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[shanmonster]

thatnickguy suggested I follow his freshly-made meme, and I decided, sure! Why not? So, here goes my top ten list of movies. Now, I really don't have ten all-time favourite movies, so this list will contain whatever springs to mind right now. And no, these aren't in any particular order.

1. The Butcher Boy: This is an overlooked gem. It's the story of a stark, raving mad Irish boy during the Cuban Missile crisis. It's both hilarious and horrifying, and Sinead O'Connor cameos as the Virgin Mary. The kid deserved an Oscar. Why didn't he get one?
2. Aliens: I want to be Vasquez when I grow up.
3. Anaconda: One of the best worst movies, ever! It made me laugh about as much as I did while watching this next flick:
4. Species: Two words: prehensile nipples. What more could you want! I laughed so hard, it triggered a terrible asthma attack. It took me three hours to watch this movie, because I kept laughing so hard that my asthma made it impossible for me to breathe. So I'd pause the movie, suck on my inhaler, and when my lungs started working again, I'd watch the movie until it killed my lungs again. It was a vicious, hilarious circle!
5. The City of Lost Children: Gorgeous and surreal. I need to watch this again.
6. A Clockwork Orange: Vicious, unsettling, and insightful. How did Malcolm MacDowell go on to act in dreadful films after starring in this masterpiece?
7. Dangerous Liaisons: This has the wittiest dialogue I've ever encountered in a film. It's a strong adaptation of the most excellent book, too!
8. Jason and the Argonauts: Harryhausen rocks the casbah!
9. Clash of the Titans: I must have watched this cheesy movie about forty or fifty times when it first came out. It is quite possibly one of the reasons I went on to become a classics major in university.
10. Léolo: Just your typical disturbing movie about the bastard son of a tomato. If you liked The Butcher Boy, I think you'll love this.

Comments

[elanya.livejournal.com]

what, no Lisztomania? ;p

[shanmonster.livejournal.com]

No, not today. I considered it, but I'm not in a very Lisztomania mood.

[phoenix532.livejournal.com]

What, no Evil Dead or Army of Darkness? Have you no appreciation of great lines like..."come get Some","Good, bad, I'm the guy with the gun" or "gimmie some sugar". Speaking of great lines...how about my icon? Anyway you do get points for having the balls to choose one Harryhausen film. I mean with works like; It Came From Beneath The Sea, Earth VS The Flying Saucers, 3 Worlds of Gulliver, 7th Voyage of Sinbad, The Golden Voyage of Sinbad, Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger as well as Jason and the Argonauts. How did you do it... his films are like Lays potato chips, you can't have just one..yet you did it, you chose one. You have impressed me. I would have still been trying to make a decision.

[shanmonster.livejournal.com]

Of course I have appreciation for The Bruce! But they weren't on today's list of ten. They might be on tomorrow's.

As for Harryhausen, I picked Jason and the Argonauts because of the skeleton battle. I think that was his best effect, ever. And I didn't stop at one Harryhausen movie. He also did effects on Clash of the Titans.

I almost chose another of his films: The Ten Commandments. It's great because it also has Charlton Heston, the uber Moses.

And speaking of his Moses-ness, I also almost chose Planet of the Apes. Again, I'll save that one for another day.

[phoenix532.livejournal.com]

Better put the dunce cap on me...I was not aware he was involved with Clash of the Titans. Thanks for the education!

[crasch.livejournal.com]

FYI, today's Freshair has an archived interview with Harryhausen:

http://freshair.npr.org/day_fa.jhtml;jsessionid=QMXLLUY2BRSUNLA5AINSFFA?todayDate=current

He said the skeletons and Medusa (from CotT) were his favorite effects.

[phoenix532.livejournal.com]

Damn, how cool are you? Very cool, you are. I liked your writing and thought you were ok cool, then I checked your user info. We have the same Birthday, cool, very cool. Same day not the same year...I'm exactly "snicker" five years older..good for you, bad for me. Anyway, with you being cool and me liking your writing and us having the same Birthday, as well as you being from Canada(I do not have any Canadian friends) I have decided to add you to my Friends page so I can keep an eye on you(your writing anyway) I hope that is alright with you. Take care and have a great day.

[shanmonster.livejournal.com]

Sounds fine by me! Welcome!

[phoenix532.livejournal.com]

You have now been officially added to my Friends page. You are the coolest Canadian on the page.

[superdaintykate.livejournal.com]

City of Lost Children -- what an amazing film.

[rubywitch.livejournal.com]

Awww....

No Night of the Lepus?

[shanmonster.livejournal.com]

I haven't actually seen that one yet! I want to, though.