alone in the dark ii is a 2008 german-american horror film starring rick yune , rachel specter and lance henriksen .

the film was directed by peter scheerer and michael roesch .

it is a sequel to uwe boll 's 2005 film alone in the dark , although it features an entirely new cast and a story that is unrelated to the original film .

alone in the dark ii ( film )

turner was a female character that appeared in second alone in the dark film .
alone in the dark ii was filmed in new york city and los angeles . it is loosely based on the atari alone in the dark video game series .
alone in the dark ii was filmed in new york city and los angeles . it is loosely based on the infogrames ' alone in the dark video game series .
alone in the dark retrospective – slasher film with an oscar winning . . .
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not a sequel to the original alone in the dark film , this film replaces christian slater from the original film with another actor who looks nothing like him .
no one is ever alone , or in the dark is this unnecessary , dull , sequel .
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reviewing the film for ign , r . l . shaffer wrote :
uwe boll ' s alone in the dark did not require a sequel . critics hated the film . fans hated the film . . . . thankfully though , alone in the dark ii is actually a much better film than the first . it ' s a touch light on action , and the setting is far more limited in terms of production design , but the tone is a little more in keeping with the ideas of the game franchise . . . . look at alone in the dark ii more as a reboot than a sequel and it plays ok .
what the fuck , this is not alone in the dark , this is more like shit mix with other shit . 0 . 5 / 5stars
sorry to say , but this movie just doesn ' t have the fun or character of it ' s 2005 predecessor , alone in the dark .
to be honest i didn ' t think the first alone in the dark movie was quite as bad as its reputation . it was flawed but watchable .
alone in the dark , released in 2005 and directed by uwe boll , is a very loose adaptation of the franchise that popularized and kick - started the survival horror genre of video games . the film uses a few character names and basic plot elements from 2001 ' s alone in the dark the new nightmare , but this is where the similarities between the two continuities end .
is a 2008 horror film , starring rick yune , lance henriksen , bill moseley , rachel specter and danny trejo , directed by peter scheerer and michael roesch . it is a sequel to uwe boll ' s 2005 film alone in the dark .
a direct - to - video sequel entitled alone in the dark ii was released in 2008 . uwe boll produced , but did not direct , the second movie ( the actual directors , peter scheerer and michael roesch , were also the directors for the house of the dead sequel dead aim ) .
thankfully though , alone in the dark ii is actually a much better film than the first . it ' s a touch light on action , and the setting is far more limited in terms of production design , but the tone is a little more in keeping with the ideas of the game franchise . now , that doesn ' t mean this sequel follows the plot of the game series at all - - it doesn ' t , not even one bit . but at least , alone in the dark ii feels like it ' s trying to be a real movie , and it succeeds because it ' s not nearly as embarrassing as the first .
michael is almost fully in the dark as he tells his mother his fears of losing his family .
the other problematic aspect to alone in the dark is that it appears to have a bit of an identity crisis . it wanders back and forth between attempting to be a slasher film and trying to be a thriller . in the process of trying to pander to both crowds , the film sometimes misses out on pleasing either . a lot of the slasher film tropes are abandoned in an attempt to fall into the thriller sub - genre but the deaths are much too violent for alone in the dark not to be classified as a horror film . it finds its footing by the end but the tug of war that seems to be going on is distracting .
alone in the dark was released by infogrames in 1992 for the pc . following capcom’s 1989 game , sweet home , alone in the dark was one of the very first survival horror video games and used many elements of the cthulhu mythos in its story line ( which is kind of funny , since h . p . lovecraft himself hated games ) . the survival horror genre later became popularized by capcom’s tremendously successful resident evil series and konmai’s silent hill series . alone in the dark spawned four sequels and stood as a pretty respectable franchise , that was until uwe boll got his grimy hands on it and directed a horrible movie with the same title , loosely based on the games .
the film is to be released in 80 cinemas in the us on 9 october , then countrywide on 23 october . in the uk the film will open on 13 november .
alone in the dark ii is presented in 2 . 40 : 1 anamorphic widescreen . i ' ll hand it to boll and co . , it ' s rare to see a dtv film , let alone a sequel , shot on film . 35mm no less . and their efforts yield a surprisingly theatrical presentation despite the film ' s obvious budget limitations . there is a fine haze of grain on the print - - common among super35 prints . the film also exhibits a soft haze throughout that doesn ' t lend itself to sharp , clean image detail , but at least the film looks like a real movie , as opposed to most low - grade dtv titles out there .
okay . well , while the first
alone in the dark
movie , you know , the one with christian slater and tara reid , was hardly a masterpiece , then i had expected the sequel to at least be equally ' good ' , if not better . that was not the case .
alone in the dark ii
was even less interesting in story and plot than its predecessor , however unlikely that was . but alas , it was . i will say that they had an interesting cast , which included bill moseley and lance henriksen ! two of the more iconic names and faces in the horror genre . but even their appearances did little to lift up the train wreck that is known as
alone in the dark ii
. it should be said , though , that the movie had rather good special effects , which at least added some element of enjoyment to it . the evil force that was supposed to be threatening the world in the movie , was just simply not interesting enough to even present anything even remotely worthwhile to the story .
alone in the dark ii
is simply just not worth it . and if you are a fan of the game franchise , do yourself an immense favor and stay well clear of this one .
the new steve jobs film premiered back in early september at the 42nd annual telluride film festival in colorado and reviewers seem to like the film . here is what the reviewers had to say following that preview :
winslet also discussed how the film was shot , saying : “the way in which that film was shot was extraordinary…” said winslet .
alone in the dark is one of my all - time favorite movies ( ok , just kidding ) . yeah , this movie isn ' t perfect , but it ' s not too bad either . going in to this movie , i was fully expecting the same complete rubbish that alone in the dark was . however , i was fairly surprised . it was by no means perfect , but it wasn ' t that bad . it seems like a decent movie that was made with a really low budget . only thing i don ' t know is , why is this movie called alone in the dark 2 ? it has not much similarities with the first film . . anyway its a good movie with some great actors : )
steve jobs also premiered at the new york film festival in early october . and then closed the london film festival on 18 october .
half and hour into the movie , i was compelled to turn it off and move on . this movie has all the traits of an uwe boll creation , so that should tell you how watchable alone in the dark 2 is .
look at alone in the dark ii more as a reboot than a sequel and it plays ok . production values are high for a dtv flick , and the film is surprisingly competent - - it ' s just incredibly dry , and not particularly entertaining . the dvd looks pretty good , but the 5 . 1 mix is a mess . extras are pretty mundane , too . rent this one at your own risk .
was surprised . like others have said it won ' t change your world but you can do far worse than this movie . i was entertained . if you saw alone in the dark 1 and didn ' t like it don ' t let it discourage you from seeing this one . i thought the cast , script and acting was far better in this movie . ( i know that ' s not exactly saying much ) they wisely choose to ignore the first movie completely . probably should have just called it alone in the dark : the fate of existence instead of alone in the dark 2 . i know some people have issues with rick yune ' s casting in the lead role but i honestly don ' t know what the big deal is . i thought it brought something different to the table .
the biggest problem with alone in the dark is the pacing . tension is established throughout the first act and then things really drop off in the second , only to pick up again in the third . the ups and downs make the film play out as a little bit uneven and off kilter . fortunately , the last 30 minutes really reward the viewer’s patience . the finale is grand by design and will not disappoint .
rd
changed my makeup so that they couldn ' t use anything from the first film for the second film .
uwe boll ' s alone in the dark did not require a sequel . the film , which made about $ 5 at the box office , was a massive flop . critics hated the film . fans hated the film . the story was dumb and incoherent , and the execution of the material was downright abysmal . add in tara reid ' s laugh - out - loud performance ( which allegedly was excised from boll ' s own
director ' s cut
) and you ' ve got the worst film of 2005 , by a long shot .
exorcist ii : the heretic director john boorman :
the idea of making a metaphysical thriller was terribly seductive to my psyche .
they hide in plain sight , suddenly visible in one frame and gone in the next .
alone in the dark is a mostly solid horror film that has moments of greatness and moments of mediocrity . it is definitely worth a look for genre film fans . while it doesn’t really bring anything new to the table , it is entertaining and features a variety of great performances from all of its leads . the new line dvd has plenty of special features , including an audio commentary with director and interviews with the cast , as well as the punk band that appears in the film .
he describes events in the film as being nothing like the reality : “almost nothing in it is like it really happened . ”
that ' s just over a month after the film started showing in the us . in the us the film hit 80 theatres from friday 9 october before roling out to all cinemas on 23 october .
yes . . . it ' s that time again ! i bit the bullet and continued my venture into celluloid atrocities . however , alone in the dark 2 . . . is so bland , so unimpressively average that . . . it makes little impression . good or bad .
3 . the iconic ( an overused word , but appropriate in this case ) image of father merrin standing outside the macneil house illuminated in a beam of light was inspired by magritte ' s the empire of light ii .
but everything finally settled down , with a leading man selected and a couple of trailers for the movie released . the film premiered at the telluride film festival in colorado at the end of september , so some reviews appeared as early as that . then the film was also shown at the new york film festival at the beginning of october .
in addition to boasting a great cast , alone in the dark is also noteworthy for having one of its killers don a hockey mask before jason ever did so in a friday the 13 th film . it’s often been speculated that this picture served as inspiration for jason’s iconic hockey mask and the town that dreaded sundown provided inspiration for bag - head jason . whether or not there is a correlation , it’s an interesting bit of trivia , to say the least .
alas , alone in the dark ii doesn ' t fail because it ' s a bad movie ; it ' s just not a very good one - - dragged down by a dull narrative and uninteresting leads . the film is certainly better than its predecessor , and many will probably find themselves enjoying what ' s here , but the sequel is still not nearly as entertaining , or scary , as the games that inspired it . let ' s hope this is the last we see of this wasted franchise , at least until the rights are no longer in the hands of boll and company .
but last year newtype magazine broke the story that plans were in the works to adapt the entire berserk story into anime . the first step in this plan is a trilogy of movies—all to be released in 2012—that cover the first story arc once again . with the second film , berserk golden age arc ii : the battle for doldrey , hitting theaters this weekend in japan , now seemed like the perfect time to cover the first movie , berserk golden age arc i : the egg of the king , which came out back in february . but does the first film in the trilogy set a standard of quality worthy of the source material , or is this one of those times that it would have been better off leaving well enough alone ?
reviews could easily sink dark tower into the high teens over three days giving christopher nolan’s dunkirk a third weekend no . 1 win in the vicinity of $ 16m . to date , the world war ii british movie has amassed $ 116m through two weeks . the dark tower was financed 50 / 50 by mrc and sony at a reported $ 60m . sony is hoping that king fans and african american and hispanic audiences will take this title to a higher level at the b . o . dark tower follows the last gunslinger , roland deschain ( idris elba ) , who is locked in an eternal battle with the man in black ( matthew mcconaughey ) and determined to prevent him from toppling the dark tower , which holds the universe together . in the king series , there are also easter eggs and homages to the author’s previous classics such as the shining , pet sematary and more .
berserk golden age arc i : the egg of the king was released in japanese theaters on february 4 , 2012 . a western release is planned for sometime this fall . stay tuned to kotaku east for the review of the second film in the series , berserk golden age arc ii : the battle for doldrey , late next week .
in the first few weeks since opening just 60 cinemas in the us , the steve jobs film has made $ 2 . 26m . the movie will go on full release in the us on friday 23 october .
an absolute mess of a film , makes the original look like a masterpiece .
at least the first one was so crappy it was entertaining . this is not . no conection to the first one , cruddy effects , bad acting , and just plain boring . that is the biggest problem . boring ! in the first , there were plenty of cheesey action scences to keep you entertained . this time , they do nothing but talk about witchs . snore . also , it has even less to do with the game then the first . the first was loosly based on alone in the dark : new nightmare . this on has no bussiness even being called alone in the dark 2 . only connection at all : the main charcter is still named edward carnby , but now hes a asian guy who cant act to save his live .
one - by - one , michael destroys those closest to him , sending the film toward its inevitable tragic conclusion , which the bbc called “a shattering act of violence which leaves him unassailable , invincible — and utterly alone . ” ( g )
the film spectrum began as a labor of love in may 2005 , and after years of obsessive research , launched in october 2011 . two months later ,
even exists in the first place . the first was a colossal flop , earning only half of what uwe boll’s previous film (
warner bros . ’ dunkirk is currently at $ 4m - $ 5m today with a weekend three of $ 14 . 5m to $ 16 . 5m . this film still has its imax auditoriums in its control , and again , no surprise here if it overtakes dark tower depending on the audience reaction to dark tower . on the high - end , dunkirk’s grasp will be $ 132 . 45m .
in the second weekend the movie made 69 percent less profit than it did in the previous weekend .
when the night falls , and the creatures of the dark are crawling out of the shadows , there is only one man who stands between us and evil : edward carnby .
he told the wall street journal that the film examines “only one aspect of jobs’ personality . ”
now , there’s a sequel to boll’s cinematic mess , alone in the dark 2 . although , he doesn’t direct the sequel , he is the producer and the film bears his fingerprints . we open with a dark and stormy night , three people , one of them severely injured , are rushing through a wooded area running from an unseen force , looking for refuge , which they find in a decrepit public restroom . coke - head , xavier ( zack ward ) hears the group approaching and hides in one of the bathroom’s stalls . the injured man appears to have some fatal disease for his body is running with black veins that are slowly growing longer . the woman in the group produces a dagger , which becomes the center point of a little later in the film , and removes a small vial from its hilt . after destroying the vial , whatever they were running away from finally reaches the bathroom , butchers the group and attacks xavier .
jack sholder ( a nightmare on elm street ii : freddy’s revenge ) is the cowriter of the film’s screenplay and also serves as the director . he shows proficiency at using lighting , camera angles , and audio cues to build tension but loses some of his momentum in the film’s second act . his script is a tad generic but with a very talented cast bringing the characters to life and a no holds barred kind of finale ; the viewer almost forgets that a lot of things about the film are just average .
tracking initially showed the dark tower opening at no . 1 in the low $ 20m range , but the film , which is not a faithful adaptation of the book not to mention a patchwork of genres , has been blasted by critics with a 20 % rotten tomatoes score . sony , much like with emoji movie last week , held the review embargo date until the latest possible time on this film .
this single - disc dvd comes packed in a black amaray case with a glossy slipcover . artwork is consistent with the first film .
the film was released in germany on september 25 , 2008 , in the united kingdom on july 27 , 2009 and in the united states on january 26 , 2010 . an american blu - ray release is sold exclusively by best buy .
i did not know what to do last night , as it was unexpectedly raining in dubai . i stopped by the grand cinemas at the mercato mall and for some unknown reason , decided to spend . . . sorry waste 30 dirhams to see that movie . yes , i found myself alone in the dark too ! the only guy in that movie theatre . at first i thought i was early , which actually was the case , then as the movie started , i realized that i was still alone in the dark . then after half an hour watching that movie , i did understand why . . . but never did understand the story of that movie , if any . anyway , arriving early was also good in itself , as i did at least enjoyed the commercials and movies preview . but alone in the dark 2 , was absolutely crap ! bad acting , with newbie actors staring from time to time at the camera ( damned ! they told me already it is not a prop ! ) , the worst special effects i have ever seen so far , the worst cg , the worst story and i still wonder how they managed to make a sequel . the veins appearing on that chinese guy are amazing ! ! ! you can even see the glue to stick them to the skin ! ! ! ! 1 ( awful ) out of 10 , but honestly it deserves a 0 or minus something . . .
the series does just as well on fan polls . the godfather is tied with the shawshank redemption for the highest score on urltoken ( 9 . 2 ) , while the godfather part ii comes in third ( 9 . 0 ) . that’s two of the public’s three favorite movies .
that spoils pretty much the entire plot of the film , including what could have been good plot twists .
michael’s journey from war hero to vicious killer in the original godfather sets the stage for the godfather part ii . the sequel tells two simultaneous tales : the rise of the father , and the fall of the son . in one storyline , we see the journey of vito ( robert de niro ) from sicily to ellis island ; from his petty first crime to his first murder in 1920s new york .
jason fraley holds an m . f . a in film & electronic media from american university and a b . a . in journalism from the university of maryland . he has contributed to
much of the film’s power is due to coppola’s right - hand man , cinematographer gordon willis , who provides one of the most talked - about lighting jobs in history . with daring overhead lighting and experiments in overexposure , willis creates what critic david thomson called a “bold exploration of film noir in color . ” ( b ) unfortunately he was never quite appreciated in his day , snubbed for nominations in both godfather i and ii , and receiving only two nominations in his career : zelig ( 1983 ) and the godfather part iii ( 1990 ) . the academy made it up to him with a lifetime achievement award the same year as roger corman , who had launched coppola’s career .
in part ii , hyman roth is kind enough to remind us of the corruption of sports , saying he’s liked baseball ever since chicago threw the world series in 1919 . in havana , fredo’s connection to roth is established against the backdrop of a cuban nightclub show . and in the little italy flashback , fannuci appears to have leverage of an italian opera singer . the shot of his silhouette passing the stage is quite disturbing .
with a dvd follow - up of the original
alone in the dark
movie , my prejudgment whispered in my ear that this will be just another worthless follower . actually , it wasn ' t that bad . the film had a much smaller budget than the original , but you could probably guess that since this was a straight to video movie . the cast is great and fun to watch . ok , this film is never going to win an oscar . it takes itself to seriously , the effects are occasionally ropey ( but good considering the budget ) and the acting is not always up to de nero ' s standard . but this is a great b movie . the cinematography is actually quite good considering the shooting time and the lighting in extremely good .
the movie may have been premiered , but boyle apparently told deadline that at the time he was still
tweaking little bits
in the film prior to release .
the movie was in eighth place over its opening weekend , and things have got steadily worse for it . according to macrumours the film has been pulled from more than 2 , 000 cinemas in the us after flopping at the box offic . in the second weekend the movie made 69 percent less profit than it did in the previous weekend .
15 . in fact , the response to the movie was so negative that boorman reedited the last part of the film ( which itself was heavily rewritten doing shooting ) in an attempt to improve reception as it rolled out in more and more theaters . he failed .
sony was originally going to make the film , but pulled out . instead , universal is running the project .
think about it . he goes off to sicily without contacting her , then pops back into her life to propose . she spends the rest of the film , and the sequel , locked up inside the corleone compounds . coppola foreshadows this in part i , showing kay behind the jail bars of the corleone gates . when kay is stopped at the lake tahoe gates in part ii , she fittingly wears a pinstriped outfit to echo her own jailed existence .
when more than one studio continually returns to the drawing board over the course of the decade , trying to stuff a piece of complex literature like dark tower into 90 - 120 minute structure , maybe it’s time to move on . dark tower , unlike harry potter , apparently is not easy to adapt one book at a time to screen so sony / mrc’s version pulled bits from all eight novels in the series . lindelof even said in a 2009 usa today interview that he loved the dark tower books and king so much , he was “terrified of screwing it up” and after lost couldn’t devote another seven years to a property of that magnitude .
exorcist star linda blair :
anybody who thinks this is a horror film is wrong .
, executives were very displeased with the slow , philosophical tone of schrader ' s film . they also wanted
however , sculley thinks that jeff daniels , the actor who portrays him in the film ,
accurately summarized a lot of the things i felt then , and now .
when the night falls , and the creatures of the dark are crawling out of the shadows , there is only one man who stands between us and evil : edward carnby . one of the most popular characters in video game history , edward carnby returns for a second mission .
oddly , it does have some slight resemblance to the game this time ( and someone is briefly alone in the dark , giving it one up on the original ) . the opening scene is very much like the one in the latest game ( the only one i’ve played all the way through , to be honest ) , where a dying exposition - spewing character gives info and an artifact to our hero . well , sub - hero . it’s actually paré , who would actually make a fine edward carmby ( and is dressed like him ) , but he just disappears from the movie and then yune steps in . sort of like
despite being as fiscally conservative as possible , film financiers assert that even if dark tower makes $ 90m worldwide , both sony and mrc will lose an estimated combined 25 % of their production cost ( around $ 15m ) , which is low next to other disasters this summer .
observed :
fraley , a film buff , is known for his savantlike ability to name every best picture winner in history , by year .
“pacino’s work in the middle film of francis ford coppola’s trilogy is the gravest of the greatest leading performances on film , ” wrote premiere magazine , who ranked it the # 20 best performance of all time . “the hollow - eyed pacino wins our empathy even as he wreaks evil . ” ( d )
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deadline spoke with woz about the film and the apple co - founder was enthusiastic , calling the film
authentic
.
i give full credit to danny boyle and aaron sorkin for getting it so right , ” he said .
in a screening of the movie in san francisco , sorkin was asked what jobs might think about the film if he were alive today , sorkin said , “if this movie were about someone else , he’d like it . ”
i just can ' t believe that a sequel to an absolute rubbish film would turn out to be good . after watching the first crappy alone in te dark i thought this one will also be the same , i rented it because i couldn ' t find another movie that looks good . uwe boll did not direct it so i was saying to myself
it shouldn ' t be bad as the first one
. the film was better than i expected . the story has a good pace with plenty of
plot
and action through - out the movie , and the acting was surprisingly good . and with that i mean that some of the actors were actually really good and the others decent ! so don ' t expect a perfect movie .
this movie suffers from the same problem as evangelion : you are ( not ) alone : much of the time , it is frame - for - frame , line - for - line , identical to the tv series . there is not a single deviation
the man in black fled across the desert , and the gunslinger followed .
because , you know . . . alone in the dark 1 was such a great film and all . was it really necessary to make an even worse sequel to an already horrible film ? this one is shockingly good at being completely worthless . the special effects were a complete mess . the acting was very hit or miss ( some did a fairly decent job however it ' s not worth sticking up for them as they agreed to work on this filth ) . the story is all over the place . i ' ve never seen a movie that felt like those involved realized nothing good was going to come of it so they just gave up and threw together what had been done and submitted it as a finished product . now i have .
one east coast producer / director who is also a die - hard dark tower fan criticized , “they crammed too much into the trailer , as well as too much in the film while oddly leaving key characters out . also , the studio and the filmmakers are trying to appeal to people who know nothing about the book rather than the hardcore fans who will see it , and spread the gospel of how amazing this series is . ”
the tomatometer score — based on the opinions of hundreds of film and television critics — is a trusted measurement of critical recommendation for millions of fans . it represents the percentage of professional critic reviews that are positive for a given film or television show .
prolonged prologue : the film opens with a long text crawl describing the backstory , while at the same time lazily narrated by uwe boll himself .
the movie is filmed in three different formats 16mm , 35mm , and digital , to represent the different times in which the scenes take place .
while dark tower was rallying as a top ticket seller earlier in the week , its sales slowed the minute reviews hit – the woe studios face in this rotten tomatoes era . last night’s money for the film directed by nikolaj arcel was notable , higher than focus features’ atomic blonde ( $ 1 . 52m ) last thursday ( which posted a $ 7 . 1m friday and $ 18 . 3m opening ) , and on par with ghost in the shell ( $ 7 . 7m friday , $ 18 . 7m weekend ) .
i played the games , and i always thought , that they would be amusing horror movies . . long before dr boll started to produce all that trash . all of them , every single game calling itself
alone in the dark
. . take place at night , and hey . . you were a - l - o - n - e . . . so what kind of movie have we got here ? without any connection to part one , though there was an open ending with carnby ( slater ) being attacked by some kind of monster , this new
masterpiece of german wanna - be - movie makers
has nothing , i repeat nothing to do with part one . . . what we get is some weird witch story . . about a crappy looking knife . . and some rotting b - or c - movie actors like ralf - i want to be like arnold - möller . there ' s no story . . believe me , and if there were one you wouldn ' t like to follow it . but : there are some amusing elements to be found in alone in the dark : so , slater ( poor guy lost all his reputation after his boll engagement ) has converted to ( wtf ? ) rick yune . . the guy from
die another day
or
fast and the furious
. . so why did they take an asian actor ? 90 percent of this pile of * * * * is shot at daylight . . so why do they call it
alone in the dark
? ? but for god ' s sake there ' s even more things to tell about this disaster . . but it would waste your time reading it as it were a waste of time to write it down . . there is no reason to watch
alone in the dark2
. . even for trash freaks !
dominion : prequel to the exorcist director paul schrader :
i had a different film in mind , more one about merrin ' s journey than strictly a horror vehicle .
speaking at a panel discussion about steve jobs after a screening of the film in manhattan , boyle describes jobs [ as portrayed in the movie ] : “everybody knows how [ jobs ] did behave , that he was a difficult guy , especially to some people . for reasons you see in the film , he explains why he’s like that : that he wants a players , and b players discourage the a players . he was brutal in explaining it , and also brutal on himself . ”
at this point , the corleone family is done . as tom and frankie lament in a powerful prison scene , the corleones have suffered the same fate as the roman empire . michael is left to ponder this as he sits alone at his lake tahoe estate , weighing the consequences of his actions and recalling better times when his loved ones were still alive .
sealed evil in a can : the movie has this , though watching the movie it can be hard to tell exactly what it is . the movie talks about a dark world that mirrors our light world , but at other times , it suggests that the abkani tribe that discovered them are the evil in the can . but then , it ' s uwe boll , so . . .
the ultimate foreshadowing is , of course , young vito’s life predicting michael’s . the parallel tales of part ii allow for some very clever transitions moving from vito’s story to michael’s , and vice versa . these moments , separated by time , are still connected by fate .
though far from a worthy successor to the original ( but why make impossible demands ? ) the film clearly could have been much worse .
if there’s one thing sony and mrc can be commended for , it’s realizing that when it comes to mounting audacious and risky projects , to do them at a low cost , never at valerian $ 180m levels . while the chances for a dark tower sequel are slim , sony / mrc will make sure that fans aren’t left unsatisfied : there’s a tv series already in the works with former walking dead showrunner glen mazzara . while the series will be separate from the film and focus on a younger gunslinger , the dark tower show is set to feature appearances by the pic’s stars elba , dennis haysbert and tom taylor . the series is also based on the fourth novel the wizard and glass .
the tomatometer rating – based on the published opinions of hundreds of film and television critics – is a trusted measurement of movie and tv programming quality for millions of moviegoers . it represents the percentage of professional critic reviews that are positive for a given film or television show .
take jobs and the other co - founder of apple , steve wozniak , played by seth rogan . woz is there at the launch of the mac in 1984 , randomly he is there before steve jobs goes on stage to talk next computers during the wilderness years , and even more randomly ( since in real life he no longer is working at apple at this time ) woz is there at the launch of the imac in 1997 . and you know what’s the most annoying thing about this – at each of these events , like a broken record woz is asking jobs to mention the apple ii team . not only does this make him sound like a bit of an idiot , it’s such a shame for woz to be presented in this light given that he actually worked as a consultant on the film – he was paid considerably for his efforts . it’s almost as if nobody listened to a word he said other than some comment he must have made about the apple ii .
wall of text : the opening text crawl , which was added to explain things beforehand after test audiences complained that the film was too confusing .
indeed , a lot changes between vito’s boyhood and adulthood . compare his view of the statue of liberty at both stages in life . at the start of part ii , coppola provides a sweeping shot of young vito and his fellow immigrants staring in wonder at the promise of lady liberty as the ship pulls into new york harbor . coppola romanticizes what it must have been like for those brave people landing on the shores of ellis island .
we think that the issue with the movie is that the team behind it didn’t appreciate their market . with so many apple fans around the world the film could have been a real hit – if it hadn’t portrayed the story in such a negative light .
4 . the film ' s prologue , set in iraq , was actually shot there in 1972 / 3 . the u . s . had no diplomatic relations with the country , and so friedkin had to take a british crew to work on scenes with actor max von sydow . the iraqi government agreed to the shoot under three circumstances : ( 1 ) friedkin & co . had to train local iraqis in film techniques , ( 2 ) they had to teach local iraqis how to make movie blood , and ( 3 ) friedkin had to donate a print of his oscar - winning film the french connection .
still , pacino’s own favorite moment came in the first film . it wasn’t his darting eyes before his first hit ; nor the steadiness of his hand outside the hospital . it wasn’t his hypocritical face at the baptism ; nor his lying eyes to kay at the end . for him , it was that slow walk across the street after the film’s final murder , purging a family outsider .
in addition to rota , coppola refused to “go against the family” and employed his father , carmine , who provides the music for the mafia war montage in part i , where he appears on screen as a piano player . together , the two shared an oscar for part ii , which features the beautiful “immigrant theme . ” how can one not get the chills when the strings kick in at 0 : 30 ? carmine was so excited to win an oscar that he dropped and broke his statue on the way back to his seat .
working hand - in - hand with godon willis’ sepia tones are some of the most ambitious period visuals ever attempted . part i covers ’40s new york , hollywood , sicily and las vegas , but is rather minimal in the exteriors it shows . with a bigger budget for part ii , coppola goes bigger , recreating not only ’50s nevada and miami , but also ’50s cuba ( shot in the dominican republic ) , 1901 ellis island , 1907 sicily and 1920s new york .
an odd film based on a computer game which was based on an even worse film . the computer effects are not bad at times but the character effects could have been done by a pre - schooler . the storyline seems to lose its way and the actors realise this and give up .
such brilliant parallelism pervades the films . we go from opening part i with a slow pull - back to reveal vito sitting at his desk , to opening part ii with michael seated at that same desk . we go from michael pulling out a specially - placed gun for his first murder in a bathroom , to vito doing the same for his first murder on a rooftop . we go from michael’s murder montage at the end of part i to his murder montage at the end of part ii . and we go from vito handling his first guns in his apartment bathtub , to frankie slitting his wrists in a bathtub — a fate originally intended for clemenza . screw castellano for not returning as clemenza . he ruined one of coppola’s most genius parallels .
dark tower is the third huge rock to be rolled uphill this summer along with king arthur and the mummy by the majors , only to watch them all come rolling down at the b . o . quite often when a production problem arises on these films , there’s a rush to solve them by committee natch and i hear that director nikolaj arcel ( in his hollywood directorial debut here following the foreign film nomination for his film a royal affair ) received a heavy dose of notes from both sony and mrc executives , not to mention there’s a heavy guard of producers here in ron howard , brian grazer , akiva goldsman ( who wrote various drafts ) and of course there’s king ( who has been very supportive of the film , rallying fans online to see it on twitter and bringing ny press and fans to see it in bangor maine ) .
however ,
unlike mr . sorkin , i did know the real steve jobs , for about 14 years . . . and the steve jobs portrayed in sorkin ' s film isn ' t the man i knew .
some behind the scenes footage and interviews are also included , but they’re not particularly essential . it’s kind of funny when lance admits he hasn’t seen the first film , and defends it by saying that he “didn’t think it would help” . you are very correct , sir . watching the first film helps no one , unless you love endless opening crawls ( which i was disappointed that this film did not have , though the end credits run over 6 minutes long , which i assume is to get the film to a promised 90 minute run - time ) .
on the bright side this weekend , as hollywood has called for more diversity in film and tv particularly post # oscarssowhite , here are three wide entries that star black actors in leading roles . while the dark tower is making a playing for king fans and genre moviegoers , there was concern among some trackers that kidnap and detroit might be vying for the same audience . indeed there is some significant overlap with both titles’ majorities being females over 25 : detroit is pulling in 44 % and kidnap 42 % according to comscore / screen engine’s posttrak . originally , kidnap moved on to this date to grab the female 18 - 25 demo with detroit expected to lure upscale arthouse demos and african americans . currently percent - wise , detroit is pulling in the greater amount of african americans at 40 % ( its leading demo ) to kidnap ‘s 25 % and dark tower ‘s 23 % .
arriving the same year as hitchcock’s final great film , the godfather marked a pivotal point in the filmmaking continuum of the 20th century . coppola both understands the masters of the past and embraces the flair of the 1970s hollywood renaissance . on the one hand , he wrote the word “hitchcockian” in the margins of his directing bible for influence in directing michael’s hospital visit . on the other , he upped the ante on arthur penn’s bonnie and clyde ( 1967 ) , using 149 “squibs” in sonny’s toll booth massacre and having carlo’s foot fly through a windshield to wipe the camera in a ballsy hood - mount . ( f )
the film will be out ( at least in the us ) very soon , but you don ' t have to wait to get a preview of it now . you can watch a couple of trailers now .
when hertzfeld spoke to re / code he hadn’t seen the final film , but what he saw he said : “deviates from reality everywhere” .
you can chide psycho ii for its hubris , and the fact that it won ' t ever get within shouting distance of a classic . but for a quiet summer escape with an old motel owner we used to know . . . yeah , it could be a lot worse .
1 . ) . the dark tower ( sony / mrc ) , 3 , 451 theaters / $ 7 . 7m fri . ( includes $ 1 . 8m previews ) / 3 - day cume : $ 19 . 6m / wk 1


do not go gentle ( welsh : oed yr addewid ) is a 2002 british film directed by emlyn williams .

it was the united kingdom 's submission to the 74th academy awards for the academy award for best foreign language film , but was not accepted as a nominee .

the film was produced by alun ffred jones and stars stewart jones , gwenno hodgkins , arwel gruffydd , marged esli , caroline berry and romolo bruni .

the welsh title translates literally as " age pledge " .

the english title is a reference to the dylan thomas poem " do not go gentle into that good night " .

do not go gentle

dylan thomas - do not go gentle into that good night - poetry lecture by dr . andrew barker
3 of the final episodes are called
we ' re so screwed
. they don ' t go gentle , they go awesomely .
made combining audio from the scene ,
do not go gentle into that good night
and
no time for caution
from the ost . do not go gentle into that good night , old age should burn and rave at close of day ; rage , rage against the dying of the light . though wise men at their end know dark is right , because their words had forked no lightning they do not go gentle into that good night . rage , rage against the dying of the light .
we will not go quietly into the night , we will not vanish without a fight . . .
to not go gently in her last speech rather than the other way around .
the multiplayer game zombie overrun in red dead redemption is do not go gentle the game ! you are told that you are going to die and instructed to take as many zombies as you can with you .
and you , my father , there on the sad height , curse , bless me now with your fierce tears , i pray . do not go gentle into that good night . rage , rage against the dying of the light .
urltoken a reading of
do not go gentle into that good night
by dylan thomas . the poem in full : do not go gentle into that good night , old age should burn and rave at close of day ; rage , rage against the dying of the light . though wise men at their end know dark is right , because their words had forked no lightning they do not go gentle into that good night . good men , the last wave by , crying how bright their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay , rage , rage against the dying of the light . wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight , and learn , too late , they grieved it on its way , do not go gentle into that good night . grave men , near death , who see with blinding sight blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay , rage , rage against the dying of the light . and you , my father , there on that sad height , curse , bless , me now with your fierce tears , i pray . do not go gentle into that good night . rage , rage against the dying of the light .
do not go gentle into that good night , old age should burn and rave at close of day ; rage , rage against the dying of the light . though wise men at their end know dark is right , because their words had forked no lightning they do not go gentle into that good night . good men , the last wave by , crying how bright their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay , rage , rage against the dying of the light . wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight , and learn , too late , they grieved it on its way , do not go gentle into that good night . grave men , near death , who see with blinding sight blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay , rage , rage against the dying of the light . and you , my father , there on the sad height , curse , bless , me now with your fierce tears , i pray . do not go gentle into that good night . rage , rage against the dying of the light .
“do not go gentle into that good night” remains , indeed , thomas’s best known and most beloved poem , as well as his most redemptive — both in its universal message and in the particular circumstances of how it came to be in the context of thomas’s life .
i’ve been having imaginary conversations with bert about the cubs and chicago . i hear his voice . the dead whisper to us , they console us , they admonish us . love more , love better . do not — dylan thomas again — go gentle into that good night .
in gears of war 2 , an achievement included with the dark corners map pack is
did not go gentle
. the rest of the quote is implied due to the map related to the achievement being set at night .
. nonetheless , the final level of the game shows that the second - to - last spartan definitely did not go gently .
kakine teitoku tells accelerator and shizuri mugino that their struggle is pointless , because they will go to hell no matter what they do . mugino says maybe that ' s true , but if it is , they might as well kick some ass before they go .
at the height of his radio celebrity , thomas began working on “do not go gentle into that good night . ” perhaps because his broadcasting experience had attuned his inner ear to his outer ear and instilled in him an even keener sense of the rhythmic sonority of the spoken word , he wrote a poem tenfold more powerful when channeled through the human voice than when read in the contemplative silence of the mind’s eye .
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and then there ' s the entire final act of the game , and also the entire series . there ' s really not much the recruits on the missouri can do against
a textbook example of how to do it right can be found at the end of legend by david gemmell .
the notion of not giving in to despair , in the face of death or other hopeless situations and keeping up the fight with all one has left until death finally stakes his claim . a common phrase for this trope is to
go out with a bang
, or
go out in a blaze of glory
. death need not be an absolute certainty , but may be seen as inevitable .
one of , if not the best dramas aroundñtouches the heart and humors the soul .
for the others ( like sinclair ) to escape . sinclair tries to stop garibaldi , but he shouts
jeff , it ' s okay , i finally understand . this is the moment i was born for . now go . go !
massive stars go this way . first ballooning up into a red giant and then blowing up as supernova or planetary nebula .
“poetry can break open locked chambers of possibility , restore numbed zones to feeling , recharge desire , ” adrienne rich wrote in contemplating what poetry does . “insofar as poetry has a social function it is to awaken sleepers by other means than shock , ” denise levertov asserted in her piercing statement on poetics . few poems furnish such a wakeful breaking open of possibility more powerfully than “do not go gentle into that good night” — a rapturous ode to the unassailable tenacity of the human spirit by the welsh poet dylan thomas ( october 27 , 1914–november 9 , 1953 ) .
in pacific rim , the kaiju and their creators were not expecting humanity to fight back as hard as they do against extinction . special mention also has to go to the hansens who , when they have a disabled jaegar and no other options , start telling leatherback to
come get some
and fire flares that are about as effective as spiteful spit instead of giving up .
in season 2 , sheridan insists kosh teach him how to fight the shadows so he can one day take the fight to them . kosh warns ,
if you go to z ' ha ' dum , you will die .
but sheridan invokes the trope and stands firm ,
then i die , but i will not go down easily and i will not go down alone .
fast - forward to the final episode of season 3 . he ' s on the shadow ' s homeworld and , having run out of room for negotiation , proves he ' s ready to keep the promise he made to kosh .
bakuda similarly maintains has rigged bombs to do much the same in the event of her death , though on a smaller scale than bonesaw .
a running theme throughout the stone angel , by margaret laurence . the main character , hagar shipley , is over ninety and dying , but she ' s not prepared to go just yet . sections of the trope namer poem are quoted in the text .
they not only live , they managed to wipe out the entire gang between them denying kousonsan any chance of glory .
rotti : it seems the man who cured the globe can ' t stop his own extinction . but i can still go out with a bang !
has this moment during the climax , as the heroes see how vastly outnumbered they are by thanos ' forces , but decide to go down fighting .
aged high lord cereus is not a fighter like gaius or kalarus . he loves his family deeply , though . and when
the grand finale of angel . angel and the rest of his crew decide to assassinate the circle of the black thorn and , at least temporarily , sever the senior partners ' connections on earth , and not one of them expect to survive the partners ' inevitable retribution . of course , as revealed in the canonical comic continuations , they not only survive , but go on to fight another day .
dylan thomas is that rare thing , a poet who has it in him to allow us , particularly those of us who are coming to poetry for the first time , to believe that poetry might not only be vital in itself but also of some value to us in our day - to - day lives . it’s no accident , surely , that dylan thomas’s “do not go gentle into that good night” is a poem which is read at two out of every three funerals . we respond to the sense in that poem , as in so many others , that the verse engine is so turbocharged and the fuel of such high octane that there’s a distinct likelihood of the equivalent of vertical liftoff . dylan thomas’s poems allow us to believe that we may be transported , and that belief is itself transporting .
central to trillion god of destruction . challenging the eponymous big bad is a suicide mission in the truest sense ; victory is impossible , all each overlord can do is hope to do enough damage that one of her successors might succeed . a big part of zeabolos ' character arc is trying not to crack under the strain of deciding which of his nearest and dearest to send to their death next , with no time to mourn in between .
master of ceremonies : the half a dozen little craft went forth against the might power of the divine order . not really believing that they would win , for the prophecy had told them that they would not , but knowing that they would die well !
, acknowledges before her last stand that it is probably her and her species ' fate to lose to the humans but refuses to go down without a fight .
ah , fathers , they wait so long before they let down their guard with their sons . when they do the power and poignancy of it is overwhelming .
when thomas died at noon on november 9 , it fell on new directions founder james laughlin to identify the poet’s body at the morgue . just a few weeks later , new directions published the collected poems of dylan thomas ( public library ) , containing the work thomas himself had considered most representative of his voice as a poet and , now , of his legacy — a legacy that has continued to influence generations of writers , artists , and creative mavericks : bob dylan changed his last name from zimmerman in an homage to the poet , the beatles drew his likeness onto the cover of sgt . pepper’s lonely hearts club band , and christopher nolan made “do not go gentle into that good night” a narrative centerpiece of his film interstellar .
yinsen : is that how you want to go out ? is this the last act of defiance of the great tony stark ! ? or are you going to do something about - ? tony stark : - why should i do anything ? they ' re gonna kill me , you . . . either way , if they don ' t , i ' ll probably be dead in a week . yinsen : well then . . . this is a very important week for you , isn ' t it ?
daniel jackson :
i mean , all they wanted to do was live a little longer . we ' re no different . sequence dna . cure diseases . one fatal mistake , and they doom their entire race . i guess no matter what you do , at the end of the day . . . life is too short .
has alistair wishing to do this by killing the archdemon as his first and final act as king of ferelden so he could be remembered as one of the good ones .
if i was to die , i was not going to go out in a gibbering heap of terror . if i was to die , it wouldn ' t happen because i was half crippled with fear and sight trauma . if i was to die , it was going to be a bloody and spectacular mess .
, the villainous high lord kalarus , an archmage in strength , is bedridden after suffering a devastating and crippling injury in the last book . he knows his war against the other lords and first lord gaius sextus will eventually lead to his defeat , so he crafts one final insane gambit to not go gently . he
apollyon ( addressing a group of iron legion soldiers who had surrendered to her ) : do you know what kind of creature waits for its own slaughter ? sheep . sheep .
it is believed , but not fully known , that merlin , the original myrddin emrys , followed this idea when it was finally his time .
, archer napoleon bonaparte refuses to kneel before a stronger enemy servant , and maintains that it would be unfitting of a heroic spirit to do anything less than meet his death standing .
in portal 2 , one of the pre - recorded messages of cave johnson , deathly ill and bankrupt at that point in his life , is a rant about what you do when life gives you lemons . you don ' t go making lemonade . you make life take lemons back . you get mad . you burn life ' s house down . with the lemons .
preston in equilibrium , after learning revolution was a trick of the authority to trap him , decides not to give in easily , and manages to win .
in defiance , in an offscreen moment of awesome , vorador is captured by moebius and his mercenary army , but not without
a considerable price in blood .
gavrilo princip personally accepted the mission to assassinate archduke franz ferdinand because he was dying of tuberculosis and wanted to do something significant while he was still alive . by all accounts , he succeeded at his goal .
in a way big boss and zero also count , as their entire lives works were based on their anger about soldiers being considered disposable and they would not have that .
: no . wait , did anyone think that ? because i was thinking this was more us trying to decide what the hell we need to do before we throw ourselves into one final , suicidally reckless attack .
queen of shadows : during the battle of awaji , gurando tells his soldiers that yes , most of them will probably die , but they will go down fighting and serve as an inspiration for the rest of humanity .
the last samurai . algren persuades katsumoto to go down fighting instead of committing seppuku or bowing down to omura and the forces of corporate japan and fading into obscurity . what ensues is the last flowering of the samurai .
buliwyf from the thirteenth warrior is poisoned and so fatally sick that he can hardly stand , but when the battle starts he ' s there with his sword and his dog because that ' s just how vikings do it .
imagine this : your team is down by an unbelievable number of points and there are only a few minutes left in the game . you ' ve pretty much decided that you ' re going to head out there , stand around for a bit , and let it end as quickly as possible so that you can just go home . but then your coach pulls you aside and gives you a pep talk . you need to finish strong ! even if you can ' t win , go out there and put up a fight . put your heart and soul into it ! even if you ' re on the verge of losing , you still need to play your hardest , because that ' s what great athletes do ! sound familiar ? well ,
do not go gentle into that good night
is like that inspirational coach ' s speech . in just the way that a coach encourages athletes to keep playing their hardest even when a loss is certain , the speaker of this poem encourages his father to fight the inevitability of death . sure , the father has grown old and frail . sure , he ' s definitely going to die . but that doesn ' t mean he should let himself fade away . the speaker wants him to wage a war against death , using all his strength and power as long as he can , even when things are completely hopeless . so , if you ' ve ever given your best when you knew it was useless , or you ' ve known someone who has , or if you are disturbed and frustrated by the way that death comes to everyone – then , yes , this poem is for you .
. kannu and chouun are cut off from all reinforcements and facing an entire bandit gang in their own lair armed only with whatever they could take off their defeated enemies . they exchange true names as people facing death together and decide to go out fighting .
shepard : maybe you ' re right . maybe we can ' t win this . but we ' ll fight you regardless . . . however insignificant we may be , we will fight , we will sacrifice , and we will find a way . that is what humans do .
turin : though mortal men have little life beside the span of the elves , they would rather spend it in battle then fly or submit . . . though morgoth slay the doer he cannot make the deed not have been .
another friend , who has battled and vanquished cancer , told me the other day of going to lunch with his 98 - year - old father a couple of months before his death . my friend fought back tears as he recalled how his father leaned over to him toward the end of the meal and said : “you know , i did not want to die before i knew you were well . ” it is for sons to bury their fathers , not fathers their sons .
red vs . blue has this in episode 18 of revelation . sarge gives this , surprisingly , stating that even though they have no chance of surviving ( according to simmons ) , they should go out and fight anyway . and the most surprising part is that even the coward grif does just that .
most people can ' t do much besides squirm even if they wanted to once they ' re in the grasp of a titan . one exception is the unnamed survey corps member that basically spits defiance at the titan holding him and keeps stabbing it in the face even as he ' s getting chewed on .
death is powerless against you if you leave a legacy of good behind . death is powerless against you if you do your job . my father saved the lives of over four thousand people , one at a time , with his bare hands and his mind . death was with him the entire time .
december has come , the last month of an awful year , and i am sure i am not alone in saying good riddance to 2016 . it’s been the worst of years , one of those periodic reminders that the raging beast in humankind always lurks .
hijikata in hakuouki is aware that as early as the battle of toba - fushimi that the shinsengumi are fighting a war that they cannot win . however he will not let despair show and demoralize the troops and throws himself whole - heartedly into making things work .
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this was one of the most meaningful plays we have ever produced both for the actors and the audience . during read - through , the actors kept commenting how close the show hit home , many had aging parents or grandparents . we loved the show so much we are trying to make arrangements to do it again !
unlike his contemporaries , t . s . eliot and w . h . auden , thomas was not concerned with exhibiting themes of social and intellectual issues , and his writing , with its intense lyricism and highly charged emotion , has more in common with the romantic tradition .
regardless , their end is worthy of great stories and legend , but this is done intentionally by the character ' s own will and not by happenstance . others may push the character toward it , but the character still has the option of going gently into that good night .
dialogue with javik , the last prothean ( and with vigil in the first game ) notes that the prothean empire went out this way . even completely out - matched by the reapers , it still took them several hundred years to go down . for comparison , liara estimates the current war would only take the reapers about a hundred years to finish .
dillon : we ' re all gonna die . the only question is how you check out . do you want it on your feet ? or on your fuckin ' knees . . . begging ? ! i ain ' t much for begging ! nobody ever gave me nothin ' ! so i say fuck that thing ! let ' s fight it !
there are a large number of living organisms that have physical traits ( such as poison ) or behaviors that injure or kill their predators even as the organism itself dies . while this does not benefit the organism itself , it does benefit their species by making predators avoid them in the future .
it must be true , but i still can’t believe it — even if i felt during the brief time i knew him that he was headed that way… thomas’s poetry is so narrow — just a straight conduit between birth & death , i suppose—with not much space for living along the way .
all right ! this is it ! now you all know me , so i ' m gonna say this as simply as i can . if it ' s our time to die , it ' s our time . all i ask is , if we have to give these bastards our lives . . . we give ' em hell before we do !
, which is about two elderly sisters living together . sarah is concerned that libby is talking so much about death . libby for her part doesn ' t see why people as old as they are should bother to do anything new like install a picture window . libby eventually comes around , seeming to resolve to make the most out of what time she has left .
' im begging you  fight . ' fight for your right to be free from monsters like her . ' fight the lies and the torture and the treachery . ' f - fight to see the days that im not going to be able to otherwise your entire life will be for nothing .
in the prologue to the 2008 poirot adaptation of cat among the pigeons , during the ramat revolution , bob rawlinson and prince ali yusuf are being cornered in a shootout and wounded , and after locking themselves in the royal bedroom , the pair decide to go all - out in a blaze of glory . as soon as the rebels bust down the door , tragedy ensues .
story , has an example in the cfvy machines . upon discovering that they had , in fact , been suffering from a degenerative memory loss , they took the opportunity to join in defending their reality from ending permanently . it is explicitly pointed out that they will not be coming back with the reset .
either way , the character performs as their last act a deed of great significance to those around them , be it their family , friends , a community , even the entire world . the character basically wants to say that if they do die here and now , people will remember it . the character does not die quietly . for heroes , this usually involves righting or avenging some wrong , but can be just a matter of personal pride to make the enemy , or the world , feel their presence one last time . villains can have their own version , usually in the form of inflicting the end of the world as we know it out of pure spite or sheer hubris .
: harvie is about to kill himself with a morphine overdose in the old folks ' home when a talk with a fellow patient makes him realizes he has
a lot of living left to do .
so he takes off his clothes like the nudist he is , and goes outside to sit at the fake bus stop . the final
fakt
then pops up on screen :
because while her illness means her days are numbered , it also means she can affect the vajra with her song , which may be crucial to frontier ' s survival in the final battle . sheryl goes into the last battle expecting to be dead by the end of it , by her infection if not by gunshot .
the script is a powerful , challenging , character - driven piece . the story is universal because the importance of the themes is experienced by everyone : the power of literacy and storytelling , the need to make the most of life , to forgive , to let go of hate and fear , to tell those we love just that . my cast and crew have been challenged , captivated and transformed .
exalted : in second edition this ( crossed with tired of running ) is how lunars are made . take a heroic mortal , put them in a situation where they ' re either dancing on the edge of or have crossed the despair event horizon , and then they choose to get up and keep going . at which point they exalt , and luna shows up and tells them to go kick ass in her name .
the fourth episode of er was titled
into that good night
and the key plot was that of a man who would die before the day was out if he did not receive a heart transplant . throughout the day , the doctors did everything possible to keep him alive while frantically searching for a donor . . . all to no avail .
durandal : i ' ve lost , and boomer is going down in flames . however , the pfhor will not soon forget the
humbling of battle group 7
, in which half their attacking force was taken down by a single corvette . i suspect this will be written into the list of great defeats that all pfhor commanders must memorize in their training .
i listened this week to an inventor , a brilliant man convinced of the proximity of human immortality , which he believes to be just a couple of medical bridges away . he’s taking dozens of pills to ensure that he reaches the first of those bridges , perhaps around 2030 . i confess immortality , whose attainment is a hot theme in silicon valley , does not interest me .
godzilla , in a later - averted bad future , takes this to extreme levels though it ' s not shown on - screen . godzilla is nominally a hero in the main timeline of godzilla the series , but one could have argued he was just protecting his adopted father . in future shock however , godzilla is stated to have saved the last of humanity from a race of genetically engineered monsters called the dragmas for no other reason than because he chose to . if the comments made by future ! mendel are to be believed , he not only went out fighting , he actually killed a few of the dragmas along the way . he has a memorial statue in his honor in the underground tunnels most of humanity seems to now call home in that timeline .
home , and what constitutes it , is the most potent of memories . it’s not excess of love we regret at death’s door , it’s excess of severity . if we lived every day as the last day of our lives , the only quandary would be how to find the time to shower love on enough people . we live distracted and die with too much knowledge to bear .
we have general revil ' s famous
zeon is exhausted
speech , mentioned in the backstory but not shown in the anime ( it does , however , appear in the novelization and mobile suit gundam the origin ) . in the first week of the war , the federation suffered devastating losses to zeon ' s mobile suits , sydney was reduced to a gigantic crater by a colony drop , and general revil was captured . just when the feds were preparing to sign the surrender agreement , revil was rescued by a federation commando team and made a speech announcing that zeon had depleted its fighting strength as well and encouraged the feds not to give up . the speech worked , and the federation ended up winning the war by hanging on against overwhelming odds until they could develop ms of their own .
oreg points out that the villains will find the dragon bones , and that will have terrible consequences for everyone in the world . he reminds ward , that there is a way to stop them . said way is to kill oreg . he can persuade ward to do it , and as soon as ward drives his dagger into oreg ' s brain ( the most painless way to kill he knows ) , the walls of castle hurog crumble and fall , and the villains are buried under tons of stone .
averted in pact , where the protagonist , upon being told that he ' s fated to die soon by a sphinx , decides to try to do as much good as he can in the time he has left and sets out to slay a bound demon that ' s in danger of breaking free - only for the demon to eat him , and in the process make him an unperson , to the extent that even the sphinx ' s ripple - effect - proof memory can ' t remember his name .
thomas describes his technique in a letter :
i make one image—though ' make ' is not the right word ; i let , perhaps , an image be ' made ' emotionally in me and then apply to it what intellectual & critical forces i possess—let it breed another , let that image contradict the first , make , of the third image bred out of the other two together , a fourth contradictory image , and let them all , within my imposed formal limits , conflict .
my own father , now 95 and withdrawn , wrote to me on the death 17 years ago of my manic - depressive mother : “i know that my spirit will not soon be released from those cruel demons that tore so relentlessly at the entwining fabric of love between mom and me . i did strive within the feeble limits of my human fallibility to preserve and cherish and sustain her . but alas — for mama ultimately , death was the only angel that could shield her from despair . ”
a memorable recitation of the trope namer poem takes place at the end of dangerous minds , just as the protagonist teacher is about to give up , feeling overwhelmed and impotent to make a difference . not exactly life or death in that situation , but facing the prospect of being a dedicated , caring teacher for one of the roughest public schools around is pretty daunting too . when her friend asks her why she decided to stay , she answers only
they called me their light . . .
this is a good death . i will not bend my knee . no hero will bend his knee to a threat .
a chuckle .
a good run i suppose , short as it is . i , a hero with a legend barely two hundred years old , to one whose own spans four thousand years back . perhaps it was hopeless in the beginning , but i matched your power until the very end , and in death , i will meet the standard . i will die standing .
elizabeth swann :
you will listen to me . . . listen ! the brethren will still be looking here to us , to the black pearl to lead , and what will they see ? frightened bilge rats aboard a derelict ship ? no . . . no , they will see free men ! and freedom ! and what the enemy will see is the flash of our cannons ! they will hear the ring of our swords and they will know what we can do ! by the sweat of our brows , and the strength of our backs , and the courage of our hearts ! gentlemen . . . hoist the colors !
ripley : when they first heard about this thing . . . it was crew expendable . the next time , they sent in marines - they were expendable too . what makes you think they ' re gonna care about a bunch of lifers who found god at the ass - end of space ? you really think they ' re going to let you interfere with their plans for this thing ? they think we ' re crud , and they don ' t give a fuck about one friend of yours that ' s died - not one .
faced with madara uchiha , who has defeated everyone who has crossed his path , even naruto and sasuke , proven immune to ninjutsu , with nobody left to assault him with senjutsu , and now with the juubi inside him , might guy proceeds to attack him with the only effective way : taijutsu . however , madara shrugs off every attack of his , even his 7th gate ' s afternoon tiger . kakashi sees this and loses faith , urging guy to stand down . however , guy states that it is never too late to give up , and while things may not work out , it ' s worth having faith in one ' s efforts . with that , he opens the eighth gate .
the craftworld eldar were driven to the brink of extinction by a great tragedy , and now exist as scattered survivalists seeking refuge among the stars . all their gods save three are dead , slain by a chaos god of their own creation , who is now hunting their race down with the intent to consume their souls . not only that , but their most ancient and powerful foes are rising from their tombs . beset by enemies on all sides just like the imperium and crippled by a low birth - rate , they are doomed in the long run and very unlikely to succeed in these goals , and they know it . however , they hope that they can deliver a final end to their ancient foes and use their souls to create a god of death which will curbstomp said chaos god and free them from their curse . until that goal is realized , they will keep fighting to the bitter end .
the end of the german corsair ship kormoran during world war ii fits the trope to a t : cornered by the light cruiser hmas sydney , that outclassed her by an enormous margin ( kormoran was 18 knots fast and armed with 6 wwi - vintage 155mm guns , 2 37mm anti - tank guns , 5 20mm anti - aircraft guns and 6 torpedo launchers , while sydney was 32 . 5 knots fast and armed with 8 modern 155mm guns , 4 quick - firing 101mm guns , 21 machine guns and 8 torpedo launchers . also , being an actual warship facing a converted merchant ship , sydney had better armor and fire control , and , having the main battery on turrets , could concentrate all its heavy firepower on either broadside while kormoran could use only three of her heavy guns at most ) , the crew of the kormoran , that was intercepted while disguised as the liner straat malakka , bullshitted their way into having the enemy come very close ( even launching a distress signal claiming they were under attack from a corsair ) , and when the enemy was at 1000 m they opened fire with everything they had . at the end of the battle kormoran was so damaged the skipper ordered her scuttled , but not before seeing their opponent run away on fire until she sunk .
brendan connell , jr . appointed chief operating officer of the academy museum of motion pictures
the academy’s board of governors awards an oscar® to alejandro g . iñárritu’s “carne y arena” virtual reality installation
the academy continues residency at the metrograph theater in new york with “the ballad of gregorio cortez” and tribute to george a . romero
academy rescinds sound mixing nomination for greg p . russell on “13 hours : the secret soldiers of benghazi”
jennifer aniston , jason bateman , warren beatty , sofia boutella , matt damon , faye dunaway , michael j . fox , ryan gosling , salma hayek , taraji p . henson , dev patel , seth rogen , octavia spencer , meryl streep and vince vaughn announced as presenters
halle berry , jamie dornan , chris evans , gael garcía bernal , samuel l . jackson , scarlett johansson , dakota johnson , kate mckinnon , shirley maclaine , hailee steinfeld will be presenters on oscars® stage
jackie chan , anne v . coates , lynn stalmaster and frederick wiseman to receive academy’s 2016 governors awards
oscar winners morgan freeman and john legend added as presenters along with j . j . abrams , sacha baron cohen and henry cavill dave grohl will give a special performance
kathy baker , o’shea jackson jr . , freida pinto and jimmy smits to perform at academy nicholl fellowships live read
kristen bell and michael b . jordan to host academy ' s sci - tech awards
lacma and the academy co - present a major u . s . exhibition highlighting the prolific career of mexican cinematographer gabriel figueroa
the academy of american poets is the largest membership - based nonprofit organization fostering an appreciation for contemporary poetry and supporting american poets . for over three generations , the academy has connected millions of people to great poetry through programs such as national poetry month , the largest literary celebration in the world ; poets . org , the academy’s popular website ; american poets , a biannual literary journal ; and an annual series of poetry readings and special events . since its founding , the academy has awarded more money to poets than any other organization .
dylan marlais thomas was born on october 27 , 1914 , in swansea , south wales . his father was an english literature professor at the local grammar school and would often recite shakespeare to thomas before he could read . he loved the sounds of nursery rhymes , foreshadowing his love for the rhythmic ballads of gerard manley hopkins , w . b . yeats , and edgar allan poe . although both of his parents spoke fluent welsh , thomas and his older sister never learned the language , and thomas wrote exclusively in english .
thomas was a neurotic , sickly child who shied away from school and preferred reading on his own . he read all of d . h . lawrence ' s poetry , impressed by vivid descriptions of the natural world . fascinated by language , he excelled in english and reading but neglected other subjects . he dropped out of school at sixteen to become a junior reporter for the south wales daily post .
by december of 1932 , he left his job at the post and decided to concentrate on his poetry full - time . it was during this time , in his late teens , that thomas wrote more than half of his collected poems .
in 1934 , when thomas was twenty , he moved to london , won the poet ' s corner book prize , and published his first book , 18 poems ( the fortune press ) , to great acclaim . the book drew from a collection of poetry notebooks that thomas had written years earlier , as would many of his most popular books . during this period of success , thomas also began a habit of alcohol abuse .
two years after the publication of 18 poems , thomas met the dancer caitlin macnamara at a pub in london . at the time , she was the mistress of painter augustus john . macnamara and thomas engaged in an affair and married in 1937 . despite the passionate love letters thomas would write to her , the marriage was turbulent , with rumors of both having multiple affairs .
about thomas ' s work , michael schmidt writes :
there is a kind of authority to the word magic of the early poems ; in the famous and popular later poems , the magic is all show . if they have a secret it is the one we all share , partly erotic , partly elegiac . the later poems arise out of personality .
in 1940 , thomas and his wife moved to london . he had served as an anti - aircraft gunner but was rejected for more active combat due to illness . to avoid the air raids , the couple left london in 1944 . they eventually settled at laugharne , in the boat house where thomas would write many of his later poems .
thomas recorded radio shows and worked as a scriptwriter for the bbc . between 1945 and 1949 , he wrote , narrated , or assisted with over a hundred radio broadcasts . in one show ,
quite early one morning ,
he experimented with the characters and ideas that would later appear in his poetic radio play under milk wood ( 1953 ) .
in 1947 thomas was awarded a traveling scholarship from the society of authors . he took his family to italy , and while in florence , he wrote
when they returned to oxfordshire , thomas began work on three film scripts for gainsborough films . the company soon went bankrupt , and thomas ' s scripts ,
me and my bike ,
rebecca ' s daughters ,
and
the beach at falesa ,
were made into films . they were later collected in
in january 1950 , at the age of thirty - five , thomas visited america for the first time . his reading tours of the united states , which did much to popularize the poetry reading as a new medium for the art , are famous and notorious . thomas was the archetypal romantic poet of the popular american imagination—he was flamboyantly theatrical , a heavy drinker , engaged in roaring disputes in public , and read his work aloud with tremendous depth of feeling and a singing welsh lilt .
thomas toured america four times , with his last public engagement taking place at the city college of new york . a few days later , he collapsed in the chelsea hotel after a long drinking bout at the white horse tavern . on november 9 , 1953 , he died at st . vincent ' s hospital in new york city at the age of thirty - nine . he had become a legendary figure , both for his work and the boisterousness of his life . he was buried in laugharne , and almost thirty years later , a plaque to dylan was unveiled in poet ' s corner , westminster abbey .
from the poems of dylan thomas , published by new directions . copyright © 1952 , 1953 dylan thomas . copyright © 1937 , 1945 , 1955 , 1962 , 1966 , 1967 the trustees for the copyrights of dylan thomas . copyright © 1938 , 1939 , 1943 , 1946 , 1971 new directions publishing corp . used with permission .
dylan marlais thomas , born october 27 , 1914 , in south wales , was the archetypal romantic poet of the popular american imagination—he was flamboyantly theatrical , a heavy drinker , engaged in roaring disputes in public , and read his work aloud with tremendous depth of feeling and a singing welsh lilt .
the force that through the green fuse drives the flower drives my green age ; that blasts the roots of trees is my destroyer . and i am dumb to tell the crooked rose my youth is bent by the same wintry fever . the force that drives the water through the rocks drives my red blood ; that dries the mouthing streams
your breath was shed invisible to make about the soiled undead night for my sake , a raining trail intangible to them with biter ' s tooth and tail and cobweb drum , a dark as deep my love as a round wave to hide the wolves of sleep and mask the grave .
s ' io credesse che mia risposta fosse a persona che mai tornasse al mondo , questa fiamma staria senza piu scosse . ma perciocche giammai di questo fondo non torno vivo alcun , s ' i ' odo il vero , senza tema d '
the art of losing isn ' t hard to master ; so many things seem filled with the intent to be lost that their loss is no disaster . lose something every day . accept the fluster of lost door keys , the hour badly spent . the art of losing isn ' t hard to master . then practice losing farther , losing
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messages in remembrance of friends and family who never saw the cubs win the world series , on a wall at wrigley field in chicago .
a friend once told me about going to see her father shortly before he died . he had advanced alzheimer’s and peered at her blankly . then he said : “you are home . ”