So here are my answers to the survey I posted yesterday, let me know what you guys think:
1) What film made you angry, either while watching it or in thinking about it afterward? Basic starring John Travolta and Samuel L. Jackson, the movie plays like an intriguing military murder mystery and then at the end plays a game on the viewer where they try to see how many twists we’re willing to put up with, beyond frustrating to accept. Then there is The Game starring Michael Douglas, whoever thought it would be cool to play this kind of joke on a man for his birthday (and film a movie around the concept) should be shot.
2) One of your favorite movie lines: "Gentlemen. You can't fight in here. This is the War Room!" from Dr. Strangelove.
3) Describe a perfect moment in a movie: The scene in Jaws when Robert Shaw, Richard Dreyfuss, and Roy Scheider are drinking, bonding and singing after a day of shark chasing and Shaw completely takes us out this story and tells another one about the USS Indianapolis that puts ice in your veins.
4) Most exotic or otherwise unusual place in which you ever saw a movie: Not really exotic but definitely unusual; I was on vacation in London when Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith came out, so my sister and I went to a midnight showing surrounded by a crowd of UK geeks followed by a very late cab ride back to the hotel with a Star Wars-loving cabbie.
5) Is it possible to know with any certainty if you could like or love someone based partially on his or her taste in movies? If so, what film might be a potential relationship deal-breaker for you, or the one that might just seal that deal? Personally I don’t think that taste in movies is everything, especially in a relationship. But I suppose I can say that I would have a hard time understanding someone if they hated Casablanca.
6) The scene you most wish you could have witnessed being filmed: The opening scene in Reservoir Dogs where they are at breakfast and talking about Madonna. However they would have had to put a muzzle on me so I could refrain from geeking out and laughing during the whole scene.
7) Ideal pairing of actors/actresses to play on-screen siblings (or parents and children): Harrison Ford and Dennis Quaid (could Indy have a brother?).
8) Your favorite movie poster/one-sheet, or the one you’d most like to own: An original 1933 King Kong one-sheet.
9) With total disregard for whether it would ever actually be considered, even in this age of movie recycling, what film exists that you feel might actually warrant a sequel, or would produce a sequel you’d actually be interested in seeing? L.A. Confidential, (yes I know the Black Dahlia is coming out soon but it’s not going to have Russell Crowe or Guy Pearce in it). I loved the atmosphere of that movie, and of that era in Hollywood and it’s so much fun to go back to that time and watch tough cops take on tougher criminals.
10) Your favorite political movie: Other than Casablanca? Dr. Strangelove and All the President’s Men.
11) Favorite special effects moment: The T-Rex fight from the original King Kong, the skeleton fight from Jason and the Argonauts, the dragon from Dragonslayer, Blade Runner’s futuristic vision of Los Angeles, and the Neo vs. 100 Smiths fight from Matrix Reloaded.
12) What is the movie you’ve encouraged more people to see than any other? The Royal Tennenbaums, everyone who has a family should see this movie.
13) Your favorite movie theater: The Arena Grand in Columbus.
14) Your favorite film made for children: The Incredibles.
15) Your favorite character name: General Jack T. Ripper.
16) Your favorite film of 1970s, -80s, -90s: The Godfather, Raiders of the Lost Ark, The Silence of the Lambs.
17) Your favorite movie based on a book you’ve read: The Lord of the Rings trilogy (blasphemy, I know).
18) Your favorite book you'd like to see as a movie and who should direct and star: The Catcher in the Rye (REALLY blasphemous). Starring as Holden I would cast Jesse Eisenberg (the older brother from The Squid and the Whale) and I would have Mike Nichols direct. I can’t even begin to talk about how much this needs to be a movie and how it would be nearly impossible to pull off but would be brilliant if done correctly (Dokota Fanning may NOT play Phoebe!).
19) Describe a moment in a movie that made you weep: In 21 Grams when Naomi Watts finds out what happened to her family, and the scene in The Sixth Sense when the boy gives his mom a message from her dead mother.
20) Describe a transcendent moment in a film (a moment when you realized a film that just seemed routine or merely interesting before had become something much more): In the movie Collateral, there’s a scene at a jazz club that changes that movie for me. Everything after that point in the film has more meaning regarding the characters involved and what the film tells us about the way we live our lives and how we decide when to act upon our instincts and when we simply give in to what we believe to be inevitable.
That's it, took me a while to mull over some of the questions but it was a lot of fun, I encourage anyone to try and answer these and if you like share you answers here.
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4 comments:
1) This year. Definitely V for Vendetta. I was livid after that movie.
2) There are too many. But my FAVORITE favorite is "Garage Freak?! What kind of a crazy fucking story is this?" from All The President's Men.
3) When Margot Tenenbaum gets off the bus. I saw that movie with a guy I was completely in love with but who did not and never will love me. As that Nico song started and the slow motion happened, I just silently cried next to him.
4) I saw The Long Goodbye in a cemetary.
5) Wow. Read my play! There aren't any dealbreakers when it comes to film nerds. The nerdy the better. If they don't like It's A Wonderful Life, it really hurts my feelings.
6) Dirk Diggler's first sex scene in Boogie Nights.
7) I cannot wait to cast Kevin Spacey and Madonna as my parents.
8) A very large Donnie Darko one-sheet.
9) I don't know. I'm not really big on sequels. You should actually read The Dudley Smith Trilogy if you liked L.A. Confidential that much. It's incredible. I would like to see Ace in the Hole remade.
10) The Corporation
11) You are geeky! Lots of Harryhausen. The canon run/Death Star sequence at the end of A New Hope is pretty hot. And when the delorian disappears in Back to the Future.
12) Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl. I told everyone and their mother to see that movie and called Depp's Oscar nom.
13) The Arclight in Hollywood is hard to beat.
14) Monsters Inc.
15) Marla Singer or Selina Kyle.
16) This is too hard.
17) L.A. Confidential and Requiem for a Dream
18) Still Life with Woodpecker or The Bell Jar
19) All I ever do is cry in movies. Whenever I watch Natalie Wood in that classroom scene in Splendor in the Grass when she's about to go crazy I lose it.
20) The Shining. The part where Danny turns the corner and the girls are standing there. I was like "HOLY CRAP! THIS IS FUCKING ART!"
I've just sent you my answers to your survey via e-mail, Owen.
1) What film made you angry, either while watching it or in thinking about it afterward?
“Crash“, while watching and hours afterwards, right now typing this.
2) One of your favorite movie lines
“ Ordinary life is pretty complex stuff” -by Harvey Pekar
3) Describe a perfect moment in a movie: the phone scene between George Bailey
& Mary
4) Most exotic or otherwise unusual place in which you ever saw a movie:
In my brother’s bedroom, it’s a total inusual exotic place.
5) Is it possible to know with any certainty if you could like or love someone based partially on his or her taste in movies? If so, what film might be a potential relationship deal-breaker for you, or the one that might just seal that deal? Deal-breaker: Rambo movies fan (any of the saga), seal the deal if he loves “Detour”.
6) The scene you most wish you could have witnessed being filmed: the dance scene in the bar of “Moonliht Mile”.
7) Ideal pairing of actors/actresses to play on-screen siblings (or parents and children):
Gena Rowlands and Laura Linney.
8) Your favorite movie poster/one-sheet, or the one you’d most like to own: I own a one-sheet of “Secretary”.
9) With total disregard for whether it would ever actually be considered, even in this age of movie recycling, what film exists that you feel might actually warrant a sequel, or would produce a sequel you’d actually be interested in seeing? I’d like to see a sequel to “Fallen Angels” (Kar Wai Wong)
10) Your favorite political movie: “Arlington Road”
11) Favorite special effects moment: “Matrix”, when Neo is deprogrammed.
12) What is the movie you’ve encouraged more people to see than any other? Possibly “Donnie Darko”
13) Your favorite movie theater: Oscars Cinemas Les Gavarres
14) Your favorite film made for children the nightmare befote christmas
15) Your favorite character name: Betty Etamble
16) Your favorite film of 1970s, -80s, -90s: “Taxi driver“, “Videodrome“, “Fight club”
17) Your favorite movie based on a book you've read: “A clockwork orange”
18) Your favorite book you'd like to see as a movie and who should direct and star:
“The killer inside me” (Jim thompson) translated to screen by Darren aronofsky, starring Peter Sarsgaard.
19) Describe a moment in a movie that made you weep: when Holden commits suicide in “The Good Girl”
20) Describe a transcendent moment in a film (a moment when you realized a film that just seemed routine or merely interesting before had become something much more):
When Leonard in “Memento” talks about his dead wife to Natalie, and flashs of her are shown in slow-motion.
Kendra
1) All the real girls
2) “Exuse me stewardess, I speak jive.” Airplane
3) When Diane Keaton finds Warren Beatty dying in REDS and realized that she had never understood him and that he’s always loved her
4) deserted movie theatre in Glasgow Montana
5) No it’s probably not, but I would really want them to like Santa Sangre
6) “But you are, you are in that chair” Whatever Happened to Baby Jane. I would like to see those two crazy bitches who hate each other pretend to like each other just long enough, so they can finish shooting a movie about how they hate each other.
7) Helena Bonham Carter, Sophia Lauren- In some sultry mother/daughter coming of age/reconciliation tale
8) Now Voyager with Bette Davis
9) I think every time a movie sequel can be made, it generally is. But I admit to liking Joss Whedon and wishing someone would put “Firefly” back on the air, so the story could really unfold.
10) REDS
11) The sorceress’ hand turning to stone in Willow, when he throws one his magic pebbles and she catches it
12) Possesion starring Isabella Adjani and Sam Neill
13) The Rialto in Pasadena
14) The Little Mermaid, Babe, Monsters Inc.
15) Clementine, in Eternal Sunshine
16) 1970’s Network, 1980’s toss-up between Mr. Mom and Labrynth, 1990’s get too complicated.
17) Dr. Zhivago
Fight Club
18) "God Bless John Wayne" by Kinky Friedman, directed by the Cohen brothers, starring Gary OLDMAN as Kinky. I can’t believe what an inspired idea this is. Gary Oldman as Jewish cowboy detective. Please have your people call mine.
19) Dancer in the Dark, when the father realizes that she’s blind, and later when he begs her to kill him. Racking, racking sobs.
20) Cries and Whispers, when the dead woman begins talking to her sisters. Holy god, my brain exploded.
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