interesting stuff I found online (that you might find interesting too)
Google predicts movie hits; John McTiernan is wasting away in prison for no good reason; why American journalism sucks; and more…
Die Hard
fun stuff from FlickFilosopher stats week of Jan 26-Feb 01 2013
Actual unretouched phrases that people plugged into search engines this week that led them to this site (with some commentary from me)…
Olympus Has Fallen (trailer)
It’s Die Hard in the White House. Without, apparently, the humor.
fun stuff from FlickFilosopher stats week of Jan 12-18 2013
Actual unretouched phrases that people plugged into search engines this week that led them to this site (with some commentary from me)…
question of the day: What are your all-time favorite and least favorite action/adventure movies?
Raiders of the Lost Ark is my most favorite movie ever, and this is its genre, so here it is…
question of the day: What nontraditional Christmas movie traditions do you have?
(Apparently some folks think Die Hard is a “nontraditional” Christmas movie…)
question of the day: Why do we find villains sexy?
Am I overthinking this? Does it bother you that you find some very bad people — even if they are only fictional — attractive?
question of the day: Who are the sexiest movie and TV villains?
We’re months and months from the release of Star Trek Into Darkness and we don’t even know what character he’s playing, but general Internet consensus seems to be that Benedict Cumberbatch will be pretty much the sexiest villain ever. But whom will he knock off the sexy-villain throne?
question of the day: Who are the unlikeliest action heroes ever?
I’m gonna go with Elijah Wood as Frodo Baggins in The Lord of the Rings. Wood doesn’t spring to mind when thinking about action heroes, and even within the context of the story, a homebody hobbit is the last person anyone expects to be an action hero.
question of the day: What is the first modern action movie?
This depends on two factors: how you define action movie, and how you define modern.
