Movie Meme!
I'm doing a meme! I got it from eowyn_315 who got it from blackfrancine .
What are my favorite movies released each year of my life? Well, I'm old, so you just get the first 20 years for now.
1960: Psycho (I don’t love it - it’s the only one on the list I’ve seen.)
1961: The Parent Trap (Again, haven’t seen many movies from that year. Being one will kind of slow you down).
1962: The Miracle Worker - loved this as a kid when it ran on TV. Runner Up: Bird Man of Alcatraz. A life that terrified me, probably because I knew I was doomed to live it.
1963: Since I picked two for ’62, I’ll pass on this year.
1964: Mary Poppins. I also really liked My Fair Lady. I doubt I saw either in the theater.
1965: The Sound of Music. Mom and Dad had the sound track and I listened to it obsessively.
1966: A Man for All Seasons. I didn’t see this until recently - but it’s one of my favorite movies ever. Endlessly quotable. For Wales? But this is the quote I wish I had committed to memory:
"Oh? And when the last law was down, and the Devil turned 'round on you, where would you hide, Roper, the laws all being flat? This country is planted thick with laws, from coast to coast, Man's laws, not God's! And if you cut them down, and you're just the man to do it, do you really think you could stand upright in the winds that would blow then? Yes, I'd give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety's sake!”
1967: I loved The Jungle Book at the time. Admired the Graduate when I came of age. But the movie that had the biggest impact on me was In Cold Blood. Actually, it was the book. I read it when I was the same age as the girl who got killed, and I couldn’t sleep for a year. I’ve never really regained the art of sleeping well.
1968: Yellow Submarine! Blue meanies! I was a huge Beatle fan. I made my Mom take me to this movie. She said all the psychedelic colors made her eyes hurt. This was probably the year we were all about collecting flower power chewing gum. Though that might have been a year or two later.
1969: Hello Dolly. We went to see it in some fancy theater in New York. It was a very big deal. Maybe a fancy lunch was involved.
1970: Tora, tora, tora. Not a personal fave. But my Dad loved war movies and we watched it every time it came on TV. When we lived in Hawaii, Dad and I hiked to whatever pass that was that the bombers came through.
1971: Brian’s song. Probably watched it on TV a few years after it came out. Cried like a baby every time.
1972: Deliverance. I didn’t actually see this until last year. But it was a big deal when it came out. Super bad scary - which is why I didn’t see it until last year.
1973: Jesus Christ Superstar. I saw this a million times. Listened to the soundtrack a million times. Even got to act in it on stage once. Saw it in London. I guess you could say it was a big deal. And back then I had no idea I’d end up as a devout Christian one day. It squeezes out The Sting which I also saw a bunch of times. It was so fun! It was the first best picture winner I saw in release.
1974: Blazing Saddles. My first boyfriend (long distance) thought it was hilarious and told me to go see it. I thought it was hilarious and went to see it lots of times. Mel Brooks movies were a recurring feature in my life from then on - but they don’t leave much of a mark.
1975: Jaws. It took me about four viewings before I could keep my eyes open the whole way. I had been scared of sharks since Hawaii, so it was major bravery to go see that movie. I didn’t stop having shark nightmares until I was 30. Got to give a shout out to Tommy, as well. I don’t think I saw that in the first run, but it was part of my rock opera phase.
1976: OK, we just had great movies in a way that you guys don’t. There are a dozen movies this year that are great. Network, Taxi Driver, All the President’s Men, Silver Streak, Carrie. But I’m going to have to go with Rocky. I’m a sucker for that sort of thing. We were in Germany at the time and the hot movies didn’t get released to the armed forces until a year later, so I probably saw this in 1977.
1977: More greatness. Honestly how do you guys even live with yourselves, not having been alive during the great era of American cinema? Saturday night fever was the hot movie. But check out this list: Star Wars, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, The Goodbye Girl, Annie Hall, Julia … and that’s just in the top ten list. I decided I wanted to be a screen writer back then. Pity about the not having a creative mind thing…
1978: We came home from Germany that summer. Grease was the big deal. Was also a big fan of Heaven Can Wait because Warren Beatty was just so cute. But my favorite two movies that year were the Deer Hunter and Coming Home. I liked serious Vietnam movies.
1979: I’ll confine myself to two. I still loved the rock musicals, so Hair got seen many times. I loved All That Jazz.
*And that’s my first 20 years. If I get bored some time I’ll do the next 20.
What are my favorite movies released each year of my life? Well, I'm old, so you just get the first 20 years for now.
1960: Psycho (I don’t love it - it’s the only one on the list I’ve seen.)
1961: The Parent Trap (Again, haven’t seen many movies from that year. Being one will kind of slow you down).
1962: The Miracle Worker - loved this as a kid when it ran on TV. Runner Up: Bird Man of Alcatraz. A life that terrified me, probably because I knew I was doomed to live it.
1963: Since I picked two for ’62, I’ll pass on this year.
1964: Mary Poppins. I also really liked My Fair Lady. I doubt I saw either in the theater.
1965: The Sound of Music. Mom and Dad had the sound track and I listened to it obsessively.
1966: A Man for All Seasons. I didn’t see this until recently - but it’s one of my favorite movies ever. Endlessly quotable. For Wales? But this is the quote I wish I had committed to memory:
"Oh? And when the last law was down, and the Devil turned 'round on you, where would you hide, Roper, the laws all being flat? This country is planted thick with laws, from coast to coast, Man's laws, not God's! And if you cut them down, and you're just the man to do it, do you really think you could stand upright in the winds that would blow then? Yes, I'd give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety's sake!”
1967: I loved The Jungle Book at the time. Admired the Graduate when I came of age. But the movie that had the biggest impact on me was In Cold Blood. Actually, it was the book. I read it when I was the same age as the girl who got killed, and I couldn’t sleep for a year. I’ve never really regained the art of sleeping well.
1968: Yellow Submarine! Blue meanies! I was a huge Beatle fan. I made my Mom take me to this movie. She said all the psychedelic colors made her eyes hurt. This was probably the year we were all about collecting flower power chewing gum. Though that might have been a year or two later.
1969: Hello Dolly. We went to see it in some fancy theater in New York. It was a very big deal. Maybe a fancy lunch was involved.
1970: Tora, tora, tora. Not a personal fave. But my Dad loved war movies and we watched it every time it came on TV. When we lived in Hawaii, Dad and I hiked to whatever pass that was that the bombers came through.
1971: Brian’s song. Probably watched it on TV a few years after it came out. Cried like a baby every time.
1972: Deliverance. I didn’t actually see this until last year. But it was a big deal when it came out. Super bad scary - which is why I didn’t see it until last year.
1973: Jesus Christ Superstar. I saw this a million times. Listened to the soundtrack a million times. Even got to act in it on stage once. Saw it in London. I guess you could say it was a big deal. And back then I had no idea I’d end up as a devout Christian one day. It squeezes out The Sting which I also saw a bunch of times. It was so fun! It was the first best picture winner I saw in release.
1974: Blazing Saddles. My first boyfriend (long distance) thought it was hilarious and told me to go see it. I thought it was hilarious and went to see it lots of times. Mel Brooks movies were a recurring feature in my life from then on - but they don’t leave much of a mark.
1975: Jaws. It took me about four viewings before I could keep my eyes open the whole way. I had been scared of sharks since Hawaii, so it was major bravery to go see that movie. I didn’t stop having shark nightmares until I was 30. Got to give a shout out to Tommy, as well. I don’t think I saw that in the first run, but it was part of my rock opera phase.
1976: OK, we just had great movies in a way that you guys don’t. There are a dozen movies this year that are great. Network, Taxi Driver, All the President’s Men, Silver Streak, Carrie. But I’m going to have to go with Rocky. I’m a sucker for that sort of thing. We were in Germany at the time and the hot movies didn’t get released to the armed forces until a year later, so I probably saw this in 1977.
1977: More greatness. Honestly how do you guys even live with yourselves, not having been alive during the great era of American cinema? Saturday night fever was the hot movie. But check out this list: Star Wars, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, The Goodbye Girl, Annie Hall, Julia … and that’s just in the top ten list. I decided I wanted to be a screen writer back then. Pity about the not having a creative mind thing…
1978: We came home from Germany that summer. Grease was the big deal. Was also a big fan of Heaven Can Wait because Warren Beatty was just so cute. But my favorite two movies that year were the Deer Hunter and Coming Home. I liked serious Vietnam movies.
1979: I’ll confine myself to two. I still loved the rock musicals, so Hair got seen many times. I loved All That Jazz.
*And that’s my first 20 years. If I get bored some time I’ll do the next 20.