Tuesday, May 11, 2010

CinemaRomantico demands, I deliver, I can't have someone that influential mad at me

Per the request of CinemaRomantico

1.) What was your first movie-going experience? I couldn't possibly tell you, but I can vividly remember seeing The Dead Pool in theaters. My parents even let me sit in the front row and an usher asked where my parents were, and when I pointed at them several rows back, he shrugged and walked away (makes me remember my theater days). Why my parents would take me to a movie like Dirty Harry at age 7 is not entirely clear but I don't think it hurt me too much. Best/worst line: "He's hanging around back there" - Dirty Harry having killed the villain with a harpoon gun.

2.) How many DVDs do you own? A little over two hundred but I am in the process of downsizing to about half that. I own 3 Blu-Ray Discs.

3.) What is your guilty pleasure movie? Bring It On, The scene with Sparky Pulaski is cinematic genius.

4.) You have compiled a list of your top 100 movies. Which movies didn’t make the cut? I could never make a top 100 list because I could never decide on movies 2-100. Movies which are often listed in such lists because they represent innovation (but in my opinion are not very interesting movies e.g. Voyage to the Moon or Birth of a Nation) would probably get left off.

5.) Which movie(s) do you compulsively watch over and over again? Thin Red Line, its my favorite movie and each new viewing is rewarded with something new.

6.) Classic(s) you’re embarrassed to admit you haven’t seen yet? Quite a bit of the foreign classics.

7.) What movie posters hang on your wall? Well none currently but usually Thin Red Line, the first poster which still listed John Travolta on it before his name was removed for fear that people would go to it instead of Civil Action which was released at the same time.