Sherwood and Sons
Saturday, November 2, 2024
A New 11 Movies
Friday, June 24, 2022
Two Sci-Fi Movies
I put the following pair of movie posters together a while back for cousin Mike:
These are the first two movies from Duncan Jones, David Bowie's son. His third movie is a World of Warcraft movie, called "Warcraft" I think, and his fourth is called "Mute," a sci-fi thing where the main character can't talk, and the whole thing looks so much like Netflix's show Altered Carbon that after all the gin I drank I got confused and started expecting Altered Carbon plot points to pay off. It wasn't bad, despite my confusions.
But these two, Moon and Source Code, are quite good and silly enjoyable. Sam Rockwell stars as basically the only character in Moon, and the plot thickens to the point that trying to describe it essentially spoils it.
Source Code stars Jake Gyllenhaal as what amounts to the last few days of a consciousness trapped in a computer program, as he spends his time trying to find a bomb on a train, a terrorist attack that's also---somehow---been trapped as the titular source code in a computer somewhere. I'm not saying it makes a ton of sense, but it was cool enough: Jake Gyllenhaal redoing the train ride and incrementally getting closer to discovering the bomb, before getting blown-up over and over. And of course falling in love with the girl sharing his train booth.
They're both good and I recommend them.
Sunday, June 19, 2022
Updated: 11 Movies by Linkovich Chulmousky
Here you go, Dan:
I have some ideas, but I'll reserve them for the comment section.
Thanks for your hard work!
Wednesday, May 11, 2022
33 Movies and Some Notes
In my head I never tried to focus on a "favorite" movie of all time, or whatever. I always had a list, a "List of Five" as it were. (What if we had more fingers?)
There were three movies on my List of Five that were "older" and a fourth that was newer, and these four never fluctuated, and they are all present in my first picture, my First Eleven:
- Citizen Kane
- On the Waterfront
- Chinatown
- I (Heart) Huckabees
- Bulworth
- Children of Men
- The King's Speech
- Pulp Fiction
- The Matrix
Saturday, February 12, 2022
11 Movies by Linkovich Chulmousky
I think something is wrong with this site... Pat, if you see this... I have created a new 11 shot movie list deal, but this site won't let me upload the presentation slide I built. Something is wrong... maybe?
Friday, September 4, 2020
Madness! Another Eleven!
Sorry guys, I've got another Eleven movies, and I think I'm done for a bit. I'm not yet ready to write up some of the other ideas I was having, like my answers and my ziggurat's history and all that.
But, this maybe should have been my Second Eleven instead of the other collection.
Thanks, and good luck!
Sunday, August 30, 2020
Some Notes and Another Eleven
You guys are awesome!
Part of the background for this idea I had was in trying to decide my own personal favorite movie. That was an internal conversation I've been having for decades, and in the last six or seven years I finalized, like, a list of five, where the fifth one seemed to change depending on my mood.
Then I saw "The Third Man" from 1947, and my five-level ziggurat was shot. It was a splendid problem to have: to see a movie that you may have only heard about in passing, and it turns out to be, like, the best movie in history. Or at least in the conversation.
Later, some silly Facebook challenge I only had half the energy for helped push my thoughts out to ten, and I made a graphic very similar to the Eleven I showed you guys. Then I saw another movie that firmly buried itself in the upper pantheon of Movies for Pat, and I added the following picture, to get to a Prime number: