So, I spent my day today moving into my first apartment. Got the keys this morning. Moved boxes of stuff all day. There's no furniture yet...but it's a start. It'll be a process I suppose. It's exciting stuff though, so go me.All things considered, I thought I'd do something special today. My Top 5 Movie Apartment Special Edition. That's a pretty fancy title, I know. Especially since my list is so lame. That's why you keep coming back though, the lameness mixed in with MORE lameness.
First, in our Honorable mentions category, is Denethor's throne room from Return of the King. As a Steward, he's not really king, so in a way, doesn't that make all of Gondor a rental?
With that out of the way, lets get into it. Coming in at #5...
Edward Norton's apartment in Fight Club. Like a page out of an Ikea catalog, our humble narrator led the ultimate single serving life until "a volcanic blast of debris that used to be your furniture and personal effects blows out of your floor-to-ceiling windows and sails flaming into the night. I suppose these things happen." Shortly afterwards, he became a champion for squatter's right and the original proprieter of Bum Fights.Number four on our list takes us to the other side of the Pacific Ocean...
The lovely 2 bedroom apartment of 2LDK. This spacious apartment is home to roommates Lana and Nozomi. 2 young women with almost nothing in common brought together by the prospect of cheap rent. Shot in sequence over 8 days, it's the story of the ultimate division of space as the two begin to attack belongings and each other with food and swords. A darkly funny improvement on the old painting the room in half gag.From Japan to a galaxy far far away, let's visit the home of 1 Padme Amidala...
Padme's apartment is a beautiful, and rather large, apartment with an amazing view of the lights of Coruscant. It's the kind of apartment that only a government official could afford after a few kickbacks for putting a Supreme Chancellor out on his ass. With it's retro futuristic design you can't help but wonder where they hide the tv. The apartment's best feature though? Jedi defence system included in the rent.Let's come back home though and look at an apartment that isn't really from a movie. Though everyone in it appeared in Shaun of the Dead, number 2 is the London flat from TV's Spaced...
Filled with comic book and movie memorabilia, this is a geek's paradise. With a pleasant but unhinged artist downstairs and an alchoholic single mother upstairs, two people pretend to be a couple to get a good price on a little apartment. Tim and Daisy are visited constantly by not only their neigrbors but their friends Twist and Mike. Not to mention the occasional bike messenger dancing along to any rythmic noise. And like any good English home, good times can be had simply by walking to the closest pub.We're down to the last one, aren't we? This is the end, my only friend, the end. Well, not quite, almost. Are you ready? No? Well, take your time...I'm not going anywhere...
Okay, you good? Good. The #1 movie apartment according to our panel of judges (me) is...
Rob Gordon's apartment from High Fidelity. This amazingly large apartment near downtown Chicago proves one thing, Rob is blackmailing the landlord. There's just no way he could afford this large 2 bedroom apartment on his salary from a barely staying open record store. That aside, it has everything, tons of records and concert posters and some presumably great stereo equipment. And shockingly, you never seen a television. This is the life. Rob somehow manages to live out all his dreams despite being broke. What more could you want from an apartment.That's all I've got for now! Tune in next time for the Top 5 Movie Toilets!
