Movie tag
I was tagged on Facebook. Since I prefer blogs to notes in Facebook (where a complete stranger who isn't my friend (hmm) can't read me), the movie tag is posted here. Rules are: Don't think, just write down 15 movies that left a lasting impression on you. If you want, tag 15 people.
In no particular order:
- Saturday Night Fever. It bored me to high heaven. I still think it's crap.
- JAWS. Especially because of the T-shirt. Pulling that thing off over your head was SCARY.
- Young Frankenstein. First time I laughed out loud in a movie theater.
- Tron. I just liked it and the effects. Still do.
- Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark. Marvelous special effects, wonderful dead-panning from Ford, and a plot and pace that still takes my breath away. The snakes sent my friend under the movie theater seats. Kewl! (I was more bugged by the spiders at the very beginning.)
- Quigley Down Under. I have no idea why this movie seems to have missed everyone's radar. A western featuring aborigines instead of Indians with three actors brilliant in their roles: Tom Selleck, Laura San Giacomo, and Alan Rickman. With a great theme song.
- Blazing Saddles. Best western/racist/Irish/Burbank comedy ever.
- Purgatory. Something weird, something divine, about that place. Dang good shoot-out, too.
- Men In Black. Best documentary about New Yorkers, ever. ;-)
- The Fox and the Hound. I saw this Disney movie in Susanville, California, sitting in the balcony of a tiny movie house with "step-cousins" (long story), bawling my eyes out. The cousins thought it was cool that a grown-up would get so worked up over such a movie. Haven't dared see it again.
- The Fly. Jeff Goldblum version. I still think Jeff Goldblum is sexy and I would marry him for his sense of humor alone.
- True Stories. I was the only one laughing out loud at this absurd comedy about life in American suburbia. Great sound track, too.
- The God's Must Be Crazy. All about modern white man versus primitive (hah!) Kalahari people. And a Coke bottle.
- Help! I woke up from a nightmare and wandered out into the living room. The grown-ups were watching the Beatles on TV. The theme song from Help! followed me on my move to Norway.
- The Rocky Horror Picture Show. Who wouldn't that leave a lasting impression on?
Comments
Remember Lou Minatti? I left a comment on one of his blog posts about the movie (since it was about Texas where he lives). I remember a reply from someone who said he saw the movie years ago in Texas and half the audience walked out half way through!
Have to admit I watched it two or three times before I understood what it was all about.
Tom (Talking Heads fan).
I LOVE LOVE LOVE "The Gods Must Be Crazy", it is such an under-rated treasure of a movie.;))
A great tag, I must say.;))
Seriously, that last Indiana movie was nowhere near as good as the previous ones and the first one was clearly the best.
Has any one seen Sean Connery's "The offense"? Not the best movie unless you like grizzled detectives chasing child molesters, but it was filmed where I grew up. His apartment in the film was a few hundred yards from my childhood home.
My claim to fame I guess!
Tom
I am not familiar with "The Offense", but I think Sean makes any movie likable. He made the last Indiana bearable.;))
The Offense is not a well known film but you're right, Connery makes any movie he's in great. In that movie he lived in an apartment in Point Royal, a block of flats just a few hundred yards away from where I grew up. The case he investigated took place at Mill Pond where I used to go fishing as a kid!
And here you go - I caddied for Sean Connery once when he played a round of golf at Sunningdale. That was nearly 25 years ago.
Boy, I'm feeling old now!
Tom
As for which Indiana Jones is best, I love Harrison Ford enough to forgive some of the failures of the fourth movie, and I am fortunately "dumb" enough to not care about obvious glitches in logic or facts. Who cares? It's INDY!
And Tom, I can now claim two degrees of separation from Sean Connery! I am giddy with delight over that. Because I totally agree with Protege: Sean makes any movie more likable. :-D
Cheers! Eva (from a.s.m.)
me again
There are so many small pieces of the movie I adore, the fashion show, the dinner with Earl Culver, the opera singer on the stage in the middle of nowhere. I loved the bit where Byrne described a building - "it's a box". What a weird and fantastic film!
Now I have the song "Hey Now" going through my head and it won't go away. Damn it!
Tom
Tom, see, a great soundtrack! ;-) It's a wild, wild life!