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August 18, 2006

Movie Meme

  1. What is a movie that changed the way you think and act? Or just got you thinking, if the first question is too intimidating. I am trying to remember just one. You may laugh, but I'll go with Center Stage. When the girl decides to view her dancing as a gift: "I don't care if I make the audition or not. I see it as just one more day to dance" ...it got me thinking about my life and how I view my committment to my life and my career, that God is gracious to give me one more day to serve him.

    You know what else made me think? Memento.

  2. It's a late autumn evening and rainy and cold? What do you have for dinner/snack? What movie do you pop in the DVD player? Corn chowder. And the movie is Sabrina or First Knight.
  3. You are off to wee Himalayan hamlet for a year, your laptop hard drive can hold one film. What will it be? Hah! I've never seen the 6-hour Pride and Prejudice, so I'll take that. Hopefully my laptop will have enough battery to last 6 hours, let alone the whole year.
  4. What movie made you laugh the hardest? What movie made you cry? I just watched Office Space with SIL this summer and I laughed myself silly. It the movie that keeps on giving because the quotes just keep coming. And the cryfest movie is Little Women, hands down. The family ties, the sisters, the Christmastime, the love found and lost and found, the growing up, the dreams shattered and remade...whoa. It's a Kleenex tearjerker for me.
  5. Favorite actor (female, male)? Hm. Julia Ormond, I suppose. And I used to like Heath and Jude, but now I don't. Um...can't think of anyone in particular, unless it's Harrison Ford.
  6. What book or story would you like to see made into a film or what book do you love that could never be made into a film? I'm not very satisfied with the way the Harry Potter movies turned out, though I'm glad they were made. (I just don't think film as a medium captures the magic and detail and pacing of the books! But it was nice to have a visual image of the books and Hogwarts and Quidditch.) I really liked the film adaptation of Holes. And I love love love The Eyre Affair by Fforde but canNOT picture it as a film!!
  7. What is a movie that immediately after you watched it, you wish you hadn't? The Family Stone. Ick. Don't waste your time and money.
  8. Do you read movie reviews? Before, after, never? Whose reviews do you find the best? Are you an analyzer? Not so much with the reviews anymore. Sometimes I read normal people's reviews (those who don't review for newspapers) when I know their taste is similar to mine, but otherwise, no. And yes, I'm an analyzer. The Dude and I both happened to be in the same film class in college and were even in the same discussion group in that film class, so I analyze with him.
  9. What movie do you think is a must see, but that you can only recommend with caveats? What movie do you really like, but can only recommend with caveats? I recommend Cast Away but not for kids. (Who are you when you have no people, no possessions, no home, and no escape?) I liked Memento but don't recommend it for kids unless you've screened it first. And Harry Potter IV is definitely a part of the Harry Potter scope but really, really wish I didn't have to see the rebirth spell at the end...it was creepy!
  10. What movie do you most wish to share with your friends? It depends on the friend, and I've struck out often enough that I don't recommend many movies to friends anymore. (Remember Time Bandits? That was a disaster!)

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