With the opening of the new Transformers movie this week, and the fact that I have been watching a LOT of Samantha Who? this week, I give you my Tim Josh Barry Contingent:
Interchange them at your leisure.
30 Day Film Challenge is a challenge that lasts thirty days. It gives me a chance to wax poetic about my favorite medium, and put up silly pictures/videos.
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Day 18 – Your Favorite Comedy Film
Okay film challenge, you’ve broken me. I can’t choose just one comedy!
Liar Liar, Dr. Strangelove, American Psycho, Addicted to Love, Beetlejuice, Clue, Pulp Fiction, A Dirty Shame… wait, I think I have it – WEEKEND AT BERNIE’S.
My sister and I used to do the Bernie dance (from WaB2) when we were little to make each other laugh. Apparently that very dance became wildly popular earlier this year.
30 Day Film Challenge is a challenge that lasts thirty days. It gives me a chance to wax poetic about my favorite medium, and put up silly pictures/videos.
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Day 16 – A Film You Used to Love, Now Hate
Hate is such a strong word. We already went through the films that I didn’t like, and even then I said I was disappointed, not really hating them. But if I had to pick some that I’m not that fond of anymore, I’d have to say:
Memento or Billy Madison
The more I think about Memento, the more I am not really enthused about it. I love Chris Nolan, I love Guy Pearce, but I think I would rather read this story than have someone imagine it for me.
Oh, Billy. I actually love Billy Madison, Happy Gilmore, Big Daddy, Mr. Deeds and all the ones in between, especially Punch Drunk Love.. The reason I put it on the list is to lament at what Adam Sandler has become. After 2002, he became a sort of cariacture of himself. Like he made a clone of himself so he could chill at home, but as we all know a clone is a slightly skewed version of the original. NOT QUITE AS GOOD.
Whoa. Sorry about that. Anyway, let’s calm down with this clip:
Have I shown you pictures of our snuggly orange area rug? I love it so much and apparently I’m not the only one.
30 Day Film Challenge is a challenge that lasts thirty days. It gives me a chance to wax poetic about my favorite medium, and put up silly pictures/videos.
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Day 11 (today) – A Film By Your Favorite Director
Yes, I realize “Thriller” isn’t a full-length movie, jerks. Just follow me on this one.
How do you interpret this one? I’d like to think if you can tell the director, than that kind of takes away from the watching of the movie in itself, right? But then if I think about that deeper, that rules out John Waters and David Cronenberg, two of my favorites with very distinct styles. But when I think about a director whose filmography is awesome and yet still he isn’t a well-known name is John Landis.
Just take a gander at these varying titles: Kentucky Fried Movie, An American Werewolf In London, Blues Brothers, Into the Night, Animal House, Amazon Women on the Moon, Coming to America, Three Amigos, Thriller (I count this 14-minute video as part of his filmography because it is truly something that is on the level of a film) and a couple of my favorite Masters of Horror episodes.
I love watching any interviews with him because he cracks me up. There is a panel interview somewhere of Landis, John Carpenter and David Cronenberg, talking about horror and gore in movies and violence and their crafts. The other two are serious and talk seriously about psychological ramifications, while Landis just goes on, almost giddily about it. He has a pure happiness and vision that I can always be behind. Something I can also get behind? A real suspension of disbelief. In every movie I watch of his I am instantly transported into a world where I can absolutely believe that Aretha Franklin is a waitress and werewolves love listening to “Blue Moon.”
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30 Day Film Challenge is a challenge that lasts thirty days. It gives me a chance to wax poetic about my favorite medium, and put up silly pictures/videos.
Day 1 – Your Favorite Film
Day 2 – Your Least Favorite Film
Day 3 – A Film You Watch to Feel Good
Day 4 – A Film You Watch to Feel Down
Day 5 – A Film That Reminds You of Someone
Day 6 – A Film That Reminds You of Somewhere
Day 7 – A Film That Reminds You of Your Past
Day 8 - The Film You Can Quote Best
Day 9 (today) – A Film With Your Favorite Actor (Male)
Another toughie. There are quite a few actors I really enjoy, some that have not made nearly enough movies for my taste.
So I will say Hollywoodland starring Adrien Brody.
Adrien Brody is one of those preternaturally beautiful men that I just get drawn to for some reason. I loved the way he played his character in Hollywoodland because there seemed to be something extra behind it. Not just a rough, scruff confidence detective man, and not just a working man who has family problems, but something even deeper and pure.
Funnily enough this film also has another actor I truly enjoy, Bob Hoskins. His voice is so effortlessly cool and he totally melted my heart in the Pigalle arrondissment of Paris, Je T’aime. But that’s another story.
And now, l’extra:
Yes, I decided to use this photo because Brody’s in this film.
Eric Chase Anderson. Yes, he is Wes Anderson’s little brother. Yes, he does the illustrations for the DVD covers to his films. But he is pretty darn cool in his own right.
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