Favorite Chase Scenes
Memento (you know, when Dodd is running after Leonard, and then Leonard forgets halfway through who's chasing whom? Because he lost his short-term memory? Plus how Guy Pearce is really, really hot in that movie, though strangely not-so-much-hot in others?)
Casino Royale (In the beginning? With that guy who jumps over everything and Daniel Craig is all yummy in that dirty sweaty shirt? Rrowr!!)
Um. I think that may be it. Unless you'd call the leaping-through-backyards scene in Ferris Bueller a chase scene, or any part of Run Lola Run, because my heart rate was like a million beats per minute during that one. I'm really not an action-adventurey movie person, though I *have* seen Star Wars, Bourne #1, and even Starship Troopers! Dad would choose French Connection, no doubt.
(Also it appears that the attractiveness of the chaser/chasee has a lot to do with if I'd pick them or not.)
Favorite Movie Musicals
(Yayyyy! And no, I am not calling them movicals. Not in a million years. But you knew that.) Also, I'm probably going to have to limit myself here, or else I'll list every single one I've ever seen except South Pacific because it sucks. Also Passion. So I'll list my top five. I'm steering clear of Disney/etc. animated musicals, but just so you know, I'm a big fan of Sleeping Beauty and Little Mermaid. And Oliver and Company. And Anastasia.
West Side Story (Forever my favorite, from the moment I was stunned into silence when Mrs. Seymour played it for our Unit C class. I cry every time. I loved Richard Beymer more than the heat of a thousand suns and, to a lesser extent, every single Shark and Jet who weren't ugly. I wrote out EVERY SINGLE lyric, in my 7th grade notebook, by playing the VHS and pausing every two seconds to write more down. I got many of the lyrics wrong, doing this. I wrote an essay about my love for it, and it was the only one of my writing assignments Mr. Hook didn't criticize in Musical Theatre II. I analyzed lyrics and memorized passages and cried some more. HHS did it as the Spring musical the YEAR before I got there [Brent's Baby John made my cry--laughing], and Rock Bridge did it my senior year, and then Steve was Action when HHS did it again his sophomore year. Love love love. FAVORITEFAVORITEFAVORITE.)
Rent (Can't not put this in there, even though the movie was somewhat of a disappointment. Still, Wilson...Jesse...Ant...and Adam...I'd seen them on stage before, together, and was breathless. When Roger, Patrick, Trevor and I met up on opening night to see the movie, it was a reprise of our Mamma Mia! trip, and a wonderful memory. Still hated "Over the Moon," of course, and "In Your Eyes"--oh GAG me--but "La Vie Boheme" totally held up. However, my favorite song, "What You Own," was completely butchered. Adam looked like he was making a John Tesh video, on some Santa Fe-ian rocks.)
Mary Poppins (Makes me clap my hands together with glee. Love every bit of it, from Bert's one-man-band beginning the whole thing, to Chim-Chim-Cheree, to Glynis Johns, to "And never smell of bar-ley water," to Dick Van Dyke as the bank president finally laughing at "a wooden leg named Smith" and floating into the air, to the final "Let's Go Fly a Kite" with MP's sad departure. The books, if you can imagine it, are ten times EVEN better!)
The Sound of Music (I would have figured this would have gotten old after awhile, especially since the bitterness of HHS' fall 1993 musical, but it never has. I think it's so cute that Dad saw it multiple times in the theatre when it first came out. It's my goal to attend the sing-along some day...Mom said it was too fun!)
Moulin Rouge (Who knew, Ewan?)
Favorite Spoofs
Hmm. This is making me sound picky, but I'm not a fan of slapstick, too much, and this is often a constant in these types of films. I saw Hot Shots Part Deux back in the day, and Not Another Teen Movie...but I haven't seen Spinal Tap yet, and I expect that may make the list.
Wait, do Guffman and Best in Show count? Because if so, there you go! (Not so much for A Mighty Wind and For Your Consideration, though.)
Oh wait--Austin Powers, I guess? And Princess Bride counts? Really?
P.S. OHMYGOD did you hear they might be bringing Guffman to Broadway?! MY DREAM IS REALIZED!!!!
Favorite Remakes
(i.e, better than the original)
Groannnnnn.
Ocean's Eleven.
Memorable Endings
(For this, I'm not including "satisfying"--just because that's basically all the movies I see. Only dealing with twists and surprises, here.)
Memento (Every time I see it---and I may be up to double digits, here---I let out a big exhale after his last bit of dialogue. Wow! Although perhaps I should have made a rule that I couldn't list movies on this meme twice.)
The Sixth Sense (Except, Mom told me ahead of time so I wouldn't be scared. Even so, it was a "twist" that I really, really liked the movie.)
Besieged (Lupin! Aw, David Thewlis! I saw this before any HP movie was out, so I didn't realize that was him.)
The Departed (I read somewhere that they want to make a sequel out of this. Um. HOW?)
Movies you would never watch with your parents
Brokeback Mountain (except, I did--the second time I saw it, so I can't say "But I didn't KNOW!" or anything. Dad and I went with Roger. So, a 28-year-old woman, her father, and a gay family friend sniffling their way through Jake Gyllenhaal making out with Heath Ledger. Not actually as awkward as it could have been.)
Showgirls (probably. I haven't seen it, though.)
Mulholland Drive (again, probably.)
Basic Instinct (Pretty much anything with lesbian sex scenes, okay? Just assume that.)
Don't Look Now (also pretty much anything with hetero sex scenes, particularly if it's been said that the costars WERE ACTUALLY banging one another onscreen. Also, I would never ever watch this movie anyway.)
Y Tu Mama Tambien
Shaving Ryan's Privates
Feel Good Flicks
Okay, this is a difficult one, since I generally don't go for heartwarming AT ALL. I mean, I like a satisfying ending, but not if we had to go through sadness and stuff to get there. The other blogs for this had things like Wonderful Life and Rudy, and I don't really have anything against those movies, but they're just not the *sort* of film I like. I really, really don't like when movies make me cry, with a few exceptions.
My Big Fat Greek Wedding (Aw! Chubby girl gets John Corbett! YES!!)
Father of the Bride (my one regret about my wedding is that there was no father/daughter dance.)
Four Weddings and a Funeral (Andie MacDowell is so terribly wooden, but jiminy cricket, who didn't melt at "I think I love you"? And Rowan as Father Gerald: "In the name of the father, the son, and the holy spigot. Spirit!" Or when Matthew read Auden? Okay, another instance where crying wasn't so terrible, for me..."I thought that love would last forever: I was wrong.")
Bridget Jones's Diary (Oooooh, when Bridget says "Nice boys don't kiss like that" and Colin Firth says "You bet they f***ing do"? Holy crud SEXY!!)
This next category is Best Cop Flicks. Which I am skipping. Because it would be blank anyway.
Favorite Sports Movies
Okay, I'm going to admit something. This is getting tedious. I love memes of all kinds, but I don't really love movies, so I have very few I really LOVE LOVE...and also, I am both picky in terms of what I like and what I will actually watch, so any "favorite sports movies" would just be "sports movies I have seen" because I've seen like four total. Rudy, Goal!, Without Limits, Remember the Titans....and I do like them, just fine. (Except the ending to Without Limits). I just don't have a super-hot passion for them.
My only sports movie that i LOVE is Lucas. Corey Haim at his absolute, geekiest finest. I wanted him to get the girl so, so bad.
Second Chances
(i.e., Sequels that were better than the Originals.)
Eeeeeek. I blogged about how part two's are NEVER as good as part ones. I like the category, but I can't think of a single one that was better. I liked HP3 very much, but HP1 will always be magical...first time I saw Hogwarts realized, Neville cute for the last time, Filch's "God, I miss the screamin'"...so good. But I digress. My point is that in my experience, the sequels are never better.
Okay....maybe Young Guns II. But that was only because Balty was in it. And Christian Slater. And Cameron from Ferris Bueller.
Encores
(what movies can be watched over and over and over?)
I've listed almost every one above: Mary Poppins, Memento, Rent, Sound of Music, Anastasia...
Let's see about others.
I saw Great Balls of Fire and Days of Thunder, inexplicably, five times EACH, In The Theatre! When *I* had to cough up money for tickets out of my own allowance!
Young Guns I & II
The Parent Trap (Yeah yeah yeah!)
All about Expectations...
What was the last movie you saw that was much BETTER than expected?
Any new/upcoming releases that you can't wait to see?
What was the last movie you saw that was much WORSE than expected?
Any new/upcoming releases that you couldn't be paid to see?
1. Enchanted, I think. I knew I'd probably like it...I didn't expect to loooooove it.
2. Not really. I rarely 'can't wait to see' anything. There was a foursome of goodness one holiday season, with Harry Potter 4, Rent, Brokeback Mountain, and The Producers--all of which I couldn't wait to see. I was excited for Mamma Mia! last year, but never got to it.
3. Charlie Bartlett. I thought that would be an AWESOME movie--Neil and I both did. It took us months to finally watch it, and it was so astoundingly 'meh.' Also, Kat Denning can suck a big one.
4. Yeah, any of the effing plethora of horror films out now. (WHY?? it is WINTER!! That's just not fair.) Or any of the stupid spoof movies that keep coming back. (i.e., Epic Movie, that sports one, things like that).
The year YOU were born...
What year were you born?
What movie won the Oscar for Best Picture that year?
If you have seen this film, what did you think of it?
What is YOUR favorite movie from the year you were born?
Any movies that you have discovered in researching this that you now want to see?
1. 1977
2. Annie Hall
3. I did see it, while I was at Grinnell. I remember liking it, but I want to see it again just to make sure.
4. Oh, crud. Um, so far it's Annie Hall. Because I have probably seen 3 movies from that year. No, I'm not choosing Close Encounters, because aliens are spooky...FREAKY FRIDAY ARE YOU KIDDING ME?!!! Oh YES!!! Love it love it love it. Nutcracker with Mikhail...I do like that one...Pete's Dragon, no thanks (don't like animation paired with live action, even in Mary Poppins it makes me a bit uncomfy)...Saturday Night Fever was okay, until they killed OFF someone, like wtf, movie? I was likin' you there for awhile (p.s...this is weird, right?)...No, Star Wars. Just no...
5. Absolutely and wholeheartedly Not.
Oh my lord, did I finish it?? I did! I did!
1 comment:
Okay, so I never even had a clue that you had a secondary blog! And how fun is it that it is dedicated to tags, lists, etc...! (I have to admit, though, I have NO CLUE what a "meme" is... it makes me think of mimeograph, but this is technology that far outstrips the ol' mimeos...)
Yeah, I agree that this particular one was a long one (even for one like me, who loves movies). Still, it was fun to read your responses and to think of what I might put if ever I do it myself (hmmm... maybe for my next post?)
Um. I think that's all I had to say.
:)
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