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2 September 2007
A meme by way of ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
aw_lemongirl which I had completely forgotten about until I saw it done just now over at llaras's place.
Comment and I'll give you a letter. In your LJ, post ten of your favourite movies that begin with that letter.
I was given the letter H by the Divine Lemon. She's right; this is hard!
And speaking of hard:
1. A Hard Day's Night. It was 1964; I was so in love with the Beatles that it was insane, and then this great gift of a movie came out. My brother and I got to the theater at dawn to wait for the tickets to go on sale, and we weren't even the first people there. From the moment the movie opened with that first loud chord, the place just resounded with the screams of a theater full of Beatlemaniacs. It was great. And the movie is still fantastic, btw.
2. Hotel Rwanda Not an easy movie to watch, but it is well worth the ire and the guilt. Don Cheadle deserves to be a bigger star than he is, but he's not the hottie that some others are. He's one of that generation's best actors, though, without a doubt.
3. Halloween The original 1978 version by John Carpenter. Scared the crap out of me and managed to have a strong female heroine and a minimum of gore. The theme music still makes me all jumpy.
4. Heavenly Creatures Peter Jackson's breakthrough film based on the true story about two NZ girls who kill one's mother because she dared to intrude on their fantasy world. Kate Winslet's first film, btw.
5. Hustle & Flow Considering the story is about a small time pimp who's trying to become a rap star, you'd think I'd have hated it. Couldn't be farther from the truth. Terence Howard is phenomenal in the lead, and the rest of the cast is first-rate.
6. Hidalgo Viggo and his horse. Need I say more?
7. The Haunting The 1963 B&W movie with Julie Harris. Still the scariest movie I've ever seen. To this day I cannot watch it at night when I'm alone.
8. The Harder They Come I think I'm one of about 20 people who've seen it, and while I don't remember that much of the movie, the soundtrack was incredible. An indie movie about a Jamaican street dealer who wants to break into Reggae. The incomparable Jimmy Cliff gettin' his reggae on.
9. The Hunchback of Notre Dame If anyone for one minute thinks I'm referring to that Disney abomination, I will not just defriend you; I will have to hunt you down and throw things at you. I'm talking about the 1939 masterpiece with Charles Laughton. Gorgeously filmed and acted, it breaks my heart every time I' watch it. Which hasn't been in many years now. "Why was I not made of stone -- like thee?" Sob!
10. Henry V "O! For a Muse of fire . . . !" The best damn Shakespearean cast ever assembled is all it is.
aw_lemongirl which I had completely forgotten about until I saw it done just now over at llaras's place.Comment and I'll give you a letter. In your LJ, post ten of your favourite movies that begin with that letter.
I was given the letter H by the Divine Lemon. She's right; this is hard!
And speaking of hard:
1. A Hard Day's Night. It was 1964; I was so in love with the Beatles that it was insane, and then this great gift of a movie came out. My brother and I got to the theater at dawn to wait for the tickets to go on sale, and we weren't even the first people there. From the moment the movie opened with that first loud chord, the place just resounded with the screams of a theater full of Beatlemaniacs. It was great. And the movie is still fantastic, btw.
2. Hotel Rwanda Not an easy movie to watch, but it is well worth the ire and the guilt. Don Cheadle deserves to be a bigger star than he is, but he's not the hottie that some others are. He's one of that generation's best actors, though, without a doubt.
3. Halloween The original 1978 version by John Carpenter. Scared the crap out of me and managed to have a strong female heroine and a minimum of gore. The theme music still makes me all jumpy.
4. Heavenly Creatures Peter Jackson's breakthrough film based on the true story about two NZ girls who kill one's mother because she dared to intrude on their fantasy world. Kate Winslet's first film, btw.
5. Hustle & Flow Considering the story is about a small time pimp who's trying to become a rap star, you'd think I'd have hated it. Couldn't be farther from the truth. Terence Howard is phenomenal in the lead, and the rest of the cast is first-rate.
6. Hidalgo Viggo and his horse. Need I say more?
7. The Haunting The 1963 B&W movie with Julie Harris. Still the scariest movie I've ever seen. To this day I cannot watch it at night when I'm alone.
8. The Harder They Come I think I'm one of about 20 people who've seen it, and while I don't remember that much of the movie, the soundtrack was incredible. An indie movie about a Jamaican street dealer who wants to break into Reggae. The incomparable Jimmy Cliff gettin' his reggae on.
9. The Hunchback of Notre Dame If anyone for one minute thinks I'm referring to that Disney abomination, I will not just defriend you; I will have to hunt you down and throw things at you. I'm talking about the 1939 masterpiece with Charles Laughton. Gorgeously filmed and acted, it breaks my heart every time I' watch it. Which hasn't been in many years now. "Why was I not made of stone -- like thee?" Sob!
10. Henry V "O! For a Muse of fire . . . !" The best damn Shakespearean cast ever assembled is all it is.
