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Animation Meme Thingy
Why do I only ever post these quiz/meme type things?
- X what you've seen
- O what you've started but haven't finished
- Italicize what you haven't seen since you were in elementary school
- Leave unchanged if neutral
Classic Disney
[x] 101 Dalmatians (1961)
[x] Alice in Wonderland (1951)[ ] Bambi (1942) (As far as I can remember, I've never ( Read more... ) -
Book Meme Thingy
What we have below are the top 106 books most often marked as "unread*" by LibraryThing’s users--as in, they sit on the shelf to make you look smart or well-rounded ( Read more... ) -
Be Kind Rewind (2008)
I’ve read several reviews of this film, and all of these use the same word to describe it: whimsy. Some use it as a compliment, and others as a perjorative, but all seem to agree that it is the best single-word summation of the content of the movie. Having just seen it, I find that I cannot help but agree. The film lives in its own little ( Read more... ) -
Dinner Theater
Today I was eating lunch at one of the local sports bars, right off of Main Street in downtown Rochester. I happened to look out the window, and saw a guy standing on the mound of snow that the plows had piled up in the turning lane in the middle of the street. He was in his early twenties, was wearing nothing but a terrycloth bathrobe and ( Read more... ) -
Pan's Labyrinth (2006)
For many, if not most, of us, the fairy tales of our childhoods came by way of the films of Walt Disney, with their plucky heroes and heroines, cute animal companions, and happy endings all around. As we grow older, we may be tempted to pick up a book of Grimm’s Fairy Tales, or other such collections of European folklore. It is often surprising ( Read more... ) -
Review - Little Children (2006)
To get back into the habit of writing about movies, I'm going to start posting reviews of all the movies that I see. To begin, we have Little Children, an Oscar-nominated drama from 2006.
Little Children focuses on two bored, lonely stay-at-home parents, played by Kate Winslet and Patrick Wilson, who meet while taking their children to the park ( Read more... ) -
Yet another movie meme
I'm limiting this to the previous three years, just so it doesn't get too long. Astute readers will notice that not every film to win an Oscar is listed. I've omitted the Documentary, Short Subject, Animated, and Foreign Film categories, unless they were nominated in more than that single category ( Read more... ) -
(Untitled)
Stolen from sylmenya
Best Picture Winners:
1928--Wings/Sunrise
1929--The Broadway Melody
1930--All Quiet on the Western Front
1931--Cimarron
1932--Grand Hotel
1933--Cavalcade
1934--It Happened One Night
1935--Mutiny on the Bounty
1936--The Great Ziegfield
1937--The Life of Emile Zola
1938--You Can't Take It With You
1939--Gone With The Wind
1940--Rebecca ( Read more... ) -
Movie Quote Meme
Stolen from Matt Ruen
1. Pick 10 of your favorite movies
2. Go to IMDb and find a quote from each movie.
3. Post them here for everyone to guess.
4. Fill in the film title once it's guessed.
5. NO GOOGLING/using IMDb search functions.
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Ah, Guenter Wendt! I wonder where Guenter Wendt?
2. Ocean's 11 - archlords ( Read more... )