What do I like Better, Movies or songs

Given my utter lack of responsiblities this weekend I ranked a huge backlog of movies, books, songs, and TV shows. The clear winners of this rankfest were the movie 300, which ended up being my 45th favorite movie of all time, and Comfort Eagle by Cake, which ended up being my 48th favorite song. After doing so I asked myself, what do I like better the song or the movie? Rather than simply answering the question like a normal person (although I suppose a normal person wouldn't rate all these songs and movies in the first place) I began to ponder about the ramifications of my decision. Upon doing so I envisioned a contest of comparing equally ranked movies and songs. And so I give you, the first ever rendition of...

MOVIE VS. SONG!!!!!!!!

Picking random numbers from 1 to 1,000 I give you the following matchups...

Number 32: The Magnificant Seven vs. Last Caress, The Misfits
Ah, a truly classic matchup... I brilliant western staring Yuel Brenner based on a Kirisawa film against an awesome death metal song that makes me want to crash whenever I listen to it while driving... but in a good way. I can think of no line in the movie as brilliant as, "Well I got something to say, I raped your mother today", so Last Caress wins that contest, but I don't think Last Caress can overcome the total badassedness of a movie that stars Steve McQueen and Charles Brawnson... to of my ultimate badass heros.
Advantage: Movie

153: The Breakfast Club vs. Dang Me, Roger Miller
Ah, another 60's western vs. 80's awesome matchup, this time with the roles reversed. Breakfast club has a miriad of memerable quotes and moments, and made us all realize that maybe we aren't so different after all, or we are but its okay, or some dumb thing like that. While dang me just plain kicks ass, and makes us all realize that old country stingers managed to spend as much money on booze as modern day hip-hoppers spend on bling. In the end I guess the more universal lesson wins.
Advantage: Movie

276: PCU vs. Lawyers, Guns, And Money, Warren Zevon
PCU is a shockingly realistic look at college considering the fact that it starred a 36-year-old Jeremy Piven; Lawyers, Guns, and Money is the song that should have been the smash hit that Werewolves of London ended up being. And while I will continue to tell people who wear the shirt of the band they are going to see that they shouldn't be that guy and insult people that major in Phys Ed, Warren Zevon simply isn't going to lose a whole lot of contests of which I am the judge.
Advantage: Song

430: Ocean's Eleven vs. Breaking the Law, Judas Priest
Oceans Eleven is a very tricky movie. It has the feel of a bug-budget hollywood blowout that should be built up to high and fall in on itself. However, for some reason that doesn't happen, and each layer of well-known-Hollywood-actor or predictable plot twist simply builds the movie up higher and higher. And while perhaps eventually the layers may start to movie sideways at best, it never really collapses. The movie is well acted, well made, and very, very enjoyable. That is why its a shame that its going up against Breaking the Law, which I simply can not believe is ranked as low as 430. This song is great to listen to in the car, would be awesome to sing at kereoke, and if I were to ever make a movie that involved people commiting petty cimes, I would be sure to include this song.
Advantage: Song

675: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles vs. Up On Cripple Creek, The Band
I must admit that this number was not chosen randomly... after watching Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles a few weeks ago I have been looking for a chance to discuss it. It is easy to underestimate how ligitamitly good this movie is. It has great action, great one-liners, and surprisingly in-depth character development. That being said, Cripple Creek is an awesome song, that makes me want to imbrace the life of a drunken lay-about (assuming I have someone to drag my ass home). Than again I suppose I can't risk her tearing up half of my track winnings, "just for a laugh". In the end I suppose I have to give the advantage to the medium which includes a line about a man confusing the word "clostrophobic" with the word "homosexual".
Advantage: Movie

Well, movies won this round 3 out of 5, but I suppose that hardly that convincing of a victory. End the end its anybody's guess if I like movies or songs better. But either way one things deffinately true... I was able to waste an awful lot of time.

Greatest Four Movie Run of All time

For the first time in my life I have seen four movies in a row, which I believe to all be at least an 8 out of 10 or higher. For a little perspective let me mention that I have seen to date about 1300 movies, only 268 of which are rated 8 or higher. That's roughly 20 percent. This means when I go see a movie, the chances of it being an 8 or better are 1 in 5. Thus my chances of seeing to 8-or-betters in a row is .2 times .2, which equals .04, or 4%. This means, that if I see 4 random movies the chances of all 4 being an 8 or better are .2 x .2 x.2 x.2 which is equal to .0016. Which means the odds are .16%, or 1 in 625.

I hope you know understand how amazing this is.

And now, of chorse you are all asking yourself, "what four movies did you see Blake?"
Well, while I'm upset that you're all being so nosey, I will humor you and tell you. And as I do so I will give you my projected rating for each movie, and show just how shocking that all of these movies are rated as highly as they are.

1. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix,
After being very dissapointed with the so/so Goblet of Fire I wasn't expecting a whole lot out of this movie. However Shannon recently got into the Potter books, so this movie seemed a nice night out for us. Needless to say my hopes for the night were pinned more on the meal at Ruby Tuesdays than the movie itself (great salad bar). However this movie showed the great fast-paced super-fun action that can make a movie based on a book-series for young adults so very very enjoyable.
8 out of 10

2. Battle Royale
I'm gonna be honest with you, I stubbled across this movie while looking for clips of old WWF matches. A Battle Royale is ussually a match in which 20 men start in the ring and are elimminated one at a time by being thrown over the top rope. However, in this movie a Battle Royale is an act of congress that sends one 9th grade class a year to an island of death. 40 kids start on the island, and they are eliminated one at a time by being killed by their classmates. This movie isn't just crazy, it's Japaneese crazy, which is the best kind of crazy (except maybe South Korean crazy). Anyway this movie is awesome, and is apparently like the 4th highest grossing movie in the history of Japan... I can see why. Needless to say I bought the book that the movie was based on.
9 out of 10

3. Superbad
People were talking up this movie so much, I was pretty sure it was getting overhyped. It isn't, its actually that good. I'm sure you've heard everything there is to hear about why this movie is so good, so I won't try to get you to go see it. I'm just gonna say that you should. It is quite simply one of the best made comedys that I have ever seen in my entire life.
10 out of 10

4. The Prestiege
I netflixed this movie. Upon doing so I allowed it to sit unwatched for about 5 weeks. This pretty well describes how excited I was to see this movie. Eventually I buckled down and asked myself, "who am I, Jeff?" The answer was, of chorse I am not. If I was I would weigh 140 pounds and be able to discuss the merits of 8 different forms of metal music. Anywho eventually I watched the damn thing and it was brilliant. It had a great story, the acting was brilliant (especially David Bowie as Nikoli Tesla) and the plot was cool that I figured out the twist and didn't even care because what was going on was so freaking sweet. So anyway I ended up very pleasently surprised.
8 out of 10.


So there you have it, a once in a life-time conglomerate of brilliant movies. But I do wonder, why did this happen now. I have noticed that I am, of late, more likely to watch really good movies than I have been at any other point in my life. I feel the reasons for this are three fold.
1. I know what kinds of movies I like better now than I use to.
- when your a kid you pretty much just watch whatever comes on in front of you
2. I am much less likely to get forced into watching movies now than I use to be.
- I watched some pretty bad movies in school, and also ones that my mom picked out.
3. I watch fewer movies now than I use to.
- More often than not I'm watching a movie because I think it will be good rather than because I have nothing else to do (this was not the case at one point in my life.)

This of chorse means that more and more movies are getting ranked as above average (6 and above). This throws of my original design which put half of all movies 5 and below, and half 6 and above. This means I need to rethink either how I rate movies, or what those ratings mean.

Anywho, all there is for it now is to cross all the fingers I can and hope that the next movie I see is also an 8 or better. This would put the odds of what is occuring to me at roughly 1 in 3,125. The next movie I plan to see is The Host. A hugely popular Koreon monster movie... so needless to say my hopes are high.

I'll get back to you with the results.