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apocalypsosMore stupid questions for ye olde friends list from yours truly ...
1. What movies can be guaranteed to make you cry every damn time you see them?
2. If you could only watch one movie for the rest of your life, which one would you pick?
3. Which movies that everybody you know loved, that made tons of money, and/or had critical acclaim do you despise?
4. Which movies are you embarrassed to admit you love?
5. If you were asked to recite a movie from beginning to end from memory, which one do you think you would have the best shot at?
6. Which movie star, past or present, would you kill to look like?
7. Which movie star, past or present, would you kill to have their talent?
8. Which movie star, past or present, do you think is totally underappreciated?
9. What are your favorite movie quotes of all time?
Don't mind me. I'm just a wee bit bored, not to mention I'm at buzzed and slowly crawling towards drunk. It's too bad drunk has a tendency to sit two feet away from me ... although can't say my bank account's not grateful. :)
1. What movies can be guaranteed to make you cry every damn time you see them?
2. If you could only watch one movie for the rest of your life, which one would you pick?
3. Which movies that everybody you know loved, that made tons of money, and/or had critical acclaim do you despise?
4. Which movies are you embarrassed to admit you love?
5. If you were asked to recite a movie from beginning to end from memory, which one do you think you would have the best shot at?
6. Which movie star, past or present, would you kill to look like?
7. Which movie star, past or present, would you kill to have their talent?
8. Which movie star, past or present, do you think is totally underappreciated?
9. What are your favorite movie quotes of all time?
Don't mind me. I'm just a wee bit bored, not to mention I'm at buzzed and slowly crawling towards drunk. It's too bad drunk has a tendency to sit two feet away from me ... although can't say my bank account's not grateful. :)
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Date: 2003-09-05 05:10 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-09-05 06:53 pm (UTC)2. X2. Oh yeah. It's got it all action, adventure, Humor, cool special effects, sexy men. Shallow of me? Maybe, but I love that movie. Though Empire Strikes back fights it pretty well. Wait! What am I saying?! Pirates of the Caribbean!
3. Matrix Reloaded. Man what a crap film. I paid $10 to see it early and never have I been so let down by a movie in my life. I literally tried to go to sleep in it. There was no plot! The first movie had so much more depth and so many figurative meanings. It was so cool. The second had none of that. No new ideas, just lots of special effects. It's about choice. Ok. Is that it?
4. Oh geez. I love a lot of movies that people should be embarrased to love. Heh, the movie "Masterminds" that most people haven't heard of, that had Vincent Kartheiser and Patrick Stewart? It's pretty bad. But I like it a lot. Awful lines, but Kartheiser is pretty darn cute. How they got Stewart to agree to that movie is beyond me. It's like Die Hard for young teens.
5. Wayne's World. Yup. Wayne's World.
6. Audrey Hepburn. Modest style, yet gorgeous. I'd like to weigh a little more than her though. Her only figure flaw (in my mind) was that she was too thin.
7. Hmm. That's a toughie. I'm fond of Natalie Portman, so uhh her.
8. You know, this is going to sound silly, but Hugh Jackman. In the sense that everyone pays attention to how good he looks and not how well he can act. He's not typecast or restricted into one role. Kate & Leopold? Fantastic! (That's one that makes me cry too.) And I had no idea he was Australian for quite a while. He does a great job of adopting different accents.
9. Oh just about anything from either Wayne's World movies. My favorite movie quotes are usually very silly and random.
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Date: 2003-09-05 07:22 pm (UTC)1)The Hours, LOTR: FOTR, and Life As A House.
2)Oh Jesus. Maybe A League Of Their Own, because I've seen it 65874321 times and I'm not sick of it yet. Perhaps Chicago.
3)Oh so many. Hmm. American Beauty sucked ass. Don't care too much about Star Wars either.
4) Again, oh so many. I love pretty much everything except those two movies ^ so I'm easy to please. Hell, I liked Uptown Girls. It made me cry. Man I'm pathetic.
5) Definitely Fellowship of the Ring.
6) There's a lot. I adore James King, she's so beautiful.
7) I love Jena Malone. She's wonderful in everything she does.
8) Marilyn Monroe was gorgeous, yes, but she was also so talented! *sigh*
9) Oh my god, don't even start me on that. No, really.
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Date: 2003-09-05 08:06 pm (UTC)2. If you could only watch one movie for the rest of your life, which one would you pick?
Only one? That’s not fair! That’s like putting a bag of potato chips in front of you and saying you can eat only one.
3. Which movies that everybody you know loved, that made tons of money, and/or had critical acclaim do you despise?
Matrix, Batman, The Grinch (haven’t seen it and never will just on general principle that they should have left it alone, the cartoon is great and therefore doesn’t need a movie)
4. Which movies are you embarrassed to admit you love?
Attack of the Killer Tomatoes, It’s a Wonderful Life and Mad Monster Party
5. If you were asked to recite a movie from beginning to end from memory, which one do you think you would have the best shot at?
Wizard of Oz
6. Which movie star, past or present, would you kill to look like?
Angelina Jolie
7. Which movie star, past or present, would you kill to have their talent?
Katherine Hepburn
8. Which movie star, past or present, do you think is totally underappreciated?
Peter Wingfield
9. What are your favorite movie quotes of all time?
Frankly my dear, I don’t give a damn.
I have too many quotes.
Date: 2003-09-06 03:34 am (UTC)Au Revoir les Enfants, which sounds pretentious, but it’s the truth. Also, Zulu and A Bridge Too Far, both times at the singing scenes. War movie fans will know what I’m talking about.
2. If you could only watch one movie for the rest of your life, which one would you pick?
Difficult. There are no films I wouldn’t grow to hate. It’d probably be one of Die Hard, Heathers, Pulp Fiction, and Grosse Pointe Blank. I like people getting shot in my entertainment.
3. Which movies that everybody you know loved, that made tons of money, and/or had critical acclaim do you despise?
Everybody I know in real life liked Austin Powers: The Spy who Shagged me, which I consider to have been an utter waste of my time.
4. Which movies are you embarrassed to admit you love?
I’m not embarassed. I’m not ashamed. Some people are surprised at my affection for Highlander, but I usually manage to make an argument of great sword fights and the Queen soundtrack. Oh, wait, I know! Striptease. If you ignore the scenes with Demi Moore dancing and her breasts standing still, not to mention all the other scenes with Demi Moore doing anything whatsoever, you’re left with a seriously funny movie in which Ving Rhames and Armand Assante effortlessly steal the whole thing. But it’s not something you can normally admit to liking except when in the presence of a bunch of other blokes.
Oh yeah, and Octopussy is my favourite Bond film. What can I say? It’s got Vijay, it’s got the Giant Yo-Yo of Death, and they put Roger Moore into a clown suit. It’s perfect.
5. If you were asked to recite a movie from beginning to end from memory, which one do you think you would have the best shot at?
Loads of films. I have an exceptionally good memory, and a bad habit of talking in quotes. I could mouth along through pretty much all of Pulp Fiction, for example, not to mention Heathers.
6. Which movie star, past or present, would you kill to look like?
Sean Bean. Oh, to look that good with a stubble.
7. Which movie star, past or present, would you kill to have their talent?
Anthony Hopkins. The man can do amazing things with his eyes. Or possibly Wesley Snipes, assuming ‘talent’ includes his fifth-dan black belt in capoeira.
8. Which movie star, past or present, do you think is totally underappreciated?
Gabriel Byrne. Yes, I know a lot of people do appreciate him, and everyone knows he’s hugely talented. The fact remains, though, that Colin Farrell, of all people, is a bigger star than him. Why?
9. What are your favorite movie quotes of all time?
So, so many.
See the follow-up post.
And here they are.
Date: 2003-09-06 03:36 am (UTC)‘Hit it.’
‘Do I look like I had a brain tumour for breakfast?’
‘Fuck me gently with a chainsaw.’
‘I love my dead gay son!’
‘Say what again! I dare you, I double dare you, say what again!’
‘Yippie-kie-yay, motherfucker!’
‘Is my shit together, or is my shit together?’
‘I want knowledge, not faith, not suppositions, but knowledge. I want God to stretch out His hand towards me, reveal Himself, and speak to me.’
…
‘I call out to him in the dark but no one seems to be there.’
‘Perhaps no one is there.’
‘Then life is an outrageous horror. No one can live in the face of death, knowing that all is nothingness.’
…
‘In our fear, we make an image, and that image we call God.’
‘Monsieur Rick, what kind of a man is Captain Renault?’
‘Oh, he's just like any other man, only more so.’
‘We mustn’t underestimate American blundering. I was with them when they blundered into Berlin in 1918.’
In context, this is probably the best line ever spoken in any movie ever.
‘Well there are certain sections of New York, Major, that I wouldn't advise you to try to invade.’
‘Wait a minute. Robin Hood steals money from my pocket, forcing me to hurt the public, and they love him for it? That's it then. Cancel the kitchen scraps for lepers and orphans, no more merciful beheadings, and call off Christmas!’
‘You! My room. 10:30 tonight. You! 10:45. And bring a friend.’
‘This is grain, which any fool can eat, but which the Lord intended for a more divine means of consumption. Let us praise our maker and do glory to his bounty by learning about... beer.’
‘Hello, my name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father: prepare to die.’
‘You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.’
‘You seem a decent enough fellow. I hate to kill you.’
‘You seem a decent enough fellow. I hate to die.’
‘You fell victim to one of the classic blunders, the most famous of which is ‘Never get involved in a land war in Asia’.’
‘I want my father back, you son of a bitch!’
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Date: 2003-09-06 06:04 am (UTC)2. See above.
3. The Hours. I kept screaming at the screen, "Are the fucking eggs important? No? Then quit dragging the camera on them!" Pretentious waste of film.
4. The Buffy movie. Oh, so very bad, but oh, so very worthy of giggles.
5. The Princess Bride. That movie is just one long quote, really.
5. Eliza Dushku. Even when she's playing the "nice" roles, something about her just screams sexy.
7. Angelina Jolie. Ignore the Tomb Raider franchise. That woman has skill.
8. Ryan Gosling, hands down. Most of the reason that The Believer can send me into such fits of wibbling and denial is his performance. That man can say with a shift in body posture what a lot of actors wouldn't be able to do with pages of dialogue.
9. "Good, bad...I'm the one with the gun."
"I am Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die."
"I wanted to destroy something beautiful."
"You're the worst pirate I've ever heard of!"
"Ah, but you've heard of me."
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Date: 2003-09-07 09:36 pm (UTC)The Princess Bride. And LotR only not so much. And ... hmmm... dunno.
2. If you could only watch one movie for the rest of your life, which one would you pick?
The Princess Bride, but it'd be a close call with Matrix or LotR.
3. Which movies that everybody you know loved, that made tons of money, and/or had critical acclaim do you despise?
Any teen movie. And any horror movie. Except "The Others", because it had Nicole Kidman in it.
4. Which movies are you embarrassed to admit you love?
Any dodgy 80's fantasy movies. Labyrinth! and Willow! and Dragonheart! The Princess Bride sort of included here, only not, because I've overcome being embarrassed to love it.
5. If you were asked to recite a movie from beginning to end from memory, which one do you think you would have the best shot at?
Any of the three original Star Wars movies, or The Princess Bride, or Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead.
6. Which movie star, past or present, would you kill to look like?
Catherine Zeta Jones, I think, or J.Lo, or Nicole Fuck-Me-Eyes Kidman.
7. Which movie star, past or present, would you kill to have their talent?
Hugh Jackman. Um, do you mean his "talent" (as in, my, what a huge talent you have there, Hugh!) or just his talent? ... both, anyway.
8. Which movie star, past or present, do you think is totally underappreciated?
... Cary Elwes.
9. What are your favorite movie quotes of all time?
"No more rhymes now, I mean it!"
"Anybody want a peanut?"
Am terrible at remembering quotes. But that one stands out.