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The Blues Brothers is a musical comedy film written and directed by John Landis. The story consists of ex-convict and paroled Jake Blues and his blood brother Elwood, who are sent out on a "mission from God" to help gather money for an orphanage. While watching James Brown perform at a Baptist Church, Jake gets an epiphany to get their old blues band back together to raise the money. Elwood is skeptical with the idea at first but agrees. They perform at various locations with the Chicago Police Department, the "Illinois Nazis", a country band called "The Good Ol' Boys", and a mystery woman in pursuit for crimes committed by the group.
The Blues Brothers Brothers cast and crew:
John Belushi as Jake Blues
Dan Aykroyd as Elwood Blues
Carrie Fisher as the Mystery Woman (Jake's ex fiance who wants to kill him for leaving her at the altar)
Henry Gibson as the leader of the Illnois Nazis
John Candy as Jake's parole officer who is assisting the CPD in the capture of Jake and Elwood
The film also stars major Blues musicians such as James Brown, Cab Calloway, Ray Charles, and Aretha Franklin
John Belushi as Jake Blues
Dan Aykroyd as Elwood Blues
Carrie Fisher as the Mystery Woman (Jake's ex fiance who wants to kill him for leaving her at the altar)
Henry Gibson as the leader of the Illnois Nazis
John Candy as Jake's parole officer who is assisting the CPD in the capture of Jake and Elwood
The film also stars major Blues musicians such as James Brown, Cab Calloway, Ray Charles, and Aretha Franklin
by bmhorton August 25, 2022
How Ridiculous is a YouTube channel based in Perth, Australia. The three main members of the group are Brett Stanford, Derek Herron, and Scott Gaunson. They currently have 9 million subscribers and 3 billion total video views. They are mostly known for performing drop experiments off of a 45 meter tall tower at the Perth Gravity Discovery Centre, the 165 meter tall Luzzone Dam in Ticino, Switzerland, and a 200 meter tall cliff aside a waterfall in Lesotho, Africa. They also performed trick shots, including collars with celebrities like Brodie Smith, in the early days of their YouTube channel. Other members of the channel include main editor Jack Wallace, and the guy Michael who puts a bunch of the projects together and gets authorization to perform them. They also have a stuffed dinosaur who is their mascot and stuntman named Rexy
How Ridiculous also makes heavy custom things such as a number of giants darts, a giant axe, a giant atlas stone, a 4”x 4” x 4” cube of tungsten, a steel model of Hulk’s Fist, and a model of Thor’s Hammer. All these things can only go to the top of the tower via a winch because they’re too heavy to carry. They have dropped these items onto things such as bulletproof glass, pools of oobleck, orbeez, and regular water, trampolines (one being the strongest in the world made with Mark Rober), and giant gym balls. They have broken a number of world records the most notable being the worlds highest basketball shot achieved at the 200 meter cliff in Lesotho
by bmhorton March 23, 2022
"The Crocodile Hunter". A legend who would free handle agitated crocodiles and even extremely venomous snakes such as a black mamba who tragically died too soon in 2006 due to a stingray sting to the heart
by bmhorton March 21, 2021
"Carrie" is an epic supernatural horror film directed by Brian De Palma. This is the first of many film adaptations of Stephen King's novel of the same name.
The plot to "Carrie" is as follows,
Carrie White is a shy 16 year-old girl who is often mocked at bullied at her school. After gym class while she is showering, she experiences her first period. She then panics because her mother, who despises anything related to intimacy, never told her about it. All the other girls mock her by throwing tampons at her and chanting phrases like "plug it up!". The coach comes in to break it up and excuses Carrie for the day. Her mother tells her that her period is the result of a sin and locks her in a "prayer closet" to pray for forgiveness. The coach gives all the girls who mocked Carrie detention for a week and bans Chris Hargensen from the upcoming prom.
A couple bullies, including Chris, go to a barn to gather pig's blood for a prank on Carrie during prom. Their plan is to rig the prom royalty election to where Carrie would win prom queen, and Tommy Ross, would win prom king. They would put the bucket of pig's blood on top of the stage and dump it on Carrie as she's on the stage. Sue Snell, the only person who doesn't bully Carrie, is suspicious of Chris but never tells anyone. Carrie's mother Margaret, tells her not to go but Carrie goes anyway. During the night of the prom, Chris dumped the bucket of blood on top of Carrie, and the bucket fell down and hit Tommy.
The plot to "Carrie" is as follows,
Carrie White is a shy 16 year-old girl who is often mocked at bullied at her school. After gym class while she is showering, she experiences her first period. She then panics because her mother, who despises anything related to intimacy, never told her about it. All the other girls mock her by throwing tampons at her and chanting phrases like "plug it up!". The coach comes in to break it up and excuses Carrie for the day. Her mother tells her that her period is the result of a sin and locks her in a "prayer closet" to pray for forgiveness. The coach gives all the girls who mocked Carrie detention for a week and bans Chris Hargensen from the upcoming prom.
A couple bullies, including Chris, go to a barn to gather pig's blood for a prank on Carrie during prom. Their plan is to rig the prom royalty election to where Carrie would win prom queen, and Tommy Ross, would win prom king. They would put the bucket of pig's blood on top of the stage and dump it on Carrie as she's on the stage. Sue Snell, the only person who doesn't bully Carrie, is suspicious of Chris but never tells anyone. Carrie's mother Margaret, tells her not to go but Carrie goes anyway. During the night of the prom, Chris dumped the bucket of blood on top of Carrie, and the bucket fell down and hit Tommy.
Chris and her boyfriend Billy sneak out right after. After hallucinating that everyone is mocking her, Carrie uses her telekinesis to seal off the entrances to the building, trapping everyone inside. She then uses the firehose to spray the lights to start a fire, killing everyone inside. As she walks home, Chris and Billy try to hit Carrie with their car but uses her telekinesis once again to roll and blow up the car. At home, Margaret explains that Carrie was conceived due to marital rape when her husband came home drunk, she admits she enjoyed and thought that she had sinned and that Carrie must be killed. She stabs Carrie in the back but survives and escapes. As Margaret is about to kill Carrie, she uses telekinesis to throw knives at Margaret, "crucifying" her to the kitchen wall. Carrie then loses control of her power and burns the house down with them both inside. The closing scene is Sue Snell, the only person who didn't bully her, and the only survivor of the prom, has a nightmare where she is delivering flowers to the charred remains of Carries house that has a for sale sign, vandalized saying "Carrie White burns in Hell". As she puts the flowers down, Carrie's bloody hand reaches out from the rubble and grabs her. Sue then wakes up screaming as she is being comforted by her mother.
Carrie (1976 film) is creepy as hell!
Carrie (1976 film) is creepy as hell!
by bmhorton August 24, 2022
A 2009 epic science-fiction film written, produced, and directed by James Cameron. It is currently the highest-grossing film and has been since 2010. In 2019 it was briefly overtaken by Avengers: Endgame but retook the top spot in March 2021. The film currently grosses $2,788,416,135. It was released in London on December 10, 2009 and premiered in the United States on December 16, 2009. The film received relatively positive reviews from critics. The film is set in the year 2154 on a gas giant's habitable forest moon called "Pandora" in the Alpha Centauri star system and follows Jake Sully, who is a former marine who is paralyzed from the waist down who learns that his identical twin brother Tommy Sully, who was part of the Avatar program, was shot and killed. He is asked to drive Tommy's Avatar body, which is made from blending human DNA with Na'vi DNA (the indigenous, intelligent, species on the moon) because they're DNA code is almost identical. The film also follows, Neytiri, a Na'vi who is the daughter to the chief of the clan, who eventually falls in love with Jake, as they both fight to protect their habitat and they're people. James Cameron also made 2 sequels to the movie, which are set to release in December 2022, and December 2024.
Cast to James Cameron's Avatar:
Humans:
Sam Worthington as Jake Sully
Stephen Lang as Colonel Miles Quadritch, the head of the mining operation on the planet for Unobtanium (an expensive mineral found on the planet)
Sigourney Weaver as Dr. Grace Augustine, a biologist and head of the Avatar Program
Michelle Rodriguez as Trudy, a pilot who supports the Avatar Program
Giovanni Ribisi as Parker Selfridge, the corporate administrator for the RDA mining company
Joel David Moore as Dr. Norm Spellman, a xenoanthropologist
Dileep Rao as Dr. Max Patel, a scientist who works for the Avatar Program
Na'vi
Zoe Saldana as Neytiri, daughter to the leaders of the clan (the Omaticaya) who eventually falls in love with Jake
CCH Ponder as Mo'at, the Omaticaya's spiritual advisor, Neytiri's mother
Wes Studi as Eytukan, the Omaticaya's clan leader
Laz Alonso as Tsu'tey, the clan's finest warrior and heir to the chieftainship, who at the beginning is Neytiri's supposed husband in an arranged marriage
Humans:
Sam Worthington as Jake Sully
Stephen Lang as Colonel Miles Quadritch, the head of the mining operation on the planet for Unobtanium (an expensive mineral found on the planet)
Sigourney Weaver as Dr. Grace Augustine, a biologist and head of the Avatar Program
Michelle Rodriguez as Trudy, a pilot who supports the Avatar Program
Giovanni Ribisi as Parker Selfridge, the corporate administrator for the RDA mining company
Joel David Moore as Dr. Norm Spellman, a xenoanthropologist
Dileep Rao as Dr. Max Patel, a scientist who works for the Avatar Program
Na'vi
Zoe Saldana as Neytiri, daughter to the leaders of the clan (the Omaticaya) who eventually falls in love with Jake
CCH Ponder as Mo'at, the Omaticaya's spiritual advisor, Neytiri's mother
Wes Studi as Eytukan, the Omaticaya's clan leader
Laz Alonso as Tsu'tey, the clan's finest warrior and heir to the chieftainship, who at the beginning is Neytiri's supposed husband in an arranged marriage
by bmhorton December 29, 2022
Stephen King is an American author from Portland Maine, regarded as the "King of Horror", he is most famously known for his horror novels including Misery, Carrie, The Shining, It, and Pet Sematary. He also has some fantasy and drama novels too like his novella "The Body" (the film adaptation for this novel is Stand By Me), The Shawshank Redemption, and The Dark Tower. All of his works were made into movies and most of these movies received very positive views from critics and grossed quite a bit of money. The Shining and The Shawshank Redemption being the most popular. However, King did not like the film adaptation of The Shining. He didn't like who the director (Stanley Kubrick) cast as the main antagonist (Jack Nicholson as Jack Torrence), how they twisted the plot, and how Kubrick glossed over important morals from the book like the dangers of alcoholism (because King wrote the book while suffering from alcoholism).
Stephen King's writing style in most of his novels is that kid(s) are usually main protagonist(s) and adult(s) are usually the main antagonist(s). Looks at his stories like the ones listed above. The only one I can think of that is an exception to this is "Misery" where the main protagonist and antagonist are both adults.
by bmhorton August 24, 2022
Geometry Dash is a series of video games created by Swedish developer Robert Topala (AKA RobTop). The original edition was released on iOS and Android in 2013 and a Steam edition was added in December of that year. In the game, players control the movement of an icon through music-based levels avoiding obstacles suck as spikes that destroy the icon on impact. You also use many vehicles such as the ship, UFO, and wave and you also can shape shift into figures like the ball, the robot, and the spider. There are also gravity switches and you can get turned around too, all of these things happen when you go through portals unique to whatever's happening. There are also many spinoffs to the game including Geometry Dash: Meltdown (featuring 3 levels with songs from artist F-777), Geometry Dash: SubZero (featuring multiple levels with songs from artist MDK), and Geometry Dash: World
The soundtrack to the original edition is as follows: Song/Level Name - Artist (Album)
Practice (practice mode) Stay Inside Me - OcularNebula
Stereo Madness - ForeverBound (Stereo Madness)
Back On Track - DJVI (Back On Track)
Polargeist - Step
Dry Out - DJVI (Dry Out)
Base After Base - DJVI (Base After Base)
Can't Let Go - DJVI (Can't Let Go)
Jumper - Waterflame (Community Favorites)
Time Machine - Waterflame (Adventure)
Cycles - DJVI (Cycles)
xStep - DJVI (xStep)
Clutterfunk- Waterflame (Showdown)
Theory of Everything - dj-Nate (Best of Geometry Dash)
Electroman Adventures - Waterflame (Community Favorites)
Clubstep - dj-Nate (Best of Geometry Dash)
Electrodynamix - dj-Nate (Best of Geometry Dash)
Hexagon Force - Waterflame (Community Favorites)
Blast Processing - Waterflame (Community Favorites)
Theory of Everything 2 - dj-Nate (Best of Geometry Dash)
Geometrical Dominator - Waterflame (Geometrical Dominator)
Deadlocked - F-777 (Smash It Vol. II)
Fingerbang - MDK (Rise)
Practice (practice mode) Stay Inside Me - OcularNebula
Stereo Madness - ForeverBound (Stereo Madness)
Back On Track - DJVI (Back On Track)
Polargeist - Step
Dry Out - DJVI (Dry Out)
Base After Base - DJVI (Base After Base)
Can't Let Go - DJVI (Can't Let Go)
Jumper - Waterflame (Community Favorites)
Time Machine - Waterflame (Adventure)
Cycles - DJVI (Cycles)
xStep - DJVI (xStep)
Clutterfunk- Waterflame (Showdown)
Theory of Everything - dj-Nate (Best of Geometry Dash)
Electroman Adventures - Waterflame (Community Favorites)
Clubstep - dj-Nate (Best of Geometry Dash)
Electrodynamix - dj-Nate (Best of Geometry Dash)
Hexagon Force - Waterflame (Community Favorites)
Blast Processing - Waterflame (Community Favorites)
Theory of Everything 2 - dj-Nate (Best of Geometry Dash)
Geometrical Dominator - Waterflame (Geometrical Dominator)
Deadlocked - F-777 (Smash It Vol. II)
Fingerbang - MDK (Rise)
by bmhorton August 31, 2022