"Up In The Air"- How It Should Have Ended

Okay, so I'm gonna talk a little bit about the George Clooney movie "Up In the Air"...It will be spoilery, so if you ahve not seen the movie, but intend to, and do not want to know the end, then back away slowly, and go have yourself some Easter candy or something...I'll see you tomorrow.

  Alright, are they all gone ? Excellent. Now, let's get back to the brass tax. I saw this movie a couple of weeks ago. I liked it. I actually liked it quite a bit.George Clooney was very good, Anna Kendrick was very good. Vera Farmiga was very good(and I will certainly not argue with a movie that has a pantsless Vera Farmiga in it...No sir, I will not). And I thought some of the firing scenes were very well done, J.K Simmons' in particular. I thought it was a very good movie.

 I even liked that they had the balls to go with a non-happy ending. Though I will say, I thought it was a bit of a fake out that Vera went to a family wedding with him when she had a husband and kids back home-That stretched the believability of that reveal  a little for me. I don't think it's that far-fetched for him to think their relationship was going somewhere when she spent a weekend with him at his sister's wedding. It really made her anger with him when he showed up at her house a LITTLE misplaced.

  But here's my real problem with the movie...I didn't like the ending.I mean, I liked that the Anna Kendrick character took her life in the direction that she wanted(and I was very happy that they didn't have her and Clooney end up together),and that he wrote a great reference for her, but I really did not like that he went back to his old life.That just rang very false to me. You want to know what I think would have been a perfect ending? Clooney's character kills himself. I think it would be the perfect ending to his arc. He finds out he's a non-entity in his own family, he decides that all along he was fooling himself, so he goes to declare his love for this woman, and she rejects him, lets hi m know he was a toy, essentially. he then finds out that one of the people they fired killed herself. I really think it would have been a totally appropriate ending to the movie.

  What do you think ?  Too dark ?

EW's 25 Greatest Action Movies Of All Time !!

Okay, the June 22nd issue of Entertainment Weekly had their list of The 25 Greatest Action Movies of All Time. Some were good choices, some were bad choices, some were puzzling choices. I won't even begin to talk(type) about the fact that in the magazine, they started the list at #1- what about dramatic tension, people ? Criminy ! Okay, I guess I lied when i said(typed) that I would not even begin to talk(type) about that. I clearly did start to talk(type) about it. Sorry, and in case you were wondering, my pants, are, in fact, on fire.

Here are some of my thoughts(which are really just my opinions, some of which are defendable, some of which are not-you can have your say in the comments)...

25. The Incredibles-I dunno. I didn't like this as much as everyone else seemed to, and this choice kind of stinks of -"ooh, let's put an animated film on there and blow everyone's mind!"

24.Lethal Weapon- Okay, I can agree with this one.The sequels sucked, but this one was a good buddy cop action move.

23.Drunken Master II- Didn't see it. Don't really care to.

22. Predator-Overrated. The Running Man was better, and more fun and Arnold was in that as well.

21. Spiderman- Okay. I can hang with this one.

20.Kill Bill Vol 1- Great choice. Great movie. "action movie" didn't jump to my mind right away, but the fight sequences are pretty badass.

19. Goldfinger-I have to agree with the laser beam crotch scene being one of moviedom's all time images.

18.The Adventures Of Robin Hood- Haven't seen it.Don't know that I will.

17. The Bourne Supremacy- I did not expect to like the Bourne movies, but really did. I can never remember anything about them, but I don't care.

16.Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon- I have said before, I hated this movie. Bored me to tears, then to sleep, then I woke up and cried again.

15. Enter The Dragon- Bruce Lee. I haven't seen the whole thing, but...Bruce Lee- enough said ? probably.

14. Robocop- "I'll buy that for a dollar." Fun movie. I dug it.

13. The Wild Bunch- Peckinpah.

12. The Empire Strikes Back- One of the greatest movies ever, so this should be further up the list.

11. Speed- Ugh. This movie is a piece of crap.

10. Terminator 2: Judgement Day- One of the most overrated movies of ALL TIME. First of all, it is NOT better than the first one. Secondly, Linda Hamilton is ridiculous in it. It's like a parody of the first movie. Okay, I'll give you that the Robert Patrick cyborg is cool , but this movie goes on forever.

09. Hard Boiled- The two gun thing is neat, but i don't remember much else about this movie. Though I'm tempted to agree with Homer Simpson, when he talked of "..misdirected woo, which is just about any John Woo film", just because that always made me laugh, not necessarily because it's true.

08. Saving Private Ryun-Fuck this movie.

07.Gladiator- On second thought fuck THIS movie. OH. MY. GOD. What a pile of shit. And Russel Crowe won an Oscar for this ? For playing a Spaniard with an Australian accent ? He should have won for the Insider, not for this. This movie was CRAPTACULAR !!!

06.Seven Samurai-Kurosawa-Enough said.

05. The Matrix- I'm torn on this one. On an action level, it was pretty cool, but the sequels were soooo bad, that it actually hurts this one. I would probably have it on the list, but maybe not so high.

04.The Road Warrior- Mad Max is better, but this is a great movie.

03.Raiders Of The Lost Ark- Brilliant movie. Action packed, funny. the acting is actually good.

02.Aliens- Great, great movie. Back when James Cameron could still make great movies. This thing never fucking slows down. It's so damn good.It's the one sequel that I might be tempted to say was better than the original.

01. Die Hard- Fuck yes !! Yippee-ki-yay-motherfucker !!! This is a fan-fucking-tastic movie, and has to be considered for one of the greatest franchises ever. All 3 of the movies are really really good. And I am fucking excited to see the 4th one. We lived in L.A. for 8 years, and we saw the old Nakatomi building just about everyday. Kickass !!!

So there you have it. Whaddya think ? Am I full of shit ?

I think I might come up with my own Top 25 Action Movies list as well. Would that qualify as a sequel ?

Stay Tuned.