It was fucking obvious that that cunt was going to fuck some cunt

Trainspotting‘s film poster campaign, 15 years on

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127 Hours
In Arms Way
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True-life survival tales trump all other kinds of true-life tales, and you can’t take that all the way to the bank.  Why?  Cause man vs the always unpredictable mother nature flicks don’t alwaysz equal $$$ signs, but who gives a flip wilson when they’re richest in the place that counts the mostest, capturing the enduring human spirit!!!!  If you’ve seen Stranded: I Have Come From A Plane That Crashed On The Mountains and Touching the Void, then you know of what we speak of, and if you haven’t, then you’ve missed out on at least 2 of the best movies of this century.  How can you root against survival of the fittest or even the un-fittest (also see Into The Wild, although he didn’t end up making it)?  It’s like rooting against Thanksgiving!!!!

Add wily adventurer Aron Ralston‘s case to the unbelievable/undeniable cinematic experiences worth enduring, cause whatever pain or discomfort you might encounter in the theater (or eventually on your couch), it aint ever gonna come close to whatever Aron had to done dealt with.  Ya see, Aron (played here by the unstoppable James Franco!!!) was a loner, a rebel Dottie!!!!  He loved to take off for the weekend, without anyone knowing where he was, becoming one with the desert (in a non-peyote kinda way).  On one such weekend, all is swell and well until… HE FALLS DOWN A SMALL CRACK IN A REMOTE CANYON, DRAGGING A GIANT BOULDER WITH HIM AND IN TURN TRAPPING HIS ARM AGAINST A WALL!!!!!!  What to do, what do to????

Well, dude was pinned down down there for 127 hours and lived to tell the tale, with one less hand!!!!!  No real spoiler there, cause that’s a fact, but, as we and they and everyone we know always sez, it’s not about the forgone conclusion, but tis all about the journey, even if this journey is running in the same place!!!!  And you’d think that being stuck with a guy being stuck wouldn’t be all that riveting, but guess what, IT IS, AND THEN SOME AND MORE SOME AND AWE-SOME (the flashbacks and hallucinations don’t hurt to mix things up a bit)!!!!

Was there any doubt, when this puppy’s in the directorial hands of the outward-boundless Danny Boyle (reunited with his Slumdog screenwriter Simon Beaufoy and musicmaker AR Rahman), who for once is working off of some non-fictional hazardous material??  Of course he was gonna hit a home run with his first at bat, as he’s been quite the slugger in the fictional world over the past decade (see any and all of his stuff, esp Sunshine and Trainspiotting, which is tied for our mos flavorite movie of balls thyme with 3 other movies).  Lets hear it for the boys, lets give the boys a hand!!!!

Boyled Over:  Danny Boy Boyle can do no wrong, but did do wrong to mutual Scotsman and former BFF Ewan McGregor, by casting Leo DiCaps for the lead in the (very weak) Beach instead of Obi Wan.  Ewan has never forgiven him and in the process, ruined any chances of bringing Irvine Welsh’s Trainspotting sequel Porno to the big screen.  make peace boys, even if it takes 28 years later!!!

Verdictgo: Breast In Show

127 Hours is clocking it in NY & LA now, and elsewhere elsesoon

and until next thyme the balcony is clothed…