An (Uninvited) Q & A Session

 

I love these forays into musings on questionnaires provided by others.  One of the ubiquitous such questionnaires is The Sunshine Blogger Award, in which one blogger will answer questions posed by a separate blogger who nominated them for the award.  Then said second blogger will create their own set of questions and nominate several more fellow bloggers for the award.  Essentially it's kind of like a chain letter (without having to send the original blogger a dollar...)  My friend Rachel @ Hamlette's Soliloquy was nominated for the award, and. although she didn't peg me for a nomination, I thought the questions intriguing enough to give my own answers as if she had. After all, when have I ever let anything like normalcy govern my actions?  No rules...

So the questions are:

1. What classic movie have you seen recently?

"Classic"?  Does this count?  Saturday I saw the 41st Anniversary release of This is Spinal Tap.  I didn't get a chance to see it in the theater, but I've watched it at least 1/2 a dozen times on DVD. An iconic movie, worth the price, especially in surround sound. 

2. What modern movie have you seen recently?

Actually haven't seen a new release since Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny. Don't get to the theater very often these days. 

3. What movie that was made in your birth year that you really enjoy?

The Guns of Navarone and The Hustler are fantastic.  One that is still due to appear at The Midnite Drive-In, and one that you may never have heard of, however, is Atlantis: The Lost Continent.

4. What's a movie you wish you had seen much earlier than you did?

I'm ashamed to admit it but I didn't see Big Trouble in Little China in the theater. Which is amazing because I loved John Carpenter movies by then. And it is now my second favorite movie.

5. What's a movie you are hoping to watch soon?

I am greatly anticipating both The Running Man (which I have heard is more faithful to it's original source) and The Long Walk. Both based on Stephen King books he wrote as "Richard Bachman".

6. What's a movie you've been wanting to see for years, but still haven't?

Too many to name. But there is a list of movies they used clips from in It Came From Hollywood, a comedic pseudo-documentary that covered some really cheesy flicks from the 50's and 60's.

7. Have you ever watched the same movie more than once in a theater?

I saw An American Werewolf in London once a week every week it was out when it was released.

8. What's a movie that needs a sequel but never got one?

They teased a sequel at the end of The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension, but it never got made.  There was a novel sequel a few years back, which could have been a good one.

9/ How do you watch most movies? (Streaming? DVD? Theater, TV?)

Mostly DVD.  Most of the movies I like were made well before I was old enough to go to the theater, and rarely are shown on TV.

10. Have you ever changed your mind and started liking an actor/actress you formerly disliked?

In a word, NO. I absolutely refuse to watch a movie with that whackadoodle Tom Cruise. And the Kevin Costner movies I DO like have some other actor that make them worth watching.

11. Have you ever visited a filming location? (Share pictures if you can.)

The 1988 remake of D.O.A.  had scenes which were filmed at the university I attended. But I didn't go there to see them.  As a matter of fact I didn't even know parts of it were filmed there until I saw it in the theater. In one scene the main characters are in a girl's dormitory, which in reality was the library and another had a scene at a church, which was the Theater Center.

  

Library/ Girl's dorm

Church/ Theater Center

 

Since I wasn't nominated for the award, I will forgo the questions and the nominations.  (No rules... remember?)

Quiggy