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thecoffeehouse2013-05-08 09:08 pm
skieswideopen) wrote in thecoffeehouse2013-05-08 09:08 pm
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Movies and movie recs or "What do you mean you haven't seen that?"
I'm interrupting hometown month to talk movies. And movie recs. With summer blockbuster more or less upon us, it seems like an appropriate time.
1. What do you look for in a movie?/What kinds of movies do you like?
2. Do you have a favourite movie or three? (I'm using random numbers here. Feel free to talk about as many movies as you like. Or as few.)
3. What movies had the biggest impact on you?
4. Do you have any movies that you indiscriminately rec to everyone or think everyone should see at least once? (Could be the same as or different from #1 or #2. Totally up to you. Elaboration is encouraged.)
*Or winter blockbuster season, if you live in the Southern Hemisphere.
1. What do you look for in a movie?/What kinds of movies do you like?
2. Do you have a favourite movie or three? (I'm using random numbers here. Feel free to talk about as many movies as you like. Or as few.)
3. What movies had the biggest impact on you?
4. Do you have any movies that you indiscriminately rec to everyone or think everyone should see at least once? (Could be the same as or different from #1 or #2. Totally up to you. Elaboration is encouraged.)
*Or winter blockbuster season, if you live in the Southern Hemisphere.
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2. A semi-random selection in no particular order: The Hanging Garden, Spy Game, The Lord of the Rings, L.A. Confidential, Sneakers, The Bourne Identity, Shawshank Redemption, Pulp Fiction, First Contact, The Return of the Jedi, Terminator 2, The Sweet Hereafter, Love Actually, Four Weddings and a Funeral, The Maltese Falcon. I'm sure I'll be kicking myself an hour from now when I realize I left something off.
3. The Search for Spock and Return of the Jedi, which are the first two movies I remember seeing and probably helped tip me toward my love of science fiction. (Although the fact that those are the movies my father chose to take me too--and everything that says about him--may have had something to do with it as well.) Also Terminator 2, the first action movie I remember seeing where the female lead actually did something besides allow the gun to be yanked out of her hands. I love Aliens for the same reason.
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I randomly just dropped Sneakers into my netflix queue the other day because I was feeling nostalgic.
Linda Hamilton was so badass in Terminator 2, ditto for Sigourney in Aliens. Both made female action stars possible and I'm sad there've been so few since that are of their caliber.
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It's true! There aren't too many comparable characters now. It is very sad.
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I love Search for Spock, even a little better than The Voyage Home actually (though that one is great, and I love Catherine Hicks in it - "see you around the galaxy", lol).
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Might get more variety tomorrow, though.
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Terminator 2 and Aliens were both so good. I watched them both as a youngster too and was like wow these ladies are awesome. Definitely I can blame my penchant for kick-butt ladies on those two.