Quick Thoughts: “The Terminal”
As I was driving my car today, something compelling occurred to me: I have never and will never see “The Terminal”. Why? Because it’s based around three things that I loathe with a passion: Fat self-important Tom Hanks, Airports, and fake Russian accents. Seriously, I’d rather eat glass. Why I just realized this today, I’ll probably never know.
Cowboys are the new ninja. You heard it here first, folks.
Today, around 4 pm, the video for Muse’s “Knights of Cydonia” arrived on my e-desktop and my day was instantly transformed. I don’t know if I’ve ever seen a video that so effortlessly combines virtually everything that is cool in this world.
Hot chicks with X-ray vision? Check.
Handlebar moustaches? Check.
Cowboys? Check.
Robots? Check.
Kung Fu? Check.
Deliriously frosty beats? Unicorns? Holograms? Peasants whippin’ poo? Humpin’? Chrome guitar rock? Mexicans with bugles and bandoliers? Check Check Check Check Check Check Check.
I honestly can’t think of anything else that I’d add. There was even a part towards the end of the video where I thought to myself “Wow. The only thing this video is missing is dirt bikes.” And then what do you know – a dirt bike. And then I thought “Lasers. Yes. Lasers would be cool.” And then all of a sudden there was a hot chick in a jumpsuit and a helmet shooting lasers. It’s like I did it WITH MY MIND.
I don’t know who you are, Muse, but believe me. You have my attention.
Update: I think that I’ve watched this video approximately eighty times now and I have yet to discover anything that would me to believe anything other than that this is the greatest video of all time. Notice that you can see the director and camera crew in the bedroom mirror around the 3:13 mark. Spectacular.
