Friday, November 19, 2004

Can't help it.

Everyone does it.

Everyone has two categories of movies with 'Favorite' status.

The first category is very small. It is those movies that are so pentultimately loved, that if one, while surfing television came across it, would change the channel quickly to something else or go get the DVD and play it to see the film in it's uncut, uncensored awesomeness. ie. Raiders of the Lost Ark.

The second category is much larger. It is the movie that is a favorite film, but not a supreme favorite. This is the category of movie that, when one stumbles across it on television, one cannot turn it off. You can even be surfing channels with the intention of getting to and watching something you planned to watch, see this kind of movie, and you are stuck there. No changing channels after that...

What's on now:

Red Dawn

Can't help it. It is flawed. It is stereotypical. It is technically innacurate. It is a great film. And it is on now. Something about Leah Thompson and Jennifer Gray operating a crew-served machine gun... There goes my Friday night....

Other Class B Favorites:

Major League (Top of this list)
Necessary Roughness
Blazing Saddles (Just Kidding. It belongs in the A category)
The Dirty Dozen
Lethal Weapon 1,2,4
Men at Work
Rudy
Rocky
The Great Escape
The Magnificent Seven
Gigli (Just seeing if you were paying attention...)
Any Kevin Smith work
Any John Wayne Movie
Any Clint Eastwood Movie
Any Tom Clancy Movie (Other than sum of all fears)
...and much much more...

I like movies. I have a photographic long term memory and a shaky short term one, so I'm pretty much a movie quote database. Same with songs and artists. I should have been a film critic, or a DJ.......


3 Comments:

Blogger Any Clime and Place said...

Update: Ferris Bueller's day off, caddyshack, airplane!, Naked Gun...

November 21, 2004 at 3:14 AM  
Blogger Any Clime and Place said...

Just five?!!!

November 21, 2004 at 1:48 PM  
Blogger Any Clime and Place said...

I plead no contest...

November 22, 2004 at 10:05 PM  

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