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BEST LOCATIONS/TRAVEL DESTINATIONS
TOP 100 BEST LOCATIONS/TRAVEL DESTINATIONS
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GREEN GABLES HOUSE, Canada #greengableshouse
GERMANY #germany
GOLD COAST, Queensland #goldcoast
GREECE #greece
GREEK ISLANDS #greekislands
GREAT BARRIER REEF #greatbarrierreef
GOLDEN GATE BRIDGE, San Francisco #goldengatebridge
GRAND CENTRAL TERMINAL, New York #grandcentralterminal
GRACELAND, memphis #graceland
GULLIVERS KINGDOM, Japan #gulliverskingdom
TOP 100 Best UNDERRATED FILMS
97. IRRATIONAL MAN (2015)
Abe, a Philosophy professor starts working at a college and suffers from depression. Professor Rita and his student Jill are both romantically interested in him. At lunch, Abe and Jill overhear a strangers conversation, a woman worried she will lose her children in a custody battle due to a biased judge. Abe, knowing he has no connection to the stranger and knows he wouldn't be a suspect, decides to take the life of the judge to help the lady. After doing the deed, Abe becomes happier and feels like he's done something worthwhile. Jill and Rita suspect he was the perpetrator in the crime, Jill confronts him and he admits it was him and she ends their relationship. An innocent man is accused of the crime and Jill pressures Abe to to do the right thing and surrender, and warns him if he doesn't she will report him. Abe then attempts to take the life of Jill - no more - spoilers.
This is a Woody Allen film starring Joaquin Phoenix, Parker Posey, and Emma Stone.
#irrationalman#irrationalman2015#joaquinphoneix#emmastone
TOP 100 Best UNDERRATED FILMS
98. PROZAC NATION (2001)
Based on the memoir by writer Elizabeth Wurtzel - who sadly died of breast cancer in 2020, aged 52. 'Lizzie' aged 19 goes to Harvard to study Journalism. She is intimate with a man for the first time and loses interest in him afterwards. She suffers from writers block and substance abuse. She suffers from depression and is given medication to cope. Lizzie gets her life back on track.
The movie stars Christina Ricci, Anne Heche, Michelle Williams, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Jessica Lange, and Lou Reed. The film premiered on 8 September 2001, three days before 9/11 happened. The movie wasn't released in theatres in America or elsewhere. The soundtrack has music by Bruce Springsteen, the Pretenders, and Lou Reed.
#prozacnation#prozacnation2001#elizabethwurtzel#christinaricci
TOP 100 BEST UNDERRATED FILMS
99. THE WAR OF THE WORLDS (1953)
Martians invade Earth as their own planet is dying. A large meteor hits near a small town. Locals go see the glowing hot mass. An electric eye on a neck comes out, three men get zapped and incinerates them. A second meteor hits elsewhere, and more all over earth and they attack homes and buildings. The military are unsuccessful due to the aliens force field. Earth is at risk of world domination. However, the aliens start dying and their machines start to crash. The aliens immune system couldn't survive our bacteria on earth.
The film is based on the book by H.G. Wells and this was the first film adaptation - there's been many since then. The book is set in Victorian England, this is set in California. Alfred Hitchcock initially had interest in making this film - but didn't go ahead. They were going to film this in 3D but that also didn't take place.
Real World War II footage was used in the film and they also used model miniatures to be used for the city and City Hall, which was destroyed by the Martians. Special Effects director Gordon Jennings, died of a heart attack before the premiere. It won for Visual Effects at the Academy Awards.
Actors who appeared in this film, Gene Barry and Ann Robinson appear in Steven Spielbergs War of the Worlds (2005).
This film inspired the 1978 video game, Space Invaders.
#thewaroftheworlds#thewaroftheworlds1953
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100. THE CANNONBALL RUN (1981)
The Cannonball Run is just a fun '80s movie - a comedy and a bit of action. Certainly not politically correct. Great movie.
PLOT: An eccentric group of racers meet in Connecticut to compete in an illegal road race to California. They, the contenders use different tactics and disguises to get ahead - ambulance driver, catholic priests, women using their sex appeal, Japanese team using computerized car, a wealthy sheikh, a wealthy man in a James Bond vehicle as well as captain chaos.
The films stars Burt Reynolds, Roger Moore, Dom DeLuise, Farrah Fawcett, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr, and Jackie Chan.
The film was influenced on the 1979 Cannonball Trophy Dash road race.
There's a sequel to this film, Cannonball Run II (1983). These were the last films Dean Martin made before his death.
During filming a stunt woman, aged 24, was seriously injured whilst doing a scene where a car weaves between other vehicles. The car she was in for the stunt had problems, some were fixed and some weren't and the vehicle also had no seatbelts. During the stunt, her car went head on with a van which broke her neck and leaving her a quadriplegic. She was awarded $3 million.
There was going to be a new modern film based on the Cannonball Run movies by Warner Bros - but nothing set in stone as yet.
#thecannonballrun#burtreynolds#domdeluis
Top 100 Best Music Videos of All-Time
1. AVA ADORE
THE SMASHING PUMPKINS
1998
The music video was released on June 1, 1998, and was directed by Dom and Nic, featuring the band in gothic-inspired clothing and walking through a variety of scenes. The video, filmed in one long take, is notable for its use of slow and fast motion while the speed of the camera is apparently static, and the band continues to lip sync to the song in perfect rhythm. The calculations required to work out the speed changes caused massive delays on set, causing the band to nearly call off the entire plan. The sets seen in the video were arranged in a configuration resembling a hallway, in which a rave sequence functioned as the end of the hall. Instead of continuing to the right, the camera rotates to the left, revealing the artifice of the visuals.
The music video won an award for "most stylish video" at the 1998 VH1 Fashion Awards.
#avaadore#avaadorethesmashingpumpkins#thesmashingpumpkins#smashingpumpkins#domandnic
Top 100 Best Music Videos of All-Time
2. HURT
Nine Inch Nails
1994
The music video for Nine Inch Nails' original version of "Hurt" is a live performance that was recorded before the show in Omaha, Nebraska, on February 13, 1995, and can be found on Closure and the DualDisc re-release of The Downward Spiral. The audio portion appears on the UK version of Further Down the Spiral. The version released on Closure differs slightly from the video originally aired on MTV. In addition to using an uncensored audio track, the Closure edit shows alternate views of the audience and performance at several points during the video.
To film the video, a scrim was dropped in front of the band on stage, projected onto which were various images to add visual symbolism to fit the song's subject matter, such as war atrocities, a nuclear bomb test, survivors of the Battle of Stalingrad, a snake staring at the camera, and a time-lapse film of a fox decomposing in reverse. A spotlight was cast on Reznor so that he can be seen through the images. Compared to the live renditions performed on future tours, this version most resembles the studio recording with its use of the song's original samples.
#hurt#nineinchnails#nin#trentreznor#hurtnineinchnails#hurtNIN
Top 100 Best Music Videos of All-Time
3. REMEMBER THE TIME
MICHAEL JACKSON
1992
The accompanying music video for "Remember the Time" was filmed in January 1992 at the Universal Studios Hollywood backlot. Prior to the release of the video, Jackson's record label promoted it by releasing clips, as well as releasing behind the scenes clips of making the video. The nine-minute video was promoted as a "short film". It premiered on ABC, NBC, Fox, BET, and MTV on February 2, 1992, the Fox broadcast of Remember the Time recorded a Nielsen rating of 13.1. After the video premiered on MTV, the channel aired a "rockumentary" called "More Dangerous Than Ever" which included glimpses of the making of the video. Jackson's record label would not release the video's budget figures. Directed by John Singleton and choreographed by Fatima Robinson, the video was an elaborate production and became one of Jackson's longest videos at over nine minutes. It was set in ancient Egypt and featured groundbreaking visual effects and appearances by Eddie Murphy, Iman, Magic Johnson, Tom "Tiny" Lister Jr. and Wylie Draper, who portrayed Jackson as an older teenager and a young adult in the made-for-TV movie The Jacksons: An American Dream.
#rememberthetime#michaeljackson#eddiemurphy#iman
Top 100 Best Music Videos of All-Time
4. WHAT IF
THE MURLOCS
2019
Directed and shot by John Angus Stewart.
'A one shot, one kill kind of video... Kenny really knows how to make a performance! 10/10 pan spin' - YouTube comment.
#whatif#whatifthemurlocs#themurlocs#johnangusstewart#AmbroseKennySmith
Top 100 Best Music Videos of All-Time
5. BITTER SWEET SYMPHONY
THE VERVE
1997
The "Bitter Sweet Symphony" music video was directed by Walter Stern and released on 11 June 1997. In the video, Ashcroft walks down a busy pavement in Hoxton, London, oblivious to passersby and bumping into them. At the end, the other Verve band members join him and walk down the street into the distance. Critics likened it to the 1991 Massive Attack video "Unfinished Sympathy", which has the singer Shara Nelson walking in Los Angeles. The music video was played frequently on music channels and was nominated for a number of awards, including three MTV Awards at the 1998 MTV Video Music Awards.
The British comedy band Fat Les released a parody of the video for their 1998 song "Vindaloo", an alternative anthem for England at the 1998 FIFA World Cup. In the video, the comedian Paul Kaye, dressed as Ashcroft, walks down the same Hoxton pavement and is mocked by passersby. In 2015, the video was parodied in a television advertisement for Radio X that featured the DJ Chris Moyles walking down a street colliding with people. It triggered 106 complaints from viewers who felt the video was offensive and encouraged antisocial and violent behaviour.
#bittersweetsymphony#theverve#walterstern
Top 100 Best Music Videos of All-Time
6. NOVEMBER RAIN
GUNS N ROSES
1991
The music video for "November Rain", directed by British director Andy Morahan, was inspired by Del James's short story "Without You", for which he is credited in the long version of the video. The short story portrays a rock star struggling to come to terms with the loss of his girlfriend, who died by suicide (gunshot) after he repeatedly strayed from their relationship. November Rain is one of the most expensive music videos ever made.
The video tells a story reminiscent of "Without You", and features a live performance footage from Los Angeles' Orpheum Theater. First, in a silhouette, Rose's character is seen going to bed and taking pills; a bottle of whisky is also visible next to him. The scene, now in color, changes to the wedding of the main characters, played by Rose and his then-girlfriend Stephanie Seymour. The other band members are among the many guests.
#novemberain#gunsnroses#gnr#andymorahan#slash
Top 100 Best Music Videos of All-Time
7. SELFISH JEAN
TRAVIS
2007
The music video was released on the band's MySpace page before the release of The Boy with No Name. Directed by American comedian Demetri Martin, the video features Martin who begins by wearing 19 T-shirts with words and pictures to illustrate lyrics from the song, removing them to progressively reveal the T-shirts underneath. Some of these T-shirts have been recreated for sale: 'Aaaaahh... Selfish Jean', stretching from the back and rotating around to the front, and 'Art, Music, Jaffa Cakes', with additional tick boxes, which have been very popular among fans.
#selfishjean#travis#selfishjeantravis#travisband#demetrimartin
Top 100 Best Music Videos of All-Time
8. BLACK HOT SOUP King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard
2021
Performed by John Safran
Featuring Alkiviadis Grapsas, John Dimoulas and Francis Vo
Shot, edited and directed by John Angus Stewart
King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard (KGLW) are an Australian rock band formed in 2010 in Melbourne, Victoria.[1][2] The band's current lineup consists of Stu Mackenzie (vocals, guitar, flute), Ambrose Kenny-Smith (vocals, harmonica, keyboards), Cook Craig (guitar, keyboards, vocals), Joey Walker (guitar, vocals), Lucas Harwood (bass, vocals), and Michael Cavanagh (drums, vocals). They are known for exploring multiple genres, staging energetic live shows, and building a prolific discography.
#blackhotsoup#kinggizzardandthelizardwizard#johnsafran#johnangusstewart
Top 100 Best Music Videos of All-Time
9. PASS THIS ON
THE KNIFE
2003
"A flaxen haired, spider-limbed female impersonator takes the mic in a rustic chalet. A woman in the small audience gets up out of her seat. Is she leaving? A glaring thug approaches the stage. Is he going to end her song by force? No, they're both moved by the music, and soon everyone is dancing. Except for one young woman, whose blank stare closes out the video on a question mark." (Slant Magazine, January, 2010)
The music video for the song was directed by Johan Renck and features female impersonator Rickard Engfors in a room lip-synching to the song. Both members of The Knife, Karin and Olof Dreijer, are visible in the video; Olof is seen dancing next to Engfors and flirting with him, and Karin appears at the end of the video, sitting at a table and looking at Engfors and Olof.
#passthison#theknife#johanrenck#rickardengfors
Top 100 Best Music Videos of All-Time
10. SMOKO
THE CHATS
2017
The music video for the song, shot by Matisse Langbein (who also did the artwork for Get This In Ya!!) at Peregian Beach, mostly adheres to the lyrics in the song, depicting Chats bassist Eamon Sandwith wearing a lifeguard shirt, approaching a tradesman on a construction site (played by Josh Price) eating a sausage roll while sitting on a milk crate (referred to in the song as a 'milk crate throne'). During the chorus, it cuts to the band playing on the same construction site. During the second verse, Eamon rises from his bed, drinks a can of beer and opens a laptop to see a piece of paper pasted on the laptop screen saying "CENNO: ZERO BUCKS" (referencing the lyric "So it's Tuesday morning/And my Centrelink hasn't come through)". It then cuts to him on the phone calling Centrelink with drummer Matt Boggis playing a Centrelink employee, who leaves him hanging until he picks up the phone and yells the chorus of the song, leaving Eamon banging the doorway in anger, and then puts down the phone. It then cuts to Eamon on a beach with binoculars, seeing what appears to be a woman having trouble in the ocean, but then checks his (non-existent) watch and realizes it's 'smoko'. It then cuts to the band playing in a different area nearby the same ocean, where the video ends shortly afterwards.
#smoko#smokothechats#thechats#matisselangbein#peregianbeach
Top 100 Best Music Videos of All-Time
11. FROZEN
MADONNA
1998
Directed by British artist Chris Cunningham, the music video for "Frozen" was filmed at Cuddeback Lake in the Mojave Desert in California during January 7–11, 1998. It was shot by cinematographer Darius Khondji. In an interview with Kurt Loder on the set of the video, Madonna described herself as a "mystical creature in the desert". It was inspired by the 1996 film The English Patient and Martha Graham's work. The music video premiered on February 16, 1998, on MTV at 4 p.m. The black dress Madonna wears on the video was designed by Jean Paul Gaultier.[71] In an interview with MTV News, Cunningham stated about his work with Madonna that she became interested in working with him after seeing his Aphex Twin-directed music video, "Come to Daddy" (1997).
#frozen#frozenmadonna#madonna#mdna#chriscunningham#mojavedesert
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12. THRILLER
MICHAEL JACKSON
1982
The music video for "Thriller" references numerous horror films and stars Jackson performing a dance routine with a horde of the undead. Directed by horror director John Landis and written by Landis and Jackson, Jackson contacted Landis after seeing An American Werewolf in London (1981). The pair conceived a 13-minute short film with a budget much larger than previous music videos. Jackson's record company refused to finance it, believing Thriller had peaked, so a making-of documentary, Making Michael Jackson's Thriller, was produced to receive financing from television networks.
Michael Jackson's Thriller premiered on MTV on December 2, 1983. It was launched to great anticipation and played regularly on MTV. It doubled sales of Thriller, and the documentary sold over a million copies, becoming the best-selling videotape at the time. It is credited for transforming music videos into a serious art form, breaking down racial barriers in popular entertainment, and popularizing the making-of documentary format.
#thrillermichaeljackson#thriller#michaeljackson