31 Day Movie Meme

So the reviews don’t start up again ’til Monday, but since I’m chomping at the bit here and need to write something before I go NUTS, I’m thowing down my contribution to this 31 Day Movie Meme that’s making its way around movie nerdosphere. Nothin’ fancy, just a crap load of sweet movie questions for me to answer in short, you know the drill. Well, hope you dig it and glad to be back in action.

Sequel That Shouldn’t Have Been Made:
The Godfather: Part III (was this close to putting The Color of Money).

Favorite Oscar-Nominated Film from a Recent Ballot:
Up was my favorite movie of ’09, but I keep going back to A Single Man for some reason.

A Movie That Makes Me Laugh Everytime:
Monty Python and the Holy Grail, of course.

A Movie I Loathe:
Kids.

Movie That Makes Me Cry Everytime:
Searching for Bobby Fischer.

Least Favorite Movie by a Favorite Actor:
Play Misty for Me – Clint Eastwood (will go into further detail during the inevitable Clint marathon).

Movie That Should Be Required High School Viewing:
Stand By Me.

Best Scene Ever:
Damn…gonna have to go with Harry Dunne and his explosive diarrhea.

Movie I Thought I Wouldn’t Like but Ended Up Loving:
Observe and Report comes to mind, one of the proud few in that category.

A Movie That Disappointed:
Where to begin…recently revisiting Return of the Jedi was quite the bummer.

Best Music in a Scene:
Absolutely love The Jesus and Mary Chain’s “Just Like Honey” at the end of Lost in Translation.

Favorite Animated Movie:
Beauty and the Beast.

Favorite Black & White Film:
12 Angry Men.

Best Musical:
Once.

Favorite Guilty Pleasure Movie:
Beavis and Butt-Head Do America.

Favorite Series of Related Movies:
Lord of the Rings.

Favorite Title Sequence:
Pi.

Best Movie Cast:
The Dirty Dozen.

Favorite Kiss:
Gene Simmons. Drawing a blank on this one outside of all the ravenous face-sucking in Brokeback.

Favorite Romantic Couple:
Harold and Maude.

Favorite Final Line:
Stand By Me – “I never had any friends later on like the ones I had when I was twelve. Jesus, does anyone?”

Best Action Scene:
The T-800 climbing out the back of a moving pickup and onto the hood of the T-1000’s tanker trunk, then taking out an automatic rifle and lighting that gooey bastard up until the clip empties, then single-handedly flipping that sucker over like a total badass in T2. That was awesome.

The Quote I Use Most Often:
“Easy peasy Japanesy” – Brooks from Shawshank.

A Movie I Plan on Watching:
A second viewing of Mulholland Dr. has been in order for a while now. This is a ridiculous question, by the way.

Freakishly Weird Ending:
The Fountain.

Best Villain:
No idea why he’s the first one who comes to mind, but Clarence Boddicker was one awesome sonofabitch.

Most Overhyped Movie:
Iron Man 2 could have toned it town a bit.

Movie Seen More Than Ten Times:
Was on a serious Matrix kick for a while there in middle school.

Saddest Character Death:
I feel like I’m forgetting an obvious one here, but Jean-Do’s in The Diving Bell and the Butterfly was a tear-jerker.

Scene That Made Me Stand Up and Cheer:
George McFly cold-clocking Biff Tannen. Hell yeah.

Ahhhhhhhh.

Good to get that out of the system. Alright, back to the reviews…