Playing Catch-Up

[thessalian]

So I'm going to try this meme that mitchy came up with. 30 days of movies. I have a bad track record with these but ... well, you never know.


1. Favourite movie (or Top 5 Faves, Top 10 Faves, Top Oops I Got Carried Away)?
2. Actor(s) you'd happily watch reading the phone book?
3. Actress(es) you'd happily watch reading the phone book?
4. First movie you remember seeing at the cinema as a child?
5. Favourite Disney movie?
6. Preferred cinema snack?
7. First movie that made you cry like a baby?
8. Comedy movie that still makes you cry with laughter?
9. What movie is the most over-rated? (i.e. that one movie everyone claims is a classic but you just don't get it?)
10. What movie most deserved the Best Film Oscar and was cruelly robbed?
11. First horror movie you remember watching?
12. Scariest movie you've ever watched as an adult?
13. First 18 certificate movie you saw (legally or otherwise) at the cinema?
14. Movie you wished you'd never paid money to see?
15. Most underated film actor, past or present (male or female)
16. Most over-rated film actor, past or present (male or female)
17. Is there one film you've watched more than 20 times?
18. If you could make a movie, what sort of movie would you make?
19. Any film(s) that you'd like to rewrite? (change the ending/tweak a character/remove annoying gaping plot holes, that sort of thing)
20. If you could be any movie character, who would you be?
21. Movie character you'd dearly love to smack. Hard. While wearing chainmail gloves?
22. Most romantic movie you've watched and enjoyed? (Or ran screaming from?)
23. Favourite animated (non-Disney) movie?
24. What genre of movies do you prefer?
25. What genre of movies do you avoid like the plague?
26. Is there a specific movie you really cannot stand to watch?
27. Is there a particular actor/actress you cannot stand to watch?
28. Movie that surprised you by being better/worse than you expected?
29. Favourite special effects scene? (CGI or traditional)
30. Your choice of outstanding directors of your generation?

1. Favourite movie (or Top 5 Faves, Top 10 Faves, Top Oops I Got Carried Away)?

Yeeeeeeeeeah. This one's always a tricky one because so much is dependent on genre. I think Pump Up the Volume probably wins for sheer inspirational quality, though. It illustrates perfectly the teenage need to talk and break boundaries that has led to the blog generation. A lot of people take it for granted, really - the whole thing where they can say whatever they want to say on a public forum and not have anyone but a bunch of trolls come down on them. Back in the day, there was no forum like that and I imagine a lot of people didn't feel listened to at all.

Plus, some of the lines are just plain amazing.

In other news, back from Brighton and sometimes I just gotta wonder about my mother. I love her dearly, don't get me wrong, but ... well, I wonder, is all. I mean, she has some serious hypocrisy issues sometimes. But we had a good time notwithstanding. There was shopping and nice food and chatting and now I'm just kinda tired. Not in a bad way, mind.

Some of the shopping was books. I finally picked up a copy of Cory Doctorow's Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom. Which was awesome, by the way - I recommend it. Though our trip to the Brighton Waterstone's lacked the awesome I found in a London branch of same, wherein I found a couple of copies of Mur Lafferty's Playing for Keeps. I also picked up a copy of Feed, by Mira Grant. One of you charming lot blogged about it and piqued my curiosity, and I am enjoying it immensely. I also see that it appears to be a series or at least a trilogy, with a second book coming out in May next year. We'll have to see whether I devour Feed (no pun intended) and wail that I have to wait too long for the next one.

As to my own writings ... I got hit by inspiration on Friday afternoon, when I was entirely unable to work on it. I've jotted down the basic premise (which kicks the arse of the last one, in my view, particularly in terms of overarcing plot - really the idea I had for the third book is better sub-plot somewhere else) and a few bits of dialogue that need cleaning up but I wanted to start it and longhand was all I had. Mum said something about a laptop for Christmas - one of the tiny ones, mayhap - so that's all good. She also said something about helping out with deposit and first month's rent on a flat, once I've got some money behind me to actually move. This is thrilling!

So yeah, there's been a lot going on and I'm sorry I've had radio silence. This shall be remedied. There are rants to be had!

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