It's only been done two times before. Only two teams have come back after trailing an OHL playoff series 3-0 and have gone on to win it. It was Windsor's second series victory after trailing 3-0 in their 30-year history. They also came back from a 3-0 deficit against the Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds in 2005, and the Ottawa 67's did it to the Oshawa Generals in 1988. The Spits will now play the regular season champion, Barrie Colts in the OHL Final, with the winner advancing to the 2010 Memorial Cup Championship tournament.
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Monday, April 26, 2010
Sunday, April 25, 2010
Do You Agree?
Boston.com has come up with a list of the "Top 50 Scariest Movies of All Time." You'll have to go throught the list by clicking on the "next" tab as the pages load one at a time.
My take?
(by the way, the list is chronologically listed backwards here. It should read #50 down to #1, but that's the way it was listed by the website. I just re-produced it as such.)
1) Arachnophobia (1990) More comedic than scary. The best part is when all those spiders come pouring out of the sink. or maybe when one comes out of a victims mouth.
2) The Innocents (1961) Haven't seen it.
3) Blair Witch 2: Book of Shadows (2000) Not scary at all. I don't even know what it's doing on a list of "scary" movies. Dumb premise, bad acting. No direction. The ending was neat, but too little, too late.
4) Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (1971) This is how I remember this story. The Gene Wilder version (although I believe the Johnny Depp version is truer to the original main character) and who can forget Denise Nickerson's Violet Beauregarde turning blue and floating away? Freaky stuff when you're a kid. But, how is this scary, exactly?
5) The Wicker Man (1973) Haven't seen it, although I did see the recent Nicolas Cage version. Not bad. But I'm only assuming that this version was probably better.
6) The Blob (1988) Seen the original 1958 version. Much better. I guess it true that it's more scary when you don't see the monster. I wonder where 1985's The Stuff should be on this list?
7) Rosemary's Baby (1968) Haven't seen it-believe it or not.
8) The Brood (1979) Haven't seen it.
9) Event Horizon (1997) Don't really remember this one, even though I know I've seen it. So, I'll have to give it a pass.
10) Dawn of the Dead (2004) Probably every bit as gory as the original (if that's possible) but still doesn't have my loyalty as the first one, even though it was by the same director.
11) Eraserhead (1977) Haven't seen it.
12) The Amityville Horror (1978) Another early fright for me. Much like the Salem's Lot scene where the vampire kid is outside the window, the scene in Amityville with the glowing red eyes was a trip, and the cause for some lost sleep from this at-the-time, 10-year-old when it came on t.v. One of the all-time classics.
13) Pet Cemetery (1989) Cool flick, as is a all Stephen King flicks (with a notable exception to Sleepwalkers, yech!) the best part is when Herman Munster gets it in the Achilles tendon by a scalpel from the deranged re-animated kid hiding under his bed.
14) Open Water (2003) Dumb, dumb, dumb. How a movie about a couple floating in the water is scary (although granted, the premise certainly is) beats me. An hour and a half reduced to 15 minutes of fast-forwarding.
15) A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) Another classic of my generation. Let's hope the remake does it better justice than the one done for Friday the 13th (why any of the first four of that franchise isn't anywhere on this list is well beyond me) Anyone remember a young, pre-21 Jump Street Johnny Depp?
16) The Fly (1986) Probably the only movie on this list that's better than the original, if only slightly. However, when seeing this (if you can get past the appearance of Gina Davis) how can anyone who's seen the original, Vincent Price (miss him yet?) version not think of the scene at the end where the fly with the head of a man is caught in the web with a spider closing in on him, screaming "Help me!?"
17) Salem's Lot (1979) Not bad for it's day. But even being all of eight years old when this came out (even though I was probably more like 10 when it I first saw it on t.v) the only scene that got to me was the aforementioned scene of the vampire kid tapping the window, two floors up.
18) Gates of Hell (1980) Haven't seen it.
19) Session 9 (2001) Haven't seen it.
20) In the Mouth of Madness (1994) Haven't seen it.
21) Altered States (1980) Again, some cool, kind of freaky parts, but not scary in the classic sense.
22) Mothman Prophecies (2002) Decent. Hard to believe this was based on a "true story." Although a lot of those on this list presumably were. But one of the most scary of all time? Hardly.
23) The Mist (2007) All I can say is without giving too much away is, if he had only waited another 20 seconds.
24) Videodrome (1983) I have seen this one, but it's been so long, I couldn't possibly give an honest critique.
25) Seven (1995) Not just a cool, original, thriller (certainly not a "horror movie") but one of my favourite movies period. Great performances from Brad Pit and Kevin Spacey. And how can you ever go wrong enlisting the talents of Morgan Freeman? Beauty flick.
26) War of the Worlds (1953) How can anyone not give props to this? Based on the Orson Welles radio dramatization of 1938 (who himself based that on the original H.G. Wells novel of 1898) this is pretty much the template of alien invasion stories and it still holds up today. The Tom Cruise 2005 version (which was stolen by a then-11-year-old Dakota Fanning) was pretty good, but would never in a million years get the credit or following that Welles original does, with good reason.
27) Saw (2004) The only one in this franchise I give any credence to. As with most sequels, personally I don't think parts two through six muster up to the original. Time to retire this series. But this one...very good.
28) Janghwa, Hongryeon (A Tale of Two Sisters) (2003) Haven't seen it.
29) The Silence of the Lambs (1991) What is there more to say about this one? It swept the 1992 Oscars, as well as it should have. Great story. Great acting. You know that line about the fiber beans and a bottle of Chianti isn't a classic line for nothing.
30) The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974) A very dark film. And I meet that literally. You can't see a damn thing! Did no one on the production crew think of bringing some lights? You know they are portable, even in 1974. All you can hear through most of this movie (because really, you can't see jack) is a lot of screaming and a lot of a running chainsaw. Still a classic, though, I suppose.
31) Hellraiser (1997) Cool flick. Although I think I was "thrilled" by the effects rather than "scared" by the story.
32) The Changeling (1980) Haven't seen it.
33) 28 Days Later (2002) I may be in the minority with this one, but I found this movie relatively boring to say the least. It's sequel, 28 Weeks Later even more so. Sorry all you "Days "fans out there. It just didn't do it for me. I found Shawn of the Dead to be more entertaining.
34) Pan's Labyrinth (2006) Really good movie. You really feel for the main character in this one. If you can stand foreign films and sub-titles, it really is worth your time.
35) Jacob's Ladder (1990) I don't know if I'd consider this a horror movie, but it's definitely a thriller. The best work of a young Tim Robbins. Danny Aiello is also good in this. I doubt anyone would guess the ending unless you're a theatre seer. Great twist.
36) Jaws (1975) The beginning of the summer blockbuster. I can remember seeing this at the drive-in (remember those?) and having cars going all the way down the highway. It freaked me out, for sure. Come to think of it, what was my mother thinking taking a four-year old to a horror movie of this magnitude?
37) The Exorcist (1973) Best horror film EVER!! It should have been #1 on this, and every list of this type.
38) Quatermass and the Pit (1968) Haven't seen it.
39) Cloverfield (2008) Apparently, people either love or hate this film. I wouldn't go that far. I think it was a smart, original film. Then again, I still maintain that about "The Blair Witch Project."
40) The Shining (1980) What can you say about this Stephen King classic? "Redrum" is a societal mainstay. Jack Nicholson at his psychotic best.
41) Audition (1999) Haven't seen it.
42) Halloween (1978) Second best horror movie of all time. It really should have a more prominent place on this list than the middle of the pack. Tell me, along with Jason Voorhees,
that Michael Myers isn't a horror movie icon.
43) Evil Dead 2 (1987) Another modern classic that had me on the edge of my seat. Mission accomplished. Gory, funny, brilliant! The same goes for it' predecessor.
44) Dawn of the Dead (1978) A must on any horror list. Absolutely brilliant...and gory. It goes to show that, with the exception of Rob Zombie, only the original film-makers should re-make their own.
45) Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978) I must be the only person who thinks that not only is this film not scary, but kind of boring.
46) Alien (1979) Another modern classic. Great effects, good story. Classic scene of the human-host to the alien embryo. Seriously, can anyone look at John Hurt and not think of that dinner scene? This is also the movie that really brought on the female hero genre. They don't make them like this anymore.
47) The Ring (2002) I made a point of seeing this in the theatre in today's DVD and online-crazy world. I was mostly pleased. The girl coming out of the television screen was f-r-e-a-k-y! The original Japanese version, Ringu, was very good too.
48) Rec (2007) Haven't seen it.
49) Ju-On (2000) Haven't seen it.
50) The Thing (1982) Very good. Pretty loyal to the original. Great performance by Kurt Russel. I don't know, I guess I'm just partial to the originals.
So basically, "The Thing" is the scariest movie of all time? A great flick (although I think the original 1952 version, The Thing from Another World is still more physcologically thrilling) And overall, The Exorcist (#12 on the this list) is the scariest movie I've ever seen, bar none! I saw it for the first time when I was about eight years old, and that was on television. So, even with all the t.v. editing, it still freaked me out enough to have a nightmare that kept me out of my room for three days. Well, at least Kevin Bacon's "Hollow Man" isn't on this list.
Speaking of what's not on this list, where's Halloween 2 (1981), The Devil's Rejects (2005), House of 1000 Corpses (2003) The House on Haunted Hill (1959) The Strangers (2008) The Babysitter (1978) The Fog (1980) Christine (1983) Carrie (1976) The Omen (1976) Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992) Night of the Living Dead (1968) not to mention the classics, Lon Chaney's and Boris Karloff's Dracula, Frankenstein and Wolfman movies? I mean, this is a list of all time, right?
My take?
(by the way, the list is chronologically listed backwards here. It should read #50 down to #1, but that's the way it was listed by the website. I just re-produced it as such.)
1) Arachnophobia (1990) More comedic than scary. The best part is when all those spiders come pouring out of the sink. or maybe when one comes out of a victims mouth.
2) The Innocents (1961) Haven't seen it.
3) Blair Witch 2: Book of Shadows (2000) Not scary at all. I don't even know what it's doing on a list of "scary" movies. Dumb premise, bad acting. No direction. The ending was neat, but too little, too late.
4) Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (1971) This is how I remember this story. The Gene Wilder version (although I believe the Johnny Depp version is truer to the original main character) and who can forget Denise Nickerson's Violet Beauregarde turning blue and floating away? Freaky stuff when you're a kid. But, how is this scary, exactly?
5) The Wicker Man (1973) Haven't seen it, although I did see the recent Nicolas Cage version. Not bad. But I'm only assuming that this version was probably better.
6) The Blob (1988) Seen the original 1958 version. Much better. I guess it true that it's more scary when you don't see the monster. I wonder where 1985's The Stuff should be on this list?
7) Rosemary's Baby (1968) Haven't seen it-believe it or not.
8) The Brood (1979) Haven't seen it.
9) Event Horizon (1997) Don't really remember this one, even though I know I've seen it. So, I'll have to give it a pass.
10) Dawn of the Dead (2004) Probably every bit as gory as the original (if that's possible) but still doesn't have my loyalty as the first one, even though it was by the same director.
11) Eraserhead (1977) Haven't seen it.
12) The Amityville Horror (1978) Another early fright for me. Much like the Salem's Lot scene where the vampire kid is outside the window, the scene in Amityville with the glowing red eyes was a trip, and the cause for some lost sleep from this at-the-time, 10-year-old when it came on t.v. One of the all-time classics.
13) Pet Cemetery (1989) Cool flick, as is a all Stephen King flicks (with a notable exception to Sleepwalkers, yech!) the best part is when Herman Munster gets it in the Achilles tendon by a scalpel from the deranged re-animated kid hiding under his bed.
14) Open Water (2003) Dumb, dumb, dumb. How a movie about a couple floating in the water is scary (although granted, the premise certainly is) beats me. An hour and a half reduced to 15 minutes of fast-forwarding.
15) A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) Another classic of my generation. Let's hope the remake does it better justice than the one done for Friday the 13th (why any of the first four of that franchise isn't anywhere on this list is well beyond me) Anyone remember a young, pre-21 Jump Street Johnny Depp?
16) The Fly (1986) Probably the only movie on this list that's better than the original, if only slightly. However, when seeing this (if you can get past the appearance of Gina Davis) how can anyone who's seen the original, Vincent Price (miss him yet?) version not think of the scene at the end where the fly with the head of a man is caught in the web with a spider closing in on him, screaming "Help me!?"
17) Salem's Lot (1979) Not bad for it's day. But even being all of eight years old when this came out (even though I was probably more like 10 when it I first saw it on t.v) the only scene that got to me was the aforementioned scene of the vampire kid tapping the window, two floors up.
18) Gates of Hell (1980) Haven't seen it.
19) Session 9 (2001) Haven't seen it.
20) In the Mouth of Madness (1994) Haven't seen it.
21) Altered States (1980) Again, some cool, kind of freaky parts, but not scary in the classic sense.
22) Mothman Prophecies (2002) Decent. Hard to believe this was based on a "true story." Although a lot of those on this list presumably were. But one of the most scary of all time? Hardly.
23) The Mist (2007) All I can say is without giving too much away is, if he had only waited another 20 seconds.
24) Videodrome (1983) I have seen this one, but it's been so long, I couldn't possibly give an honest critique.
25) Seven (1995) Not just a cool, original, thriller (certainly not a "horror movie") but one of my favourite movies period. Great performances from Brad Pit and Kevin Spacey. And how can you ever go wrong enlisting the talents of Morgan Freeman? Beauty flick.
26) War of the Worlds (1953) How can anyone not give props to this? Based on the Orson Welles radio dramatization of 1938 (who himself based that on the original H.G. Wells novel of 1898) this is pretty much the template of alien invasion stories and it still holds up today. The Tom Cruise 2005 version (which was stolen by a then-11-year-old Dakota Fanning) was pretty good, but would never in a million years get the credit or following that Welles original does, with good reason.
27) Saw (2004) The only one in this franchise I give any credence to. As with most sequels, personally I don't think parts two through six muster up to the original. Time to retire this series. But this one...very good.
28) Janghwa, Hongryeon (A Tale of Two Sisters) (2003) Haven't seen it.
29) The Silence of the Lambs (1991) What is there more to say about this one? It swept the 1992 Oscars, as well as it should have. Great story. Great acting. You know that line about the fiber beans and a bottle of Chianti isn't a classic line for nothing.
30) The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974) A very dark film. And I meet that literally. You can't see a damn thing! Did no one on the production crew think of bringing some lights? You know they are portable, even in 1974. All you can hear through most of this movie (because really, you can't see jack) is a lot of screaming and a lot of a running chainsaw. Still a classic, though, I suppose.
31) Hellraiser (1997) Cool flick. Although I think I was "thrilled" by the effects rather than "scared" by the story.
32) The Changeling (1980) Haven't seen it.
33) 28 Days Later (2002) I may be in the minority with this one, but I found this movie relatively boring to say the least. It's sequel, 28 Weeks Later even more so. Sorry all you "Days "fans out there. It just didn't do it for me. I found Shawn of the Dead to be more entertaining.
34) Pan's Labyrinth (2006) Really good movie. You really feel for the main character in this one. If you can stand foreign films and sub-titles, it really is worth your time.
35) Jacob's Ladder (1990) I don't know if I'd consider this a horror movie, but it's definitely a thriller. The best work of a young Tim Robbins. Danny Aiello is also good in this. I doubt anyone would guess the ending unless you're a theatre seer. Great twist.
36) Jaws (1975) The beginning of the summer blockbuster. I can remember seeing this at the drive-in (remember those?) and having cars going all the way down the highway. It freaked me out, for sure. Come to think of it, what was my mother thinking taking a four-year old to a horror movie of this magnitude?
37) The Exorcist (1973) Best horror film EVER!! It should have been #1 on this, and every list of this type.
38) Quatermass and the Pit (1968) Haven't seen it.
39) Cloverfield (2008) Apparently, people either love or hate this film. I wouldn't go that far. I think it was a smart, original film. Then again, I still maintain that about "The Blair Witch Project."
40) The Shining (1980) What can you say about this Stephen King classic? "Redrum" is a societal mainstay. Jack Nicholson at his psychotic best.
41) Audition (1999) Haven't seen it.
42) Halloween (1978) Second best horror movie of all time. It really should have a more prominent place on this list than the middle of the pack. Tell me, along with Jason Voorhees,
that Michael Myers isn't a horror movie icon.
43) Evil Dead 2 (1987) Another modern classic that had me on the edge of my seat. Mission accomplished. Gory, funny, brilliant! The same goes for it' predecessor.
44) Dawn of the Dead (1978) A must on any horror list. Absolutely brilliant...and gory. It goes to show that, with the exception of Rob Zombie, only the original film-makers should re-make their own.
45) Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978) I must be the only person who thinks that not only is this film not scary, but kind of boring.
46) Alien (1979) Another modern classic. Great effects, good story. Classic scene of the human-host to the alien embryo. Seriously, can anyone look at John Hurt and not think of that dinner scene? This is also the movie that really brought on the female hero genre. They don't make them like this anymore.
47) The Ring (2002) I made a point of seeing this in the theatre in today's DVD and online-crazy world. I was mostly pleased. The girl coming out of the television screen was f-r-e-a-k-y! The original Japanese version, Ringu, was very good too.
48) Rec (2007) Haven't seen it.
49) Ju-On (2000) Haven't seen it.
50) The Thing (1982) Very good. Pretty loyal to the original. Great performance by Kurt Russel. I don't know, I guess I'm just partial to the originals.
So basically, "The Thing" is the scariest movie of all time? A great flick (although I think the original 1952 version, The Thing from Another World is still more physcologically thrilling) And overall, The Exorcist (#12 on the this list) is the scariest movie I've ever seen, bar none! I saw it for the first time when I was about eight years old, and that was on television. So, even with all the t.v. editing, it still freaked me out enough to have a nightmare that kept me out of my room for three days. Well, at least Kevin Bacon's "Hollow Man" isn't on this list.
Speaking of what's not on this list, where's Halloween 2 (1981), The Devil's Rejects (2005), House of 1000 Corpses (2003) The House on Haunted Hill (1959) The Strangers (2008) The Babysitter (1978) The Fog (1980) Christine (1983) Carrie (1976) The Omen (1976) Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992) Night of the Living Dead (1968) not to mention the classics, Lon Chaney's and Boris Karloff's Dracula, Frankenstein and Wolfman movies? I mean, this is a list of all time, right?
Monday, April 12, 2010
MMM...Double Down Chicken
And a lot of it. Not to mention a chance of cholestorol. But what can be better than bacon and cheese between two pieces of chicken breast (or what I'm temporarily calling chicken-bread?)
I HAVE to have it!
I HAVE to have it!
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