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omnivorously posted his movie meme a while back and I've been wanting to do it.
- Name a movie that you have seen more than 10 times. - The Lord of the Rings
- Name a movie that you've seen multiple times in a theatre: The Lord of the Rings. There are others. My Fair Lady, The Three Lives of Thomasina and The Sound of Music when I was a kid.
- Name an actor that would make you more inclined to see a movie. Ralph Fiennes, Rufus Sewell, Christopher Eccleston, Daniel Craig, Nicholas Cage, Bruce Willis.
- Name an actor that would make you less likely to see a movie. Tom Hanks, whom I can't bear to watch. Robin Williams. It used to be that I'd go out of my way to see Harrison Ford; now I avoid him. Same with Mel Gibson. But unlike Hanks or Williams, I still like their early work.
- Name a movie that you can quote from. I used to be able to recite all the dialogue in My Fair Lady, beginning to end.
- Name a movie musical that you know all the lyrics to all the songs. Oliver!, My Fair Lady, The Sound of Music, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Pippin (well, maybe not all the songs, but most), Your Own Thing, La Cage Aux Folles, The Pajama Game, and, well, others. I like musicals. I like musicals a lot.
- Name a movie that you have been known to sing along with. Any of the above, if I'm alone and unobserved.
- Name a movie that you would recommend everyone see. A Midwinter's Tale
- Name a movie that you own Much Ado About Nothing, the Kenneth Branagh version
- Name an actor that launched his/her entertainment career in another medium but who has surprised you with his/her acting chops. Uh... John Barrowman, maybe? I first saw him as an actor, so it's somewhat inverted there; and I knew he was a singer, so it was not a surprise to learn he was a good singer.
- Have you ever seen a movie in a drive-in? Yes.
- Ever made out in a movie? During a movie, yes. In a movie theatre, no.
- Name a movie that you keep meaning to see but just haven't gotten around to it. A Christmas Carol with Alastair Sim.
- Ever walked out of a movie? Yes - once when I got sick.
- Name a movie that made you cry in the theatre. The Lord of the Rings.
- Popcorn? Of course. Food of the gods.
- How often do you go to the movies? Four or five times a year. I used to go a lot more often.
- What's the last movie you saw in the theater? Slumdog Millionaire
- What is your favorite/preferred genre of movie? Romantic thriller or romantic comedy. Musicals.
- What was the first movie you remember seeing in the theater? Peter Pan, the Disney movie. I was four. It was very exciting.
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Date: 2009-01-01 04:43 am (UTC)A nice list, and I think I'm going to do this one myself [g].
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Date: 2009-01-01 01:59 pm (UTC)I saw another one - well, actually, I saw part of another one. I found it very... stiff. Boring. It was from a New York staging of the show, a very illustrious one, but I put it under the category of "why Shakespeare should never be filmed except by people who put a little life into it." It wasn't funny. That's... appalling.
I look forward to your list!
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Date: 2009-01-01 03:35 pm (UTC)The BBC did (possibly) the whole set of Shakespeare plays in the 1970s. Despite featuring some very big name actors (in the Romeo & Juliet that was Alan Rickman's first filmed appearance (as Tybalt), John Gielgud was the chorus, for example), they were by and large pretty tedious. Plus they had very cheap production values, but if the performances were lively enough, that shouldn't matter.
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Date: 2009-01-02 01:36 am (UTC)Yes. I remember really liking the costumes - it looked like a production of The Music Man, which is actually kind of suitable. But the movie-making was stiff, and in the end, I was bored.
I remember liking it, but it was a long time ago.
The script is, of course, incomparable. But it isn't nearly as good as the Kenneth Branagh movie. I started watching it with
If performances are good cheap production values shouldn't matter, but often Shakespeare is filmed with the stylistic devices of a play not a movie, and that just doesn't work. Branagh was able to apply his cinematic skills to the material and it was brilliant.
I did, however, see a good video-tape version of Much Ado that was available in the library and not elsewhere. I'd love to find it on DVD and buy it; it was excellent. It had Robert Lindsay as Benedick and Cherie Lunghi as Beatrice. Here it is; (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087752/) from 1984.
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Date: 2009-01-01 07:18 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-01-02 01:57 am (UTC)(1) The Branagh version (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107616/)
(2) The almost-as-delightful Robert Lindsay version (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087752/)
(3) The Sam Waterson version (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071870/) that I didn't like
and loads of others - a Russian version, a Canadian version (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0186375/) (with Richard Monette!) - and one I'd love to see with Michael York (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077956/) as Benedick and Anthony Andrews as Claudio. I can't even imagine!
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Date: 2009-01-02 03:26 am (UTC)I wouldn't mind seeing the York/Andrews one, either. [googles] I don't see it on IMDB, though. Anyone I'm likely to recognize playing Beatrice?
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Date: 2009-01-02 03:50 am (UTC)The Robert Lindsay version is from the BBC TV "let's do the whole canon" thing from the 70s and 80s, isn't it?
Yes, I think so.
I don't know anything about the Canadian version. I'd guess it was filmed for TV from a Stratford production, but I don't know.
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Date: 2009-01-02 04:15 am (UTC)I keep forgetting you guys have a Stratford, too [g].
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Date: 2009-01-02 12:28 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-01-01 01:12 pm (UTC)I like many musicals, particularly G&S ones. Haven't seen Pippin and Your Own Thing - will put them on the list. Thanks!
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Date: 2009-01-01 01:55 pm (UTC)That's it! He was quite wonderful in the Mad Max movies, and adorable as Tim. The first Lethal Weapon movie was a terrific adventure story - especially since I like stories of depressed heroes and their recoveries. (Tip of the hat to Miles Vorkosigan there.) I even quite liked his Hamlet, which had great moments.
It may to some extent be a case where knowledge of the actor and his ways interferes with my appreciation of his work, like with Tom Cruise. I have less aversion to Cruise but haven't seen any of his movies over the last few years, either. Or wanted to.
I have trouble with zany male comedians - Carrey, Jerry Lewis, some others whose names escape me at the moment, but come to mind when I see them in the cast.
I don't like comedy anyway, so I didn't even think of mentioning them. Mostly because I avoid them by genre, rather than by actor.
I didn't see that Batman movie; I suppose some day I will. Because I love Batman the character so much, it's sometimes painful to see what they do to him on TV and on movies - and sometimes in comics, but it's easy to avoid the comics I don't like.
As musicals go, Pippin and Your Own Thing are relatively obscure, but I loved them both. Both are, I think, from the early seventies. Your Own Thing is based on Twelfth Night, in which Viola and Sebastian are members of a rock band. Pippin is a sort of anti-war musical about the son of Charlemagne, in which my favourite song is "War Is a Science" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6RsDbJ3gR8), sung by Charlemagne - though you can probably hear the delightful words better here (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGYSRVlSGl8), where they took the music from the recorded soundtrack. (Which I used to own, but sadly don't have any more.)
I too love G&S, with, for some reason, a special love Iolanthe.
Happy new year!
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Date: 2009-01-01 08:19 pm (UTC)Mel Gibson
Date: 2009-01-02 01:41 am (UTC)I wish people wouldn't do that.
Re: Mel Gibson
Date: 2009-01-02 03:20 am (UTC)Re: Mel Gibson
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Date: 2009-01-01 11:35 pm (UTC)I've been in village government for a decade and have felt that Iolanthe needed a good filking with town and village boards and maybe the school board. OTOH, none of those are particularly convincing good fairy candidates, so it has to be bent further than my strength permits. :-) Next incarnation.
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Date: 2009-01-02 01:37 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-01-01 07:20 pm (UTC)And Jim Carrey hasn't done a decent turn since his debut in the TV show The Duck Factory, many, many years ago.
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Date: 2009-01-02 04:18 am (UTC)I have to say that if I was looking to watch Drew Barrymore, though, I'd pull out Ever After instead. That's a lovely little movie.
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Date: 2009-01-02 12:27 pm (UTC)Haven't seen Ever After either, I don't think. Can't remember the last movie I saw Drew Barrymore in.
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Date: 2009-01-03 01:08 am (UTC)Now I want to find my tape of this (it's another one that's more than ten years old) and watch it again!
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Date: 2009-01-03 03:20 am (UTC)I haven't seen Dougray Scott for eons.
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Date: 2009-01-19 05:05 am (UTC)Loved it so very much. Did find time to collect some screencaps of some of it.
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Date: 2009-01-20 01:40 am (UTC)I could, though at the moment, most of them are of Tennant. Mainly because I was finding them on David Tennant fansites.
Is your icon one of them?
Yes.
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