A/k/a taking a break from grading. Feel free to steal for your own purposes.
1. What movie have you seen the most times in the theater? How many times?
Star Wars--three times. No Country for Old Men--twice.
2. What was the last movie you walked out of in the theater?
Don't remember walking out ever. I badly wanted to walk out of Hocus Pocus, but I was reviewing it for the student paper.
3. What is the first movie you remember seeing in a theater?
On TV: The Wizard of Oz. In a theater: one of those Disney Don Knotts vehicles, probably The Apple Dumpling Gang.
4. What is your favorite movie soundtrack?
Jackie Brown.
5. Have you ever dressed up as a movie character for Halloween? If so, who?
Yes: C-3PO.
6. What was the first R-rated movie you ever saw? Were you allowed or did you sneak?
Silver Streak. Mom took my brother and I out to the lobby halfway through while Dad finished watching.
7. Star Wars (orig. trilogy) or Lord of the Rings?
Star Wars when I was a youngster. Now, they're all silly.
8. Pacino or DeNiro?
DeNiro.
9. Titanic...did it suck or was it great?
It wasn't great but damn close--and I was surprised how engrossed I was.
10. What's your take on Cassavetes?
Worthwhile in small doses.
11. Favorite John Hughes character?
Ferris Bueller. 2nd place: Edie McClurg's character in the same movie.
12. What movie gives you a boner (or makes you tingle)?
Basic Instinct.
13. What movie always makes you cry like the big puss you are?
Field of Dreams.
14. What's the furthest you've ever gotten in a movie theater? (i.e, second base...)
Holding hands.
15. Speaking of sports metaphors, what's your favorite sports movie?
Tie: North Dallas Forty and Bull Durham. Friday Night Lights is close.
16. (a) Favorite... teen movie?
Then: The Breakfast Club. Now: Superbad.
(b)...Quentin Tarantino movie?
Tie: Pulp Fiction and Jackie Brown, for entirely different reasons.
(c)...Bill Murray movie?
Ghostbusters or Groundhog Day.
(d)...romantic comedy?
Recently, Once.
(e)...gangster movie?
The Godfather.
(f)...horror movie?
The Blair Witch Project.
(g)...made for TV movie?
Jesus of Nazareth has its moments.
(h)...director?
Scorsese.
(i)...drug movie?
Requiem for a Dream.
17. What movie have you seen already but will never, ever, ever watch again?
Two gruesome ones: Hostel and The Passion of the Christ.
18. What movie are you embarrassed to really like?
Hustle and Flow. But you watch the sections when they're creating music and try not to be enthralled. That, friends, is what art is all about.
19. What movie should be remade asap?
Robert Altman's A Wedding, directed by Baz Luhrmann or one of the Bollywood filmmakers.
20. What's your favorite musical?
Singin' in the Rain, and the final sequence of An American in Paris. I stood and applauded after the latter--and we were watching it on DVD.
21. For the love of everything that's sacred, please someone stop (insert answer) from making another movie!
Tyler Perry.
22. What movie do all your friends love but you're not that crazy about?
The Matrix.
23. What movie do you love but none of your friends do?
Me and You and Everyone We Know.
24. If you could hump/date/marry any movie character, who would it be?
I don't know...Daryl Hannah in Splash.
25. Best...movie....ever?
Nashville.
26. Book you wish would be made into a movie, and who would direct it?
An Arsonist's Guide to Writers' Homes in New England, directed by Paul Thomas Anderson or Alexander Payne.
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