Final Movie Meme post
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valarltd1. Pick one dozen movies that are ones that you have special feelings about.
2. Pick a few lines of dialogue that mean something to you.
3. As people guess the film, strike out that entry.
4. If possible, after the film is guessed, explain why that movie made the list.
1) It's not the years, honey. It's the mileage. Raiders of the Lost Ark Thanks,![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
mikasteelelell
Raiders is one of the all-time great action movies. I love tweedy academics, and to have the combination of that with fedora-leather-jacket adventuring is just wonderful. Marion Ravenwood is the coolest of the Indy girls, being smart, strong and capable. And Belloq is just entirely too sexy.
2) It's funny how the colors of the real world only seem really real when you viddy them on the screen. A Clockwork Orange Thankskcwriter
One of the favorite movies of my disaffected youth. And I think the line sums up how a lot of fans and vidders feel (even if they'll never say so)
3) I couldn't control the fanboy in me. It's like lyncanthropy!
Nobody got this. It's from Comic Book: The Movie. Don Swann has just met Ray Harryhausen and gone gusher-fanboy all over him. This is one of the best movies about fans, because it's made by fans. There's none of the condescension of "Trekkies" and all the fun is very gentle. It's all stuff we've done ourselves, so we don't feel bad laughing.
4) But they are... a-are naked!
--Well, naturally. It's much too dangerous to jump through fire with their clothes on.
Wicker Man Thanksharriet_spy
One of my favorite horror films. I heard about this and heard about it, and it wasn't until a couple years ago that I got to see it. This is one of Christopher Lee's best performances ever.
5) Once I had believed in father and the world had seemed small and old. Now he was gone and I wasn't afraid to love him anymore. And the world seemed limitless.
The Mosquito Coast Thanksmeninaiscrazy
The movie is only interesting, but this line hit me at a very odd point in my life. At the time it summed up exactly how I felt about God.
6)She finds you passing fair, passing graceful
--Tell her thanks but I'm just passing through.
The Court Jester Thankswatergal
This is the first movie I ever purchased on VHS, the first thing I ever ordered off the internet. And I have loved it since I was a kid. If Alexander DeLarge was the angsty side of my teen years, Hubert Hawkins was their sunny side.
7) The more you tighten your grasp the more systems will slip through your fingers.
Star Wars, thanksmalus_diabolis
I won't explain why Star wars, but I will explain why this quote. It's a useful one. It's the one I use to remind myself how to parent, how to deal with people and how to love my husband. If I clutch and hoarde, as is my nature, I will lose them, every time.
8)Isn't this a strange conversation, for people who aren't crazy?
This is from Tod Browning's Dracula. Renfield is overhearing the talk of vampires. I love it because it reminds me that sanity is a social construct.
9) We try to be perfect and have to settle for being human. He's trying to be human but has to settle for being perfect.
No one got this piece from Slipstream. Not only is the movie a retelling of Huck Finn, it has endless inside jokes and cameo appearances.
10)If I've told you once, I've told you a hundred times; do not fan the girls when they're wet! But you'll never learn, you'll be a eunuch all your life.
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum Thankscicerothewriter
This is one of my favorite musicals for pure silliness. And the line reminds me of Marty, whom I miss often. It is his favorite.
11) You fell victim to one of the classic blunders, the most famous of which is "Never get involved in a land war in Asia", but only slightly less well known is this: "Never go in against a Sicilian, when *death* is on the line."
Princess Bride Thanks,mpoetess
Ah, what a movie! Torture, swordfights, pirates and true love! (Had our leaders heeded that famous adage, who knows where we'd be now.)
12) No, I don't think I will kiss you, although you need kissing, badly. That's what's wrong with you. You should be kissed and often, and by someone who knows how.
Gone with the Wind Thankswatergal
Truthfully, I was waiting for someone to say ESB since Han has a speech very like this (90% of Han & Leia's romance dialogue is pirated from Rhett & Scarlett) that is even a zine title "You could use a good kiss."
But GWtW is a big, lushly filmed soap opera, with beautiful women and handsome men. Wonderful eye candy. And I love Scarlett's determination to do what needs to be done, morality be hanged. (I'm also an Ashley chick. He's very mush the sort of man I could live with.)
2. Pick a few lines of dialogue that mean something to you.
3. As people guess the film, strike out that entry.
4. If possible, after the film is guessed, explain why that movie made the list.
1) It's not the years, honey. It's the mileage. Raiders of the Lost Ark Thanks,
mikasteelelell Raiders is one of the all-time great action movies. I love tweedy academics, and to have the combination of that with fedora-leather-jacket adventuring is just wonderful. Marion Ravenwood is the coolest of the Indy girls, being smart, strong and capable. And Belloq is just entirely too sexy.
2) It's funny how the colors of the real world only seem really real when you viddy them on the screen. A Clockwork Orange Thanks
kcwriter One of the favorite movies of my disaffected youth. And I think the line sums up how a lot of fans and vidders feel (even if they'll never say so)
3) I couldn't control the fanboy in me. It's like lyncanthropy!
Nobody got this. It's from Comic Book: The Movie. Don Swann has just met Ray Harryhausen and gone gusher-fanboy all over him. This is one of the best movies about fans, because it's made by fans. There's none of the condescension of "Trekkies" and all the fun is very gentle. It's all stuff we've done ourselves, so we don't feel bad laughing.
4) But they are... a-are naked!
--Well, naturally. It's much too dangerous to jump through fire with their clothes on.
Wicker Man Thanks
harriet_spy One of my favorite horror films. I heard about this and heard about it, and it wasn't until a couple years ago that I got to see it. This is one of Christopher Lee's best performances ever.
5) Once I had believed in father and the world had seemed small and old. Now he was gone and I wasn't afraid to love him anymore. And the world seemed limitless.
The Mosquito Coast Thanks
meninaiscrazyThe movie is only interesting, but this line hit me at a very odd point in my life. At the time it summed up exactly how I felt about God.
6)She finds you passing fair, passing graceful
--Tell her thanks but I'm just passing through.
The Court Jester Thanks
watergalThis is the first movie I ever purchased on VHS, the first thing I ever ordered off the internet. And I have loved it since I was a kid. If Alexander DeLarge was the angsty side of my teen years, Hubert Hawkins was their sunny side.
7) The more you tighten your grasp the more systems will slip through your fingers.
Star Wars, thanks
malus_diabolisI won't explain why Star wars, but I will explain why this quote. It's a useful one. It's the one I use to remind myself how to parent, how to deal with people and how to love my husband. If I clutch and hoarde, as is my nature, I will lose them, every time.
8)Isn't this a strange conversation, for people who aren't crazy?
This is from Tod Browning's Dracula. Renfield is overhearing the talk of vampires. I love it because it reminds me that sanity is a social construct.
9) We try to be perfect and have to settle for being human. He's trying to be human but has to settle for being perfect.
No one got this piece from Slipstream. Not only is the movie a retelling of Huck Finn, it has endless inside jokes and cameo appearances.
10)If I've told you once, I've told you a hundred times; do not fan the girls when they're wet! But you'll never learn, you'll be a eunuch all your life.
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum Thanks
cicerothewriterThis is one of my favorite musicals for pure silliness. And the line reminds me of Marty, whom I miss often. It is his favorite.
11) You fell victim to one of the classic blunders, the most famous of which is "Never get involved in a land war in Asia", but only slightly less well known is this: "Never go in against a Sicilian, when *death* is on the line."
Princess Bride Thanks,
mpoetessAh, what a movie! Torture, swordfights, pirates and true love! (Had our leaders heeded that famous adage, who knows where we'd be now.)
12) No, I don't think I will kiss you, although you need kissing, badly. That's what's wrong with you. You should be kissed and often, and by someone who knows how.
Gone with the Wind Thanks
watergalTruthfully, I was waiting for someone to say ESB since Han has a speech very like this (90% of Han & Leia's romance dialogue is pirated from Rhett & Scarlett) that is even a zine title "You could use a good kiss."
But GWtW is a big, lushly filmed soap opera, with beautiful women and handsome men. Wonderful eye candy. And I love Scarlett's determination to do what needs to be done, morality be hanged. (I'm also an Ashley chick. He's very mush the sort of man I could live with.)
