Movie Meme

I don't know how started the Movie Meme that is going around right now but it seems like Jess at Insight into Entertainment and Andrew at Encore are the main players at this time. Like Simon, who's idea I am stealing here, I don't have time to follow along and make posts every day for a month so I'm just going to do it all in one post and you can read it if you feel like it. So here goes,

Day 01 - Sequel that should not have been made

--Every Rocky movie after the second one. They all really lost touch with what made the original so special and became just a bunch of stock sports cliches.

Day 02 - Movie that you think more people should see

--Best of Youth- The best 6 hour movie I can think of.

Day 03 - Favorite Oscar-nominated movie from most recent ballot

--Up in the Air. It was a funny, touching movie that had a lot of truth in it, both from the human side and the corporate side. It especially rang true for me as a Human Resources graduate.

Day 04 - Movie that makes you laugh every time

--FUBAR. I don't know if it's a Canadian thing. I don't know if it's a growing up in a small town where there actually are a lot of people like this thing but damn this movie is funny no matter what mood I am in and I find new things that are hilarious every time.

Day 05 - Movie you loathe

--Fight Club (nihilistic garbage parading as satire), Boondock Saints (over stylized z-grade Tarantino wannabe), everything Eli Roth, everything Tyler Perry, this list goes on.

Day 06 - Movie that makes you cry every time

--The Polar Express. Poor little Billy, Christmas just doesn't work out for him.

Day 07 - Least favorite movie by a favorite actor or actress

--Christopher Walken, Kangaroo Jack, The Wedding Crashers or Click

Day 08 - Movie that should be required high school viewing

--Requiem for a Dream

Day 09 - Best scene ever

--The fountain scene in La Dolche Vita or the first 10 minutes of 8 1/2

Day 10 - A movie you thought you wouldn't like but ended up loving

-- High School Musical 3. Deal with it.

Day 11 - A movie that disappointed you

--Inception, even though I gave it 5 stars.

Day 12 - Best soundtrack/background music in a scene

--Easy Rider, duh.

Day 13 - Favorite animated movie

--The Polar Express or Snow White

Day 14 - Favorite film in black and white

--La Dolce Vita

Day 15 - Best musical

--In general Rent; as a movie, Hairspray maybe.

Day 16 - Your guilty pleasure movie

--High School Musical 3 again.

Day 17 - Favorite series of related movies

--Too hard to pick. How about Dirty Harry?

Day 18 - Favorite title sequence

-Can't think of one right now.

Day 19 - Best movie cast

--Robert Altman's Short Cuts

Day 20 - Favorite kiss

--Clint Eastwood and Merly Streep in Bridges of Madison County

Day 21 - Favorite romantic couple

--John Cusack and Ione Skye, Say Anything

Day 22 - Favorite final scene/line

--Zampano on the beach in La Strada

Day 23 - Best explosion or action scene

The Obvious ones: Bullit or The French Connection. The not obvious: The motorbike chase in The Bourne Ultimatum

Day 24 - Quote you use most often

--The movies are so rarely great art that if we can't enjoy great trash there's no point in going- Pauline Kael.

Day 25 - A movie you plan on watching (old or new)

--High Plains Drifter might be next

Day 26 - Freakishly weird movie ending

--How about one of the most freakishly weird movies ever: Werner Herzog's Even Dwarfs Started Small

Day 27 - Best villain

--Gary Oldman in Leon, John Malkovich in In the Line of Fire, Dr. Octopus in Spider-Man 2, the Joker of course

Day 28 - Most over-hyped movie

--easily three of the most overrated movies are A Clockwork Orange, Reservoir Dogs and The Usual Suspects

Day 29 - Movie you have watched more than ten times

--Honestly, probably Space Jam

Day 30 - Saddest death scene

--Terms of Endearment, La Strada, The Green Mile, American History X

Day 31 - Scene that made you stand up and cheer

--This one: