"Take me away from all this death!"

nobody@vox.com(Mark) — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 23:20:53 -0500

It's not a very scary film (I always watch it as a love story), but here is my favorite scene from "Bram Stoker's Dracula" just in time for Halloween ...

Mina and Dracula hanging out

This movie is hated by many, but I love the romantic side to the story, and the score is great. I own the soundtrack, and I think it stands on its own. The line, "Take me away from all this death!", is one I sometimes think of when there are too many things going on around me, and I just want everything to stop.

In other news, a person from this blog slowed down M.I.A.'s song "Shells" (which you can download from iTunes now) so that is doesn't sound so "Alvin and the Chipmunks" anymore. Here is the slowed down version, which I kind of like ...

M.I.A. - Shells (slowed down version)

Shells (Slow)

M.I.A.

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Watch the high-quality trailer of "The Dark Knight" (new Batman movie)

nobody@vox.com(Mark) — Sun, 04 May 2008 19:39:42 -0500

Recent trailer for "The Dark Knight"

I downloaded a high-quality version of a new trailer for "The Dark Knight". I uploaded it to YouTube just to make sure everyone had access to it. I love the Batman franchise, except for the Joel Schumacher movies ("Batman Forever" and "Batman and Robin"), which were awful. The first two Batman movies were great because Tim Burton directed them, and he always has a quirky, whimsical vision when he makes movies. They were also very dark, unlike the Joel Schumacher movies which had the color setting turned way too high.

When Christopher Nolan took over the Batman franchise with "Batman Begins", he restored Batman's dark personality. "Batman Begins" was everything a Batman movie should be, and it was even better in some ways than the Tim Burton versions. Christopher Nolan (who also wrote and directed the amazing movie, "Memento") now brings us "The Dark Knight", which promises an amazing performance from Heath Ledger, which I have actually seen 6 minutes of (when the beginning of the movie was leaked onto YouTube).

You can watch the normal YouTube video of the trailer, or you can go to the YouTube page of the video and click on "watch in high quality" to see a better version of the video.

Watch in high quality on YouTube

The movie stars Christian Bale, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Michael Caine, Heath Ledger, Morgan Freeman, Gary Oldman, and Aaron Eckhart, and it comes out on July 18th.

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"Take me away from all this death!"

Watch the high-quality trailer of "The Dark Knight" (new Batman movie)