Movie quiz - Day 13 - A Guilty Pleasure
MOVIE MEME
Day 01 - July 14th, 2010 - Favorite foreign language film - Dilwale Dulhania Lejayenge or Andaz Apna Apna
Day 02 - July 15th, 2010 - A film that is underrated - Blade II
Day 03 - July 16th - A film that brings you unadulterated happiness - Down With Love
Day 04 - July 17th - Favorite book-to-film adaptation - The Lord of the Rings trilogy
Day 05 - July 18th - Favorite love story in a film - Beauty and the Beast and The Sound of Music
Day 06 - July 19th - Favorite actor/actress - Ewan Mcgregor and Rachel McAdams
Day 07 - July 21st - The most surprising plot twist/ending - The Others
Day 08 & 09- The best opening/closing credits & best soundtrack/score to a film - July 22nd - Star Wars
Day 10 - July 23rd - Favorite documentary film - March of the Penguins
Day 11 - July 24th - Favorite black-and-white film - Dracula
Day 12 - A film that permanently altered your point-of-view - Ben-Hur (1925)
So I forgot to update this yesterday, but not to worry I have returned with this most interesting of categories:
Day 13 - A guilty pleasure
For this, I think I will have to forgo putting a poster, because really, what's most a "guilty pleasure" for me - as evidenced by my watching that god-awful Wimbledon movie again on the weekend is...
Any movie starring Paul Bettany or Alan Rickman
To be more precise I can give you a list of movies I have watched and/or re-watched solely due to these two British gentleman and their differing characteristics that drew me in (eyes and voice respectively):
Paul Bettany:
A Knight's Tale - The first time I watched it because mine sister and mom said it was entertaining, then after I discovered my crush on Paul Bettany I watched it, re-watched it and stole my brother's copy of it (okay, so he actually gave it to me when I asked if I could have it, but I prefer "stole" because it sounds more schemey). I watched it a couple times...and the making of features... and the extended scenes... Alas, those were my young'un fictional character/actor loving days of about 3-4 years ago. :P
Wimbledon - As I already mentioned horrible movie (blech Kirsten Dunst is in it and she's not Mary Jane or a young'un-vampire, of course that can't be good! :P ), but his pretty blue eyes just looked so sparkly and pretty!
Firewall - I just watched this recently and though the first half was alright (and I quite enjoyed Indy - er...I mean Harrison Ford... lol - running around yelling about how he wants his family back, much like Family Guy said), the end just got ludcriously dumb. But with sparkly-blue eyed British man around, did I care? I cared very little! :P
Alan Rickman
It might just be easiest to say "Any movie that's not a Harry Potter movie" - but let's face it, even those I stuck to because of Alan Rickman and his voice getting all up in my subconscious when I was 4-5 years old and saw Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves in the theatre (in all honesty all I remember about that movie is being scared of that old witch lady and thinking the booster seat in the car was going to magically turn into her somehow... o_O haha!)
Sense and Sensibility - I don't really care for Jane Austen's books all that much (which is blasphemy to many girls, I know). I tried reading this and just couldn't do it - possibly because I tried after having watched the movie and kept thinking "I don't even get the satisfaction of hearing Alan Rickman's awesome voice...what's the point of this?!" and decided I should just watch it instead!
Blow Dry - Such a crappy movie, but it was on TV and I was like enh, why not?
Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy - I really disliked this movie (geek-blaspheming this time, but that girl with the big lemur eyes...she's just so annoying!). Again, on TV, nothing else was on, so I just started watching - plus he only did a VOICE in the movie and wasn't even starring in it, so that works out even better! :P
Love Actually - This one I actually forced myself to (1) go to our Herd sleepover whilst sick (2) stay up during the movie to watch - only to be disappointed by what an adulterous jerk he was! How dare Professor Snape cheat on Professor Trelawney like that!
Perfume - This movie was so horribly disgusting in so many ways, but once again - Alan Rickman's in it, so I watched it! Oh how I wish I could unwatch it.... *shudder*
In short - I have watch a lot of crap because of these two. :P
In the days to come...
Day 14 - A film that you hate
Day 15 - Favorite film sequel
Day 16 - Favorite film character
Day 17 - Favorite film quote
Day 18 - The best overall cast in a film
Day 19 - The most hilarious film you've seen
Day 20 - A moving (emotional) scene
Day 21 - Favorite film from your favorite actor/actress
Day 22 - Favorite Academy Award acceptance speech
Day 23 - A character who you can relate to the most
Day 24 - Favorite movie musical
Day 25 - Favorite film villain
Day 26 - Favorite film poster
Day 27 - A film that you wish you had seen in theaters
Day 28 - Favorite film from your favorite director
Day 29 - A piece of trivia from a favorite film
Day 30 - Your favorite film of all-time