Holy God, this is my fourth post

[trinityvixen]

Since starting my new (now seven months old) job, I've not been a regular on LJ. I used to post once a day. The new job started up and I was busier during and after work and now it's more like once a week. Today has been an anomaly since this is, as my subject says, the fourth post I'm making today.

Anyway, in effort to be more regularly around, I'm doing a 30-day meme I stole from droidguy1119. This should be easy since it's all about movies. I am going to modify it, as he plans to, to state that my "favorite" is subject to change and most answers will be chosen from among several favorites (or, as necessary, least favorites).

30 Day Movie Challenge:
Day 01 - Your favorite movie

I have seen many movies in the theaters multiple times. But no matter how many times teenage me watched The Matrix, toddler me had her beat. There used to be a teeny tiny little video store back in the day (we're talking it-was-located-in-a-strip-mall-with-a-Woolworth's back in the day) that had two copies of Sleeping Beauty. I would rent one and, in three days, take it back and rent the other copy. My mother would take roughly ten minutes to pick out movies, during which I would browse the horror movie section (I liked to look at the backs of the VHS covers and gawk at gory stuff) and then return to the front with the empty jacket for Sleeping Beauty in hand.

It may not be the movie I turn to nowadays, but it's definitely an all-time favorite.

Day 02 - The last movie you watched 
Day 03 - Your favorite action/adventure movie 
Day 04 - Your favorite horror movie 
Day 05 - Your favorite drama movie 
Day 06 - Your favorite comedy movie 
Day 07 - A movie that makes you happy
Day 08 - A movie that makes you sad 
Day 09 - A movie that you know practically the whole script of
Day 10 - Your favorite director
Day 11 - Your favorite movie from your childhood 
Day 12 - Your favorite animated movie 
Day 13 - A movie that you used to love but now hate 
Day 14 - Your favorite quote from any movie
Day 15 - The first movie you saw in theaters 
Day 16 - The last movie you saw in theaters 
Day 17 - The best movie you saw during the last year 
Day 18 - A movie that disappointed you the most
Day 19 - Your favorite actor 
Day 20 - Your favorite actress 
Day 21 - The most overrated movie 
Day 22 - The most underrated movie 
Day 23 - Your favorite character from any movie 
Day 24 - Favorite documentary
Day 25 - A movie that no one would expect you to love 
Day 26 - A movie that is a guilty pleasure
Day 27 - Favorite classic movie 
Day 28 - Movie with the best soundtrack 
Day 29 - A movie that changed your opinion about something 
Day 30 - Your least favorite movie

Comments

[six-demon-bag.livejournal.com]

Ah, good movie. I saw it in the theater somehow when I was a kid, but I didn't see it again until after high school. My girlfriend at the time demanded I see it since I hadn't seen it recently enough to remember much and it was her favorite movie. I bought her this awesome snowglobe I found at the Disney Store in the mall for her birthday (or maybe it was Valentine's Day).



Now to decide whether or not I want to commit to the meme and start posting it on my page...

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

That's delightful! And please do steal the meme. It's so much fun!

[bigscary.livejournal.com]

I'll just play along in comments unless I decide not to!

Lilo and Stitch. Or maybe Scanners. Eh, probably Lilo and Stitch. It's the only movie that once came on TV, I watched it straight through, and then it repeated and I just watched it again.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

I remember you liked Lilo and Stitch nearly inordinately. Figures. You do like adorable things.

You can do the meme on your own journal, you know. But I'm happy to have you here if you'd prefer!

[fairest.livejournal.com]

I also loved Sleeping Beauty, and was a fervent supporter of blue-dress Aurora. I'm incensed every time I see her in Disney Princess advertising in pink.

Also, there exists a recording of four-year-old me singing Once Upon a Dream, though I'm sure I've told you that eighteen times before. I wish I knew where it was...

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

And somehow my parents were surprised when I'd go see movies in the theaters over and over and over...

I, too, am incensed at the pink dress. Not in the least because it misses a great opportunity to sell me princess stuff that changes color. You're missing out on a mint, Disney!

(Stupid Cinderella gets the blue dress. Her dress was fucking white! Silver! I refuse to allow it was blue!)

[gryphonrose.livejournal.com]

A classic, and worthy of that title, to be sure.

My favorite movie? I'd probably still have to say Blazing Saddles. Never gets old. Ever.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

I'd like to quote that movie, but most of the best lines use the N-word. Of course, probably my favorite line is the exchange of "Oh booyys! Lookee what I got here!" "Hey, where the white women at?" So that's safe.

I still like Spaceballs better. "My hair! He shot my hair! SON OF A BITCH."

[gryphonrose.livejournal.com]

"Badges? We don't need no stinkin' badges."

"Hush, Harriet! Can't you see that's a sure way to get him killed?"

"Oh, baby, you are so talented. And they are so dumb!"

"The hard part was inventing the candy-gram. And I bet I won't even get credit for it."

And so on. :)

[viridian.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but teenage you watched the Matrix some unholy number of times in theaters! Surely that counts double! :P

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

It counts, but it doesn't count enough. Besides, the sequels have still ruined that movie for me for a long, long time.