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Tuesday, July 26, 2011
Monday, July 18, 2011
The Top 10 Movie Swordfights...That You Have Never Seen!
My current situation, it's not all bad. In fact, a wise person keeps telling me everything happens for a reason and maybe this change will be great. I like to believe that as well as she does. When these things happen, I am all about the silver lining. And, in my travels across the Internet looking for ways to pay bills on time, I often take little side trips for blog ideas. From these small soirees, and from the compounded learning of the wise, I give you:
THE TOP 10 MOVIE SWORD FIGHTS...THAT YOU HAVE NEVER SEEN!
If you are looking for Kill Bill, Braveheart, Gladiator, the Princess Bride, or Crouching Tiger, I invite you to hit up Google and the hundreds of movie buff websites that will show you everything that everyone else will. But, if you have a little yearning for variety and something new, the next 10 minutes or so could be very enlightening. I'll keep my opinions to a couple of sentences. Promise. Enjoy!
10) ROBIN VS. THE SHERIFF
There's just something about a geriatric James Bond taking out the guy who played Quint from Jaws (Robert Shaw) that warms my heart
9) THE SOVEREIGN'S SERVANT
Foreign film makers always take the time to try and equal up to their US counterparts. Take some notes Michael Bay
8) EL CID: CHARLTON HESTON VS. THE CHAMPION OF ARAGON
You can take Andalusia from his cold...dead...hands!
7) DUEL TO THE DEATH
Like mixing your roast beef with cap'n crunch. It's ridiculous but oh so much fun.
6) PREDATORS
Some blade combat between interstellar badasses
5) GAME OF THRONES
It's very easy to lose sight of the fact, with all of the nakedness, big speeches, feelings, and skullduggery, that Game of Thrones has some pretty epic fight scenes.
4) THE HUNTED
Self...Induced...Facelift...yikes
3) EQUILIBRIUM
What is "gun-kata??"
2) DIE ANOTHER DAY
A dapper MI:6 Irishman sword fights a North Korean despot turned English socialite...the only thing that makes sense is Madonna's corset being undone.
1) KINGDOM OF HEAVEN
Rise a knight...I think I just did
THE TOP 10 MOVIE SWORD FIGHTS...THAT YOU HAVE NEVER SEEN!
If you are looking for Kill Bill, Braveheart, Gladiator, the Princess Bride, or Crouching Tiger, I invite you to hit up Google and the hundreds of movie buff websites that will show you everything that everyone else will. But, if you have a little yearning for variety and something new, the next 10 minutes or so could be very enlightening. I'll keep my opinions to a couple of sentences. Promise. Enjoy!
10) ROBIN VS. THE SHERIFF
There's just something about a geriatric James Bond taking out the guy who played Quint from Jaws (Robert Shaw) that warms my heart
9) THE SOVEREIGN'S SERVANT
Foreign film makers always take the time to try and equal up to their US counterparts. Take some notes Michael Bay
8) EL CID: CHARLTON HESTON VS. THE CHAMPION OF ARAGON
You can take Andalusia from his cold...dead...hands!
7) DUEL TO THE DEATH
Like mixing your roast beef with cap'n crunch. It's ridiculous but oh so much fun.
6) PREDATORS
Some blade combat between interstellar badasses
5) GAME OF THRONES
It's very easy to lose sight of the fact, with all of the nakedness, big speeches, feelings, and skullduggery, that Game of Thrones has some pretty epic fight scenes.
4) THE HUNTED
Self...Induced...Facelift...yikes
3) EQUILIBRIUM
What is "gun-kata??"
2) DIE ANOTHER DAY
A dapper MI:6 Irishman sword fights a North Korean despot turned English socialite...the only thing that makes sense is Madonna's corset being undone.
1) KINGDOM OF HEAVEN
Rise a knight...I think I just did
Leaving the Schola St. George
The economy never sends you written warning first. It's always quick. It is always remorseless. It is always so final, and it always leaves you searching for ways to "trim the fat." Sometimes its heading out to dinner, not golfing every Sunday, removing that one guilty pleasure of yours that helps you to save whatever you can in order to have "emergency cash" should something go south.
Well two weeks ago, a certain place, for personal security reasons I'm not going to say which one, announced that they were taking a certain operation, to a certain town very away from me, to which I would have to drive 4 hours a day.
Needless to say I was less than thrilled. But, in the wake of this little hiccup, I found myself doing 2 two things: putting my entire life to paper in short succinct little sentences and second looking at my daily life and making my own very tough cuts.
After approximately nine months with the Schola St. George, I had to tell them that I was going to cut back on the sword lessons that I loved so well. To save needed cash, I would need to miss more than a few lessons and they wouldn't be seeing my for some time. It was not an easy decision by any means but Charles, my Instruttore, God bless the man, was very understanding:
"We understand that family and loved one come first. If you ever want to de-stress, and come back, we can waive the floor fee. Good luck, and I will reach out to my contacts for you."
What a guy...
So now, that I am bit further than I wanted to be from the Schola, I find my transition has taken me from this:
to something more along the lines of this:
Well two weeks ago, a certain place, for personal security reasons I'm not going to say which one, announced that they were taking a certain operation, to a certain town very away from me, to which I would have to drive 4 hours a day.
Needless to say I was less than thrilled. But, in the wake of this little hiccup, I found myself doing 2 two things: putting my entire life to paper in short succinct little sentences and second looking at my daily life and making my own very tough cuts.
After approximately nine months with the Schola St. George, I had to tell them that I was going to cut back on the sword lessons that I loved so well. To save needed cash, I would need to miss more than a few lessons and they wouldn't be seeing my for some time. It was not an easy decision by any means but Charles, my Instruttore, God bless the man, was very understanding:
"We understand that family and loved one come first. If you ever want to de-stress, and come back, we can waive the floor fee. Good luck, and I will reach out to my contacts for you."
What a guy...
So now, that I am bit further than I wanted to be from the Schola, I find my transition has taken me from this:
to something more along the lines of this:
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