30 Day Movie Challenge - Day 03-06
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trinityvixenWow. I do a meme for the express purpose of posting more regularly, fail to post at all on Friday and then go away for the weekend. I'm so good at this...
Let's see, where was I?
Day 01 - Your favorite movie
Day 02 - The last movie you watched
Day 03 - Your favorite action movie - a tie! Don't make me choose!
I watched The Rock again this weekend, and I forgot how much I loved just about everything in it. (It's probably my favorite Nicholas Cage movie ever :P) It's the right level of humor and action, which is surprising given the trajectory of Michael Bay's career in action movies. (Transformers 2, whhhhyyyyyyyy???) It's terribly silly, but it is still ever so much fun Speed, on the other hand, is almost a perfect movie and is hardly silly at all. Okay, so there's the thing with the bus jumping over a gap and speeding up the train instead of, you know, slowing it down to 5 miles/hour and letting it take a gentle hit as collides with a wall...but it's mostly perfect. I don't think any other movie save Die Hard matches it for the taut pacing and mostly logical actions of all the people within. There's nothing really wasted--not time, not performances, not set pieces--and it remains awesome to this day.
Day 04 - Your favorite horror movie
Oh, don't get me wrong, Night of the Living Dead is still probably the best of my favorites, but when it comes to which horror movie I can watch over and over and over again without ever being tired of it? It's gotta be this one. I suppose I could have put Predator or Aliens on here as well. Certainly, Aliens is still the most horrific movie for me, possibly ever. (I saw it way too young, am still scared of it.) But I don't get in the mood to watch Aliens as often as I do this movie. Predator, too, feels more like an action movie. I can't, like, compute Arnold movies as being anything else but action, which is stupid seeing as the first movies I saw him in were Predator and the Conan movies, which are arguably horror in the former case and definitely fantasy in the latter. Go figure.
Day 05 - Your favorite drama movie
This is kind of a cop-out choice because the truth is? I don't really have a favorite drama movie. I like movies that are dramatic, but they'd be better known by other genres. I would have said The Lord of the Rings, here, but I doubt anyone would argue with me that it is fantasy first in a lot of ways. But this one is pretty good. It's compulsively watchable. The first time I saw it, it left me horribly depressed. Little by little, though, I just was won over by it. I almost never am able to turn it off if it comes on TV.
Day 06 - Your favorite comedy movie (Surely, you can't be serious!)
I am serious, and don't call me Shirley! Any of these movies is capable of making me giggle to death. I can't remember a time when I hadn't already seen and couldn't already quote by heart Clue or Airplane! ("Flames...flames, on the side of my face, breathing...breathless--heaving breaths!") Galaxy Quest has only gotten funnier with time because of the complete one-two punch of funny that is Alan Rickman playing everything as Beneath His Dignity and Sam Rockwell having no dignity of which to speak. Dodgeball is surprisingly off-the-wall and actually funny for a Vince Vaughn or Ben Stiller movie. ("If you can dodge a wrench, you can dodge a ball!" "Huh?" **THWACK**) Arsenic and Old Lace is the first movie in a long, long time that made me laugh so hard I was gasping for air. There's a perfect scene where Cary Grant screams at an old guy and then chases him out of the house while tripping over a chair. It killed me. The movie is oddball crazy funny, but that one scene alone steals the whole thing away.
Let's see, where was I?
Day 01 - Your favorite movie
Day 02 - The last movie you watched
Day 03 - Your favorite action movie - a tie! Don't make me choose!
I watched The Rock again this weekend, and I forgot how much I loved just about everything in it. (It's probably my favorite Nicholas Cage movie ever :P) It's the right level of humor and action, which is surprising given the trajectory of Michael Bay's career in action movies. (Transformers 2, whhhhyyyyyyyy???) It's terribly silly, but it is still ever so much fun Speed, on the other hand, is almost a perfect movie and is hardly silly at all. Okay, so there's the thing with the bus jumping over a gap and speeding up the train instead of, you know, slowing it down to 5 miles/hour and letting it take a gentle hit as collides with a wall...but it's mostly perfect. I don't think any other movie save Die Hard matches it for the taut pacing and mostly logical actions of all the people within. There's nothing really wasted--not time, not performances, not set pieces--and it remains awesome to this day.
Day 04 - Your favorite horror movie
Oh, don't get me wrong, Night of the Living Dead is still probably the best of my favorites, but when it comes to which horror movie I can watch over and over and over again without ever being tired of it? It's gotta be this one. I suppose I could have put Predator or Aliens on here as well. Certainly, Aliens is still the most horrific movie for me, possibly ever. (I saw it way too young, am still scared of it.) But I don't get in the mood to watch Aliens as often as I do this movie. Predator, too, feels more like an action movie. I can't, like, compute Arnold movies as being anything else but action, which is stupid seeing as the first movies I saw him in were Predator and the Conan movies, which are arguably horror in the former case and definitely fantasy in the latter. Go figure.Day 05 - Your favorite drama movie
This is kind of a cop-out choice because the truth is? I don't really have a favorite drama movie. I like movies that are dramatic, but they'd be better known by other genres. I would have said The Lord of the Rings, here, but I doubt anyone would argue with me that it is fantasy first in a lot of ways. But this one is pretty good. It's compulsively watchable. The first time I saw it, it left me horribly depressed. Little by little, though, I just was won over by it. I almost never am able to turn it off if it comes on TV.Day 06 - Your favorite comedy movie (Surely, you can't be serious!)
I am serious, and don't call me Shirley! Any of these movies is capable of making me giggle to death. I can't remember a time when I hadn't already seen and couldn't already quote by heart Clue or Airplane! ("Flames...flames, on the side of my face, breathing...breathless--heaving breaths!") Galaxy Quest has only gotten funnier with time because of the complete one-two punch of funny that is Alan Rickman playing everything as Beneath His Dignity and Sam Rockwell having no dignity of which to speak. Dodgeball is surprisingly off-the-wall and actually funny for a Vince Vaughn or Ben Stiller movie. ("If you can dodge a wrench, you can dodge a ball!" "Huh?" **THWACK**) Arsenic and Old Lace is the first movie in a long, long time that made me laugh so hard I was gasping for air. There's a perfect scene where Cary Grant screams at an old guy and then chases him out of the house while tripping over a chair. It killed me. The movie is oddball crazy funny, but that one scene alone steals the whole thing away.
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Date: 2011-01-25 03:38 pm (UTC)Favorite Action Movie: Die Hard. It just doesn't get any better than that.
Favorite Horror Movie: Does Lost Boys count? Otherwise probably the Crow.
Favorite Drama: I'm not a big drama fan, so that's a lot harder. Maybe Regarding Henry? I remember really liking that. And Glory is brilliant.
Favorite Comedy: Well, Blazing Saddles, obviously. If I can't double-dip, I'll go with a tie between Arsenic and Old Lace and Bringing Up Baby.
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Date: 2011-01-25 04:56 pm (UTC)The Lost Boys counts, but is The Crow really horror?
Drama is such a tough category, isn't it? I joke with people that when, inevitably, they come to take me away (to the happy place with chirping birds and basket weavers...) they'll look at my collection of horror movies next to Disney movies and wonder how no one saw this day coming sooner. I literally don't own many other movies besides horror and Disney, and what I do own is all action and sci-fi. I don't think I own a drama, unless there are some on my shelf that I was given and haven't watched (ENTIRELY POSSIBLE).
Bringing Up Baby was cute, but I might have liked one of the other Hepburn/Grant pair-ups better. Holiday perhaps?
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Date: 2011-01-25 06:15 pm (UTC)Drama is tough. I suppose I actually could have cited things like War of the Buttons and the Commitments, but the first is at least ostensibly a kids' movie and the second is musical, so I don't know if they count.
Sorry, I love Bringing Up Baby. Katherine Hepburn was just too adorable in it. And the leopard? Come on! :)