One of those meme-things...

[labellementeuse]

... yep, it's another way-too-freaking-long bold-and-add-three meme. For films. Bold means I've seen it, italics seen part of it. One asterix means I want to see it, two means MY EMBARASSMENT IS SO GREAT.


01.Trainspotting
02. Shrek
03. M
04. Dogma
05. Strictly Ballroom
06. The Princess Bride
07. Love, Actually
08. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Rings
09. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
10. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
11. Reservoir Dogs
12. Desperado
13. Swordfish
14. Kill Bill Vol. 1
15. Donnie Darko*
16. Spirited Away
17. Better Than Sex
18. Sleepy Hollow
19. Pirates of the Caribbean
20. The Eye
21. Requiem for a Dream
22. Dawn of the Dead (The original).
23. The Pillow Book
24. The Italian Job*
25. The Goonies
26. BASEketball
27. The Spice Girls Movie (Spice World)**********xinfinity
28. Army of Darkness
29. The Color Purple
30. The Safety of Objects
31. Can’t Hardly Wait
32. Mystic Pizza
33. Finding Nemo
34. Monsters Inc.
35. Circle of Friends
36. Mary Poppins
37. The Bourne Identity
38. Forrest Gump
39. A Clockwork Orange*
40. Kindergarten Cop
41. On The Line
42. My Big Fat Greek Wedding
43. Final Destination (well, except for the bits where I was not in the room. But I saw, well, most of it. Kind of. Sequentially.)
44. Sorority Boys
45. Urban Legend
46. Cheaper by the Dozen**
47. Fierce Creatures
48. Dude, Where’s My Car
49. Ladyhawke
50. Ghostbusters
51. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
52. Back to the Future
53. An Affair To Remember
54. Somewhere In Time
55. North By Northwest
56. Moulin Rouge
57. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
58. The Wizard of Oz
59. Zoolander
60. A Walk to Remember
61. Chicago
62. Vanilla Sky
63. The Sweetest Thing
64. Don’t Tell Mom the Babysitter’s Dead
65. The Nightmare Before Christmas
66. Chasing Amy
67. Edward Scissorhands
68. Adventures of Priscilla: Queen of the Desert
69. Muriel’s Wedding
70. Croupier
71. Blade Runner
72. Cruel Intentions
73. Ocean’s Eleven
74. Magnolia
75. Fight Club
76. Beauty and The Beast
77. Much Ado About Nothing
78. Dirty Dancing
79. Gladiator
80. Ever After
81. Braveheart
82. What Lies Beneath
83. Regarding Henry
84. The Dark Crystal
85. Star Wars
86. The Birds
87. Beaches
88. Cujo
89. Maid In Manhattan
90. Labyrinth
91. Thoroughly Modern Millie
92. His Girl Friday
93. Chocolat
94. Independence Day
95. Singing in the Rain
96. Big Fish
97. The Thomas Crown Affair
98. The Matrix
99. Stargate
100. A Hard Day’s Night
101. About A Boy
102. Jurassic Park
103. Life of Brian
104. Dune
105. Help!
106. Grease
107. Newsies
108. Gone With The Wind
109. School of Rock
110. TOMMY
111. Yellow Submarine
112. From Hell
113. Benny & Joon
114. Amelie (I don't know why I never finished watching this, 'cause I love what I've seen of it, like, a lot.)
115. Bridget Jones’ Diary
116. Monty Python and the Holy Grail
117. Heavenly Creatures
118. All About Eve
119. The Outsiders
120. Airplane!
121. The Sorcerer
122. The Crying Game
123. Hedwig and the Angry Inch
124. Slap Her, She’s French OMG WORST MOVIE EVER***
125. Amadeus
126. Tommy Boy
127. Aladdin
128. How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days
129. Snatch
130. American History X
131. Jack and Sarah
132. Monkey Bone
133. Rocky Horror Picture Show
134. Kate and Leopold
135. Interview with the Vampire
136. Underworld
137. Truly, Madly, Deeply
138. Tank Girl
139. Boondock Saints
140. Blow Dry
141. Titanic
142. Good Morning Vietnam
143. Save the Last Dance
144. Lost in Translation
145. Willow
146. Legend
147. Van Helsing
148. Troy
149. Nine Girls and a Ghost
150. A Knight’s Tale
151. Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey
152. Beetlejuice
153. E.T.
154. Harry Potter and the Sorceror’s Stone Actually, I never saw this, I saw the, you know, original one. The one with the _other_ title.
155. Spaceballs
156. Young Frankenstein
157. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
158. American President
159. Bad Boys
160. Pecker
161. Pink Floyd: The Wall
161. X-Men
162. Sidewalks of New York
163. The Children of Dune
164. Beyond Borders
165. Life Is Beautiful
166. Good Will Hunting
167. Run Lola Run
168. Blazing Saddles
169. Caligula
170. The Transporter
171. Better Off Dead
172. The Abyss
173. Almost Famous
174. The Red Violin
175. Contact
176. Stand and Deliver
177. Clueless
178. William Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet
179. Dangerous Laisions
180. I Am Sam
181. The Usual Suspects
182. U-571
183. Capricorn One
184. The Little Shop of Horrors
185. Die Hard
186. The Flamingo Kid
187. Night of the Comet
188. Point Break
189. Chatterbox
190. Secretary
191. Breakfast at Tiffany’s
192. American Beauty
193. Pulp Fiction
194. What About Bob
195. Roger and Me
196. Fahrenheit 9/11
197. Bowling for Columbine
198. The Professional
199. The Fifth Element
200. La Femme Nikita
201. Heathers
202. Bull Durham
203. The Scorpion King
204. The Thin Blue Line
205. Do the Right Thing
206. Lady From Shanghai
207. Natural Born Killers
208. Funeral in Berlin
209. Decline of the American Empire
210. The Pink Panther
211. Spider-Man
212. Barefoot In the Park
213. Jesus Christ Superstar
214. Stand By Me
215. In America
216. 10 Things I Hate About You
217. Thirteen
218. Chasing Liberty
219. When Harry Met Sally
220. Footloose
221. Can't Buy Me Love
222. A Beautiful Mind
223. The Crow
224. Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels
225. the 'burbs
226. The Secret of NIMH
227. The Phantom of the Opera (1925)
228. Dancer in the Dark
229. 8 1/2
230. 12 Angry Men (original)
231. An American Warewolf in Paris
232. In The Cut
233. Joe Versus The Volcano
234. Velvet Goldmine
235. Far From Heaven
236. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
237. Playing by Heart
238. The Village
239. Starsky & Hutch
240. Battle Royale
241. MoonChild
242. Oresama
243. My Own Private Idaho (1991)
244. Blue Velvet (1986)
245. Central do Brasil (Central Station) (1998)
246. Being There (1979)
247. Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
248. Ran (1985)
249. Le Retour de Martin Guerre (The Return of Martin Guerre) (1982)
250. The Piano Teacher
251. Delicatessen
252. Y Tu Mama Tambien
253. Autumn in New York
254. Dreams by Akira Kurosawa
255. Along Came Polly
256. The Relic
257. Little Mermaid
258. My Fair Lady
259. West Side Story
260. Galaxy Quest
261. Timeline
262. Pitch Black
263. The Chronicles of Riddick
264. The Bourne Supremacy
265. Wild Wild West***
266. I-Robot
267. Bad Boys 2
268. Garden State
269. Blow
270. Empire Records
271. Ruby and Rata
272. The Breakfast Club
273. Wimbledon

I would so track that meme to see if anyone (apart from me and lucy and meg, who I bullied into watching for some birthday party) bolds Ruby and Rata. LOVE that movie, but it's kinda cheating to pick this obscure, NZ, I think it's Gaylene Preston film. *amused*

Comments

[sixth-light.livejournal.com]

Is there some formatting thing going on there? Because I refuse to believe you've seen Y Tu Mama Tambien. Or The Chronicles of Riddick. Hell, I know you haven't seen The Bourne Supremacy.

So, in conclusion, fix your formatting.

[labellementeuse.livejournal.com]

Okay, fixed. Broken tag *thunk*

Why would it be so wierd if I had seen y tu mama tambien? I do want to, I've just never gotten around to it.

[sixth-light.livejournal.com]

Because you so would have told me about it.

[labellementeuse.livejournal.com]

point.

[insane-ophelia.livejournal.com]

27. The Spice Girls Movie (Spice World)**********xinfinity

You worry me.

[labellementeuse.livejournal.com]

Those *****s were OMG SO EMBARRASSED.

It's not my fault! I was eleven when they were cool! It was forced exposure!

[blademistress.livejournal.com]

Oh darn. I've seen even more than you, and a lot of the really strange ones. Don't see Chronicals of Riddick, do yourself a favour and just poke yourself in the eye; the effect is the same.

You should totally see Battle Royale. I've seen it in some video stores. It's in Japanese but it's got subtitles and most of you don't need to understand the language for anyway :D

Then again, you might not like the idea of 40 people on an island, only one gets off because the others have to be dead... I've found some people are strange like that.

(I've also seen the Spice Girls movie...)

[disturbed-kiwi.livejournal.com]

I talk about how to make a real Chronicles of Riddick movie somewhere in my journal.

[disturbed-kiwi.livejournal.com]

However, Pitch Black is worth the time.

[blademistress.livejournal.com]

I shall go have a look and try to find it.

Some simple rules probably would have serviced:

1. Don't let the monkey Vin Diesel anywhere near it.
2. If it was a boy in the first part, don't make it a girl in the second just to satisfy your silly desire for boy/girl subtext.
3. Keep the boy, it could have made for boy/boy subtext.
4. Don't try to be clever playing off 'necromancer' to 'necromonger' it just makes me laugh hard enough to crack a rib.
5. Try to come up with something a little more foreshadowing than 'you keep what you kill' because that's just so obvious even the brain dead Diesel fans will get that.
6. Let the bad guy win. We're all cheering for him anyway.

Sorry to any Vin Diesel fans. I just couldn't stand XXX and the idea of him playing Hannibal The Conquer upsets the little history geek in me.

[disturbed-kiwi.livejournal.com]

1. He was decent in the first one.
2. It was a girl in the first one.
3. It wasn't a boy.
4. Necromungers should have played little to no part in the movie. Their religion should have been thought through also.
5. The religion should have been thought through.
6. Actually I wasn't cheering for anyone in that. At least in the first the monsters really were monsters and any survivors was a releif.

[blademistress.livejournal.com]

I like lists!

1. 2. 3. Never saw it. I wrongly assumed from "who was actually a girl..." that it was some sort of surprise in the second or whatever.
4. They could have been cool. If their religion had actually been, you know, explained. So some guy goes to a planet and ends up half dead. Not exactly a reason for me to follow him half across the galaxy. And how exactly did he manage to get all those people and ships.
More importantly, what the hell was with their armour. It was like that stone thing in Tomb Raider.
5. Yup. And been an actual word.
6. Really? I totally wanted to see him phase his hand through Riddicks chest and pull out his still beating heart. Now that would have been some good CGI.

But then I rarely cheer for the good guys.

Though I do have to admire him wearing those contacts throughout the whole movie. No wonder he was so protective of those goggles, I would be too if it meant having to put in those contacts again.

[disturbed-kiwi.livejournal.com]

Argh! Those damn goggles!

There was no reason for them. He didn't put them up only in strong light or dark light he just raised and lowered them as a nervous reflex. I would have been damn sure to use them only in relevant settings.

Also, I would have ensured that the prison was dark and dank, because he got the damn eyes in order to survive in deep dark prisons. Then he could have showed off properly.

[labellementeuse.livejournal.com]

Heh, well, I'm wishing I'd seen quite a fwe more on that list, so...

...it sounds like the bastard child of Survivor and Ender's Game, with Real Bodies. o.O

[blademistress.livejournal.com]

Hm, I guess so. I never really thought of it like that.

Oooh you've read Ender's Game?? Yay!

Did you read any of the others? Ender's Shadow was good.

[labellementeuse.livejournal.com]

Of course I've read Ender's Game!! :D Love that book, a LOT... yeah, I read all the others, in both series, I think up until the point where they've finished- the later Ender-centered ones I really didn't think were so good, but Ender's Shadow I really, really liked (because I liked Peta. She was cool.) I also liked. hmm, the Shadow of the Hegemon I think it was.

[labellementeuse.livejournal.com]

*Petra

[blademistress.livejournal.com]

I read Ender's Shadow first strangley enough. Ender's Game was so good. I loved the bit about the Fantasy game. Brilliant stuff.

I think I finished the Ender saga and then started on the Bean bit. But I skipped to Shadow Puppets and hated every second of it. I also loved Petra and in it she turned in this bloody annoying character. The whole book read like "I need to put my kids through college and oh I found religion". I haven't read the others in fear. It doesn't help that I refuse to buy any of his books after his long "gay marriage is soo wrong, someone think of the children," rant.

Have you read Songmaster? Great book. Once described as "The gayest book at that ever did gay."

[labellementeuse.livejournal.com]

He kind of has LSD (Long Series Disorder) with a twist- it's not that his writing got worse: it's that his themes did. And the story. The stories became kind of.. lost.

I liked ES a lot- although I also liked Shadow Puppets. I think his real problem was that he said SO MUCh in EG and ES- but outside that reliable story, it wasn't that he didn't have anything to say, it was just that it wasn't so interesting.

As for religion- I didn't know about the whole gay marriage thing, but I could have guessed from another series of his, a fantasy one- The Tales of Alvin Maker. It's okay, or the first four or so books are, but the religion is... very religious, I guess.

I have not- who's it by?? ;)

[disturbed-kiwi.livejournal.com]

Well, he is a Mormon who though George Bush was the far superior candidate.

I love him, but his themes and politics can get very opposed to what I believe.

Check 'The Worthing Saga' for a very good one.

[labellementeuse.livejournal.com]

:P So it's not his fault he's ... okay, I won't finish that sentence.

Yeah, I can only imagine. I guess that's the good thing about fiction, that it can be enjoyed in its own right- maybe lend insight into something you disagree with or don't understand- without being obnoxious the way people and non-fiction can be abotu MAKING THEIR POINT.

The irony of me making that point is not lost on me. ;)

[blueyeti.livejournal.com]

I completely agree with you on Card's LSD! The first Ender's was great, the second had a theme which you could definitely appreciate... and then three and four got very metaphysical, and if you weren't facinated by xenobiology there wasn't much left for you. Ditto with the Shadow series - if world politics and WWIII battle tactics wasn't your thing, you were left with a religiously based squickable romance between adolescents who want to get married and have lots and lots of babies. My step-mum loves them though, but it did take her months to get parts Xenocide.

(It's very very interesting to read Card from a religious perspective. I used him as a major part in a Religion and Literature assignment last year - How religion is expressed in fantasy literature.)