633 Ashland Ave.: A Not So Valentine’s, Valentine’s Day

Zach Ewell

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If you‰’re like so many of us singles, or “playas‰” if you prefer, that don‰’t really enjoy seeing couples exchange sweatshop teddy bears or bitter-tasting heart shaped candies on Valentine’s day, you’re in luck. Without further ado, here are four movies to watch during Valentine’s Day that will occupy your mind and take you away from your Scott Pilgrim love like anxiety. So unplug that Nirvana song you‰’ve been listening to for the past half hour (Lithium), and tune into these five movies.

1. Fear and Loathing In Las Vegas

Let Gonzo Journalist Hunter S. Thompson take you for a wild ride into the deep dark desolate 1970‰’s Las Vegas. Staring Johnny Depp and Benicio Del Toro as two drug crazed maniacs, “Fear and Loathing In Las Vegas” will defiantly get your mind off “she/he who shall not be named‰Û, or just Valentine’s Day in general. The amount of drugs consumed in this movie will even have an effect on you, the viewer, as the movie will twist and turn until it swallows your attention whole.

2. Reservoir Dogs

 

If you‰’re a Quinton Tarantino fan you understand this movie choice. There is no mushy love story or over excessive montages in this flick, just guys with guns shooting at each other. A story about a six man store robbery gone terribly wrong, and if your not hooked by the very first scene of the film, just wait a few minutes more for the coolest slow motion sequence ever. This film has profanity, blood, and bullets, enough to keep your mind off your Grunge-like Valentines Day.

3. Dr. Strangelove

 

Although there is a little sexual content in this film, most of the main characters are more occupied with the probability of all out nuclear warfare between the USSR and America, then chasing tail. One of Stanly Kubrick‰’s first masterpieces, “Dr. Strangelove” is a social commentary on America‰’s past fear of communist invasion and spying. The film follows many interesting characters that will keep you in tune with the large story, with an ending that could end all civilizations itself.

4. The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly

This Spaghetti Western masterpiece is long and gritty, featuring Clint Eastwood and a band of two others in search for hidden Confederate treasure. In the crosshairs of the Civil War three men fight they‰’re way through both Union and Confederate solders to fulfill their dreams of riches and glory. There is little talking in this movie, but intense Dragon Ball Z-esque stares and gunfire.