40 Times “Spice World” Slayed Your Entire Existence

This month marks the eighteenth anniversary of one of the greatest cult classics of all time–Spice World. Released officially in the UK on 26 December 1997 and then 25 January 1998 in the US, Spice World followed the story of hit pop girl group the Spice Girls as they travel to their performance in Albert Hall. As the Girls travel to their destination, a film crew trying to capture their attention, a movie studio looking to produce a movie about them (oh, the irony!), pregnancies, and tabloids stand Okay, so the plot is hard to explain but I swear this is not a drama. We can only wait for The Unauthorized Spice Girls Story to premiere on Lifetime in a few years for that to happen.

Although the film was a critical flop, it has become a cult classic and it is easy to see why with how much slayage the Girls are serving. Here are the 40 times the Spice Girls slayed your life in Spice World :

1.) When they opened the film with a Top of the Pops performance of “Too Much”:

Credit to UndeadCritic.

My dream is to open a movie the exact same way.

2.) When the Girls strut down the hallway…

Credit to Pretty-Frankenstein.

3.)…then met up with Elton John, #Legends:

4.) This moment from one of the film’s promotional trailers is iconic in itself:

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5.) When Victoria was torn over wearing the little Gucci dress , the little Gucci dress, or the little Gucci dress:

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I feel the struggle, girl.

6.) When the Girls delivered this iconic version of “Say You’ll Be There”:

Where’s the studio version of this???

7.) When our Girls became moms for a quick second (even though they actually are now!):

8.) When Mel B totally clocked Geri wearing her boots:

Courtesy of Favim.com. Check out that fab lip couch!

9.) When Victoria knew all the right questions to ask:

Courtesy of Hollywood.com.

I’ve had the same concern.

10.) When the Girls totally called out their critics:

Credit to Spicefreakout.

11.) When the Girls did that crazy photoshoot modeled after “The Lady is a Vamp”:

12.) And then dressed up as one another:

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13.) When Geri felt the need to almost slap Mel B within a specific time frame:

Credit to Pretty-Frankenstein.

14.) When Geri served looks while questioning the Pope’s religion:

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15.) Another perfectly Posh moment featuring a cameo from the flawless Jennifer Saunders:

Makes me excited for the new AbFab movie!

16.) When we learned even extraterrestrial beings were into the Spice Girls:

17.) Snatch them, Sporty:

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18.) When we were reminded to “Never Give Up On The Good Times”:

19.) When the Spice Girls fought for our land of Spice World:

Patriotic inspirations.

20.) Isn’t it everyone’s worst nightmare?

21.) When the world was introduced to the Spice Force Five:

22.) Batman…

23.) Spider-Man…

24.) Superman…

25.) What’s good?

26.) When the Girls gave us #PajamaGoals:

27.) Let’s admit it, Posh had stole most of the spotlight in this movie:

Courtesy of Glamour.

28.) The Girls knew how to tell people off in style:

29.) Let’s not forget this moment:

Courtesy of Glamour.

30.) “Cause tonight is the night, when 5 become 1…again”:

31.) #TBT:

32.) When the Girls taught us a valuable lesson in delivering a baby:

Courtesy of Buzzfeed.

33.) Is this not hospital visiting goals?

34.) When the Girls had the most epic race against time:

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35.) And then found a bomb:

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36.) This film’s special effects was ahead of its time:

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37.) Throwback! Get it? No? Okay.

Falling down goals.

38.) When the film taught us how to get out of legal troubles:

39.) And made us dream of having a performance like this:

The most iconic performance in a film. Ever.

40.) Last but not least, let’s not forget when the Girls broke the fourth wall:

Credit to Pretty-Frankenstein.

If you have not seen Spice World, I suggest you do so now because, I mean…

And don’t forget the world that we live in.

Credit to Unde-naya-blebeauty.

Ta-ta for now!

 

Top 5 Christmas Movies

1. How the Grinch Stole Christmas

Boris Karloff’s dulcet baritone lends sinister charm to everyone’s favorite Who hate in this short, sweet Christmas special.

 

2. Elf

It may star Will Ferrell as a dim-witted elf, but the movie’s payoff is old-fashioned, familiar, and welcome.

 

3. National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation

Decking the halls and other traditions are all colossal failures for the Griswold family–riotous because it hits close to home.

 

4. Home Alone

A game changer for the Christmas-movie category: it has action,like a zip line to the neighbors’ house

 

5. Its  A Wonderful Life

Whether or not you have your own guardian angel hovering, the lesson here is that it’s not money that makes you rich.

Whether or not you have your own guardian angel hovering, the lesson here is that it’s not money that makes you rich.

Thanksgiving…

With the holidays approaching around the corner, it seems to get harder and harder for me not to feel like something is missing every single Thanksgiving along with the rest of the holidays.

I can’t remember when Thanksgiving actually felt like Thanksgiving. Every time this day comes each year, my family never actually sits at a table together. Instead my family sits in front of a tv waiting until it gets late and it’s time to clean up.We never really talk about anything special or have the “what you’re thankful for” speech. Of course, there is your typical turkey and mashed potatoes but continuously I feel as though I have a hole in my heart. And once I actually decide to act on the feeling I go to my room and call my dad. I wish him a happy Thanksgiving and listen as he explains to me how his new family is doing and how he spent his holiday without me. I guess it’s then that I realize that no holiday will ever be the same since my dad left. And as I try my hardest to hold back my tears and not explain how I really feel inside, I tell my dad I have to go and hang up the phone. I make that phone call every single holiday, and I always feel the same way each and every year. A phone call doesn’t help the fact that I miss having my dad around all the time. As much as I mature or grow each each year, that situation always hits me hard on the holidays.

When people ask what I do for the holidays I always say “the same thing as last year”, which is true. The same thing, which includes feeling like I will never feel truly happy celebrating a holiday without having my dad around. I doubt that feeling will ever go away as the years go by.

TropFest Film Critique

The film i chose to critique was called The Unlikely Maestro. It was the Winner of TropFest New York in 2013. It was written and directed by Nick Baker. To me it was a very interesting film. It starts very mellow with an establishing shot of a kind of cartoon sky with clouds and slowly goes into a long shot of a city. Then goes off with great narration to begin the story. As the narrator talks in poetic terms, the shots change and show how a rat is in love with music. The non-diegetic music complements the story throughout it because it contains the mellow and calm state that the film is in. The shots go from being medium to long as they shot the rat watching and be astonished by the music being played below him. Then walking down the street corner the rat notices a sign which is portrayed in a medium shot of the rat seeing the sign with his favorite conductor coming to the city. They then put a close up on the rat with joy on his face showing that he couldn’t wait to see his favorite conductor play. The narrator then starts to talk about the conductor and how very old he is and his health conditions. They shoot long shots of the conductor and try to create suspense with low key lighting. The time comes and the rat is ready as his favorite conductor approaches the stage, then with a medium shot shows the old conductor grab his chest and start to cough. Then suddenly he drops and has a heart attack. They give a close up of the rat in dis belief but the rat see’s an opportunity he cant refuse and jumps down to take over the performance. He then conducts the orchestra and in a medium shot of the rat you see him conducting and the crowd behind him cheering. The finally scene consists of the mellow music still playing and a fade scene to black.

Granny Smith: Tropfest 2014 Winner

The world’s largest short film festival, Tropfest, brings out top pieces of production from many talented directors. 2014’s winner of the festival “Granny Smith” by director Julian Lucas offers a lot to the wide section.

Like many of the short films, “Granny Smith” is a comedy filled with light-heart and dark humor. The film has a cool and grayish atmosphere for most of the movie, as the plot deals with the supposed death of the protagonists grandma. Even so, the film has many vibrant colors in it as well, particularly in the office scenes where the protagonist’s workers and boss all share their condolences for the protagonists loss. Since he did not really lose his grandmother, it only adds to the humor for the audience when his co workers give their most sincere and heartwarming apologies.

Many different types of shots were made in the film. In the beginning, a close up on the hungover body of the protagonist was for a little humor. Also, there was a shot of him walking with his best friend in slow motion, bringing out the confidence of the best friend and the insecurity of the protagonist.

The film was well produced and was fluid. The plot was consistent and did not get lost in other subplots. The humor was witty, dark, and offered a lot of interpretation for the viewer to enjoy. The characters, though being very few, are well built and memorable. But perhaps the greatest thing about the film, is the absurdity of the plot. From the protagonist’s lie spurred an entire dilemma which we enjoyed to watch it progress. Though the film dealt with a morbid topic it still managed to keep an uplifting atmosphere throughout. Overall, The film was very well made and definitely deserved it’s 2014 victory in Tropfest.

“Inverse” Personal Film Critique

The short film “Inverse” was a finalist of Tropfest Australia 2014. As the film begins, you may feel a sense of foreboding towards the woman on the floor, covered in blood. As she arises, the audience can see that the world appears to be frozen and the music remains a bit eerie, adding to the ominous feel. It starts to make you feel a bit confused as to how everything became this way. The color palette of the film is muted which perfectly goes along with the theme, which you soon find out is sad. The woman wakes up to this paused world and watches the last few moments of her life replay, unable to do anything about it. The entire short film, including the ending, is completely an unexpected surprise. You soon find out that she jumped in front of a car, causing a domino affect of accidents just to save the little girl. You watch as she passes through all the frozen people, picks up the child and brings her to safety, and watches as the world continues on. The tagline is “What is the cost of a second chance?” I believe that the main character thinks, and the message that they are trying to convey, is that the price of a second chance is her own life. She risks it all for the young child who would have been killed had it not been for her heroic act. It’s an amazingly written short film with a beautifully constructed concept. A lot of the plot is up for debate and discussion because the director chose to leave it up to the audience to draw their own conclusions, not giving a large summary, but instead a one line sentence. I think “Inverse” was one of the best finalists of Tropfest 2014 and it certainly did raise a lot of questions for the person watching.

“The Pencil” Is A Short Film That Could Really Use A Sequel

I recently had a chance to view some of 2013 Tropfest’s short films and one film stuck out to me titled “The Pencil”. Curious enough, I watched the short film on YouTube. It is hard to describe what I thought of the Christo Erasmus directed short. Maybe disappointed? Maybe bored even?

“The Pencil” revolves around a depressed janitor (Jeremy David O’Kennedy) who, while cleaning up a classroom, decides to sit down at a desk that has a hole through it. He then begins to carve into the wood of the desk and write on it. Why? I had absolutely no idea why. After he finishes after what seemed like a short yet intense writing session, he accidentally drops his pencil into the hole of the desk. He then looks for the pencil and realizes it cannot be found anywhere on the ground. He then continuously drops pencils through the hole noticing that they just disappear. Then, the janitor man makes an even bigger gap in the desk’s wood and puts himself through it and ends up in some random forest.

The man is then confronted by other men and a woman (Mia-Anne O’Kennedy), his love interest, who bother him about the “thing” he was supposed to be looking for. Obviously, he is confused but most likely not as confused as the audience. He returns home through some strange portal (I think it was a pile of leaves) and never returns to his “destiny”, or whatever.

“The Pencil” has potential (did that rhyme?) in its plot although it did not seem like it made complete sense which is why I say that this short film needs a sequel to explain what exactly was going on. What was he supposed to bring back? Will he ever return? What was the point in all of this?

Along with its unsatisfying plot, “The Pencil” had a very soft look to it. Almost like someone used too much of an Instagram filter that made the whole picture blurry. It was quite annoying to watch as it just seemed very foggy all of the time. It would have worked best in the forest scene, but not the rest of the short.

Another thing that annoyed me when watching this film was its ending. The woman on the other side sends a pencil through the portal. On the other side, the man just picks it up and looks intensely in the other direction. By the way, this is after the man takes the disassembled desk outside. I had no idea when this portion of the film even took place. It seemed like his taking the desk out and then finding the pencil were meant to happen at different times. Especially since he found the pencil whilst walking past the desk. Yet, the characters are still wearing the same clothes. I am not sure. Maybe I am just overthinking this film but it needs more substance.

Overall, I would give this film a possible six out of ten stars. It is interesting yet it bothers the crap out of me. You can watch “The Pencil” down below!

“Granny Smith” review

“Granny Smith”  is a short film about a guy named Paul who decided to call off of work, but the friend he got to call off of work for him uses the excuse that Paul’s grandmother had died. starts with a diegetic sound of a phone call. and a close up of Paul waking up on the couch from an obvious night of partying. He then rushes to his friends room to get him to talk to his boss and call of work for him. Everything was going fine until the friend told his boss that the reason he will not be into work today is because Paul’s grandmother had died. Then there is a montage with non-diegetic happy music of them spending the next 3 days enjoying Paul’s time off work. Once Paul starts to go back to work his boss starts asking Paul questions about his grandmother, and tell Paul they were going to attend the funeral. There is an extreme close up of Paul highlighting something in the newspaper, He tells his friend that he was looking for local funerals to attend in the newspaper. There is a slow motion close up of them walking to the funeral in suits. The funeral they decided to attend was of an asian family, but Paul is a white man. Then movie then cuts to a later time in the funeral, to the grandchildren having to carry the grandmother from the chapel. There is diegetic music of one grandkid singing about his lost grandmother, and all of the dead old womans grandchildren proceed to carrying the grandmother out of the chapel and into a car. It seems as if Paul has gotten away with lying to his boss about his grandmother dying. The film then cuts to Paul at a conference table with his boss and co-workers. There is a very uplifting tone because Paul has seemed to get away with it. But then he gets news in front of his boss and co-workers that his grandma has died. Then it cuts to and you hear the song that the kid at the funeral was singing about missing his grandma, The film was very comedic especially with the irony at the end of the film. The film kept the viewer interested throughout the whole film. There was never a dull moment throughout. I would definitely recommend this film to a friend.

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This 3-minute film that was a 2013 Tropfest finalist is a short but interesting one. It is about a man who finds a camera on the Brooklyn Bridge and he discovers something through the lens. The whole feel of the movie is very eerie and it doesn’t seem like anything good could come of it. Many of the shots were close-ups and they usually panned to a half-body shot.

When the man (played by Tobias Segal) found the camera, he looked through it and saw a woman in a red dress (played by Annalisa Graziano). I liked that when he looked through the lens it was like we were looking through the lens too. Also, when he looked through the lens it was like the film was a different, warmer tone. Another thing that I liked that they did with color was the woman’s red dress. It was like the only bright color throughout the whole film. The dress stood out a lot.

Now, for the interesting part of the film, when he starts to realize that he can only see the woman through the camera, that was really cool and totally unexpected. The music they had for when he started to realize it was creepy and soft. It gave you thoughts, like “Was she a ghost? Is he crazy? Does the camera have weird magical powers? Is something going to happen to him?”. And I liked the way the camera turned to different scenes on the bridge and the way they cut to him turning and the camera turning. Then the way she ended up in front of the camera lens and how they added like a loud noise when she appeared was thrilling.

This film was short and sweet and it really catches your attention. The ending to this short movie is great and it’ll be something you want to watch over and over because you don’t know if you caught on the first time. I completely recommend spending 3 minutes on this film because it is worth it. Thank you for blessing us with your work Jennifer Gerber.