Movie Meme

[jackwabbit]

Gakked from sg1danny . I chose to bold those I've seen instead of commenting on them all.

100 films to see before you die, or some such thing.

12 Angry Men (1957)

2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

The 400 Blows (1959)

8 ½ (1963)

The African Queen (1952)

Alien (1979)

All About Eve (1950)

Annie Hall (1977)

Apocalypse Now (1979)

The Battle of Algiers (1967)

The Bicycle Thief (1948)

Blade Runner (1982)

Blazing Saddles (1974)

Blow Up (1966)

Blue Velvet (1986)

Bonnie and Clyde (1967)

Breathless (1960)

The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)

Bringing Up Baby (1938)

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)

Casablanca (1942) -meh

Chinatown (1974)

Citizen Kane (1941) - this movie is vastly overrated. IMHO.

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000)

Die Hard (1988)

Do the Right Thing (1989

Double Indemnity (1944)

Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)

Duck Soup (1933)

E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982) -I'll believe in you all my life. Every day. ET, I love you. (as long as the cops have guns, dammit!)

Enter the Dragon (1973) -now, this...is a classic.

The Exorcist (1973)

Fast Times At Ridgemont High (1982)

The French Connection (1971)

The Godfather (1972)

The Godfather, Part II

Goldfinger (1964)

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (1968)

Goodfellas (1990)

The Graduate (1967)

Grand Illusion (1938)

Groundhog Day (1993)

A Hard Day's Night (1964)

In the Mood For Love (2001)

It Happened One Night (1934)

It's a Wonderful Life (1946) -meh.

Jaws (1975)

King Kong (1933)

The Lady Eve (1941)

Lawrence of Arabia (1962)

The Lord of the Rings (2001,2002,2003)

M M (1931)

M*A*S*H (1970)

The Maltese Falcon (1941)

The Matrix (1999) -um...my dog's name is Trinity...yeah, it's like that.

Modern Times (1936)

Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975) - TRULY a classic. But agree with danny that Life of Brian is better.

National Lampoon's Animal House (1978)

Network (1976)

Nosferatu (1922)

On the Waterfront (1954) -even if you've never seen it, I bet you can quote it. I coulda been a contendah! Sigh...

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)

Paths of Glory (1958)

Princess Mononoke (1999)

Psycho (1960)

Pulp Fiction (1994)

Raging Bull (1980)

Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)

Raise the Red Lantern (1992)

Rashomon (1951)

Rear Window (1954)

Rebel Without a Cause (1955)

Rocky (1976)

Roman Holiday (1953)

Saving Private Ryan (1998)

Schindler's List (1993)

The Searchers (1956)

Seven Samurai (1954)

The Shawshank Redemption (1994)

The Silence of the Lambs (1991) -never, never, never.

Singin' in the Rain (1952)

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)

Some Like It Hot (1959)

The Sound of Music (1965)

Star Wars (1977) - I have no words for teh awesome.

Sunset Blvd. (1950)

Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)

This is Spinal Tap (1984)

Titanic (1997) -and I'll never get that time back. Ugh.

To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) -Scout rocks!

Toy Story (1995)

The Usual Suspects (1995)

Vertigo (1958)

When Harry Met Sally... (1989) -never all the way through...

Wild Strawberries (1957)

Wings of Desire (1988)

The Wizard of Oz (1939) -yeah, once, as a kid...I think.

Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (1988)

The World of Apu (1959)

Comments

[phyrelight.livejournal.com]

Don't go thinking that I'm not going to filch this meme!

Btw, you've never seen Silence of the Lambs? It's better than you think! If you get grossed out easily, watch the version edited for TV.

[jackwabbit.livejournal.com]

Never. Going. To. Happen.

I don't do scary. Period and the end.

I've gotten braver in the past few years. I can do the stupid horror now (ie, Slither, Shaun of the Dead, etc), and I like vampire films ok (Blade and From Dusk Til Dawn) but you couldn't pay me to see Saw or Silence of the Lambs. I do not enjoy that level of fear. I saw a movie called Blink once that scared me for a week, and after I saw Seven...ugh. I still get nauseous thinking about that movie. Seven isn't scary, but plain disgusting (though I'll grant you the villain was a genius).

The world is a beautiful place and an absolutely horrible place.

I do not wish to voluntarily subject myself to its horrors, even on film. Real life monsters do not entertain me. (I leave the room for the rape scene in From Dusk Til Dawn, for example. It's too much for me. Vampire fighting? Fine. Human beings hurting one another? Not fine.) Those type of characters disgust and horrify me and make me start at shadows for weeks. I was actually surprised how many scary movies here I'd seen. I was impressed.

I'm just a little wabbit.

Never going to happen.

[phyrelight.livejournal.com]

Actually, the total visual grossness of Silence of the Lambs is a grand total of two scenes, and they're heavily edited or cut out of the TV version (depending on the channel). The rest is basically FBI investigation and Anthony Hopkins being the world's greatest movie villain. But, if you do get the creeps that easily, then don't worry about seeing it! I don't usually watch gross horror films either. No matter how much I love to watch Nathan act, I can't sit down to watch Slither for the life of me!

[jackwabbit.livejournal.com]

Slither is hysterical. So, so, so very funny.

It's stupid, silly, gross horror.

That's fine.

But even the preview from White Noise 2 scares me. As much as I'm dying to see all that angst in the beginning, I think it's too much for me.

And I have less than zero interest in ever seeing Silence of the Lambs.

[phyrelight.livejournal.com]

I saw the clip of that woman who wouldn't stop eating when she exploded, and I was absolutely sick! Sorry. I'll watch the gag reel all day, though. I'm Bill Pardy.

[jackwabbit.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that part is gross.

But it's so stupidly gross that it doesn't bother me. Gross is ok. Just not scary in the psychological way for me.

And you can't beat Jack's tirade about being out of Mr. Pibb!

Pardy's response: Jesus, Jack! I will get right on that!

[phyrelight.livejournal.com]

Uh... I'm gonna stick with "no". I watched a clip just now after searching for the gag reel again I'm Bill Pardy, and I was getting flashbacks from a nightmare I had last week! But, if you can get through Slither, Silence of the Lambs is a piece of cake.

[jackwabbit.livejournal.com]

Once again...no effing way.

Totally different. People who eat people exist in this world. Slugs that make people zombies do not.

Blood and guts don't bother me (unless it's just completely gratuitous, like in Precinct 13, which was totally dumb). But real world scary does.

I laughed my ass off at SLiTHER.

It's one of the funniest movies I've seen in years.

Not scary in the least.

It's beyond stupid, but not scary.

And there's ship, and angst, and did I mention it's funny?

But to each their own.

I don't think you should see SLiTHER.

It's not your thing.

As for me and Silence of the Lambs:

Once again, I say...never, never, never, never, never.

Yep, five. My highest rating. Absolutely no interest at all and if someone was watching it, I'd leave. I wouldn't even be in the same house. Never. And for good measure:

NEVER.

[phyrelight.livejournal.com]

Okay. I say that's fair enough.

I'm Bill Pardy. ... Why is that line so funny?

[jackwabbit.livejournal.com]

I don't know, but it is. I say it all the time at work. My techs know that it means 'I screwed up' or 'I'm a dumbass'.

Yup. I'm Bill Pardy.

And the Lyme Disease line...oh, man...you need to find that clip. I live in Lyme Disease Central, and just the other day, when I was putting tick prevention on my dogs, and they were pitching a fit about it, I told them we had to do it. Wouldn't want them to turn into squids, now, would we?

[phyrelight.livejournal.com]

I couldn't find the clip. :-/

However, it reminded me of something. I was talking to the parents of a business associate, and they told me that they have Michael Rooker over a lot as a regular house guest. I replied, "The guy from Slither?" And, they rolled their eyes at me and nodded. They didn't like that film either.

[jackwabbit.livejournal.com]

Oh, it's terrible. So, so, so bad.

But thus so, so, so funny.

To me.

[jackwabbit.livejournal.com]

PS-I expected to be scared of SLiTHER, but it was so stupid that I couldn't be. And I was laughing too hard. I don't do scary at all, but I sucked it up for SLiTHER. Then I found out it wasn't so bad. And I love Shaun of the Dead sooo much. But anything that takes itself seriously is a whole other matter. Those two movies are ok because they make the entire horror movie thing so ridiculous that it's not scary.

There are a few scenes in SLiTHER that I fast forward, though, just because. They are a bit too gross. But any movie with zombie deer is ok by me!

But even thinking about Hannibal Lecter?

*shudder*

I saw Sleeping With The Enemy and it scared me for MONTHS.

These things happen to real people who live in our world. You know them. So do I.

Why would I let them into my home?

Why would I remind myself of the atrocities committed by devils in button down shirts? (Quoting the only episode of The X-Files that scares me there-Irresistible.)

No thanks.

Why on God's green Earth would I subject myself to bringing THAT into my home?

No way.

[phyrelight.livejournal.com]

Sleeping With The Enemy scared you for months? Wow.

[jackwabbit.livejournal.com]

Ok, weeks probably, but I did get the heebie-jeebies. I was in high school, for crying out loud. And stalkers scare me. Stalkers are real. Zombies and aliens and such...not real. Big difference.

[poisonyoulove.livejournal.com]

Ah, I'm not the only one underwhelmed by It's a Wonderful Life!

I only saw Life of Brian one time, but I remember not really getting it, except I loved the end. Holy Grail's one of my favorites though.

[jackwabbit.livejournal.com]

Nope, not the only one.

As for Life of Brian, here's my thoughts:

I have to be in the mood for Holy Grail.

Life of Brian is funny anytime, anywhere, anyhow.

IMHO. We actually had a discussion of this at the dog sled race in the middle of no and where. The three of us (and no, not me, myself, and I) agreed. But to each their own. I'm that way with The Meaning of Life. Just meh.