30 Day Movie Challenge - Day 11-13

I'm never good at posting to LJ on the weekend. I got swept away with volunteering and classwork and far too much movie watching and video game playing. On the up side, I got a fairly well-argued paper written and I watched The Running Man and Robocop for the first time in far, far too long. I don't know if I've told this story a million times or nothing, BUT my parents used to have HBO in the 1980s. They kind of obsessively taped movies off of it, and that is how we came to have a VHS tape with Predator, Robocop and The Running Man on it. When I was upstate, sleeping in and then pointedly not skiing with the rest of the family, I would watch that tape constantly. I started off too scared and too squeamish, respectively, for Predator and Robocop, but I watched The Running Man a million times. Eventually, I worked my way backwards, realizing that Robocop, though occasionally gory, was awesome and that Predator, while scary for a kid ~10 years old, was a really great action movie. Smart, too. That's what struck me about the rewatch this weekend: both The Running Man and Robocop for all their many, many MANY ridiculous aspects, are smarter times a thousand than any action movie released recently. They have coherent stories driven by sympathetic (and still badasss) protagonists with relatable problems. This stuff shouldn't be so hard to fit into an action movie. (Looking at you, Statham.)

Anyway, the meme got away from me, so I'm playing catch-up.
( And I'm still a day behind! )

Basically, as this list proves, I watched the same five movies over and over and over as a kid such that I don't really hate any of them now. I couldn't possibly, even if they're bad. They all mean far too much to me sentimentally.

Day 01
Day 02
Day 03 - 06
Day 07
Day 08
Day 09
Day 10

30 Day Movie Challenge - Day 14

Man, I'm not even halfway through this meme!? And I'm still playing catch up.

Day 14 - Your favorite quote from any movie
Oh no. No no no no no no no! You cannot make me choose! I couldn't possibly! Instead, I choose to give a list of my favorite lines from the movies I've listed so far. That, alone, is enough of a challenge given some of the BRILLIANT pictures I've chosen so far. Let's see...
( Enjoy! )