My Life in Movies

I was sent this rather long questionnaire in an email and thought that since I took the time to answer these questions, I'd post them here and try to get some of my blogging friends to answer them as well. There are some really good questions here.

1. Last film I saw in the theater:
The Grand. I really wanted to see something to make me laugh.

2. Last movie I watched on dvd/vhs:
Things We Lost in the Fire

3. Last movie I watched on tv:
Barber Shop 2

4. Last great movie you saw (for the first time, no repeated viewings):
Hearts of Darkness

5. Top three favorite movies of all time:
- Funny Girl
- The Color Purple
- Pride and Prejudice (A&E's version, not the new one with Keira Knightley)

6. Three comedies I can watch over and over and they still make me laugh:
- Old School
- Bottle Rocket
- Friday

7. Three dramas I can watch over and over without tiring of them:
- Legends of the Fall
- Nowhere in Africa
- Girl Fight

8. Favorite romantic comedy:
Knotting Hill

9. Favorite suspense/horror movie:
Alice in Wonderland

10. Favorite movie musical:
Chicago? My favorite musicals haven't been made into films yet.

11. My three favorite movies when I was a kid:
- School Daze
- Purple Rain
- Small Sacrifices

12. Three movies I loved when I was a kid that I still love now:
-Mississippi Masala
- Dirty Dancing
- Shag

13. Favorite movie based on a book:
Mansfield Park

14. Favorite sequel (think hard):
Dirty Dancing 2

15. Favorite movie that you know is kind of crappy, but you love it anyway:
The Last of the Mohicans

16. Favorite foreign film:
Y Tu Mama Tambien

17. Best documentary I've seen so far:
Control Room

18. Movie I put on when I'm really depressed:
The Mirror Has Two Faces

19. Movie that can make me cry even if I am in the happiest mood:
The Color Purple

20. A movie someone recommended to me that I ended up loving and the person who recommended it:
The War Room, Mrs. Lee (Gifted/AP Social Studies Teacher in High School)

21. A movie someone recommended to me that I ended up hating and the person who recommended it (but it's not their fault):
Something Japanese about a woman who has to learn how to cook while being trained like a ninja in the kitchen. Recommended by Ron.

22. Movie I recommend for everyone to see and why:
I think that everyone should see the Brazilian film Me, You, Them because it's about a woman who has been disappointed in love and so comes up with a revolutionary way that women can have all of their needs met by men in a committed relationship. It isn't the best piece of work cinematically but it is a particularly provocative conversation piece, not just between men and women but between women and other women and men and other men.

23. Movie I recommended for someone to see and still regret doing so:
I recommended Nurse Betty to my sister and cousin and they have never forgiven me for it.

24. Biggest movie let down:
G (Christopher Scott Cherot)

25. Biggest movie surprise (you liked it and thought you wouldn't):
Welcome Home, Roscoe Jenkins

26. Top three actors you would watch in anything:
- Roger Guenveur Smith
- Jeffrey Wright
- Don Cheadle

27. Top three actresses you would watch in anything:
- Frances O'Connor
- Julia Roberts
- Renee Zellwegger

28. Top three directors whose films you would watch no matter what:
- Alfonso Cuaron
- Julie Taymor
- Pedro Almodovar

29. Most overrated movie (please stick with stuff you've seen):
Office Space

30. Most overrated actor/actress:
Jamie Fox/Lisa Raye

31. Do you have a favorite screenwriter? Who and what is your favorite movie they have written?:
Wes Anderson and Owen Wilson as a pair

32. Three favorite movie quotes:
Too hard. Too many movies.

33. If you can remember it, worst dialougue in a movie ever:
Don't remember it.

34. Best dialogue in a movie ever:
Closer. Because it sounds like a play.

35. I can repeat every line from this movie verbatim while watching it:
Love Jones

36. Book you would like to see made into a movie and who you would like to see in it/directing it/etc.:
I think that books are just fine as books.

37. Favorite song from a movie:
My Man, Barbra Streisand's version from Funny Girl

38. Favorite use of a song in a movie:
We Are Men from Mulan

39. A musical artist you now love that you discovered by watching a movie and said movie:
Iron and Wine, In Good Company

40. Movie that you feel compelled to watch when you pass it flipping through channels:
Fried Green Tomatoes

41. A movie that you really related with in high school (like the maker was your kindred spirit/ these characters were your long-lost best friend): Only You, with Robert Downey, Jr. and Marissa Tomeii

42. Movie you loved when you were a teenager and thought you would always love, but does not hold the same place in your heart:
Dying Young

43. I was completely into __(name of movie)__ when it came out, I even thought about a t-shirt or action figures, but now I don't know what I was thinking.
No such movie.

44. I want to be _(this movie character)_ when I grow up:
Rose Morgan, from The Mirror Has Two Faces

45. Best movie character:
Gollum

46. Movie I could live in happily:
The Big Night, just for the food

47. Movie character soulmate (if only he or she was real and then you could live happily ever after):
Sam Shapiro, Adrien Brody's character from Bread and Roses

48. Deserted island movie (I know, why would you have a dvd player on a deserted island? just go with it): Saved this for last...still can't think of one.

49. Famous movie everyone's seen that I haven't:
All of the James Bond movies except the last one.

50. Movie I never want to see remade:
Jane Eyre or Wuthering Heights or Jude the Obscure or Wide Sargasso Sea. No one gets them quite right.

51. Movie that inspires me:
Frida

52. Three pieces of movie memorabilia I own:
I don't believe in this.

53. A movie I saw and asked for my money back:
All the King's Men

54. Best movie watching experience in a theater (crowd rocked):
Jackass, the first one. Everyone was just as grossed out as her neighbor.

55. Worst movie watching experience in a theater (crowd sucked):
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou. I couldn't enjoy the movie as much because I was being sexually molested.

56. First movie I remember seeing in the theater:
I remember we saw Under the Cherry Moon...and that was a long time ago, but I don't know if it was the first one. The theatre we saw it in is now a porn theatre, though.

57. People I love to watch movies with:
Ron, because he always has something really "interesting" to say about the film and usually challenges me in one way or another about the film.

58. Fondest movie memory (home):
Does this count? Watching shorts in the middle of the night in the speech lab at Agnes Scott.

59. Fondest movie memory (theater):
The Island with Rajesh

60. If there was a movie that I can say might have changed my life, it was this one:
Nothing comes to mind. And I've been thinking through most of my 3rd period class. Plus, I can't take questions like this seriously.

I tag Mary and Mynna.