
What’s in those cocktails, anyway?
Sign can be seen at BJ’s Bar, 5519 Lapeer Rd, Burton, Michigan.
What’s in those cocktails, anyway?
Sign can be seen at BJ’s Bar, 5519 Lapeer Rd, Burton, Michigan.
(Something completely silly I wrote a few years ago when snowed in and bored)
Movie my brothers got taken to see while my mother was giving birth to me:
Return of the Jedi
First movie I can remember seeing in a theater (the library screening room, IIRC):
The Fox and the Hound
Movie I fiercely fought back tears at, because I was a tough girl at the ripe old age of 6:
All Dogs Go to Heaven
Movies that, embarrassingly, can always make me cry:
Hardball
Tomorrow Is Forever
Movies I can quote every single line of dialogue to because we rented them repeatedly and/or taped them off TV:
Follow that Bird
Robin Hood
National Velvet
The Little Mermaid
Bon Voyage, Charlie Brown
What About Bob?
Movie we got to watch if it rained at recess:
The Neverending Story 2
Movies that my childhood best friend would watch only certain scenes of, over and over:
The Wizard of Oz (flying monkeys)
Return of the Jedi (Ewoks dancing)
Meet Me in St Louis (throwing flour in people’s faces)
She might have been insane, it appears:
Yup.
Movies that were always on HBO when we would get the free trial:
WarGames
Rain Man
Movies that my family members quoted until the lines lost all meaning:
Rain Man
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
Sling Blade
This one terrible TV movie about Charles and Diana’s divorce that sells for a small fortune Stateside
Movie my parents bought because the dog liked to watch it, even though no one else did:
Snow Dogs
Movies that informed my notions of romantic relationships:
The Cutting Edge
Wild Hearts Can’t Be Broken
A Far Off Place
The Bodyguard
Movies I watched chiefly because of the attractiveness of the actors therein, a la Tina Belcher:
Christian Bale dancing
Christian Bale living next door
Cute boys on a boat
Handsome guys cheating at baseball
That one where Bon Jovi is on a submarine with Matthew McConaughey
Movies that made me feel smart as a nerdy teen:
Contact
The Truman Show
Romeo + Juliet
Gattaca
10 Things I Hate About You
Movies I was so desperate to see I bought illegal, edited DVDs:
Garden State
Love Actually
Movies I watch when I’m sick:
Can’t Hardly Wait
She’s All That
Clueless
Persuasion (1995)
Movies that shaped my sense of style and aesthetics, to the present day:
Singles
Clueless
Troop Beverly Hills
Breakfast at Tiffany’s
Movies I have watched way, way, way too many times:
Breakfast at Tiffany’s
Citizen Kane
Casablanca
Pride and Prejudice (1995)
Hot Rod
The Saint
Movies with comically bad Russian dialogue and/or accents:
The Saint
K-19
The Hunt for Red October
The Bourne movies (Лштшфум Ащьф)
Independence Day
Movies I saw on awkward dates/group outings/group dates:
The Hulk
A Beautiful Mind
Hidalgo
Paradise Now
Fantastic 4: Rise of the Silver Surfer
Movie I slept through in a theater:
Fantastic 4: Rise of the Silver Surfer
Sequels I’ve seen without having seen the first film:
Fantastic 4: Rise of the Silver Surfer (well, sort of. I fell asleep in the theater.)
Toy Story 2
The Incredibles 2 (in Russian no less)
Ocean’s 12
Return to the Blue Lagoon
Indie movie I saw on an early date with my husband:
Children Of Invention
Movies my husband made me watch before we could get engaged:
Star Wars
The Empire Strikes Back
Return of the Jedi
Those other three ones
Movies I made my husband watch after he put a ring on it:
Roger & Me
Hot Rod
Escanaba in Da Moonlight
Love Actually (see above)
Glitter
Movies I don’t understand why everyone loves:
The Goonies
The Notebook
E.T.
Movies I didn’t see until later in life and now regret all those years not knowing:
Soul Man
Heathers
In the Mood for Love
Movie I have no intention of ever seeing:
Titanic
Movie my husband cannot believe I’ve never seen:
The Shawshank Redemption
Movies my husband and I quote most often to each other:
Summer Catch
Varsity Blues (this)
School Of Rock (this)
Bring It On
Eddie and the Cruisers II: Eddie Lives!
The Other Sister
The Saint
Possibly the best gift I have ever received:
Eddie and the Cruisers parts 1 & 2 DVD set
Movie I watched once in the middle of the night and told everyone was awesome for the next decade and then rewatched and was so embarrassed:
Thank God It’s Friday
Movie I’ve seen the first 15 minutes of, over and over, on an overseas flight:
V for Vendetta
Movie I watched in a hotel room in Denmark because it was literally the only thing on TV that wasn’t porn:
Hotel For Dogs
Movies I will sit down and watch every time they’re on TV regardless of how many times I’ve seen them/how good or bad they are:
Happy Gilmore
Tommy Boy
The Breakfast Club
Sleepless in Seattle
A Few Good Men
Dumb and Dumber
Office Space
Movies I think are dumb but I will hate-watch if I am in the right mood and have a potent potable:
The Jane Austen Book Club
Runaway Bride
The Last Song
The Lincoln Lawyer
Blue Crush
Movies I hate so much I can’t speak about them coherently for very long without just starting to make noises:
Garden State
Emma (1996)
Dan In Real Life
The Village
Movies in which I root for the “bad guy”:
The Sound of Music (Baroness Shraeder is awesome.)
Return of the Jedi (The Emperor)
Swing Kids (Christian Bale, that is, not, you know, Hitler)
Armageddon (the asteroid)
Movie I should have seen in a theater:
The Perfect Storm
Last movie I saw in the theater:
Austenland
Next movie I will see in a theater:
Casablanca, if I can drag the mister