambos detectives estaban viejos, Murtaugh al borde de su largamente retrasado retiro y Riggs sufriendo lo que su compañero sufrió en las tres entregas anteriores, ahora ambos estarán casi para geriátrico. Según Black, la historia se centrará en los últimos días de Riggs en la fuerza, sin embargo, una serie de eventos lo obligará a involucrarse en un complicado caso por lo que tendrá que pedirle ayuda a su ex compañero para que regrese por una última vez. Ni Gibson ni Glover han comentado acerca de la posibilidad de recuperar sus antiguos roles. En cuanto a la dirección, los rumores en la blogósfera llaman al director Richard Donner, quien estuvo a cargo de las cuatro versiones anteriores, fundamentado en el hecho de la falta de proyectos importantes del director en el último tiempo, sin embargo, su avanzada edad (en 2010 cumplirá 80) podría poner en duda su participación. Habrá que seguir de cerca esto, ya que aunque la última palabra la tiene la Warner, si la dupla protagónica dice que no sería todo para este proyecto.

Regizorul Richard Donner, care a realizat toate cele patru filme ale seriei, a spus inca de de anul trecut ca este gata de inca un Lethal Weapon. Conditia era ca Mel Gibson sa fie de acord sa joace din rolul sergentului Martin Riggs.

Lethal Weapon este una dintre cele mai faimoase serii ale cinematografiei americane, primul film fiind lansat in 1987.

Sursa: www.cinemagia.ro

There’s an interesting story posted on the Coming Soon website about the possibilities of a fifth entry in Warner Bros LETHAL WEAPON franchise. The story goes on to say that a spec script has been written by Shane Black and that Mel Gibson and Danny Glover would be interested in returning. If Bruce Willis, Harrison Ford and Sylvester Stallone can come back years later to reprise the characters of John McClane, Indiana Jones and Rocky Balboa, there’s no reason why Gibson and Glover’s characters, Riggs and Murtaugh, wouldn’t be welcome with open arms. All four entries in the Lethal Weapon series have had strong entertainment value and a loyal following and I believe Lethal Weapon 2 was one of the best sequels ever made. Considering all the bad publicity Gibson has received in the last five years this would be a good move on his part! I hope it HAPPENS! LINK

All day at work, I have a news-ticker distracting me with random titbits of news, beamed directly from the Interweb into my tiny monkey brain. I have a Protopage that's devoted to RSS feeds. I mainline feeds from the Washington Post to Slashdot, via Daily Variety.

Some days it's same-old-same-old. Nothing going on. Today, I've been inundated with all manner of meedja headlines. From Sunset and Vine to Wood Lane, it's newsflash-a-go-go.

So I thought I'd present my pick of these headlines, complete with some snarling commentary.

Saucer of milk to table three... and we're off!

Not to be outdone by ITV's announcement that they're revamping Blind Date, Cilla Black is back!

Cilla Black returns for dating show

Cilla Black will return to TV screens to front Sky One's dating show Loveland.

(Well she's got to pay for her winter heating bills somehow, poor love)

The 65-year-old famously hosted the ITV dating show Blind Date for 18 years. At the peak of its popularity, the programme pulled in viewing figures of 17 million.

Loveland, pitched as a dating show with a 21st century twist, will see participants hide behind real-time animated characters instead of the Blind Date screen. After interacting with the animated alter-ego, the contestant will choose which hopeful to take on a date.

Black said of the new show: "Loveland captivated me with its modern-day twist on the dating format, bringing something new and exciting to the genre."

The series will broadcast on Sky One next year.

Now, imagine the scene: you're trying to explain "Second Life" to your geriatric bus-pass mother. Once you've got her past the concept of avatars, flying and Furries, can you imagine her being able to tell back to you what you've just taught her?

No.

Also, am I the only one who would find taking dating advice from a pensioner a little creepy?

And that's your new prime-time show.

NEXT!

Gibson, Glover back for 'Lethal Weapon 5'

(Saints preserve us! Is the credit-crunch hitting ther retirement funds?)

Mel Gibson and Danny Glover are reportedly in talks to star in Lethal Weapon 5.

Shane Black, who wrote the original movie, has penned a spec script for a fifth instalment, according to Hollywood tracking board TrackingB.com.

The new story sees homicide cop Riggs (Gibson), who is about to quit the LAPD, drag Murtaugh (Glover) out of retirement to solve one final case.

Well, that's original.

Don't get me wrong - if anyone can resurrect the corpse of this much-adored franchise, it's Shane Black. The man is one of the Gods of screenwriting - FACT!

But this is going to redefine the phrase: "I'm getting too old for this shit."

Mind you, the Zimmer Frame of Fame is clattering on for another golden oldie:

Lucas: 'Indy 5 won't focus on LaBeouf'

George Lucas has changed his plans for a proposed fifth Indiana Jones movie.

(well that's certainly not the first time he's lied to the fans)

The producer had previously spoken of his desire to shift the emphasis away from Harrison Ford's whip-cracking archaeologist and onto his son Mutt Williams, played by Shia LaBeouf in Indiana Jones And The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull.

However, Lucas has now distanced himself from the idea, telling MTV: "Indiana Jones is Indiana Jones. Harrison Ford is Indiana Jones. If it was Mutt Williams it would be Mutt Williams And The Search For Elvis or something."

("or something"?! Has Lucas turned into a teenager? "It's, like, gonna be the old fella in da hat, innit... or something." Christ. And they let this guy write the script?)

Lucas stated that a new Indiana Jones movie would enter development once he had decided on a historical artifact to drive the story.

He said: "We are looking for something for him to go after. They are very hard to find. It's like archeology. It takes a huge amount of research to come up with something that will fit."

Well, don't hang around for too long or Harrison's hips will start to go.

Now for some sad news: further proof that Hollywood has scraped the bottom of the barrel, run out of ideas and sold its soul to Blockbuster. Possibly the worst idea for a remake since they said they'd remake Robocop, or The Day the Earth Stood Still, or I Am Legend, or... oh I'll just get on with the story.

Francis Ford Coppola's The Conversation to be adapted for TV

(Oh cocking hell, I'm off to the bar. Tell me when it's over)

US cable channel AMC, home to critically lauded advertising drama Mad Men, is looking to develop a TV series based on Francis Ford Coppola's 1974 movie The Conversation.

The low-key thriller, about a paranoid surveillance expert called Harry Caul, played by Gene Hackman, who has a crisis of conscience when he suspects that a couple he is spying on will be murdered, earned three Oscar nominations, including best picture.

(so we've established this is a classic - why, sweet Jesus, do you remake a classic?)

Former 24 executive producer Tony Krantz has been attempting to turn the movie into a TV series for more than a decade and has lined up an impressive roster of creative talent to work on the project for AMC.

Christopher McQuarrie, whose scriptwriter credits include The Usual Suspects, and Band of Brothers writer Erik Jendresen, are working on a script for the TV version of The Conversation, according to American trade journal Variety.

(ah - now your talking - McQuarrie. Another screenwriting GOD. But is this the McQuarrie who wrote the sublime Usual Suspects, or the McQuarrie who choked and folded while writing Superman, then got over his mid-life crisis through the medium of indipendent film? Let's hope to christ he's got his game-face on for this one.)

Krantz, McQuarrie and Jendresen previously worked on a modern-day version of The Conversation two years ago for ABC, but Krantz said it did not work out after the network chose to concentrate on female friendly dramas such as Desperate Housewives.

(so they're remaking a remake of their own failed remake)

Krantz's Flame Ventures independent production company is attached to the project, along with Sony Pictures TV and Coppola's American Zoetrope label.

Ooh! So Coppola's in on the act.

Is that him relaunching himself back into the media fray, or is the tax-man knocking on his door?

Well, that's enough of old farts from the 80's (that's me I'm talking about). How about something 'yoof'?

Brace yourself...

(press 'play' on your Best of Clannad 8-track, now)

Jonas Armstrong to leave 'Robin Hood'

(I was just going to leave it there and say "W00T!", but here we go)

Jonas Armstrong is to step down as the lead in Robin Hood at the end of the next series.

The actor will depart in what is being billed as an "explosive, nail-biting finale" to series three, currently being filmed in Budapest.

(hopefully, by "explosive", they mean they'll be strapping a 'suicide belt' into this gomer and chasing him into a busy Broadcasting House, with mad dogs nipping at his heels)

Although Armstrong, 27, is leaving, the door will be left open for the series to continue should it be recommissioned. "Jonas leaving the show doesn't mean the end of Robin Hood," a spokeswoman told Digital Spy. "Robin Hood is more than a man - he is a hero and a legend - so how the legacy unfolds after he leaves is in itself mysterious and is guaranteed to make fans desperate to find out what happens next."

I'm just desperate to find out who are the bastards responsible for this shoddy tat, so I can go tell them to pack their bags and stop raping British folklore.

There is only ONE Robin Hood and that's Michael Praed... no, hang on... Jason Connery... no, wait...

And that's the news. It's all remakes and sequels.

Dear Meedja,

Will someone PLEASE produce a new TV show or Movie. Will someone just give Shane Black and Chris McQuarrie the cash to make their refreshingly brilliant and original work. Will you all stop and think for a moment. Classics are Classics for a reason. They're brilliant and not in need of a remake or a sequel too far.

I loved the new Indiana Jones movie with all of my bitter, black heart, but four is enough. Pass on the hat.

I thought Lethal Weapon 4 was a whole lot of fun, but you closed the book on that franchise. They're trying to resurrect this one from beyond the grave.

Give us something new - I beg of you.

Telly - you are the worst offender in this!

There is more than enough talent in the industry, on either side of the pond, to come up with fresh ideas. The problem isn't the writers, it's the producers and commissioning editors. They're the ones who hold the purse-strings. They're the ones who had their balls taken away from them as soon as they got their name on the office door. It's these vile bean-counters who decide what you and I get to watch on the box. It's these vapid, vacuous non-entities who bleat about falling viewing figures and, rather than look at their own inadequacies, blame anything: multichannel broadcasting, video on demand, global warming - seriously - I once heard a Line Producer say that people were watching less telly because the world was warming up and people were, therefore, spending more time outside.

I shit you not.

That's the mentality of these people. When a show fails, it's never their fault (it's usually the poor bloody writer). If a show succeeds, it's entirely because of them (rather than the forgotten writer).

It's these money-grubbing bastards who have turned the BBC into some third-rate provincial station.

It's these shysters who you give your Licence Fee to.

Do you know how to stand up to them? There's a red button on your remote. It turns the magic box off.

Why not prove that producer right. Turn off the goggle box and go enjoy the long summer nights, rather than pollute your brain with these second-hand, cast-off ideas.

AHHH yes yes yes... Apparently Murtaugh is not getting too old for this shit... and thank the sweet movie makers of the merrimack mermaid makers(?)  Thanks to the gang over at themovieblog we get this news:

Hollywood tracking board TrackingB.com reports that Shane Black, who wrote the first Lethal Weapon movie, has written a spec script for Lethal Weapon 5 without telling anyone. The site adds that he contacted franchise producer Joel Silver and said that he wanted to continue the story.  

This time, homicidal Riggs (Mel Gibson) is about to retire, but pulls Murtaugh (Danny Glover) out of retirement to solve one final case, before they both officially head off into the sunset.

TMB goes on to say that Danny Glover and Mel Gibson have been approached and both of them are apparently interested but nothing is on paper yet.  I am already signed up for it.  There is not one Lethal Weapon flick that I haven't liked.  LW3 where they have Joe Pesci kind of on the case is my favorite one.  Plus, all this news of Mel getting back into acting is kind of making my nipples hard (kidding).  I think Mel is awesome and should get back into the game immediately.  You guys interested in seeing a LW5?

There is an insane rumor on a blog about there being another "Lethal Weapon" in the works. Right now, the working title is "Lethal Weapon 5: The Fellowship Of Murtaugh & Riggs". Actually...it's just "Lethal Weapon 5".

The rumor is that Shane Black, the scriptwriter of the other four flicks, has turned in a treatment to uber-producer/ego-maniac Joel Silver. The post also says that Mel Gibson & Danny Glover are down for it. Why wouldn't they be? It's like printing money. Sure, make another one, why the hell not? My only suggestions is to keep all those extra folks out of it. No Joe Pesci or Chris Rock or Jet Li or anything like that. Just Murtaugh & Riggs being awesome. That is what we want in our "Lethal" flicks.

I suffer from insomnia now and then, usually brought on by worry: worry about my health, money, family, non-dating status, etc. All these things have been known to weigh heavily on my mind and sometimes preventing me from getting a good night's sleep. The good news: late night television! I can always rely on some station somewhere showing a repeat. Not all nights mind you (can't tell you how many times I have been lulled to sleep by someone selling the PX90 workout system, a bag of doritos spilling onto the floor as I finally crash) but on those rare occasions, I will find a movie I haven't seen in ages and just have to watch. Like the warm blanket I'm usually already wrapped up in, I lose myself to my familiar friend and enjoy a chuckle or two.

Young Frankenstein is the perfect comedy. A stunning spectacle, this movie captures all of these comedic actors at the height of their powers and timing. Even though I have this on dvd and know the movie by heart, I cannot help myself but stop and watch whenever I see it on tv. Now some quotes:

Igor: You know, I'll never forget my old dad. When these things would happen to him... the things he'd say to me.

Dr. Frankenstein: What did he say?

Igor: "What the hell are you doing in the bathroom day and night? Why don't you get out of there and give someone else a chance?"

Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Absurdist humor at it's finest.

Frenchman: You don't frighten us, English pig-dogs! Go and boil your bottoms, sons of a silly person! I blow my nose at you, so-called Ah-thoor Keeng, you and all your silly English K-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-niggits! [makes taunting gestures at them]

Sir Galahad: What a strange person.

King Arthur: Now, look here, my good man--

Frenchman: I don't want to talk to you no more, you empty-headed animal food trough water! I fart in your general direction! Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries!

Airplane! Visual gags galore! This movie makes me giggle like a little kid...

Lethal Wapon, the buddy movie that spawned hundreds of imitators and 3 sequels. Mel in a horrible mullet, Danny Glover yelling alot. Unbelievable stoy, destruction and mayhem and lots of dead drug dealers and guns. And only one quote matters for this movie and it's sequels: "I'm too old for this shit."

Four Weddings and a Funeral, OK, I admit it, sometimes I'm a big sap. Saw this movie for the first time on the flight back from England after living there for a year so I'm a little nostalgic and wistful when this movie comes on. And yeah, I ignore the obvious flaws in the film (just what the HELL is Andie Macdowal even doing in this film anyway???) and just enjoy it for the silliness.....

Charles: Sorry.. look. Sorry, sorry. I just, ehm, well, this is a very stupid question and... , particularly in view of our recent shopping excursion, but I just wondered, by any chance, ehm, eh, I mean obviously not because I guess I've only slept with 9 people, but-but I-I just wondered... ehh. I really feel, ehh, in short, to recap it slightly in a clearer version, eh, the words of David Cassidy in fact, eh, while he was still with the Partridge family, eh, "I think I love you," and eh, I-I just wondered by any chance you wouldn't like to... Eh... Eh... No, no, no of course not... I'm an idiot, he's not... Excellent, excellent, fantastic, eh, I was gonna say lovely to see you, sorry to disturb... Better get on...

Carrie: That was very romantic.

Charles: Well, I thought it over a lot, you know, I wanted to get it just right.

Gareth: I've got a new theory about marriage. Two people are in love, they live together, and then suddenly one day, they run out of conversation.

Charles: Uh-huh.

Gareth: Totally. I mean they can't think of a single thing to say to each other. That's it: panic! Then suddenly it-it occurs to the chap that there is a way out of the deadlock.

Charles: Which is?

Gareth: He'll ask her to marry him.

Charles: Brilliant! Brilliant!

Gareth: Suddenly they've got something to talk about for the rest of their lives.

Charles: Basically you're saying marriage is just a way of getting out of an embarrassing pause in conversation.

Gareth: The definitive icebreaker.

  The French Connection. Unabashedly politically incorrect, violent and thrilling, this movie is a throwback to honest storytelling and amazing action. Popeye Doyle is one of the most compelling characters ever put to film. And if you have a fascination with car chases, this film contains one of the most amazing car chases you will ever see.

Jimmy 'Popeye' Doyle: All right, Popeye's here! get your hands on your heads, get off the bar, and get on the wall!

The Blues Brothers,  unnapreciated in its time, this film is a cult classic of humor, car chases and rhythm and blues! It broke Jon Belushis heart that this film wasn't more succesful or even acknowledged during its release. Word to the wise: see this film but never see the sequel....THAT will break your heart...

Elwood: It's a hundred and six miles to Chicago, we've got a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes, it's dark, and we're wearing sunglasses.

Jake: Hit it.

The Commitments, one of my favorite books and definitely a memorable film. A group of irish try to bring soul music to Ireland. Aside froma a few memorable characters, the entire cast are all musicians who do a damn good job playing up their characters as working class people with nothing but a dream and raw talent. The music is incredible and this film never fails to suck me right in...

Jimmy Rabbitte: Soul is the music people understand. Sure it's basic and it's simple. But it's something else 'cause, 'cause, 'cause it's honest, that's it. Its honest. There's no fuckin' bullshit. It sticks its neck out and says it straight from the heart. Sure there's a lot of different music you can get off on but soul is more than that. It takes you somewhere else. It grabs you by the balls and lifts you above the shite.

Jimmy Rabbitte Sr: Is this the band then? Betcha U2 are shittin' themselves.

STar Wars and all its sequels and prequels...yup, I'm a complete and total geek when it comes to Star Wars and no matter whats going on, I always lose myself when this film appears on the screen. I was a wee child when I saw Star Wars in the theaters. Yup, I'm a little old...

Princess Leia Organa: This is some rescue! You came in here, and you didn't have a plan for getting out?

Han Solo: He's the brains, sweetheart!

Luke Skywalker: Well, why don't you -

[Leia grabs Luke's blaster and begins shooting at Stormtroopers]

Han Solo: What the hell are you doing?!

Princess Leia Organa: Somebody has to save our skins! [blasting a hole with Luke's blaster in the ventilation shaft] Into the garbage chute, flyboy!

Ok, I'm cheating here, but I'm a sucker for sci-fi, action adventures and the blatantly testosterone driven, guns ablazin, "Get to the Choppahhhh!" and "Get away from her you Bitch!" films...Late night insomnia is a great time to disconnect your brain and just enjoy the spectacle and not think about the cerebral or logical and revel in the explosions, screaming and yelling, car chases and improbable story lines.  No quotes here because I think everyone knows all the best lines to these films...

First time I ever seen a Lethal Weapon movie! For those who don't know, the movie already has a 4 franchise title and I never ever saw any of it... until tonight. I'm feeling kind of down because I'm loosing my good and badjojo and my yuvutu, and watching a good, classic action movie soothes me... specially with heartthrob  fafa Mel Gibson is the main man!

The main characters are Mel Gibson and Danny Glover.

The story is basically about two cops, Murtough (Danny Glover) the veteran cop, is partnered with a young homicidal cop, Riggs (Mel Gibson). They are investigating a suicide/murder of a girl (daughter of Murtough's acquaintance) who is involved in heroine trafficking.

Here are some of my favorite qoutes from the movie:

The guy who shot me! The same albino jackrabbit son of a bitch who did Hunsacker.

My luck's changing for the better every day.

Sergeant McCaskey: You know, Roger, you are way behind the times. The guys of the 80s aren't tough. They are sensitive people. Show a little emotion to a woman and shit like that. I think I'm an '80s man...
Roger Murtaugh: How do you figure?
Sergeant McCaskey: Last night I cried in bed. So how is that?
Roger Murtaugh: Were you with a woman?
Sergeant McCaskey: I was alone. Why do you think I cried?
Roger Murtaugh: Sounds like an '80s man to me...

Watch the classic movie trailer of Lethal Weapon on Utube if you have time and planning to watch it... There's even a link as to how to dowload a video from it.

ALright then... next movie is "Lethal Weapon 2"... when? Don't know.

George Harrison - Cheer Down

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Speaking of things in the vicinity of the arse, my son has recently become toilet trained. He was very skilled at denying his bowels motion and at holding back the waters of his bladder. It was not unusual, during our year-long training, for him to hold everything in for 10 hours at a time through sheer willfulness, running round in a circle during times of agitation like a dog chasing its tail. I'm breaking out in a cold sweat just thinking about it. The spates of self imposed constipation were quite a feat of determination. Despite the fact that this approach seemed to set his father and I on a slow trail towards insanity the sheer grit and stubbornness of the boy was a source of admiration. It has taken a year and we have been through poo phobia and potty philia but finally we have reached that blessed stage where he is using the toilet confidently. Still, we went on the summer sandal run minus nappy and I was cacking myself fearing the appearance of the burger aftermath in his Thomas The Tank Engine pants (we had yummy burgers yesterday; the good quality kind. He has rejoined the rest of us in his love of meat). I should have known he was up to the job. One 15 minute walk and a train ride later and he's still managed not to soil himself.

He's always been as infinitely interested in our toilet habits as we've been in his, providing a running commentary on all our bathroom visits, "Are you having a wee wee mummy, is it a poo poo, is it just a fart? Oh well done mummy, well done." Well done indeed.

Last Sunday one of my partners at River Run Productions had 15 seconds to make it into his basement with his wife and dog before an EF 5 rated tornado ripped through his Parkersburg, Iowa home.

In less than a minute his house was gone and both cars totaled. But he, his wife and dog his were safe. A total of seven people were killed in the storm and over 200 homes were destroyed and another 400 damaged.

Iowa is no stranger to tornados, but this one was the most powerful to hit the state in over 30 years. It’s one more reminder that things can change in a New York minute—or even an Iowa minute.

Friday I went to Parkersburg to shoot footage of the destruction and interviews for an insurance company.  I have been through a hurricane in Florida and a major earthquake in California and I have never personally seen the devastation that I saw as the result of that tornado.

From where I took the above photo, every direction I looked basically looked like that. It’s amazing that more people weren’t killed. Human beings tend to have short memories so this is one more thing to help remind us how fragile life is.

I’ve written a lot about writing on this blog but not much about keeping life in perspective with a creative career. The fact is most of us have difficulty balancing our lives.

I’ve collected some of my favorite quotes over the years that are a little random, but I hope there’s something in here that you can hang your hat on—or at least cause you to smile or reflect on your life and dreams. But mainly I want you to understand that whatever creative dreams you have there's more to life than chasing that rainbow.

“My biggest disappointment so far is that having a career has not made me happy.”
                                                                        Shane Black
                                                                        Paid $1.7m for The Last Boy Scout 

“It’s an accepted fact that all writers are crazy, even the normal ones are weird.
                                                                         William Goldman
                                                                         Adventures in the Screen Trade                                                                  

 “I don’t dress until 5 p.m. I have a bathrobe that can stand…Yes, I am divorced. One writes because one literally couldn’t get another job or has no choice.”
                                                                                      Akiva Goldsman  
                                                                                      A Beautiful Mind
  

“I got into screenwriting for the best of all reasons: I got into it for self-therapy."
                                                                                      Paul Schrader
                                                                                      Taxi Driver

"For the first couple of years that I wrote screenplays, I was so nervous about what I was doing that I threw up before I began writing each morning. There's nothing wrong with that. It's much better than reading what you've written at the end of the day and throwing up."
                                                                                      Joe Eszterhas 

“I’m not very good at writing. If I succeed, it’s by fluke.”
                                                                                      Shane Black
                                                                                      Lethal Weapon

“If you get rejected, you have to persist. Don’t give up. It was the best advice I ever got.”
                                                                                      Anna Hamilton Phelan
                                                                                      Mask

“The myth about me is that I sold my first screenplay and it’s true. But I had also worked very hard as a fiction writer for ten years and that’s how I learned the craft of telling stories.”
                                                                                       Akiva Goldman
                                                                                       A Beautiful Mind
                                                                                       (He also has a masters
                                                                                        in fiction from NYU)

“I spent 18 years doing stand up comedy. Ten years learning, four years refining, and four years of wild success.” (It's worth noting that Martin was on top when he walked away from stand up comedy and never performed as a comedian again.)
                                                                                         Steve Martin
                                                                                         Born Standing Up 
           

“Starting in 2002, I knew for a fact that I had to get out of this business. It was too hard. It wasn't that I wasn't good enough, it was that it was too hard. What kept me in it was laziness and fear. It would be nice to say it was passion and I'm a struggling artist who didn't give up on his craft. All of that sounds good, but the truth is it was laziness and fear.”
                                                                                        Alan Loeb
                                                                                       Things We Lost in the Fire

"Like the career of any athlete, an artist's life will have its injuries. These go with the game. The trick is to survive them, to learn how to let yourself heal."
                                                                                        Julia Cameron
                                                                                       The Artist's Way                                                                                                                                                                  
Dee: "Jane, do you ever feel like you're just this far from being completely hysterical 24 hours a day?"
Jane: "Half the people I know feel that way. The lucky ones feel that way. The rest of the people are hysterical 24 hours a day."

                                                                                       from Lawerence Kasden’s 
                                                                                       Grand Canyon 

"We're constantly buying crap we don't need and devoting ourselves to endeavors which, perhaps on reflection, with a little bit of distance, would reveal themselves to be contrary to our own best interest."
                                                                                       David Mamet      

"Everything in this town (L.A.) plays into the easy buttons that get pushed and take people off their path; greed, power, glamour, sex, fame."
                                                                                       Ed Solomon
                                                                                       Men in Black

“Writing isn’t about making money, getting famous, getting dates, getting laid, or making friends. In the end, it’s about enriching the lives of those who read your work, and enriching your own life, as well.”
                                                                                       Stephen King 

So life in general is hard, and being a writer or in the creative arts is a double helping of difficulty.

Several years ago Stephen King was hit by a van when he was on a walk. One leg was broken in nine places and his knee was reduced to “so many marbles in a sock,” his spine was chipped in eight places, four ribs were broken, and a laceration to his scalp required 30 stitches. It was as if his characters Annie Wilkes (Misery) and Cujo had ganged up on him.

But he had learned a thing or two about adversity after an earlier bout with drugs and alcohol that he eventually won. One of thing things he learned was to not to get a massive desk and put it in the center of the room like he did early in his career. That is, writing shouldn’t be the most important thing in your life.

“Put your desk in the corner, and every time you sit down to write, remind yourself why it isn’t in the middle of the room.  Life isn’t a support system for art. It’s the other way around.”
                                                                                      Stephen King

Two years ago I produced a DVD for a ministry in Minneapolis based on the book Don’t Waste Your Life by John Piper. The concept was to shoot a Koyaanisqatsi-style video that that showed the arc of life from birth to death. I shot footage from New York City to Denver. I shot footage of a one day old baby in a hospital, people walking into an office building in Cleveland, snow failing in a cemetery and the like.  One of the shots for that video was in Parkersburg, Iowa.

It was a traditional Friday night high school football game at Aplington-Parkersburg High School. (What makes this school unique is though the town only has a population of 2,000 it currently has 4 active graduates playing in the NFL.)  That high school building is a total loss because of the tornado. Here's a photo of the scoreboard sign that was blown down during the storm.

There will always be the storms of life. And as I've written before, movies can help us endure those storms and even inspire us. ("Throughout most of the Depression, Americans went assiduously, devotedly, almost compulsively, to the movies."-Carlos Stevens) So work on your craft because we need great stories that give us a sense of direction, but don't waste your life just writing screenplays.

words & photos copyright ©2008  Scott W. Smith

John McCain wants to take a trip. With Barack Obama. To Iraq.

All we need is Brett Ratner to go with them and bring a camera along and we'll have 2010's biggest buddy cop movie. Obama's unorthodox style will come full circle when the pair are faced with a real threat and Obama learns that McCain has taught him more than he bargained for and Obama's seat-of-your-pants approach to diplomacy will stir outrage in McCain, who's only weeks away from retirement and who is "getting too old for this shit."

Music: I'm really loving two new records this week. First is No Age's Nouns, the follow-up to their much-hyped EP compliation Weirdo Rippers. It's streamlined noise-pop mastery at its best and manages to rattle through its songs fast enough that any sense of pretension or posing never materialises. The other is the amazing Music Hole by a capella chanteuse Camille which expands on the rough-hewn fun of Le Fil and creates a tangible world for her to exist in.
I managed to get hold of two great Jim O'Rourke soundscaping albums (Bad Timing and I'm Happy, I'm Singing, And a 1,2,3,4) and they are proving fantastic for working. As a general rule of thumb, krautrock and motorik electronica are efficient soundtracks for writing. I'm still obsessed with Bon Iver's For Emma, Forever Ago which might be my favourite album of the year so far.
I got to see Sebadoh play Bubble & Scrape live as part of the Don't Look Back series from ATP and that was some experience. The crowd didn't quite get the concept fully, constantly requesting during the album portion of the show, but the band were affable and in good spirits so they took it well. For the record, it's a much better album live.
Elsewhere, the new Scarlett Johannson record has a couple of nice moments but is mostly a slightly misguided folly. Death Cab for Cutie's follows the trajectory of Plans in being good enough but not really closing in on the brilliance of Photo Album, We Have the Facts and We're Voting Yes and their masterpiece, Transatlanticism.
Portishead are reassuringly brilliant and Wolf Parade are spiky but not fully satisfying. I haven't absorbed My Morning Jacket's Evil Urges yet but first listen reveals an album falling somewhere between the church-hall grandiosity of the first two and the slinky brilliance of Z.

Film/TV: So Tom and I managed to buck the system and get ourselves a 90-day free trial to LoveFilm, the UK equivalent of NetFlix. It's been a decent run so far but it's hotting up now with a couple of cracking rentals from the last couple of weeks.
First up, a small confession, Tom and I are somewhat obsessed with watching really strange Anthony Hopkins performances. We dig The Edge where he becomes surely the first classic British actor to call a bear a 'motherfucker'. In The Human Stain, the dude's African American! But the one we took in this week, Bad Company, sees him become an FBI badass!!! It's a pretty awful film but it's fun to witness because Hopkins is just phoning in every scene he's in from long, long distance. He's barely even present for most of it. He and co-star Chris Rock just don't really work together at all. But we loved watching Hopkins shoot and fight his way through an improbable and poorly-written movie because we will watch him do anything.
We got hold of Midnight Run for Tom to watch for the first time, the classic 1980s buddy movie starring De Niro and Charles Grodin which manages to be very funny, action-packed and have a deeper, darker side to it. It's far the superior of films of the era like Last Boy Scout and Lethal Weapon.
The first of my ventures into Eureka's Masters of Cinema catelogue was Punishment Park, a 1971 psuedo documentary about an America taken to McCarthy-ite extremes of fascism. Any people found to be in anyway advocating overthrow of government or even questioning power is sent to be put on 'trial' and given the option of prison or 'Punishment Park' which involves a 53-mile run across the California desert for the inmates with guards and army chasing and killing them. It's about thirty-five years ahead of its time in evoking the spirit of the Patriot Act and the right-wing jingoism which followed 9/11 in America and is therefore something of a minor masterpiece.
We've also seen Das Experiment, Oliver Hirschbiegel's intense evocation of the Stanford Prison Experiment. It's a modern masterclass in building tension. I also experienced Reds, Warren Beatty's biopic of communist American journalist John Reed, for the first time and was enthralled if never blown away by its stately aims.
TV-wise, I absolutely LOVE Gossip Girl. The series is so utterly ridiculous but so triumphant at creating characters you want to watch that you can't help but fall head-over-heels for it. Also, playing Chuck, Brit-actor Ed Westwick has created my favourite character on TV right now, a constantly horny multi-sexual seduction machine outfitted in outlandishly bold clothing and resembling a naughty pixie. I dig that dude.
My other total obsession, more of this in the other section too, is This American Life. Ira Glass' stories of ordinary everyday people is so completely brilliant that you wonder why other haven't latched onto its concept. I am rarely so moved by a show as I am by this but my goodness its just total perfection.
The Office trucks on brilliantly as usual but Lost is teetering on its mid-season boredom section which I really hoped would be eliminated by taking the seasons down by a few episodes.
The best show I've found is Human Giant, the MTV sketch show that makes me laugh harder and more often than anything else right now. Also a special mention here for the Tim and Eric Awesome show thing on AdultSwim which I think is maybe the worst piece of crap I have ever wasted eleven minutes of my life on. I hated every second and it totally captures everything that's bad about AdultSwim. Hate it.

Books/Comics: I'm currently plowing through Generation Kill, Evan Wright's amazing war reporting piece on recon marines in Iraq. It's pretty harrowing stuff but all told, as you would imagine a marine would tell it, in a matter-of-fact style that brings you inside the world. It is war reporting of the very highest quality. It's being adapted in a series by David Simon and Ed Burns, the writers of the greatest television show of all-time, The Wire.
I recently finished my second book by Daniel Woodrell, the author of last year's brilliant snow-and-crank quasi-noir Winter's Bone. Tomato Red seems widely to be considered his finest book and its certainly some way off Winter's Bone stylistically. The plot is less focused but it manages to create a sense of existentialist angst that never falls into being overly-pretentious or irratating, even if he can't quite hold the attention for long enough to really invite you into the unattractive world presented.
Beth has become obsessed, which subsequently means I am now obsessed, with Bryan O'Malley's Scott Pilgrim comics. The books are indeed utterly brilliant, a completely fresh take on the everday-superhero genre. It's being made into a film with Michael Cera, a move which represents some might brilliant casting.

Other: Me and my podcasts. I can't help it. I'm really loving Filmspotting, still my absolute essential podcast of the week. Also This American Life and PRI Selected Shorts, a short fiction podcast on which writers read and discuss their work. PRI also presents Best of Our Knowledge, a beguiling examination of a different topic each week, employing several interviews to discuss a certain theme, kind of like This American Life but with authors or experts. I still dig the Slate Cultural and Political Gabfests and really love KCRW's Left, Right and Center which seems to become more animated and slightly more filled with bile every week. I've also now fallen for Watching the Directors in which the hosts pick a subject every week and explore body of work of this figure. This weeks, on Steven Soderbergh, was excellent.
Elsewhere, I love Grand Theft Auto 4 although it's likely to see very little play when Rock Band is finally released over here next week. Our bank holiday weekend won't be filled with sunshine and outdoor fun.
I'd also like to point everyone to a site I link to a lot but it's really great and does deserve your attention. Daytrotter has sessions everyday now and this week had Castanets and Times New Viking so get on over there and check them out.

Jedenfalls ist Hot Fuzz (der bei uns den bsolut bescheuerten Untertitel "zwei abgewichste Profis" trägt) eine mehr als gelungene Homage an das Action-Genre und auch als eigenständiger Film einfach grandios. Deshalb leiste ich meine eigene Hommage an den Film also mit der Aufzählung der Parallelen zu anderen Genre-Vertretern n dieser Stelle:

zur Erklärung: Anspielungen (fett) auf Filme (fett, kursiv)

Schon in den 3 kurzen Sätzen auf dem Kinoplakat werden drei wichtige Filme erwähnt:
They are Bad Boys => Bad Boys I & II
They are Die Hards => Stirb Langsam-Reihe
They are Lethal Weapons => Lethal Weapon-Reihe

Ebenfalls offensichtlich und nicht zu überhören: Danny fragt Nicholas, ob er die Folgenden Filme schon gesehen hat:
Dirty Harry, Gefährliche Brandung, Stirb Langsam, Bad Boys II

Danny liest sich im Supermarkt die Covertexte einiger DVDs durch:
Supercop (mit Jackie Chan), Silent Rage (mit Chuck Norris)
eine andere DVD sieht man einfach nur in der Auslage liegen, als Danny "Supercop" zurückwirft:
Shaun of the Dead

Als Nicholas in der Tankstelle einkauft, steht dort ebenfalls ein Display mit DVDs:
Bad Boys II, Gefährliche Brandung, Dirty Harry, Out for Justice (Seagal), Walking Tall ("The Rock" Johnson), Hero and the Terror (Chuck Norris), Silent Rage (Chuck Norris), Sudden Death (Van Damme), Death Warrant (van Damme), Sudden Impact (Clint Eastwood)

Zahlreiche verschiedene Anspielungen gibt es auch auf Shaun of the Dead:
der Pub
Cornetto
eine DVD im Supermarkt (spanische Verion)
das Springen über Zäune (was gleichzeitig eine Anspielung auf Gefährliche Brandung ist)

Die japanische Friedenslilie, bester Freund des Protagonisten, ist der Pflanze nachempfunden, die Jean Reno als Léon - Der Profi hegt und pflegt.

Einer der Polizisten erwähnt - neben den Trümmern des Hauses von George Merchant stehend - Backdraft.

Schnitt und Hinterlegung sowie die Musik bei Verhaftungen erinnern den Betrachter an CSI.

Die NWA-Mitglieder haben zwar keine Amphetamine eingeworfen und sich die Gesichter nicht angemalt, aber sie erinnern in ihren schwarzen Kutten doch eindeutig an die Killermönche aus Die purpurnen Flüsse II - Engel der Apokalypse, womit in diesem Film nicht nur Hollywood Tribut gezollt wird. :)

Der Endkampf zwischen Nicholas Angel und Simon Skinner ist dem Endkampf zwischen Agent Smith und Neo in Matrix Revolutions nachempfunden, was sih auch in der entsprechenden Musik wiederspiegelt. Die Tatsache, dass er im Model Village stattfindet, lässt an Beverly Hills Cop III denken.

Da wir gerade bei Matrix Revolutions waren, eine Anspielung auf Matrix Reloaded - genauer gesagt auf den Vater der Matrix - findet sich in Tom Weaver, dem Kopf der NWA, der über die Bildschirme wacht.

Bad Boys II wird nicht nur angeschaut, sondern auch zitiert: "Shit just got real.", "Bring the noise.". Nachdem die Bösen besiegt sind, macht die Kamera einen Spin um die beiden Polizisten, über die ein Helikopter fliegt, wobei sogar die Musik stimmt. Kameraspins um die beiden sind auch fährend der Schießereien zu sehen.

Ebenfalls geschaut und zutiert wird Gefährliche Brandung: Danny erzählt Nicholas von der Verfolgung durch die Gärten, nachdem sie selbst Pete durch die Gärten verfolgt haben, und von den Schüssen in die Luft. Diese Schüsse imitiert er mit seiner Fernbedienung und setzt sie im Endkampf letztendlich in die Tat um.

Dr. Hatcher sagt zu Danny "Ich habe dich auf die Welt gebracht, dann passt es doch wohl auch, dass ich dich wieder aus ihr entferne.", was eine Anspielung auf Die Insel ist.

Im von Blower Inszenierten Theaterstück werden die gleichen Kostüme getragen wie in Romeo + Julia mit Leonardo DiCaprio.

Die Handlanger von Simon Skinner, der von Timothy Dalton gespielt wird und damit an James BondBlues Brothers denken lässt, erinnern nicht nur an 007 sondern auch an . Letztere sind hier die beiden Brüder hinter der Fleischtheke, der 007-artige Schurke ist Michael Armstrong, eine Mischung aus Odjob (Goldfinger) und Beißer (Der Spion, der mich liebte, Moonraker).

Waffen:
- Wenn ich richtig geguckt habe, benutzt Simon Skinner bei der Verfolgungsjagd in den Polizeiautos eine Heckler & Koch USP Match 9mm. Dank Tomb Raider ist das für mich die Frauen-Waffe, aber entscheident ist hier ja die Anspielung auf Lara Croft, wobei ich hier nicht weiß, ob das Absicht ist.
- Nicholas Pumpguns mit den dazugehörigen Patronen erinnern im Allgemeinen an Steven Seagal & Co.
- Die beiden Colts von Chief Butterman sind irgendwie nie wirklich zu erkennen, ich meine aber, dass er mit zwei Exemplaren der Smith & Wesson 29-3 schießt - Dirty Harry's Knarre.

Hier noch eine Anspielung, bei der ich mir nicht so sicher bin: Mr. & Mrs. Smith und zwar durch die Waffensammlung von Mr. Webley.

Hier also nochmal alle Filme im Überblick (alphabetisch):

• Bad Boys
  (Plakat)
• Bad Boys II
  (Tankstelle, wird geguckt, wird von Danny erwähnt, Helikopter, Zitate, Kameraspins)
• Backdraft
  (wird erwähnt)
• Beverly Hills Cop III
  (Model Village)
• Blues Brothers
  (Fleischtheken-Brüder aus dem Supermarkt)
• CSI
  (Verhaftungen)
• Death Warrant
  (Tankstelle)
• Die Insel
  (Zitat)
• Die Purpurnen Flüsse II
  (NWA-Kutten)
• Dirty Harry
  (Tankstelle, S&W 29-3)
• Gefährliche Brandung
  (Gärten, Luftschüsse, DVD wird geguckt, Tankstelle, Danny redet über den Film)
• Hero and the Terror
  (Tankstelle)
• James Bond (allgemein)
  (Michael Armstrong erinnert speziell an den Beißer, weiter gefasst an die Handlanger der Bösewichter in den diversen 007-Streifen, u.a. den stummen Odjob aus Goldfinger)
• James Bond -Lizenz zum Töten
  (Timothy Dalton spielt mit)
• Léon - Der Profi
  (japanische Friedenslilie)
• Lethal Weapon
  (Plakat)
• Matrix Reloaded
  (Tom Weaver)
• Matrix Revolutions
  (Endkampf)
• Mr. & Mrs. Smith
  (Waffensammlung)
• Out for Justice
  (Tankstelle)
• Romeo + Julia
  (Theaterstück)
• Shaun of the Dead
  (Pub, Cornetto, DVD im Supermarkt, Gärten)
• Silent Rage
  (DVD im Supermarkt)
• Stirb Langsam
  (wird von Danny erwähnt, Plakat)
• Sudden Death
  (Tankstelle)
• Sudden Impact
  (Tankstelle)
• Supercop
  (DVD im Supermarkt)
• Tomb Raider
  (H&K USP Match 9mm)
• Walking Tall
  (Tankstelle)

Ich habe auf jeden Fall noch ein paar vergessen, aber über die Kommentare könnt ihr ja noch welche dazuschreiben: die nehme ich dann mit auf. :)

Ich hab jetzt keine Fotos dazugepackt, weil der eine oder andere PC dann sicherlich sehr lange brauchen würde... ;)