Jayne ,'Jaynestown'
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I think I have to subdivide my Rewatch List into:
Movies I Saw Multiple Times In the Theater
Movies I Bought on DVD (or VHS) and Voluntarily Put In
Movies I Will Stop Channel Surfing To Rewatch
and
Movies I Will Rewatch If There's No Other Interesting Option
Oh, and from above, the guy was talking about the Wise version of The Haunting. In my world, there exists no other. Whatever that recent movie was that was called The Haunting, with characters named the same? It wasn't the same.
Seen a berjillion times, will stop and rewatch if I flip past 'em on TV, and have never seen 'em on the big screen but would definitely go out of my way to do so if they ever showed up there:
Holiday, The Princess Bride, The Sound of Music, The Music Man, Citizen Kane, In A Lonely Place, Bringing Up Baby, Groundhog Day, It's A Wonderful Life, The Big Lebowski, Raising Arizona
Seen a berjillion times including on the big screen, will rewatch on TV, and will make a special trip to see on the big screen again:
Touch of Evil, Mary Poppins, Vertigo, LOTR, POTC, Fargo, The Nightmare Before Christmas
Seen a berjillion times, wouldn't make a special trip for the big screen but will happily rewatch and rewatch again:
The Cutting Edge, Beetlejuice, Buffy The Vampire Slayer, all the Back to the Future movies, anything with Brendan Fraser (though Gods and Monsters probably belongs on the make-a-trip-to-the-theater list), and, to my near-utter shame, Fools Rush In. (I can't help it! Matthew Perry is all young and skinny and free from pain-med issues, and Salma Hayek knocks my Kinsey all askew like woah, and her character is witty and snarky, not just pretty, and actively religious without it being a sign that she's a craxyhead, and the relationship between her and her best friend is kind of sweet, and -- okay, really, it's kind of a crap movie. But I still can't help it.)
Stuff on most people's most-watched list that I've never seen or seen only once and in part that left me completely cold because I have no magic in my heart:
Grease, Dirty Dancing
Kathy: Tintin.
I can see the differing sorts of childlike wonder of Jackson and Spielberg working well together. Even better if there are spiders.
Just keep Tom Hanks away.
Tintin is a Belgian comic book series from the 30s and 40s. Tintin is a reporter that gets pulled into all sorts of mysteries. There are about 25 adventures in the series. There are some pretty bad stereotypes in the earlier ones ( Tintin in the Congo, The Blue Lotus and Tintin in America especially) but I think new editions have toned those down. Tintin is iconic in Europe.
ETA: Oh my God, please, no Tom Hanks!
I'll put up with Tom Hanks if absolutely necessary. All I ask is that they keep XXX XXXXXX far, far the fuck away.
eta for Megan's comfort: He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named. Not Voldemort, the other one.
What is wrong with you people? Stop jinxing things!
Yep, never heard of Tintin. Then again, I hadn't heard of Babar until I saw the movie Fletch, so you know the state of my knowledge of classic children's literature.
The Anne of Green Gables movies (not feature films, I know, but that's a lotta hours of my life)
Oh, right. Add the BBC/A&E Pride and Prejudice to my list.
Things I Watch Whenever
Dirty Dancing
Say Anything
Goodfellas
Sixteen Candles
Breakfast Club
Don't know why...have some of these on video, but if they are on TV I watch them, too
Oh, and "Corrina, Corrina"
I also, JZ, don't know why "Fools Rush In" got a reputation for such devastating badness...is not amazing art, but I have totally seen worse. And I think MP is really cute. But maybe he had me at "Gum would be *perfection*"
Former BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER and ANGEL star DAVID BOREANAZ is set to bring comic book hero The Sub-Mariner to life on the big screen, according to internet reports. The actor recently auditioned for the lead role in the comic book adaptation, according to website SuperheroHype.com. The Sub-Mariner, which will follow the adventures of a temperamental mer-man, will be directed by U-571's Jonathan Mostow.