Dear Hollywood:
How many times will you make this movie?
I was going to make a whole list here, but look! Wikipedia already did it for me!
Deja-vu
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The Best Movie(s) of 2010
This is tough, as I saw several movies that I liked, although they’re all very different.
Even though I didn’t see it until this weekend, I think I’m going to have to go with Tangled.
I love Disney movies. I love musicals. I’ve been lamenting the fact that Disney went so long without making a musical. So, I wondered, why Disney took such great pains to NOT LET ANYONE KNOW THIS WAS A MUSICAL. (with music by Alan Menken, no less…who also wrote the music for The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, and Aladdin among others)
At any rate, Tangled was fantastic. I loved it, and it will soon find a place among my favorites. 🙂
Last year was a great year for animated features…I also saw Toy Story 3 (sob!) and How to Train Your Dragon.
For non-animated, well, I haven’t seen a lot of the big ones, but I did see (and very much enjoy) The Social Network. Great writing, great performances, and a compelling story out of something that didn’t seem like it could make for such a compelling story. I also enjoyed The Kids Are All Right.
What were your favorites, and what do I need to see?
30 Day Challenge – Day 21
Favorite movie quote
You can’t really expect me to pick just one, can you? Well, I decided to try and use ones that are things I actually frequently say. Here’s a bunch, in no particular order. I’ll do it interactive-style. Feel free to guess the movie!
“I gave her my heart and she gave me a pen.”
“It’s sucking my will to live.”
“Strange things are afoot at the Circle K”
“Baby Talk? That’s not a saying.”
“Oh, but Baby Fish Mouth is sweeping the nation?”
“Surely you can’t be serious?”
“I am serious, and don’t call me Shirley.”
“That word. You keep using it. I do not think it means what you think it means.”
Bonus (not movie quotes): two quotes from Mr. Show
“Because life is precious. And God. And the Bible.”
“You don’t know what words mean, do you?”
30 Day Challenge-Day 2
Favorite Movie
My standard answer to this question is these three movies:
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30 Day Challenge-Day 1
Favorite Actor
I will probably cheat on many of these, because I have such a hard time narrowing anything like this down to just one choice.
So, there’s this guy…
And this one…
And I’ve become a huge fan of this one, too.
And honestly, I could be here all day with this…but here are a few others I can’t go without mentioning:
Victor Garber, Neil Patrick Harris, Matthew Perry, Jason Segel, Alec Baldwin, John C. McGinley, Colin Firth, John Cusack…and I’ll probably remember a whole bunch more two minutes after I post this. 🙂
All about me (AV edition)
As seen on the blog of miss_shortskirt:
I think the best shows on TV right now are
Lost
How I Met Your Mother
Chuck
I think the best show(s) NOT on TV is (are)
The West Wing
Arrested Development
Shows I think I would like but haven’t watched yet are
Castle
Dollhouse
The show I am most anticipating is
Glee (oh, yes! me too!)
My go-to movies for repeat viewings are
When Harry Met Sally
Say Anything
The Princess Bride
I will watch any movie starring
Paul Rudd
I will listen to any CD by
Um…Ookla the Mok? (hee)
Carbon Leaf
Great Big Sea
Hawksley Workman
Ron Hawkins
My favorite musical soundtracks are
Rent
Les Miserables
Jesus Christ Superstar
My favorite Beatles song
Let it Be
or Come Together
My favorite Regina Spektor song
(Sorry, I don’t know who that is)
My favorite Weezer song
Uh….Buddy Holly? I’m actually not all that intimate with Weezer.
*ETA* Just realized that “Island in the Sun” comes up in my Pandora station all the time. I <3 that song.
My favorite Simon and Garfunkel song
Kathy’s Song
My favorite Britney Spears song
Sorry, got nothin’ here
My favorite movie soundtracks
Garden State
Juno
Moulin Rouge
**can’t really argue with those, but I will add:
Once
and also, Walk Hard (the Dewey Cox Story)
My favorite Disney movie
HOW CAN I POSSIBLY CHOOSE?
Um.
The Little Mermaid.
No, The Lion King.
No, Beauty and the Beast.
No, Aladdin.
Definitely one of those. 😉
My favorite song from a Disney Movie
Friend Like Me
or Kiss the Girl
or Under the Sea
My favorite songs at this exact moment are
Pregnant Women are Smug
The Future Soon
Cold, Cold Heart
Short Skirt, Long Jacket
Movie meme
The movie quote meme, which I saw first at So Anyway…
1. Pick 15 of your favorite movies.
2. Go to IMDb and find a quote from each movie.
3. Post them here for everyone to guess.
4. Strike it out when someone guesses correctly, and put who guessed it and the movie.
5. NO GOOGLING/using IMDb search or other search functions.
Looks like we’ve got ’em all, folks…thanks for playing! 🙂
1. I got a question. If you guys know so much about women, how come you’re here at like the Gas ‘n’ Sip on a Saturday night completely alone drinking beers with no women anywhere? (Say Anything, Emma)
2. There’s a shortage of perfect breasts in this world. It would be a pity to damage yours. (The Princess Bride, Adam Selzer, Eden)
3. That’s it? Some faceless guy rips off all your clothes, and THAT’S the sex fantasy you’ve been having since you were twelve? (When Harry Met Sally, Emma, Eden)
4. I’ve loved two women in my life. I lost one to cancer, and I lost the other ’cause I was so busy keeping my job I forgot to do my job. (The American President, Emma, Adam Selzer)
5. I mean, Led Zeppelin didn’t write tunes everybody liked. They left that to the Bee Gees. (Wayne’s World, Eden)
6. Strange things are afoot at the Circle-K. (Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure, Adam Selzer, Eden)
7. I’ll trade with anyone who has a Jacuzzi. (The Muppets Take Manhattan, Lyanne)
8. I believe in two things: discipline and the Bible. Here you’ll receive both. Put your trust in the Lord; your ass belongs to me. (The Shawshank Redemption, Amanda/pafuts)
9. This is the captain. We have a little problem with our entry sequence, so we may experience some slight turbulence and then – explode. (Serenity, voiceofkiki)
10. I got it! You daughter’s not your daughter, and the cash that used to be the jewels is now your underwear! (Oscar, guessed correctly by mom! Yay, mom!)
11. Oh, Joel Miller, you’ve just found the marble in the oatmeal. You’re a lucky, lucky, lucky little boy. ‘Cause you know why? You get to drink from the fire hose! (UHF, Adam Selzer)
12. In fact, I think most Scottish cuisine is based on a dare. (So I Married an Axe Murderer, Eden, Jenn)
13. It’s not right for a woman to read. Soon she starts getting *ideas*, and *thinking*… (Beauty and the Beast, Eden, Deoris)
14. Son, if I’d only gotten to be a doctor for five minutes… now that would have been a tragedy. (Field of Dreams, Adam Selzer)
15. Please get out of my Van Halen t-shirt before you jinx the band and they break up. The Wedding Singer, Adam Selzer
What I’ve been up to
It’s clear that I’m never going to get around to writing about all of the things I’ve been up to recently, so here is a bullet-point list in no particular order:
- Went to see The Dark Knight. I didn’t like it as much as the rest of the world did, but neither did I dislike it. Rand thought Heath Ledger’s Joker voice was a little too Al Franken, and Christian Bale’s Batman voice drove me, um…batty. I thought the ending monologue was kind of stupid.
- Visited with the Huths in Houghton, which was lovely. You can see my most recent flickr photos, which are of their yard/garden, and their adorable daughter.
- Attended the wedding of Rand’s cousin.
- Went to a family anniversary party out near Syracuse.
- Watched some movies (and other fun stuff) with the nifty new Roku, from Netflix.
- Survived a whole week of school, including schedule changes out the wazoo, broken copiers, and other mishaps.
- Added a bunch of books to my “to-read” pile, but made little progress.
- Also saw Tropic Thunder–hardly brilliant, but quite amusing.
There’s probably more, but that’s all I’ve got for now…
A funny
I have not seen Wanted, the new comic book movie based on the book by Mark Millar, starring Angelina Jolie and James MacAvoy, but Rand and John went to see it Friday night.
When they picked me up after the bachelorette festivities, they told me a little bit about the movie. Rand had filled me in a tiny bit on the source material, so they were telling me about some of the changes to the story.
There was one particular story element that I wasn’t quite sure I had remembered correctly. I thought perhaps I had dreamed it. So Saturday morning, I asked Rand…
Me: I can’t quite remember what you were telling me about the movie last night. There was something about a loom of…what?
Rand: Loom of Destiny.
Me: So I didn’t dream that.
😉
VHS tapes…what to do?
So, as we prepare for our big move (will be happening sometime this month…), we’re clearing out clutter and giving away/selling/throwing away lots of stuff.
I currently have a bag full of movies on VHS. Many of them are Disney movies. Some of them are unopened. I know I can’t sell them, but is there anyplace that would take them before I just throw them in the garbage? Lemme know if you know of anything.