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Movie meme
11 years ago
Scarfed from Cashew Lou... I haven't memed in ages, so what the hell.
1. Name a movie you have seen more than ten times:
Uff. Plan Nine from Outer Space, MST3K: The Movie, The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra, Amadeus, War of the Worlds (George Pal please), Young Frankenstein, High Anxiety, Dr Strangelove, Duck Soup...
2. Name a movie you've seen multiple times in a theater:
Rocky Horror (natch), Jaws, Wallace and Gromit: Curse of the Were-Rabbit, Mystery Science Theater: The Movie, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Despicable Me.
3. Name an actor who would make you more inclined to see a movie:
Martin Freeman, Johnny Depp, William H. Macy, Frances McDormand, any of the MST3K or Lost Skeleton crews
4. Name an actor who would make you less likely to see a movie:
Larry the Cable Guy, Adam Sandler.
Really, the actors and actresses generally don't have as much influence on me as the director would. You couldn't pay me to go see a Michael "I have ADD and my editor is on speed!" Bay movie.
5. Name a movie you can quote from:
Monty Python and the Holy Grail, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, and most Marx Brothers movies
6. Name a movie musical to which you know all the lyrics to all the songs:
Can you count concert films? Scorsese was robbed over 'The Last Waltz' - he damned well deserved a best documentary Oscar for that, and it's still absolutely the best concert movie ever made. Also The Grateful Dead Movie, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, and Rocky Horror (of course).
7. Name a movie musical with which you have been known to sing along:
Rocky Horror (of course), Attack of the Killer Tomatos... :D
8. Name a movie you would recommend everyone see:
I actually don't like recommending movies until I have some idea of what someone else's tastes are like so I can make an intelligent recommendation.
That said, and beyond the obvious (everyone should see Kane, Maltese Falcon, Casablanca, Animal Crackers, GWTW, Oz, Fantasia, every frame of film Kubrick ever shot, etc etc etc), I'd suggest the European comedies Le Grand Blond avec une chaussure noire and Good Bye Lenin!.
Shadow of the Vampire (which presupposes having seen Nosferatu, which you should), π and the original Night of the Living Dead in horror.
Johnny Slade's Greatest Hits is my favorite mob movie--really, you should see everything Larry Blamire has filmed.
Also, any chance you ever get to see the classic Warner and MGM cartoons on a real theater screen -- run, don't walk, to the venue. They are completely different that way... and that's the way they were meant to be seen.
9. Name an unusual movie you own:
Heh. It's harder to name a normal movie I own. I collect unMSTed versions of the movies from MST3K, so I have an uncut and unMSTed Manos: Hands of Fate... and have watched it! I have not yet had the nerve to watch my uncut and unMSTed Red Zone Cuba, though... yikes.
10. Name an actor who launched his/her entertainment career in another medium, but who has surprised you with his/her acting chops:
Martin Freeman -- I thought he was a good 'everyman' Arthur Dent in the Hitchhiker's Guide movie (that movie had problems, sure, but he wasn't one of them), and he has turned out to have depth I wouldn't have predicted based on that. He was one of the few things I liked in 'The Hobbit', and I love the hell out of him in 'Sherlock'.
11. Have you ever seen a movie in a drive-in?
Yes, oh yes, oh yes. And I have a recollection of riding in the car when I was about ten, coming back from who-knows-where on the north side of town, passing a theater whose screen was visible from the roadway... and catching a glimpse of the bathroom scene from "Fritz the Cat". Uh, whoops?
12. Have you ever made out in a movie?
Nope.
13. Name a movie you keep meaning to see but just haven't gotten around to it:
Hmm. There are really quite a few. I've been meaning to see Kubrick's earlier and later works, rather than just the ones from the 60s and 70s, and some of the Welles movies I haven't seen yet. Nothin' out there right now that I've been meaning to see.
14. Ever walked out of a movie?
No. Hell, I saw Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band in the theater and didn't walk out. However, I did very nearly walk out on the trailer for the mess they called "I Robot".
15. Name a movie that made you cry:
Schindler's List. I can't make it through the end in one piece. Also, most any documentary on Apollo XI -- yes, I'm that serious a space nerd that I choke up over Neil Armstrong saying 'The Eagle has landed'.
16. Popcorn?
Just keep pouring on that 30-weight the theaters use for butter, too.
17. How often do you go to the movies?
Very infrequently; usually I go with some friends of mine to help keep an eye on their kids (well, and they're going to see the same kind of movies I love anyway). And really, there's so very little out there that I want to see. I'm much more a word guy than a picture guy; I don't have cable, I have satellite radio, or I listen to BBC Radio 4 online.
18. What's the last movie you saw in the theater?
I... really don't remember. It's been quite a while.
19. What is your favorite/preferred genre of movie?
Comedy, hands down... except no one makes the style of comedies I like anymore and the closest thing out there are animated features -- I loved the hell out of both Despicable Me movies.
There are so few genuinely good SF movies that I generally don't care about seeing them in the theaters. I mean, seriously -- who's the cabbagebrain who handed off Asimov's Foundation to Roland freakin' Emmerich? I mean, I don't have a problem with disaster porn, but if there was ever a story that was NOT disaster porn, Foundation is it.
20. What was the first movie you remember seeing in the theater?
Heh. My dad took me to see 2001: A Space Odyssey in its first run. In Cinerama. I was three or four. I am not going to pretend that I understood it... but I loved it. And I still do.
1. Name a movie you have seen more than ten times:
Uff. Plan Nine from Outer Space, MST3K: The Movie, The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra, Amadeus, War of the Worlds (George Pal please), Young Frankenstein, High Anxiety, Dr Strangelove, Duck Soup...
2. Name a movie you've seen multiple times in a theater:
Rocky Horror (natch), Jaws, Wallace and Gromit: Curse of the Were-Rabbit, Mystery Science Theater: The Movie, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Despicable Me.
3. Name an actor who would make you more inclined to see a movie:
Martin Freeman, Johnny Depp, William H. Macy, Frances McDormand, any of the MST3K or Lost Skeleton crews
4. Name an actor who would make you less likely to see a movie:
Larry the Cable Guy, Adam Sandler.
Really, the actors and actresses generally don't have as much influence on me as the director would. You couldn't pay me to go see a Michael "I have ADD and my editor is on speed!" Bay movie.
5. Name a movie you can quote from:
Monty Python and the Holy Grail, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, and most Marx Brothers movies
6. Name a movie musical to which you know all the lyrics to all the songs:
Can you count concert films? Scorsese was robbed over 'The Last Waltz' - he damned well deserved a best documentary Oscar for that, and it's still absolutely the best concert movie ever made. Also The Grateful Dead Movie, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, and Rocky Horror (of course).
7. Name a movie musical with which you have been known to sing along:
Rocky Horror (of course), Attack of the Killer Tomatos... :D
8. Name a movie you would recommend everyone see:
I actually don't like recommending movies until I have some idea of what someone else's tastes are like so I can make an intelligent recommendation.
That said, and beyond the obvious (everyone should see Kane, Maltese Falcon, Casablanca, Animal Crackers, GWTW, Oz, Fantasia, every frame of film Kubrick ever shot, etc etc etc), I'd suggest the European comedies Le Grand Blond avec une chaussure noire and Good Bye Lenin!.
Shadow of the Vampire (which presupposes having seen Nosferatu, which you should), π and the original Night of the Living Dead in horror.
Johnny Slade's Greatest Hits is my favorite mob movie--really, you should see everything Larry Blamire has filmed.
Also, any chance you ever get to see the classic Warner and MGM cartoons on a real theater screen -- run, don't walk, to the venue. They are completely different that way... and that's the way they were meant to be seen.
9. Name an unusual movie you own:
Heh. It's harder to name a normal movie I own. I collect unMSTed versions of the movies from MST3K, so I have an uncut and unMSTed Manos: Hands of Fate... and have watched it! I have not yet had the nerve to watch my uncut and unMSTed Red Zone Cuba, though... yikes.
10. Name an actor who launched his/her entertainment career in another medium, but who has surprised you with his/her acting chops:
Martin Freeman -- I thought he was a good 'everyman' Arthur Dent in the Hitchhiker's Guide movie (that movie had problems, sure, but he wasn't one of them), and he has turned out to have depth I wouldn't have predicted based on that. He was one of the few things I liked in 'The Hobbit', and I love the hell out of him in 'Sherlock'.
11. Have you ever seen a movie in a drive-in?
Yes, oh yes, oh yes. And I have a recollection of riding in the car when I was about ten, coming back from who-knows-where on the north side of town, passing a theater whose screen was visible from the roadway... and catching a glimpse of the bathroom scene from "Fritz the Cat". Uh, whoops?
12. Have you ever made out in a movie?
Nope.
13. Name a movie you keep meaning to see but just haven't gotten around to it:
Hmm. There are really quite a few. I've been meaning to see Kubrick's earlier and later works, rather than just the ones from the 60s and 70s, and some of the Welles movies I haven't seen yet. Nothin' out there right now that I've been meaning to see.
14. Ever walked out of a movie?
No. Hell, I saw Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band in the theater and didn't walk out. However, I did very nearly walk out on the trailer for the mess they called "I Robot".
15. Name a movie that made you cry:
Schindler's List. I can't make it through the end in one piece. Also, most any documentary on Apollo XI -- yes, I'm that serious a space nerd that I choke up over Neil Armstrong saying 'The Eagle has landed'.
16. Popcorn?
Just keep pouring on that 30-weight the theaters use for butter, too.
17. How often do you go to the movies?
Very infrequently; usually I go with some friends of mine to help keep an eye on their kids (well, and they're going to see the same kind of movies I love anyway). And really, there's so very little out there that I want to see. I'm much more a word guy than a picture guy; I don't have cable, I have satellite radio, or I listen to BBC Radio 4 online.
18. What's the last movie you saw in the theater?
I... really don't remember. It's been quite a while.
19. What is your favorite/preferred genre of movie?
Comedy, hands down... except no one makes the style of comedies I like anymore and the closest thing out there are animated features -- I loved the hell out of both Despicable Me movies.
There are so few genuinely good SF movies that I generally don't care about seeing them in the theaters. I mean, seriously -- who's the cabbagebrain who handed off Asimov's Foundation to Roland freakin' Emmerich? I mean, I don't have a problem with disaster porn, but if there was ever a story that was NOT disaster porn, Foundation is it.
20. What was the first movie you remember seeing in the theater?
Heh. My dad took me to see 2001: A Space Odyssey in its first run. In Cinerama. I was three or four. I am not going to pretend that I understood it... but I loved it. And I still do.
