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Jan. 23rd, 2009 | 03:33 pm
Meme stolen from somewhere.
Post three of your favorite movies and three of your least favorite movies, and list why you love/hate them. These don't have to be Oscar winners, just movies you liked.
Three Movies I Hate, and Why
Interview with the Vampire
I just don't get this. It's got a cast of competent actors and is based on a very good book, and yet it's so bad it's painful to watch. I blame the makeup artists. Well, that and whoever tried to cast Brad Pitt as the Weepy Goth Man. There are some actors who could pull off Louis beautifully; Brad Pitt is not one of them.
Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines
I loved the first two movies. I like action movies, I like apocalypse movies; this should be perfect. But it's so bad. The Terminatrix (seriously, Terminatrix? Whoever the hell came up with that should be banned from movies forever) was bad enough, but the complete mutilation of John Connor's character just ruined this for me. This is one of those movies that I just mentally edit out of the series' canon.
Ocean's Twelve
Another movie that gets edited out in my mind. The funny thing about this is that Ocean's Eleven was great and Ocean's Thirteen wasn't at all bad, but this one was just...awful. It's got a hugely incoherent plotline, culminating in Julia Roberts' character disguising herself as...Julia Roberts. I shit you not.
Three Movies I Love, and Why
St. Elmo's Fire
This movie came out the year I was born, and aside from technology and fashion tastes, these could be my friends. It was sort of eye-opening, how little some things change. Ally Sheedy and Andrew McCarthy in particular are great, and I liked that everything didn't just resolve itself neatly at the end.
Eagle Eye
It's got plot holes you could drive a Mack truck through, but the action is genius, the characters all have interesting backgrounds--there's a lot more emotional depth in this than you generally see in this kind of movie. And, um, Shia Labeouf. Yeah. (I always feel vaguely guilty for ogling him, even though he's my age, because my mental image of him looks like this. In this movie, though, I can't help it.)
A Streetcar Named Desire
"Stella! Hey, Stella!"
Need I say more? Okay, this movie is brilliantly twisted, and you have to admire the balls those filmmakers must have had, making a movie about insanity, adultery, prostitution, and rape in an era where married couples weren't allowed to share a bed on screen. This is my favorite Marlon Brando movie, and I love Marlon Brando. Stanley Kowalski is, I think, one of the most terrifying characters I've ever seen--awful and compelling.
Post three of your favorite movies and three of your least favorite movies, and list why you love/hate them. These don't have to be Oscar winners, just movies you liked.
Three Movies I Hate, and Why
Interview with the Vampire
I just don't get this. It's got a cast of competent actors and is based on a very good book, and yet it's so bad it's painful to watch. I blame the makeup artists. Well, that and whoever tried to cast Brad Pitt as the Weepy Goth Man. There are some actors who could pull off Louis beautifully; Brad Pitt is not one of them.
Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines
I loved the first two movies. I like action movies, I like apocalypse movies; this should be perfect. But it's so bad. The Terminatrix (seriously, Terminatrix? Whoever the hell came up with that should be banned from movies forever) was bad enough, but the complete mutilation of John Connor's character just ruined this for me. This is one of those movies that I just mentally edit out of the series' canon.
Ocean's Twelve
Another movie that gets edited out in my mind. The funny thing about this is that Ocean's Eleven was great and Ocean's Thirteen wasn't at all bad, but this one was just...awful. It's got a hugely incoherent plotline, culminating in Julia Roberts' character disguising herself as...Julia Roberts. I shit you not.
Three Movies I Love, and Why
St. Elmo's Fire
This movie came out the year I was born, and aside from technology and fashion tastes, these could be my friends. It was sort of eye-opening, how little some things change. Ally Sheedy and Andrew McCarthy in particular are great, and I liked that everything didn't just resolve itself neatly at the end.
Eagle Eye
It's got plot holes you could drive a Mack truck through, but the action is genius, the characters all have interesting backgrounds--there's a lot more emotional depth in this than you generally see in this kind of movie. And, um, Shia Labeouf. Yeah. (I always feel vaguely guilty for ogling him, even though he's my age, because my mental image of him looks like this. In this movie, though, I can't help it.)
A Streetcar Named Desire
"Stella! Hey, Stella!"
Need I say more? Okay, this movie is brilliantly twisted, and you have to admire the balls those filmmakers must have had, making a movie about insanity, adultery, prostitution, and rape in an era where married couples weren't allowed to share a bed on screen. This is my favorite Marlon Brando movie, and I love Marlon Brando. Stanley Kowalski is, I think, one of the most terrifying characters I've ever seen--awful and compelling.