Wednesday, March 25, 2009

Cartoon Cops

Tonight's episode is narrated by Mark Burroughs.

Two coroners enter a stately mansion as Barney Rubble follows after several hours of a hostage stand-off against Skeletor. Under a hail of gunfire, the upstairs foyer went silent. A wide staircase leads upward towards massive double doors which lead through the foyer and into a ballroom.

Upon opening the double doors, Skeletor, who was merely wounded, lunges from behind an ornate bust firing an AK-47 at the group of three screaming, "Diiieee!" as only he can. One of the coroners falls as Barney takes cover outside the doorway. He sprays bullets in the direction of the threat as a weak flashlight flickers from atop the barrel of his assault rifle. Skeletor makes a run for it and Barney decides to rush into the room.

In a flurry of commotion, running, and desperate gunfire, Skeletor reaches the same doorway where the coroner was gunned down. Barney, in true Hollywood B-movie style, hurls his weapon at the fleeing fugitive once he realizes he is out of ammunition and miraculously strikes Skeletor in the solar plexus sending him flying through the first floor atrium and crashing through a closed door.

The villain is pierced through the back upon landing on a closet door knob in a child's bedroom.

Tuesday, March 10, 2009

80's Movie Montage Mania

Not so much a transformation but manic series of cuts depicting Steve and his desperate attempt at not having his BMX bike stolen during a school assembly.

The sequence takes place while "Fascination" by Company B plays in the background.

At first, arriving in the auditorium while riding the bike, Steve tries to find a suitable place to park it, then leaves it leaning up against the divider to the front half of the auditorium to retrieve his coiled bike lock from his apartment.

Several cuts show an increasingly exasperated Steve leaving the apartment and closing and locking the front door, only to unlock and reopen the door to:
- go to the bathroom
- brush his teeth
- close the refrigerator
- turn off the lights
- check that the oven is turned off

Finally, we see Steve locking up his bike to a water standpipe outside the auditorium. After the school assembly, we see the bike being ridden away, the rider popping wheelies.

This episode of 80's Movie Montage Mania brought to you by The 80's Movie Montage Hall of Fame.