Blogathon: Don't judge me.

[slipjig3]

Continuing on our cinematic trend with rubian77:

9 Movies Most People Might Be Surprised to Learn I Love

Without comment, to hopefully make this less painful:

1) Shakes the Clown
2) The Last Action Hero
3) The Abyss (see previous entry)
4) Mary Poppins
5) I Am Curious (Yellow)
6) Project X
7) Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
8) Electric Dreams
9) The Truth About Cats and Dogs

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Comments

[elionwyr.livejournal.com]

...The Apple didn't make the list?!?!

[slipjig.livejournal.com]

Only because no one would be surprised.

[elionwyr.livejournal.com]

HA!

[chris-walsh.livejournal.com]

Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid love! I fully approve of that film. And of Rachel Ward sucking (YES I'M SURE THAT'S WHAT THEY WERE IMPLYING YAY).

And thumbs up for The Truth About Cats and Dogs, too! "That night we had phone sex? I'm pregnant." "Um, you're sure it was me?" "I dunno, I did call a lot of people that night." Reminds me that I should see The Matchmaker, the Janeane Garofalo-in-Ireland flick from the late 1990s; she's probably similarly appealing in that, without the angst. (I've always liked Garofalo, in case you can't guess,)

[chris-walsh.livejournal.com]

Last Action Hero (its actual title, yes I'm being pedantic) is, of course, a mess -- when it was being re-cut before release, the people working on the film started referring to all changes as improvements ("Here's Reel 7 with improvements") because that made it slightly easier to deal with all the changes -- but an interesting movie with interesting ideas is struggling to get out. It's not soup, but it's an explosive belly-flop of a film that's actually (as you know) rather subversive. One great moment is the film-bad guy in the real-world alley: "Hello! I've just killed someone!" I'd love to know exactly what stuff William Goldman and Shane Black added in their beyond-last-minute rewrite work, because the film was apparently even more of a mess before them.

[daev.livejournal.com]

8) Electric Dreams

Soundtrack to this movie is on my list of "albums people are surprised to learn I love."