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[apocalypsos]

So, yeah. The whole thebookyoucrew kerfluffle. I find ratings communities amusing anyway, because it's not exactly like it's the opinions of real experts when you do get rated. It's kind of like auditioning for "American Idol" if they took Randy, Simon, and Paula and replaced them with William Hung, the national hog calling champion, and me.

And what makes me find it even more amusing is that I love and adore books and I can guarantee they would shoot me down. Why? Because my top three books are The Stand, The Jungle, and The Gashleycrumb Tinies. Somehow with my list, the prestige is lost. But hey, the gruesome fun and mindless despair remains.

There's also theflickyoucrew, which is there if you want people to tell you that your taste in movies blows elephant chunks. I definitely couldn't post a list there, because while their derision of my taste in books would make me laugh (in a country where people don't read as much as they used to, the fact that anyone reads is an accomplishment these days), if they picked on my taste in movies, I would have to defend my honor by going to their houses and either confiscating their DVD collections or absconding with their pets, just 'cause.

So I post them here, because you're a captive audience. :)

1. The Iron Giant -- I'm only going to reserve one animated movie, so this is it. I still have to get this one on DVD, damn it, because it's lovely and sweet and cool all at once.

2-4. The Terminator trilogy -- Hey, they're my favorite action movies. Sue me.

5. The Exorcist -- Okay, look. Here's my thing with The Exorcist. I have never seen it from beginning to end. And it's not because I hate it, it's because it scares the shit out of me. Seriously. I have to watch the stupid thing in five-to-fifteen-minute increments. It's not even that it scares me the way a horror movie is supposed to. It just creeps me on this very weird level. I can't really explain it without sounding like a total freak, but there it is.

6. The Princess Bride -- Swordfights! True Love! Miracle Max! *pounces*

7. The Philadelphia Story -- "My, she was yar." *swoon*

8. The Poseidon Adventure -- To save space, I'm only giving myself one disaster movie. And it has to be this one, because honestly, I have to have at least one movie with a cheesy Shelley Winters death scene. :)

9-11. The Lord of the Rings trilogy -- Well, really.

12. A Night to Remember -- Because it's so much better than Titanic.

13. Jaws -- I still don't go swimming in the ocean because of this movie, so I'll be damned if I'm going to see Open Water when I could just scare the hell out of myself with this one.

14. The Color Purple -- Not only do I always watch this movie every time it's on cable, but I cry every damn time for the last half hour of the movie, from the minute Shug leaves the juke joint and heads for the church.

15-16. X-Men and X2 -- This is me we're talking about.

17. Office Space -- Because it's hysterically funny at the same time it's frighteningly realistic.

18. The Shawshank Redemption -- I get so happy at the ending, it isn't even funny.

19. Casablanca -- Humphrey Bogart is hot. That is all.

20. The Back to the Future trilogy -- Hey, it plays like one big movie. That counts, right? Right?!

As for fuckyoucrew, which rates your taste in music, I have none. The end.

Comments

[tviokh.livejournal.com]

Hehe I posted to the book one just for kicks.

Apparently I read too much history for their tastes, and the fact that I don't enjoy fiction all that much means I have "no depth".

Amusing to say the least.

[william-mize.livejournal.com]

You and me, we're just like peas and carrots sometimes.
You're a young, pretty pea and I'm an old, gray haired, carrot.

Or something like that.

I personally think that ratings communities are for people who were tortured and picked on in junior high and these are their petty form of revenge. I'll never join one, because as Buckaroo Banzai* says "Don't be mean. We don't have to be mean."

*Have you even SEEN this movie?

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

Alas, not all of it. I keep meaning to pick it up on DVD, but then again, I say that about every movie, don't I? ;)

[william-mize.livejournal.com]

Yes you do, young missy.
It's my favoritest campiest movie, second only to RHPS, which I also lovelovelove.

Buckaroo Banzai is 80's-riffic.
Peter Weller! Jeff Goldblum! In Chaps! And Ellen Barkin has never looked hotter (until The Big Easy, that is).

I think you should put it at the top of your list. But that's just me.

[milkshake-b.livejournal.com]

I second this. I'm pretty sure you'd love Buckaroo Banzai, TP.

[unanon.livejournal.com]

Humphrey Bogart is hot. That is all.

That's the best reason I've ever heard.

[radiotrash.livejournal.com]

I'd apply to the book thing just to see myself shot down in a second, as all my tastes lean toward fantasy novels anyway. Also I'd be unable to list books written by certain ethnicities as I tend to not really give a shit about the color of the person that wrote a book. Really I'm more concerned with whether I like it or not, but that's just me.

My movies would make them cry. There'd be too much animated in there probably. Which is why it's a good thing I don't apply to ratings communities.

[laughingrat.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it seems to be all about the ability to twist words and toss in an occasional theory reference (with a side of snidecakes!) than it does about actually talking about the books. Oh well. You get people like this everywhere...

[clauw.livejournal.com]

Joined the flick you one just to see what they would think of movies -I- find enjoyable.
This was my list:

1. La Haine (The Hate)


2. The Fifth Element


3. Kissed


4. Fun


5. Amélie (Le Fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain)


6. Fight club


7. Nattevagten (Not the remake Nightwatch)


8. Trainspotting


9. Fargo


10. Run Lola Run (Lola Rennt)


11. Romper Stomper


12. LA Confidential


13. The Usual Suspects


14. Memento


15. Snatch


16. Pi


17. The Full Monty


18. Raising Arizona


19. Léon (aka The Professional)


20. Basquiat

I'm pretty sure they'll hate it but meh, as long as I enjoy it it's not the end of the world *shrug*

[jenboo.livejournal.com]

A Kevin Spacey fan, or just a fan of a couple of his movies?? LA Confidential and Usual Suspects are both on my list as well...I would add American Beauty from KS's oeuvre. And you have Kissed! With Molly Parker and Peter Outerbridge??

Whatever the flickyou folks have to say, I think your list is way cool!

[clauw.livejournal.com]

*snicker* I got banned already after only 3 people had commented. So meh, fuck em ;)
All I know is that I enjoy those movies and I will enjoy them still even after a couple of snobs that think their taste is better than others have said they suck. *shrug*
And yup that's the Kissed I meant :) I really never thought a movie about necrophelia could be so beautiful and moving.
The Kevin movies are coincidental, and to think that I even almost added Se7en to the list as well ;)
But yes Kevin is a stellar actor in those movies so I had to add those :D
Thank you for the compliment :)

[drewbeartx.livejournal.com]

Pi! You're the first person I've ever (virtually) met who has seen this besides me! God I love that movie. Jewish mysticism, obtruse mathematics, homebrew hardware, and ants. What more could you need?

[burntcopper.livejournal.com]

You get tempted to post books as obscure as possible, really you do. And my god, they need lives.

[tinylegacies.livejournal.com]

20. The Back to the Future trilogy -- Hey, it plays like one big movie. That counts, right? Right?!

I'd say it definitely counts as one :)

Ratings communities are ridiculous.

[ishtar79.livejournal.com]

I hate rating communities in principle. I read some of the posts in the book com, and WTF? Are those bitches seriously dissing the Odyssey?

I love your list for the record. The Exorcist terrified me as well, especially since I watched it in the cinema, and was too afraid of 'losing face' in front of my 'too cool' University friends to just shriek and run out.

That was a long time ago, when 'losing face' mattered to me. These days, I freely admit to my wimpiness.

[vivian-shaw.livejournal.com]

The community and its most vociferous moderator managed to win BOTH the Golden Doorknob and the Diamond Doorknob, which I think has only happened once before in the history of moronicity.

I like your list.

[tinylegacies.livejournal.com]

Your community is funny :)

But what are the meanings of the different doorknob awards? I couldn't find a list of how people qualify for each?

[harmonyfb.livejournal.com]

7. The Philadelphia Story -- "My, she was yar." *swoon*

::SIGH:: I adore that movie. Jimmy Stewart is so sweet and delicious, and Cary Grant is just beautiful, and I've always wanted to be Kate Hepburn (well, maybe not now that she's dead, but you get the point, I'm sure).

[spyderqueen.livejournal.com]

The play version is even better. I wish I'd been alive to see it on stage when Hepburn played it.

But my favorite character totally gets shafted in the film version. Dinah is teh r0x0r

[tv-elf.livejournal.com]

I saw a local theater's production of it. I really liked the movie before. But after, I loved it even more. Not because I hated the play, but because I could blend the two versions into a fab mixture.

[lync.livejournal.com]

Oooh I really like your list. There's some there I have no interest in but there's a lot there that I want to see or absolutely adore! :D YAY!

[matildarose.livejournal.com]

*laughs* Oyie, the flickyou list makes me wince. Rating someone down because they got anime in the list or had a personal vendetta against some random actor? C'mon, I got nothing wrong with people who dislike specific things, but *damn*, that's elitist.

I want to get a sockpuppet and put Reign of the Overfiend, La Blue Girl, etc in my list. XD

[runcible.livejournal.com]

Omfg. thebookyoucrew. That looks like a community my DAD would be a member of, because he's an elitist asshole as it were.

Let's pray my dad never gets an LJ or he's bore us all to death with history facts that we don't care about (less war, more cannibalism!) and plots from science fiction books that no one reads and who invented MS DOS.

:(

[kittikattie.livejournal.com]

The Bookyoucrew would hate me with a fiery oozy passion. One of my favorite series is Harry Potter, and I would drop everything to read a good fairy tale.I also write speculative (sci-fi/fantasy/other) stories. But hell, I hate rating communities anyways, as they remind me of high school cliques.

[thedivinegoat.livejournal.com]

Apparently quite a lot of people have posted lists with fanfiction titles, and got through with them.

So long as it's obscure they like it.

Sad really.

[wtfbrain.livejournal.com]

I'm so tempted to dig out some obscure books and post... And then jump around in glee when they ban me... :) It could be the new thing...

[odestructogirlo.livejournal.com]

Hey, I stumbled onto your journal through ithurtsmybrain, and I'm friending you.

Because you like The Gashleycrumb Tinies. (Gorey is awesome.)

[gruyere.livejournal.com]

Ahh, The Iron Giant. One of my top three, too.

the exorcist

[somthin-wicked.livejournal.com]

I can totally commiserate on being unable to watch the Exorcist. Last time I tried was at a party and despite the fact that it was the middle of the day and there were many convenient (and cute) boys to latch onto, after ten minutes I had to leave the room. So of course I was stuck by myself for the next two hours, exchanging awkard conversation with friend's father while trying to ignore those godawful screams.

[loesaurus.livejournal.com]

14. The Color Purple -- Not only do I always watch this movie every time it's on cable, but I cry every damn time for the last half hour of the movie, from the minute Shug leaves the juke joint and heads for the church.

I love that movie. I do the SAME THING. I gotta make my own list.