Day 30 - Your favorite movie of all time

If I could watch only one movie ever again, it would be Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986). I mean it. I have the whole thing memorized by now. It makes me happy when I am sad. It is generally made of awesome. I don't know what else to say about it ( Read more... )

Day 29 - A movie from your childhood

If we're going for "movie I watched the most times as a child," the answer here probably has to be The Black Stallion (1979). Yes, based on the first one of those Walter Farley books. Man, I watched that thing over and over. (I also read the books over and over.) For a movie that's basically about a kid and a ( Read more... )

Day 28 - Favorite movie from your favorite director

I don't know that I have a favorite director. I really like Julie Taymor's giant puppet things and general design sense, so I suppose Across the Universe (2007) wins there. Yeah, that's a boring answer, I know ( Read more... )

Day 27 - A movie that you wish you had seen in theaters

The original Star Wars (1977). Yes, the first one. Oh, I saw the remakes when they were rereleased to theaters, but it's really not the same, right? Before Star Wars, there hadn't been any movies quite like it, as far as I know. I think it would have been awesome to just go, you know, without ( Read more... )

Day 26 - A movie that you love but everyone else hates

David Lynch's Dune (1984). Shut up, it's awesome.

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Day 25 - The most hilarious movie you’ve ever seen

The most hilarious movie ever is Clue (1985). This is not up for debate.

Also similarly hilarious (and with a similar setup) is Murder By Death (1976), in which all the dinner party guests are parodies of famous detectives, all being played by well-known actors. It is mostly awesome. (Yes, ( Read more... )

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Day 23 - Favorite animation

It's gotta be a Miyazaki movie, doesn't it? Right. There's no way I could pick anything else -- except maybe The Last Unicorn, and they went on to become Studio Ghibli, so. I'm going to go with the classic Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (1984). Because it's awesome. So there.

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Day 22 - Favorite documentary

I have seen so many documentaries that I don't even know how I could pick (my mother always likes to watch them, and she kept dragging me along to the movie theaters, and I've just spent the past several months watching every single Michael Palin travel documentary) but I really enjoyed The Wild Parrots of Telegraph ( Read more... )

Day 21 - Favorite action movie

Aliens (1986). Game over, man, game over.

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