Filed under: Action, Classics, Drama, Paramount, Tom Cruise On the heels of the terrible Universal Studios fire comes word of another landmark movie location gone up in flames. San Diego's Kansas City Barbeque, which can be seen in Top Gun (watch one of its memorable scenes, dubbed in Italian, above), was been gutted by a fire that started yesterday in an open cooking pit. According to the AP article reporting on the fire, the restaurant was used for the scene in which Maverick (Tom Cruise) first picks up Charlie (Kelly McGillis) by singing "You've Lost That Lovin' Feeling," but this is incorrect (that scene was shot in Coronado, at the Officer's Club at Naval Air Station North Island). Kansas City Barbeque was used for the above scene in which Goose (Anthony Edwards) and Maverick are singing "Great Balls of Fire," as well as the final scene when "You've Lost That Lovin' Feeling" is playing on the jukebox. The restaurant had capitalized on the fact that Top Gun was filmed there, and as you can see on its website, people referred to it as the "Top Gun Bar." You could even purchase Top Gun merchandise there and see props from the film, including the piano that Goose plays on and the jukebox from the end. Although the fire was reportedly extinguished in only 20 minutes, the restaurant has been destroyed and apparently those props are now lost forever. Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments
Filed under: Comedy, Romance, Universal, Home Entertainment, Cinematical Seven, Lists Two things I enjoyed about Definitely, Maybe, which came out on DVD today: the cheesy jokes about New York City in the early '90s and the fact that it is a chick flick for guys. What I mean by the latter is that the movie seems targeted to females yet it caters more to the male viewer. It's basically a male fantasy: Ryan Reynolds tells the story of how he dated three beautiful women (played by Isla Fisher, Rachel Weisz and Elizabeth Banks), one of whom he married and later divorced -- meaning he's now single again. And he also got a cute, precocious daughter (Abigail Breslin) out of the deal who becomes beneficial to him in his return to bachelorhood. But then is it really a chick flick? I guess it is if you count romantic comedies in that grouping, though the genre has never necessarily been aligned with the term, nor vice versa. And in the age of Judd Apatow, it's more likely that any new romantic comedy is actually a guy movie. Do many men realize it's a movie for them, though? Probably not. Though chick flicks are typically movies primarily populated by women characters and/or a female protagonist (think Steel Magnolias), romance films not made by either Apatow or the Farrelly brothers may be thought of as being for the ladies, even if they feature a male lead, like Reynolds in Definitely, Maybe. I'll admit I've always been confused about chick flicks as a term. I apparently enjoy many so-called chick flicks, including even (especially) Beaches. So, I may not be using the term correctly in this list. However, I am a guy and I know what guys want. So, I'm going to do this my way, and answer the following question: What other films may have been initially perceived by males as being made for chicks but which turned out to be more for them (us)?Continue reading Cinematical Seven: Chick Flicks for Guys Permalink | Email this | Comments
Author: TheChronicler Added: Tue, 20 May 2008 20:49:32 -0800 Duration: 333I Review Top Gun: The Second Mission for the NES Note: I misspoke early on in the review, TG:SM DID NOT come out acouple of years ago as I stated in the review; it come out acouple of years after the first one(1988)
Author: TheChronicler Added: Tue, 20 May 2008 20:49:32 -0800 Duration: 333I Review Top Gun: The Second Mission for the NES Note: I misspoke early on in the review, TG:SM DID NOT come out acouple of years ago as I stated in the review; it come out acouple of years after the first one(1988)
Author: selfmademonkey Added: Mon, 04 Feb 2008 18:46:17 -0800 Duration: 1489If there's one thing crazy dudes know how to do, it's rock hard. For more crazy vids, go to http://www.selfmademonkeys.com
Author: selfmademonkey Added: Mon, 04 Feb 2008 18:46:17 -0800 Duration: 1489If there's one thing crazy dudes know how to do, it's rock hard. For more vids, go to http://www.selfmademonkeys.com
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Naveen: Some of the vintage cars that adorned the garage of big boss Bernie Ecclestone of Formula One went under the hammer lately. The auction was held by RM Auctions in cooperation with Sotheby s. The focus of the auction was the famous Mercedes-Benz 540K Special Roadster, 1937 that went for 6 million Euros. Another Mercedes SSK Roadster model of 1928 and the spectacular Ford GT40 of 1966, a model derived from road car that dominated Le Mans were auctioned for 1.5 million Euros each. A BMW 507 roadster went for 600 thousands Euros, a 1933 Rolls-Royce Phantom II Continental Faux Cabriolet was sold for £424,650, and a 1927 Delage 15-S-8 Grand Prix Car went under the hammer for £775,000. Many of the cars that entered the auction were sold for double the estimates of experts. via Republicca
The Weekend! Episode 5 Watch the video Time for the Weekend:*What Happened Last Night?*Make That Face*Flyin to KC! Tags: funny, weekend, kansas, tom cruise, dangerzone, casino, jonwedd, private plane, face, top gun, scottish, riverboat, flying, bag pipe, awesome
