Movie meme!

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Snagged from blackfrancine:

Go here and start with the year you were born. Select your favorite movie from the list. You're not making a value judgment here, but rather an emotional decision, based on which of the films listed inspires the strongest and happiest emotional memories. Then make a list, selecting one movie from each year you've been alive.

1984: This is a really sad year, because I've only seen maybe three movies on this list, and I didn't particularly like any of them! :(
1985: Rocky IV
1986: My Little Pony: The Movie
1987: The Princess Bride
1988: Rain Man
1989: Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

Conclusion: Clearly I completely missed most of the 1980s, because I've hardly seen ANY of the movies on these lists!

1990: Dances With Wolves
1991: Hook
1992: The Mighty Ducks/Newsies (I can't choose!)
1993: Free Willy
1994: Little Women
1995: Toy Story
1996: Independence Day
1997: Men in Black
1998: Armageddon
1999: 10 Things I Hate About You

2000: Memento
2001: Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
2002: Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
2003: Love Actually/Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl (it was a good year!)
2004: The Incredibles
2005: Crash/Batman Begins/Rent (REALLY good year)
2006: Bobby
2007: Bridge to Terebithia
2008: The Dark Knight
2009: Up in the Air
2010: The Social Network/Black Swan

blackfrancine also did a "favorite movie of the decade" thing, but while the 1980s is easy (The Princess Bride), I had a hard enough time choosing for each year. NO WAY could I narrow it down to a favorite for the decade.

Comments

[blackfrancine.livejournal.com]

Ooh. 10 Things I Hate About You and Love Actually were my runners up--so that's sort of like we have more overlap.

I need to figure out how to get posts here to show up on my LJ flist. That's what I'll be spending the next 90 minutes doing, probably.

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Hee! I can probably cut down that time for you... I explained it on my LJ.

Also, I will add you to the personal filter, but for whatever reason, locked posts don't show up on LJ, so you have to track the "getting personal" tag if you want email notifications.

[snickfic]

MLP: The Movie! I faithfully watched reruns of the original MLP show when I was younger. (I was so hungry for fantasy, I'd watch anything.) Let's see, that's the one with the "dark, dank, and dreary" villainesses, yes? That is honestly just about all I remember about the one I'm thinking of...

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Yep, that's the dark, dank, and dreary one (which, btw, my mom and I still use that phrase to describe the weather sometimes - that might be my earliest movie quote, lol). I don't think I watched the TV show, just the movie, which is perhaps odd. Or maybe the movie's the only one we had on video, so that's why I watched it a dozen times.

[snickfic]

I still use it, too! It's got that catchy alliteration.

[(Anonymous)]

Clearly, you have excellent taste!

Speaking of which, I just got back from "Tangled", in which I fangirled Zach Levi's voice for a good 90 minutes. I thought this would be exciting to share...

[ohwaluvusbab.livejournal.com]

Ugh, I keep commenting without ID. *face-palm*

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Haha, I was wondering who that was! But YAY for Zac fangirling!

[goodbyebird]

How much do I love that you've got Hook on there? THIS much. :D

And people loving Black Swan is making me very happy these days.

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OMG I loved Hook so much as a kid! Ah, nostalgia. :)

[mcmegan]

I was going to do this while I was bored in class one day. But I've only looked at the first few years.
My pick for 84 is "This is Spinal Tap" (I think that's what year it was). If you haven't seen it, you should. Very funny.

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Ooh, you should do it! I haven't seen "This is Spinal Tap" - I'll add it to the Netflix queue.

[mcmegan]

Okay, here's mine:

1984- This is Spinal Tap
1985- Better Off Dead
1986- Ferris Bueller's Day Off
1987- The Princess Bride
1988- The Land Before Time
1989- The Little Mermaid

1990- Home Alone
1991- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II - Secret of the Ooze
1992- The Mighty Ducks
1993- Jurassic Park/The Wrong Trousers (like them both!)
1994- The Little Rascals
1995- Empire Records/Toy Story (too many choices!)
1996- That Thing You Do
1997- Austin Powers- International Man of Mystery
1998- Can't Hardly Wait
1999- 10 Things I Hate About You (didn't even look at the rest of the list

2000- Best in Show (didn't like many movies this year)
2001- A Knight's Tale/Get Over It/Bridget Jones's Diary (so many good ones!

oops, I'll have to finish this later. Class break

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Heh, a LOT of yours were my runners-up. Land Before Time, Little Mermaid, Jurassic Park, Bridget Jones, Finding Nemo, The Producers... haha, but I'm amused that I thought 2005 had so many good choices and you thought it wasn't a very good year!

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2002- Ice Age
2003- Finding Nemo/Love Actually
2004- Garden State/Eurotrip
2005- The Producers (not many good movies this year?)
2006- Stranger than Fiction
2007- Enchanted
2008- Seven Pounds
2009- Up
2010- Despicable Me

And I haven't seen any movies yet this year

[mcmegan]

oops, guess I wasn't logged in. Class is super boring!