[HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: Movies You Can't Stop Watching

[Jen Faulkner]

There's definitely a stratigraphy of sorts here, but it's not perfectly
chronological, because that very first movie I'm listing, my favorite
when I was a kid, I pulled out not two weeks ago, when I was really ill.  

The List:

*Don't Eat the Pictures: Sesame Street at the Metropolitan Museum of
Art*.  (I was lucky that my family had a VCR almost as soon as they
became available, so as a kid we had lots of things taped off TV, though
not that many 'store-bought' videos.)

*Big Bird in China*.  

*Winnie The Pooh*.

*Star Wars* (only ANH; I've never liked the others).

The He-Man and She-Ra movie.

The *Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles* movie.

Various Godzilla movies; the Gamera movies.  TV watching has always
involved my brother, yes. *g*

*The Princess Bride*.  Which my brother stole my copy of, and I had to
steal back.  He was retaliating for *my* theft of...

*Independence Day*.  Which I still have. :P

*Wayne's World*.  Oh, yes.

Various *X-Files* eps.  Particular faves, hmm, Tunguska/Terma and The
Red and The Black.  No points for guessing at which point I wore out my
ex-gf's tape I never returned in that last one. *g*

*Twister*.  Tornadoes and Helen Hunt in that white tank top.  What's not
to like? :)

*Casablanca*.

*Sabrina* (the Audrey Hepburn/Humphrey Bogart version, of course).

Various *Due South* eps (the Canadian show about a Mountie living in
Chicago which starred Paul Gross and, in later seasons, Callum Keith
Rennie), particularly Burning Down the House and Eclipse.  

*The Incredibly True Adventure of Two Girls in Love*. 

*When Night Is Falling*.  

*Orlando*.

*Smilla's Sense of Snow*.

The *Xena* musical episode. *g*

*Evita*.

*Velvet Goldmine*.  Jonathan Rhys-Meyers *is* the most beautiful human
being on the planet, yes.

*Chutney Popcorn*.  In which the incredibly beautiful Jill Hennessy
plays a lesbian.  It's fairly cute and funny on its own merits, but JH
is more than enough reason to watch it repetitively, IMO.  She redeems
even the otherwise pretty awful *Crossing Jordan*.  Though I still love
her most as Claire Kincaid on *Law&Order*.

BBC *Gormenghast* miniseries.  But only the episodes before the
disfigurement of Steerpike, because touching JRM's beauty should be a
crime.

*Moulin Rouge*.  Can't wait until this comes out on video.

*Last Night*.  Very cool Canadian movie about the end of the world.  
Stars, yes, Callum Keith Rennie.

*Hard Core Logo*.  More CKR goodness.  Very cool Canadian movie about a
punk rock band.  Spinal Tap comparisons not really warranted.

Well, that probably was a pretty weird collection of things, wasn't
it? *g*

--jen :)

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