Movie Meme

[ericadawn16]

Because everyone is doing it...

Everyone should post your most ten CRUCIAL CRUCIAL - ASS movies, like the ten movies that explain everything about yourselves in your current incarnation etc...

Except I have eleven because it's too hard not to...

Alphabetical Order

The Avengers
Chariots of Fire
Jurassic Park
Legally Blonde
Mallrats
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
The Sorcerer's Apprentice
Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back
Time Bandits
Tommy Boy
Toy Story 2

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[internet-sampo.livejournal.com]

Not that I'm judging you:

The Avengers
Chariots of Fire *
Jurassic Park
Legally Blonde
Mallrats *
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
The Sorcerer's Apprentice
Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back
Time Bandits *
Tommy Boy
Toy Story 2

But they make me glad your on my friends list.

[ericadawn16.livejournal.com]

Chariots of Fire
I was named after Eric Liddell. It was a beautiful film when my mom fell in love with it 32 years ago and it still is.

Mallrats
Oh, Mallrats...
I first found this on a Saturday night on ABC. It had been edited to pieces but I didn't know that then and I found it hilarious. I began renting all his movies and was totally excited about Dogma except...
I wasn't 17 for 5 more weeks and this was less than a year after Columbine so they were really cracking down. By the time I was 17, Dogma was gone. Luckily, they had a free screening a few months later at my brother's college.

Anyway, 2001, in a lot of ways, kind of sucked. I think everyone had that.
I graduated high school, broke up with a very close friend, started college, had 9/11 happen and in a way...lost my faith. It wasn't my Christian faith which has never wavered, it was my faith in movies. When I was growing up, I always had Steven Spielberg, Disney and George Lucas to cheer me up. Now they were being weird and/or serious and I didn't like it.
But right before I had to leave for college, they had a sneak screening of Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back. I started to fall back in love and remember why I loved film so much in the first place.
I found a friend who loved Kevin Smith just as much and I'd buy one film per paycheck until I had them all, including Clerks, the Animated Series.

I really thought about putting Jay & Silent Bob instead but Mallrats had Stan Lee (I still need to address brother and I hitting MegaCon) and I've been having some discussions lately that sound way too much like Brodie. Plus, the living with your mom thing.

Time Bandits

I've been told this was my favorite movie as a 2-4 year old. I'd watch this all the time with my brothers at the arcade at the mall. Since we didn't get a VCR until the DVD was basically out, there was a large time frame in which I wasn't able to see it. The local channel preferred The Adventures of Baron Munchausen although I love that one, too.
Anyway, when I saw it again, it all made so much sense especially my love of dark humor and death.

I'm glad you're on my list, too.

[viomisehunt.livejournal.com]

Crucial movies: I have more than eleven so I'll break it up. Top ones: They are not in any specific order.
Definers:

A Soldier's Story
Dogma
Anne Frank 1959 version
The Color Purple
ET
Raisin In the Sun 1961
Malcolm X
Lord of The Rings
A Better Tomorrow (Hong Kong Version)
Farewell My Concubine
The Color Purple
Boomerang

Entertainment: Enter the Dragon, Drunken Master, 1951 Godzilla, HardBoiled, Face Off, Jurassic Park, Star Wars, The Return of the King, Kill Bill 1, Ragtime, Anna Lucasta--1958 Eartha Kitt version, The Cotton Club, Salt, TAP, Blade One, Two and Trinity, The Wiz, Hero (Chinese version)

Pure Guilty Pleasures and joy: Scott Pilgrim, DreamGirls, Rent, The Avengers, All the Harry Potters, and Ironman, Wanted.

Movies I thought were wonderful but can't watch a second time: Rosewood, Hotel Rwanda, Schindler's List, Boy in the Striped Pajamas

Don't know what that says about me.

[ericadawn16.livejournal.com]

Don't know what that says about me.

Sounds like a well-rounded individual to me...

I deliberately didn't put book adaptations because I feel like the original source material defines me more than the adaptations...

although I was very tempted to put Scott Pilgrim Vs. the World. It was cut in favor of Mallrats.

I also feel like guilty pleasures are those films where they don't have any redeeming values except making you happy. White Chicks is a big one of mine. I never pass up White Chicks if it's on cable.

But I do love all of your guilty pleasures.

Fair warning, Marvel owns the rights to Blade so I'm sure at some point, they'll do a reboot.

[viomisehunt.livejournal.com]

Thanks for your comments. I put my guilty pleasures as such because they are not considered, by some to be age appropriate for a "grandma".

My latest guilty pleasure are K-dramas and although some feature downright silly social and romantic situations, they do have redeeming qualities.

I forgot to put Josie and The Pussycats, Undercover Brother, House Party 1, 2 and 3, and the Spice Girls movies as my guilty pleasures. Love all of them and watch every time they come on. Don't care who knows.

[dragonacesg7.livejournal.com]

hmmm
in no order my top 10 would have to be

Avengers (MCU)
Avengers (not that great but so bad it's good based on the TV series from the 60s)
SW: Return of the Jedi
The Dark Crystal
The Secret of Nimh
Dragonheart
Naruto: Ninja Clash in the Land of Snow
Le Femme Nikita (original French Version)
The Chipmunk Adventure
The Last Unicorn

Your list is pretty groovy, is that the first Pirates?