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1. What was the first movie you remember watching in the theater?
Robocop. I was about three at the time and despite not having a very clear memory of the movie, the details of Peter Weller's face fused to a brooding robot really stood out in my young brain. I blame it for iginiting my addiction with super-violent, intelligent R-rated movies.
2: How many times have you seen that movie since?
A million. I've lost count. At one point, I watched it so many times I had entire chunks of the movie memorized.
3: What was the last movie you saw in the theatre?
Blade Runner/Alien double feature. Alien really lived up to the hype. I'm glad I waited to watch it in the theater. It would probably lose most of it's effect on a 24-inch television screen.
4: What's the one thing you always have to get from the concession stand?
Sour patch kids. Delightfully disgusting.
5: What's the best thing about going to the movies?
I am going to bogart Mondo Celluloid's answer...
"This may sound corny, but I think there's an incredible amount of communication. (and I don't mean the kind of communication that happens, say, at the Long Beach Town Center Theater...) The filmmakers are communicating their vision, and you're taking it in as intended - blown up on a big screen, in full sight and sound - and you're communicating back your reaction, be it laughter or fear or awe or whatever. And you get to share it all with the people around you, who are communicate their own reactions, and it can all blend so awesomely to a great experience. 60% of what I loved about watching "The Strangers," for example, was hearing the people around me freak out and lose their minds. Or last year, when I watched one of my favorite movies "The Holy Mountain" at Hollywood Forever Cemetery, I could kind of take my eyes off the screen every once in a while and look around at the audience - for every person laughing in bewilderment there was another sitting perfectly still in reverence and awe. And around them the grass and the trees and the graves and the half-drunken bottles of wine - you simply can't have an experience like that throwing on a DVD at home."
6: What's the best reason to stay home and watch the DVD?
If there's absolutely nothing worth watching in the theater. Or if you have a movie like Body Count that will never, ever EVER be shown in a theater anywhere. That's a good excuse. Despite this, I have a disturbing number of DVD's and 50 of those I have never even watched.
7: Off the top of your head, name your top five movies:
Taxi Driver
Blow Out
Texas Chainsaw 1974
Vertigo
Midnight Cowboy
8: Go ahead, add another one:
Buffalo 66. And.... Kramer VS Kramer. I might like B66 more than Taxi Driver, just because Paul Schrader is a complete prick.
9: Now tell me three of your favorite directors:
Mario Bava
Don Siegel
John Huston
10: What's the next movie you're looking forward to
The new Batman. Though I am tempering my expectations. It's gotten waaaaaay too much hype.
11: Honestly, what do you think of Star Wars?
I think it's responsible for all the horrible summer action movies like Independance Day, 10000 BC and Wanted. It started a trend of cracker jack entertainment that's ruined a lot of people's taste. Good trilogy that's had a negative impact on cinema. Same with Jaws (except the trilogy part).
12: Off all six, what is your favorite?
Hmm... The one with the Ewoks was probably my favorite.
13: Speaking of good movies gone astray, what did you think of the new Indiana Jones?
A total waste of time. I didn't think my summer could get much worse until I sat through 50 minutes of that filmic abortion 'Wanted'. Jesus Christ, that movie made Commando look like To Have and Have Not.
14: What movie do you think should be remade or given a prequel/sequel?
I side with new ideas, even if they pay homage to older movies. Prequels are generally horrible, giving us back story we never asked for, or at the very least disappointing us with pointless origins. Sequels can be good, if there's an original idea in place. The only movie I could think of that should be remade is Robocop 2... Get Paul Verhoeven and Peter Weller back (sorry Hank). That's the Robocop I want to see. I would love to see a Taxi Driver sequel even though it would be a total embarrassment. Stunt Rock might be a good sequel. OR the Warriors 2 (Thirty Years Later). There has never been a good prequel in the history of anything (Temple of Doom doesn't count).
15: What did you think of the LOTR trilogy?
Never watched it.
16: How about Narnia?
Didn't see it.
17: This or that
A) documentary or science fiction?
Depends how bad the Sci-Fi movie is. If it's between Omega Man and Grey Gardens, I am going with Heston.
B) drama or comedy?
Drama. It's so hard for a movie to be funny and stay that way over time. Top Secret is brilliant. Same with Naked Gun and Blues Brothers. A well-done Drama isn't THAT hard to find.
C) action or romance?
A romance movie like Secretary or The Getaway has my vote. But if it's between the Notebook and Cobra, you better fucking believe I am taking the Stallone movie.
D) anime or pixar?
Don't care about Anime. Anyone who brings it up is tragically nerdy. Pixar gave me Toy Story 1 and 2 growing up, so they win.
E) horror or slapstick?
Horror. No slapstick can match the visceral effect of something like The Thing or Halloween 1.
18: Name one movie that should have had a different ending and why?
Le sigh... I tend to forget those movies. BODY COUNT... too weird to have multiple killers and not make any allusion to that before the finale.
19: Name three movies you could watch over and over again:
Switchblade Sisters
Rambo: First Blood Part II
Key Largo
20: For each word, give me a quote or phrase from a movie:
GUN:
"I know what you're thinking. "Did he fire six shots or only five?" Well, to tell you the truth, in all this excitement I kind of lost track myself. But being as this is a .44 Magnum, the most powerful handgun in the world, and would blow your head clean off, you've got to ask yourself one question: Do I feel lucky? Well, do ya, punk? "
- Dirty Harry
LOVE:
"You and I are both the same. We kill out of indifference, out of love sometimes, but never out of hate. Now I don't know who's dead or alive. I'm sick of killing. So I'm leaving the game, Brother."
- Cemetery Man
DRUGS:
"You can turn your back on a person, but, never turn your back on a drug. Especially when it's waving a razor-sharp hunting knife in your eye."
-Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
MUSIC:
"This the only kind of music they play in this joint?"
- Last Boy Scout
DEATH:
"Death has come to your little town, Sheriff."
- Halloween 1978
GOD:
"Only thing my old man ever gave me was this goddamn .45. Japanese but it's pretty good. Go on, shoot it."
- Kalifornia
SEX:
"You have one choice, boy: sex or the saw. Sex is, well, nobody knows. But the saw, the saw is family."
- Texas Chainsaw 2
BASEBALL:
Striker, listen, and you listen close: flying a plane is no different than riding a bicycle, just a lot harder to put baseball cards in the spokes. - Airplane
WAR:
"You know what you are. What you're made of war is in your blood. Don't fight it. You didn't kill for your country. You killed for yourself. God's never gonna make that go away. When you're pushed, killing's as easy as breathing."
-RAMBO
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By Jim Thompson
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