Dracula (the Coppola version)
Love.
This and the Frank Langella version and Lost Boys and Dracula 2000 and Blade. Wait. I see a theme here.
Right, there comes a point where you have to either move on, or just buy yourself a Klingon costume and go with it.
Xander ,'Same Time, Same Place'
Buffista Movies 5: Development Hell
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beekaytee - May 14, 2007 9:54:34 am PDT #8436 of 10001
Compassionately intolerant
Amy - May 14, 2007 10:07:39 am PDT #8437 of 10001
Because books.
The movie I saw most in the theater? Has to be a tie between Grease and (cringes in anticipation) Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. What can I say? I was ten. And oddly, that seems to be the last time I ever went to the theater repeatedly for anything, although I had a friend in high school who saw Endless Love in the theaters eight times the summer it came out. She had a broken leg at the time.
This game is too hard. I keep remembering movies I didn't originally list, like The Haunting, which I usually watch twice a year usually. And then there are the movies I can never *not* watch when I catch them -- my all-time favorite on that list is Coal Miner's Daughter.
Matt the Bruins fan - May 14, 2007 10:10:19 am PDT #8438 of 10001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
although I had a friend in high school who saw Endless Love in the theaters eight times the summer it came out. She had a broken leg at the time.
Couldn't she have escaped the theater by crawling on her arms and the good leg?
Atropa - May 14, 2007 10:16:42 am PDT #8439 of 10001
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
This game is too hard. I keep remembering movies I didn't originally list
A few months ago, Pete re-organized our DVD collection. He ended up designating one small shelf as "Jilli's Comfort Movies", because that way he didn't have to worry about alphabetizing movies that were sure to get pulled out and watched multiple times.
Amy - May 14, 2007 10:17:35 am PDT #8440 of 10001
Because books.
She loooooved it.
So did I, kind of. So tragic! Such love! Sex! Hey, we were, like, fourteen.
DavidS - May 14, 2007 10:37:04 am PDT #8441 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I keep remembering movies I didn't originally list, like The Haunting, which I usually watch twice a year usually.
It's so freakin' great! Robert Wise, who directed it, specifically wanted to get back to the kind of filmmaking he had done at the beginning of his career making those fantastic, moody RKO horror movies like Curse of the Cat People. Also, whenever I watch it I think "Claire Bloom! She and Philip Roth had an affair for decades!"
Kathy A - May 14, 2007 10:41:42 am PDT #8442 of 10001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Robert Wise did such a variety of films in his career, it was really amazing. Everything from The Sound of Music to The Andromeda Strain. (Oooh, and I just double-checked his filmography, and he also did The Day the Earth Stood Still!)
Volans - May 14, 2007 10:43:53 am PDT #8443 of 10001
move out and draw fire
The Cultural Attache at the embassy in Athens, that is, the man responsible for promoting American culture overseas, deemed The Haunting "the worst movie I have ever seen."
Shame, because otherwise he seemed like a really smart guy.
Frankenbuddha - May 14, 2007 10:44:25 am PDT #8444 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Robert Wise did such a variety of films in his career, it was really amazing. Everything from The Sound of Music to The Andromeda Strain. (Oooh, and I just double-checked his filmography, and he also did The Day the Earth Stood Still!)
He also did a great real-time (as in, the movie is the same length of time as the story) noir called THE SETUP.
DavidS - May 14, 2007 10:47:02 am PDT #8445 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I think I've talked about my Wise affection before when he died, but he also did the classic noir The Set-up (boxing film with Robert Ryan) and the very cool, yet little known noir-western Blood on the Moon (which we jokingly called Plaid on the Moon around my house because of certain costuming decisions).
Oddly, despite the number of stone classics he worked on as director or editor, he was frequently dissed by cinephiles. He was seen as a studio hack -- plus they wouldn't forgive him for Sound of Music.