30 Day Movie Meme - Days 26-29

 Catching up AGAIN...
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Day 26 - A movie that you love but everyone else hates - I'm not sure about "hates", but I never seem to run into anyone who has seen and liked Bye Bye Love.  It's about three divorced couples and the people around them, mostly from the view of the dads.  Rob Reiner is in the movie as an obnoxious, vaguely-MRA radio host doing a radio marathon about divorce.  Paul Reiser plays the sensitive divorced dad with the teenage daughter, Randy Quaid plays the divorced dad who is all bitter that the ex-wife has a younger man and is "sponging" (only NOT) off his child support.  Matthew Modine plays the cat-around-town dad.  Janeane Garofalo is hilarious as a really bad blind date of Randy Quaid's, and Eliza Dushku is Paul Reiser's tween daughter.  It's got funny and sad and serious and real moments, just like real life.

Day 27 - A movie that you wish you had seen in theaters - I have to repeat here and use the Star Trek reboot.  It would have been nice to see all that on the big screen, rather than in Laptop Vision.

Day 28 - Favorite movie from your favorite director -I don't really have a "favorite director" either - apparently I don't follow movies that closely.  I'd have to give some love to George Cukor, who directed my favorite classic movie, The Women, and also directed the 1933 version of Little Women, featuring  Katharine Hepburn as Jo.  But as long as we're bringing up awesome directors, no list is complete without Alfred Hitchcock.  My favorites from him are Rebecca (creepy once I get over my desire to strangle Joan Fontaine) and Rear Window, with Grace Kelly, Jimmy Stewart, and Raymond Burr... as the murderer (which, for those of us firmly used to seeing him in one role perpetually, that of Perry Mason, was sort of a shocker).  

Day 29 - A movie from your childhood - Everyone who knows what a 80s cartoon nut I am should not be surprised at my double-feature pick for this one.  The Secret of the Sword, introducing He-Man's twin sister She-Ra, is one of the first movies I remember going to see in the theater.  I'm proud to say that now, twenty five years later, they're still alive and well in this household.  The other one is GI Joe, the 1987 animated version.  Nothing says 80s cartoon fun like that movie, for me at least.

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30 Day Movie Meme - Day 30

It's Day 30, yay!!  Next up, 30 Days of Books meme...

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Day 30 - Your favorite movie of all time - 

"Just checking."
"Everything all right?"
"Yes, two corpses.  Everything's fine."

Yes. My favorite movie of all time, the one movie I'd take to a desert island... is Clue. 

I've never understood what's not to like.  Except for when I got old enough to understand all the sexual jokes and was a little embarrassed that I had been watching it with my dad for a good chunk of my childhood.  There's murder, snappy dialogue, a sense of fun, and way too many sex and/or Communist jokes.

 And I love Miss Scarlet.  She's awesome.  Aside from Wadsworth, and Mr. Green's clincher at the end, she has the best lines.

 People who have been introduced to the movie by me (rockahulababy , looking at you here) know I can recite probably half the movie.  

 I just love it.  It's a guilty pleasure, but I enjoy it so much.  It was the first DVD I ever purchased, and one of only two movies purchased from iTunes.  And the other is The Aristocats, because my daughter loves it, and if I'm ever trapped on a three hour unexpected layover, I want to have them both handy.  Just in case.

 And yes, before you ask, I love the board game too.  I think we've owned five or six computer versions.

 There you have it, the 30 days of movies!