Let's Make This Place Look Not Awful

For the first time since I moved from Xanga to Blogspot six and a half years ago, I switched up the color and template. I still prefer the dark background/light text scheme, but I've made it so that the template is a little wider, and all of the sidebar stuff is on one side, instead of two. This means that there will be less scrolling, and I think it just looks better (unless you have a tiny monitor, in which case it'll be a little wonky).

Not 100: Invasion of the Body Snatchers

Today's 'Not 100' comes to us from 1978 version of the film Invasion of the Body Snatchers. It will include pictures that I find terrifying and I can promise that once I post this page, I'll not be revisiting it.

It's from the last five to ten second of the movie, so probably don't click if you want to have that little bit of fun kept unspoiled for your pleasure.

Not 100: Doom

With this list, I plan on doing something similar to what I did with Video Game list regarding spoilers. I'll post a brief description of the movie and the scene in question, then hide the actual scene and any discussion of the spoilery goodness behind a jump. Sometimes it won't be necessary, but I'll do it for all of them.

This week, I'm posting five scenes that merited consideration for the list, but were not included in the final version for one reason or another. Let's start the not-list off right/wrong. Today's movie is Doom.

You read that right.

Top 100 Movie Moments - FULL LIST

This is the rolling list of my Top 100 favorite movie moments. If you're reading this in December of 2012, it's pretty empty. If you're reading this in January of 2147, then it's full, and you're also probably a cyborg.

Format is x. y - z (where 'x' is a number from 1 to 100, 'y' is the movie that contains the scene in question, and 'z' is that scene. You probably could've figured that out on your own, but I aim to overinstruct.)

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Not 1. It's a Wonderful Life - HELLO, BEDFORD FALLS!!!!!!!!!!
Not 2. Paranormal Activity 3 - Ingenious Camera Setups
Not 3. The Naughty Nineties - Who's On First?
Not 4. The Invasion of the Body Snatchers - Sutherland!!
Not 5. Doom - Does this remind you of anything?

Let's Get This Party Started

So, it's been a while since I did anything with this space. I don't really do any sorts of reviews anymore (maybe in 2013), the last couple of seasons of Spookymilk Survivor haven't been of the writing variety (I might do writeups on some of the current All Star challenges, we'll see), and the awesome lists that I was doing have concluded.

The most obvious answer is to start up another kickass list, of course!

Starting  on January 2nd, I'll be counting down my 100 favorite scenes/moments in movies. If this sounds like a good idea, it's because it most certainly is. Once a weekday, every weekday, I'll share another scene or moment or piece from a movie that I find just a little bit better than the one from the preceding day. It'll be great.

How will this be better than the video game list, you wonder?

* This whole thing is already written and scheduled. That doesn't mean that it'll be proofread any better than the video game list, but there won't be week long chunks where I basically tell my readers to go screw themselves.

* One list, not two. Remember how there were two lists before? Well, this time there's only one. How is this better, you might ask? A little thing called consistency.

* Better handling of things the fact that I'm going to be watching awesome things while the list is ongoing. When I made the video game list, I purposefully left some spots open. My line of thinking was that as I played awesome new video games, they'd certainly merit spots on the list, and so I should leave space open for them. That was stupid and if I hadn't played and loved the ever-living shit out of Chrono Trigger, it would've been disastrous. I won't be doing that this time. Instead, this list is solidified, and if I watch Troy and think that that one scene with Eric Bana deserves mention, I'll mention it in its own post around where I think that scene would've shown up (think of it as a sort of 10 vs. 10a type of thing).

So here's how this thing is going to work.

1. Tomorrow I'm going to post the list framework. For now, it'll just look like a big set of numbers (1 to 100). As I reveal more of the list, it'll fill up, and each entry on the list will have a link back to it for ease of use (that's another way this list will be better. I should've put that up above).

2. Starting Monday - and continuing once a day til Friday - I'm going to reveal some scenes that are interesting or noteworthy, but didn't make the list for one reason or another.

3. Starting December 24th, I'm going to do my annual music roundup.

4. Starting December 2nd, the list proper begins. It doesn't end for MONTHS.

Are you excited? Let me tell you, you're not nearly excited enough.