The brain isn't firing on all cylinders this week, and you can tell because I'm not making fun of the questions. Most of my answers are totally off-the-cuff (on-the-cuff answers require more sleep than I'm getting these days:
1. What movie have you seen the most time in the theater? How many times?
I saw Coming to America and the first Batman 3 times.
2. What was the last movie you walked out of in the theater?
Mission Impossible III, a hailstorm cut the power after the first 15 minutes of the movie. I also left The Believers about half-way through because my friend was getting scared. We had to walk home because our ride wasn't coming for another hour.
3. What is the first movie you remember seeing in a theater?
I remember seeing snippets of Murder on the Orient Express at the drive-in theater in Lewisburg, Tennessee. My brother and I were, of course, in the way back of the family station wagon.
4. What is your favorite movie soundtrack?
Grease
5. Have you ever dressed up as a movie character for Halloween? If so, who?
No. Wait...no.
6. What was the first R-rated movie you ever saw? Were you allowed or did you sneak?
I don't remember, mostly because my parents didn't worry about such things. The R rated movies of my day are rated PG-13 now.
7. Star Wars (orig. trilogy) or Lord of the Rings?
Oh please. There would be no movie versions of LotR without the original Star Wars.
8. Pacino or DeNiro?
Pacino when he was younger.
Now it's Bobby DeNiro all the time.
9. Titanic...did it suck or was it great?
I enjoyed it the one and only time I saw it in the theater. I never needed to see it again.
10. What's your take on Cassavetes?
This just makes me think of that great Le Tigre song...that is now stuck in my head ("Genius! Misogynist! Aaal-coholic!"). True story: John Cassavetes's father was a travel agent and friend of my grandfather. My mother remembers Johnny's dad worrying that his son didn't want to go into the family business! Personally, I love him in Rosemary's Baby.
11. Favorite John Hughes character?
Any character that's NOT in Pretty in Pink. Fucking hate that movie.
12. What movie gives you a boner (or makes you tingle)?
I'll have to think on this one...
Okay, I remember getting all worked up watching True Romance. Not during the scene with James Gandolfini, though.
13. What movie always makes you cry like the big puss you are?
E.T.
14. What's the furthest you've ever gotten in a movie theater? (i.e, second base...)
I...like watching movies when I'm in a movie theater. I save the metaphoric baseball playing for the car.
15. Speaking of sports metaphors, what's your favorite sports movie?
I'm not one much for sports movies, but I remember loving Friday Night Lights.
16. (a) Favorite... teen movie?
When I was a teen: Sixteen Candles
Teen movie I've seen in recent (non-teen) years: Bring it On
(b)...Quentin Tarantino movie?
I could be oh so cool here, but I've never tried to be cool, so I'll have to say Pulp Fiction. I believe it far surpasses anything he's done before or since, mostly because it raised the bar of a type of filmmaking not seen before in the States. I would like to go back in time and kick him in the head, though, for putting John Travolta back in the spotlight.
(c)...Bill Murray movie?
Ghostbusters or Meatballs.
(d)...romantic comedy?
erm... Ghostbusters or Meatballs?
(e)...gangster movie?
...wow I suck at this
(f)...horror movie?
Evil Dead II or Night of the Living Dead ("They're coming to get you, Barbara!")
(g)...made for TV movie?
Anything on the Sci-Fi channel that doesn't feature a natural disaster. My current favorite is Heatstroke, starring D.B. Sweeney and Danica McKellar (who has made a career for herself as a math genius, but isn't above running around in a bikini for a few extra bucks).
(h)...director?
Sophia Coppola, Chris Nolan
(i)...drug movie?
Dazed and Confused
17. What movie have you seen already but will never, ever, ever watch again?
Oh this list is so long: anything directed by Clint Eastwood, Leaving Las Vegas, and Punch Drunk Love, for example.
18. What movie are you embarrassed to really like?
I'm not embarrassed by any bad movie I love (see question 16g). Bad movies have a higher re-watch value than most brilliant ones.
19. What movie should be remade asap?
NONE!!!! Stop remaking movies, for fuck's sake!
20. What the F happened to (insert answer)? He used to be so damn funny!
This question was tailor made for Eddie Murphy.
21. For the love of everything that's sacred, please someone stop (insert answer) from making another movie!
Michael Bay.
Michael Bay.
DAMN YOU, MICHAEL BAY!!!!!
22. What movie do all your friends love but you think is whatevs?
Knocked Up, Superbad, The Departed (I hang with a lot of guys, can you tell?)
23. What movie do you love but all your friends think is whatevs?
See question 16(g).
24. If you could hump/date/marry any movie character, who would it be?
Okay, I won't even get into the humping, and I would definitely spend some metaphoric time with Tony Stark, but I would marry Sam Deed (the first person- other than Val- who can name the movie gets kudos).
25. Best...movie....ever?
Jaws.
That one just popped into my mind. It could just as easily have been Pan's Labyrinth or Spellbound. This question ranks with the favorite book question. Instead of having a nice easy answer with a list ready-made (as the Husband would), my brain fries out just sorting through all the possibilities. Pretty soon one would think I hadn't seen a movie at all. So, Jaws.
26. Book you wish would be made into a movie, and who would direct it?
Literary adaptations generally suck ass, but I think a great director could do wonders with the Bangkok series by John Burdett. It would have to be someone with a very Eastern sensibility, though. I would also love to see a hardboiled adaptation of one of the early Burke books by Andrew Vachss. As long as Michael Bay doesn't direct either, I think we'll be okay.
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5 comments:
Damn! Can't I have a TINY bit of kudos for saying - oh wait, if I name it, the next person can't get any kudos either.
I'm actually not a great movie-goer, but for my favourite sports movie, could I say "Good Luck"?
Val-
You always get kudos for the awesome work you do to keep us obsessed happy! If no one else answers, you can come back for your just rewards.
Let's see to summarize:
I haven't been a huge movie watcher in the last four or five years - maybe even longer so my answers would have been archaic.
I agree with you on Pulp Fiction. It really is Tarantino's best.
I cry a lot at movies. Can't name just one that has me bawling at the end because I'm just a big baby when it comes to really happy or really sad endings. I cry.
Stripes is my favorite Bill Murray movie.
I love Evil Dead movies! :)
I'm going to guess on Sam Deed because I haven't seen the movie. I think it's Happy Accidents and nobody laugh at me if I'm wrong. At first I thought Feeling Minnesota but because his character was named Sam but I can't see you wanting to marry that guy! Sorry, I'm seriously lacking in my Vincent D'Onofrio movies. I have to watch more. Really. The only reason I have even a clue to guess on this movie is I believe his name was Sam in it as well.
I think the best movie ever was Dr. Strangelove. Love dark humor.
Interesting answers. :)
The Button War is one of my favorite movies, definitely top 10, followed by Dream for an Insomniac, I think. It changes with my mood. Evil Dead 2 is the only one of the trilogy that I own.
Music Wench wins the kudos for her lucky guess (really, MW, you should see Happy Accidents - it is a must for all VDO fanatics). But technically Val does win because I know she knew it first.
Or you all get kudos because you're just that awesome.
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