Movie Meme Thing
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Ten Movies I Love To Watch, Never Mind The Quality (in some cases)
1. Peter's Friends Stephen Fry, Hugh Laurie, Emma Thompson, Kenneth Branagh, Tony Slattery, Imelda Staunton & others gathering together at New Year's Eve - not quite as cosy as it sounds, especially with Director KB's questionable taste in music. But Hugh Laurie gets naked so of course I've seen it 593904832094 times. And my laptop famously shut down at the moment we see naked Hugh the first time I played the DVD on it.
2. A Month In The Country A super beautiful film, again with Kenneth Branagh, and Colin Firth. Set in 1920, they play WW1 veterans trying to find peace of mind and soul. Very beautiful and heartrending.
3. Fame I loved the TV show as a child, and thought it was appalling that I was too young to see the film, why did they make it a 15 rating there's no need for bad language. But I love how it's outrageous and cliched and touching.
4. Bright Young Things Bought cos it's a Stephen Fry film (director, screenplay adaptation, cameo role as a chauffeur) and I never noticed the young-Hugh thing about Stephen Campbell Moore until it was mentioned online somewhere. I adore Agatha and Miles most; Michael Sheen is LOVE.
5. Porridge The movie version of the TV comedy series, rather obvious it was made as a cash-in, but a good show. Buck Tarbrush indeed!
6. Dad's Army Another movie-of-the-Britcom, I first saw this as a child around the time we were learning about WW2 at school. I wondered about who might not go into the bank because the women who worked there wore their lipstick too bright, and did banks still have rules like that?
7. Desperately Seeking Susan Sooooo glamourous and cool I thought as a teenager, there's still a magic to it even though I often think where Susan and Roberta would be now, 20+ years on. And I STILL want a vanity case like Susan's. Don't listen to the DVD commentary though, it's got nothing to do with the film and is an abomination.
8. Wallace and Gromit's Curse of the Were-Rabbit I've never met anyone who didn't like W&G. Plus, my Dad loves animated films and we saw this at the Showcase Cinema. Dad went on & on about how marvellous and super modern Cinemas are these days, even though it cost more than 2/6 for a ticket but at least you can see the screen and don't have to watch the film through a cloud of smoke.
9. The Krays I'm pretty sure my Dad isn't aware I have this DVD. He wasn't very happy that time on QI when Stephen Fry was going on about the Kray twins. I seem to have a thing for WW2 and the post-war era in British films; ditto for the FilmFour heyday, there's no mistaking this for anything other than a FilmFour production.
10. Carry On At Your Convenience I had to choose a Carry On film; this narrowly beats Carry On Camping right now. Kenneth Williams is the King of Carry On films, but Joan Sims is the Queen, not Barbara Windsor. Never mind the absurdity of the genre that showed young, attractive twentysomething women finding the likes of Sid James or Terry Scott the hottest men on Earth, just enjoy King Kenny and the seasoned actors he was mostly surrounded by.
elicia8Ten Movies I Love To Watch, Never Mind The Quality (in some cases)
1. Peter's Friends Stephen Fry, Hugh Laurie, Emma Thompson, Kenneth Branagh, Tony Slattery, Imelda Staunton & others gathering together at New Year's Eve - not quite as cosy as it sounds, especially with Director KB's questionable taste in music. But Hugh Laurie gets naked so of course I've seen it 593904832094 times. And my laptop famously shut down at the moment we see naked Hugh the first time I played the DVD on it.
2. A Month In The Country A super beautiful film, again with Kenneth Branagh, and Colin Firth. Set in 1920, they play WW1 veterans trying to find peace of mind and soul. Very beautiful and heartrending.
3. Fame I loved the TV show as a child, and thought it was appalling that I was too young to see the film, why did they make it a 15 rating there's no need for bad language. But I love how it's outrageous and cliched and touching.
4. Bright Young Things Bought cos it's a Stephen Fry film (director, screenplay adaptation, cameo role as a chauffeur) and I never noticed the young-Hugh thing about Stephen Campbell Moore until it was mentioned online somewhere. I adore Agatha and Miles most; Michael Sheen is LOVE.
5. Porridge The movie version of the TV comedy series, rather obvious it was made as a cash-in, but a good show. Buck Tarbrush indeed!
6. Dad's Army Another movie-of-the-Britcom, I first saw this as a child around the time we were learning about WW2 at school. I wondered about who might not go into the bank because the women who worked there wore their lipstick too bright, and did banks still have rules like that?
7. Desperately Seeking Susan Sooooo glamourous and cool I thought as a teenager, there's still a magic to it even though I often think where Susan and Roberta would be now, 20+ years on. And I STILL want a vanity case like Susan's. Don't listen to the DVD commentary though, it's got nothing to do with the film and is an abomination.
8. Wallace and Gromit's Curse of the Were-Rabbit I've never met anyone who didn't like W&G. Plus, my Dad loves animated films and we saw this at the Showcase Cinema. Dad went on & on about how marvellous and super modern Cinemas are these days, even though it cost more than 2/6 for a ticket but at least you can see the screen and don't have to watch the film through a cloud of smoke.
9. The Krays I'm pretty sure my Dad isn't aware I have this DVD. He wasn't very happy that time on QI when Stephen Fry was going on about the Kray twins. I seem to have a thing for WW2 and the post-war era in British films; ditto for the FilmFour heyday, there's no mistaking this for anything other than a FilmFour production.
10. Carry On At Your Convenience I had to choose a Carry On film; this narrowly beats Carry On Camping right now. Kenneth Williams is the King of Carry On films, but Joan Sims is the Queen, not Barbara Windsor. Never mind the absurdity of the genre that showed young, attractive twentysomething women finding the likes of Sid James or Terry Scott the hottest men on Earth, just enjoy King Kenny and the seasoned actors he was mostly surrounded by.
