My Drop Everything movies are those of my youth so the first three Star Wars and Indiana Jones (although I could walk away from Temple of Doom at a commercial) but also Jaws even though I came to it later. Also almost anything with witches and wizards.
The girl's not playing with a full deck, Giles. She has almost no deck. She has a three.
Buffy ,'Same Time, Same Place'
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Laga - Jun 11, 2011 12:46:13 pm PDT #14791 of 30000
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
§ ita § - Jun 11, 2011 12:56:56 pm PDT #14792 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I'd put Blade under Thor, and the Spider Man movies are deliberately neglected. None of them will ever get a second watching from me.
X2 is not better than XM: FC.
Tom Scola - Jun 11, 2011 1:01:34 pm PDT #14793 of 30000
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The second Hulk movie wasn't bad at all.
§ ita § - Jun 11, 2011 1:03:58 pm PDT #14794 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Never saw it. Didn't mind the first, but I don't rate it well as a comic movie.
Gris - Jun 11, 2011 1:34:49 pm PDT #14795 of 30000
Hey. New board.
Spider-man II was fun when I watched it, but on thinking about it afterwards left bad tastes in my mouth. Doc Oc was really awesome, though. I liked the first one better. And I originally thought X-Men II was better than X-Men, but after multiple re-watches I think they are pretty much dead even. And both above First Class, though I thought it was perfectly decent with moments of greatness and will certainly add it to my DVD collection eventually.
My list would probably be:
Iron Man
X-Men I/II (watch 'em one after the other!)
X-Men FC
Spider-Man
Spider-Man II
Blade
Thor
Everything else, in no particular order. (I quite liked all of the movies I bothered to actually rank. All the rest of them left me cold.)
But part of that is simply my love for the X-Men - they're my favorite Marvel characters, so they're my favorite movies. I like ensembles. For that reason (among others) I am excited about The Avengers.
Juliebird - Jun 11, 2011 1:36:54 pm PDT #14796 of 30000
I am the fly who dreams of the spider
I don't think I have a Drop Everything movie, but every time Band of Brothers is playing I forget what I was doing for hours, and if it ends, I pop in the dvds and watch from the beginning.
Strega - Jun 11, 2011 1:38:48 pm PDT #14797 of 30000
I liked Star Trek, but I don't really like Star Trek. It felt more like Star Wars, which I like more. So.
It did strike me as odd that Star Trek had been remade as an action-adventure hero quest, while the Star Wars prequels were talky stories about diplomacy and trade routes.
Beverly - Jun 11, 2011 1:40:17 pm PDT #14798 of 30000
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
Weird Science? Tuff Turf. Oh, the one with the surfer exiled to Colorado, where Seth Green did the quick-change trying on outfits. There was a...roller-blading slalom race? Ringin' any bells?
Girls Just Wanna Have Fun (also Trancers, but that's not high school). Does Real Genuis qualify?
DavidS - Jun 11, 2011 1:56:38 pm PDT #14799 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Does Real Genuis qualify?
No! It's a college movie.
tiggy - Jun 11, 2011 2:12:45 pm PDT #14800 of 30000
I do believe in killing the messenger, you know why? Because it sends a message. ~ Damon Salvatore
Oh, the one with the surfer exiled to Colorado, where Seth Green did the quick-change trying on outfits. There was a...roller-blading slalom race? Ringin' any bells?
Airborne!! it was Cincinnati, actually. i love that movie in all its cheesy glory.