This post contains
bad, foul, filthy and unacceptable language - the words that “will curve your
spine, grow hair on your hands and maybe, even bring us, God help us, peace
without honor.”
This is not a post
for children. Kids, take a hike.
This is also not a
post for those adults who are offended by this type of language. Do yourself a favor, and go read some of my
cute stuff before moral outrage can kick in.
Just about everything
else on this blog is clean…Stupid sometimes, but clean.
End of Warning.
Although I’m certainly in danger of
running out of categories for this insane exercise, there is far from a
shortage of material. Therefore it’s
time to use this landmark 850th post to kick off the Sixth Annual George Awards for Profanity in Movies (Click here for intro and explanation) with a
transitional piece.
We just finished a journey through the
Predator franchise, and while the 1987 original is so overstuffed with awesome,
quotable lines to be disqualified from competition…
springs to mind.
However, the two newest entries had
some fantastic moments.
Last year's The Predator is overstuffed as well. It’s not with Eighties era over the top macho
awesome this time, but there are near constant streams of profanity from most
members. In general, the overload would
remove it from consideration as it becomes diluted.
Yet there is one quiet moment where
Olivia Munn as Doctor Casey Bracket, easily the most classically intelligent
character in the film, demonstrates she will be able to hold her own with a
group of mentally damaged, foul mouthed soldiers. After spending her career as an evolutionary
biologist thinking about alien life forms, her reaction to finally seeing one
is a soft yet heartfelt declaration, and also a modification of the franchise’s
catchphrase:
An even more deserving moment comes
from 2010’s Predators. While not quite as foul mouthed as the gang
from the later Shane Black film, this group does well for themselves since everyone has some form of military or
criminal combat experience.
That is everyone except Edwin, the
doctor (played by Topher Grace) with a dark secret. (How dark depends on how much
of the movie you’ve seen.)
When the group comes up with a plan to
take down the unknown creature in the unfamiliar terrain, there’s a spectacular
Sixties sit com style cut from him shooting down the idea of being used as bait
to running through the jungle in fear of his life.
After being rescued in the nick of
time by a sniper’s bullet, his statement to the rest of the group is just as
heartfelt as Casey's, but at a considerably higher and more anger fueled, yet out of breath, volume:
*inhale*
ALL OF YOU!!!!!”
That’s about all for the transitions,
come back next week and click here for a proper introduction to this year’s awards.
Or technically, the third introduction
to this year’s awards.
Did I mention I’m running out of
categories?
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